Rooftrampler92

Then, the track by track is horrid. It feels like a desert.

Then, the track by track is horrid. It feels like a desert.

But we're really delusional, huh? As has been said infinitely to the point of paranoia, grunge doesn’t really exist musically; let’s say it can be a half-punk hard-rock with nihilistic lyrics. The word grunge was invented by the masses around SubPop, and that’s why it has been applied to the music of all those individuals with "dirty" grunge style, the carpenters in Converse, the always disheveled and filthy desperate ones. Those are grunge, their music cannot be defined with the word grunge, but rather their way of defining life. Then you dropped a blasphemy. If the metal albums (funny enough, metal) you mentioned can belong to the pseudogenre grunge in your opinion, then you’re really tipsy. If everyone thought like you, half of the rock produced from the '70s to today would be defined as grunge. Sorry, but if for you grunge equates to gloomy, dark, existential lyrics, then new wave, dark rock, a good part of post-punk, and noise would all be stuff that could be defined as grunge. As for the album, I haven’t listened to it well even though I have something, and anyway for what little I've heard, Origin of Symmetry seems more valid and enjoyable to me. And anyway, Muse are not a grunge band. Yes, they remind me somewhat of distorted Sonic Youth, a bit of Nirvana, but it's mostly an alternative band. Here, it's clear that there's the influence of Dinosaur Jr., and in my opinion, there are also more evident prog contaminations in their post-2000 works (the latest ones).

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Grammar's a bit lacking. But is it really that hard to check the spelling and fix things up before "sending this review off"? Anyway, I don’t really know Asia musically, but as you say, they feel like a commercial gimmick to me, and that says a lot about the music as well. But Howe... is Howe.

Yes, the Gibsons roar. You wanted to be cynical/picky, but generally I'm not someone who shoots off words recklessly. You went to check, fine, then check better and if what you want to search for isn't there, tough luck for you, it means you've fallen into the abyss of cynicism while totally avoiding the concept, which is the fundamental one. Ah, and as many people have already said, grunge as music doesn't exist, it's an invention of MTV and various other voices around SubPop. Touch Me I'm Sick has punk references with hard rock elements, not grunge. So why call it that? Touch Me I'm Sick is fine, but like it, how many other songs are there that can paint the picture of flannel & torn Levi's life? Almost all the songs from those bands (the usual ones) that get labeled as grunge when grunge is a lifestyle.

Not bad, the review. At least it’s not as repetitive as the others.

Very good, well done jawbreaker. A bit with the review of Not Available you reminded me of the Residents and their few but bold friends, right? Anyway, I only know a little about Snakefinger and I've never listened to him properly; I just knew he had connections with the Residents. Review "fast 'n delicious."

Jack Kerouac, not James. Too bad about the record, I wanted to review it! Anyway, well done, I share your musical impression of the record. I would have added something about the symbolic meaning of the record, but I agree with you.

It goes from person to person; what you say is partly reasonable, partly just thrown out there, just to say something. Alessio and Psycho are right overall, even if they should leave space for the malignant prejudices about young people. I love music, but there's a difference between the experience of listening to music and musical culture. I might even know who the Royal Trux are, even if I’ve never listened to them. On the other hand, the music that interests me, I listen to little by little, until I get to the core. The stomach is different for everyone, just like digestion. There are those who can fully understand an album in a week or even after listening to it three times, although perhaps they have a little help from the web. After three listens, it was already easy for me to describe it fully. I like to write reviews about what I'm listening to, the first impressions it gives, the impression/expression relationship. Personally, I only use Scaruffi for album release dates and for the knowledge of the lives of those bands you can’t even find on Wikipedia, but you find them in Scaruffi’s mind. I am a music lover, damn it. I downloaded Trout Mask Replica once. I hated it and deleted it. Maybe one day my ear will manage to understand and love it. Twin Infinitives? Never touched. I, on the other hand, have a different digestion for the alternative fragments from the eighties. For Psycho, it was hard to deconstruct, understand, and finally love Double Nickels On The Dime. Well, for me, frankly, it was a piece of crap compared to many other works, simply because a year and a half ago I was only listening to crossover and alternative music (I listened to the early Chili Peppers until my brain almost exploded), and that’s why my ear excellently tolerates DNotD (one of my favorite albums).