[kj] Used CDs. . .

[Alex Smith]

"wow, this was painfully funny if you happen to like the tomes reviewed"

....if you've got incredibly low standards, maybe.

I found it pathetic.

Alex in nYc


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>From: sade1 <saulomar1@yahoo.com>
>To: gathering@misera.net
>Subject: Re: [kj] Used CDs. . . 
>Date: Tue, Oct 7, 2003, 5:11 PM
>

>   wow, this was painfully funny if you happen to like the tomes
>reviewed. They even picked on The Sundays - they never hurt
>anyone...
>But the Ministry review had me laffing hard...it's 'to a tee'
>what i've seen at EVERY Mnstry show,
>21: Ministry: Psalm 69
>    Ministry fans don't die; in their world, they don't even get
>old. Prune-faced, grey-haired and drawn, they're still blowing
>rails of coke and wearing 18-inch Docs to clubs nationwide. In
>his big money heyday (1988-95), Ministry founder Al Jourgensen
>hit the stage with so much snow in his dreds it looked like he
>was wearing a powdered wig. Maybe it was heroin (who really
>knows?) but this much is clear: since Iggy Pop and Bowie's
>Berlin debauchery, no one in the underground music scene has
>done more drugs than this very angry Cubs fan. 
>Though the name first surfaced on a handful of effeminate
>sub-Depeche Mode club tracks, Ministry soon became the defining
>industrial act, a raging speed metal freight train that embraced
>sequencing and later sampling. Like "Stigmata", "Thieves" and
>"Burning Inside", this album's "N.W.O.", "Just One Fix" and the
>Butthole Surfers collaboration "Jesus Built My Hotrod" are songs
>you should know by heart. Thousands of Lollapalooza goers bought
>Psalm 69 after the calamitous penultimate sets Ministry
>delivered, but this is exactly the sort of record your wife will
>shame you into selling ten years later, especially if you have
>kids. I may have to side with the ladies, since the
>proto-grindcore "TV II" is to yuppies the audio equivalent of
>The Exorcist. Profit from the generation gap, young readers:
>this one still has nine-inch nails.
>
>2: New Order: Republic
>    If you ever get into it with a snotty New Order fan-- the
>kind that refuses to acknowledge the hilarious oafishness of
>Bernard Sumner's lyrics (thankfully there aren't too many after
>Get Ready)-- there's one phrase guaranteed to send them
>screaming from the room: "Bass mechanic, YEAAAAAAAAAAAH!" It may
>have been sampled from Miami bass progenitor DXJ's prescient
>1986 hit "Bass Mechanic", but no amount of referential hipster
>cachet could make me listen to "Spooky" ever again. Sumner
>shouting, "Let's defend the things we say," over such a sub-par
>backing track-- even by New Order's preprogrammed standards-- is
>agony. For him, regret. 
>To this day, you can still find the "limited run", lifejacket
>version of Republic in rural American used CD shops. Apart from
>"Everyone Everywhere", a breezy, half-asleep bit of wallpaper at
>best, the three great singles ("Regret", "World" and "Ruined in
>a Day") from this hugely over-promoted 1993 album are available
>on the flawless Best of New Order, which was released only two
>years later to recoup against this album and the sad supporting
>tour that broke New Order up for almost ten years. Head to the
>hits comp for everything you'll need from this tepid, repetitive
>bore (and from Technique, for that matter
>
>
>--- Mark Kolmar <mark@burningrome.com> wrote:
>>
>http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/features/castoffs-and-cutouts/index.shtml
>> 
>> Mostly savage 
>
>=====
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>
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>  of the here and now
>  I want to be
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