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The latest to be ejected by Hollywood’s over-filled funk-pop blender, *Orson *hit the wall with a less-than-comfortable splat. Unsurprisingly, they leave a disgusting trail of musical filth behind them as Bright Idea makes its way down to the breakfast bar.
Crafted in the same vein as Maroon 5 and Rooster, there are no surprises thrown up by this band. Playing ten slight deviations of syrupy yet funky pop-rock songs for women to drag their unwitting boyfriends to a venue that is far too big, this band wears stupid hats as their gimmick. While Maroon 5 had some genuinely good songs and rough-round-the-edges badboy looks and Rooster had being British and unsurprisingly crap as their respective gimmicks, Orson simply wear hats.
Now, I’m not sure what your thoughts on this are, but I’m not sure that hats are going to be enough. I know that Orson take great pride in being slightly older than your average boyband but has it started to take so long to wash their faces that they have to reach all the way back over their greasy pates? Do they really need the silly hats that much? Probably.
The hats at least take some focus away from this mainly poor collection of songs that they want to call an album. Obviously there is the one stonking great pop song (‘No Tomorrow’) and then there are two more that aren’t that bad at all (‘Bright Idea’ _and _‘Happiness’), placed either side so that you’re left thinking that this album was well worth buying. Bollocks is it. Just get that single off iTunes like everyone else.
They say that you have your whole life to write your first album and six months to write your second. Well, *Orson *have got no excuses at all because they’re old and bald so must have had ages to write more than three good songs. Bright idea? Another half an album’s worth, please.
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it is awful!
i hate it
so much.
Best Band Ever
named Orson...
i hate them
so so so much
anyone remember
the new radicals? these remind me of them. crap one-(shit)hit-wonders.
don't worry they will disappear in the next 6 months. and this time next year people will be asking. anyone remember orson? whatever happened to them?
That guys hat
makes him look even more of a prick.
Slander!
The New Radicals were bloody great.
'While Maroon 5 had some
genuinely good songs...'
I can not trust this review.
is this sort of generalisation necessary for the review?
'' for women to drag their unwitting boyfriends to a venue that is far too big, this band wears stupid hats as their gimmick''
cos it just sounds like snobbery to me, frankly
oh, and the ageism too
''they’re old and bald so must have had ages to write more than three good songs''
you're right
as long as you take it out of context as successfully as you have.
and the generalisation is necessary because reviews demand accuracy.
so you think ageism and snobbery
have a place, given a suitable context?
Also, I love how you immediately shoot me down, rather than defend your criticism of the record and explain why you think that this music is for 'women to drag unwititng...'
and surely a record review is about the record? rather than the audience it is aimed at?
ok then
it's because i've been to gigs of all three bands i bracket in the category and made observations of the audience
there was one sentence written about the audience. that you think the entire review is about the audience indicates that you don't know what you're talking about.
and it's not ageism. not at all. i don't think it is unreasonable to assume that someone would be able to accomplish more with more time.
in this post i've not said anything that you couldn't have read by simply pressing 'home' on your keyboard and actually reading.
woah
I decided to pick up on the ageism/snobbery aspects of it, as, despite what you've said, I still think they are proiminent in the review. But NEVER have I suggested that i think this is all the review about! I think they're iumportant aspects of it, that's all!
also, I odnt understand your final sentence, about pressing home on my keyboard (not trying to be beliigerent, but i dont *actually* have a home button here)
now you don't even know what you're saying
"and surely a record review is about the record? rather than the audience it is aimed at?"
maybe you should just stop posting.
press page up
whatever you need to actually read the review
get it?
They played...
...a gig to save a footy club over here for free. And are all proper safe from what I've seen on Mecca of All Celeb Shows Soccer AM. So yeah, errr, fuck the music, 'low them.
Whatever..
..this other flaming guy is saying doesn't matter.
'i don't think it is unreasonable to assume that someone would be able to accomplish more with more time.' is absolute 24-carat bollocks :| Does this assume that whatever profession I am in now, I have been studying and preparing for my entire life?
You assume that if a 40 year old musician makes a record, he has spent, what, 20 years writing it? Is it not possible (and probably more logical) that he maybe, started a coupla months ago? A year? Like every other band who writes records? What a silly point of view.
maybe you should learn to take criticism
and stop being a wanker when people dont agree!
and asking to stop posting? WHAT is that about??
this is very odd
am i the only one who understood that raz was padding out the review with satirical swipes because it's shite and not really worht reviewing? (that's the context by the way, the humour bit...)
ps. i know those women, they think RHCP are better now they've forgotten what made Suck My Kiss great. It's not all women, it's a tiny minority but they exist, and it is amusing when they knock there fellas for six like that.
although maybe Raz actually thinks women are there to put fags out on and clean up his sick - seems unlikely.
pps. the old and bald bit, he was having fun with a cliche (note the "they say...") not implying that this is some deeper truth.
Increase the peace y'all - gotta give a sucker an even break...
you just kept typing stuff which made you look silly
it was a natural suggestion
you. breathing.
don't bother
not worth it
Well FINE.
Keep up your little tiff and don't respond to MY comments will you you bastards :(
I feel so unloved. Would Orson cheer me up? I'm going to turn that music up till my windows start to shatter, baby.
this just in:
i love raz.
don't do it Doive
you have so much left to live for (probably)
thats a good point
but Orson formed in 2000. six years is a long time to write twelve or so songs, whichever way you look at it..
But...
"Obviously there is the one stonking great pop song (‘No Tomorrow’)"
..No Tomorrow is just crap. Plain and simple, it is crap. As a pop song, or wahtever else you want to call it, it is crap.
Well duin/
I like the sexism of this review.
"Playing ten slight deviations of syrupy yet funky pop-rock songs for women to drag their unwitting boyfriends to a venue that is far too big"
Nice.
Fair...
...enough in this case then (even though there could have been a million failed EPs, style changes, rejections etc, I'm sure this album hasn't been six years in the making!).
But I still think that a musician's age has absolutely no correlation to how good the music should be, that's absurd.
the new radicals
are much better than orson
Its not sexist.
People are looking way too far into this review.
no it rly is
i hate women and gays
damn
i meant old people
but i hate gays too
yep
it's a pop song that desperately wants to be a rock song, but doesn't quite know how. Music for Mondeo drivers.
exactly
TooL have taken as long to write their latest, and im guessing they are the same age as Orson
jeeeeeeeez
fucking kids
"They say that you have your whole life to write your first album and six months to write your second."
please tell me you've heard that before? if the answer is yes, i don't know what else i need to explain to you.
Uh huh...
I do get the phrase. It's pretty self explainatory. All I'm saying is you can't use the age of a band as a point of criticism in a review.
Baby Bobby's First Record - 10/10, fuck me he wrote it in two weeks, after birth!
Paul McGrandad's Best Album Ever - 1/10...he had sixty years to write this, and it's only outstanding, not amazing! Pah!
is that why
you don't return my calls
As usual
Raz wins.
What a dire album
back in the day people used to flock out and buy pink floyd albums in their thousands. I WANT THOSE DAYS AGAIN!
Orson
The Feeling and Angels & Airwaves ALL out this week?
Thank fuck there's a World Cup on, then.
RAZ IS A SELF-CONFESSED MAROON 5 APOLOGIST!
oh my days.
wightylew hit it square on the head.
words i never thought i'd type but.. ;)
"Info: bunch of fags in hats"
i'd only just noticed this bit.
my, well aren't you the funny man raziq.
nail... head...
kerpow! they're a rubbish version of the new radicals. x
raz
has made it onto my heroes list.
Beea
Okay first of all you couldn't be more wrong . This is an amaizing album and the band obviously took a long time working on it . I don't think you idiots couls write a song that half as good as any on the album so back off. I bought the album and i think it was definitely. Also you are being completely ageist. The songs on the album are fun to dance to and easy to sing along which was probably the intention.
You suck.
w/e
You're blatantly saying that because you can't afford a mondeo.
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