― james (james), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 14:26 (twenty years ago) link
I don't know if it's on that album, but that Bilbo Baggins song is off the hook.
― Charles McCain (Charles McCain), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 14:27 (twenty years ago) link
― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 14:32 (twenty years ago) link
― Felcher (Felcher), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 14:45 (twenty years ago) link
― Charles McCain (Charles McCain), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 14:49 (twenty years ago) link
"No, here at Maxim we prefer to remember the late Karen Carpenter just the way she was—on her knees in the kitchen, face-down in the dog food bowl."
anyway i still think lad-mag music reviews (as opposed to hit-pieces) generally have a less rockist and more lifestyle outlook in the u.s., whatever sinkah's impressions of the english ones are.
― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 14:52 (twenty years ago) link
― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 14:59 (twenty years ago) link
― Matt Helgeson (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 15:12 (twenty years ago) link
Michael Jackson - HIStory Poison - Look What the Cat Dragged In ... Rolling Stones - Emotional Rescue Ace of Base - The Sign Ricky Martin - Ricky Martin ...Hanson - Middle of Nowhere Debbie Gibson - Electric Youth / Tiffany - Hold on Old Friend's Hand
― chuck, Tuesday, 8 July 2003 15:19 (twenty years ago) link
― chuck, Tuesday, 8 July 2003 15:22 (twenty years ago) link
― amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 15:23 (twenty years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 15:24 (twenty years ago) link
― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 15:24 (twenty years ago) link
― amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 15:26 (twenty years ago) link
― amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 15:27 (twenty years ago) link
have they never read american psycho?
― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 15:27 (twenty years ago) link
― Cacaman Flores, Tuesday, 8 July 2003 15:31 (twenty years ago) link
If I'm not mistaken, this album has both Aerosmith's take on "Come Together" and Alice Cooper's rendition of "Because," both of which should redeem the album from such a list.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 15:36 (twenty years ago) link
― Cacaman Flores, Tuesday, 8 July 2003 15:38 (twenty years ago) link
grrrrr.
― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 15:39 (twenty years ago) link
is this the american maxim ?either way somebody tell the twunts that diaz with herfingernail in her mouth isn't sexi *at all*.
that pic of her twatted coming out of a niteclubthat was sexier.
― piscesboy, Tuesday, 8 July 2003 15:42 (twenty years ago) link
― Cacaman Flores, Tuesday, 8 July 2003 15:43 (twenty years ago) link
― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 15:43 (twenty years ago) link
I'm guessing that's because, like Tom said above, this list is all about flattering the magazine's readership.....who invariably own albums by all the "artists" you just mentioned. It's meaningless.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 15:44 (twenty years ago) link
im just wary of chuck's self-congratulatory let's-hyberbolically-enthuse-over-what-we-imagine-others-think-is-utterly-disposable shtick, is all. it's like he's adopted a certain rhetoric for the sake of argument (and i wouldn't argue its usefulness in a certain context) and after he's won the argument he just. won't. stop.
― amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 15:47 (twenty years ago) link
― amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 15:50 (twenty years ago) link
― chuck, Tuesday, 8 July 2003 15:58 (twenty years ago) link
Same question for Metal Machine Music, The Flowers of Romance, ..
..and Jim Capaldi's "Daughter of the Night" , Elizabeth Barraclough's "Hi", Trickster's "Find the Lady", ..etc...
― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 15:59 (twenty years ago) link
― Cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 16:19 (twenty years ago) link
!
― sundar subramanian (sundar), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 16:29 (twenty years ago) link
― amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 16:43 (twenty years ago) link
― M Matos (M Matos), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 16:49 (twenty years ago) link
I liked Monster. It is what it is. I traded an old roommated Siamese Dream for it and have never looked back since.
― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 16:52 (twenty years ago) link
― chuck, Tuesday, 8 July 2003 17:27 (twenty years ago) link
― amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 17:43 (twenty years ago) link
― trife (simon_tr), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 17:44 (twenty years ago) link
― amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 17:46 (twenty years ago) link
― trife (simon_tr), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 17:46 (twenty years ago) link
― amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 17:48 (twenty years ago) link
― amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 17:49 (twenty years ago) link
In what way does my writing NOT illustrate or investigate the greatness of the records I think are great? (Again, have you ever actually READ my two books? I can't think of very many books that contain MORE illustration and investigation in them; I mean, if anything, THAT's what might make them tedious. And I defy you to find a single review I've written that didn't talk in specifics about what makes music good or bad as well; if anything, THAT's my shtick.) And what about the zillions of times I've asserted greatness of records and artists where there IS a consensus? I mean, have you noticed how many positive mentions Dylan, say, gets in my second book?? More than anybody, if I remember right. Sounds like you're saying I should ONLY like artists where there's a consensus. Which would make me an idiot.
― chuck, Tuesday, 8 July 2003 17:54 (twenty years ago) link
― chuck, Tuesday, 8 July 2003 18:02 (twenty years ago) link
― trife (simon_tr), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 18:07 (twenty years ago) link
― trife (simon_tr), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 18:10 (twenty years ago) link
>> I can't think of very many books that contain MORE illustration and investigation in them;<<
I meant books about rock music here, by the way; not auto manuals or the Bill James Baseball Abstract or the Bible or whatever.
― chuck, Tuesday, 8 July 2003 18:11 (twenty years ago) link
― trife (simon_tr), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 18:16 (twenty years ago) link
― amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 18:22 (twenty years ago) link
― Nicole (Nicole), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 18:24 (twenty years ago) link
― amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 18:25 (twenty years ago) link
― James Blount (James Blount), Sunday, 13 July 2003 02:02 (twenty years ago) link
― rv, Thursday, 11 December 2003 00:22 (twenty years ago) link
i still like this review.
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 11 December 2003 00:27 (twenty years ago) link
So much of Maxim's list consists of the most routine targets of the rock critics - Milli Vanilli, Hanson, Air Supply (#10 on Blender's "50 Worst Artists Of All Time"), Ricky Martin, Debbie Gibson, Tiffany. The albums by Dylan, the Stones and R.E.M. date from after they "sold out" or lost relevance.
Many critics really don't see grunge as actually relevent nowadays, so Pearl Jam is no tough target either.
Though he really does not attack tough targets, the intelligent amateur "janitor-x" (see "http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/cm/member-glance/-/A2AXIWOCL9XOMM/ref=cm_aya_ac_longdesc/102-0267016-6736903?see-more-desc=1") does realise how irrelevant people today understand these super-soft targets of Blender and Maxim to be. "janitor-x" believes the idolisation of the 1960s to be quite unrealistic and a betrayal of the roots of rock music. For him, the worst artists ever are U2, the Beatles, the Cure, R.E.M. (all eras), Rage Against The Machine, the Smiths, the Clash and Pavement. His views on music might be seen as rather narrow, but his intellignce betrays popular assumptions about metals fans - for one thing.
― Julien Peter Benney, Monday, 9 August 2004 23:18 (nineteen years ago) link
6 of 27 people found the following review helpful:
gangstagangsta, January 12, 2001 Reviewer: A music fan I'll say I was impressed with them's collection of songs. Perhaps the best gangsta rap album of 1965 this one must be picked up. the beats are so fat. Its all over now fet. Van Morrison is so phat. peace out ya'll
― The Bells! The Bells!, Tuesday, 10 August 2004 00:20 (nineteen years ago) link
None of these albums are bad.
― billstevejim, Thursday, 22 August 2019 03:46 (four years ago) link
I remember liking <i>Fore!</i> "Doin it all for my bayyba" That song is funny.
― billstevejim, Thursday, 22 August 2019 03:48 (four years ago) link
I mean Fore!
All this talk about Conor Oberst upthread. That’s someone who fits the “Whose artistic legacies have declined in the past ten years?” thread like a glove.
― Mr. Snrub, Thursday, 22 August 2019 15:09 (four years ago) link
There has never been a good “Worst Albums Ever” list.
― Mr. Snrub, Thursday, 22 August 2019 15:10 (four years ago) link
Wow, what a dumb list. I mean it's Maxim, but still.
― Dez Tekken (Old Lunch), Thursday, 22 August 2019 15:13 (four years ago) link