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08-05-2013, 09:52 AM | #171 (permalink) | ||
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08-05-2013, 01:49 PM | #172 (permalink) |
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Oh, okay. Fair enough; I've had that same problem myself. Just uploaded my review of "Downfall" and it is over 42,000 chars long, so had also to be posted in three parts. Still, looks good!
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08-11-2013, 03:27 PM | #174 (permalink) | ||
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Update for week ending August 11 2013
Allright, step lively there! Stick with me and please, no flash photography. We need to protect the copyright of everyone who lives here. You do not want to have to face Mister Burns's legal team! Yes, that's it, on up to the desk there, and make sure you present your passport. Now, everyone accounted for? Grand. Follow me then as we take another tour of the wonderful land we call Journal! Some of you, of course, have been here many times, for others it may be your first visit. So what has been happening this week at the Ideas Factory? With apologies to George Lucas...
Anteater is wrapping up the Crimson Glory story (sorry) in http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...n-dollars.html: wonder what he has for us next? One thing is not in doubt, and that is that it will be great. "The return of the Kings of Metal" is coming close to a climax (oh he'd just love that, wouldn't he? Sexual innuendo in the review of his journal!) so if you're not up to speed on The Batlord's inspired writing yet then get on down to http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...t-schemes.html and breathe it in, people! The Big3 is back http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...ming-moon.html and this time he's screaming about Clutch, who he says are an underrated band and have a lot to offer. Check out his journal to see what else he has to say about them. Lot of people who haven't written for a while coming back this week with entries, none more welcome than Big Ears, who's doing a great review of Genesis's seminal "Selling England by the pound" in http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...s-journal.html And also back is Kay! Yay! Well, not quite, but she's certainly posting about posting, and says we can expect her next review soon in http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...s-journal.html --- waiting breathlessly, girl! Ki has a song stuck in his head. What song is it? Well, to find out you're going to have to mouseify this link http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...nal-music.html. And while you're there you can also read his entry on video game music ("Robot Unicorn Attack 2"? Who couldn't love that title!) "The top 10 music listening experiences" for Mondo Bungle are on offer this week in http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...istortion.html, along with some personal stuff about his own life. If you like Disembowellment (not literally, of course!), Planning for Burial (again, not literally) and Slint among others head in his direction. There's another Song Overthinker in http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...sicalness.html And even I've been trying to up the quota myself, so in http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...d-journal.html there's a new section called "The Hook", a return for "Variations on a theme" as well as another "Album from Hell", and in http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...-emporium.html there's more Frasier as well as my review of the incredible film "Downfall" ("Der Untergang") chronicling the last days of Hitler. If you haven't seen it, you should remedy that immediately! Also squeezing in a review of the latest album from Visions of Atlantis in http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...i-reviews.html and listening to more of those http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...ver-heard.html, this time it's the Sisters of Mercy and Neutral Milk Hotel. 1977 continues to be a good year for hard rock and heavy metal, and Unknown Soldier's http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...y-history.html this week looks at important albums from that year from Judas Priest and Aerosmith. Continuing her track-by-track review of the Lucius EP, Wolverine is up to track four now in http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...-tripping.html: man, you can just feel the love she has for this band in her writing! YorkeDaddy has started releasing tracks from the soon-to-be unleashed album from his band, which interestingly enough bears the same name as that of one of our members! In other news, I've been asked to review the album so that will be a worldwide exclusive, stay tuned for it. For now, you can hear some of the music here http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...sterpiece.html, with more to come. Oh, and you can also catch the freeaky album cover they made! As I mentioned last week, I won't be doing any more Showcases for a while, as I don't want to cheapen the section by just choosing whatever's left that I haven't yet done, and that's no slight on anyone who hasn't been featured. The Showcase is meant to throw a spotlight on a particularly good journal, and while everyone here writes well and on interesting subjects, the ones that have really impressed me have been those I've chosen for the Showcase and now I need to wait till some other incredible talent (yeah, you lot out there!) come up with something that catches my attention. For now then, I'm going to fall back on an old idea and choose my Post of the Week. This can be from any journal, young or old, and can have been written any time; it doesn't have to have been written this week, or even this year. It can be on any subject but will be something either very different, very deep or just very well written and from the heart. For my first selection I'd like to take this very personal offering from Mondo Bungle, which he wrote this week. Quote:
And finally... Already famous for his "25 albums you should hear" journal, Janszoon wrapped that up --- rather courageously and pragmatically, I thought: I would have been tempted to have stretched it out and probably delayed ending it --- and then began http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...sible-man.html, in the inimitable way only he can, thinking of things only he does and working out concepts few if any of us would even think of attempting. Sadly, in one way, it's now to be found on page three of the journals section, having been last updated , but in other ways this is not such a bad thing, taken overall, as this has occurred mostly due to the plethora of new journals that have started up since the lonly insubstantial one last trod the murky night streets in the rain. Nevertheless, it ranks as one of the better journals certainly of this year, and I would hope that we haven't seen the last of it. I know everyone is busy and more often than not, a journal is not something that ranks high on anyone's list of priorities (unless they're really sad, like me), but I certainly hope that Janszoon manages to update this again some time soon. As I've said before, the music in itself doesn't interest me but that's secondary to Jansz's great and insightful writing. We need to hear more about the adventures of the Invisible Man. What about it, Jansz? For those who have not yet read it, or even those who have, here's where it all started... Quote:
That's it for another week. Stay tuned for Powerstars, who should be along later with this week's League Table. Till next week, Toodles!
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08-12-2013, 10:06 AM | #175 (permalink) | ||
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08-12-2013, 02:36 PM | #176 (permalink) |
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A new, slightly delayed league table. Apologies to DJ Chameleon, who I neglected to include last week.
Trollheart sends himself into the top spot, with Batlord also rising up. Big Ears also enters the table with his Rabbiting On journal. |
08-15-2013, 08:45 PM | #177 (permalink) |
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I can't do this anymore. I'm sorry, the league table is stressful, so I will not be continuing on...if someone wants to take up the reigns, feel free. I will send you all you need...but, I'm sorry MB community. It's too hard for this user...STOP BOOING ME.
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08-16-2013, 06:11 AM | #180 (permalink) |
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Sorry to hear that, Power me old mate, but as I said myself it's a massive committment, the moreso the way I was doing it, and when you have pretty much lukewarm response from people it becomes a question, unfortunately, of why bother? If people had loved the idea and been more engaged with the table I would have maybe kept going, but other than The Batlord, yourself and one or two other people nobody was interested, not even Screen13 who occupied the top spot for the entire tenure of my running of the table.
When it comes down to it, it's just too much work for no reward, and we all have better things to do. The final conclusion is that the only people really invested in the table are/were those who are/were compiling it, so it's just not worth all the hassle. Sorry you didn't make it, but it really is a massive job isn't it? Fair play to you for trying though: at least now I know it wasn't just my innate wimpiness that stopped me. As Homer says: "You tried and you failed miserably. The lesson here is, never try."
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