After a deliverance-esque intro with an acoustic guitar, Covington abandons all notions of the value of originality and delivers what I can only imagine is a collection of b-side metallica and u2 covers. The vocals are controlled, melodramatic, vague at times and uselessly devoid of interesting or moving sentiment at all times.
They do a really good job of making this stuff. It is just not as good as the shit on the radio, which is already shit, so this is like what you would get when a dog eats a turn and then makes a new one - a double turd or something.
I'm sure that dudes who are into nickleback can bob their heads to this, but all I can do is just wait for it to be over.
"I just want to feel you and be felt all the time"
That's what you get. Is it that fucking hard to write some lyrics that don't sound like fucking Katy Perry throwaways?
It's probably not worth your time,
but here it is.
Well it's a shame we couldn't appeal to your personal tastes, bro. Thank for the review and I think I'll just take the "They do a really good job of making this stuff." out of it. :)
ReplyDeleteOh and about the stuff you "like", next time I'll try to do a recording in my garage with an untuned guitar and whine as much as I can into the microphone using obscure words that make me "Punk" "Indie" and "Mysterious". In fact, Ima write a song just for you.
ReplyDeleteBut keep trying though, maybe one day you will actually be funny my man.
ReplyDeleteActually, my tastes are based almost entirely on the utilization of Cognitive Form.
ReplyDeleteLet me fill you in.
Basically, and text, literature, music, or art, is essentially physically manifested consciousness.
As a formalist, I believe that art and music and literature not only have an objective value, which means that individual items have observable properties which provide those who experience them with a more valid and broad understanding of the human condition. There are ideas, perspectives, and situations which reveal individual perspectives that have an equity in validity and yet, are ironic and touching. Using reason, I have determined that this is the only type of music that I really like, because the rest of the crap out there, of which your group is, obviously, a shit shining example, is simply without profound truth, and too often, are actively engaged in the exploitation of culture and art as a means to make money or fame, or self-esteem. Good art is never a means to an end, it is an end in and of itself.
Thanks.
By the way, I think I am funny. Actually I just read the review of your album and I laughed out loud at how funny it was.
ReplyDeleteDid you bother to read any other reviews from this blog?
I am very difficult to impress, and I like the challenge of being offensive and accurate at the same time.
Well you don't know shit about music. I'm guessing that you are difficult to impress to try and make you look like you know what you are doing. It's not working for ya. But I guess I would be mad too if I were as much of a goofy looking nerd as you.......God damn you are goofy looking!
ReplyDeleteWhat is it, exactly that you think I don't know? I'm just curious. But, hey, we can't all look like Brad Pitt, and I'm glad that someone finally insulted me.
ReplyDeleteArt: (noun) The expression or application of human creative skill and imagination, typically in a visual form such as painting or sculpture, producing works to be appreciated primarily for their beauty or emotional power.
ReplyDeleteThe Mona Lisa did nothing for me. I cringe at the sound of the Beatles. Yet I recognize that both of these artworks have impacted countless lives for the better. What then gives me permission to utterly destroy their credibility simply because they are not to my liking? Art does not impose on your will. The Pledge of Allegiance does not say "under art." If you do not like or agree with a piece of art then shrug your shoulders and walk away. Who is anybody to so violently shit all over the happiness of a few young people having fun? Perhaps this is why the American people are so beaten down; perhaps if every citizen didn't think it their duty to be a fucking critic of everything they see we might all enjoy the simple pleasures in life again.
But whatever. You clearly enjoy being a dick. I recommend studying psychology because this joy you derive from being an ass, this constant need to get a rise out of people so you can fight back... textbook stuff. Wake up. There's a world bigger than your blog going on. Let these kids enjoy their youth and worry about your own problems.
Read the post about cognitive form, then read Emanuel Kant and his ideas about ethics and art. Then maybe you can understand.
ReplyDeleteThe Mona Lisa wasn't painted to be monetized. It wasn't painted to appeal to the aesthetic tastes of any particular crowd.
The reason it is great, is because it presents us with the greatest mystery, which is that of human identity. Who is the woman? Who are we? Why is she important? She is so important because the human experience itself is important, and it is something we all share.
Art is not just something that tickles your dick because you like it, though it can be, and it can be great that way, but there is bad art, and immoral art, and lazy, stupid art.
That is why it is important to criticize. Because there is art that can improve us as human beings, and the notion that all art has no real objective value other than the subjective value of personal aesthetic taste is the reason that culture and society need criticism.
I love other, regular people, and their music is an extension of those individuals. Covington is not a reflection of any individual human experience, but rather, an endeavor to utilize established, marketable ideas without doing the hard thing, and making something profound, clever, ironic, and useful.
Plus, they just kinda suck. They keep in time, but they just robbed every crappy nineties alt-rock/hair metal band that I never liked in the first place, and this is what I drew attention to, which, I believe, is very difficult to refute.
Covington asked him to review their band. Its not like he went out trying to pick a fight with a shitty band. I couldn't make it through ten seconds of the first song. Its unbearable. But obviously, reviews are opinions. It is not a fact that they suck (yet it kind of is). And reviews should always be looked at that way. Do not get upset if there is a bad review. I am sure like ten people out there must love Covington.
ReplyDeleteRegardless of opinion you are a terrible reviewer. whether you like it or not you do not know how to write a good review. That doesn't mean good as in you have to write about how good you think the music is that just means that you don't write a review well. Obviously you are biased as hell. You just said something about not liking 90's alt-rock/hair metal bands. In a good review you need to be unbiased and base your opinion on how good the music is and not on what genre its in. I hate country, but if I was gonna write a review for a country song I wouldn't write it a bad review simply because it is some gay ass country music. All bullshit and arguing aside.......you just kinda suck. I give this review blog the F it deserves.
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