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Sure, I can't help but laugh thinking of Patrick O'Hearn going from "cultured" productions like this to the pop of Missing Persons. What a character...
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For crying out loud, this time they've pillaged the "warehouse and other stories" for the use of pop music, complete with bagpipes and harpsichords that honestly get on my nerves. Besides, even Bob Mould can't drag along a high-heeled shoe from his collection, considering the lame superpop album he released this year.
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I really enjoy them, but my hair stands on end for bands like Loop or Spacemen 3 who truly launched me into hyperspace for a good few hours. The Kerschen/Thrasher couple has been hanging around with various names in the realm of Texas noise psychedelia for a while now, where I think they find their reference point in those crazy locals, the more accessible Butthole Surfers, like those on "Hairway to Steven," mixing genres in industrial quantities—from folk to feedback to trance. If the Surfers had the dogma of celebrating the ugly, these eccentricities aren’t doing too badly and seem quite sincere to me, aside from the iconography that’s blared everywhere with the kefiyah, the machine guns, and the poster advertising the bloodbath. For the Butthole, just showing their faces was enough to understand they were cases from a criminal asylum.
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by Isham, there are Castalia, Tibet, and Blue Sun. Castalia and Blue Sun are more oriented towards jazz, with better results for the latter, which also reinterprets some standards in its own way, while Tibet is an absolute masterpiece and an immersive experience in the most refined world music, where the breath of Isham's trumpet has a mesmerizing power.
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The Casalesi companies are those that got rich from contracts and subcontracting from the former Cassa del Mezzogiorno for works such as the Regi Lagni, and who do you think brought them to the contracts?
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Antimo, we swallow the shit thanks to local and central politicians, who have always used the camorra for their own purposes. Shall we remember the appeal made by the DC to the professor from Ottaviano to free the regional councilor Cirillo who was taken by the brigatisti? The camorra has always been a tool in the hands of politics, which has used it for its own ends. Now there are camorristi like those from Secondigliano who are lone wolves.
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ehehe wow, this year it's July 12th, I don't know if it's a good idea to invite me for lunch the day after because it's almost eight hours on the bike and the next day you have to recover a hundred thousand calories...this year it's July 12th Dolomiti Superbike – Explore the legend As for Monica, the last time she liked the pastry chefs, I should ask about the reviewers on debaser ahahaha.
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@don I would add... with the often overly sentimental Nashville fragrances of the '70s. Parson was anything but sentimental, which is why the album is rough around the edges. Find me a band from that era that creates a medley, raw yet shining like a diamond, of a white country song with that of a black blues piece as in "Folsom Prison Blues/That's alright mama." Parson understands that blues and country are two similar expressions of the white or black people of the USA who ultimately faced the same struggles in getting through a life of hardship and toil. What a genius, guys.
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@people hold on a moment, this isn’t a matter of hardcore purists. It’s clear that Hatfield isn’t the first lightweight, but dear God, there are parts here that verge on flattery and syrupiness from FM radio. This year there have been some good albums by female artists like Rachel Yamagata or Simone White, to name a couple that come to mind, in those you can really notice the difference.
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Hold on, I don't want to be Parson's defense attorney, but there are many things to say in his defense. First of all, he was right to steal the girl from Crosby, who was a sadistic pig with women :) From NY, the ISB moved to the west coast because both the public and the record labels in the Big Apple were little interested in that strange blend of music, and the auditions and demos made for the con artist agents and various record companies didn’t have any luck. Gavin and Dunlop, the rhythm section of the early ISB, left because they were more oriented towards soul and rock rather than country. It's said that Parson suddenly left the ISB to accept Hilmann's offer, but Gram spoke with the others to explain the opportunity that had been presented to him (would you have stayed with the ISB or switched to the Byrds?). The rest of the group struggled to find a replacement, but without Parson, they had to disband. The first country rock album in history is attributed to "Sweetheart of the Rodeo" (although Sid Griffin of the Long Ryders, a great scholar of Parson, traces it back to "Country Sect" by the Downliners Sect), but indeed "Safe at Home" was recorded in December '67. That said, for me, among all the covers, the most beautiful tracks are those by Parson (and coming from authors like Cash and Merle Haggard, that's quite a compliment) "Blue Eyes" and "Luxury Liner." These two tracks, which date back to July '67 (when they were released as a single), are the real beginning of country rock. Take "Luxury Liner," it sounds like the Rolling Stones playing for the cowboys of the OK Corral.