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QUALCUNO UPPI QUALCOS'ALTRO DEI WORLD?S END FIRLGEIRDN PLIZ

oramai mi sono iscritto :-[ http://rateyourmusic.com/~XellOs126 che si fa di bello?

Weak, uninspired, nonsensical garbage. Anybody who thinks this is 'death metal' shouldn't bother with music anymore.

Wow, does this album suck! I should have known already by looking at the genre list, that I'm not gonna like this album. Progressive metal is my favorite genre, but too bad the so called "music" on Focus is not progressive metal. The basic idea might be progmetal, but the world's most fascinating genre has been totally ruined with weird, jazzy, funky slap bass, horrible death metal vocals and the most chaotic and random, pointless songwriting I have heard in a long time.

I was just barely able to listen to this album all the way through the end. I can't say exactly how many times I wanted to stop the torture, but more than two dozens.

Horrible, horrible album. How the FUCK... how the FUCK can this be on Top 10 of 1993?

Anyway, the only genre I understand anything about is power metal, so please just ignore this review and continue your happy life as a Cynic fan club member. Because, what the hell do I know anything about good music?

Oh screw it, I just can't help myself... Who the FUCK uses vocoder in metal? ROTFL.

EDIT: CHE POI FOCUS HA 4.02 MA SEI COGLIONE E' UNA MEDIA ALTISSIMA LOL

SS se pensi che al mondo tutti amino focus beh ok dai perchè non ti cancelli da internet eh eh

LOL E' UNA MEDIA ASSURDA SI' INFATTI ma va la va la vala lets go lets go lets go
rimago dell'idea che l'informazione specializzata sia mille volte meglio di quella roba, e cercare da soli è ancora meglio perchè sucate cazzi ma comunque non c'ho palle di mostrare gli album votatic he ascolto e co sai due balle e comunque sì da 0.5 a 5 è proprio una emrda

ma io uso sempre lastfm per nuovi artisti oppure seguo l'onda di blog fighi uoh

perdi la tu avita a rateare album pur sapendo che c'è gente così beota da dare voi di merda a cose come velvet+nico e ok computer (A QUALCUNO FISCHIANO=?)

perdi la tu avita a rateare album pur sapendo che c'è gente così beota da dare voi di merda a cose come velvet+nico e ok computer (A QUALCUNO FISCHIANO=?)

Of every album that I don't quite get, and of every record that gets endless praise from those around me while I'm left out in the dark scratching my head and going "WTF, mate?", The Velvet Underground & Nico takes the gigantic proverbial cake. Hi, I'm Vito, as many of you know, and I do not like this album. No, scratch that, I hate it. *GASP!* Did he really say that? No, we must have misheard him, or he could have misspoke. Maybe he never even heard this album and accidentally downloaded a mistagged Squeeze? Yes, I really said that, and no, there was no mistake on my part nor the person who helped me get this album's part. As I've written elsewhere, I'm going to write it again: This is one of the most overrated, overhyped, overblown, overliked, overenjoyed records of the century. Now I expect that you're all searching for your lynching equipment (might I mention the Home Depot is having a buy-one get-one free deal with pitchforks?), but before I have my eyes and limbs torn from my body for admitting such a monstrous statement, why don't we calm down a bit and actually listen to what I have to say? People jump down my throat whenever I dislike an album that has such a high magnitude of followers and musical "inspiration". While I can't necessarily say that this album hasn't made a difference in the musical world (because hey, let's face it, it has), I can say that it has done absolutely nothing for me in terms of inspiring my own musical tastes nor my musical endeavors.

...um, okay, I'm still alive. Fantastic. I was expecting a gang comprised of NathantheCynic, troutmask, Kid_Brian_A, mdekoning, and herkyjerky to come crashing through my window, taking me to some faraway place to beat the sense into what would have become my corpse. Granted, I'm not going to let my guard down; sometimes it pays to keep a kitchen knife handy in your room! But I digress...let's tackle this motherfucker head-on. It is not my aim to insult the fans of this record, nor will I take great joy in crushing the spirit of the many, many people who this album has personally touched. I've had that happen to me with quite a few of my favorites (Images and Words, Vale, Be, etc.) and I'm not going to carry on the trend. I ask that everybody who reads this read it with an open mind. If you are the kind of person who lacks perspective, please go away now, because you won't find much sense in the words that I write. Also, if you are a fanboy of The Velvet Underground, I'm going to ask that you don't flame me for what I say. However, I would like maybe an album recommendation as to where I should look next in this band (because quite frankly, this band must have at least ONE record that I would like, being so epic and all that).

There is a lot of emotion in this record. Quite a blunt and surprising way to start the third paragraph of this review, but it's true. There is a lot of emotion on The Velvet Underground & Nico. It shows in both the lyrics and the style of singing. As a matter of fact, it's almost too emotional, if that makes any sense...or better yet, it's not that there is an overabundance of emotion, but a poor way of showing this emotion. There are two singers here: The talented, oldie styles of Lou Reed, and the absolutely positively insert-your-own-definite-adverb-here-ly dreadful Nico. Nico! What the fuck??? I've never heard a more cheesy and more absolutely hilarious singing voice than the one of Nico. Do people actually enjoy this broad? If they do, it is really beyond my general thinking to understand how they can, because whenever I hear here singing, it makes me want to blow my brains out...or better yet, HER brains out. Is it even a "her"? I honestly cannot tell. I heard a rumor from somebody that Nico was in fact Lou Reed singing as a woman, and I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if that was the case.

Okay, so my hatred for Nico is out of the way. Where to go from here....Oh! I know, let's talk about the songs. Yes, the songs. You know, the stuff that makes up an album? There are almost fifty grueling minutes of them here, divided into eleven separate tracks. Wow Vito, you must have at least liked some of the songs if it didn't get your usual half-rating-I-hate-this score. Well yes, you are correct. This album isn't one hundred percent terrible. There are songs here that I can listen to and actually enjoy very much. Granted, there are only three of them, but I am still able to draw out a lot of enjoyment from each of the three tracks. The very first song featured that I enjoy is "Run Run Run". I thought it was generic when I first heard it, but some prolonged listening told me otherwise. The guitar is absolutely delicious (no better word to describe it) and the flow of the song is very nice and rockin'. There's nothing REVOLUTIONARY about it, but it's a fun song that I can see myself listening to on its own. Very nice. The second one is "Heroin", a song that may seem rough around the edges but is ultimately a very likable song. The way that the simplistic lyrics complement the frantic musical pace really paints a nice picture in my head (and by nice, I mean nicely drawn, not nice in content). Then there is the other song I like here, which happens to be my favorite of the two. "There She Goes Again". The Cars must've been influenced by this song when they wrote "My Best Friend's Girl", eh? This song has such a nice oldies feel to it, making me actually see some hope in this band yet. The very simple but effective refrain of "There she goes again (There she goessss!!!)" makes for a fun, maybe even nostalgic feeling. It's remarkable that this song was able to find its way onto this shit of a record.

But what of the other songs? Surely, I can't hate eight songs on an album that many have heralded as the perfect rock album, right? Guess again, because I do. It may not be very well-received, but I cannot stand a great deal of the songs on this album that are not the three listed in the above paragraph. Let's tackle Lou's songs first, shall we? Save the worst for last (to change things up a bit). "Sunday Morning" starts the album off with a nice, lullaby-esque sound, but it eventually progresses into a very generic and very plain rock song. No, there really isn't anything wrong with the song, but at the same time there isn't much right with it either (if that makes any sense). I'm not compelled to ever listen to this song again after I've heard it once. Shouldn't a good song make me want to hear it again? Granted, I have heard it more than once, and I wasn't too pleased that I listened to it again, to be quite honest. The same goes for "I'm Waiting for the Man", a song that manages to be equally as plain and uninspiring as the last one. Of course, I have no doubt that Reed is sincere about his lyrics and about what he sings, but it's a sincerity that he seems to have a hard time expressing (at least towards me, anyway. Many people are able to take comfort in his output here.). "Venus in Furs"? Eh, while this one can't exactly be labeled as generic, I actually find this to be...tedious? Is that the proper word? It's not very thrilling, I can say that right now. If there was an interesting set of vocals or a nice lyric (there's nothing wrong with the lyrics but I don't get anything from these), I could maybe see myself enjoying four songs instead of three.

Continuing onward (and starting a new paragraph to keep from succumbing to the dreaded "wall o' text!"), "The Black Angel's Death Song" is just one of the most irritating ditties ever written. Once again, there's nothing really wrong with the content of the song, but the music itself...Jesus Christ Monkeyballs! How annoying! The scratchy sounds throughout the whole song accompanied by the hissing that seems to follow every verse, not to mention the sloppy way that Lou has composed the vocals...I just can't bear to listen to this! What baffles me is that so many people think that this is one of the highlights of the album. Maybe I'm insane, but I don't like it. "European Son", the album closer, may not be too annoying, but it lacks a whole lot of personal interest on my part. I can't tolerate that in the music I listen to. Oh, and just because it isn't TOO annoying doesn't mean that it doesn't have some annoying parts. The droning guitar can get on a man's nerves after a while, and Lou's voice at the beginning doesn't exactly put icing on the cake (I don't think there is a problem with his voice, but I also don't think there is anything spectacular about it either). This is the song that I was personally told that "I need to like, because it's just such a damn fine tune!" (I don't remember if those were the actual words, but it was along those terms that I was told to relisten to that particular song). Needless to say, I've given it more than an ample set of chances, and it has blown every single one.

Now let's go into the songs that I despise. Nico's voice, like I said, is one of the most annoying and absolutely hilarious things on the planet. If that wasn't enough of a turnoff, the lyrics of her songs are so annoying (and annoyingly sung) that it makes me wanna tear my ears off with an icepick. Of course I won't do that, considering that there are too many good musical moments in the world to go a life without it, but a life without Nico sounds pretty nice. "Femme Fatale" may be short, but it's equally as annoying as, say, that kid in middle school who would go around giving kids titty-twisters. I'm dead serious, this is a musical purple nurple in every imaginable way: Short-lived, but brings pain for a long, long time. If the verses were sung by Lou Reed, combined with the somewhat pleasant chorus that it already present, then this song could be somewhat listenable, but alas, they chose a different route. "All Tomorrow's Parties" is maybe the one song by Nico that isn't absolutely terrible, but at the same time it's pretty bad nonetheless. The instruments sound pretty nice though; I'll give this song that much. Nico had to be an inconsiderate bitch by ruining it with her arrogant and somewhat "sassy" vocals, which I just can't stomach. "I'll Be Your Mirror", the shortest song here, manages to evoke a slightly nice picture in my head if I drown the vocals out. The guitar bits here are very nice though. If only they had put them into a song with Reed.

What this album really comes down to for me is something that is not only boring and plain, but something that actually annoys me. Music that annoys me is something that is very, very, very very very hard to come by, and usually the music only annoys me because of a particular factor that has nothing to do with the music such as horrid production or impersonal lyrics. The fact that I am actually put off and antagonized by the music heard here not only makes this one of the last albums I would ever listen to, but it also puts it as one of my very least favorite records period. I even would go as far to say that, if it wasn't for those three Reed masterpieces featured here, that this would without a doubt be the one album that I call my least favorite. Alas, the man was able to save it from a complete and total shitfest review from me, and luckily enough, there were at least fifteen minutes of this CD that I was able to enjoy. Doesn't say much, though.

The Velvet Underground & Nico is one of the worst CDs I've had the displeasure of obtaining, and while I have not given up on this band entirely, I have given up on this record. I suppose that there are certain things in life that the individual is never going to get, and for this individual, this is one of them.

ma di questo forum chi c'è oltre a cercs e silver trainer ???

io conto doppio

gRande ex banana ^^'

the wall 4.5 si ciaoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

intendeva proproi quello

3,5 è il suo voto a the wall tra l0altrox

ahahah che sito di cacca negra xD

ma fregatene tanto quel sito suca ;)

Death Magnetic   
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Metallica - Death Magnetic (2008)
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account -> rating system

non ascoltare omega rate your music è per quelli che nn capikono nula

e poi? ti sei cancellato perchè c'era gente che criticava focus? °_°

ero iscritto

riiscriviti >:(

Attenzione - mentre stavi scrivendo sono state aggiunte 4 risposte al topic. Potresti voler modificare il tuo messaggio. °_°

quoto omega a me non piace è troppo lungo e noioso >_<

ma cosa dite
se alcune tracce non vi piacciono skippate ma ce ne sono alcune bellissime come that was just your life the day that never comes all nightmare long unforgiven 3 my apocalyspe suicide e redemption cioè queste sono quelle che mi piacciono di più

se dovessi reiscrivermi su rym dovrei mettere tutti i nomi delle band e mi annoiaaaaa poi andare a cercare tutti i cd uff che palle

mille anni almeno

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktNIHTQiR1Y&feature=related

cioè hai citato sei tracce su otto poi ti chiedi perché tutti ti rompono il cazzo sui tuoi brani preferiti

se ti registri alzo il voto a DM 8-)


bello

I don't know what happened when Metallica released this album.
Now, everybody loves it. Every poser loves it too.
Metallica has "Metal" on his name, so it must be great. The meaning of metal is Metallica.
Posers only listen Metallica or Iron Maiden. And "Master of Puppets" is their number 1. Why?
WHAT THE FUCK DOES THIS ALBUM HAVE???
Ok, people sings "Master, Master!" so it must be great... let's listen it... oooooooooooooh HOLY SHIT!!!
Definitely NO.
This album killed Heavy Metal.

ma il punto non è essere offesi dalle review altrui

di tutti gli album troverai qualcuno che metterà 0.5 perchè deve fare l'anticonformista o semplicemente perchè gli fa schifo vedere un album blasonato quando per lui fa cagare.

il punto è che IMHO rym è un ottimo modo per scoprire nuova musica, catalogare la propria musica senza che necessariamente venga inserito il rating e farsi un'idea su quanto sia bello un album che si scarica.

Se uno non conosce i metallica e vede la scala dei rating difficilmente potrà partire dall'ultimo, dati i voti degli altri. Per quanto ammetto che molti utenti non siano capaci a dare voti, il più delle volte il rating è sostanzialmente giusto, e comunque secondo me vale di più di un voto dato un sito come pitchfork ad esempio (che se ne esce spesso con album capolavoro che poi sono cagate, e viceversa).

ah, nel caso non lo sappiate se siete interessati ad un genere e volete scoprire roba nuova o roba fondamentale vi basta andare nella pagine del "genre" corrispondente e guardavi la classifica in ordine di voti

http://rateyourmusic.com/~Unichord

ciao

comunque io non so rateare non insultatemi per i voti che metto =(

comunque voi che criteri di valutazione usate? solo quanto vi piace o anche altre robe?

se mi reiscrivo è solo perché non ho un cazzo da fare
NEVER 4GET >;(

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