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Tim O'Neil
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[10.Jan.08] :. The singer and lyricist gives his take on the music-industrial complex, including the challenge of visiting the United States.
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[30.Nov.07] :. Sinatra's reputation was a victim of the changing times, and I don't think it's possible to overstate the effect that this transition has had upon the perception of his music.
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[16.Aug.07] :. Porn appears inherently inhospitable to subtext, context, or artistic aspirations, cruel, mechanistic, and antithetical to sustained narrative. Porn filmmaking is practically a contradiction in terms: any "artistic" obfuscation of the action on display risks alienating the genre's core audience.
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[10.Aug.07] :. Genesis is slightly different from typical prog rock. Yes, they had the 20-minute song "cycles" and the classical allusions all up in their lyrics, but they also had a few other things that their proggy peers did not: specifically, Peter Gabriel and Phil Collins.
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[19.Jul.07] :. You'd be hard pressed to make an argument for Ghetto D as one of the great rap albums of the '90s, or even, really, a very good album at all.
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[23.Jun.08] :. There's no such thing as songwriters anymore, it's all about sound-as-sound, divorced from context and pureed into something wilder than could ever previously have been imagined.
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[26.Mar.08] :. From mild-mannered cerebral electronic music producer, Clark has transformed into an enormous, stomping, fire-breathing dragon.
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[21.Mar.08] :. I am baffled as to how a band that started so strongly could have transformed themselves in the space of a decade into, well, the arch, faux-upper-crust British counterpart to American yacht-rock like Hall & Oates.
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[19.Mar.08] :. Caveat emptor: this is not your father's Daedelus. But it's still pretty damn awesome.
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[28.Jan.08] :. It's pretty much impossible to imagine about half of the dance music or hip-hop that exists today ever having been created without the influence of the Scroggins sisters.
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[4.Dec.07] :. Rare is the band that can craft a live album good enough to stand shoulder-to-shoulder alongside its studio releases. Rarer still is the band whose live albums can cross the divide between being merely good and damn near essential.
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[13.Nov.07] :. Excessive praise has the unfortunate effect of seeming fatuous, but there's nothing at all fatuous about these records.
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[24.Oct.07] :. There can be little doubt that this is the most impressive and assured debut record to come down the pike in many a year.
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[23.Apr.07] :. Every bit of the typical attention to detail and lavish care which Nine Inch Nails fans have come to expect is here.
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[16.Apr.07] :. Pole's minimal electronic music is just about perfect on this latest release.
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[6.Oct.06] :. The skill and imagination with which The War Game believably crafts a disaster narrative from the days and weeks immediately preceding and following a nuclear attack on Britain are such that it feels convincingly real -- a shrewd and somewhat uncharacteristic precedent for the "mockumentary" genre.
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[27.Apr.06] :. Simply on the basis of the fourteen songs included on Collected, Massive Attack stake a mighty persuasive claim towards being one of the best pop groups of all time.
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[27.Mar.06] :. Those who saw the potential in their earliest releases can take comfort in the fact that the band has not only made good on every shred of that potential, with Show Your Bones they've exceeded the most optimistic expectations with confident aplomb.
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[14.Nov.05] :. Hawtin has not only produced one of the most singularly fascinating albums of the year, but taken the very concept of a mixed CD into unprecedented territory.
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[10.Jun.05] :. In terms of its influence, its stature and its quality, Endtroducing... could lay a serious claim to being the most important album of 1990s.
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[20.May.05] :. It remains a galling, cankerous reminder of the painful and profound issues that the majority of pop music has always been designed to mask. If the album seems strained in places, overwrought in others and unimaginably grim throughout, it is still -- despite these flaws -- a vital and demanding work.
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[10.Feb.05] :. Don't let the self-serving nostalgia and portentous imagery of this deluxe package divert you from the real attraction: the beautiful, beautiful music contained herein.
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