★★★★★
Gen X Comedy Hour X 2 ("Strength--Pt. 2," "Airplanes")
- www.robertchristgau.com
2009-07-17
★★★★★
People never believe this, but writing album reviews can actually be painful. Yes, painful, I say! Take this here Henry Rollins double- disc offering of spoken word. I thought, "Hell, yes, I want to review it! Henry's the man! Have you seen his tattooz? He must be cool! I heard he used to be in some band called Black Fag or something..." But seriously, folks, I know Henry, and I know Henry's spoken word, and this ain't Henry...
- pitchfork.com
2009-06-08
★★★★★
(yeah, so it's not music...calm down)
This 2-CD set is Rollins newest offering in his series of spoken
word performances. Although it is somewhat similar to his past
recordings, it goes in quite a different than his other work. The main
reason behind this is that on Everything, Rollins is reading
a chapter from his book Eye Scream. In his past recordings,
most of the work has been captured in a sort of improv style, giving
it more life...
- www.almostcool.org
2009-06-05
★★★★★
Henry Rollins is such a baffling figure that the things he does to make you like him never really make him attractive enough to overcome his vein-popping intensity about just about everything. To the casual observer, he may just seem like a 'roid-raging jerk whose primary sources of entertainment all involve humiliating or beating other people. But one of the first things that gives him away as something altogether more complex is his sense of humor...
- www.popmatters.com
2009-03-22
★★★★★
Henry Rollins is such a baffling figure that the things he does to make you like him never really make him attractive enough to overcome his vein-popping intensity about just about everything. To the casual observer, he may just seem like a 'roid-raging jerk whose primary sources of entertainment all involve humiliating or beating other people. But one of the first things that gives him away as something altogether more complex is his sense of humor...
- www.popmatters.com
2009-03-21
★★★★★
TODAY, CIVILISATION IS CRUMBLING around us. Humanity is decaying, brought almost to its knees by indulgence, sloth, stupidity, ugliness, smallness and weak-thinking. They are dragging the spirit of the |bermensch into the dirt. So what can a poor boy do, except to sing for a rock'n'roll band? Or better still, rant about all of the above in public.
Smashing bloke, though, our Henry...
- nme.com
2008-10-22
★★★★★
Powering thru two discs' worth of songs from both lineups of the Rollins Band, The Only Way to Know for Sure is a tight, focused live record that easily overshadows not only Rollins Band's early live output, but also the last two studio records. The live version of songs from Get Some Go Again and Nice are more powerful and meaty than their somewhat clean studio versions, and the new Rollins Band puts a little more muscle into some old material like "Low So" and "Disconnect...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-28
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