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Old 12-10-2008, 07:59 PM   #11 (permalink)
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Old 12-10-2008, 08:24 PM   #12 (permalink)
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My favorite Pink Floyd album has always been Wish You Were Here, and you know why? It has soul, that's why--it's Roger Waters's lament for Syd, not my idea of a tragic hero but as long as he's Roger's that doesn't matter. Radiohead wouldn't know a tragic hero if they were cramming for their A levels, and their idea of soul is Bono, who they imitate further at the risk of looking even more ridiculous than they already do. So instead they pickle Thom Yorke's vocals in enough electronic marginal distinction to feed a coal town for a month. Their art-rock has much better sound effects than the Floyd snoozefest Dark Side of the Moon. But it's less sweeping and just as arid. B-


can he get anymore idiotic?
Since when is comparing an album to DSOTM an insult?
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Old 12-10-2008, 09:02 PM   #13 (permalink)
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Pierre Scruffi or whatever he's called.
He's like the Christgau of obscure Prog except his site is actually useful and his reviews are longer than one sentence.
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Old 12-11-2008, 05:36 AM   #14 (permalink)
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Since when is comparing an album to DSOTM an insult?
When it's accomponied with a B-...
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Old 12-11-2008, 03:57 PM   #15 (permalink)
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And the word before it is "snoozefest."
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Old 12-11-2008, 08:49 PM   #16 (permalink)
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That's a 3.5 star rating (about)...
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Old 12-12-2008, 01:58 PM   #17 (permalink)
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He gave souljaboytellem.com an A-.
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Old 12-12-2008, 09:11 PM   #18 (permalink)
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Old 12-14-2008, 12:05 PM   #19 (permalink)
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Christgau has nothing on the likes of Greil Marcus or (God forbid) Lester Bangs.

At least Christgau had the balls (or damaged hearing) to give a Justin Timberlake album an "A."
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Christgau gives me countless hours of amusement and amazement.
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