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Attention, I didn’t say they are rawer than Feedtime, but that the latter are more, if I may use the term again, rockabilly. Listen to the same Fastbuck and what do you hear? Raw and wild rockabilly but NOT hard rock like the Powder Monkeys, in the style of Blue Cheer/MC5 which is very different from Feedtime. And these monkeys are definitely closer to Motörhead, also because of Hemensley’s voice. Plus, Feedtime slows down even in their first album, these NEVER do. The fact that they are unknown is another crime committed against rock'n'roll, I assure you...

It's worth noting how the metalhead, realizing he's about to strike out, starts lowering the rating on the review...

Thanks, guys, it's always nice when the message is well received and direct. @aje evokes the awesome Feedtime, and it's true that the sonic violence is there, but Feedtime is much more; forgive the poetic license, they're very rockabilly in the sense that they really connect to a certain way (which I really love) of making music. Sometimes, they even sound like amphetamine-fueled Doors or laid-back cowboys with slide guitars in the Australian bush. In fact, I consider them the Australian Flipper. The Powder Monkeys are much rawer and torrential; unlike the Flipper, they never slow down and head towards a destructive hard rock. You know the Buffalo of "Volcanic Rock"? Multiply them by three because these monkeys never stop. By the way, the term Powder Monkey dates back to the glorious naval battles between brigantines. Each cannon on a ship had 5-6 crew members assigned to it, and the last wheel of the cart was the boy who would shuttle between the cannons and the magazine to supply the artillery piece with gunpowder; the boy was the powder monkey...

I apologize for breaking the spell, but I wanted to say that this album is a good rock and roll record, but for heaven's sake! I would steer clear of phrases like "a breath of fresh air" and "doesn't reflect what's been heard before but the unique." It seems to me like a rehashing of the Suicide (No Pussy Blues and Love Bomb are eloquent), The Stooges, who are always somewhere in the mix for the Australians, and even Bo Diddley...

I, on the other hand, agree with the reviewer's assessment. As a young man, I read the novel by Guest and remember it as quite mediocre, while the film is superior to it, although still tied to too many stereotypes: the seemingly cold mother but internally fragile, the brother's death portrayed too much in a melodramatic style, the dual father figure as parent/psychiatrist, and the comforting ending.

@poletti, I noticed you hadn't (re)watched the film before reviewing it from the details in your episode descriptions. I could never conceive of writing a review based on memories and the research of things written by others. For me, a review emerges only after watching the film because it is made up of sensations and details that come to you only with the film fresh in your mind. It's not like you wake up in the morning and say, "now I'm going to review a film" as if you had to demonstrate the Pythagorean theorem. For instance, I've long wanted to review "Why a Murder" by Pakula or "Mickey One" by Arthur Penn, but I would need to get them again to rewatch them because I find it pointless to "work" from memories and research from books and the internet.

Sorry, punisher, if you know Bunuel well then I don't understand why you would ask such a question, especially if you've seen "The Milky Way" and "The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie" (these were indeed made 70 years ago), suspecting that he became bland and without anything provocative to say four years later. As for Jodorowsky, his spiritualism and symbolism amuse me like the girl who reads my tarot cards who sets up her stall in the evening on the promenade of Borgo Marinari. Bunuel's symbolism, on the other hand, makes me think and sometimes understand a lot of things, finding myself surprisingly in agreement with an old man who at that age should be bland and have nothing provocative to say, like all those who posed as beatniks in their youth and become moralists in old age.

A thank you to the two rock ladies... a very masculine album but I think you might like it because it's not too showy, in short, the mix that women enjoy.

@alessio. The Husker Du of Warehouse! Just kidding, of course, but since you like grunge derivatives, you might want to listen to Rein Sanction's "Broc's Cabin" or "Mariposa" around 1990, if I'm not mistaken also Sub Pop, a guitar trio similar in some ways to Dinosaur Jr but also to certain things from the early Cure (in my opinion).

Anyway, credit where credit is due to Poletti, who has reviewed Bunuel, totally absent until now. Well done, Poletti (but do rewatch the film before reviewing it).