Album Rating: 2.0
they all came out of the same response to nu-metal you asshat
and the only reason i ever brought up age is because you obviously don't remember it was a damn cultural thing
how do i come across as a 15 year old
oh wait, m/ m/ m/ industrial is a dying genre hurt is a song about drugs that i'm dedicating to my grandma
yeaaaaaaaaa
that's a 15 year old response right there, buddy
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Album Rating: 2.5
they're two unconnected bands, they didn't wake up one morning and purposefully form out of a desire to react against nu-metal
the whole basis of this review is sub-spin magazine fluff with no substance whatsoever
you're also obviously not very confident in your point of view if you're reacting so defensively and searching for comments i jokingly made in another thread in an attempt to "prove me wrong". stop writing reviews until you grow some balls and can take criticism
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Album Rating: 3.5
Like, you write fairly well, but I disagree with your overblown points. I.E. spending a significant amount of time talking about your opinion that the Strokes should hang it up as a band. If that's your opinion, great, but it really has nothing to do with the album itself. Also, even though you say you enjoy some of the songs, the tone of the review is so disdainful to the point of detracting from your attempted point(s). Instead of presenting your criticisms in a somewhat un-biased fashion for the sake of objectivity, you critique the album in such a way that the review reads as one giant personal bitchfest about The Strokes.
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Album Rating: 2.0
sub-spin magazine fluff is nice, i'll take that, i mean i'd get paid for that
i'm quite confident in my point of view that the strokes are way out of their time and place and irrelevant musically. also, they don't know what type of band they are
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Album Rating: 2.0
i mean, maybe it's not clear enough, but my whole point was that angles complete lack of identity proves they need to quit. but, yeah, i see where you are coming from
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Album Rating: 5.0
Pretty good review, which means alot because they are among my favorite bands, and this album is extremely good.
I liked your comparison to tears for fears; never thought about that, but it is kind of similar.
I do, however, disagree with your points. The strokes provide a huge number of great songs, but this album just had a few more average ones.
You dont really critique the album, you just spend all of your time saying how you basically dislike the band.
weezer sucks now, but i wouldn't want them to quit after the 90s. Sure, the albums may have sucked, but some kickass songs have been released, and thats the important thing.
Also, they arent really at the point of quitting yet. This album had at least 4 very good songs. It is extremely difficult to write/record/produce 4 very good songs. Alot of tensions and stress were high here, and the band was experimenting. After 2, maybe 3 more albums, then it may be time to call it quits. As of right now, however, one superb album, one excellent album, one very good album, and one ok album do not warrant a band quitting.
Anyway, good review, i just think you should spend more time on the music.
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I laughed at the summary.
Relax in your comments though lol, you seem really uptight over what people are telling you.
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Album Rating: 4.5
two bands were popular around the same time THEY MUST BE CONNECTED I'D BETTER MAKE A TENUOUS LINK BETWEEN THEM IN MY REVIEW
They're two bands who both played garage rock, and made it massive in the same year. Both their music was seen as a cultural revolution against nu metal, and their importance to music over the decade that followed is roughly equal and not to be overstated
The comparisons are perfectly apt
Also great review, although I obviously disagree
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Album Rating: 4.0
Great. Fucking. Album.
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Album Rating: 3.7
It amazes me that in 2001 people crowned The Strokes as the band to save rock n’ roll. What’s more amazing to me is that in 2001, we also had the release of Jack White’s massive ‘White Blood Cells’ and Incubus’ ‘Morning View’ to fix the whole nu-metal situation. Wasn’t rock already saved? ‘Is This It’ merely served as the suckerpunch that the mainstream rock audience needed to finally break the grasp of nu-metal. ‘Is This It’ wasn’t this album full of magnificence; that album was an album full of guys having fun playing rock at volume 11. ‘Is This It’ was a great album. The Strokes, however, weren’t a great band. They were a band like The Darkness, that needed to make a statement, then fade away. They arrived on a gimmick; a wave; and Julian Casablancas realized that he could only milk garage-pop so far, things went awry. After their middling follow up albums dabbled in post-punk and mediocrity, we kind of realized The Strokes really weren’t the saviors of rock n’ roll.
Dude. What is this even for?
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Album Rating: 4.5
For setting up context?
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Review should probably address the album, rather than meandering about a point that bares no validity at all. I highly doubt either The White Stripes or The Strokes started their careers to "sucker-punch" nu-metal out of the limelight. Your writing is good, but you barely even talk about the album, let alone why you gave it a 2. All in all, this would serve better as some kind of blog post discussion-thingie, rather than a review of this album. I pos'ed, because I think you have potential as a writer. But yeah, that last paragraph is a fucking travesty.
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Album Rating: 2.5
They're two bands who both played garage rock, and made it massive in the same year. Both their music was seen as a cultural revolution against nu metal, and their importance to music over the decade that followed is roughly equal and not to be overstated
both bands became successful in the early 2000's. the rest of that paragraph just leads me to believe that you've read a lot of bad music criticism and actually believe it, which is fine.
as for the rest of us over in 2011, we don't actually see the point of pursuing some rigid connection between both bands over the course of an entire review and insisting that their career trajectories should have been roughly the same because they were briefly lumped into a retro revival scene by mainstream rock critics a decade ago. the whole first paragraph poses this hilarious ‘ but were they actually the savior of rock and roll???? - we already had the white stripes and incubus!!!!!” question and just wallows in frivolous bullshit before getting to the actual meat of the review.
i would suggest that rjumunthe stops trying to form these larger contextual outlooks if they’re going to to result in something as vacuous as this review, because the parts where he actually discusses the music are passable
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Album Rating: 2.5
I highly doubt either The White Stripes or The Strokes started their careers to "sucker-punch" nu-metal out of the limelight
actually the strokes formed in a labyrinth under new york city with the specific intent of eliminating nu-metal
now that nu metal is dead, they should return to the depths
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Julian Casblancas is actually just some kind of elemental demon conjured by some highly powerful hipster spell.
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Album Rating: 2.0
casein...wut are u even talking about it's like a drunk guy rambling i'm not even following u
but yea, i agree my last paragraph isn't too good. o well. so i re-wrote it.
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Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off
Hey!.....give it up already will ya?........go write a new review or something this thread is tiresome
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Album Rating: 2.0
i think just because you said that i should keep this thread going
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Album Rating: 4.5
Great. Fucking. Album. [2'd hard]
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Album Rating: 3.0
It's ok
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