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Closer, since it's the greatest "rock" album I've heard, makes this one seem regrettable. Songs like Wilderness and Interzone just aren't on the same level.

This is a great record (it certainly was unique when it was released), when compared to most of the dross in the music industry, but Closer towers over it.

A good example of an album which is overrated to a degree that is surreal. One suspects that this has little to do with the music, and more to do with the mind set of the overrater on first hearing it.Badly sung, poorly played, mediocre, and in comparison to many albums released the same year, VERY conventional in musical terms.Of course the Velvet Heads will never agree, they lost their critical capacity some time ago.

There are certain bands and certain records who are listened to by people with closed minds that have lost all critical faculty. This is one. It is obvious, poor, and derivative.Clearly it was tremendously cool to seen with it under your arm at the bus stop going up your mates in 1969, but the fact remains that it is musically immature, poorly recorded, and shallow. Listen to Beefheart instead.

White Light/White Heat. i guarantee it's the same guy.

And the album is..?

.. but I was actually looking for this one:

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Not that great, April 13, 2000
Reviewer: A music fan
Mick Jagger said of the New York Dolls: "Ugh, the New York Dolls! What Rubbish!" Listen to this album, and, except for a rare good spot here and there, you'll agree with Mick.

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Christian?, September 26, 2004
Reviewer: Timothy Williams "twilliams" (USA)

Psalms 106 says we should only let those who are faithful in the Lord minister to us. How can it be faithful to accept the Dove awards and yet claim to be humble. That certainly does not reflect the cross, www.carriedcross.org, of Christ.

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These were not what I consider music, February 18, 1999
Reviewer: A music fan
I am an avid Country and Blues Fan. I wonder if anyone is still alive who enjoys this type of so called music. I found it irritating, not singing but screaming. Thank goodness for Todays Music

Is It Live Or Jane's Addiction?, July 30, 2002
Reviewer: The Orange Duke "orangeduke" (Cupertino, Ca United States) - See all my reviews
Built to spill sounds a lot like Jane's Addiction, a bit too much, really. They are loud, they are screechy, they are grating. If you like this sort of wailing hard alternative, why not stick with the innovator? Leave the imatator to rot.

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When I listen to wailing hard alternative, I always turn to Built to Spill, don't you?

Open up; make room for me, July 31, 2005
Reviewer: patton (san daos) - See all my reviews

I despise this album. I know that's enough to give all you indie/Punk/Post-Punk elitists all the more reason to buy this album and pretend you like it, so proceed to buy your tasteless little hearts out. But this fact remains: Second Edition is a waste of money. The semi spoken-word song called "The Suit" is interesting and worth hearing just for Lydon's rare, non-shrieking monotone, but screw the rest of the album. I prefer Lydon's melodious wailing from PiL circa 1983-1992. His solo dance album is tops as well (Psycho's Path, I believe). What else can I say; I'm happy with his lovely pop-infused work. I suppose I'm easy to please (unlike all you embittered pricks pretending to like something like Second Edition that Lydon purposely made to be unlistenable)

1776: The New Broadway Cast Recording (1997) [CAST RECORDING]

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can i give it no stars? no? darn. . ., May 3, 2003
Reviewer: A music fan
Okay, I saw this musical with my school, at Ford's Theater of all places. A review I read there said that the reviewer was "enraptured" and "could hardly breathe." Me, I could hardly breathe for laughing so hard at the sheer stupidity of the songs. As for being enraptured, i DID have to stare hard at the stage a lot, simply because i forgot my glasses. . . Anyway, this music is pathetic, though it was fun to imitate afterwards. It's not worth seeing or listening to. It IS hard to write a musical about the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Why did they bother? In more simple terms, IT SUCKS!!!

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It's not that funny, but it IS unhelpful.
Of course, it is possible that there is a review that 0 out of 204 found unhelpful, or that 1 out of 472 thought was unhelpful. If anyone can find a more unhelpful music review on amazon I would be very thankful.

Capsule from my Archives, October 16, 2005

Reviewer: Pablo Martin Podhorzer (Tel Aviv, Israel) - See all my reviews
Going halfway makes to another impossible to go to the end. I think so. Or is opening doors for more intrepid people, like other Waters called John? He doesn't need doors to be opened. Again, one movie that makes damage control.

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Awful show, waste of music, November 29, 2004
Reviewer: John Q. Public "vhspreowner" (USA) - See all my reviews
To put it mildly, the show is a total waste of time and most of the music is either by today's artists who can not sing, or by more classical singers and bands whose music is better left heard on their own CD releases.

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Yep, it's "OK Computer". Mind you, you should read the "Kid A" ones!

I LOVE TODAYS MUSIC!!! WHERE CAN I GET MORE OF THE TODAY MUSIC?

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My review, March 23, 2006
Reviewer: Bonnie Landers "auntie" (Kentucky) - See all my reviews
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I bought this for my niece. She watched the show on Disney.

Thanks for your help, lady!

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I wonder how many times you can vote "unhelpful? by yourself?

The dude has done hundreds of reviews and they all seem to be 1 or 2 star whines.

Here's a blog entry of an author who's been blessed by one of John Q. Public's reviews.

"A freak and a geek with no real goals in life except to trash other people's work"

" A rather bland book to celebrate a medicore TV show on poor DVD boxed sets."

Boxes in boxes!!!

Clearly the guy's reviews are risible, but as Michael's pointed out, if mental illness is the case then it's sad rather than funny.

However, given the positive result the cd received, it may just have been my personal taste. I also got her new cds, and did not like those either

0 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Calander of a call girl....., March 22, 2006
Jolie is a call girl nothing else.

SHE CERTAINLY CAUSED jENNIFER aNNISON HEARTBREAK IN THE PAST YEAR. I HOPE jOLIE AND PITT GO THROUGH THE SAME HEARTBREAK ALSO BECAUSE THEY ARE LOW CLASE SLEAZE, AND I AM BOYCOTTING ALL MOVIES THEY APPEAR IN.

THIS IS NOT A BEST CD!, January 26, 2005
Reviewer: REYNALDO PAGUNSAN (Seattle, WA, USA) - See all my reviews
I AM SO FRUSTRATED WHEN I BOUGHT AND LISTENED TO THIS CD! I THOUGHT ALL THE BEAT IN EACH TRACK WILL BE SIMILAR TO THE BEAT OF "MELT WITH YOU". I TELL YOU IT'S NOT. PLEASE DONT BUY THIS CD! THIS IS A BIG RIFF OFF!

"As a Big fan of the Christian Band Bleach. I felt really bad for the person who bought this Album thinking it was made by Christian Band Bleach. I would also sue this group for the name BLEACH. The Christian band prob. had the name before this piece of crap group did."

*/***** The History of the Homosexual Music Industry, August 25, 2002
Reviewer: Robert Jay Galtman (Philadelphia, PA) - See all my reviews
I bought this book expecting to read about the history of DJing. Instead, I was bombarded with page after page of the history of music and how homosexuals played such a big role in the disco era. The majority of the chapters relate only to certain genres of music and the few chapters that do focus on DJing (or at least one would think this from their titles) fail miserably. I will sum up my disappointment with one simple question - Did these authors even have DJs in mind when they wrote this book?

Yes. Someone has bought a book about the history of dance music and is shocked, shocked to find gay people figure largely in said history.

Reviewer: frumpy-old-spinster (Atlanta, GA) - See all my reviews
This film is not "deeply disturbibg" or is it "only for film historians", people who wrote bad reviews on this dvd, obviously are not inteligent enough, and the film went over thier heads as it would if a 3 year old were watching it.

This film is a classic, not just for it's AMAZING filmography, whcih was new at the time, and still is breathtaking today, but because of the "controverisal" subject matter, which wasn't so controversial at the time of it's release.

This dvd must be watched, and is hard to review, but it is a classic, and when it's over, you'll find yourself pushing the play button again and warching it twice in a row!

This film will do one of two things it will either move you and make you realzie this was along with Gone With The Wind, one of the best film of all time, or it will go right over your head, and you'll yell "racism", and just blow it off, and not even realize it's a classic. This film is more likely to appeal however to people who tend to gravitate towards listening to jazz and classical music, people more sophistocated and who liek fine wines and live a more luxurious or should I say cultured lifestyle.