And I still don't get it! "Something Rotten" is one of the crappest things I've ever heard. "Plasticine" is rub, and "Protect Me From What I Want" sounds like it could have been really good, but it doesn't work. Still think there's not enough pop.
Buy it Ned and prove me right! Or something. It's probably worth it for "Special Needs", "This Picture" and "Second Sight", anyway.
― edward o (edwardo), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 02:00 (twenty years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 08:12 (twenty years ago) link
― piscesboy, Tuesday, 10 June 2003 10:44 (twenty years ago) link
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― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Friday, 13 June 2003 22:04 (twenty years ago) link
Personally I think Bulletproof Cupid, This Picture and Bitter End are worth the entry fee, but none is as poppily gorgeous as Special K or as viciously poignant as.. ooh, anything on Without You I'm Nothing. Special Needs has it's moments but the 'chair with four wheels' line makes me laugh every time and I'm not sure that's the intention. Something Rotten is vile (now usually I can find something to like about vile but not this time), Plasticine is bobbins and the one about being your anchor and your bathwater, or whatever it is, sounds like something the Mission would have thrown away. Dire.
I need to make a Good Bits of Placebo mix CD - I love em but when they get it wrong they don't do it in half measures.
― Zora (Zora), Monday, 23 June 2003 20:03 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 16:57 (twenty years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 17:09 (twenty years ago) link
― enrique (Enrique), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 17:12 (twenty years ago) link
I'm listening to Black Market Music right now and I'm happy as a clam!
i thought this had been cleared up, you know?
You are denied.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 17:13 (twenty years ago) link
― enrique (Enrique), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 17:15 (twenty years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 20:13 (twenty years ago) link
― Sean (Sean), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 20:22 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 20:59 (twenty years ago) link
I'm neither a fan nor a detractor of the band. They're around, sometimes I'll listen to them, and we can co-exist peacefully.
― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 22:16 (twenty years ago) link
― the surface noise (electricsound), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 22:39 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 27 November 2003 08:21 (twenty years ago) link
― Zora (Zora), Tuesday, 23 December 2003 23:48 (twenty years ago) link
reading Ned's reviews linked above in fact gave me a bit of a turn, as i thought i must surely be turning into him. !! :O
hee.
― janni (janni), Monday, 12 January 2004 21:04 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 03:10 (twenty years ago) link
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― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 06:01 (twenty years ago) link
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― janni (janni), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 22:43 (twenty years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 15 January 2004 00:44 (twenty years ago) link
Listening to this tonight and beginning to feel it might be their last good album - 'Bulletproof Cupid', 'The Bitter End', 'Plasticine', 'Special Needs', 'Second Sight', 'Protect Me From What I Want' ... Superb.
― Gholdfish Killah (Turrican), Friday, 15 December 2017 19:57 (six years ago) link