bogusman

DeRank ™: 0,23

DeAge™ : 7726 days • Here since 15 april 2005

The Jimi Hendrix Experience Are you experienced?

18 jul 05

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An absolute masterpiece that, 38 years later, screams, shouts, and kicks hard as if it were just released yesterday. Far superior even to the much-praised (but which has always left me a bit cold, perhaps because it lacks the same incendiary urgency) Electric Ladyland...

The Dream Syndicate The Days Of Wine And Roses

18 jul 05

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Of Thin White Rope, I absolutely prefer Moonhead, an excellent synthesis of 80's contemporaneity and 60's memories. I have nothing by Green on Red. Anyway, I agree that DREAM S should have had a sound that was even more instrumental, with more concise, impactful, and rock-oriented lyrics, ultimately less "singer-songwriter"...

The Dream Syndicate The Days Of Wine And Roses

16 jul 05

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The 60s reinterpreted through the lens of the new wave, I see them more in the REM of Murmur than in the Dream S., which in my opinion (skinny drums aside) showcase a much more classical sound.

Psychopompe,
speaking of country-psych references, I think the Thin White Rope suit you better...

The Dream Syndicate The Days Of Wine And Roses

15 jul 05

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Oh right, I forgot about the grades, as always.

The Dream Syndicate The Days Of Wine And Roses

15 jul 05

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splendid album and very important testimony, (together with Murmur by REM) of the dissolution of the new wave into the 60's revival, or paisley underground if you prefer. "When you smile" kills me every time I hear it, even though I prefer it in the dirtier version from the mini-album included in the recent reissue. I've always found Medicine Show a bit too cold and verbose compared to this masterpiece. well done my bloody syndicate, great choice and excellent debut!

Chrome Half Machine Lip Moves

14 jul 05

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To get closer to the Chromes, dear Psycho, I would recommend starting with Alien Soundtrack, which is more varied and, in its own way, also more melodic. The Visitation isn't bad either, although it's still a bit too timid. I believe it's possible to pull a fast one with a reissue from '91 or thereabouts, pairing Alien Soundtrack with Half Machine Lip…
YOU'VE BEEN DUPLICATED!!!

Clock Dva Advantage

14 jul 05

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a lukin: I'm working on another review of Buried Dreams, but it's quite difficult to express everything that album evokes in me. Sonically, it's completely different from Advantage; strictly electronic, almost a very sinister version of Kraftwerk. Carruthers is the one from Hyaena by Siouxsie, but there’s no comparison: there he was just a guest, here on Adv. he participates much more actively in creating that obsessively oppressive atmosphere. In fact, zigghio, this review has been a very painful birth (and I would change something in certain parts), and I’m still undecided on what approach to take for B.D.

Clock Dva Advantage

14 jul 05

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I'm not very attached to the debut album, Thirst; I've always considered this the "legendary" album of Clockdva, even though Buried Dreams also deserves a review. I loved Man Amplified as soon as it came out, but now, 15 years later, it seems to have aged a bit poorly.

I don't know The Vanishing, and maybe I'll make up for the gap; thanks for the tip, giubbo. This is one of the few albums in the post-punk area that I never get tired of listening to without any hint of rancid odor reaching my nostrils (unlike New Order, Siouxsie, or Joy Division, which for inexplicable idiosyncrasies I can't stand for more than two songs).

Diamanda Galas The Singer

12 jul 05

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I still get chills at the memory of a concert I attended in 1995 (around the time of this album, am I right?). So I immediately went searching for her already substantial discography at the time and brought home You must be certain of the devil and Divine punishment & the saint of the pit. After that, I never listened to anything else of hers; maybe it's that her albums lose something compared to the power of the live event... Anyway, you really need to be in the mood for heavy, apocalyptic soundscapes to appreciate stuff like Vena Cava (an album centered on the suffering of terminal AIDS patients) or the other works I mentioned.