It's official: allmusic is for dumbasses.* You can either believe this quote unquote authority who gives Bevis Through the Looking Glass a dismal 2 out of 5, or you can go listen to "The Shrine" (track four) for yourself:
i come home from a hard days work at the death machine i light the incense and kneel down on the floor lipstick, coat hollow torn up postcards i know you won't be there
What does it all mean...isn't this guy at all curious? Eighteen minutes of amazingly eerie noodlings, a reading of the KJV Genesis 1 in the middle, and a really weird whisper at the end about a shrine. Did the guy even listen to the record?
* The tipoff for me was their total misassessment of the Blonde Redhead catalog. "La Mia Mita Violenta" is one of their best, but amg rates it the worst, in addition to towing the party line of oh early BR is just Sonic Youth derivative stuff, which I've never understood & I believe keeps people away from albums 1 and 2--both great albums. Maybe I'm missing something but I think it's theoretically impossible to be similar to Sonic Youth (perhaps thus vague amg language like BR "takes their cues from" etc. whatever that means).
Posted by Alan at October 27, 2005 06:26 AM