the Mercury Music reviewer needs help
when was the last time you read a review of a CD and it made you want to go buy the music. maybe it was a review about the music or the band or how the cd was recorded. maybe it was about a difficult time the band went through that made their music more passionate.
but was it a review about a concert that has nothing to do with the current album? well, that’s what the reviewer in this Portland Mercury review did of The Flaming Lips latest release. The reviewer put down almost 1 1/2 long paragraphs of word about a Austin City Limits performance that he saw where the Flaming Lips and Co were just ” were just tearing through shit.” it’s only at the end of the review that he says the assinine comment of - “maybe their new album can bring it like this.” It doesn’t.” oh, and that’s it for the review.
WHA? this isn’t a cd review, it’s a concert review. one has nothing to do with the other. figure it out dude!
oh, and I’ve listened to the new Flaming Lips album and it is wonderful. I love it.
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Heh, heh. I think a lot of reviewers, music, movies, theater etc. just like to hear themselves talk.
The Mercury sucks. I don’t know why it even exists, really. The Willamette Week does the Mercury’s job better. Really, the Mercury is more like a decent college newspaper than a decent “hip” tabloid. The writing is uniformly bad.
(The BLF puts on her Music Nerd hat)
So dieselboi, have you heard Steve Burns’ (yes, Blues Clues Steve Burns) album that he did with Steven Drozd and Michael Ivins of the Lips? Because I have it and I love it. And I think everyone should, because his webpage (while now aging and neglected) is charming and the album kicks my whole ass.
http://www.steveswebpage.com/SongsForDustMites.html
Enjoy!