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offline Ophecks from Nova Scotia (Canada) on 2002-05-13 08:51 [#00217496]
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http://www.markprindle.com/

This has been one of my favorite websites for a while. The
guy is funny as hell, sometimes I read his reviews just for
his absurb and immature humor! Check it out if you're into
reading album reviews... I know I am, I have a habit of
searching for reviews on albums I've already heard for some
reason. I'm demented.

It's mostly rock, no electronic content on there... but it's
still hilarious!


 

offline Ophecks from Nova Scotia (Canada) on 2002-05-13 18:42 [#00218098]
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GODDAMMIT, I'M SERIOUS!!!!!!!


 

offline B3n from Manchester (United Kingdom) on 2002-05-13 18:55 [#00218118]
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the funniest i've read is NME.com's review of Selection
Sixteen...

I guess he didn't like it =)


 

offline B3n from Manchester (United Kingdom) on 2002-05-13 18:56 [#00218119]
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Yeah ophecks, I know what you mean, I seem to have far more
interest in reading about albums I already own..like to find
out anything new or something.


 

offline smokehammer from Saigon (Vietnam) on 2002-05-13 19:16 [#00218138]
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Squarepusher  :  ...Presents Selection Sixteen

ringtonesHmm. Interesting. The opening track, 'The
'Eye', consists of some vaguely spooky noises over which
British foreign secretary Robin 'Shagger' Cook rambles on
about the historic opening of the Gaza Strip border. Oh,
hang on. I've left the radio on. That's better. So, just
some vaguely spooky noises, then. How interesting. No,
really. How FUCKING interesting.

Moving rapidly along, 'Square Rave' doesn't so much 'bang'
as sort of rattle around like an insecticide-overdosed
late-summer wasp trapped in a large paper lampshade. Far
out! 'Dedicated Loop' is the sort of sucky ambient
soundtrack that sucky film students choose for their sucky
time-lapse Warhol pastiches. Hilarious! 'Tomorrow World' is
Enya gone drum'n'bass. Groovy! 'Cool Veil' is ten seconds of
aimless muso-masturbation. How witty! 'Schizm Track #1' is
like 'The Rockafeller Skank' heard from the bottom of a
200ft-deep shit-filled pit. Great! Oh sweet Jesus! Do we
have to go on!?

Look, synthesisers, sequencers, samplers and drum machines
are fab, gear and groovy. Hey, the Prodge, Atari Teenage
Riot and Fatboy Slim swear by them! But what if this new
tecknologie were ever to fall into the wrong hands? What if
it were used to produce evil music? Like, music with no
balls, soul, energy, aggression, passion, tune, danceable
beats or apparent function? You know, the sort of pointless,
irritating, self-indulgent, avant-garde-a-fucking-clue
bollocks that a certain sort of especially annoying student
pretends to be 'into' in order to look 'cool' shortly before
he (and it's nearly always a he) gets a job in vivisection,
Conservative politics or the music press? What, in other
words, if these wonderful, shiny, new instruments were used
to make art-wank jazzzzzzzzzzzz?

Oh, wait! This is a pisstake, right? I'll bet this 'Tom
Jenkinson' doesn't exist at all, does he? I bet it's those
wacky blokes from The Fast Show who've slung all the ropy
cack they recorded f


 

offline smokehammer from Saigon (Vietnam) on 2002-05-13 19:18 [#00218140]
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for their hilarious Jazz Club sketches
onto a CD! Ha! You wags! You really had me going there! For
a minute. I will kill anybody who plays any track off this
CD in any building where I am present. You have been
warned.

Rating: 0

Thanks B3n ... hilarious !!! Bet he loves the new Travis
album though... :D


 

offline B3n from Manchester (United Kingdom) on 2002-05-13 19:21 [#00218143]
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=)

On that note...I really like the cd! He's a pretty creative
wordmith.

"avant-garde-a-fucking-clue
bollocks"

"muso-masturbation"

"'The Rockafeller Skank' heard from the bottom of a
200ft-deep shit-filled pit"


 

offline marlowe from Antarctica on 2002-05-13 19:43 [#00218166]
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man that review was bitter -- but that's critix for you!!


 

offline license from out of nowhere on 2002-05-13 20:45 [#00218258]
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haha. I actually like selection sixteen less than any of his
other stuff, but I'm not completely repulsed by it. plus he
knocked by 2 favourite tracks (Schizm+Square Rave).

what a pompous ass. I hope he chokes on his latte.


 

offline B3n from Manchester (United Kingdom) on 2002-05-13 20:48 [#00218264]
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come on, tommorrow work is best!


 

offline CORTEX from Canada on 2002-05-13 22:18 [#00218363]
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how can anyone not love square rave?

that review has a similar vibe to that rollingstone drukqs
review... ha!


 

offline B3n from Manchester (United Kingdom) on 2002-05-13 22:24 [#00218372]
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sorry I mean't 'tommorrow world'

I think the guy probably was jacking off to The Strokes


 


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