that review of 90's my life wasn't all that good. he both insults and praises each of the songs that he is saying is great.
[quote="this moron"]The Pillows’ sound in this album, much unlike Pantomine, is that of a “polite” rock band. Gone are the wild yells for ‘energy’ or the wild talk of a ‘razorlike blue.’ In comes the rather tame “Paris Woman Marie.” The band sustains its instrumental creativity, proving that the band was growing into a collaboration of very competent musicians. Though this album pales in comparison to its predecessor, it still stands well, as it has one of the Pillows’ most memorable tracks, “I’m A Broken Piece;” however, I personally think “Never Find” is the key gem here.[/quote]
i don't get the feel of a "wild talk of a razorlike blue" from that song. this guy not only doesn't know any japanese (he himself said that), but he is deciding what the song is talking about entirely off of the sound of the song. and the whole thing about 90's my life paling in comparison to pantomime? don't make me laugh. the two are more like complimentary parts to almost the same album - if you took the tracks and mixed them all together, you'd have a badass full-length album.
[quote]sukitooru tooi tegami
"Yamanaka does his best singing in this track, which is saying quite a handful (Yamanaka’s voice is still in its infancy in these years)."[/quote]
shut up.
[quote]never find
"Though the chorus sounds like a slur of incomprehensible babbling (and the mediocre singing doesn’t help, either)"[/quote]
shut up.
90's my life
i'm not even going to quote him here. the review of this song was stupid. where in hell did he get the feel that the song was in a bar in front of a rowdy crowd? the "voices" are most obviously the band members talking and laughing together - far from occuring in a bar, this is just the band members kicking back together, maybe in their apartment or whatever, and then the song of how much they love this era plays. none of this fucking "Sawao is singing, singing in front of a rowdy crowd. They’re jumping and they’re dancing, they’re on top of the tables!" again, shut up to this guy.
on kool spice, he said:
[quote="moron"]one could not say that the album had a unifying theme[/quote]
WUT. gtfo.
[quote]the album was an exhibition of a variety of sounds from [b]elevator music[/b] to cool jazz to outright rock and roll[/quote]
elevator music? on kool spice? WHAT THE FUCK IS HE TALKING ABOUT?
[quote]Sawao’s singing had become tolerable[/quote]
tolerable. as if it had sucked before. "bzzzzt. wrong."
[quote]his claim to being more than just an average singer, which previous albums have explicitly revealed[/quote]
he spent each album review bashing sawao's voice and then saying that he's "explicitly revealed in their earlier albums as being above average."
about living field, i can't believe he said this:
[quote]he openers, “Angel Fish”, “Sunday”, and “Daydream Wonder” might be quiet sleep-music[/quote]
jesus christ. daydream wonder as "sleep-music"?
[quote]Living Field may be the least energetic of The Pillows’ albums, but its mastery in the art of composition, production, and demonstration outshines the dull.[/quote]
LIVING FIELD IS NOT ENERGETIC?!?!?! WHAT!!!! WHEN DID THIS HAPPEN WITHOUT ME NOTICING???
on moon gold:
[quote]Hello Girl
I love the guitar solo. It is The Pillows’ best guitar solo. In fact, the earliest albums, including Moon Gold, was Manabe’s peak, when he played his absolute best.[/quote]
manabe's best guitar was far from moon gold. this same man has listened to happy slave and said that hello girl has the best guitar solo? fails. also fails for saying that moon gold pretty much sucked. and for this:
[quote]Sayounara Tansai Wakusei
Yawn.[/quote]
about penalty life:
[quote]The Sun that will not rise
Do you know what is a bit peevish? When a song starts out so good and then slowly wanes. This is unfortunately what happens in “The Sun Will Not Shine.” What pushes it almost to the brink of mediocrity can be summed up with one question: It’s not over yet? Not every song can hold its own past the five-minute mark, let alone six-minute mark. “Anytime Smokin’ Cigarette” by Globe would be a good example of a song that still is going strong past the five, six, even seven-minute mark. However, the length of “The Sun Will Not Shine” leads it a boring monotony, which is disappointing considering that it had started out quite well.
The Scar Whispers, Nobody is in Paradise
From the beginning, Sawao’s vocals are almost soporific and almost like something that causes a lullaby effect. Perhaps this is to create a sobering atmosphere after the slew of energetic songs. However, to me, this seemed like a jolt of the extreme opposite of what was played before it (i.e. the polar opposite of the energetic “Mole Town Prisoner”). Sawao’s vocals also sound a bit grating at times. The entire song is soothing, yes, but soothing in a way that would induce sleep. While the song was not drastically long (i.e. over five minutes), it was a bit longer than it needed to be. The song, in effect, was almost draining.[/quote]
this alone should be enough to convince people to hate him.
if that wasn't enough to make you hate the man,
concerning white incarnation:
[quote]This album surprised me with its [b]few[/b] goodies, I have come to love it as a whole more than some of their later, better works.[/quote]
[quote="about sariban ni naritai, he"]I could not help but listen on, “What comes after all that racket and the cries of ‘It wasn’t me! It wasn’t me!’?”[/quote]
LOOK UP THE FUCKING LYRICS.
sorry about the long post. i have come to hate this "Tamashii." i want to hit him in the face repeatedly with good songs he has verbally taken a shit upon.
