Name looks Dutch to me, which would make the "oe" like an English "oo" sound (I think?) and the "g" an unpleasant throaty hairball noise, but assuming the guy is American and not Dutch all bets are probably off
(I quite liked that review but didn't enjoy his Stylus thing at all thanks to his tic of accusing some new swathe of music listeners of clearly being Republicans every other paragraph; never read anything else by the guy, but I find Mark Prindle funny so y'know I have some time for splenetic self-amused challop-bursts in music criticism)
― falling while carrying an owl (a passing spacecadet), Tuesday, 23 February 2010 13:56 (fourteen years ago) link
the guy has got a 'character' and i can see disliking/disagreeing with the 'character' but he writes the 'character' p effectively
― max, Tuesday, 23 February 2010 13:58 (fourteen years ago) link
To summarise, then, this is probably not the worst piece of music writing ever
― MPx4A, Tuesday, 23 February 2010 14:00 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah guys it's not that he's a bad writer (so no this should not be here) but for those that know nothing about metal his critical acumen is p. much straight bullshit.
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 23 February 2010 14:08 (fourteen years ago) link
Herman are you sure your beef with this guy isn't that you disagree with his opinion, not that his writing is bad?
― Lee Dorrian Gray (J0hn D.), Tuesday, 23 February 2010 14:11 (fourteen years ago) link
i'll be honest, high on fire kinda bore me too. but i haven't heard the new one. not really going out of my way to hear the new one though. they are way up there on my list of bands that - on paper - i should love but don't.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 23 February 2010 14:14 (fourteen years ago) link
would-be challoping
how does this work? even in the absence of biters, a challop is a challop right?
― nakhchivan, Tuesday, 23 February 2010 14:15 (fourteen years ago) link
i'll be honest, high on fire kinda bore me too.
I haven't heard Snakes for the Divine but you just took yrself off my xmas list buddy
― Lee Dorrian Gray (J0hn D.), Tuesday, 23 February 2010 14:17 (fourteen years ago) link
just being honest. wasn't a big sleep fan either except for dopesmoker/jerusalem. i like OM okay though.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 23 February 2010 14:20 (fourteen years ago) link
I think Songs take far too long to get their bearing and then flail about listlessly, content with grand declarations of emotional quagmire received in wholly disconnected and unfounded ways – sorta like a dog flipping through a Time magazine photo special on the Haiti earthquake devastation. is bad writing.
― Shannon Whirry and the Bad Brains, Tuesday, 23 February 2010 14:21 (fourteen years ago) link
really digging this right now though:
http://shop.no-colours-records.de/cover/10566bazookatoxicwarriorscd1320091028.jpg
― scott seward, Tuesday, 23 February 2010 14:23 (fourteen years ago) link
looks like neo-thrash
I am completely over neo-thrash
― Lee Dorrian Gray (J0hn D.), Tuesday, 23 February 2010 14:24 (fourteen years ago) link
it's 9:23 a.m. and i'm listening to bazooka. how about you?
recorded at ASSLOVER studio in Taiwan. everyone should record there. i think its actually just a big hole in the ground wired for sound.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 23 February 2010 14:25 (fourteen years ago) link
Bad writing how? That is very evocative of flailing listlessly to make an emotional impact but being too disconnected from the source material to be effective; it's likely that the anger generated by reading that glib comment is akin to the frustration this dude feels when he listens to this music.
― Jack the Dude-Kicker (HI DERE), Tuesday, 23 February 2010 14:25 (fourteen years ago) link
it is nu-thrash but it is really good taiwanese ASSLOVING nu-thrash. the riffs are great.
recorded at ASSLOVER studio in Taiwan. everyone should record there.
omg brb, goin 2 Taiwan
― Lee Dorrian Gray (J0hn D.), Tuesday, 23 February 2010 14:27 (fourteen years ago) link
i know, right?
― scott seward, Tuesday, 23 February 2010 14:30 (fourteen years ago) link
still think this line from the dude's other review posted on the metal thread would make a great ilx username for someone:
"a pulsing vibe on the clit of aesthetic eureka"
― scott seward, Tuesday, 23 February 2010 14:31 (fourteen years ago) link
Q: You really went for a new sound on this record - what do you attribute that to?A: I have to say, it's Asslover. Asslover really left its mark on this record, no doubt about it.
― Lee Dorrian Gray (J0hn D.), Tuesday, 23 February 2010 14:33 (fourteen years ago) link
words of wisdom on the back of the bazooka album:
fuck to: posers
― scott seward, Tuesday, 23 February 2010 14:33 (fourteen years ago) link
well one way in which it's bad writing is that a dog flipping through a magazine is a wholly incongruous image
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 23 February 2010 14:33 (fourteen years ago) link
this thread took a bizarre turn
― Pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 23 February 2010 14:34 (fourteen years ago) link
seriously though, i've had it up to here with the nu-thrash revolution as much as anyone, but this album rocks hard. very satisfying.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 23 February 2010 14:35 (fourteen years ago) link
http://blog.lib.umn.edu/bgleason/pt/dogs-playing-poker.jpg
― Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ (dyao), Tuesday, 23 February 2010 14:36 (fourteen years ago) link
xps yeah I am trying hard here to parse the dog simile and it's just not happening
― Originoo Golf Clappaz (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 23 February 2010 14:37 (fourteen years ago) link
but that incongruity plays right back to the disconnect he's talking about
― Jack the Dude-Kicker (HI DERE), Tuesday, 23 February 2010 14:37 (fourteen years ago) link
http://c2.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/140/l_3154ef78d3d64e149fa6ff5068f34789.jpg
― scott seward, Tuesday, 23 February 2010 14:38 (fourteen years ago) link
I spent like two hours the other day looking for somewhere that sold dogs playing poker on a button-up shirt in a size below XL - it's as if they only expect fatteys to wear them
― Originoo Golf Clappaz (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 23 February 2010 14:38 (fourteen years ago) link
i dunno abt that; a dog watching images of earthquake devastation on tv at least makes some kind of sense--with his construction i get pretty stuck on how the dog is flipping through the magazine without thumbs.
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 23 February 2010 14:39 (fourteen years ago) link
otoh if he meant the dogs that also play poker all is forgiven; i understand completely
The idea that the reader needs a backup example of 'disconnect' is also slightly off, to my mind
― Originoo Golf Clappaz (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 23 February 2010 14:41 (fourteen years ago) link
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, February 23, 2010 2:33 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark
god forbid, an incongruous image
― sharter the unstoppable ilx machine (history mayne), Tuesday, 23 February 2010 14:41 (fourteen years ago) link
sorry incongruous might not be the right word--i mean it doesn't make any goddamn sense
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 23 February 2010 14:42 (fourteen years ago) link
isn't that construction like the commonest of common writing tropes (ie, allegory)?
― Jack the Dude-Kicker (HI DERE), Tuesday, 23 February 2010 14:43 (fourteen years ago) link
i like the dog line! wish i had thought of it.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 23 February 2010 14:45 (fourteen years ago) link
can dogs flip pages with paw-static?
― nakhchivan, Tuesday, 23 February 2010 14:45 (fourteen years ago) link
dog was using a kindle, obviously. paw pad.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 23 February 2010 14:48 (fourteen years ago) link
http://ihasahotdog.wordpress.com/files/2008/08/funny-dog-pictures-dog-wants-to-finish-reading-a-chapter.jpg
― scott seward, Tuesday, 23 February 2010 14:49 (fourteen years ago) link
dogs actually do have opposable thumbs fyi; they just don't want to tip their hands to their human masters
― Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ (dyao), Tuesday, 23 February 2010 14:56 (fourteen years ago) link
or should I say, tip their PAWS???
― Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ (dyao), Tuesday, 23 February 2010 14:57 (fourteen years ago) link
see if dogs were just holding out on us w/r/t the fact that their paws work really well for grasping, i'd expect them to also be affected by images of earthquake devastation
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 23 February 2010 14:58 (fourteen years ago) link
So the question is whether dogs love Chinese neo-thrash. As we already know they are asslovers.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 23 February 2010 14:58 (fourteen years ago) link
*reads last post**decides not to investigate thread further*
― _Rudipherous_, Tuesday, 23 February 2010 15:01 (fourteen years ago) link
it's time for the nard-dog to take mags into his own paws
― you live in a space battle homo cave (sic), Tuesday, 23 February 2010 15:09 (fourteen years ago) link
"Why oh why didn't I warn them like the dog in that one movie I saw"
― Originoo Golf Clappaz (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 23 February 2010 15:15 (fourteen years ago) link
fuck to:posers
ladies and gentlemen, my newest tattoo
― Lee Dorrian Gray (J0hn D.), Tuesday, 23 February 2010 15:20 (fourteen years ago) link
they do great work in taiwan:
http://theartoftattoo.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/taiwan-tattoo.jpg
― scott seward, Tuesday, 23 February 2010 15:25 (fourteen years ago) link
hey J0hn, what other tattoos do you have?
― ha! (Drugs A. Money), Tuesday, 23 February 2010 18:25 (fourteen years ago) link
Pretty sure this is one of them:http://s1.hubimg.com/u/1434032_f260.jpg
― Sean Carruthers, Tuesday, 23 February 2010 18:36 (fourteen years ago) link
he's got lady gaga making out with admiral akbar on his lower back.
known fact.
― strongohulkingtonsghost, Tuesday, 23 February 2010 19:24 (fourteen years ago) link