CRIKEY! ROCK MUSICIAN TAKES ON ROCK CRITIC!!!

Hey now wait one minu...

Let me just say I haven't heard anything by this band but doesn't her description match a helluvalotta rock bands? Were they this harsh on Weezer's last album? It is comparable to giving a rap album a thrashing because it "featured few memorable melodies, relied too much on the beat and featured little to no singing (they talked over the music!)".

They let *gasp* a woman review our punk rock album!!

I can't believe you actually paid some woman to review our album. Obviously, the only reason she gave it one star is that our fans bombarded your magazine with mail, and had this not happened, you would have given it the two stars that it deserved, like our last album. Additionally, I'd like to point out that this Jenny can't possibly have any legitimate reason to dislike the album, and must therefore be sexually frustrated."

Try telling that to George W Bush Jnr.

grrrrr.

CKY: We know some famous people.

1 entry found for confliction.

con·flict ( P ) Pronunciation Key (knflkt)
n.
A state of open, often prolonged fighting; a battle or war.
A state of disharmony between incompatible or antithetical persons, ideas, or interests; a clash.
Psychology. A psychic struggle, often unconscious, resulting from the opposition or simultaneous functioning of mutually exclusive impulses, desires, or tendencies.
Opposition between characters or forces in a work of drama or fiction, especially opposition that motivates or shapes the action of the plot.

intr.v. con·flict·ed, con·flict·ing, con·flicts (kn-flkt)
To be in or come into opposition; differ.
Archaic. To engage in warfare.

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[Middle English, from Latin cnflctus, collision, from past participle of cnflgere, to strike together : com-, com- + flgere, to strike.]
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con·fliction n.
con·flictive adj.
con·flictu·al (kn-flkch-l) adj.
Synonyms: conflict, contest, combat, fight
These nouns denote struggle between opposing forces for victory or supremacy. Conflict applies both to open fighting between hostile groups and to a struggle between antithetical forces: “The kind of victory MacArthur had in mind... victory by expanding the conflict to all of Chinawould have been the wrong kind of victory” (Harry S. Truman). “Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts” (Karen Horney). Contest can refer either to friendly competition or to a hostile struggle to achieve an objective: a spelling contest; the gubernatorial contest. Combat most commonly implies an encounter between two armed persons or groups: “Alexander had appeared to him, armed for combat” (Connop Thirlwall). Fight usually refers to a clash involving individual adversaries: A fight was scheduled between the world boxing champion and the challenger. “There is nothing I love as much as a good fight” (Franklin D. Roosevelt). See also synonyms at discord

C'mon, even he thinks his own record's shit.

Do Rolling Stone reviewers really say "Ex-squeeze me"?

Fricke has used it, too:

"... so it's no surprise that this fine collection of 1910 Fruitgum Company outtakes bleeds with the plucky band's infectious ex-squeeze and bubblegum glee..."

- Half Man Half Biscuit, 'Bad Review'

No winners.

He's the one trotting out sales numbers to say that sales = quality. Which is a game he loses.

"Main claim to fame" = an ILM thread?

I've gotten and given glowing and scathing reviews. That's showbiz. Deal.

And by the way, if you don't think the CKY Alliance isn't unified at least partially around the principle that "old fogeys like Rolling Stone hate us" and would disintegrate if the band got four stars and sold R. Kelly numbers of records, well, ha.

Actually, he's not. You misread the first post. The Deron Miller quote ends with "...no stars", and the record sales part was added by whoever writes the news at blabbermouth.net.

-- loafingoaf (loafe...), July 19th, 2005.

Yeah, but anyone with a shred of pride or dignity wouldn't go flaming journalists for writing bad reviews.

The journalist I was referring to was not you. I had no idea you were one.

I only mentioned the reviews I've gotten and given to explain that I do know what I'm talking about; specifically, that I've been on the receiving end of scathing reviews and, while tempted, knew that it would be truly lame to write in and complain.

I'll shut up and get back to work now.

Waitaminnute this just showed up:
As Ebert has rightfully pointed out, no one ever bitches about critics or attacks their credibility when they're given a positive review.
-- Josh in Chicago (Vitesse9...)

Or says "who cares what the critics think?"

OK, NOW I'll shut up and get back to work.

2004 albums ballot
1 Elliott Smith From a Basement on the Hill
Anti- points: 20

2 Killers Hot Fuss
Island points: 15

3 Honorary Title Anything Else But the Truth
Doghouse points: 15

4 Franz Ferdinand Franz Ferdinand
Domino/Epic points: 10

5 Taking Back Sunday Where You Want to Be
Victory points: 10

6 Ray LaMontagne Trouble
RCA points: 10

7 Ambulance Ltd Ambulance LTD
TVT points: 5

8 Arcade Fire Funeral
Merge points: 5

9 Garden State
Epic/Sony Music Soundtrax points: 5

10 Kanye West The College Dropout
Roc-A-Fella points: 5

2004 singles ballot
1 Kanye West "Jesus Walks"
Roc-A-Fella

2 Gwen Stefani "What You Waiting For?"
Interscope

3 U2 "Vertigo"
Interscope

4 John Mayer "Daughters"
Aware/Columbia

5 Dashboard Confessional "Vindicated"
Vagrant/Interscope

6 Usher featuring Lil Jon and Ludacris "Yeah!"
Arista

7 Taking Back Sunday "A Decade Under the Influence"
Victory

8 Killers "Somebody Told Me"
Island

9 Franz Ferdinand "Take Me Out"
Domino

10 Eminem "Mosh"
Interscope

-- loafingoaf (loafe...), July 19th, 2005.

that wasn't the point of my posting that info at all. she's been an editor at RS for a while! I've seen her as a talking head on VH1! she'd obviously risen to some level of reknown as a critic before this. I was just pointing out that CKY and their fans have turned their response to her review into a media campaign and have managed to obscure whatever reputation she had previously.