http://blogcritics.org/ A sinister cabal of superior bloggers on music, books, film, popular culture, politics, and technology - updated continuously. en Copyright 2005 by the authors Mon, 31 Jan 2005 16:45:37 EST http://backend.userland.com/rss Blogcritics.org custom software http://blogcritics.org/archives/2005/01/24/175132.php#comment-113458 I shall tell you loads more...wait for the review. It will be coming soon. 113458@blogcritics.org Mon, 31 Jan 2005 16:45:37 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2005/01/24/175132.php#comment-113395 Never heard of RWPL; tell me more... 113395@blogcritics.org Mon, 31 Jan 2005 13:44:58 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2005/01/24/175132.php#comment-113393 Wow, impressive. BTW: Tim you heard of a band called RPWL? Their latest release is stunning. 113393@blogcritics.org Mon, 31 Jan 2005 13:39:13 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2005/01/24/175132.php#comment-113391 Update from Jon (formerly of Karnataka, now of The Panic Room), who was laying down recordings over the weekend. First, the single will indeed have mellotrons on it! Second, there are so many people involved, there may be four seperate versions of the song, each featuring different people. No word yet of the release date. 113391@blogcritics.org Mon, 31 Jan 2005 13:29:44 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2005/01/24/175132.php#comment-111741 very clean and sharp distinction Tim, and best wishes to the proggers on this project! 111741@blogcritics.org Tue, 25 Jan 2005 14:42:42 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2005/01/24/175132.php#comment-111732 Before this gets bogged down in a futile argument about semantics, I don't see "Pretentious" and "Self-Indulgence" being quite the same thing, although it's quite common for something to be both at the same time. Self-indulgence is endless noodling solos or triple albums on which only a third of the songs are any good. Pretension is claiming what you're doing is much more profound and significant than it really is. Prog may have been guilty of this in the 70s, but I accuse some navel-gazing indie bands of being guilty of the same thing in the 80s, 90s and 00s... 111732@blogcritics.org Tue, 25 Jan 2005 14:18:04 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2005/01/24/175132.php#comment-111709 Well I would agree that prog bands no longer do "pretentious bollocks" but can come durn close to pretentiousness quite often. 111709@blogcritics.org Tue, 25 Jan 2005 13:20:21 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2005/01/24/175132.php#comment-111620 isn't there a certain amount of pretentiousness inherent in self-indulgence? 111620@blogcritics.org Tue, 25 Jan 2005 09:03:30 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2005/01/24/175132.php#comment-111617 Eric, Prog rockers don't do pretentious any more; they leave that to Indie. Some occasionally still do self-indulgent, especially if they're called The Flower Kings 111617@blogcritics.org Tue, 25 Jan 2005 08:53:24 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2005/01/24/175132.php#comment-111457 if it doesn't noodle and meander in a most pretentious way I will be offended 111457@blogcritics.org Mon, 24 Jan 2005 19:04:24 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2005/01/24/175132.php#comment-111448 Why don't they freaking re-release Hear' N' Aid on CD? I had that album and it was not that bad! 111448@blogcritics.org Mon, 24 Jan 2005 18:39:02 EST