Everything that is bad about modern rock, is what
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“Have patience for an extended analogy here. While really want to love this Podcast, I find myself constantly frustrated by the tone.
To better explain myself, I'd like to draw a comparison between Drabblecast and nearly all contemporary american rock music.
I'm not the first to say that at a certain point cleverness, and irony took over American music. It's understandable because, hoping to deflate criticism, an artist can always claim that he or she was never serious to begin with.
Although I am a huge champion of humor in fiction, I find that something needs to be on the line, some idea or feeling. The stories most often chosen for Drabblecast lack the courage to put anything on the line, and like the host, always go for tongue-in-cheek humor that while cute at first, gets really lame, really quickly. Underneath Kurt Vonnegut's humor was an exasperated humanism. Underneath the Drabblecast stories, are more jokes, more pop-culture references, more smarmy deliveries and an overriding dedication to being 'clever.'
To continue the analogy, not only is the rock music that we love daring and committed, but it has the guts to be raw and not overproduced. Once again, here Drabblecast also shows its gutless attitude. Never letting the stories stand on their own, each story is given too long an intro and outro, and is backed up by so many unnecessary sound effects that you have to wonder just what the producer is so scared of.
If he is so afraid of the listener being bored, then what faith does he have in storytelling?
I wouldnt take the time to write this if I didn't really want to like the show and want it to shows some balls.
Instead, it just comes across as the literary equivalent to Weezer.”Read full review »
HeyPScott via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
05/25/10
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“The Drabblecast was amazing the first few times I listened, and the quality is getting better and better. Norm attracts really good writers, and the narrations and production values are always above par. The intros, outros and Drabble News stories Norm creates often threaten to eclipse the main...”Read full review »
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“An amazing short-fiction podcast, Norm's music, sound-effects and voice-overs will leave you gasping for me. This is what I call new media!”Read full review »
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Great Britain ·
05/27/10
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