|
| |
|
|
|
Review Summary: On the nod.. 1997. London. Astoria, ten years before it’s decided to be razed to the ground to make way for Crossrail. Twenty to midnight. Packed house. The Fall. Lights dim, the band shuffle out. A soused short-stop climbs the stage, knocking over the floor tom, and cracks his chin open on the ride. He stands up, spits blood and takes a pint. You think – Alright, everything is as it should be. This is a Fall gig after all. The short-stop coughs, takes a pint, takes a cigarette, counts off, coughs. Here we go. An unkind constipation of comatose post-punk ensues, at times interrupted by hayseed disco that rattles around like a plundered silverware drawer. You try and bop along for a good while. The bloke next to you shakes his head, mumbles – Band sound like a Richard the Third. People start filing out well before the end of the show. You come up to the stage after the last song has been stumbled through. You alright? Dandy. How’s the wife? Left me. Band? Ordinary cunts. Label? Bankrupt. Happy? When on scag. You stare into the pinched face of the drunken mastermind, and he shrugs as if to say – They can’t all be zingers, can they, mate? And you smile limply because no, they can’t, but at least one or two zingers might have helped. The drunken mastermind cackles defiantly before imploding in a puff of randomized throat croaks and a great big pile of flabby overdubbed bass. The only thing left in his wake is a crumpled-up strip from a fortune cookie that reads – Do not dwell on the past. Do not dream of the future. Do not savour the present. Do f*ck off.
|
Album Rating: 2.0
SandwichBubble, there, I hope you're happy..
| | |
wow interesting review here, reads really well though man! need to check some stuff by these guys
| | |
On a Fall mood recently i see lol.
| | |
I don't agree with it but it's a stylish review at least, and it is better made than the whinge fest this sort of thing usually is so props for that.
| | | Album Rating: 2.0
@Con, thanks! don't start with this one..
@dan, i figure I'll cover a few of every era of theirs, then move on.. hahaha
@Gwyn, honestly, I was at a loss of how to describe it properly, so I copped out with a little creative turnaround.. I love the Fall, but this album kills me a little..
| | | Album Rating: 1.0
Absolutely astonishing
| | |
Sounds like the greatest gig of all time tbh
| | | Album Rating: 2.0
hahahaha, I've been to non-fictional ones that are worse at any rate.. cough, Misfits, cough.......
| | |
That was beautiful
| | | Album Rating: 2.0
thanks, Claire!
| | |
Cannot wait for the Heads Will Roll album review. pos
| | | Album Rating: 2.0
I kind of like the review Heads Roll has up there now.. a little overblown, but decent concept..
| | |
I might steal this review technique, pos never in doubt
| | |
Pat is the rock n roll doof.
A doof in black if you will.
I'll always be loyal to me doof though.
| | |
I expect nothing less than your unswerving fealty, death to all pretenders to the crown, smite down this 'Fat Pat'
| | | Album Rating: 2.0
hahaha, I've never seen camaraderie and mutiny brew in the same pot.. cheers to both of you, doof is an irreplaceable entity.. and everyone needs a good butcher..
| | |
Ugh
| | | Album Rating: 2.0
there will be blood apparently..
| | |
how does this compare to Kendrick's Levitate tho
| | | Album Rating: 2.0
bout the same level of aggressive meh..
| | | |
|
| |
