History Creator / MarkPrindle

* {{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 by a lengthy comment by a fictional reader who is vehemently ''refuting'' the review.

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/VelvetUnderground and Music/MilesDavis, for example).

* 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 Frank Zappas]] "Tinseltown Rebellion" and The Descendants "Milo Goes To College" make it clear that genuine woman-bashing is almost intolerable for him.

* BrokeTheRatingScale: Music/{{Madonna}}'s ''[[http://markprindle.com/madonnaa.htm#american American Life]]'', the only album he's reviewed that's gotten a zero out of ten.

* {{MST}}: In his review of Tori Amos' "Scarlet's Walk", he cuts and pastes All-Music's take on that same album, and gives his counter-point to every statement.

* [[AuthorExistenceFailure Dog Existence Failure]]: [[http://markprindle.com/wphoto.htm Unfortunately.]] In Henry's honor, both the weekly Photo of Henry The Dog feature and the video reviews (which nearly always involved Henry in some way) have been discontinued.

* Music/{{Nirvana}} - ''Music/{{Bleach}}''

* [[Music/XUSBand X]] - ''Beyond and Back: The X Anthology''

* Music/SimonAndGarfunkel - ''Bridge over Troubled Water''

* Slint - ''Spiderland''

* Sparks - ''Kimono My House''

* Music/TheStooges - ''Fun House''

* Music/{{Misfits}} - ''Earth A.D./Wolf's Blood''

* Music/{{X}} - ''Beyond and Back: The X Anthology''

* {{Mondegreen}}: [[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://grindcorekaraoke.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"]].

* Caroliner - ''Rise of the Common Woodpile (by Caroliner Rainbow Open Wound Chorale)''

* Creator/AndrewDiceClay - ''The Day the Laughter Died''[[note]]He admittedly was torn between giving this a maximum or a minimum score, given that he acknowledges a lot of people would see Clay's improvised insult machine gun as CringeComedy[[/note]]

* Crass - ''Best Before''

* The Descendents - ''Two Things at Once'' (CD combining the ''Bonus Fat'' EP and their debut album ''Milo Goes to College'')

* Music/PJHarvey - ''White Chalk'' (and her he hates, mind you)

* Music/{{KISS}} - ''Double Platinum'' (1978 compilation album)

* The Low-Maintenance Perennials (a band Mark himself was a part of) - ''Chicago XX: Chicago's Greatest Hits'' (no Music/{{Chicago}} covers in this one, by the way)

* Music/MinorThreat - the ''Complete Discography'' CD

* The Punkles[[note]]A punk-slash-Beatles cover band[[/note]] - ''Punk!''

* Music/TheRamones - ''All the Stuff (And More) Volume One'' (compilation that combines ''Music/{{Ramones}}'' and ''Music/LeaveHome'' plus a couple of extras)

* Music/TheWho - ''Meaty Beaty Big and Bouncy''[[note]]With ''Music/{{Tommy}}'' as a real close second[[/note]]

* The Zip Code Rapists - ''The Zip Code Rapists Sing and Play the Three Doctors and Other Sounds of Today CD''

* 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, mind you).
* ActuallyPrettyFunny: His negative reviews, whether you agree with them or not.
** 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."

* BerserkButton: Dynamic overcompression apparently. "If there's ONE THING I hate in this world, it's dynamic overcompression! You can steal my car, wreck my face, toss my penis all over the place, do anything to aid yourself in this recession, but don't you gimme no overcompression!"
** Although it seems to be a parody of an anti-dynamic over-compression rant from a reader comment on a different review.
** Real misogyny is another thing that Prindle cant stand, which he made clear in his reviews for [[Music/FrankZappa Frank Zappas]] "Tinseltown Rebellion" and The Descendants "Milo Goes To College".

* CausticCritic
* CloudCuckoolander

* SelfDeprecation: On his review of Music/DinosaurJr's "Beyond", he examines his old writing style as featured in that artist's page, and is embarrassed of what he finds.

* 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). What more do you want?

* Creator/EvelKnievel - ''Evel Speaks to the Kids''

* Stereolab - ''Emperor Tomato Ketchup''

* {{Mondegreen}}: [[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://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SkVpg_ofCg 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}}!

* Flipper - ''Generic Flipper''

* Music/WeirdAlYankovic - ''Music/DareToBeStupid''

* The Zip Code Rapists - ''The Zip Code Rapists Sing and Play the Three Doctors and Other Sounds of Today''

* OneOfUs: At the end of his review of ''Red Barked Tree'' by Music/{{Wire}}, he links this page.

* Adolescents - ''Adolescents''

* Music/Wings - ''Band on the Run''

* Music/PereUbu - ''The Modern Dance''

* Music/UrgeOverkill - ''Jesus Urge Superstar/Americruiser''

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/VelvetUnderground for example).

* OneOfUs: At the end of his review of ''Red Barked Tree'' by {{Wire}}, he links this page.

* TooGoodToLast

Mark Prindle is a music reviewer 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 GeorgeStarostin.

* {{Mondegreen}}: [[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!". [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SkVpg_ofCg 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 The Hollies' song "Pay You Back With Interest":

* HumorDissonance: Invoked in his review of Frank Zappa's ''Zoot Allures'' in which he sarcastically acts as though the PunBasedTitle is the funniest play on words ever.

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 humor). 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/VelvetUnderground for example).

His favorite artists include Music/TheRamones, the Cows, Music/TheFall, Music/PinkFloyd, Music/ThePixies, Music/{{ACDC}}, and many others.

* 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 behavior 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]].

** Although it seems to be a parody of an anti-dynamic overcompression rant from a reader comment on a different review.
** Real misogyny is another thing that Prindle cant stand, wich he made clear in his reviews for [[Music/FrankZappa Frank Zappas]] "Tinseltown Rebellion" and The Descendants "Milo Goes To College".

** In his video review for ''God Fodder'' by Ned's Atomic Dustbin, he begins lip synching and then immediately clarifies, "That's not really me singing, it's the guy on the CD!"

* 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 lobotomized fisherman, this album has '[=NO HOOKS=]!'"
* RunningGag: On his TheRollingStones review page, every studio album released after ''Some Girls'' is called some variation of "The best Stones album since ''Some Girls''!", with varying degrees of sarcasm. This includes ''Emotional Rescue'', which was also ''[[OverlyNarrowSuperlative the first]]'' Rolling Stones album since ''Some Girls''.