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DrAwkward wrote:

Mark Lansing wrote:A woman reviewing my first band's first album (cassette only! it was the 1980's!) described my voice as "a nasal Midwestern twang without much range." We eneded up dating for a few months later on, and I tried to avoid mentioning it (hey, she looked good and the sex was great).

Did it taste the sweet taste of revenge sex?

I was wondering if maybe you started singing during sex.

"Review this!"

Linus Van Pelt wrote:

DrAwkward wrote:

Mark Lansing wrote:A woman reviewing my first band's first album (cassette only! it was the 1980's!) described my voice as "a nasal Midwestern twang without much range." We eneded up dating for a few months later on, and I tried to avoid mentioning it (hey, she looked good and the sex was great).

Did it taste the sweet taste of revenge sex?

I was wondering if maybe you started singing during sex.

"Review this!"

That's a fantastic idea for a magazine... reviewing sexual partners like you do records. Use real names and everything.

Tom wrote:

Linus Van Pelt wrote:

DrAwkward wrote:

Mark Lansing wrote:A woman reviewing my first band's first album (cassette only! it was the 1980's!) described my voice as "a nasal Midwestern twang without much range." We eneded up dating for a few months later on, and I tried to avoid mentioning it (hey, she looked good and the sex was great).

Did it taste the sweet taste of revenge sex?

I was wondering if maybe you started singing during sex.

"Review this!"

That's a fantastic idea for a magazine... reviewing sexual partners like you do records. Use real names and everything.

there was a Zine like that called the Probe in the mid nineties. He did "girlfriend reviews" as part of the bulk of the zine. It was actually pretty well written.

"Could have taken on a bigger leadership role in getting EEOC project completed sooner."

"When given multiple tasks, was not able to prioritize the most important ones. Would work on latest assignment."

"Occasionally got hung up on a small detail or issue and lost sight of bigger priorities."

"Misses the opportunity to teach when a question is asked, instead gets in the detail and does the work."

"Did not participate in extra activities to promote productivity, such as the standards committee and new software evaluation."

this didn't happen to a band of mine, but it was still performance-oriented. in fact, now that i think of it, i don't think any band i've ever been in has ever had any recording or show of ours ever reviewed by anyone. moral of the story: if you only do interviews, everyone will be forced to be intrigued and come see you, and judge for themselves whether or not you're any good, rather than reading what some schmuck journalist thinks and basing a decision on that (good or bad).

amen. now, on with the story i was going to tell.

i was in the "funniest comic in madison" semi-finals last month, and one of the judges HATED my act. since they just drew the judges randomly out of the audience, they all had regular jobs, and this guy happened to be a psychiatrist of some sort. on his critique sheet, the only thing he wrote was a prescription for a tranquilizer.

This is a pretty old thread, but this review is too great to not mention. From tasteslikechicken.com:

When I was about 13, I went to bible camp with my church for a weekend. We stayed in cabins, played games, went to service, and lit candles for God or some junk like that. One night, we were surprised with a performance by a Christian rock band called Vision, who performed songs like "He Created Me", "Saved By Faith", and some other creepy, religious, Jesus-lovin' crap.

What I'm trying to get at here is that the band Racetrack might not give their songs names like "The Lord Is Thy Shepherd", but their music sure does sound similar to a Christian rock band from 1994. Either that, or the band in high school that played at the talent show and lost to the kid who could break-dance.

This is the indie pop trio's first album, and most likely their last. Their songs are extremely bland with terrible poppy beats, and a female lead singer's voice that irritates to the bone.

If you're ever in the mood to listen to crappy music, you might as well stick with the real Christian rock as opposed to the pseudo, since you could probably at least cleanse yourself of your sins with the former.

For the record NONE of us are Christian, or at all religous.

tallchris wrote:This is a pretty old thread, but this review is too great to not mention. From tasteslikechicken.com:

When I was about 13, I went to bible camp with my church for a weekend. We stayed in cabins, played games, went to service, and lit candles for God or some junk like that. One night, we were surprised with a performance by a Christian rock band called Vision, who performed songs like "He Created Me", "Saved By Faith", and some other creepy, religious, Jesus-lovin' crap.

What I'm trying to get at here is that the band Racetrack might not give their songs names like "The Lord Is Thy Shepherd", but their music sure does sound similar to a Christian rock band from 1994. Either that, or the band in high school that played at the talent show and lost to the kid who could break-dance.

This is the indie pop trio's first album, and most likely their last. Their songs are extremely bland with terrible poppy beats, and a female lead singer's voice that irritates to the bone.

If you're ever in the mood to listen to crappy music, you might as well stick with the real Christian rock as opposed to the pseudo, since you could probably at least cleanse yourself of your sins with the former.

For the record NONE of us are Christian, or at all religous.

we (the Hi-Fi guys) know a few of the Tastes Like Chicken people... I haven't met that reviewer though...

The Busted Lives-"One Flap Down"-10 songs-CD:Pagan-isms abound on this disc, most notably so the second song which is a blatent "What's This Shit Called Love?" knock-off. Having said that, these guys are maybe a THIRD of the band the Pagans were. It's not horrible, but it's really not all that good or anything, it fits squarly into the "mediocre" category. Futhermore, these guys lose points for having a shitty album cover, re-occuring professional sports themes and for being on a record label with a REALLY stupid name("Blueball Records"). Kinda draggy punk rock that sounds at time like a lesser Rip Offs or uhhh Drags. There is absolutely no reason for you to buy this record. Maybe if they got together with the right producer and really applied themselves they could come up with a decent record, but I doubt it.

Having said that, let's get into the meat of this fucker. Now, ya see, the problem with bands like the Busted Lives isn't so much that they're horrible or anything, it's more that they just don't DO anything for you. When you listen to their records you think "Oh, this isn't so bad, but uhhhhh.....", it just leaves ya feeling fucking NOTHING. Ya don love 'em, you don't hate 'em, you just don't care, and that is really the WORST fate a band can suffer. It's MUCH preferable to be hated then to be invisible or ignored.

-from Bulletproof Nothing