Hardrock92

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The Veils Nux Vomica

2 nov 11

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Look, I don’t want to be unfriendly and/or pedantic, but can you tell me in which episodes Finn remembers Thom? Because I just can’t make the connection... right, "Killing By The Boom" from the next album has a little bit of Radiohead (but just a tiny bit), because the rest seems absolutely light-years away in terms of attitude :-)

The Veils Nux Vomica

1 nov 11

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I find that Thom Yorke has nothing to do with Andrews... they are one of the bands I am most emotionally (and not only) attached to, even though they are not exactly top-notch. The album, however, you framed it well; it doesn't even come close to the status of a masterpiece and it's not even a great album... but I don't know, for some reason, it really gives me pleasure :-)

Puscifer Conditions Of My Parole

31 oct 11

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But in fact I completely agree and I'll repeat: Maynardo doesn't want to tell us anything at all; it's just entertainment, nothing more.

Puscifer Conditions Of My Parole

31 oct 11

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<< So, Maynard, with Puscifer... what the hell do you want to say? >> Nothing, Maynard doesn't want to say anything with this project. I've always seen Puscifer as a total divertissement, where he does whatever the hell he wants and throws all his tackiness in our faces because, after all, Keenan is a big tacky fool. It's not about listening to the albums, but rather "framing them." This is silly stuff; it shouldn't be taken "seriously" :-)

Bruce Springsteen Darkness On The Edge Of Town

20 sep 11

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For me, Springsteen is a surrogate of folk and rock without being either... fairly trivial songs with that "epic" flavor in the background that I personally don’t like, but that's a matter of taste, I mean the epic flavor. Because it seems obvious to me that this is a mediocre album, and honestly, I don’t understand how so many people here can appreciate it. Just as I don't understand where "the sincere bluesman who sings his stories with his heart in hand" comes from, not in Springsteen anyway. I’ve said it before in another context, but I’ll repeat it: the history of American music has been made by others, it doesn’t even make sense to mention them anymore. That said, Nebraska, The River, and The Ghost of Tom Joad are great albums. But the only ones from him.

Dead Elephant Thanatology

12 sep 11

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I heard it, and it didn't excite me at all. Some passages are really beautiful (holy shit, though), but sometimes it feels too lengthy as an album. I don't know, I should listen to it better for sure, but at the moment it doesn't seem like such a great album to me.

Richard Garfield Magic The Gathering

30 aug 11

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Absolutely agree with Bartle, if only it were just a game to pass the time. I remember that around fifth grade I became practically isolated because my little friends back then discovered this game... I gave it a try, but my interest was below zero. The funny thing is that those same guys are still playing it now and look down on anyone who isn't part of the "cult." One of them graduated with honors from engineering school, and I ran into him at Torino Esposizioni one day, and he asked me how to get to Porta Nuova. Beautiful scene :-)

Kevin Munroe Dylan Dog

27 aug 11

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The last comment is laughable; Dylan Dog as a tough guy who beats everyone up? What comic have you read? I hope you were joking. Anyway, I really don't see the point of making a movie like that; it’s completely devoid of essence. The story could have been invented, that's fine, but completely changing even the basic components of the character, pfft.

Lou Reed Ecstasy

16 aug 11

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But artistic coherence, as a discourse, makes sense, for sure. I find that the statement about being oneself is somewhat irrelevant; he dedicated a song to Amy Winehouse, as far as I understand, respect for the dead, okay, but certainly it doesn't really honor him in terms of coherence. I wholeheartedly agree with Bartle's last comment, adding that after the Velvet there have been plenty of great things. Rock has changed, sometimes it's evolved, like all music, after all. And not everything derives from Lou Reed; there were other bands of great importance.

Lou Reed Ecstasy

16 aug 11

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But how can a review be calibrated when it says that it's pointless to look for new groups when Lou Reed encompasses all of rock? (So, I guess, rock is Velvet Underground and Lou solo) And where, above all, does the exaltation come bursting out from every pore?
Come on, I don't know Bowie well, and what I do know I like much less than Lou Reed's work; but why in a piece about Reed do we have to talk about Bowie? It doesn’t make sense. And I won't even bother to explain that without Bowie, perhaps, Lou's solo work could have turned out very differently and that Transformer wouldn't have been the masterpiece it is (I hope that's understood).