Mark Prindle Props Thred

"There's the known and the unknown, and in between them is...a goofy keyboard solo."

ROFL at young Ian where he is all "OMGWTF" that Prindle reviews Caroliner.

"I agree that there are quite a few handy-dandies on here (especially the buzzy guitar rockers "Peace Frog" and "Land Ho,"), but what I don't hear is that unique Doors style I've grown to love. This record is many things - raw, fun, bluesy, varied - but it's not circusy, it's not weird, and poop it, it's not idiosyncratic! Any band could have made this album! Well, any band with a godlike singer."

"...Supposedly, this album is supposedly supposed to create a mood of peace and tranquility, but that's certainly not what I get out of it! "Meant For You" lures you into the insane cult and the rest of the album is a spooky ride through the insanity of late-60s hippie hell. First you try to keep your brain from exploding as the title track's chorus features five voices rising higher, higher, higher until you manically scrape bloody lines into your own face. Then "Wake The World" brings in LSD-addled Brian Wilson alternating a catchy tuba chorus with a REALLY creepy "mesmerizing" Sesame Street-for-pedophiles piano verse. "Be Here In The Morning" continues the insanity with an out-of-control falsetto vocal, screwball chord changes, a klunky waltz beat and loony vocal effects in the chorus, which revolves around a moronic shout of "Ah-ah!" and about five million voices harmonizing one word together. And it continues like this for the next 20 minutes. Maybe I'm just more paranoid than most, but the whole fucking album makes me want to lock my doors and never go outside again!

This is NOT peaceful music - it's corruption and schizophrenia masquerading as peaceful music. Regardless of Mike Love's Transcendental Meditation b.s., everybody in the world knows the guy is completely incapable of handling his temper. You can almost imagine him strangling a prostitute with a wire hanger as he sings the frighteningly cultish ode to "Anna Lee, The Healer" (unless that's Al Jardine - in which case replace "strangling" with "giggling and lightly poking at). Not to mention -- if this was supposed to be a "peaceful" album, why do all the vocal harmonies sound like they're pulled from a psychopathic horror movie? Oh! That's right. The chief songwriter was in the grips of paranoid schizophrenia..."

I mean, it's not even what I would consider a classic example of his style of humor, but the description of "Be Here in the Morning", for one, is so on target.

Also the Gregg Turkington guest review of the Bee Gees is great, and complete with his somewhat unnerving, N.H.-style KFC-joke obsession. For example, from his intro to the reviews:
"The Brothers Gibb are talented enough that they could've (and should've!) written songs powerful enough to make even Colonel Sanders into a top-selling youth-market vocalist!

Mark Prindle so funny...

Jazz? My eye! This is exploratory rock music! Like Krautrock, but brassier! If only somebody would wise up and throw out Miles Davis and his confounded strumpet!

Plus, the singer was this wacky larger-than-life cartoon of a womanly man who was always doing gymnastics during concerts and talking between verses and wearing crazy colorful clothing and he had a really neat voice too! It was low and sorta dopey-sounding at times, but he could do these high-pitched Slayer-esque squeal things that just drove the kids wild, and he sounded like a real pal most of the time, albeit a really arrogant pal.

"NUGG" The Transport - Dossier 1997.
Rating = 8

The keyboards play a more prominent melodic role in this one, but not at the expense of the tunes. The bass player on this one is Jeff Pinkus, formerly of the Butthole Surfers, and there are three drummers - including Rey Washam again! For Larry Fuck's sake, what the hell else can I say about goddamned Helios Creed? Like I said, more keyboard riffs on this one, but they're good ones. Disarming album cover looks like a happy little fantasy record, when in fact it's the same old nightmarish sci-fi (but not dorky sci-fi like Star Trek and anything else that dorky sci-fi people like) rock inside. You may not like Helios Creed. You may consider it worthless to fill songs with sampled and spoken lyrics that can't be made out while a guitar just wails away pointlessly in the background. All I have to say to you is (spoken with a chuckle of obvious superiority on my part): You wouldn't understand. Go back and listen to your "Radiohead" some more - obviously the "intellect" and "craftsmanship" they display in their music is more your speed.

Stupid. You're so stupid. You with your "songs that took more than 20 seconds to write." Give me a call when you grow the hell up.

His comments on the Dave Blood interview are really sad and passionate. In fact, a lot of the interviews are done really well.

what's your favorite prindle quotes? mine that i remember:

"Can

And will!!!! (See how successful they could have been had I run their advertising campaign?)" (i think you have to read it yourself http://markprindle.com/can.htm to get it)

"When Johnny Rotten left the Clash way back in '78, he immediately moved on to a new project that he wanted to be entirely different from his former band, The Ramones - what he chose to go with was a non-punk, non-rock (or so they claimed) project called Public Image Ltd."

and this: "I generally don't review sports teams, but when I saw the New York Kniks score 500 points against" (from the kinks page)