Amazon.com's "review" of WFTSC

Not much of a review really, they spend more time spewing out the press' party line (talking about how relevant New Order suddenly seem to be) than about the new album, but here it is in any case:

The Killers. Interpol. Franz Ferdinand. Without New Order's influence they could have all ended up making albums of country & western ballads. Since the demise of Joy Division in 1980, the British synth-pop quartet has been diligently changing the course of popular music, lobbing unlikely but inventive hits like "Blue Monday" and "True Faith" into the charts. Twenty-five years on, New Order remains shockingly vital. Its eighth proper album overflows with shimmering melodies, anchored by Peter Hook's spine-tingling bass lines and Bernard Sumner's thin but emotive voice in thrilling new songs like "Krafty" and "Dracula's Castle."

I can't believe that someone actually got paid to write that.  Good or bad, I wish they'd left us with an opinion of some sort, instead of wondering if they even bothered to listen to the album.

So apparently this person has listened to Krafty and Dracula's Castle.

That's not a review. That's a fucking soundbite.

I think Phil wrote it.

Or Moby.

Or Gwen.

"Amazon are cash grabbing corporate whores Shocker!!!"

Did I miss the years when amazon was part of NME and gave 4 page honest reviews?

can you imagine?

Eminem: "90  mins of a semi-literate, mesogenistic, homophobic, white trash product of contstant parental boozing, making a noise that sounds like nothing more than a kid going "na na na na na"....this album would best be used to make your neighbour's cattle have miscarriages"

Britney Spears :" once again the muff-for-brains little whore,inflicts her talent-deficient mewings on a world already too full of pain and horror to make room for it. The title track "girls you should be me, boys you should eat me" typifies her wholesome message to youth, that women are retarded lifesupport systems for vaginas and that men can be bled dry by anyone with the gentials on the inside. The highlight of the album is the haunting accapella "Kill me, I have the saggy breasts of a 19 yrold", in which Britney proves that it would have been better for us all if she had stuck to singing into those pink microphones that momma used to get her to sing into for the old men so she could get  record deal. the US Dept of defense is looking into fitting a squadron of C130's with PA systems to play this loudly, to be used to herd terrorist suspects out of well hidden positions....tho the UN, greenpeace, and every right-minded human being on Earth believes this to be "cruel and unusul punishment".....even for cowardly mass murderers"

Never gonna happen.

hang on - what do they mean "its eighth album" is new order an entity in "its" own right now?

surely it should be "their eighth album"?

The phrase "Must try harder" comes to mind here.