Album Rating: 4.0
I would have thought that you were smart enough to make enough money to hire people to do that for you.
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Album Rating: 3.0
It is not that bad, but I wonder about its lasting appeal, I cannot imagine myself listening to this when I am
30, 6 years from now.
In before "lol, stfu grandpa"
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Album Rating: 1.5
The lyrics on their next album will be true literature
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Album Rating: 4.0
thor for staff
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Album Rating: 4.0
thor for staff? pweeaase?!
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Album Rating: 4.0
lawlz.
In The Nervous Light Of Sunday is without a doubt my favorite, though Interview and Same Shade come close behind it.
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Album Rating: 1.0
sucks that they took down BigHans' review
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Album Rating: 4.0
not really. Due to the time he posted it, it was really just a bore. If he posted it say a month or two from now it would be amusing, but posting a non-review during a short time period of CTTS hate makes it less funny and more of a drag. it's not like it showed any actual insight on CTTS other than perhaps their lyrical content(no offense han).
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Album Rating: 1.0
just for kicks I decided to listen to a couple of songs again last night to see if this was really that bad.
It still is.
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Album Rating: 3.5
good for you, apollo
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Album Rating: 1.0
Eno: if you're referring to that day last week when the three negative reviews were posted, BigHans' was the first (although MJ's had been around loooooong before that it was just taken down the night before).
I plan on doing it someday MJ, but I'm thinking I should wait til all the controversy dies down a bit. Plus, I will need to listen to it again in order to write one and I really, really don't want to do that.
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Iluvatar, in your Soundoff for this album, you write that
the lyrics are pure poetry
now your opinions might have changed on this. but are you serious? have you ever studied poetry before? haha You're supposed to be smart, but you can't seem to see past what you've learned in school. That should only be a starting point, after which you should think for yourself. It would also help if you realized that there is a lot of grey area in the arts and it is up to individual interpretation.
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Album Rating: 4.0
^....you realize this is a ctts thread right?
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Album Rating: 4.0
iluvatar should take mj under his wing
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Album Rating: 3.0
For anyone interested in poetry, this is, I believe, an essential read:
http://www.amazon.com/Understanding-Poetry-Cleanth-Brooks/dp/0030769809
Illuvatar must have read it ten or twelve times by now.
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Album Rating: 1.5
The lyrics are pure shit
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Album Rating: 1.0
^bingo
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Album Rating: 4.0
I'd agree that ultimately CTTS failed to really spark a conceptual and mature theme throughout the album with their lyrics, but I really like the sound of them at times and they are phrased well enough. I'd agree that a lot of it really is nonsensical pretense.
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Album Rating: 1.0
Enotron, not offended by your criticism of that review but technically I was the first to post that day.
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i would agree that to judge lyrics or poetry strictly by the formulae laid down in the textbooks would be a barren scholasticism. obviously there is some flexibility when it comes to the rules of poetics, some room for intuition.
still, no one who even remotely knew what he was talking about when it comes to poetry, literature, or even just good writing would be able to say that with As the Roots Undo "the lyrics are pure poetry." nowhere in their grandiloquent, pseudo-archaic ramblings is there anything even approaching good writing. they're a "sluttish hullabaloo of words and phrases," to quote Belinskii
I've never heard this band, and don't really plan on it. My thing is that when you argue your points by asking whether or not they've studied a particular subject (especially concerning the arts), you're kind of limiting yourself. A lot of emerging artistic movements were shot down by the old establishment. Eventually most of them were accepted and are even included in schools around the world. I'm not trying to say that CTtS are an emerging artistic movement, only that you can't always fit a new way of doing something into an old way of thinking.
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