[kj] Rolling Stone Weighs In

[Bruce Osborne]

Rolling Stones has sucked for ages. The new album fucking rocks. Fuck them.

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>
> As if you didn't already have enough reasons to boycott this glorified
toilet
> paper, Rolling Stone reviews the new album:
>
> KILLING JOKE
> Killing Joke
> ZUMA
> ** (two stars out of five)
> These middle-aged Brits, who first blended metal, post-punk and New Wave
> sounds into an oppressive mess twenty years ago return with one of the
darkest
> albums in their extensive catalog. On tracks such as "Loose Cannon", the
big
> riffs and expertly constructed electronic textures make for a heady, dark
mix. But
> all the humorless gloom and doom feels oppressive after a while, and
KILLING
> JOKE ultimately plays like the soundtrack to a slightly pretentious horror
film
> - Christian Hoard and Jon Caramanica.
>
> Opinions aside, what a horribly written bit of drivel (the adjective
> "oppressive" apearing twice in three sentences?) I get the feeling the
only track
> these cock-jockeys listened to was "Loose Cannon". And what's this about
"expertly
> constructed electronic textures"? What does that even MEAN?
>
> Fuck Rolling Stone.
>
> Alex in NYC
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