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Knott-
Emeritus
December 17th 2010


10260 Comments


/thread

kris.
December 17th 2010


15504 Comments


You have some form of autism.


l o fucking l


Thane
December 17th 2010


2291 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

That guy has a massive ego? HAHA.

WeepingBanana
December 17th 2010


11387 Comments


You have some form of autism.


LOLED SO HARD

Josh D.
December 17th 2010


17845 Comments


Yeah, but guys, he uses words most of us don't on a regular basis.

Motiv3
December 17th 2010


9109 Comments


Knott and ShadowRemains won this thread.

GeorgeCostanza
December 18th 2010


196 Comments

Album Rating: 1.0

This is a massive review. And it's shit. Sorry.


and clearly it's 100% dead serious



no, it's a joke review. i don't like this album, but a review which claims to trace the entire path of music starting from the beginning of recorded history is obviously to be taken with a grain of salt



that said, the broad history i outlined actually does carry a great deal of truth, for whatever that's worth



and a selectively-chosen freeze-frame shot from my excellent (and educational) CTtS video can do little to discredit me. haha

WeepingBanana
December 18th 2010


11387 Comments


haha

Emim
December 18th 2010


35277 Comments


I'll always remember you as Principia

GeorgeCostanza
December 18th 2010


196 Comments

Album Rating: 1.0

also Knott-, if you were to continue writing for the rest of your entire life, studying its techniques and intricacies, honing your craft, you still would not be able to write anything that even comes close to the following two paragraphs in terms of quality:

Punk rock tapped into the anger and discontent of a generation of British society that was fed up with the hippie message of peace and free love. It instead channeled its nihilistic fury against the boredom, disillusionment, and hypocrisy of the newly-dawning age of neoliberalism, railing against any and every traditional authority that stood in its path. But something was lost amidst this generalized annihilative rage: the personal feelings of heartbreak and loss, the tragic and lyrical dimension of music. These were looked upon by the punk movement with scorn and disgust. Such feelings were just cheap sentimentalism, romantic drivel…emotions that should have by now been drowned in the snot, spit, and liquid apathy of the punk Weltanshauung.



For those who still clung to these emotions, who had despite themselves absorbed the influence of punk rock, a new genre was born: emo (which was destined to go through its own series of mutations and transformations). This combined the rawness, incompetence, and heroic amateurism of punk rock with the personal oblivion of death, betrayal, and unrequited love. The sneering growl of punk rock vocals gradually gave way to hysterical shrieks, and the oversimplified three-powerchord patterns were replaced by calculated cacophony and more sophisticated harmonic dissonance. The aggressively brusque straightforwardness of punk lyrics, their studied stupidity, was exchanged for a more precious vocabulary and elaborate attempts at lyrical symbolism. All of a sudden emo began to wax poetic, trying to give itself the illusion of depth. The cracking voice that pierced through the fuzz of the guitars and bad production was seen as a testament to its authenticity, an expression of the genuine pathos that must underlie all of this chaos and ugliness. Predictably, such techniques were swiftly glamorized and soon became standard within the genre.


WeepingBanana
December 18th 2010


11387 Comments


haha

bungy
December 18th 2010


9009 Comments


"no, it's a joke review. i don't like this album, but a review which claims to trace the entire path of music starting from the beginning of recorded history is obviously to be taken with a grain of salt"

"i heard that he isn't even a swamp monster what the fuck i think we're all getting trolled"

haha omg lmao porch and George himself beat me to it. You guys should be ashamed for getting so upset. The review is damn funny. I don't support all his douchebaggery though.

Josh D.
December 18th 2010


17845 Comments


Being a better writer than someone in one person's opinion doesn't mean anything, but if that's what gets you by in life, great.

Also, it's about fucking time you copped to your ID since everyone knew it from the get-go.

TheStefan
December 18th 2010


1003 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

is this an MJ wannabe review or something?

Sowing
Moderator
December 18th 2010


43956 Comments


no it's just a washed up real MJ review

robertsona
Staff Reviewer
December 18th 2010


27447 Comments


this sounds like a copout but it is sort of sad how the dude just can't leave, hes said he will
("AND I REALLY MEAN IT THIS TIME") like five times and i guess he just cant resist

edit: also doesnt weltanschauung have a 'c'? owned

Knott-
Emeritus
December 18th 2010


10260 Comments


you can't leave if you have nowhere to go lol

ShadowRemains
December 18th 2010


27750 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

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...go through it, you won't die

GeorgeCostanza
December 18th 2010


196 Comments

Album Rating: 1.0

haha yes, i "can't leave"



i didn't log onto Sputnik for virtually 5 months



also Knott- you didn't address my point about being a better writer than you

Knott-
Emeritus
December 18th 2010


10260 Comments


and im knott going to



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