BOC: Sunday Times review

[Stephen Swann]

On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 06:47:18PM +0100, Tim Hall wrote:
> That's the heart of what's wrong with this 'review'.  It succeeds in 
> telling us for more about the reviewer's prejudices than it does about 
> the performance of the band.
> 
> Sadly in Britain, this is the sort of thing fans of anything other than 
> the flavour-of-the-month form of indie-rock have come to expect from 
> much of the NME-influenced media.

I'll never forget reading a Brit music rag when I was
on vacation in England back in maybe 82 (?) or so... I
read a review of an album called "Fuck Religion, Fuck
Politics, Fuck the Lot of You" by Chaotic Dischord,
which I admit surely must be one of the great punk
album titles of all time. ;-) Anyway, the reviewer gave
it 5 out of 5 stars, and spent a couple of paragraphs
raving about how utterly, utterly fantastic it was, a
must-have, etc.  The last line of the review was "Of
course, it's totally unlistenable..."

Steve