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BigPapaSmurf
SFN Die Hard
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Well I went ahead and made fun of AW for crack addiction and lack of style without really knowing anything about her music. Now having listened to her album 'Back to Black' I feel comfortable saying it is easily one of the best albums I have ever heard. Now I rarely listen to modern music so the last great albums I can compare it to are, Public Enemy: It takes a nation of millions, U2: Joshua Tree and Primus: Sailing the seas of cheese...
Moved topic to general discussion.
Kil
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"...things I have neither seen nor experienced nor heard tell of from anybody else; things, what is more, that do not in fact exist and could not ever exist at all. So my readers must not believe a word I say." -Lucian on his book True History
"...They accept such things on faith alone, without any evidence. So if a fraudulent and cunning person who knows how to take advantage of a situation comes among them, he can make himself rich in a short time." -Lucian critical of early Christians c.166 AD From his book, De Morte Peregrini |
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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Posted - 02/11/2008 : 08:24:34 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by BigPapaSmurf
Well I went ahead and made fun of AW for crack addiction and lack of style without really knowing anything about her music. Now having listened to her album 'Back to Black' I feel comfortable saying it is easily one of the best albums I have ever heard. Now I rarely listen to modern music so the last great albums I can compare it to are, Public Enemy: It takes a nation of millions, U2: Joshua Tree and Primus: Sailing the seas of cheese...
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Your previous criticisms are no less valid. Many very talented people are completely screwed up outside their area of excellence.
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
Here's a link to Moonscape News, and one to its Archive. |
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BigPapaSmurf
SFN Die Hard
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Posted - 02/11/2008 : 10:02:00 [Permalink]
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Yes, but she is now a supremely talented wastoid as opposed to just a wastoid.
Also I put it in the book review folder because there was talk of it becoming a 'Media review' folder... |
"...things I have neither seen nor experienced nor heard tell of from anybody else; things, what is more, that do not in fact exist and could not ever exist at all. So my readers must not believe a word I say." -Lucian on his book True History
"...They accept such things on faith alone, without any evidence. So if a fraudulent and cunning person who knows how to take advantage of a situation comes among them, he can make himself rich in a short time." -Lucian critical of early Christians c.166 AD From his book, De Morte Peregrini |
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chaloobi
SFN Regular
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Posted - 02/11/2008 : 10:55:23 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by BigPapaSmurf
Well I went ahead and made fun of AW for crack addiction and lack of style without really knowing anything about her music. Now having listened to her album 'Back to Black' I feel comfortable saying it is easily one of the best albums I have ever heard. Now I rarely listen to modern music so the last great albums I can compare it to are, Public Enemy: It takes a nation of millions, U2: Joshua Tree and Primus: Sailing the seas of cheese...
Moved topic to general discussion.
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I like the album quite a bit too. It seems like many of the greatest artists over human history were very screwed up. Perhaps there's a relationship between producing something genuinely unique and being unable to function well in your contemporaneous culture. Suffering in one end, unique and woderful art out the other. |
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Cuneiformist
The Imperfectionist
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Posted - 02/11/2008 : 11:16:21 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by BigPapaSmurf
Also I put it in the book review folder because there was talk of it becoming a 'Media review' folder... |
We're still talking about it, and if it does shift, the sense is it would be more a place to review more skeptical (or decidedly unskeptical), and not media in general.
That's not the final word, but that's why Kil moved it. |
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
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BigPapaSmurf
SFN Die Hard
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Posted - 02/11/2008 : 11:44:27 [Permalink]
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| I say work on the "Remote moron electricution" function first. |
"...things I have neither seen nor experienced nor heard tell of from anybody else; things, what is more, that do not in fact exist and could not ever exist at all. So my readers must not believe a word I say." -Lucian on his book True History
"...They accept such things on faith alone, without any evidence. So if a fraudulent and cunning person who knows how to take advantage of a situation comes among them, he can make himself rich in a short time." -Lucian critical of early Christians c.166 AD From his book, De Morte Peregrini |
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