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Name: Peter Varg
Member Since: Mar 22, 2004
Rank: 9967
Average Vote Received: Correct (3.69, 13 votes)
last 10 days: Correct (3.60, 10 votes)
Rated 1514 releases, average: 3.80
Location: Auckland, New Zealand
Profile:
discogs:
I spent a lot of time and energy here, but I'm disappointed about the way discogs is now run. I'm not saying I'm going to stop submitting, but really for me I'm over this site. It's just a bit crap now, really.
My collecting:
I am only seriously collecting Iron Maiden vinyl. Everything else I am just picking up the odd piece, only second-hand.
What my ratings mean, in the unlikely event you are interested:
5 - all killer, no filler
4 - pretty damn good, maybe a few naff tracks
3 - only one or a few good tracks, the rest...
2 - woeful
1 - painful
Piracy:
I support the piracy of copyrighted music. I don't believe music should be for profit. Rip and burn all you can. Props to the mp3 and cdr labels out there for making music free like it should be! You can find me on soulseek with the same user name.
Trivia:
Bands/artists/DJs I've seen live (or at least a rough and incomplete list of the ones that are in discogs):
1994: Boney M.
1998: Malevolence, Brutal Truth, Daemon, Beltane (3)
1999: Malevolence, Beltane (3), Impaled Nazarene, DJ Nightmare
2000: King Kapisi, Hakaider, Audioslut
2001: Salmonella Dub, D-Form, k5k, Daemon, School of Meat, Carnys, Megadeth
2002: Animal Intelligence, Hydraulik, Cobra Killer, Peaches, Shapeshifter (6), k5k, Hakaider, Audioslut, Disintering Diana
2003: Bloodbox, k5k, kid606, Anti-Kati, D-Form, Audioslut, Manuel Bundy, Stinky Jim, Jake Wherry + Ollie Teeba (as the Herbaliser DJs), Matt B., DeadMan, Graveyard Rumble, Mufflers, Fleabitten Tramps, the
2004: Jello Biafra
2005: Squee, Anti-Kati, Flick (5), Creassault, Audioslut, Dean Roberts, White Saucer, DEL
2006: Anti-Kati, Squee, Passenger of Shit, Bleeders, The, Avenged Sevenfold, Maladroit, Epsilon, Fandabi Dozy, DJ Miscarriage, Purple Duck, Keith Fullerton Whitman, Hrvatski
2007: Don McGlashan, Anti-Kati, DJ Olive, D-Form, Crude, Justice Yeldham, Runzelstirn & Gurgelstøck, Dave Phillips, Cure, The, Squee, Incredible Hexadecibels vs. Creassault
2008: Squee, Pig Nasty, D-Form, Skuldom, Immortal, New Telepathics, Incredible Hexadecibels vs. Creassault, k5k
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Reviews:
Various - Biophilia Allstars - 24-May-08 02:14 PM
I can understand why people want to listen to boring ambient music, I just don't understand why people want to press it on vinyl. When you see some of the names on this release, you'd expect more breakcore style music, but only the Low Entropy track is worth a listen. When I found out this is supposed to be played at 33rpm and not 45rpm, I almost cried. I'm so glad I listened to it in the shop instead of buying it.
Asian Dub Foundation - Keep Bangin' On The Walls - 29-Aug-06 04:55 AM
This DVD was pretty much the end of the road for me and ADF. I remain a fan of their earlier work, but this new material and new line-up just don't have the same vibe. Further, for their first live DVD, I would have thought they could have included more songs off all their albums, instead of mainly new material.
But the thing that really spelt the end for me, was that they're an band committed to political causes, particularly regarding Asian people, and yet one of the singers was wearing a Nike hat through the entire concert like he was completely oblivious to all the Asians working in Nike sweatshops... when I saw they couldn't even practice what they preach, that was it.
Metallica - $19.98 Home Vid Cliff 'Em All! - 27-Sep-05 09:54 PM
In my opinion this is the best thing that Metallica ever released. Most of the live footage is bootleg quality, taken by people in the crowd, which really makes you feel more like you are there than the standard live music video where the band has got about 20 cameras and you are subjected to endless angle changes, close-ups of the drummer etc.
This is Metallica in their prime. All the songs are killer material off their far superior first three albums. The tone of the video is suitably reverential to recently deceased bass player Cliff Burton, so that even the lengthy bass solos which I normally wouldn't have time for seem necessary and justified. Afterall, this video is a tribute to him.
The highlight for me however is "Whiplash" from 1983, where lead guitar is played by Dave Mustaine (before he was kicked out), and you are treated to maximum posing and hair-swishing. It's a classic!
Various - Speed Kills II - The Mayhem Continues... - 22-Sep-05 12:50 AM
When you listen to this, you can see why some of these bands made it and are still remembered today, and some are forgotten. The albums highlights are tracks A3 through A6, which when you drop the needle on the record take you on a ride from the dark primitive Bathory, through the soaring heights of Helloween's falsetto vocals, and then into a diabolical thrash-fest with classic tracks from Living Death and Sodom.
Rong Di - Compositions For The Pneumatic DJ - 18-May-05 03:07 AM
The opening track is a intriguing vocal collage, and then the first half of the album features tracks of deranged and intricate organ music running into each other, building to the second half of the album, where the glitched-up nasty beats kick in and things get really exciting. It's all wound up with the delicate love song "This One's For My Girl". A very classy solo release from MC Slypussy, showing there is more to him than the noise/breakcore he makes in his band Anti-Kati.
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