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Hey Dev I have just a minor niggle



a niggle

"Jokes aside"

I don't believe for 2 seconds that you were joking sir.

Album Rating: 3.0

You niggle me Aids.

This is so amazing

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Irving you niggler you.



just read this review, it's really really really good. better than usual and your usual is already really good so yeah, i whole lotta love this review.



p-p-p-p-p-p-pos



this is almost finished downloading yusssss

Irving likes to make up words in the place of error to sound less intimidating.

niggle

I've never been able to get into Radiohead after my several listens of both Kid A, OK Computer or the latter albums and so idk if I will check this out.

Album Rating: 3.0

just read this review, it's really really really good. better than usual and your usual is already really good so yeah, i whole lotta love this review.



This. So hard.



Irving likes to make up words in the place of error to sound less intimidating



Admittedly, I do. I think "error" carries the connotation that I'm passing judgment on someone's writing abilities (which I guess I am), so I'm more comfortable with using "niggle", which suggests - instead - that there's something rankling me about this review, and that the writer, if he/she pleases might want to look at it.



Another word I tend to use is "thingummy".

Album Rating: 3.0

You guys are a bunch of niggling thingummies.

Deviant...holy shit I didn't know you were this good at reviewing. Not that your regular reviews aren't good but this is really exceptional (and not because it's a positive review for radiohead)

NEED

Album Rating: 4.0

so stoked to listen to this

Album Rating: 4.5

Review floored me. Great work, man.



I'm looking forward to hearing this.

Lone's Feral is so good

Whoa, I had no idea this even existed... sounds really intriguing. I kind of have mixed feelings about the tracks you posted though. The second two were pretty awesome but the first two kinda turned me off a bit. Idk.. they just felt kind of redundant.. like endless repetition of a simple drum loop or guitar motif that wasn't very interesting to begin with.

Good review.. one thing I do want to say though as a reader is that sometimes your sentences become really overgrown and are structured in odd ways that make them very awkward to read. Most of the time they're very good.. but an example of what I'm talking about it like this:

"Combining the abstract charm of a group who have long been at the forefront of cutting edge experimentation with some of the best artists in their respective fields, along with the best and brightest of the latest rising stars, picking out highlights from this juggernaut of electronic experimentation and expert examination makes for hard work, but they come thick and fast."

I had to reread that sentence a bunch of times to try and sort it out and it doesn't really make sense. If you break it down a bit that becomes more obvious:

Combining the abstract charm of a group who have long been at the forefront of cutting edge experimentation with some of the best artists in their respective fields, picking out highlights from this juggernaut of electronic experimentation and expert examination makes for hard work.

All I did there was take out your note about using the best and brightest in the genre and you can see the sentence no longer really makes sense. You go from combining to picking without any transitional words or anything to tie them together. I can see what you're trying to say, but it's just constructed in a way that makes it very hard to read. Again though, 95% of the time it's fine... it just crops up here and there.

Radiohead almost single-handedly reinvented alternative rock in the 90s? Wut? That's ridiculously hyperbolic. They didn't reinvent anything.

Sweet review though, even if I vehemently disagree with that one statement.

Album Rating: 4.0

Yeah because they reinvented it in the 90's and 2000's. Awesome review. Got to check this out.

In what way did they "reinvent" alternative rock? Radiohead's influence on rock music as a whole is a lot smaller and more miniscule then some of their fans seem to think. You didn't see 200 new garage bands trying to ape Radiohead like truly innovative groups that "re-invented" rock music before them (like Nirvana, the Sex Pistols, or The Beatles) did. They do their own thing and nobody else really sounds anything like them. That's awesome and unique, but it's certainly not "re-inventing" something so that future bands are forever changed because of their impact. Radiohead are like their own little movement and genre, their actual noticeable impact on rock as a whole has been very small, regardless of how many "Best Album Ever" awards are thrown around at OK Computer. Shit nu-metal and post-grunge was dominating the rock charts when Radiohead were at their creative, commercial, and critical peak. Hardly as influential as some claim them to be.

Album Rating: 3.0

Here's the flaw in your argument, xfearbefore: you're conflating chart achievement and influencing other bands (in other words, notoriety) with "reinventing alternative rock." It is possible to reinvent alternative rock without having to do either of those things.

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The Boxer Rebellion's new album definitely was trying to emulate Radiohead.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KI44Mffs2c

Is this like actually good or what?