worse review ever ... should i go with my intial rough draft?

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Easyworld are Teenage Corporate Pop Assasins signed to Britney Spears label, Jive Records. A three piece guitar band from Brighton started out of boredom living in Eastbourne,however, some pundits would have you believe that Easyworld were created in a test tube at
Jive Records Boardrooms in an successful experimental attempt to enter murky waters of independent music. Tonight Easyworld are in town to flog some interest in their album “This is Where I Stand”.

Conceptually, tonight, this is fantastic. Easyworld have one song. Bleach, the second single to be released from the album. All their songs sound like slight variations of the one song. The one song has many titles, “You and Me” and “Try Not To Think”. The song carries the chilly corporate mark of being researched and test-marketed. The song sounds like a poppier Muse A-side auditioning to be on the next Dawson’s Creek compilation. Easyworld play the one song, which is guitar quiet, guitar loud guitar quiet and shout the chorus, throughout the night disguised as a set list. The grind of watching is boredom taken to a higher warholian level, it is post modern and fascinating.

And Easyworld are loved. Tonight there is near hormonal pandemonium as teenage girls arms flailing with emotion, try to touch Glenn throughout the night, scream lyrics back at the band. A chap gets up on stage to hug, Glenn Hooper, crying “I love you, Glenn”.
This is the Patridge Family and singer is the new David Cassidy. In the future, this will be reverred as fantastic kitsch. Easyworld have nothing to say

doomi, Saturday, 28 September 2002 10:10 (twenty-three years ago)

Who are Easyworld then, and what do they sound like?

david h (david h), Saturday, 28 September 2002 10:12 (twenty-three years ago)

easyworld are without a doubt an incredibly boring band without talent but with money - they just have one song - every song sounds the same - it's sort of like partridge family mixed in with the jesus and mary chain, pixies and corporate punk rock - you know what all the kids are buying.


total garbage.

at one point - the singer started to play a mandolin - as a roadie waited behind him to retrieve said mandolin and splashing him with evian water - he gives the mandolin back to the roadie - and KERRANG - it's back to the same song.

doomi, Saturday, 28 September 2002 10:15 (twenty-three years ago)

stamford amp

gareth (gareth), Saturday, 28 September 2002 10:16 (twenty-three years ago)

the funniest bit was jive record execs watching their investment...

doomi, Saturday, 28 September 2002 10:19 (twenty-three years ago)

i actually broke out laughing when the song went back into the same song after the barely played well mandolin break...oooh - the diversity of it all!

doomi, Saturday, 28 September 2002 10:21 (twenty-three years ago)

Go with it doomie. See it they'll run it.

N0RM4N PH4Y, Saturday, 28 September 2002 19:55 (twenty-three years ago)

you're right, it is the worst review ever.

Wyndham Earl, Saturday, 28 September 2002 20:30 (twenty-three years ago)

Your NME career is in the bag.

Marinaorgan (Marina Organ), Saturday, 28 September 2002 23:09 (twenty-three years ago)

i think it's a pretty good review doomie

why 'fantastic kitsch' though? this band sounds like it could be hoobastank and hoobastank will be nobody's kitsch

and which is it, a 3-piece band started out of boredom or a marketer's homunculus? your answer seems to make YOU one of the pundits you mention in your opening

Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Saturday, 28 September 2002 23:57 (twenty-three years ago)

isn't kitsch in this sense the difference between arlo guthrie and "up up and away in my beautiful balloon."

jess (dubplatestyle), Sunday, 29 September 2002 00:02 (twenty-three years ago)

Who cares?

Dr. C (Dr. C), Sunday, 29 September 2002 13:42 (twenty-three years ago)

what the Dr. said.

Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Sunday, 29 September 2002 15:01 (twenty-three years ago)

why 'fantastic kitsch' though? this band sounds like it could be hoobastank and hoobastank will be nobody's kitsch

i was struggling to find something positive about the band and I thought it maybe was some satori (music/art taken out of it's relevant enviroment and put into another) as in - maybe the repeativeness/david cassidy comparisons WERE planned.....you know?

doomi, Monday, 30 September 2002 16:41 (twenty-three years ago)

and i suppose that if i was going through with my initial concept of boredom - that would make me one of the pundits of the band - but as it stands - it's too clever clever ... for the nme. it's probably not going to run and that's why i've stopped - i realised that i was wasting my energy on this....

see, DO YOU SEE? I try to make it entertaining.....as if I was reading the review and what would I think, you know?

and the NME career - i dunno about it being a career - i see it more as an apprenticeship to better things (as it is happening at the moment - i may be writing for yet another magazine..moihahahaha!)

doomi, Monday, 30 September 2002 16:47 (twenty-three years ago)


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