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but the Flipper were from San Francisco, which had a politicized and/or decadent hardcore, and let's say rock not only in the music but also in the ethics :-) The obsession with straight edge was something from the guys in Washington and Boston.
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Alessio, you know very well that mine was a polemical paradox; there’s no doubt that they were bourgeois nerds, and McKay was someone who could play the boss in the Washington scene at the age of twenty. I read that once he calmed down the audience that wanted to kick the Scream of the Stahl brothers out (who ended up in the distorted chaos of stoners). That's why I called him the monk; the same can't be said for many of those guys with X's on their hands who switched to predictable metal.
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Thank goodness you realized it, because put like this, this review is of an astounding carelessness; this is another one who has it in for the hippies, good for only creating AIDS (officially born in 1981, when the summer of love had ended 14 years prior…) That said, I find it embarrassing that esteemed critics are going out of their way to outline the differences between punk and hardcore like precise pharmacists, while nobody has defended rock by stating that DON'T SMOKE, DON'T DRINK, DON'T FUCK is its DENIAL. And the aggravating factor is that this and "OUT of Step" are ROCK albums like we haven’t heard since the days of Chuck Berry. The only excuse for MacKaye and company was that they were pimple-faced kids short on girls and without money to get high. It’s a case of those who scorn wanting to buy. The fact remains that as soon as they hit their twenties and following the dissolution called by monk MacKaye, the other members turned to drinking and chasing girls, such as Brian Baker who, after Dag Nasty, went on to become the guitarist in a street metal band like Junkyard, obsessed with girls and getting high (and I don’t think the band’s name needs any explanation).
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Tori Amos’s cover is the denial of all the meaning of Cobain's "Smells Like Teen Spirit," which screams his anger and frustration against a plastic world. Seeing an anthem like this reduced to a watered-down ballad for radical chic living rooms is truly sad...
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"New York, 1971. At Max Kansas' City, Richard Sohl meets Patti Smith, who has just arrived in the Big Apple." As far as I know, Patti Smith arrived in NY in 1967 when she was twenty years old, and before debuting in music, she had published three volumes of poetry (Seventh Heaven, Kodak, Witt) and had co-written a play with the great Sam Shepard (Cowboy Mouth). Dear pixies, according to your enlightened De Andrè, who was a singer-songwriter that used to ‘borrow’ lyrics from poets, how should she have introduced herself? "Dear Richard Sohl, I am a laundress"?
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Hi bubi, but in music, inconsistencies don't automatically mean deficiencies. The fact is that Oldham, whom I listened to with wide-open ears (can we say that?) for the first time with the Palace Music album, has always done this, the dreamy introspective ballad, it’s his skin, he excels in that field. In my opinion, this is not Dan's territory, it's not his skin. I appreciate his attempt to break free from the chaos of the Black Keys, but in the ballad, let's say in the Oldham style, I personally find him one of many.
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@Blech: if you're going to start, go for "damaged" blind.
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For me, the speech just made about lewistollani applies to Pablo as well, who is an old user;-) As he says, for Ginn and company it was hard to repeat the same anger of the early days, but with albums like "In My Head" from the same year, they are still throwing their feelings of hate, loneliness, paranoia in our faces, those of a marginalized and hopeless generation like that of hardcore. And a great piece like "Annihilate This Week" confirms it.
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@coccagnocca Fat Possum is the Devil and this album has little to do with the Devil.
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I hold on tight to reviewers like Lewis, especially now that Debaser seems to be swarming with a bunch of babbidiminkia users, randomly mentioning Yosif, Pepsiforever, Romeo1985, and the best are starting to disappear ... That said, I wasn’t thrilled by the album, especially in the slow ballads mentioned by Bubi or cheesy tracks like "Real Desire" or "My Last Mistake," which smell of mildew to me. For me, Dan shines the most in the garage blues rants, and I wonder what the need was to make a "solo" album when the rest of the band was just the drummer, a fitting complement to this style.