From Andrew Duke Cognition Sent Thu, May 27th 1999, 17:18
From Andrew Duke Cognition Sent Thu, May 27th 1999, 17:18
geez; some "writers" shouldn't be writing; they would be better off leading rallies for their little pet causes. personally, i am incredibly annoyed where the reviewer a) talks about him/herself more than the release reviewed and b) goes on and on about how not only is the release reviewed crap (in the reviewer's opinion) but also the genre from which it comes and various other genres. yuck! tim should trade in his word processor for a soapbox, methinks. too many writers with "issues" out there abusing us readers! andrew :) Greg Clow wrote: > Just had to share this laff-riot Pole review that appears in this week's > Now Magazine (Toronto's version of The Village Voice, basically). The guy > who wrote it - Tim Perlich - is basically a jaded hack (like most > professional rock-crits, I guess), so this is exactly the sort of thing > I'd expect him to write: > > POLE CD 1 and CD 2 (Matador) > Rating: N > > The intriguing thing about Pole is not that Stefan Betke was able to > create two distinctly monotonous recordings by trying to control the > crackle of a busted Waldorf filter. Hey, if you had a day job at a > mastering plant listening to terrible German techno for subtle variations > in sonic frequency, errant bits of radio static would probably seem like > an exotic treat worth preserving to you, too. > > No, the real entertainment here is knowing that there are people who will > take at face value the effusive critical praise bestowed upon Pole by > jaded Brit music hacks and actually believe Betke's time-wasting foolery > is the future of dub. Better still, Betke's figured out a way to have > people pay to watch him coax some sputters out of his little filter > set-up. Pole will join Neotropic at Mockingbird Saturday (May 29).