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Topic: Entertainment Weekly review Return to archive
September 5th, 2005 08:23 PM
Mel Belli


Music Review

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A Bigger Bang
The Rolling Stones

Reviewed by David Browne
GRANDPAPA WAS A ROLLING STONE On Bang, Mick and Co. finally act their age — and it's a wise move

Hysterical reports to the contrary, the most notable thing on A Bigger Bang isn't the Bush-bashing ''Sweet Neo Con,'' an intentionally crude grinder with lyrics a little too 2003 to have much bite. The real news flash is that the Stones have finally accepted that they truly are grown men. For once, they don't seem concerned with competing with pop stars a third their age; instead of playing it slick, they've made their dirtiest, most homemade-sounding album since Some Girls. And the strongest tracks are the slowest and most adult: the spooked-out ''Laugh, I Nearly Died,'' Keith's honky-tonk-noir ''This Place Is Empty,'' the arch country tune ''Biggest Mistake.'' On ''Back of My Hand,'' they sound like the tattered bluesmen they've long threatened to become. But like every one of their albums since 1981's Tattoo You, Bang also bogs down in autopilot rockers (''Rough Justice'' sounds like a sped-up ''Mixed Emotions''), soggy ballads, and the latest dispatches from Mick's aging-jetsetter life. The bang is hardly bigger, but for once the Stones seem to realize it doesn't have to be. Grade: B-

(Posted:09/02/05)

September 5th, 2005 09:58 PM
glencar I'm so glad I gave up my subscription to that rag.
September 5th, 2005 10:14 PM
Trey Krimsin Folks, this is the same magazine that claimed The X-Files was a better Sci-Fi show than The Twilight Zone. They lost any and all credibility they had with that statement.
September 5th, 2005 11:48 PM
Zack If Entertainment Weekly says it, it must be true.
September 6th, 2005 02:45 AM
Child of the Moon EW is one magazine that I never trusted for almost any kind of information, music, film, or otherwise.
September 6th, 2005 11:48 AM
gimmekeef I'll bet that within 2 pages of the review you can see a pic of Paris Hilton....Entertainment????....sure!
September 6th, 2005 11:52 AM
voodoopug
quote:
gimmekeef wrote:
I'll bet that within 2 pages of the review you can see a pic of Paris Hilton....Entertainment????....sure!



That's HOt
September 6th, 2005 11:56 AM
glencar They still can't get over Bush's win in 2000. I hate politics with my entertainment news!
September 6th, 2005 12:40 PM
jb
quote:
glencar wrote:
They still can't get over Bush's win in 2000. I hate politics with my entertainment news!


Blue, howe can one ever get over a stolen presidency...we all know Gore won. Same thing this time, the polls in Ohio were rigged....everyone knows that as well....This was all planned during Clinton's presidency by evil people...........
September 6th, 2005 01:26 PM
glencar LOL Messhuganah!
September 6th, 2005 03:37 PM
monkey_man
quote:
jb wrote:

Blue, howe can one ever get over a stolen presidency...we all know Gore won. Same thing this time, the polls in Ohio were rigged....everyone knows that as well....



Did you know....
1. 80% of all votes in America are counted by only two companies: Diebold and ES&S.
http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/042804Landes/042804landes.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diebold

2. There is no federal agency with regulatory authority or oversight of the U.S. voting machine industry.
http://www.commondreams.org/views02/0916-04.htm
http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/042804Landes/042804landes.html

3. The vice-president of Diebold and the president of ES&S are brothers.
http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/private_company.html
http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/042804Landes/042804landes.html

4. The chairman and CEO of Diebold is a major Bush campaign organizer and donor who wrote in 2003 that he was "committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year."
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/07/28/sunday/main632436.shtml
http://www.wishtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=1647886

5. Republican Senator Chuck Hagel used to be chairman of ES&S. He became Senator based on votes counted by ES&S machines.
http://www.motherjones.com/commentary/columns/2004/03/03_200.html
http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/031004Fitrakis/031004fitrakis.html

6. Republican Senator Chuck Hagel, long-connected with the Bush family, was recently caught lying about his ownership of ES&S by the Senate Ethics Committee.
http://www.blackboxvoting.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=26
http://www.hillnews.com/news/012903/hagel.aspx
http://www.onlisareinsradar.com/archives/000896.php

7. Senator Chuck Hagel was on a short list of George W. Bush's vice-presidential candidates.
http://www.businessweek.com/2000/00_28/b3689130.htm
http://theindependent.com/stories/052700/new_hagel27.html

8. ES&S is the largest voting machine manufacturer in the U.S. and counts almost 60% of all U.S. votes.
http://www.essvote.com/HTML/about/about.html
http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/042804Landes/042804landes.html

9. Diebold's new touch screen voting machines have no paper trail of any votes. In other words, there is no way to verify that the data coming out of the machine is the same as what was legitimately put in by voters.
http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0225-05.htm
http://www.itworld.com/Tech/2987/041020evotestates/pfindex.html

10. Diebold also makes ATMs, checkout scanners, and ticket machines, all of which log each transaction and can generate a paper trail.
http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0225-05.htm
http://www.diebold.com/solutions/default.htm

11. Diebold is based in Ohio.
http://www.diebold.com/aboutus/ataglance/default.htm

12. Diebold employed 5 convicted felons as consultants and developers to help write the central compiler computer code that counted 50% of the votes in 30 states.
http://www.wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,61640,00.html
http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2004/10/301469.shtml

13. Jeff Dean was Senior Vice-President of Global Election Systems when it was bought by Diebold. Even though he had been convicted of 23 counts of felony theft in the first degree, Jeff Dean was retained as a consultant by Diebold and was largely responsible for programming the optical scanning software now used in most of the United States.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0312/S00191.htm
http://www.chuckherrin.com/HackthevoteFAQ.htm#how
http://www.blackboxvoting.org/bbv_chapter-8.pdf

14. Diebold consultant Jeff Dean was convicted of planting back doors in his software and using a "high degree of sophistication" to evade detection over a period of 2 years.
http://www.chuckherrin.com/HackthevoteFAQ.htm#how
http://www.blackboxvoting.org/bbv_chapter-8.pdf

15. None of the international election observers were allowed in the polls in Ohio.
http://www.globalexchange.org/update/press/2638.html
http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2004/10/26/loc_elexoh.html

16. California banned the use of Diebold machines because the security was so bad. Despite Diebold's claims that the audit logs could not be hacked, a chimpanzee was able to do it! (See the movie here: http://blackboxvoting.org/baxter/baxterVPR.mov.)
http://wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,63298,00.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4874190

17. 30% of all U.S. votes are carried out on unverifiable touch screen voting machines with no paper trail.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/07/28/sunday/main632436.shtml

18. All -- not some -- but all the voting machine errors detected and reported in Florida went in favor of Bush or Republican candidates.
http://www.wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,65757,00.html
http://www.yuricareport.com/ElectionAftermath04/ThreeResearchStudiesBushIsOut.htm
http://www.rise4news.net/extravotes.html
http://www.ilcaonline.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=950
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0411/S00227.htm

19. The governor of the state of Florida, Jeb Bush, is the President's brother.
http://www.tallahassee.com/mld/tallahassee/news/local/7628725.htm
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10544-2004Oct29.html

20. Serious voting anomalies in Florida -- again always favoring Bush -- have been mathematically demonstrated and experts are recommending further investigation.
http://www.yuricareport.com/ElectionAftermath04/ThreeResearchStudiesBushIsOut.htm
http://www.computerworld.com/governmenttopics/government/policy/story/0,10801,97614,00.html
http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/tens_of_thousands.html
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/1106-30.htm
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2004/110904.html
http://uscountvotes.org/

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