[kj] Rolling Stone Weighs In

[Cliff and Kara Livingston]

I wonder if writing e-mails to rolling stone would have any effect?
Yeah probably not,but we could make some writers boss have a bad
day,hehe.Let the swiveling eyes begin.......

Dear Editor of Rolling Stone.......

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <MotelHell@aol.com>
To: <gathering@misera.net>
Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2003 7:57 PM
Subject: [kj] Rolling Stone Weighs In


>
> As if you didn't already have enough reasons to boycott this glorified
toilet
> paper, Rolling Stone reviews the new album:
>
> KILLING JOKE
> Killing Joke
> ZUMA
> ** (two stars out of five)
> These middle-aged Brits, who first blended metal, post-punk and New Wave
> sounds into an oppressive mess twenty years ago return with one of the
darkest
> albums in their extensive catalog. On tracks such as "Loose Cannon", the
big
> riffs and expertly constructed electronic textures make for a heady, dark
mix. But
> all the humorless gloom and doom feels oppressive after a while, and
KILLING
> JOKE ultimately plays like the soundtrack to a slightly pretentious horror
film
> - Christian Hoard and Jon Caramanica.
>
> Opinions aside, what a horribly written bit of drivel (the adjective
> "oppressive" apearing twice in three sentences?) I get the feeling the
only track
> these cock-jockeys listened to was "Loose Cannon". And what's this about
"expertly
> constructed electronic textures"? What does that even MEAN?
>
> Fuck Rolling Stone.
>
> Alex in NYC
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