What AM! have done is written one of the first true punk albums in who knows how long. It's also one of the most honest rock albums ive heard since.. well their last two albums. The band seems to have moved away from the rawness of Reinventing Axl Rose and made strives in production. They captured the emotion and lyrical tactfulness of The Replacements and mixed it with the power and epic feelings one may get when first listening to The Clash.
The new songs seem like they took a little longer to write. They all have a sence of intmacy and seem to define everything that this band is, was and will be. The lyrics are straight up powerful. as always. There is so much personal emotion in Tom's lyrics. Just listen to songs like Joy, Pretty Girls (The Mover), or Its really great to hear a punk band be emotional with out becoming a crappy cookie cutter emo band. But the cunning cleverness and political awareness still cuts through. Justin is a song about a soldier killed in iraq, and From Her Lips To God's Ears (The Energizer) apears to be a personal message to Condi. While Unprotected Sex With Multipal Parthners is comentary on the music industry. This may be one of the best protest albums ever made.
The insturmentation has only gotten better. The band is tighter and seems to have learnd when to slow it down. The dynamics are excellent. Accoustic, electric, the way the bass and drums cut through.
All in all, the kids who are shouting Sell Out need to button their lips and grow up. If they made another Reinventing they wouldn't be around for another year. It would be boring. It doens't matter if they play to a crowd of 10 or 10,000 they are still a great band with a fantastic sound and a great message. A+ effort here!
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:Not As Patriotic As BaldEagle Belly Ring But Still Patriotic, July 30, 2004When those fricking a-holes blew down the twin towers, I told my girlfriend that we had to do everything we could to support this great land. So we went out and got American Flag tats and she got a sweet ass belly ring of a proud looking Bald Eagle. I bought the 2-Piece Patriotic Toe Ring Set as a birthday present (she was born on the same day as Pamela Anderson - sweet) in the hopes of rounding out her patriotic look.
Don't get me wrong, the toe rings, especially when worn together are patriotic as hell, but that bald eagle belly ring is still more patriotic.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:This chick is hot as hell even for a pregnant woman, July 21, 2004Seriously, how do I get to end up with a chick who stays that hot even when she's ballooning up with a fetus in her? I guess that's the question we're all trying to answer. Here's to the hunt gentlemen.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:My nephew loves this stuff (he has down syndrome), July 21, 2004Ever since my sister had her kid, I've taken on the role of the uncle who tries to spoil the kid silly. Needless to say when I saw Similac 2 Formula with Iron I knew my nephew would love this stuff and my sister and her husband would be appropriately angry for spoiling their son (he has down syndrome) with a crate of the stuff.
So the crate arrived at their house last week and - long story short - my mephew has gained almost ten pounds. I make sure to hide open canisters of Similac 2 around the house where I know he might be crawling. Then I wait. God blessed his kind (once again, he has Down Syndrome) with ravenous hunger. At any rate he eats the stuff like candy and it puts meat on his bones, but the cutest thing is seeing his strangely made face dusted in white similac powder after he's torn into a cannister.
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no one said it had to be about music..
― mookié wilson (mookie wilson), Saturday, 24 September 2005 11:29 (twenty years ago)
I have not read this book, and tell you the truth I have not read any books since I was forced to back in high school. And yet, Toni Morrison is my favorite writer. Oprah Winfrey talked about this book on her show a few weeks ago and it just made me cry. I don’t remember what she said about it- maybe something about some girl who had real blue eyes, but she was black or something, and Oprah started crying. And I just couldn’t stop crying. Hence, this book has made a deep and lasting impression on my life, even though I will probably never read it. I think every woman, black and white, needs to read this powerful book by Toni Morrison.
― estela (estela), Saturday, 24 September 2005 11:34 (twenty years ago)
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THIS ALBUM DOESN'T EVEN DESERVE ONE STAR!, February 11, 2001Reviewer: Anonymous I don't know this group, but from what I can see from their songs, they're probably full of hatred and racism.
― Grell (Grell), Saturday, 24 September 2005 16:09 (twenty years ago)
― Suzy Creemcheese (SuzyCreemcheese), Saturday, 24 September 2005 16:11 (twenty years ago)
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Saturday, 24 September 2005 16:15 (twenty years ago)
**** a decent collab. , July 19, 2005 Reviewer: Ice Cream Man "Neighborhood Dope Dealer" (DC) - See all my reviewsthis si alright for a record made by 50 Cent and Fred Durst/ However i feel Dursts rhymes were stronger on his limp bizkit records...and uh i think 50 sucks on this record...what am i saying, i hate "cntroversy sells" its b.s.
***** Durst + .50= platinum, July 12, 2005 Reviewer: Rich King's Breakfast Nook (East Gretna, NE) - See all my reviewsI was walking through my local record store and the cover of this thing jumped out at me and said, "Buy this you crazy diamond!". I wasn't going to wait because I had no idea the incomparable Fred Durst and Fiddy Cent were collaborating on a new project called Paul Wall. Durst is maybe the best lyricist this side of Captain Kangaroo with his hit songs and ultra cool personality. He's not the slightest bit arrogant or annoying. His songs are pure genius. He called Limp Biscuits album, "Chocolate dog and starfish, the flavored dog water.". I don't get it at all, but I'm sure it's only the coolest phrase ever invented by the master of hip metal mayhem. Now go ahead and combine that with fiddy, who I think has 21 songs on the radio right now, and you're cooking ribs for 14. This collaboration is dope because they both change their voices to sound a little different. I like calling in Paul Wall because that is a very generic name that makes you think there is really someone name Paul Wall cutting this album. Someone named Chamillionaire keeps butting in to a whole bunch of songs. I don't know what a chamillionaire is, but my guess is it's a chameleon with a lot of money. Go Chammy!!! I just shortened his name to start a new trend. Go get this and get crunk, yeah~~~~!!!!
― amon (eman), Saturday, 24 September 2005 16:19 (twenty years ago)
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― m coleman (lovebug starski), Saturday, 24 September 2005 17:00 (twenty years ago)
Oh man.
This way it's like an early Stipe lyric!
― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Saturday, 24 September 2005 17:08 (twenty years ago)
Uncle Milton's Giant Ant Farm is a fun, interactive way to teach children ages 5 and up about unceasing, backbreaking toil and the cold, inescapable reality of death. My little ones had a front-row seat as worker ants labored, day in and day out, until they inevitably died of exhaustion, their futile efforts all for naught. The ant farm, complete with stackable tiny ant barns, see-through 'Antway' travel tubes, and connecting 'Antports,' is a child's window into the years of thankless, grueling labor that await them as worker drones in our post-industrial society. It's the fun way to teach your kids to accept their miserable fate stoically.
The ants, which come separately from the farm, are bred in New Mexico and mailed directly to your home. Within days of arriving, a majority of the ants die at the hands of the small children responsible for regulating the temperature, humidity, and food supply in their delicate pseudo-ecosystem. Even under optimum conditions the ants survive no more than 20 weeks in the farm. As a result, children are assured the chance to contemplate the inescapability of their own mortality and the whole family will be reminded that the spectre of death hangs over every creature on this Earth.
The lesson that the ants' labor is all in vain becomes clearer as time passes. During the first two to three weeks, the exclusively female worker ants are extremely productive, building an elaborate system of tunnels and hills amongst the miniature green trees and red plastic houses dotting the interior of the plastic dome. However, because neither male ants nor a fertile queen is provided with Uncle Milton's Giant Ant Farm, making reproduction impossible, the farm is doomed to extinction from day one.
You'll learn such fascinating things about the natural world, like the fact that the social structure of an ant colony is extremely complex, with individual members occupying such castes as soldier, messenger, and larvae attendant. At some point, Uncle Milton's ants become cognizant that their hierarchical structure has been stripped away, rendering their already near-meaningless existence totally futile. There seems to be a breaking point at about the 22-day mark when the dejected ants begin to die off en masse.
At this point the ant farm enters what is known as the "death-pile phase." A spot is chosen by the worker ants to deposit their dead, and the burial mound steadily grows as the few remaining ants devote more of their time to gathering and burying others. Yes, with Uncle Milton's Giant Ant Farm, arbeit macht fun!
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1 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
hey, cheap find, March 8, 2005i havent watched this movie, but here is a site where you can get this concert for only 19.00$ FRIGGEN SWEET! ON DVD AND VHShttp://www.musiccdvideo.net/
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― Robinson (Robinson), Friday, 4 November 2005 22:29 (twenty years ago)
Well too bad dirt bag.
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IT'S AMERICAN ANSWER! CODEL PAY!, November 7, 2005 Reviewer: EliminatorJr. - See all my reviews for CODEL PAY X/Y it's the many americans youth who enjoy singing a great deal there first! newest! top-dollar! hits! it's american answer! the scene! it can not be an unexpected scene to find multi young american of the downtown! cutting edge! to find in there best in their the most! mythical and various the automationalty the styles perform to peak luster and like none else today! the future!
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Brutal Black Uhuru 0 of 1 people found the following review helpful: Music to groove to!!!, January 5, 1999 Reviewer: A music fan It's been a long time sence I have listen to a good sounding aray of reggae music.I rate this CD to be one of the top rated reggae sounds around. I am a HUGE fan of Black Uhuru.I van truly say that you are one in a zillion. BIG UPS!!!!!!!!
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― lfam, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 04:24 (nineteen years ago)
Similar to Elvis but better than elvis!
TS: Big "E" Elvis vs. small "e" elvis.
― Hurting 2, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 04:39 (nineteen years ago)
It's been a long time sence I have listen to a good sounding aray of reggae music.I rate this CD to be one of the top rated reggae sounds around.
Totally vibin'.
― Drooone, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 04:48 (nineteen years ago)
Paul's Boutique Beastie Boys 6 of 40 people found the following review helpful: OUTRAGE!, January 4, 2000 I am personally outraged by the flagrant use of silly words and funky rhythyms in this song. What are we teaching the youth of America? If you must buy this CD, please do not expose it to any young people. It is VERY naughty. - Norman
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 20 July 2007 14:15 (eighteen years ago)
John Cage/David Tudor Indeterminacy
John Cage, sounds, voice. How to come up with a phrasing of this language? First a grid and then its failure? Too simple a step to explain "Indeterminacy". But an explanation must accompany if it is to become common between us. But what if what is common between us is a fact we will never know as fact (Gertrude Stein comes to mind)? That we can't know it. What if it is a solitude so total, a solitude in which the other of a voice, our own, or not-it could be a window looking back-we will never know whose it is? Only the instantaneous finality of its invisible hand. Many voices, and the reduction even to voice will never get away with its project finally. Here we are nothing amongst nothing. If I were to dedicate this to John Cage's "Indeterminacy", if I were to bear witness to it as he did, I would send him the sound of my fingers pressing keys and the airplane out the window, the adherent leaves quivering dead in the wind. His piece would be in the background as translated through what I hear. That is, the piece, any piece (flesh only steps up in afterthought, an enthymeme to stun the senses from their center into the pieces that they always have been before the hammer of cornerstones. It has nothing to do with language poetry. It is slow and semiotics has no respect for the phenomenal. Neither have time. Time is an afterthought. They are in tension, but need not be at peace or war. The challenge is to let their tension speak for itself. This is too philosophical for a poem and it is why I have given it to a paragraph. (Sorrowfully). One must justify one's motives, one's method. One must take care to be sure that this step and that are covered, and we will do so even if self-reflexive writing becomes an anachronism. There is nothing pretty in the above save maybe the leaves. And the recognition that they are phrases. I cannot write the sound of the ring as it taps on my desk. When the cat leaps to the floor, my head turns to the scene before I tell it to. The above is Buddhist enough to incite one to comfort in any possibility, but I am still worried about the milk coming in the morning and the trace disturbances echoing from my feet and eyes. The quiver I noted in the stutter that tried to hide itself, that I noted only after the question of disclosure had been tabled. On a mediocre night when I only wanted space to be filled, Cage said nothing to me in the strong sense. The one directive: at least offer a benediction. An old shoe would go well in here.
― Myonga Vön Bontee, Friday, 20 July 2007 15:41 (eighteen years ago)
Destroyer - This Night
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If you are a satan worshipper..., March 13, 2006 Reviewer: Jewelofheaven "Jewel"
you will dig this. I heard a song on the radio called Your Blood or In Your Blood. I agree it is catchy, but to me, it is about satanic worship and jealousy of God and his people. Sorry but Satan loses and you can't play with the devil. You are what you eat. Write that one. :-)
― bernard snowy, Friday, 20 July 2007 17:10 (eighteen years ago)
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0 of 12 people found the following review helpful:2.0 out of 5 stars i hate the 4/4 thump, March 29, 2005By wooferfriendly "carlo" (italy) - See all my reviewsYes - i hate the 4/4 thump that you can hear in the majority of tracks here. Also the bpm is too fast for me - it is just a question of taste. I am a slow person. I prefer music with a more relaxado andamiento. This is why i like the songs of Depeche Mode in their album Ultra.If you have any feedback please do not hesitate to contact me atcarlogi✧✧✧@ya✧✧✧.i✧Thanks.
― dan138zig (Durrr Durrr Durrrrrr), Saturday, 7 February 2009 22:18 (seventeen years ago)
The Great Adventures of Slick Rick 0 of 13 people found the following review helpful:1.0 out of 5 stars the worst cd ever made, March 4, 1999By A Customerthis is the worst cd out there. DO NOT GET IT! Slick Rick should be locked up
― cabernet slobodan (unregistered), Saturday, 7 February 2009 22:33 (seventeen years ago)
Ulysses
1 of 3 people found the following review helpful:1.0 out of 5 stars The Greatest Literary Hoax Of All Time, 22 Jan 2009By Dr. Joey Raymoss (London) - See all my reviewsMy goodness, I honestly pity those unfortunately pretentious people that claim this is a good, let alone great, piece of literature.
The reality is, Joyce wrote this book knowing that the psudo-intellectuals would read into it in the fear of being regarded as less intellectual than their piers.
Let me set the record straight, I have an official Mensa IQ of 169, and i studied this book at university. Do you know what I thought?
This book is useless. It's nonesense... and it's meant to be. The joke is on you people that actually buy into the lie and hype of this work. It is nothing but random clip bits of a meaningless bunch of boring characters.
Those who haven't read it: you gain more from not doing so, because reading this book will do nothing but depress you!
― Otto von Biz Markie (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 7 February 2009 22:45 (seventeen years ago)
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― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 7 February 2009 22:53 (seventeen years ago)
It's nonesense... Very Joycean...
― Wax Cat, Saturday, 7 February 2009 23:11 (seventeen years ago)
This 1 star review of Loveless is still my favorite I've seen on Amazon:
7 of 43 people found the following review helpful: All Hype, September 7, 2006By Robert J. Bruce (Angola, New York United States) - See all my reviews I bought this album because I am so into Sigur Ros at the moment and it seems all the reviews I read say that "...if you like Sigur Ros you will like MBV.." Let me say this album is no where near a Sigur Ros experience. If I could compare them to anyone it would be very early Cocteau Twins , though I must be clear I don't think the singer is anywhere close to the artistic sense and vocal talent of Elizabeth Fraser. It would be more palatable if the production value was higher....it sounds terrible. The sound quality is comparable to some old VHS tapes I have from the mid 80's that I recorded off the TV ( Then soaked in water for a few days!) . Help other customers find the most helpful reviews Was this review helpful to you? Report this | Permalink Comments (4)
― ilxor, Saturday, 7 February 2009 23:45 (seventeen years ago)
This is the worst of the Danny DeVito comedies released in the mid-80s, and is far, far inferior to funnier flicks like "Down and Out in Beverly Hills," "Ruthless People," and "Other People's Money." Compared to them, this one is a comic stinker.
The premise is a good one-- a couple of wackos played by Danny DeVito, Jack Nicholson, Christopher Lloyd, and an Indian perform hijinks in an asylum and they plot to break out. The laughs, however, are few and far between and at times the only things that are funny are Jack Nicholson's hat and the fact that Michael Douglas directed this.
My biggest problem is that Jack Nicholson, who is great as The Joker (Batman), the Devil (The Witches of Eastwick) and a Wolf (Wolf) isn't very gifted at comedy. Imagine how much crazier it would have been if the crazy people were led by somebody like Tim Allen or Chris Tucker and Jackie Chan!
There is some funny business with a water fountain and a pillow at the end of the movie, but too little too late, if you ask me. Only rent this movie if you hate laughter.
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Sunday, 28 August 2011 20:13 (fourteen years ago)
1 of 25 people found the following review helpfulClaremazons GaloreBy rush1313 on August 16, 2013Format: PaperbackIf Chris Claremont lavished 1/1000 as much attention on his male characters as he does the females, his books would be so much better. Mind you, I appreciate strong female characters, but couldn't we have both? This volume wallows mostly on Rachel Grey, using all the usual Claremont chiches. Where is Jean Grey when you really need her?Comment Was this review helpful to you? Yes No
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LIGHTHOUSE FAMILY: THE GREATEST HITS
0 of 3 people found the following review helpful3.0 out of 5 stars this is what is wrong with peoplethey bleady well could of done a few concerts so we had live dvds to buy hey. cd is good thow.Published 17 months ago by tango
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1.0 out of 5 stars You will not convince anyone of baldness with this cap, October 16, 2013 Amazon Verified Purchase(What's this?)This review is from: Theatrical Effects Bald Cap (Toy)It is ridiculously obvious the fakeness of the cap. there is no illusion here. You will not convince anyone of baldness with this cap.Help other customers find the most helpful reviews
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― soref, Sunday, 12 January 2014 17:01 (twelve years ago)