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[[caption-width-right:350:Mark and the late, great Henry the Dog]]

Mark Prindle is a music {{review}}er from New York, focusing on all types of rock music. Being active since 1996, [[http://www.markprindle.com/ his homepage]], is one of the oldest and most influential record reviewing sites on the web, having inspired many others to write about music, such as Website/GeorgeStarostin.

Unlike most rock journalists, he doesn't limit himself to talk solely about the album in question - Prindle adds curious anecdotes, random jokes, and lots of profanity (this is mostly done for the sake of humour). It should also be noted that he's not afraid of saying what he thinks about any artists, which often results in negative reviews given to universally praised musicians (like Music/TheVelvetUnderground and Music/MilesDavis, for example).

His favourite artists include Music/TheRamones, the Cows, Music/{{The Fall|Band}}, Music/PinkFloyd, Music/ThePixies, Music/{{ACDC}}, and many others.

On December 27, 2011 he announced that he has retired from reviewing, as he feels that he has completely moved on with his life. Godspeed you, Mr. Prindle.

[[folder:Albums recommended by Mr. Prindle (i.e. awarded 10/10)]]
* Music/{{ACDC}} - ''Music/BackInBlack''
* The Accused - ''The Return of Martha Splatterhead''
* Music/{{Adolescents}} - ''Adolescents''
* Music/{{Aerosmith}} - ''Toys in the Attic''
* Agnostic Front - ''Victim in Pain''
* Air Miami - ''Me. Me. Me.''
* Alberto y Lost Trio Paranoias - ''Italians from Outer Space''
* Alice Donut - ''Mule''
* Music/GGAllin and Bulge - ''Freaks, Faggots, Drunks & Junkies''
* Angry Samoans - ''Back from Samoa''
* Arab on Radar - ''Soak the Saddle'' (EP)
* Music/TheB52s - ''The B-52's''
* Music/BadBrains - ''Rock for Light''
* Music/BadCompany - ''Bad Company''
* Music/BadReligion - ''Against the Grain''
* Music/TheBeachBoys - ''Music/PetSounds''
* Music/BeastieBoys - ''Music/PaulsBoutique''
* Music/TheBeatles - ''Music/TheWhiteAlbum''
* Music/JelloBiafra - ''Become the Media''
* Big Black - ''The Hammer Party CD''
* Music/BigStar - ''Radio City''
* ''Birdland with Lester Bangs''
* Music/TheBirthdayParty - ''Junkyard''
* Music/BlackFlag - ''Damaged''
* Music/BlackSabbath - ''Vol. 4''
* Bloodrock - ''Live''
* Breeders - ''Pod''
* Buckner & Garcia - ''Pac-Man Fever'' (LP version)
* Music/ButtholeSurfers - ''Locust Abortion Technician''
* Music/{{Buzzcocks}} - ''Singles Going Steady''
* Music/TheByrds - ''Turn! Turn! Turn!''
* Canned Hamm - ''Sincerely Christmas''
* Music/CaptainBeefheart - ''Music/TroutMaskReplica''
* Caroliner - ''Rise of the Common Woodpile''
* Music/TheCars - ''The Cars''
* Music/NickCave and the Bad Seeds - ''Music/LetLoveIn''
* Chrome - ''Blood on the Moon''
* Circle Jerks - ''Group Sex''
* Music/TheClash - ''Music/LondonCalling''
* Creator/AndrewDiceClay - ''The Day the Laughter Died''
* Coalesce - ''Ox''
* Music/AliceCooper - ''Music/LoveItToDeath''
* Corrosion of Conformity - ''Eye for an Eye''
* The Cows - ''Cunning Stunts''
* Crass - ''Best Before 1984''
* Music/CreedenceClearwaterRevival - ''Willy and the Poor Boys''
* Creator/DavidCross - ''It's Not Funny''
* Crucifucks - ''Our Will Be Done''
* Music/{{The Cure|Band}} - ''Pornography''
* Music/{{The Damned|Band}} - ''Machine Gun Etiquette''
* Music/{{Danzig}} - ''Danzig''
* Dayglo Abortions - ''Feed Us a Fetus''
* Music/DeadKennedys - ''Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables''
* Music/TheDeadMilkmen - ''Beelzebubba''
* The Descendents - ''Two Things at Once''
* Music/{{Devo}} - ''Music/QAreWeNotMenAWeAreDevo''
* Didjits - ''Que Sirhan Sirhan''
* Music/TheDillingerEscapePlan - ''Calculating Infinity''
* Music/DinosaurJr - ''Bug''
* D.R.I. - ''Dirty Rotten LP/Violent Pacification''
* Music/TheDoors - ''Music/StrangeDays''
* Drunken Boat - ''See Ruby Falls''
* Dwarves - ''Blood, Guts & Pussy''
* Music/BobDylan - ''Music/BloodOnTheTracks''
* Electric Six - ''Señor Smoke''
* Embrace - ''Embrace''
* Music/EmersonLakeAndPalmer - ''Beyond the Beginning'' (video)
* Music/BrianEno - ''Taking Tiger Mountain (by Strategy)''
* The Exploited - ''Death Before Dishonour''
* Music/FaithNoMore - ''The Real Thing''
* Music/{{The Fall|Band}} - ''The Peel Sessions''
* Fear - ''The Record''
* Fearless Iranians from Hell - ''Holy War''
* Music/WildManFischer - ''Derailroaded: Inside the Mind of Larry "Wild Man" Fischer'' (video)
* Music/FlamingLips - ''Zaireeka''
* Flipper - ''Album - Generic Flipper''
* Klaus Flouride - ''Because I Say So''
* Foetus - ''Hide''
* The Frogs - ''My Daughter the Broad''
* Music/{{Fugazi}} - ''Repeater''
* GBH - ''City Baby Attacked by Rats''
* The Germs - ''(MIA) The Complete Anthology''
* God Bullies - ''War on Everybody''
* The Golding Institute - ''Final Relaxation''
* Gravediggaz - ''6 Feet Deep''
* Grenadine - ''Goya''
* The Guess Who - ''Share the Land''
* Guided by Voices - ''Static Airplane Jive'' (7-inch)
* Creator/NeilHamburger - ''Hot February Night''
* Happy Flowers - ''I Crush Bozo''
* Music/PJHarvey - ''White Chalk''
* Music/{{Helmet}} - ''Strap It On''
* [[Music/JimiHendrix The Jimi Hendrix Experience]] - ''Music/AreYouExperienced''
* The Heroine Sheiks - ''Out of Aferica''
* Music/HuskerDu - ''Zen Arcade''
* The Jesus Lizard - ''Goat''
* JP Incorporated - ''An Album of Distinction''
* Music/JudasPriest - ''Unleashed in the East''
* Killdozer - ''Twelve Point Buck''
* Music/KillingJoke - ''The Peel Sessions 1979-1981''
* Music/KingCrimson - ''Red''
* King Missile - ''They''
* Music/TheKinks - ''The Kink Kronikles''
* Music/{{KISS}} - ''Double Platinum''
* UsefulNotes/EvelKnievel - ''Evel Speaks to the Kids''
* Music/LedZeppelin - ''Music/LedZeppelinIV''
* The Left Banke - ''Walk Away Renee/Pretty Ballerina''
* Lightning Bolt - ''Hypermagic Mountain''
* Loop - ''Fade Out''
* The Low-Maintenance Perennials - ''Chicago XX: Chicago's Greatest Hits''
* Music/{{Madonna}} - ''The Immaculate Collection''
* Music/{{MC5}} - ''Back in the USA''
* MDC - ''Millions of Dead Cops''
* Meat Beat Manifesto - ''Satyricon''
* Meatmen - ''Stud Powercock: The Touch And Go Years 1981-1984''
* Music/MeatPuppets - ''Meat Puppets II''
* Music/{{Megadeth}} - ''Rust in Peace''
* John Mellencamp - ''Scarecrow''
* Music/{{Melvins}} - ''Gluey Porch Treatments''
* Music/{{Metallica}} - ''Music/RideTheLightning''
* Music/{{Ministry}} - ''The Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Taste''
* Music/MinorThreat - ''Complete Discography''
* Minus the Bear - ''Menos el Oso''
* Music/{{Minutemen}} - ''Double Nickels on the Dime''
* Music/TheMisfits - ''Earth A.D./Wolf's Blood''
* M.O.D. - ''U.S.A. for M.O.D.''
* Music/TheMonkees - ''20 Smash Hits''
* Music/TheMoodyBlues - ''To Our Children's Children's Children''
* Music/{{Motorhead}} - ''Stone Deaf Forever''
* Music/MrBungle - ''Disco Volante''
* Music/{{Mudhoney}} - ''March to Fuzz''
* Music/MyBloodyValentine - ''Isn't Anything''
* Music/NapalmDeath - ''Death by Manipulation''
* Negativland - ''Helter Stupid''
* New Bomb Turks - ''Destroy-Oh-Boy!!''
* Music/NewYorkDolls - ''New York Dolls''
* Music/{{Nirvana}} - ''Music/{{Bleach|Album}}''
* Nomeansno - ''Small Parts Isolated and Destroyed''
* The Nova Local - ''If You Only Had the Time'' (7-inch)
* Mike [=DeFabio=] and the Other Leading Brand - ''Milkshake X Infinity''
* Music/{{Pavement}} - ''Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain: L.A.'s Desert Origins''
* Père Ubu - ''The Modern Dance''
* Music/TomPetty and the Heartbreakers - ''Greatest Hits'' (1992 compilation)
* Music/PinkFloyd - ''Music/TheWall''
* Music/{{Pixies}} - ''Trompe le Monde''
* Music/ThePolice - ''Every Breath You Take: The Singles''
* Polvo - ''Today's Active Lifestyles''
* Music/IggyPop and James Williamson - ''Kill City''
* Music/{{Primus}} - ''Sailing the Seas of Cheese''
* Music/PublicEnemy - ''Apocalypse '91... The Enemy Strikes Black''
* The Punkles - ''Punk!''
* Music/{{Radiohead}} - ''Music/KidA''
* Music/TheRamones - ''All the Stuff (And More) Volume One''
* Ramonetures - ''Johny Walk-Don't-Run Paulene''
* The Rattlers - ''Rattled!''
* Music/LouReed - ''Magic and Loss''
* Music/{{REM}} - ''Life's Rich Pageant''
* Music/TheReplacements - ''Pleased to Meet Me''
* Music/TheResidents - ''The Third Reich 'n Roll''
* Paul Revere and the Raiders - ''The Spirit of '67''
* Revolting Cocks - ''Beers, Steers + Queers''
* Music/{{The Rolling Stones|Band}} - ''Music/StickyFingers''
* Music/HenryRollins - ''Think Tank''
* Rollins Band - ''Hard Volume''
* Music/DavidLeeRoth - ''Eat 'em and Smile''
* Rudimentary Peni - ''Cacophony''
* Samhain - ''November-Coming-Fire''
* Scharpling and Wurster - ''New Hope for the Ape-Eared''
* Scratch Acid - ''The Greatest Gift''
* Sebadoh - ''Bubble & Scrape''
* Secret Chiefs 3 - ''Book of Horizons''
* Music/SexPistols - ''Music/NeverMindTheBollocksHeresTheSexPistols''
* Shellac - ''1000 Hurts''
* Music/SigurRos - ''Ágætis byrjun''
* Silver Apples - ''Silver Apples''
* Music/SimonAndGarfunkel - ''Music/BridgeOverTroubledWater''
* Music/{{Slayer}} - ''Music/ReignInBlood''
* Music/{{Slint}} - ''Music/{{Spiderland}}''
* Music/{{Soundgarden}} - ''Superunknown''
* Music/{{Sparks}} - ''Music/KimonoMyHouse''
* [[Film/ThisIsSpinalTap Spinal Tap]] - ''Spinal Tap''
* Spooky Tooth - ''Witness''
* Music/BruceSpringsteen - ''Born in the U.S.A.''
* Music/{{Steppenwolf}} - ''Steppenwolf''
* Music/{{Stereolab}} - ''Emperor Tomato Ketchup''
* Music/TheStooges - ''Music/{{FunHouse|Album}}''
* Stormtroopers of Death - ''Speak English or Die''
* Music/TheStrokes - ''Music/IsThisIt''
* Subhumans - ''Worlds Apart''
* Music/SuicidalTendencies - ''Suicidal Tendencies''
* Sun City Girls - ''Dante's Disneyland Inferno''
* Superchunk - ''No Pocky for Kitty''
* Music/{{Swans}} - ''Body to Body, Job to Job''
* Music/TalkingHeads - ''The Name of This Band Is Talking Heads''
* The Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 - ''Mother of All Saints''
* Tomahawk - ''Mit Gas''
* Trans Am - ''You Can Always Get What You Want''
* Music/{{U2}} - ''Music/TheJoshuaTree''
* The Undertones - ''Positive Touch''
* Unrest - ''Imperial''
* Urge Overkill - ''Jesus Urge Superstar/Americruiser''
* Music/VanHalen - ''Fair Warning''
* Vandals - ''Live Fast, Diarrhea''
* The Ventures - ''Guitar Freakout''
* Music/TomWaits - ''Music/BoneMachine''
* Ween - ''Quebec''
* Music/TheWho - ''Meaty Beaty Big and Bouncy''
* Music/Wings - ''Music/BandOnTheRun''
* The Wipers - ''Over the Edge''
* Music/{{Wire}} - ''Music/PinkFlag''
* Music/WuTangClan - ''Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)''
* Music/XUSBand - ''Beyond and Back: The X Anthology''
* Music/{{XTC}} - ''Drums and Wires''
* Music/WeirdAlYankovic - ''Music/WeirdAlYankovicAlbum''
* Music/{{Yes}} - ''Fragile''
* Music/YoLaTengo - ''I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One''
* Music/NeilYoung - ''Weld''
* Music/FrankZappa - ''Music/WeaselsRippedMyFlesh''
* The Zip Code Rapists - ''The Zip Code Rapists Sing and Play the Three Doctors and Other Sounds of Today'' (CD)
* Music/ZZTop - ''Eliminator''
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!!Mark Prindle provides examples of:

* AccidentalMisnaming: Type B (veering into A, depending on the album/artist). Often when reviewing one album, he'll refer to another (and sometimes to the artist/band itself) with a similar-sounding humorous name (for example, when reviewing an AC/DC bootleg, he refers to ''Let There Be Rock'' as "Let Me Suck Cock" and "Let There Be Socks" - and he gave that album a 9/10).
* ActuallyPrettyFunny: In his review of an early [[Music/TheBeatles Beatles]] live recording: "Does he think he's funny when he changes the 'Mr. Moonlight' lyric to 'Here I am on my NOSE'? Okay, he sorta is."
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: On the outrageous behaviour of Music/GGAllin: "he would smash himself in the head with the microphone, beat his fans up, poop on stage, eat it, throw it at the crowd, work diligently to rise to the top ranks of a Fortune 500 company..." Not quite a straight example though, because that's just the start of [[TheLongList a long list]].
* BerserkButton: Real misogyny. Although he finds it funny when it's obvious and over the top (and therefore, in his view, harmless) his reviews for Music/FrankZappa's "Tinseltown Rebellion" and The Descendants "Milo Goes To College" make it clear that genuine woman-bashing is almost intolerable for him.
* BreathlessNonSequitur: Many of his reviews rapidly alternate between discussing the album in question and discussing anything else.
* BrokeTheRatingScale: Music/{{Madonna}}'s ''Music/AmericanLife'', the only album he's reviewed that's gotten a [[http://markprindle.com/madonnaa.htm#american zero out of ten]].
* CaptainObvious: He begins his video review of Music/{{Yes}} solo and side projects with "Yes is a band with albums and people in it."
** In his video review for ''God Fodder'' by Ned's Atomic Dustbin, he begins lip syncing and then immediately clarifies, "That's not really me singing, it's the guy on the CD!"
* CatchPhrase: When he reviews bad albums, he usually starts with "More like [insert witty pun on the album's name] if you ask me!"
* ClusterFBomb: It has happened (the following is an excerpt of his review of Music/{{Pink}}'s ''I'm Not Dead'').
** "(...)an awful, awful, brutal, miserable, godFUCKINGAWFUL bowl of manure pressed into CD form. This is her attempt to show that she's grown into a mature female singer-songwriter, and it is oh sweet Christ SO FUCKING FUCKBAD."
* HumorDissonance: Invoked in his review of Frank Zappa's ''Music/ZootAllures'' in which he sarcastically acts as though the PunBasedTitle is the funniest play on words ever.
* LongList: The Music/FlamingLips put the name of anyone who donated one hundred dollars to a charity in the lyrics to their six hour song "I Found A Star On The Ground". So, Mark put the name of anyone who donated one dollar to his paypal account in [[http://www.markprindle.com/flaminga.htm#strobo his review]] of ''Strobo Trip'', the album it was on. Thus, the review includes video of him reciting names of readers for six minutes.
* MondegreenGag: [[http://www.markprindle.com/exploited.htm#punks His review of]] The Exploited's ''Punk's Not Dead'' discusses how he first heard the title track on a college radio program without hearing the title, and thus thought the chorus was "Force your dinner down!" instead of "Punk's not dead, oh no!". [[https://egodef.bandcamp.com/track/force-your-dinner-down A fan responded]] by writing a SongParody based on the mondegreen, effectively making it a more violent version of [[Music/WeirdAlYankovic "Eat It"]].
** Similarly, while praising Music/TheHollies' song "Pay You Back With Interest":
--->...and best of all, the way it sounds like they're singing "I'll pay you back with entrails!" as if The Hollies were the founders of {{grindcore}}!
* {{MST}}: In his review of Music/ToriAmos' "Scarlet's Walk", he cuts and pastes All-Music's take on that same album, and gives his counter-point to every statement.
* MyFriendsAndZoidberg: "Rest in peace, Mr. Ron Asheton. You gave us three great [[Music/TheStooges Stooges]] albums and ''The Weirdness''".
* NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer: He dedicated a portion of his ''Strobo Trip'' review to mentioning that "I Found a Star on the Ground" actually is six hours long and is not just him exaggerating the length like he does when he describes many long, tedious songs.
* PungeonMaster: Other than the frequent "More like [pun on the album title] if you ask me," gag, he makes a lot of puns throughout his reviews. Just one of many examples: in his review of ''Opiate'' by Music/{{Tool}}, he says, "Like the pole of a lobotomised fisherman, this album has '[=NO HOOKS=]!'"
* RunningGag: On his Music/{{The Rolling Stones|Band}} review page, every studio album released after ''Music/SomeGirls'' is called some variation of "The best Stones album since ''Music/SomeGirls''!", with varying degrees of sarcasm. This includes ''Music/EmotionalRescue'', which was also ''[[OverlyNarrowSuperlative the first]]'' Rolling Stones album since ''Music/SomeGirls''.
* RhymesOnADime: The reviews of [[http://markprindle.com/nirvanaa.htm#incest Incesticide]] by Music/{{Nirvana}} and [[http://markprindle.com/blackcrowes.htm#taller Taller Than All]] by Music/TheBlackCrowes are done entirely in this style.
* SelfDeprecation: On his review of Music/DinosaurJr's "Beyond", he examines his old writing style as featured in that page, and is embarrassed of what he finds.
** He reviewed a GreatestHits album by Music/TheJam [[http://www.markprindle.com/jam.htm#greatest from the point of view of a seven year old]], and the last line was "I just read some of Mark Prindle's CD reviews. Is he seven too?"
** There's a [[GreatestHitsAlbum best of compilation]] of his music that was released by a small independent label, which is titled ''My Wife Left Me Because These Songs Are Terrible''. The "these songs are terrible" part needs no explanation, but it was released not long after his divorce.
** He claims that an April 2011 Facebook status update announcing his intent to review Music/AnalCunt is what caused Seth Putnam's fatal heart attack less than two months later.
* ShapedLikeItself: In his God Bullies reviews, he states that their album ''Kill The King'' "actually sounds more like Mike Hard's post-God Bullies band Thrall than his during-God Bullies band The God Bullies".
* ShownTheirWork: He covers the entire discography of every artist he reviews (including bootlegs and rare releases), including those he hates with a passion (e.g. Music/TheSmashingPumpkins).
* StylisticSuck: Long after the site itself was retired, Mark tasked an AI with writing lyrics for a theme song for it, then asked fans on Facebook to record it: One such recording, by Tom Stockman, was given a prominent spot under the site's banner - it's sloppily played on an acoustic guitar, deliberately sung with no emotion, and at one point has the singer {{Corpsing}} at how inane the AI's lyrics are.
* {{Uninstallment}}: His review of Music/NapalmDeath's ''[[http://markprindle.com/napalm.htm#code The Code is Red... Long Live The Code]]'': The spot where the actual review would be is left blank, and we only get clues about its supposed contents from a lengthy comment by a fictional reader who is vehemently ''refuting'' the review.

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