Bartleboom

DeRank : 35,89
DeAge™ : 7610 days • Here since 9 august 2005
Bobby Fischer 9/3/1943 - 17/1/2008
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It's not that you have to apologize AFTER you've posted whatever you like. You just needed to think for two minutes BEFORE sending this stuff. Which, by the way, is nice, but if you'd sent it to me as an editorial, I would have gladly published it. I even like you, but you seem like someone who, joking around, always does whatever he pleases and doesn't care much about others...
Stickmen With Rayguns Some People Deserve to Suffer
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I put in some capital letters, a few commas, but mostly some "line breaks": doesn’t it make your head spin reading everything in a row? Don't your eyes cross, and don't you confuse the lines? Who knows! Anyway; it seems much more readable to me like this. In fact, I read it and enjoyed it: from how you describe them, they seem like quite an interesting bunch! I’ll lend an ear and let you know. And by the way, yes, the cover is sooo cute.
Andy Sheppard Movements in colour
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I'm always sorry to "disprove" such a heartfelt review, but - from the little I heard of Maiuscolo - it did not excite or fascinate me at all... But then again, what can I say when I've been listening to the same 10 jazz records for 10 years?!? Anyway, the review is beautiful.
Barbet Schroeder More. (Di più, ancora di più)
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I was absolutely convinced that I had already kicked you off the home page, but apparently I was mistaken. I'll fix that immediately. Send them over, because we're all extremely eager to know the extra content of a DVD.
The Mondrian Oak “People Have Secrets”
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The album is also nice. But you who wrote this skid mark on your underwear deserve the ritual circumcision of debaserian foreskin. Since you're doing self-promotion (which doesn’t bother me per se), at least 1) avoid copy/pasting what I can find on Bandcamp 2) avoid phrases like "it's something NEW (yeah... in your dreams)." And "it came to get you," as if it were the INPS doctor for fiscal visits. 3) put the damn cover on;
Hybrid Circle A Matter Of Faith
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I listened to it (not very carefully, I confess, since the genre bores me quite a bit), but frankly, I didn’t find all this lack of immediacy and all these problems of assimilability. The tracks are fairly short (they always hover around 4 minutes, which for a band with prog aspirations isn’t exactly an exaggeration), there are no impossible time signatures, the clean vocal parts are always very catchy, the song structure isn’t completely abandoned... In the sense that if these are so inaccessible, the Thought Industry were locked away in a safe! Anyway, you’re always amazing because the review is good and you bring here a ton, truly a ton, of interesting stuff that otherwise would never be reviewed. Well done, well done.
Nickelback No Fixed Address
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I, on the other hand, will never understand the reasons for the cosmic bitterness that generates these feelings. Better yet, I just can’t comprehend how they went from being literally idolized to being seen as some sort of Marco Masini of radio rock. Their proposal is as old as the hills: they make trucker rock. Square riffs with big guitars, catchy choruses, and melodic solos. Plus, every now and then they slip in a romantic/acoustic ballad that never hurts. I mean: I don’t listen to them, but judging by how much they annoy people, it seems like they’re making extreme reggaeton. Back in the days of You Remind Me, they were selling millions of records, filling stadiums, and Billboard had placed them, I can't remember where, in the ranking of the most influential bands of the decade. A couple of years go by, and petitions start popping up online to NOT let them perform at the Superbowl. I mean, if they were Led Zeppelin and today they were making crap, that would be one thing. But it seems the only real decline you can attribute to these poor guys is the state of the singer’s face, which honestly has become hard to look at lately... who knows.
Valerian Swing A Sailor Lost Around The Earth
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I've been listening to "Aurora" from 2014 these days, and I think it truly deserves more recognition. I don't know this one. And copying reviews is not just incorrect; it's downright fishy...
The Fall Of Troy Doppelgänger
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Mmm... the review is very good. The proposal doesn't completely convince me: it's true that you "reassure" about the quality of the proposal, but I still have the fear that it might just be a big mess. I'll try to give it a listen on YouTube to see if it can work for me. I like the way you write and I think we have similar tastes. I hope you'll send some more in 2015. Bye bye.
Les Big Byrd They Worshipped Cats
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And instead, it's not really getting to me... I've listened to it all the way through only a couple of times: there's nothing wrong with it, but there's also nothing that really cheers me up. The danceable vibe is pleasant, but it doesn't make me want to shake my ass like a polaroid picture. I'm almost certain it's a "mood" problem: as far as I'm concerned, winter is meant for eating, sleeping, binge-watching entire TV series over the course of a single weekend, and complaining about the cold. To feel like moving more muscles than just those required to let out a little gas under the duvet, I need at least 25 degrees...