bogusman

DeRank ™: 0,23

DeAge™ : 7726 days • Here since 15 april 2005

Sonic Youth Goo

4 may 05

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Goo is definitely not up to the level of Daydream Nation, Dirty, and certainly not Sister. With such a flat production and such a clean sound... yes, okay, the songs are nice, but the sound recycles ideas and tricks that have been established for years. In my opinion, it is with this album that the SY enter their most mannerist phase.

Air 10.000 Hz. Legend

4 may 05

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sorry I made a bit of a mess: the voice that says "smettila" can be heard at minute 3 and 45 of People in the City...

Air 10.000 Hz. Legend

4 may 05

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for me it’s an absolute masterpiece, subtly referencing Pink Floyd, Kraftwerk (and anyone else you might want to find traces of). songs like "People in the City," "How Does It Make You Feel," or "Radian" are definitely among the duo's best. by the way, what do you think of the female voice that near the end of the track, (immersed in keyboards and various chaos) can be heard giggling and saying “SMETTILA!” with a likely Tuscan accent?

Sonic Youth Sister

3 may 05

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Anyway, Katzenjammer and Antonino91, the fact that the eighties are to be seen as "really bad" seems to me to be a matter still to be proven... it’s the same sectarian point of view that the filopunk critics flaunted when they wanted to throw all the 70s progressive into the trash to make room for the then sparkling new waves...

James Chance and The Contortions Buy

2 may 05

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However, it is also true that one cannot deny a quarter of an hour of healthy pride for the rediscovery of a forgotten masterpiece like this or others...

James Chance and The Contortions Buy

2 may 05

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Battisti was just one example among many. The history of rock (not just from little-known individuals) has also been shaped by iconic figures like, randomly, the Beatles, Bowie, the Police... who the hell cares if the same notes resonate from a hundred thousand other bedrooms and you're not the only cool kid in your neighborhood who knows them!

James Chance and The Contortions Buy

2 may 05

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You know, psychopomps, often the unknown=cool mentality stems from a certain anger towards the cynical and disgusting music business that has often buried things that are in some way "alternative." However, I agree with you; when this becomes a pose, it falls into petty snobbery.
I'm telling you this as a Battisti fan: while I absolutely adore the works with Mogol, when I started writing reviews on Battisti, I preferred to focus on the later works with Panella, because I think not much has been said about them...

Sonic Youth Sister

1 may 05

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I, for example, have never been a fan of progressive rock (and I still can't digest EL&P), but I really like certain things by King Crimson, some by Van Der Graaf Generator, or the early Genesis. There would be a long parentheses to open about the "new vs. old" conflict between the late Prog scene and the emerging new wave in the second half of the '70s, but those seem to be critical issues that have been overcome, considering that we are now in the midst of post-everything revisionism, and there's no longer a militant criticism like there was twenty-five years ago.

Sonic Youth Sister

1 may 05

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... then New Wave isn't even a "genre" in the strict sense, being made up of groups and trends that sometimes are even diametrically opposed. How can you dismiss it as if it were a single group?
I would like to know based on what principle you put into the same garbage bag (for example) The Cure, Talking Heads, Patti Smith... then I don’t know who you have listened to.

Sonic Youth Sister

1 may 05

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As for Grateful Dead (the ones from Live/Dead), you have my full approval. Regarding Pink Floyd, not everything, and with Led Zep I admit I've only gotten as far as the second album (except for the splendid live double for the BBC). I've always looked at ELP a bit sideways, but let's leave that aside... But now, dear Katzenjammer, you really should tell me what you mean by new wave and what are the things you've discarded...