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Emeritus
Reviews 123
Approval 98%
Soundoffs 64
News Articles 34
Band Edits + Tags 24
Album Edits 186
Album Ratings 1515
Objectivity 82%
Last Active 02-24-17 4:45 pm
Joined 09-11-10
Review Comments 7,496
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 | klap check out apologies before expo 86 or anything else. classic record
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 | Sowing Surprised you didn't think more highly of Synthia. Not that you gave it a low score or anything, just feels like the kind of album you'd be all over.
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 | ScuroFantasma There are two that come close but no I wouldn't say so, that scene was gold. You can't beat a freak gasoline fight accident.
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| ScuroFantasma Ah okay, and yeah I have, there was an advanced screening at my local cinema. Plenty of funny moments but not as strong as the first one imo, but it's still definitely worth watching since it channels the same kind of funny-because-it's-stupid mentality as the original. A couple really good cameos too.
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| ScuroFantasma Hey considering your avatar, have you see Zoolander 2 yet?
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 | GooGooGajoob I swear I shouted you out earlier...**** I recon I got the wrong dude. Spin this pal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvwmFoql0lg
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 | SmileNerd Just wanted to let you know I saw your response to my soundoff for Paper Gods, which was humorous.
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 | manosg Hey Irving, what's up? I see you've rated David Gilmour's latest album. Do you plan reviewing it as well?
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 | SPRFanOf5H hey Irving, the new Blue album just came out. Been reading your soundoffs, good stuff. Love to hear your opinion on Colours :)
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 | Dancedrewdance I don't blame you for not knowing , before antagonist they just released singles speradically over the coarse of like 3 years and sleeping tiger was one of the singles.. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UFd1kkNUvDc
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| Dancedrewdance If you have any recs for Euro bands that are not well known I'd appreciate it greatly especially post hardcore bands
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| Dancedrewdance I've been following them since sleeping tiger was released so I think I found them in 2012? But regardless I'm very much into the Malaysian music scene!!
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| Dancedrewdance Awesome on you for adding in tres empre to the database antagonist rules eh!?
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 | Frippertronics I don't know, but considering you're the big U2 guy here, I'm surprised you never took a stab at the band's debut.
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| Frippertronics hey, is there any possibility of you reviewing U2's debut EP, "Three" sometime in the future?
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 | SgtPepper love your avatar. don't care what anyone says that movie is a classic (although I'm skeptical about the supposed sequel)
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 | scottpilgrim10 Yeah it's definitely good. I'm suprised it wasn't more popular on Sput considering how much the site loves her last album.
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| scottpilgrim10 Have you heard the new Jenny Hval and Susanna album Meshes of Voice?
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| klap lol my apologies
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| klap one of my top 5 favorite albums of all time....or DFA1979.....hey 201 is a big number too mr.
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| klap haha no reviewing something else before that one. although i thought about it
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 | Arcade gonna be reviewing the new U2 album?
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 | Onirium Yeah their lyrics have never really been inspired or interesting, but if it's all on the same level than "Simple As That", well yeah, they must be "beyond abysmal" indeed. Anyway, I'll still definitely give it a try when it comes out. Out of curiosity, what's your favorite Pineapple Thief album?
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 | Mad. Yeah The Pineapple Thief are one of my favourite bands haha. I'll review the album myself once I get my hands on it, will definitely have an opinion
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| Onirium Hey I saw your rating for Magnolia, any thoughts? The track they streamed was nothing really outstanding, and your rating kind of brought my hype down
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| Mad. s*** lol your rating's gone down dramatically. I get watcha mean, TPT have a tendency to write uninspired lyrics, though the ones on Little Man are amazing - it's about the singer's stillborn son
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| Mad. Thoughts on the new Pineapple Thief album?
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| Arcade i think you hit the nail on the head surmising the BM rev a rant. tbh i thought with the lack of staff/contrib. review i might as well deliver something and i haven't seen too many critics with a negative opinion of it. cheers tho for the feedback =)
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 | BlueW i have friends in the malaysian scene
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| BlueW I'm very active in SEA skramz stuff
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| klap "more dreary"??? lol
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 | Gnocchi You mean good summary or bad summary lol? How are you Irving?
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 | clercqie Any chance you are allowed / want to shed a light on the point system for the year-end rankings? My mathematics-loving self is intrigued. :]
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 | Gewe *shows all-access card* =I
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 | Electric City aw irv, it's been a year of moving on for me. you know you can find me on CMG, and I've put a couple pieces elsewhere
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| klap it's alright but i never got that much into it
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| klap HEY a lot of them were in top 50. and given the disparity in rankings this year i'd say 5 is pretty swell
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| klap haha aside from that. i think you are the staff member who has the most similar list to me tho, just in different places
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| klap don't change your list too much :0
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| Gewe Happy 3rd anniversary on Sputnik, Irving! Keep writing awesome :) xx
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 | Brostep Haha I know :P funny thing is Dev even seems to accept "brostep" as legitimate, probably because it was created by "tr00 electronic fans" ad not a mass-market industry (like EDM, drumstep, and moombahcore). The whole thing is just a little bit silly really. BTW, got tickets to the Washed Out show! Gonna be so awesome
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| Brostep also lol at your mentioning of the hated "brostep" :P
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| Brostep nah, just got the cd for $10. might see him in september though, the lp's reminding me how much i love chillwave.
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| Brostep thanks for the fantastic washed out review man, ended up picking it up at a local cd store and I love it so far.
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 | pribosse necro dogg http://necrodogg.bandcamp.com/album/spontaneous-combustion
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| pribosse lemme know what you think if you listen to it
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| pribosse http://necrodogg.bandcamp.com/album/spontaneous-combustion
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 | Crysis I'm still undecided on a rating but I thought it was good. Not their best but but probably somewhere in the 3.5 area. Check out Minas Morgul if you want to hear some more by the band.
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| Crysis Hahahaha yes and no. It is a s***ty rip because it was an early one but then again Summoning are a strange band in terms of production. The drums are programmed and the guitars always took a back seat to the keyboards, so some of that nastiness can be attributed to the quality of the rip but some of it is just how Summoning are. Have you heard anything else by them?
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 | CK I like that your avatar is a cat and your profile picture is a mouse
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| klap hey man. in the blog box it's the button that looks like a reel of film. about right in the middle and if you hover over it it says "Insert/edit embedded media." You'll click it and a box will show up and that's where you'll paste the youtube url and then insert
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| Sowing I'm still alive. Clinging to my sput-life and fending off emeritization like a champ. How are you?
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 | KjSwantko Sup, Irving? Out of sheer curiosity, how does the summary "not make sense?" Soilwork has been releasing nonsense albums for the last decade now and most people are aware of this, so to say "not only is there a faint pulse (i.e. they're not completely dead), but the proverbial heart is furiously pumping (i.e. they're alive
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 | humblerodent Hey Irving,Think you could take a look at my other reviews now? I'd still love your feedback
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 | Voivod Hey man, how are you doing? You might like this more than I do so here it is: http://thefreefallband.bandcamp.com/
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 | Great stuff! Keep it up! ;)
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 | Willie Did Air Review ever get featured?
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| klap lol i have had reviews mentioned on wikipedia but soundoffs are a new low for wiki editors
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| klap hahaha wait is one of my soundoffs really on wikipedia
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| klap lol what is that from??
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| Willie I've posted links to the two promos you wanted. They're on the second page of the promo area.
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 | Aids haha it didn't cross my mind, and honestly I tried not to spend toooooo much time coming up with a witty post, I hope you can understand why
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 | robin yeah ill listen give me a way to listen to it heart you
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| Sowing Yeah, I didn't like how I went from one of the most well liked users to one of the most hated staff with nothing changing besides my title. And yeah, we need to raise hell in the armistice thread!
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 | Tyrael Hey man I'm sorry for my comments on your review didn't mean to target you in any way :/
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| Electric City if theres one thing i learned on the staff of sputnik its to not show butthurt it only makes the idiots stronger
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| Sowing So Irving how does it feel to have people s*** on your writing if for no other reason because you are staff now? :) in other words, I read your DRGN KING thread.
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 | Nagrarok Dear Irving. Still around, still not as often as before. Happy New Year.
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 | DaveyBoy Haha. You notice the weirdest things.
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| robin i still haven't listened to love this giant :x
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| Gnocchi Dude I miss my Irving posts.
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 | NightmareCinema16 It was just as difficult for me as well. I had been innactive for a few months, so I had missed a lot of new LPs and EPs. I hadn't even heard any 2012 albums until late September, and it got very difficult because most of what I heard was average and not even up there. It will interesting to see what is number one, for sure.
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| NightmareCinema16 You recently said it was difficult making your list for the User's Best of 2012. True, right?
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| Sowing Hey bud! Things have been good and bad, but mostly really good. How about you?
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| Sowing Glad to hear things are going well! I found a girl too, we've been hanging out for five months now dating for two. Ive actually known her six years been chasing her at least half that time, so i'm finally happy in that regard...tell me about your girl!? Other than that i'm working all the time...i'm only a little excited with Taylor's new album it's not her usual stuff so i'm not sure how I feel yet...review should be coming soon.
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| Sowing Thanks for the kind words about the review. How have you been lately?
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 | Gyromania dude, your rating for fragments really threw me. wtf?
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 | ZackSh33 I feel like that's what I did, though...Oh well. I tried to inject a little flavor into it--I'm not sure why it came off as being that bad. If you look now the review that goes with the article is well written sure (I'd say about the same level as mine, to be honest), but I feel like the backlash against mine was harsher because I was one of the first.Again, thanks for the help. I'll be sure to keep in touch if I have any questions.
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| ZackSh33 It sucks though that a lot of people here just look at the review rating, or the band, and immeadiately neg. I feel like the writing itself was fairly cohesive, where as the main focus of the review itself may have not been quite up to par. I'll probably take a break from writing for a while to refocus my efforts so that next time I can come back and write a really good one. In terms of style, what works for you? I try to make my reviews really formal, otherwise I feel like they're contrived?
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| ZackSh33 Wow. I really appreciate all the work you put into giving me tips. This is a band that's been close to me for a while, so I kind of felt like I had to defend them in a way in order to justify my review. The little tidbits about the 21st Century Breakdown being in the 21st century was supposed to be a little humor, as well as most of the side comments about "Last of the American Girls." I guess they didn't come through that way. The review could def. use some tightening up looking back.
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| ZackSh33 Thanks for the comment. I felt like I needed to rush the review a bit because I knew a ton of people would be submitting. Hopefully, when I get more time, I'll be able to write a better one.Even though it was rushed, would you still say it was written well? It's hard to tell when there's so much hate on the band itself.
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| Aids a 1/5 for the first Mother Mother album? why? Polynesia and Dirty Town are two of their best songs.
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| clercqie Wow, they made you a Staff member??? Congratulations man, you definitely deserve it! Who else got promoted btw? I can't find it immediately.
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 | ZedO oh btw, Search still rocks hard, and Siti Nurhaliza; she broke my heart:[
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| ZedO No, I'm not from Malaysia, but Indonesia (we are neighbor in real life, lol). Yea I actually have tried searching on web about M'sia indie, there's no significant information. And also I get few Malaysian friend here who introduced me into Zee Avi and Pop Shuvit (that 2-3 years ago). I even watched Avi performed live in Jakarta back late 2011...
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| ZedO Hi there. You are Malaysian, right, Irving? I've known that fact when I was reading your Zee Avi's review. Well, I'm curious to know whether you have any recommendation on good Malaysian indie bands/stuffs, just recs me some. I'm actually quite familiar with M'sia metal, but indie, oh so poor. I know we've never talked before, so just take this as "salam perkenalan" from me. Btw, congrats on the promotion, I've read about dozen of your prose lately, and yes, you truly deserve it man :D
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 | Yuli :D nothing too special, man - just busy being more authoritative than usual. you know, the usual!
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| Yuli HEY, YA STAFFER! :]
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| Willie Cool. Glad to hear it. There should be two packages. Did they both make it?
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 | Metalstyles haha, I will do my best dear Irving, i will do my best.
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 | omnipanzer Gratz on your promo, it is well deserved sir.
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 | macadoolahicky Congrats on the promotion!! It sucks though, I don't know why but I always mix you and Xenophanes up, and you BOTH got promoted so now I'm still going to get you two mixed up!!! D:
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 | Jethro42 Cong/ats on the p/omotion, man. It's well dese/ved (some lette/s a/e missing, so//y)
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| robin a victory over my heart
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| Tyrael Hey man, I'm glad the mods listened when I told people that sputnik's nicest user Irving was also true staff material! Congrats man.
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| Metalstyles But, let's cut to the chase. I CAN take responsibility for the last.fm group and also be a leader type of guy, but if someone other really wants to be it, I'd say let 'em. I understand that other senior contributors like Balls, Rasp and Waior are either rather inactive or don't care enough, though, so yeah, if there is a need, I can take the responsibility on myself.
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| Metalstyles heya Irving, I'm doing pretty well tbh. It's summer, so I'm just trying to kick back and, well, chill. Been trying to make the time go by faster as I wait my lady's arrival from Hungary, where she has been over a month already and will still be for the next two weeks - I'm doing a horrible job getting my mind off her though haha. The hand is good for use already which is great. Been going to the gym a lot lately to restore some powa to it and to lose the weight I gained while I was injured.
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 | breakingthefragile You can count on it man. I'm always gonna be open to help and suggestions from others no matter what my rank is. :D I plan on contributing more than I ever have now that I officially have the name for it lol. Once again, thanks for everything.
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 | taylormemer Thank you dearly Irving. Your kind words inspire me, and also remind me to add some new additions to the Disney page.
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| Crysis that would rule hard m/m/m/m/
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| robin yes please. WELL DONE though seriously i love you
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| Sowing We all knew that you haven't been contributing as much, but we still wanted to bring you on board anyway. If anything, its a testament to your writing skills! Also, how pumped are you to have the classic trio of you me and xeno on staff? I foresee a lot of hand holding, and deviants wrath
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| Gyromania A testament to the excellence of your work, I say =] I myself have only put out about 5 reviews so far this year to be honest. I'm looking forward to working with you as well!
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| Gyromania =] Glad to be a part of the contrib club. And just as I join you, you get a promotion to staff. Why can't we ever be on the same platform?! lol all jokes aside, congrats dude - it's well earned.
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| Crysis Welcome to the fold man, good to see you on staff. Congratz!
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 | MO whoa staff?! congrats you cute penguin you, i've always enjoyed your writing man
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| Sowing Just like I told xeno, this was a hard secret for me to keep but congrats on making it to the top!
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| breakingthefragile Congrats on making staff man. Like I've said a million times, I think your a great writer, surprised you didn't make staff sooner, also, thanks for criticism and feedback you've given me on my reviews, it's helped me get to this point and I'm grateful for that. :)
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| robin yaaaaaaaaaay well done now WRITE MORE ABOUT ST VINCENT
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 | Deviant. NNNNAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASSSSSSSSSSSEEEEEEEEEEEVVVVVVVVVVEEEEEEENNNYYYYYYAAAAAAA (STAFF VERSION)
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 | Xenophanes Being promoted alongside you....AGAIN.....is like, the best possible thing ever. Sput Bros 4 Lyf
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 | iFghtffyrdmns cuz muzik is 4 squares. i work in a cubicle and try to run kids with mohawks over in my mercedes now, widdle irving
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| Willie That's it. I'm doing a ****in' track-by-track. We'll see who complains about not enough song samples now. ;)
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| Willie Oh yeah, and it's coming as two packages. The poster is in a tube and the record/CD are in another package. 10 to 14 days until it arrives.
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| Willie I sent it a few hours ago.
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| breakingthefragile I followed some of the advice you gave me for my latest review of the new Smashing Pumpkins album. Read it over if and when you have the time, I'd love to know what you think. :D
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| Willie I got your prize pack. Sending it tomorrow.
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| taylormemer Jamming The Great Gig in the Sky so hard right now. It's late, I'm dazed, over tired, in a trance and just getting smothered with its caramel goodness. **** I love this album and it's ****ing 40 years old and still jams better than everything else! Peace. I Just had to tell someone how I was feeling.
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| breakingthefragile Hey man, don't sweat it. As I said before, I don't take any offensive from the criticism I get. I'm always looking for suggestions on how to better my writing, and I'm happy to be getting it from professionals like yourself and Willie. I'm happy you guys are taking the time to analyse my review and give well thought out feedback. And thanks for the support comments as well, It feels good to hear people say I have potential, especially those that rank above me. :D
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 | greg84 Hail to pool parties and 6 figures salaries. Thanks a bunch mate.
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 | kingsoby1 no problem, just not good to have that be the first comment for staff reviews. that's also why we dont comment on our own reviews first as much since they're supposed to be "professional"
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| Xenophanes Sounds like a plan: ] I have gtalk as well. It's linked to my phone so it will look like I'm on 24/7, but I assure you I have a life outside of the internet haha
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| Aids Haha well at least they put up a fight against the number 1 seed, whereas we were embarrassed by the 8 seed (who, incidentally, have gone on to embarrass the entire western conference). Oh hockey. So are you ever coming back or are you settled into a career dealie in Malaysia? (ps what are those things like anyway?)
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| Yuli Thanks a ton for the kind words, friend. It's nice to find someone that really cares to help out. If I ever need help with any reviews, I'll be sure to let you know. And I'll definitely follow all your tips - already contributed a few news articles to the database! :]
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| Aids Wow that was out of nowhere. I am doing well man and honoured to be on your (hopefully short) list of people you sent that to haha. How are you these days? Do you miss Canada yet?
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| Xenophanes Ilu and miss you too Irving :[[[[[[[[[I miss those conversations :[[[[
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| Yuli Hey man, just wanted to say I've always enoyed your writing. I hope to see more of it as time passes, although I definitely understand that things keep us busy. I'm aspiring to eventually be a contributor if I can, and when I need help with my writing it always helps to read well-written reviews by people like yourself.
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| Metalstyles Haha, thank you for your enthusiastically positive comments, as always, dear Irving. The same applies to you (the being awesome part, and hopefully not the cast part lol) And fyi, it was a lot less painful than I imagined it'll be. I mean, I finished the game, despite it being painful...and we won haha ;). I actually thought I had only dislocated something. Only at the doctor's did I find out that I had torn ligaments.
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| Willie E-mail me your address exactly as it is supposed to look on the front of a package. WillieFisterbut at gmail dot com.
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| Willie I have no problem with sending it to you. Don't worry about it.
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| Sowing Hey buddy, email me your address to sowingsputnik@gmail.com so that we can send you the prize for the Keane contest. Yours might take longer though because trey will have to get it first then ship it (I read somewhere that he'd do that, but I'd better double check to be sure)
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| Tyrael Well no... I just assumed they had read it and thought it was s*** just like acad tbh... I asked Willie to comment on the quality of the review tho.
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| Tyrael Well I was trying to get my first feature with this review but that failed miserably :/
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| Tyrael Well color me surprised, thanks Irving. Acad had a lot of things to nitpick on though...
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| Tyrael Nah it's okay, the review sucks anyway
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| Tyrael could you offer some criticism please? http://www.sputnikmusic.com/review/49536/Marina-and-The-Diamonds-Electra-Heart/
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 | pizzamachine I'm graduating from college soon so I got lots of papers due and stuffzz, not fun. :[ I'll review after that though if yer worried. :P
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| Tyrael You should be staff ffs... And the comments weren't really humorous :/
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| Tyrael You should be staff ffs... And the comments weren't really humorous :/
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| Tyrael Yea but wow this really shocked me... But I guess that's cause I actually like the guy. I'm also guilty of chanbashing etc...
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| Tyrael Yea but the part where they were saying stuff about his 's*** taste' and how he's not fit to be staff and yada yada :/
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 | theacademy kill kill multiply till the skies run black and the river dry!!!!!!!!!
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| Tyrael What did you think of the sowing slandering on fb? Kinda harsh huh :/
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| Sowing Friggin' awesome man. I'm definitely going to look into the album. Nice review on the front page btw.
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| Tyrael What I said was: I've been busy studying and doing social activism with the youth division of the belgian socialist party (which I'm obviously a part of)... Other than that I've had a massive writer's block which started when I realised that nobody actually cares whether I write or not... So yea, how have you been?
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| Voivod haha like that '70s-'80s show "Dr. Who".
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| Willie It's made. It's just that the forums have been down since Monday. When I'm not on my phone, I'm going to post it. So, 3.5 for Atoma. Go to the review and let me know what you thought.
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| Tyrael So it seems that your shoutbox ate my full post...
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| Voivod I'm no Doctor yet haha, I have published one paper, i need at least one to be eligible for PhD examination. I'm sending a second paper for evaluation these days and I have another on the works :-)
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| Voivod I'm a chemical engineer and I'm doing a PhD in materials science.
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| iFghtffyrdmns creepy when he sings it. possibly creepier when you post it in my shoutbox
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| Sowing In time you'll learn, my dear Irving, it's us and them
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| Voivod Thanks for your post in the Municipal Waste thread. Usually I proofread a lot in order to eradicate run on complex sentences, but this time I was too tired to proofread. That's why I put the standard phrase about constructive criticism, as i also aim in getting proofed by site members.
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 | Activista anti-MTV I noticed that you don't have a lot of album ratings. People always like to hear a respected contributor's take on things... especially if they are on the fence. I want to encourage you to rate some more albums, and do your soundoff thing as well. Peace, Activista
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| Tyrael Oh my god you are alive! How have you been?
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| Sowing And I'm glad you liked the song, I knew you would ;)
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| Sowing To be honest 2012 has been pretty rough - not much has stuck out as an AOTY contender. It could be Farewell Repiblic's debut, Of Monsters and Men's debut, or Killing Joke's 15th album...all released this year. But I'm fairly certain that none of them will finish the year in my top 5 if things pick up.
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| Sowing So I don't normally seek people out to give recs, but this is one that I think you'll really like. It's like the folk version of Armistice: Of Monsters and Men. Review is on the front page, if you want a taste this is one of their better songs: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghb6eDopW8I
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| Nagrarok I have actually been writing recently: http://www.sputnikmusic.com/review/48684/Genesis-The-Lamb-Lies-Down-On-Broadway/
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| Sowing Well jobs are important, I know because I have one. I just don't have a life outside of work right now so that makes it easy. I hope to one day spend LESS time on here lol
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| Sowing DUUUUUUDDDEEEEEEE I LISTENED TO MISSION BELLS TODAY AND I THOUGHT BACK TO LAST YEAR AND MAN YOU NEVER STOP BY ANYMORE PLZ REVIEW LIKE 3 TIMES A WEEK SO WE CAN BE STAFF 2GETHER AND RULE SPUTNIK FOREVER KTHANKS BYE
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 | balcaen reviewing is too mainstream. DUH
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| Gyromania I posted a link to that Eisley interview in your review thread, just fyi.
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| balcaen nice! gave my first listen just now and i quite like it. hope you write a review so we an battle is out, heh.
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| balcaen how did you rate the good old war so early? pretty sure it only leaked yesterday...
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| Sowing It was about 1 year ago that you introduced me to Armistice (I reviewed it 2-26-11). Ah memories...
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| theacademy no problem man i hope you find (at least some of) it helpful. also always good to see eisley on the front page no matter what
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| theacademy do u have an email u use for sputnik or where i can send some notes (a screencap)
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| Willie People lie. They have to look cool and pretend they don't like mainstream music. I don't have to do that. I'll just ban those mother bitches ;)
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