Caltrops - No Stairway to Heaven





	[quote name="Ray of Light"]Just kidding. I recall that post was a backhanded jab at Zseni for posting shabby reviews just before, combined with a forehanded thank-you to Zseni for introducing me to oink about a week before. I went to some trouble over the formatting. It looks like Unix but is cygwin, a Unix toolset for MS Windows. I used it because I had to make a script to remove the non-music directories from by incoming bittorrents, and then left the dates in so that people could see most of them were dated 3 or fewer days before the post itself. Get it? It was impossible for me to have heard them all. <b>I recommended music I had not even heard!</b> I'll do it again. Beneath the gag is a powerful and important subtext: I don't have use for music reviews (anymore) and neither should you. It was always a dubious business, writing about music; in an age where the download time is shorter than the reading time, why even bother? If you're not comfortable deciding for yourself (and there's no shame in that), pick someone cool and have them give you a shopping list. <table border=1><tr><td colspan=4><font color=limeGreen><h3>Ray's Most Played Albums (with Fave Track) this week:</h3></font></td></tr> <tr> <td bgcolor=white><b>Artist</b></td> <td bgcolor=white><b>Album</b></td> <td bgcolor=white><b>Fave Track</b></td> <td bgcolor=white><b>Vector</b></td> </tr> <tr> <td><font color=white>Ratatat</font></td> <td><font color=white>Classics</font></td> <td><font color=white>"Lex"</font></td> <td><font color=white>oink top 10</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td><font color=white>Cut Chemist</font></td> <td><font color=white>The Audience's Listening</font></td> <td><font color=white>"The Garden"</font></td> <td><font color=white>oink top 10</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td><font color=white>The Libertines</font></td> <td><font color=white>Up the Bracket</font></td> <td><font color=white>"Up the Bracket"</font></td> <td><font color=white>Adam Green covered their "What a Waster"</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td><font color=white>Band of Horses</font></td> <td><font color=white>Everything All the Time</font></td> <td><font color=white>"St Augustine"</font></td> <td><font color=white>INC</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td><font color=white>Jack off Jill</font></td> <td><font color=white>Clear Hearts Grey Flowers</font></td> <td><font color=white>"Strawberry Gashes"</font></td> <td><font color=white>Soulseek I think!</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td><font color=white>Kimya Dawson</font></td> <td><font color=white>I'm Sorry Sometimes I'm Mean</font></td> <td><font color=white>"Being Cool"</font></td> <td><font color=white>Used to be in a band I was put onto by hipster friends</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td><font color=white>G'n'R</font></td> <td><font color=white>Appetite for Destruction</font></td> <td><font color=white>"It's So Easy"</font></td> <td><font color=white>[quote] Axl Rose spent most of the day in a Stockholm jail cell after allegedly biting a security guard in the leg at his hotel, police said.[/quote] <font color=pink>INC</font>: you can always claim you were kidding, in court <font color=pink>INC</font>: "Come on. Who bites legs? Obviously I wasn't being serious." <font color=lightgreen>Ray</font>: "welcome to the jungle, baby" <font color=lightgreen>Ray</font>: "I'm a snake!" <font color=pink>INC</font>: "Ssssss" <font color=pink>INC</font>: "Feel my, my, my serpentine!" <font color=lightskyblue>Fussbett</font>: "I'm gonna watch you bleed!!! (from your leg)" </font></td> </tr> <tr> <td><font color=white>The Be Good Tanyas</font></td> <td><font color=white>Blue Horse</font></td> <td><font color=white>"Rain and Snow"</font></td> <td><font color=white>Music school dropout friend</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td><font color=white>Mylo</font></td> <td><font color=white>Destroy Rock & Roll</font></td> <td><font color=white>"Musclecar Reform Reprise"</font></td> <td><font color=white>1726_Sexy.avi</font></td> </tr> </table>[/quote]