Ugh. I’m not the biggest fan of Beck’s so-called hip-hop side (I can’t stand most of Odelay and don’t care much for Midnight Vultures), but I can at least appreciate his ironic and insightful lyrics.
Archive for the 'D' Category
Yusuf Islam - An Other Cup
2006, Atlantic/Wea
D
Consider this a holy war- against middle-of-the-road pop.
Jeremy Enigk - World Waits
2006, Reincarnate Music
D+
Here is Jeremy Enigk’s formula: start soft, add some ridiculous synth, and then swell into an ear-piercing wail. Knowing this, the world might have waited longer.
The balding bawler begins World Waits with a track called “A New Beginning,” but listeners’ high hopes will be promptly scattered into a sea of pomp and bullshit.
And if it weren’t for the album’s already-dated-sounding production, the most telling track on World Waits would’ve been “Been Here Before”- except Enigk seems to have revisited his past flops instead of efforts like “Return Of The Frog Queen”- or even the first three Sunny Day Real Estate albums- that first earned his acclaim.
Spoon w/ Various Artists - Stranger Than Fiction Soundtrack
2006, Sony
D+
Califone, The Jam, and The Upsetters saved this one from an F.
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Talladega Nights: The Ballad Of Ricky Bobby
2006, Sony Pictures
D
First of all- and this is important- what is the deal with all these goddam 120-minute comedy movies? Is it possible for anyone to sustain the funny for that long?
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