alessioIRIDE

Well... a large part of the music that is consumed today is a direct emanation of the discourse put forward by Black Sabbath, who, although not absolute innovators, managed to create a new dimension compared to the rest of the things of the era... of course, everyone has their opinions, and mine is that Scaruffi doesn't understand a damn thing... he consumes records continuously without assimilating them and offers half-baked comments based on stupid, sloppy, and superficial opinions... with incomplete discographies and whistles for fiascos (I don't know how many records he has called EPs... it must mean he has listened to half of them?). The beauty of critics is that they are always something missing... in short, Scaruffi is burning inside that someone might actually change things... he’s a jerk, and just read his little articles on politics. He talks about music, cinema, physics, politics... all that's missing is astronomy, and we’re facing Dante.

But can I review my shit? I’m sure it has more artistic value.

this is what people think about motorpsycho, those who with a bass in hand can make skyscrapers collapse... <<Bent Saether and Snah Ryan, despite enormous technical shortcomings, have a natural touch with their instruments>> ...this is what he writes about Trust Us, perhaps their masterpiece: an 80-minute album explained in 10 words... <<The double Trust Us (Columbia, 1998) still features Ozone and Hey Jane, but the inspiration is becoming increasingly weak>>. and here are his pearls of wisdom regarding Black Sabbath, the most influential band in music history: <<Rarely has such a technically unskilled and unimaginative artist had such a great influence on later generations. Black Sabbath simply took blues-rock to its extreme consequences>>... that alone would be enough to kick him in the balls four times, but he goes on (thank God for Scaruffi): <<but Black Sabbath also stripped it of any intellectual content, any virtuous gesture, any artistic ambition. The result was a music of hallucinatory banality: "minor" chords distorted and booming, monstrous grooves, poorly modulated singing>>... has he listened to Black Sabbath or Gianna Nannini? here he cries out to the world the agony of frontal lobotomy: <<The subsequent albums are unanimously considered terrible, but in reality they are not much different from the first ones. Simply, the music of Black Sabbath, by definition, was nothing but the endless repetition of itself>>... god bless pizza, beer, and Scaruffi.

Reading the comments was worrying me, but luckily then Azzo's comment came in.

I really like Sleep, a lot, but the sound of Al Cisneros is exactly the same as that of Black Sabbath (for example, take the riff from NIB and compare it to any part of Sleep's Holy Mountain)... not that it’s a flaw (icons are always icons and almost never completely surpassable), but to say electric bass guru is a stretch. The OM are about to begin... with me. Bye.

If Scaruffi is an intellectual, am I God? Scaruffi babbles on about things he knows nothing about and makes an ass of himself over and over again... I remember his opinions on Motorpsycho or on Black Sabbath or on Melvins... bands that, like it or not, have an established value. Scaruffi is a kind of Maurizio Mosca of cinema and music.

five years alone already looking for the 5

@purpulan... couldn’t keep up with him in terms of sound. these are just his words that I read and that I asked him in person. what they mean, I don’t know, I still have to start the wattian philology course :)

Look, nobody has declared important friendships... am I going out to dinner with Mike Watt!?! I met him and we had a little chat... STOP, nothing overly romantic. I'm not biased. I read the review and since Dinosaur Jr. is one of my favorite bands that I've been following long before this sudden fame of 80s American indie emerged, and since I noticed some bullshit, I corrected you... I'm not nitpicking, but stating facts. So I’m not targeting you. I don’t know you and I don’t understand how and why I should have a problem with you... in short, relax: you said some nonsense and I don’t want to let it slide when I’m sure about something... what my ideas about Dinosaur are can be found scattered throughout these comments, and I don't appreciate when there's a morbid attempt to analyze a band's music that ends up making one sound like a pretentious jerk. The music of Dinosaur is that of a hardcore drummer who decides to imitate his idol: Neil Young... now as a rough musician he invents his style... and here are the Dinosaur. Bye