So I was perusing through different stuff on Wikipedia.org, just reading band pages and stuff. I came across the page for My Dying Bride. Here's the bulk of what the page had to say, mainly concerning their "34.788% Complete" album...
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The highly experimental 34.788%...Complete was widely regarded as an extreme detour from the bands other works, and split fans down the middle. The vast majority of long-time fans that had listened to the band since Towards The Sinister have dismissed the album as not being made by the band at all, but by a group of impostors. Especially cited as a reason for this is the song 'Heroin Chic' - one fan has stated, to almost universal agreement, that the reason he so enjoyed the band was the lack of repetition in their material. For this reason, Heroin Chic, with its frequent repetitions of lyrics of the "nah nah nah yeah yeah yeah" variety, as fans like this describe it, has been written off as a spit in the face of fans. It is interesting to note that reactions to following albums are often sharply divided along the lines of reaction to 34.788%...Complete. Those accepting of it deride The Light at the End of the World as being a complacent exercise of treading water, while those who refuse to acknowledge 34.788%...Complete as canonical consider The Light at the End of the World to contain some of their best material since Turn Loose the Swans. My Dying Bride entered something of a hiatus after this, releasing two retrospective albums Meisterwerk 1 and Meisterwerk 2. These albums lay halfway between best of albums and rarity compilations and had no clear target audience. Completists of the band, while appreciating the early demos and rare tracks, bemoaned the many album tracks included, while those new to the band acquired a peculiar, career-spanning introduction which lacked coherence."
I realise that Wikipedia is comprised of info that many different people contribute to the site, but wow, what a completely biased and opinionated bunch of crap that is!! lol Certain factors, like "34.788..." being controversial and dividing amongst fans, I think can be stated as fact for the most part. But alot of the other comments are ridiculous, and very one sided. I like how whoever wrote it tries to put it across as the opinion of "the fans" or "many fans" of the band, but I think it's apparent that it's in fact the opinion of the author themself. I know quite a few people who think that album is good in it's own right, even if it was quite different from their other output. The "vast majority" is a bullshit thing to claim, as there's no way this author knows the true opinions of the "vast majority" of fans out there. Especially when, as we've seen and experienced many times, it seems that the most vocal people are usually the ones with the most bitching to do, LOL. And the comment about how people " have dismissed the album as not being made by the band at all, but by a group of impostors" has to be one of the dumbest and most laughable things I've heard lately
Wikipedia needs better quality control, I think!
Another example of lame biased "journalism" at it's finest
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The highly experimental 34.788%...Complete was widely regarded as an extreme detour from the bands other works, and split fans down the middle. The vast majority of long-time fans that had listened to the band since Towards The Sinister have dismissed the album as not being made by the band at all, but by a group of impostors. Especially cited as a reason for this is the song 'Heroin Chic' - one fan has stated, to almost universal agreement, that the reason he so enjoyed the band was the lack of repetition in their material. For this reason, Heroin Chic, with its frequent repetitions of lyrics of the "nah nah nah yeah yeah yeah" variety, as fans like this describe it, has been written off as a spit in the face of fans. It is interesting to note that reactions to following albums are often sharply divided along the lines of reaction to 34.788%...Complete. Those accepting of it deride The Light at the End of the World as being a complacent exercise of treading water, while those who refuse to acknowledge 34.788%...Complete as canonical consider The Light at the End of the World to contain some of their best material since Turn Loose the Swans. My Dying Bride entered something of a hiatus after this, releasing two retrospective albums Meisterwerk 1 and Meisterwerk 2. These albums lay halfway between best of albums and rarity compilations and had no clear target audience. Completists of the band, while appreciating the early demos and rare tracks, bemoaned the many album tracks included, while those new to the band acquired a peculiar, career-spanning introduction which lacked coherence."
I realise that Wikipedia is comprised of info that many different people contribute to the site, but wow, what a completely biased and opinionated bunch of crap that is!! lol Certain factors, like "34.788..." being controversial and dividing amongst fans, I think can be stated as fact for the most part. But alot of the other comments are ridiculous, and very one sided. I like how whoever wrote it tries to put it across as the opinion of "the fans" or "many fans" of the band, but I think it's apparent that it's in fact the opinion of the author themself. I know quite a few people who think that album is good in it's own right, even if it was quite different from their other output. The "vast majority" is a bullshit thing to claim, as there's no way this author knows the true opinions of the "vast majority" of fans out there. Especially when, as we've seen and experienced many times, it seems that the most vocal people are usually the ones with the most bitching to do, LOL. And the comment about how people " have dismissed the album as not being made by the band at all, but by a group of impostors" has to be one of the dumbest and most laughable things I've heard lately
Wikipedia needs better quality control, I think!Another example of lame biased "journalism" at it's finest
