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Mudhoney The Lucky Ones

7 jun 08

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here, I completely agree. It has become a trend when someone started making money from it, but labeling three losers in dirty Converse, with greasy hair and an awful flannel shirt is fantasy today as it was yesterday. There are far bigger trends.

Mudhoney The Lucky Ones

7 jun 08

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Grunge doesn't exist. It's not a fashion. The current indie scene is a fashion. It's a fashion that involves a jerk playing rigorously with a Telecaster and wearing a horizontally striped black-and-white shirt. Cobain and Buzzo lived in a small town of ten thousand inhabitants during the worst administration the States have ever seen. If they dressed alike, it's because they listened to the same music, did the same drugs, and hated the same things. If two misfits from the sticks end up becoming what they have become, that is, just immense misfits. Pearl Jam, Smashing Pumpkins, Stone Temple Pilots, Bush, and various pieces of shit are a fashion. Fashion, a couple of balls. A 130-kilo fatso like Tad Doyle will never be popular or fashionable. This is the story.

Mudhoney The Lucky Ones

7 jun 08

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So let's put it this way: Greg Sage from Portland was walking around in a flannel shirt and Converse in 1979, and he wrote "Return of the Rat" and "D-7," which completely encapsulate the post-"Bleach" Nirvana. In 1980, he created "Youth of America," which the Melvins still play live as a cover and which, with its solo (the one from the original song), practically taught J Mascis how to play guitar. So what do we do? Was grunge born in '79? And are the Motorpsycho, ugly, of Lobotomizer who were mimicking everything that grunge was doing (essentially referencing the same stuff) considered grunge? Does grunge only exist if Santa Claus exists?

Mudhoney The Lucky Ones

7 jun 08

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The Melvins are nothing but Black Sabbath fucking the B-side of My War while passing through all of hardcore. Luckily, they have nothing to do with grunge or with stuff like those Smashing Pumpkins from that sly Corgan or Pearl Jam. That being said, among the true ones, there is a shared intent and vision; this is true, but the Melvins have nothing in common with Mudhoney besides a bassist, and that shared intent doesn’t only concern those from Seattle, given that except for one album, the Melvins have always lived in San Francisco and have never released even a single or a fart for Sub Pop. Grunge doesn’t exist just like the current indie scene doesn’t exist. Anyway, after listening to the album: the usual Mudhoney, which can be a compliment but also a critique.

Mudhoney The Lucky Ones

7 jun 08

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Here are the Soundgarden... lately I’ve been re-listening to Superunknown and it bored me terribly. I remembered it being more dynamic. From that decade and that "scene," the only ones I really like are Nirvana, Melvins, and Tad.

Pier Paolo Pasolini Comizi d'Amore

7 jun 08

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I’ll do it first. To avoid having to tolerate crap from everyone ;)

Pier Paolo Pasolini Comizi d'Amore

7 jun 08

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Thank you all for your attention. The fact that I was able to write about Pasolini without making a mess reassures me :)

Mudhoney The Lucky Ones

7 jun 08

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If the Melvins ever did grunge, I’m Bob Kennedy. Anyway, with Mudhoney it works like this: you listen to one of their albums and you’ve listened to them all. At this point, you buy Superfuzz and the self-titled, maybe even the third, and then you’re set for life.

Motorpsycho Live @ Alcatraz - Milano 25 maggio 2008

7 jun 08

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envy, envy... listen a bit lewis: how are the new tracks live? and the drummer? they say he's a solid fullback with a killer shot.

Paolo Sorrentino Il Divo

7 jun 08

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Andreotti is in my top 3: Berlusconi, De Gasperi, Andreotti. In another country, all three of them would probably just be cleaning toilets or maybe wearing the cap and carrying the shotgun, and that's it.