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You're right, gg. Keep in mind that there's also an American edition with different tracks from these concerts in France, a record called Speed Connection II: The Final Chapter, where Peter Buck from REM also plays (who was on the payroll of the same record label, IRS). It's not that things change much, but at least you can hear Zaremba responding to someone in the audience (who screamed he was fed up with this crap)... "we're working on it, buddy." A lot of the blame is on the recording, too distant, muffled, it doesn't sit in the middle of the band.

"A box set made and designed to be the perfect gift for forty-somethings for Christmas 2008." Forgive me, but I know a ton of forty-somethings who, if they had received the Police box set, would do a good deed; they would pass it on as a gift without even unwrapping it.

Alan Moore overrated? It seems to me a bit like the same pretentious discussion about whether Jimi Hendrix is overrated. I believe Moore remains unmatched as a writer for his complexity, culture, freedom, and the ability of his stories to remain damn relevant even after decades, if not prescient. He remains the first even if you have the capacity to make comparisons. Frank Miller is a great writer/artist who has redefined the way to compose a panel and he is great for this too, even though as just a writer he was remarkable for Elektra Assassin by Bill Sienkiewicz. There’s another author that I really enjoyed (even if we are at a lower level) and that’s Howard Chaykin of American Flagg!

For me, the best album by firehose features a cover photo of Husker Du, the Minutemen, and D. Boon sleeping. Beautiful tracks with direct dedications like "For the singer of REM" and "In memory of Elizabeth Cotton" (which reminds me of "In Memory of Elizabeth Reed" by the Allman Brothers Band) and other less explicit but evident dedications like "Me & you, remembering." Honestly, for me, both this and "Fromohio" are superior to the first one, even though it has "Brave captain," which makes me bounce every time I listen to it :-)

Why on earth would it be difficult to judge them these days? They were an honest rock group playing "Keys to your heart" to the drunks in pubs, begging them to listen, while when Strummer saw the Sex Pistols not giving a damn about their audience, he converted to punk. Honestly, it’s Strummer’s presence that gives something extra to the 101ers; bands like Eddie and the Hot Rods with "Teenage Depression" or Dr. Feelgood would just pocket them....

@franci at least for the CDs you shouldn't have any issues, they were mastered with a lot of bonus tracks, with the first one including the deadly EP "In my car" and covers of Neil Young, Stooges, Grateful Dead. @Vortex I don't think anyone believes that behind the blind fury of this debut there was a stylistic research, they played by overwhelming what they knew, country included. But it's undeniable that there was a stylistic search with the subsequent albums, and in fact, a recognizable style was born; after all, the Kirkwoods with their hippie, spaced-out vibe didn't have much in common with punk.

No Franci, if you want to get to know the Meat Puppets... start with the second one, even though the hardcore rage is no longer there. I completely understand what PABLO means! The first one is absolute anarchy that even distorts a country standard like "Tumbling Tumbleweeds," but in my opinion, despite its pleasure, these are not the real Puppets, the ones capable of grand compositions and complicated guitar patterns with that languid singing softened by the desert sun. Losing gems like the second and Huevos is a crime; you can see why from the very beginning the Meat Puppets were doing hardcore covers of Neil Young and Grateful Dead songs. It makes me laugh that it's considered an honor for the Kirkwood brothers to have been invited by Nirvana; in my opinion, it’s the opposite— it was an honor for Nirvana to have them as guests. I don't miss either the first or the subsequent ones.

I pay attention to it, I practice autogenic training to try not to have too many in a day.

Unfortunately, I can't pump myself full of st(e)roids, pistolpete, at FCI competitions they do doping tests and it would show :-(

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