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Montreal's Arcade Fire brings a theatricality, an intensity, an insanity, and a penchant for amazing hooks to their... more

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  Funeral

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  • Posted:Oct-13-2008

  • David Bowie sparks an Internet Fire.
  • The driving force behind Montreal's alternative band Arcade Fire is the husband and wife duo, Win Butler and Québécoise Régine Chassagne. After David Bowie reportedly discovered the band while...
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  • Posted:May-27-2008

  • Repetitive
  • *Review From A Classic Rock Fan
    I found this album to be very repetitive. Maybe not in the song structures or lyrics, but in the sound. I have listened to this five times now and I still have...
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  • Posted:Oct-23-2007

  • What the last guy said
  • This album is so overrated, and more frustrating is the fact that the only great song on here is greatly overlooked ("Tunnels"). I will go so far as to say that these guys will never inspire me...
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Their first full-fledged rock 'n' roll album, 'The Complex', features guest appearances from Dan The Automator,... more

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  The Complex

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  • Posted:Feb-11-2008

  • A Complex album..
  • This is the second album produced by Blue Man Group, based on their "Rock Concert" tour, and it is very different from the first. The first album had no words at all, but this album has vocals on...
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  • Posted:Aug-09-2007

  • Blue Man Group is just awful
  • I saw the Blue Man Group in Orlando and feel completely ripped off, I wanted to warn anyone who hasn't gone to "embrace the magic." Do not waste your money on these mediocre Teletubbies! Men...
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  • Posted:Jun-04-2005

  • Same but a little different
  • I have the "Audio" CD and I loved it. I had to have more so when I heard of "The Complex" I immediatly needed it. I was mostly disapointed with it though. Most of the beats in the songs are...
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  Daydream Nation

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  • Posted:Jan-05-2009

  • Gerhard would be proud
  • `Experimental rock' and `noise rock' are such loose, intangible terms that I become troubled by seeing them branded on an album. They're umbrella terms that swoop over any music that is vaguely...
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  • Posted:Feb-24-2007

  • dont believe the hype
  • Contrary to popular opinion, I find this album very difficult to get into; I struggled trying to digest it, but it never happened. The vocals, particularly the chick's, don't affect me at all...
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  • Posted:Jun-02-2006

  • A Very Tough Listen
  • In truth, I think Sonic Youth are massively overrated in indie circles, but this album does have some good stuff on it. The first four tracks are the highpoint of the album, "'Cross The Breeze" in...
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Release Date: 2003-06-24, Audio CD, Umvd Labels more

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  De-Loused in the Comatorium

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  • Posted:Jan-06-2009

  • You will never listen to any music the same way again after this album
  • First of all, I agree with all of the superlatives that have been used in describing how amazing this album is, so I won't repeat them here. All I have to add is that, after I finished listening to...
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  • Posted:Dec-10-2008

  • Umm.. Did I miss something?
  • Man, I would have fought someone if I actually had to pay for this "album". I found it orphaned in a fairly appropriate section of the music store 'Lame, overrated & annoying "music"'. Now I know...
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  • Posted:Oct-05-2007

  • Good, but not that good...
  • First off, this band sounds nothing like Rush, or Santana, or Hendrix, or Pink Floyd, or Zeppelin, or any of the bands some people here have compared them too. I have no idea what those people are...
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  Greetings From Michigan: The Great Lake State

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  • Posted:Dec-02-2008

  • The wind chimes
  • or whatever they are get tedious on this album, which is littered with sonic experiments that lull you to sleep and pretentious song titles like "Oh God, Where Are You Now? (In Pickeral Lake?...
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  • Posted:Oct-27-2008

  • Love it
  • Probably my personal favorite album of all time.
    
    Caught my eye with the artwork and title, and it allowed me to discover Sufjan. I love his other albums too, but this was my first....
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  • Posted:Sep-17-2004

  • Pretty good!
  • with all the hype going on I checked it out. Not too bad. Don't know what I was expecting, but heartfelt tunes nonetheless
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This is Explosion In The Sky's 2nd album, and one of the most critically acclaimed records of 2004 and a massive... more

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  The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place

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  • Posted:Nov-11-2008

  • meandering, predictable, post-rock par excellence
  • To put it bluntly, this music is boring. It's not transcendent in any way. Just some obvious harmonizing and simple repetitive melodies. All of the songs sound the same...you can't tell when they...
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  • Posted:Jul-30-2008

  • If I had a soundtrack to my life, I would want these five tracks to be at the top of the playlist
  • This entire album is amazing. So simple, yet so complex. These are not just songs; these are emotions in the form of music. There is no need for lyrics when you convey your message with such...
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  • Posted:Aug-15-2005

  • At first sublime, but after repeated listenings formulaic
  • At the first listen I was very intrigued by this minimal post rock quartet. The chiming guitars and beautiful arpeggios are quite compelling and mesmerizing. Much of this album could be described...
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Broken Social Scene materialized in 1999 when K.C. Accidental's Kevin Drew & Brendan Canning, formerly of By Divine... more

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  You Forgot It in People

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  • Posted:Jan-07-2009

  • an interesting type of indie rock
  • BSS is an interesting group and YFIIP is an interesting album. I wouldn't necessarily classify it as sing-along music; moreso I would classify it as background music for studying/parties etc. It's...
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  • Posted:Apr-23-2007

  • So much yet so little
  • I grew up with The Police so take my opinion with a grain of salt but what I've heard of this album sums up what seems so wrong with this incarnation of indie rock. Too many possibilities for bands...
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  • Posted:Aug-03-2006

  • Help me out
  • Help me out someone!? I have a wide experience of listening to every kind of (alternative) music but I really cannot see the greatness of the album. Sure, it sounds great and there are great moment...
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Porcupine Tree defies categorization. This unique London-based quartet make unconventional, uncompromising music that... more

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  Deadwing

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  • Posted:Dec-07-2008

  • Great Album
  • Great, new, creative, rocky, spacy, complicated and Fun. Really good album. With roots that lie in Pink Floyd, Yes, Rush and Moody Blues they take the old flavors and make it all new and exciting....
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  • Posted:Feb-03-2006

  • Good but not metal....
  • I got into this band because I was told they were similar to Opeth whom I love. I got Absentia first and was a bit disappointed that it wasn't heavy music but it reminded me of Pink Floyd so I kept...
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  • Posted:Nov-05-2005

  • Wow, maybe I shouldn't buy albums on an impulse
  • This was the worst peace of plastic i have ever bought. The first time I listened to it , I only heard the first track...which at the time sounded promising. Now that i had to erase it off my...
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Opening October 15th nationwide, Friday Night Lights (a Universal picture starring Billy Bob Thornton and Tim McGraw,... more

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  Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Die, Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Live Forever

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  • Posted:Dec-04-2008

  • Those Who Tell The Truth Will Tell You To Buy This
  • Explosions in The Sky (EiTs), are a U.S. Post-Rock outfit. "Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Die, Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Live Forever" and "The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place" are cited as...
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  • Posted:Apr-25-2008

  • I really wanted to like it
  • I read a review in the Riverfront Times, St. Louis. I had high hopes. Sorry, couldn't get through the disc: too boring. The first track sounded a bit like "Failure." Overall sounded like a band...
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  • Posted:Jan-10-2007

  • Eh? I Feel I'm Missing Something...
  • I really don't understand the massive acclaim this album receives. I would go as far to say it's...boring!!!
    
    GAH strike me down, (and I'm sure this little review will be...) but I find...
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Strange as it seems now, the last album John Lennon released in his lifetime was intended as a comeback, or rather as... more

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  Double Fantasy

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  • Posted:Oct-15-2008

  • Gimme Some Truth
  • About three weeks before some festering sore of a human being gunned him down, John Lennon released his last work on a joint album with wife Yoko Ono called Double Fantasy. It was, in part, a gift...
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  • Posted:May-08-2008

  • Sympathy for that one song? Is that it?
  • Earl Slick and Rick Neilsen were the guitarists on this...album. But the juxtaposition of Yukko Ohno's..."songs" in between every one of Lennon's, kind of make this, his final album - a joke....
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  • Posted:Jan-31-2007

  • We thought they'd have time to get better together....
  • It was a bad time. The Ayatollah had 52 Americans captive at our own embassy in Tehran (although Steve Dahl did come up with a great parody of the Knack's big hit that year,...
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Release Date: 1997-07-01, Audio CD, Arista more

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  Ladies & Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space

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  • Posted:Feb-09-2007

  • Never let this album go
  • When I first listened to this CD I thought it was a little long and somewhat boring. It was my first exposure to Spiritualized and from what everyone was telling me I was a little disappointed....
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  • Posted:Feb-10-2005

  • Novice Spiritualized listener's take
  • While I have to agree with those who say the 5 star ratings are too much (too many songs seem to be overlong or burdened with unnecessary instrumentation or extended, droning sections..), those...
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  • Posted:Mar-12-2003

  • Don't believe the hype!
  • This album is, simply put, awful. Everyone in the chatroom of a popular British music weekly magazine were drooling over this release back when it came out, so naturally, I went and purchased it....
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1997 EMI release, their fourth album (1988) digitally remastered. The album features six extended ambient tracks,... more

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  Spirit of Eden

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  • Posted:Aug-20-2008

  • A forgotten classic.
  • For several years Pink Floyd has been my one and only favorite band of all time. Talk Talk's "Spirit of Eden" was enough to catapult them to share a space right next to my (now other) favorite...
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  • Posted:Aug-23-2005

  • Do Yourself A Favor, Skip It...
  • and get "The Coulor Of Spring" instead. While it may have a few moments it eventually just annoys you as the songs never seem to go anywhere.
    
    Take for instance "Inheritance". It really...
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British electronics wunderkind Richard James (alias Aphex Twin, AFX, Polygon Window, etc.) claims he heard the... more

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  Selected Ambient Works, Vol. 2

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  • Posted:Jul-05-2008

  • Chilling.
  • The dark ambient sounds layered in light beat makes the music infinately enjoyable. Tons of rythmic tones and cords to pick apart and enjoy from every song, over and over again.
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  • Posted:Mar-10-2008

  • Ambient/electronic for those who don't know history
  • I've been a huge fan of "electronica" since I heard the first synth on a pop record, say about 1968. Since then, I've availed myself of just about every bit of electronic music I could find.
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  • Posted:Mar-01-2006

  • Aphex Twin Fans will be delighted...
  • I thought volume 1 of Aphex Twin's selected ambient works was a superb album, so I bought Volume II, thinking I would find more great stuff. I found the Volume 2 CD is "far out" compared to Volume...
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Release Date: 1992-03-03, Audio CD, Sire / London/Rhino more

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  Uh-Oh

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  • Posted:Jul-07-2007

  • Still Sounds Good
  • As far as a pop album goes, this is a very well produced album. I'll admit I am biased as I was subjected to this at a good time in my life. However, I think you'll find some excellent production...
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  • Posted:Jul-09-2002

  • Not Very Good
  • This is the closest thing to pop music that Byrne has recorded since the split of Talking Heads. It's unfortunate that it didn't work out. First of all, Byrne's voice, which usually adds energy and...
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  I'm Your Fan

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  • Posted:Dec-05-2008

  • A bad album
  • The songs don't sound good and don't add anything to Leonard Cohen's originals. It would be better to listen to those originals. I was surprised since the artists are good ones. I can't explain...
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  • Posted:Aug-11-2005

  • A classic album in its own right, a must have in your collection!
  • Forget about who wrote the songs, forget about trying to make comparisons, forget about whether or not the performances were worthy of a tribute. Simply take it as music. Leonard Cohen wrote...
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  • Posted:Mar-26-2003

  • not the best cd in the world
  • i got this as a gift, and since i enjoy leonard cohen music, i expected to enjoy this too, it's wasn't too dissapointed, but most of the interpetations to his songs are either trying to sounds just...
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What's most surprising about the Pure Moods series is not that it is so popular, but that the music on it actually... more

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  Pure Moods, Vol. III

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  • Posted:Jan-12-2007

  • Pure Moods, Vol. III
  • I did not find that I enjoyed it as much as Pure Moods, Vol. I
    
    Pure Moods Vol I, I think is still the best
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  • Posted:Nov-16-2006

  • Almost Perfect!!
  • Anyone who's actually reading an online review of a Pure Moods album has to be, in my most humble of opinions, an established fan of the franchise, and I'm no exception: I LOVE Pure Moods. I have...
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  • Posted:Oct-16-2003

  • Good Album, Not Best If Series Though
  • This collection of Pure Moods CDs started with this CD and was definitely good enough to justify the rest of the entries in the series. These CDs start by taking pop songs, remaking them into...
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Limited Edition Japanese pressing of this album comes housed in a miniature LP sleeve. 2007. more

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  Heroes

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  • Posted:Dec-09-2008

  • I, I will be king
  • It is impossible to talk about "Heroes" without gushing over the epic title track which remains if not Bowie's most famous song then it is on a very short list. The song builds and builds to a...
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  • Posted:May-30-2008

  • Good album, but it's not "Low"
  • Although I've had this record for over half my life, it's never sat totally comfortably with me. I've always much preferred its predecessor "Low," and with recent listens, I've finally realized...
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  • Posted:Jan-23-2008

  • Nah!
  • This one is boring and absolutely overrated... you can hear Bowie's best work in "The Man who Sold the World", "Hunky Dory" and "Ziggy Stardust"... even in "Aladdin Sane", but not here... (Don't...
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Release Date: 1995-09-26, Audio CD, Geffen Records more

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  Washing Machine

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  • Posted:Dec-21-2007

  • And the best reason is...
  • There are about a million reasons to buy this record, and they're all good reasons. But the most important one is the final track. "The Diamond Sea" is their swan song...the complete fulfillment...
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  • Posted:Jul-25-2007

  • You've Been Brainwashed!
  • I can't help but wonder how many of you who have given five stars to this CD would do the same if they were handed this album to listen to without being told whom it was by. This tripe is being...
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  • Posted:Jun-10-2005

  • Hmmm...
  • I own this CD. And I enjoy aspects of it. Some of it, I may not like the SOUND, but I appreciate the band and what they have contributed to indie rock/experimental music/art rock.
    
    I only...
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Release Date: 1999-06-22, Audio CD, Warner Bros / Wea more

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  The Soft Bulletin

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  • Posted:Nov-20-2008

  • For better or worse, the Flaming Lips grow up
  • Well, this has sure become a lot of people's favorite Flaming Lips album. "The Pet Sounds of the '90s," they say. I won't argue one thing: it is a good album. When done properly, I love lush,...
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  • Posted:Oct-09-2007

  • This album is probably really good...
  • ...but i wouldn't know, because i can never manage to listen to it all the way through without wanting to change it. don't get me wrong, i've listened the all the songs. i thought this would be one...
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  • Posted:Jun-29-2006

  • A mixed bag
  • There are some great songs on this album, but there is also a lot of experimental/unpalatable stuff. I would say that the "Yoshimi" and "Mysitcs" albums are better examples of where the Lips...
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Disc 1 - Signify (1996):1. Bornlivedie2. Signify3. The Sleep Of No Dreaming4. Pagan5. Waiting - Phase One6. Waiting -... more

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  Signify

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  • Posted:Jan-11-2008

  • Porcupine Tree - The First Album Of The Modern Era
  • I like to categorize "Signify" as the first CD of the modern era of Porcupine Tree. It is quite different from their previous efforts up to this point, yet stunning in it's creativity. The first...
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  • Posted:Jun-27-2007

  • Liked other P. T. recordings better
  • I like other Porcupine Tree CDs much better. This disc is a little too moody for for my taste, it drifts. In spite of this luke warm review, this is a GREAT band!!
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