Recent content by unperson

I met Flea at a Fela show in L.A. in 1990. He's a nice guy, sincere about what he does. He comes across like a hippie idiot sometimes (like in that message above) but whatever. I haven't liked one of their records since BSSM - the first half of that one was pretty good, but everything from "Give...

I guess I'm the lone dissenter - Jesu do almost nothing for me. Too pretty. Things I like at present: the Trivium album (reissued with four bonus tracks, one of which is a cover of "Master Of Puppets" that's ass-rapingly great), the new Killing Joke disc (though I've always felt Napalm Death...

Napalm Death are still great. In fact, it seems to me that they've only gotten better over the years.

I have that Elvis pic on a T-shirt.

"The Bars" off Slip It In. Just for the drum fill before it really gets going, but for a bunch of other reasons too. One of Rollins' best vocal performances with the band, a killin' guitar solo...it's the high point of the album, to my ear.

>All their live albums seem to be rubbish though <I>Live In Japan</I> is pretty good; it's one of the few albums on which they had two drummers, and it rocks pretty hard.

I, too, saw Tricky live in 1997, in NYC...total darkness onstage for most of the set, the music utterly pointless and awful (I say this despite the fact that <I>Pre-Millennium Tension</I> still gets played around my house quite a bit), and he had some useless rappers as his opening act (the guys...

I have some friends who are musicians, and whose work I like quite a bit. I don't make mention of it in the reviews, because I was an admirer of the work before seeking them out on a personal level. Generally I think it's possible to review a record by even a close friend honestly. The thing I...