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Last Post 6/4/2004 9:34 AM by  John Doe
The new Ash and PJ Harvey albums
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John Doe
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6/4/2004 9:34 AM
    The new Ash album is cracking, full of great tunes. Roll on Oxygen. Not so mad about the new PJ Harvey album. Maybe a few more listens will do it. Anyone else buy these lately ?
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    6/4/2004 11:25 AM
    So John Doe, can we presume you'll be writing reviews of both albums and then we can publish the reiewss here on CLUAS? Go wan der will ye, and get the lead out. At least review one of the 2 albums. eoghan
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    6/4/2004 3:45 PM
    Well I've already told yiz that the Ash album is good. What more do you want ?
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    6/4/2004 4:02 PM
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    Well I've already told yiz that the Ash album is good. What more do you want ?
    One of those pretentious high-brow Guardian style reviews that compares Tim Wheeler to some 19th century poet or avant-garde artist and explores the deep rooted freudian signifigance of the lyrics.
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    6/4/2004 5:10 PM
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    Originally posted by John Doe
    Well I've already told yiz that the Ash album is good. What more do you want ?
    One of those pretentious high-brow Guardian style reviews that compares Tim Wheeler to some 19th century poet or avant-garde artist and explores the deep rooted freudian signifigance of the lyrics.
    Oh all right then, here ye go. "Tim Wheeler strides Irish rock like a Colossus. The evidence ? Meltdown. It almost seems churlish to describe it as merely "the new Ash album." That's like saying the Bible is just the latest bestseller featuring the late J.C. The melodies steal into your heart like a Northsider jemmying open a BMW, then tears off down the highway of rock leaving piss poor contenders like the Thrills ( was there ever a less aptly named band ? ) bewildered in their wake. The guitars mount a Blitzkrieg like assault on your ears with no quarter asked or given. Tim Wheeler and Charlotte Hatherley, like a modern day Adam and Eve, have tasted the forbidden fruit of rock's rich tapestry and I for one am happy to be cast into the flames of Damnation with them. Burn, baby, burn, indeed. Turbo charged riffs mingle with shimmering shards of sepulchral majesty to produce a veritable cathedral of sound blah blah f**king blah blah yada yada yada ( continue ad nauseum )."
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    6/4/2004 5:47 PM
    its so good it left me with the look of a trapped animal
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    6/5/2004 2:10 PM
    That was pure genius John Doe, You're really Jeremy Clarkson (that bloke off top gear) aren't you? Seriously though, write a review, it should be entertaining at the very least!
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    6/5/2004 4:46 PM
    I agree with Eoghan and Binokular. Write a proper review. That way you can become the Jeremy Clarkson of rock.
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    6/6/2004 5:44 PM
    The PJ Harvey album isn't released here until next week. But the song I heard off of it seemed to me to have a bit of a Josh Homme influence (Queens of the Stone Age). She participated on the last Desert Sessions.
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    6/15/2004 1:46 PM
    hey John Doe, case of deja vu here - did anyone read Phil Udell's article in HotPress on Ash? painful stuff i thought. i havent heard the latest album but do Ash seriously deserve all those column inches? i have my doubts.
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    6/15/2004 8:58 PM
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    hey John Doe, case of deja vu here - did anyone read Phil Udell's article in HotPress on Ash?
    Are you saying that John Doe is really....duh, duh, dah...Phil Udell ? Hmm, Ash. Dunno. Are they really hard drinkers like they claim ? How does Tim Wheeler feel, now that he is no longer the newest kid on the block ? Would YOU give Charlotte Hatherley a few of YOUR column inches ? So many questions, questions that John Doe...our embryonic Lester Bangs...still leaves unanswered ? Over to you John, are you really Phil Udell and does Charlotte Hatherley deserve your column inches ?
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    6/16/2004 10:28 AM
    Well who'd have thought my casual comments on Downpatrick's finest would have caused such a veritable storm of interest. I haven't bought a copy of Hot Press in ages so I can't comment on the Ash article. Life's too short to be spent wading through Niall Stoke's tedious rantings. I can categorically deny that I am, or ever have been, Phil Udell. I can, however, categorically confirm that I'd happily tune the lovely Charlotte's strings were the opportunity to present itself.
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    6/16/2004 11:37 AM
    ha! you refuse you deny that you may at some time in the future become Phil Udell - i think my point is made. seriously though... it just bugs me the way HP rants on sycophantically (is that a word?) about certain bands in case they actually manage to do something big so they can ride the coat-tails or whatever. maybe thats just business and i am being overly cynical but there you are...
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