Thank you, fellow believer

Where else do you getto find out Les Dennis's music tastes?

Rolling Stone

gives everything 4 or 5 stars, then tells you you can buy it from their album hotline for £12.99. Thats why they say everythings godd, because its good for their business.

the one for Golden Mile. 'Badly sung, badly played, badly produced, badly written...' and they gave it no stars.

I remember LOLing a lot when that was on the front page...

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a269/ehwhat/there.jpg

"The first time I heard YS, I cried"

why isn't that posted more often?

http://tinyurl.com/5pfu8v

they gave it something stupid like 2 out of 10

i remember every major publication was givin it 9 or even 10 out of 10..before eventually realising it was a load of cock

The initial critical response to 'Be Here Now' is Why You Should Never Listen To Journos, kids.

It's really, really hard to find any of those reviews online now. Surprisingly enough.

"Roddy spills his vocals like a clumsey, just woke up person spilling gasoline"

BACK TO SIMILIE SCHOOL FOR YOU

everything bad about pitchfork summed up in one piece

If anything, the Something Awful pisstake is MORE restrained.

The Italians surrounding me held their breath in communion (save for the drunken few shouting "Criep!")

more than DiS did, the review of Kid A on here got 4/10 or something stupid. it got removed and a message was put up saying that an review that expresses the views of normal human beings will be put up shortly (or something along those lines).

The experience and emotions tied to listening to Kid A are like witnessing the stillborn birth of a child while simultaneously having the opportunity to see her play in the afterlife on Imax. It's an album of sparking paradox. It's cacophonous yet tranquil, experimental yet familiar, foreign yet womb-like, spacious yet visceral, textured yet vaporous, awakening yet dreamlike, infinite yet 48 minutes. It will cleanse your brain of those little crustaceans of worries and inferior albums clinging inside the fold of your gray matter.

of The Vines at Reading 2003 was the most hilariously OTT thing I've ever read - it was by one of their last remaining decent journalists to jump ship and head off to the broadsheets where they could write what they liked (possibly Sian Pattenden, but I could be wrong). I don't recall the exact wording, but the review read more like an eyewitness account of the last supper; it was clearly the last "fuck you" of a good writer who'd been told what to think by soulless wankers one too many times and remains possibly my favourite thing I've ever read in NME.

I'll always be fond of this, for more personal reasons:

http://ishotthedeputy.com/node/535

"Presumably the artist went to some trouble to record these tracks. Why he bothered is a mystery - perhaps he is deranged or slightly ill."

Lovely stuff.

theres a reason the obvious things are obvious. cause there the best.

I was just on my way to pitchfork to post this link.

but he's never been MORE RIGHT than on that Radiohead review. A lone voice in the critical wilderness maybe - but I'm with him.

can't beat a bit of Dogdrill or Beachbuggy... Big up the Doncaster garagepunk scene.

"Emergency seems needlessly cruel, like reading out the menu from Alain Ducasse's Plaza Athénée restaurant to someone eating a Ginster's Scotch Egg Bar."

"Thank you for that, Mars Volta, you’ve won me over with your “textures” and your “structures.” You know what else has textures? An iguana, and those motherfuckers will whip the shit out of you with their tails. And you know what else has structure? A nazi death camp, you anti-semites. Okay, I’m rambling because I’m bored. Did I mention this song is thirteen minutes long?"

:-D

agreed.
one read of dr david and all are hooked.

http://www.citypaper.com/arts/review.asp?rid=11175