i hate kenny anderson! i love LEVY
931545
i love the band LEVY, i hate kenny anderson. kenny anderson is a guy with no balls who thinks hes smart for spamming an honest bands page(s) with bull.  if he got off as lazy white trash arse, maybe he could make something (maybe not actually) of himself.

its a good thing they asked for a credit card to be able to post on here. im doing this to prove, that every bad review on here, is the same person, silly little man who says he hates coldplay, but then writes raving reviews about them on his "live journal"

and i thought live journals were for 13 year olds?

anyway, rotten love is a great record, a great song, and a great thing all around, keep up the good work guys.

and remember everyone, keep hating on andersonenvy, keep the hate alive, he deserves it
761171
I forced myself through the book and skipped pages worth of inner dialogue and angst from these two annoying characters. I was sick of his mealy, sniveling ways and plenty tired of her wishy washy manner. "I hate him/I love him/Oh touch me!/I can't trust him/I want him/He's no good!" wore me out. There were more awful things happening than even Sisyphus could have managed. Talk about your Cheltenham tragedy. Sheesh! I almost didn't care what happened to these two.
1835802
This show cracks me up.  Larry is such a pain in the butt.  I love this guy!
234341
The name of the band shoulda warned me, but it really didn't sink in until I started to listen and read the lyrics. I really don't understand why they have to use such foul language and subject matter. It completely takes away from the enjoyment of the music, which isn't bad. And Steve Perry's voice certainly isn't anything to write home about. In fact this album would have been perfect if it was an instrumental. And it is a shame, because the music is pretty good. The only thing that stopped me from giving it one star, was for the fact that Kenny G doesn't play on it. That alone bumps it up to 2 stars.
83604
ugh! I wish I didn't buy this. I loved seasons one through eleven, but season 12 onwards just goes downhill terribly. Ted Danson and his character ruin the whole show for me. Wish I could get my money back on this.
725975
Out of all the smooth jazz and acid jazz compilations I have bought this is quite definitely the worst. It's not so much that it's boring(Although it is boring!),because you run the risk of getting slightly boring tracks on such compilations but that's usually the result of an attempt to get a clean mellow sound. But these tracks are boring without the mellow vibes and worst of all their annoying. The only half decent track on this album is ruined by a guy who must have the most annoying voice in the world saying "Happy time, happy time.." Quite ironic really because this CD made me very unhappy. There are hundreds of better Jazz Fusion albums out there. Don't waste your money!
1936192
I'm not exaggerating. Auto-tune sucks the life out of hip-hop. If I was king for a day, we would destroy whatever device creates the auto-tune effect and we would shoot the producers who are using it. Auto-tune sucks! I cannot say that enough.

I've been a Twista fan since he released "<a data-hook="product-link-linked" class="a-link-normal" href="/Kamikaze/dp/B00031TXUO/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_txt?ie=UTF8">Kamikaze</a>" back in 2004. I would rather play "<a data-hook="product-link-linked" class="a-link-normal" href="/The-Day-After/dp/B000ASTEE0/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_txt?ie=UTF8">The Day After</a>" or even "<a data-hook="product-link-linked" class="a-link-normal" href="/Adrenaline-Rush-2007/dp/B000SAAPFC/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_txt?ie=UTF8">Adrenaline Rush 2007</a>" than this album - not because Twista sucks or is without talent, but because auto-tune is s---. I hate it, hate it, hate it.

The auto-tune effects RUIN every song. Hopefully, Twista will never, ever, under any circumstances, use said effect again.

Keep hip-hop PURE, not computerized!

If the Wu-Tang Clansmen start using this effect, I'm gonna kill myself...but not until I've taken the rest of the auto-tuners with me.

Peace.
512320
I am a dearly devoted fan of Kennys. His music is so genuine and It breaks my heart to see how anyone couldn't love this cd and all the others for that matter I own every cd from Kenny even In MY Wildest Dreams. HIS MUSIC  IS THE BEST
4396405
This book is as horrible as his ESPN writing..not surprising since most of it is from his site. The only people who would like Bill Simmon's writings are the fickle sports fans who don't know much about sports and get entertained by Saved by the Bell analogies.

Examples of his horrible NBA writing from the past:

Two years ago, he predicts the Celtics will finish 3rd in the East because they had a great offseason. Nothing wrong with making a wrong prediction, as we all are wrong from time to time. But what does he do when the Celtics start doing horribly? He says "all those moves were so obviously bad from the beginning". Hey Bill: if it was so "obvious" from the beginning, then why did you predict they were such great moves? Own up to your mistakes when you make them.

Other examples: predicting Yao would be horrible even before he had seen him play (what are you, Simmons, a psychic?). same with Darko, Isiah Thomas as a GM, etc.

Overall, if you're a Sox fan and want to read a Sox book then buy this. Otherwise if you want remotely intelligent sports writing, don't waste your money.
2320340
Let me preface this by saying I'm a fan. I have just about every CD he has made.
I even watch the George Lopez show on weeknights when I get a chance.
Having said that, I haven't liked his recent stuff at all.
It was funny for the first three or four CD's, but it gets old.
This CD was basically a 45 minute rant against Americans.
Maybe - MAYBE - threw in a few jokes somewhere along the way.
If there were any jokes I missed them because he was too busy ranting.
4819218
I was bitterly disappointed in this CD, and after playing it a few times it went permanently back into the cabinet. Bostridge is very mannered to his approach to Coward. When i was an undergraduate, I wrote my bachelors honors thesis on Coward, and consider myself fairly well-informed on the subject. I like several of his plays, his short fiction, and his (alas, not too-well-known) poetry. However, I can't abide his singing, I think he was an overrated and shockingly egotistical actor, but a glorious songwriter. Normally I despise crossover, but at 15 -41 years ago -- I bought "Joan Sutherland Sings Noel Coward" and after wearing out two lps found it in London on CD 10 years ago. It remains incredibly beautiful, witty, and filled with gorgeous Richard bonynge orchestrations. i would advise everyone who thinks they hate crossovers altogether to hunt this one down.
Does anyone want, free, Ms Renee Flemings crossover work? She should track them all down and burn them, as they are dreadful. The only other crossover opera singer i have enjoyed is the British soprano Sally Burgess, who is truly comfortable on the opera stage and crooning standards.
mitchell
2004305
I love this card so much and everyone hates it the second it comes into play amazing in a token deck.
2036317
First, the book is poorly edited.

Second, any self loathing jazz musician would NEVER compare himself to really great drummers.  He makes so many ridiculous statements and clearly has very little to say that's good about anyone.

And he is pretty anti semitic in a number of situations.

If he talked half as much about his music and why he thinks it is so great as he did how many times he shot up, it would be a much more valid 250 pages of complaining. Buddy rich did more on his one hand.  I love cream.  I love blind faith, but I can't like Ginger.

Even in his reunion concert with cream, he's yelling from the stage that people should buy t-shirts.  Really.  Classless, little talent and very insecure.
2678419
Hate this kind of music. I am only buying it because I drive bus for special needs kids and I let one of my higher functioning students listen to a play list on my shuffle of the icky music he likes. Thank goodness for headphones!
4935305
Another book on the shadow and the ego? But Levy's here to give us the Shamanic angle... Seeing Sting's quote on the cover pricked my interest, because I thought it might mean this stuff is finally going mainstream. I sort of half respect and half despise Sting's intellect, and as I found out Levy shares his similar view of the world - a partisan rosy picture where right wingers can be defeated, and all will be love and peace.

Someone already said about the paradox of using the intellect to change the spiritual nature of things for the better.  But even if you wanted to talk about the evil that exists why would you single out one president, Bush, and use him to say he represents the psychosis we're in? I see the only criticism of Obama he was capable of was saying that he appointed Bush staff members for his administration. This book came out in 2013.

We knew Obama was bad news and a mirror of Bush in 2008 and 2009. 'Intelligent' skeptics came round when he launched war on Libya, then war by proxy on Egypt, Syria, Yemen, Bahrain, Pakistan and the list goes on! But people like Levy and Sting - who speak about the problem of evil, are so blind they can't even see evil in the physical realm!

And after this, am I supposed to think that Levy is capable of having a solution to our projections? Someone who gets bogged down in petty partisan politics writing about spiritual wisdom? I don't see it - and this book is a rehash of Jung and other psychology. He's just dressed it up as cool and shaman-y.
1468428
I became a fan this year and have been watching the episodes as often as I can.  I became addicted...pleasantly so.  And then they brought Larry in...speaking of sucking the air from a room.  He was awful...so one dimensional...so boring in delivery of lines.  And they named him over Marg.  How rude.  But I became excited because he was leaving.  YEAH...but alas they brought in Ted.  The man has no depth of character...and his idiosyncrasies are like a tooth ache...UGH.  I will not be watching any more.  Watcher beware.
826726
I was given this recording when in a CD shop on campus in Iowa after delivering my bibulous nephew to his college frat house. I was looking for some tunes to play for the drive back to New York and was open to suggestions. The only person in the shop then was the fruity looking flunkie who kept playing weird jazz music while wearing one of those dippy looking beret caps that jazz people like. He suggested (more like insisted on) Keith Jarrett's live Koln Concert recording saying, in his best Iowan attempt at a French accent (he took himself way too seriously), that this CD was "transcendant, sublime, and sent shivers up and down his spine at it's greatness". More to stop his blubbering than anything else, I bought the thing (he gave me a "discount" on the price and I think was starting to hit on me then) along with several other randomly chosen CDs from the cheapie bin (reviews to follow). I skedaddled out of there before things got worse, jumped into the Kia with my bizarrely eclectic sonic boodle, and set the econo-box east for the heart of New York. Jarrett's CD got the first play. I quickly noticed that he likes to tickle the ivories after getting no useful information from the names of the four "tracks" on the CD. I have liked the piano quite a bit since I heard it played with bacchanalian abandon once in a pub called "Dirty Nellies". This, however, was not Dirty Nellies. This was Cologne, Germany amongst thousands of really uptight and serious jazz fans. The Dipper was getting fed up quick (at 72 mph) when something very odd happened on the CD. Keith, right in the middle of playing, started grunting and moaning! This flummoxed yours truly no end! Was he in pain? Were there unruly jazz fans mocking him or being visibly disrespectful? The noises continued seemingly randomly as he plinked away causing me to wonder even more why. Too much bratwurst before the concert? A too long ignored cavity? I thought of the naughty video the frat boys back in Iowa were watching when we arrived. Grunts, moaning. What was on Keith's mind??? I continued pondering for the next hour and didn't even notice when the CD was over.

My final thoughts? Very nice piano CD with unexplained primal noises emanating from the pianist. Not recommended during long road trips as I don't even recall being awake through half of Illinois.