supersoul

In the 80s, I was there and I wasn’t undecided about whether to side with Husker Du or Minutemen because I liked both. Today, as old age has brought me wisdom and objectivity along with millions of listening minutes, I can say they may have written songs with two chords, but honestly, Duran Duran and Spandau Ballet in comparison to them make me laugh now just as they did back then. Sorry, primiballi, but this was a trombone even with those four fools, and to give it a five means it’s truly a masterpiece. And with all due respect, I struggle to believe that this polished trombone managed to create a masterpiece.

I instead thank you, Janis, for aligning music and life, for mixing your voice with alcohol and cigarettes so it became even more hoarse and excessive, for becoming not just 65 people but all of Woodstock because you sang with your womb and each concert was a collective fuck, for teaming up with a band of bums who flubbed like the Big Brothers so that your singing made Cheap Thrills an intense and vital album where there's the most beautiful version of Summertime (which is here and not on Pearl) ever made by a white singer in the world. And I forgive you for falling in love and thus softening with soul and country ballads, for hiring a slew of professionals to create this Pearl and so you could measure yourself against a star like Aretha Franklin, for dying when you realized that love was as illusory as the Summer of Love. OK, the thanks are over, let’s put out the lighter, wipe away the tear, when will there be a serious review instead of this cloud of moralistic rants in just one day, enbar77?

I struggle to understand why if someone prefers "the ones" they must necessarily say that "the others" were terrible. Huh?!? As for the psychopomps concerning the Lemmy affair, as far as I know, only Jagger and Brian Jones were children of the middle class; the other three were children of construction workers and railwaymen. Regarding the fact that "they were doing," let’s not forget that their manager was Andrew Oldham, who came from the world of fashion and advertising, so…

@47---->"if there’s any group, even just with 'punk roots,' that can fill the gap," the perfect example of punk rock made by people who can really play are Johnny Thunders’ Heartbreakers. Their L.A.M.F. (Like A Mother Fucker) from 1977 is a delight and variety that could keep spinning on the turntable all day long. The "Chinese Rocks" on that record is the same one that the Ramones will record on "End of Century," noting that Dee Dee has always claimed ownership of that great junkie anthem (Chinese rocks is a "variety" of heroin) along with Richard Hell, disavowing Thunders. If you want something heavier close to hardcore, you’ll have fun with the Canadians D.O.A.; their "Something Better Change" (1980) is a masterpiece of transition between the two genres.
@battlegods, I’m touched by your effort to vote for me; tonight before I go to bed, I’ll mention you in my prayers to the saint of Iggy Pop.

But I think Ole would have a lot of success with prog reviews, and there are gaps to fill: Gygafo, Astr, Indian Summer, Beggars Opera, Twenty Sixty Six And Then, etc. isn't that right Ole?

@lazlow I was sorry to say that the opening riff of "Born to die in Berlin" is taken straight from "City Slang" by the Sonic Rendezvous Band (1978), which I hope (for your musical well-being) you know, and then Joey's singing imitating Iggy drives me crazy.
@bubi if you were addressing me with your n.11, I thank you for the trust, but I don’t like to schedule reviews; they come to me when I listen to an album, otherwise, it’s whatever.
@gg junior, I believe that the Ramones, who never went beyond the 40th place in album sales, felt a bit envious of those little pricks who were making billions in 1995 with their formula. Also, I want to tell you that as a hidden last track of the album, there’s the version of "Spider man" with the usual Ramones treatment. My six-year-old nephew, who only knew Bart Simpson's little song, improvised his first pogo ever. The power of the old Ramones! Gabba gabba hey!

In this case, the memory and the disk that I physically have at home were sufficient to write the review; in other, more complex cases, it's clear that something needs to be double-checked to ensure that the aging of the cells doesn’t result in some nonsense that attentive readers like you and others wouldn’t deserve.

...yes, but for the papa boys of the Spanish market they replaced the dirty "Sister Morphine" (great slide by Ry Cooder) with "Let it rock."

I'm in the remaining twenty percent, damn it, but I'm not going out to dinner with you, not so much because you're also a damn big guy, but because you didn't mention "Dead Flowers," which, performed live at the concert in Leeds in 1971, made me cry.

100% for Green Day in the melodic hardcore of the Descendents, but they don't have a Stevenson on drums... (by the way, those clowns the Descendents also made an album titled "I Don't Want to Grow Up"... )