Comments on: I Can Probably Tell You What the May 2008 Issue of Maxim Will Be Like, Too

By: markm

markm — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 01:00:01 +0000

And they didn’t need to wait for the vote counts to know that Dewey won the election…

By: Maxim + Educated Guess = Oxymoron?

Maxim + Educated Guess = Oxymoron? — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 00:33:25 +0000

[...] Wow, it’s a good thing I only scan Maxim for the boobies and not for the fabricated music reviews. [...]

By: XI

XI — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 18:06:54 +0000

While I disagree with their methods, I can’t argue with their analysis. One needn’t be Nostradamus to predict that the album would be boring and derivative. That pretty much describes the first seven albums. I don’t have to be present at MacWorld to know that Steve Jobs’ keynote speech was smug and arrogant.

Hey Lemon-lime, she can of cola, I’m sure I, I hang around, look around.

By: Leon Wolfeson

Leon Wolfeson — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 22:10:27 +0000

I’ve seen computer game reviews go up before review copies were sent out as well. Reviewing presses releases *rolls his eyes*

By: Howlin' Hobbit

Howlin' Hobbit — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 19:52:28 +0000

Balloon Maker — interesting that you mention Vampire Weekend. I’d never heard of them until a few minutes ago.

Due to how I read my blog list, I came here from The Assimilated Negro. He has a two-part interview with the guy who does Stuff White People Like. When asked what was the whitest band, Vampire Weekend was one of two mentioned.

By: Tainted Bill

Tainted Bill — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 17:30:16 +0000

I guess that explain’s Pete Hammond’s movie reviews.

By: Russ 2000

Russ 2000 — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 16:59:18 +0000

Props to Maxim on this. Probably the most soulless band ever. The Obama of rock and roll.

By: pris

pris — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 03:38:18 +0000

Maxim- are all of ya reading Maxim for the CD reviews?

By: RWF

RWF — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 03:06:38 +0000

“Now that they’re legitimately grizzled, they sound pretty much like they always have: boozy, competent, and in slavish debt to the Stones, the Allmans, and the Faces.”

And the problem with this is what exactly???

I hate this band growth concept. I like them the way they are and if this album is as good as the first album then I’m buying.

By: Greg N.

Greg N. — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 02:47:30 +0000

However, it’s overwhelmingly likely that the reviewer got it right. I like TBC as much as the next guy, but … who are we kidding?

By: chsw

chsw — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 02:12:47 +0000

Does the music reviewer also write for the NY Times?

By: Balloon Maker

Balloon Maker — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 23:23:46 +0000

Mr Balko, have you heard and do you dig Vampire Weekend?

Also, wonderful job you’re doing with Ryan Frederick. I started reading you regularly because of your coverage of Cory Maye. Same shit different day, as they say.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 22:58:58 +0000

In college a friend and I reviewed the then-new Steven Segal movie for the alternative newspaper before we had seen it. It was the one where he was the EPA agent in Appalachia. We discussed how much country music and ass-kicking there was in the movie before admitting that we hadn’t actually gone to see it yet. After the article was published we went to see the movie and wrote a follow-up piece for the next issue discussing exactly how accurate we were. We were almost dead-on. There was a lot of country music and ass-kicking.

By: fishbane

fishbane — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 22:48:35 +0000

You win headline of the day. That’s funny.