[kj] Rolling Stone Weighs In

[Harley Quinn]

I won a free 1 year sub to Rolling Stone from publishers clearinghouse.. 4
1/2 years later, this shit STILL comes to my mail box every month
I'd cancel, but its free, so hey, if they are stupid enough to keep sending
it, I'll keep getting them and letting my kids make pretty pictures out of
them


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Leigh Newton" <morbidflorist@yahoo.com>
To: <gathering@misera.net>
Sent: Friday, August 29, 2003 12:17 AM
Subject: Re: [kj] Rolling Stone Weighs In


> that's almost exactly the review they gave to Faith No
> More's final (and quite great) album-Album Of The
> Year. "Oh, they're old, they're tired, we sucked their
> ass when they were cool, but this is just a big prog
> rock mess......but the keyboards are cool." At the
> height of "electronica", no less. Even when i was a 16
> year old, grunge loving idiot, i thought rolling stone
> sucked.
>
> Leigh
>
> --- Jester <webmaster@killing-joke.com> wrote:
> > Fuck RS, right square in the arse, with an implant.
> > No wonder Lester Bangs
> > left that shit hole.
> >
> > If your not some POS band, that is the flavour of
> > the day, then you don't
> > get good pub from them.
> >
> > To fucking hell with em.
> >
> > "expertly constructed electronic
> > textures"...huh???oh, you mean the fart
> > noises??? And there is all the credibility you need
> > right there.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On 8/28/03 10:57 PM, "MotelHell@aol.com"
> > <MotelHell@aol.com> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > 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 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
> > > Home: vassifer@earthlink.net
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