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But from someone who claims to prefer New Order to Joy Division, what can you expect?

...but not really :D It's understandable that Jello Biafra dropped them after this EP because he found them too extreme. Jello Biafra, after all, someone who calls his band the Dead Kennedys...

I remember the homonymous EP where J Mascis played the drums, grunge had nothing to do with it, and they were strangely tough, half between hard rock and psychedelia. There was a nice track "Fried," a Dylan-esque ballad style; the Japanese singer was terrifying (both aesthetically and sonically), but I didn't think he was capable of tearing off a five :)

I haven't listened to the album yet, but if you say it's on the same level as the album with Clapton, then it's a half-ass.

How old are you, rock dictionary? Maybe if you were old enough to buy Butthole Surfers when they released their albums, you wouldn't say they were underrated by the critics and the public of that time. They were simply idolized.

@macaco the Brainticket are an old passion of mine, especially Vandroogenbroeck who is truly a character/artist with collaborations everywhere and in the most diverse musical genres and in visual art. @oleeinar at the last record fair there was a guy from a shop in Battipaglia (SA) who had the 1976 Bellaphone reissue of Cottonwoodhill for 50 euros. @ Regarding "Celestial ocean"... on headphones it's an absolute blast, it's completely different, reduced to a trio they create a space-rock album with the male and female voices perpetually whispering from one channel to another in the headphones, and I remember it ends with a truly extraordinary piece on classical piano.

But you can't assign a "nationality" to Brainticket, since Joel Vandroogenbroeck, who was originally a Belgian jazz musician with significant collaborations, always wanted to detach his groups and his music from nations and labels. Lampis was of Sardinian descent and I know he later opened a school for percussionists, in addition to founding the Toad in Switzerland along with bassist Werni Fröhlich (another survivor from Cottonwoodhill). Paap was German and was the drummer for Embryo. "Cottonwoodhill" was recorded in Germany, while this one was reviewed in Italy, where Vandroogenbroeck also worked on the famous (at least at the time, Tullio De Piscopo was also on drums) rock opera Orfeo 9 by Tito Schipa Jr. Great record, but Cottonwoodhill remains a legend (cover included). Listen to it again and pay attention to "Coc'o Mary"; with all those percussion sounds reminiscent of Areas/Carabello and the organ like Greg Rolie's, it seems like Santana with Joel’s flute instead of Carlos's guitar :)))

@bravo blech, right: I meant "Morning Dew," I don't know how "Whipping Post" slipped out :D and it was in the repertoire of the Grateful Dead but it wasn't their stuff, it was a traditional.

Sure, but the Stooges, the Damned, and the Sex Pistols, Mudhoney are the ones we owe thanks for the "resurrection" (at different times) of rock. I also love the Angry Samoans, Wire, and X, but they jumped on the bandwagon; that's different from the reasoning I was presenting at 20, otherwise I would say that Roy Harper gives me chills when he sings "Another Day."

Sure, Damnation of Adam Blessing were good (but more relaxed; they even covered "Whipping Post" by the Grateful Dead, but maybe it wasn't even by the Dead). The fact is that they are just a drop in the ocean of hard and psychedelic bands from that USA period. For example, right now I’m listening to Highway Robbery, and they are amazing.