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Nice review, the album could interest me and Paola Maugeri was the recurring erotic dream of my adolescence.

Come on... GG Allin would shit on Lennon and Osho's heads.

And anyway, I couldn't care less about what people read in Minor Threat's songs. 1) because most of them are stupid. 2) because everyone gives their own interpretation to the songs. Just think that "Guilty of Being White" has become the anthem for Polish skinheads. Now, should I start believing that "Guilty of Being White" is a racist song just because a racist likes it? That's why your "I think so and many others do too" doesn't hold up. Just tell me what you think, that's more than fine with me.

let's take a small example. imagine a 20-year-old boy who's out partying, comes home, puts the money in the pickle jar for a while, and when it becomes a little pile, he says, "let's make a record." now, no record label (because before that boy, indie labels didn't exist) would produce his music, no music store would display his album. so what does the boy do? no, he doesn't take the $350 and shoot up. no, he doesn't become a puppet of a greedy opportunist and a crappy stylist. no, he starts his own record label with the intent to "document" their music and that of their friends and share it across the country with other twenty-somethings who think like him. so, he prints the records and glues, himself, at his grandfather's house, the covers. the first ten thousand records were made by hand, glue, brush, and a lot of time. so, what the hell is nihilist about that, or the dionysian, amoral hedonism?

It would be nice and fun if you explained when Wire did "melodic punk." I have a strong feeling that you don’t know what you’re talking about. Choose: Pink Flag; Chairs Missing; 154? Don’t mess it up or you’ll lose the bonus to move on to the next level :)

Okay, everything is open to interpretation, but not exactly everything. While it's true that we need to define the concept of art and everyone has their own view on it, it's also true that nihilism indicates a very precise concept, and since it represents a well-defined idea and Hardcore has developed in a specific way, opinions can be left at home. The truth is that Hardcore has nothing to do with nihilism. Period. Now, considering that those who played Hardcore were typically teenagers and delivered pizzas in their free time to make records... do you really see that as very nihilistic? The only truly nihilistic Hardcore is the one from New York, played by junkies who sold themselves to get high, and indeed, it’s musically irrelevant. Hardcore is not Punk; it’s not some gimmicky nonsense made with Major label money and designer coats, that redhead, I can't remember her name. If Hardcore had truly been nihilistic, there wouldn’t have even been a single record produced... and this is not theory, it’s reality. Just count how many documented bands are from the New York scene compared to those from Washington or Los Angeles. There are exceptions, but in essence, there’s nothing nihilistic. Provided one has a good understanding of both Hardcore and nihilism.

Of course, the rat-woman beats everyone, no doubt about it.

"but hardcore did not emerge 'with the ambition to create art' that's punk. Punk and Hardcore are not synonyms. 'an extremization of the concept of nihilism.' it depends. Flipper okay, Cro-Mags too, but Minor Threat, Black Flag and most hardcore bands have nothing to do with nihilism. Nothing at all. 'musically surely Wire have influenced some hc bands but personally I see them closer to the more mature Hüsker Dü' musically, I see no two things more distant, but that's just my opinion."

And yes, he is a man and now also a cat.

One of my favorite 7" records. Wire definitely influenced Hardcore. Partly because, unlike their contemporary bands, they had the ambition to "make art," partly because they weren't trying to play poorly executed rock'n'roll, and partly because they were fully naive. There are a couple of covers to prove this... from the famous "12XU" by Minor Threat to the lesser-known "Heartbeat" by Big Black.