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Tool Lateralus
26 sep 05
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Superintruder bought the limited edition picture disc vinyl for 40 dollars, he got it the moment it came out, practically snatching it out of Adam's hands. He talks a big game about being anti-globalization but as soon as the Tool do something, he turns into a frenzied queen (gnè gnè gnè).
Tool Lateralus
26 sep 05
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Since you made the papyrus, you could have included the first part of the Lateralus text to explain that the meter and the number of words follow the pippona. Anyway, the pippone has more commercial implications than anything else, in my opinion. And don't think that "it makes less money"; as soon as this album came out, it was number one on the charts in the whole USA for a week and a half. In Italy, they are known but not too much; in the USA, they have a lot more fame. Maybe you could have also mentioned that it was reissued last month in a limited edition Picture Disc with vinyl weighing who knows how many grams; they say it weighs almost as much as a double.
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Every now and then, a piece of commercial crap comes out, and “Rock It” is already a nice pile of nonsense: great beats for breakdancing, sure, but from Hancock, you expect a bit more than four notes over a beat. On that occasion, he was even more of a prick because he went up against four kids who barely knew how to use turntables, like AC Milan competing for the parish trophy of Santa Giusta. More than anything, I feel sorry for Anastasio, of whom I don't know other occasions where he got his hands dirty: Hancock took him into the tunnel. However, the second to last album, “Future 2 Future,” I quite like; it's very groovy and easygoing, but you can listen to it with pleasure. Next time, he'll bounce back; after all, he's still got balls made of titanium.
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Zion, but have you really listened to Neu!? And Faust? Can, Tangerine and all that stuff have nothing to do with Neu! & Faust, you know.
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At Zion, it's really the cosmic sagas that don't please, but not all of it is German ambient. Oh, there's plenty of ambient in Krautrock from the '70s, but it's not just Ambient and galactic deliriums; there's groove and counter-rhythm, much more than in the simplicity of Kraftwerk's loops, which have never used counter-rhythms or "bad" sounds... that's exactly why I dislike them. For example, "Trans Europe Express" is one of the songs that annoys me the most in the world—great innovative piece, but so dull, not even a little scratch, a counter-rhythm, a variation... in the end, it pales in comparison to the ambient delusions of Tangerine Dream and can't be compared to the groovy tracks of Neu! & Faust: a "Cassetto," a "Super78," a "Mamie Is Blue" completely overshadow the entire discography of Kraftwerk :D. I need to delve deeper into the Cosmic Jokers, Airò, you had already recommended them to me and I let some things slide, now that winter is approaching I'll give them a proper listen because they fit perfectly.
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not even in your dreams: they had the great merit of channeling experimentation into the simplest, unsuitable form of the song, simple. Then there were the Cluster, who had been doing that stuff already a few years before Kraftwerk. Techno? There are already Techno tracks in Neu!'s albums, but not "proto" or anything like that, just Techno. For House, listen closely to some of the more tribal-sounding tracks by Amon Duul. Tangerine & Popul Vuh is extreme ambient without rhythm, all the rest have grooves, the other electronic acts definitely have it, but I see Tangerine & Popul Vuh as having little influence, and I find Eno to be better than them. Kraftwerk made songs in loops, simple and essential, but they never made Techno, Drum N Bass, complicated groovy extreme stuff, and they probably dreamed about it at night. Synth-Pop, New Wave, Hip Hop, and all the rest of that stuff yes, simple essential and in loop, but with extreme electronics, not even in your dreams, too simple compared to the rest.
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If I remember correctly, yes, but it's been a while since I made a big purchase on Amazon because it doesn't make much sense—the shipping price is always around $3 per item. Whether you buy 1 or 135 CDs, it's still $3 each. So when I think of a CD, I just go and order it; sometimes I've even ordered one in the morning and another in the evening. Plus, this way you avoid problems like "we have 14 out of the 15 CDs you ordered in stock, and we won't ship them until the 15th one arrives." Anyway, read the Help and user comments; there’s also a ranking of the best sellers, the fastest ones, etc. You just need to get to know the site a bit because there’s so much stuff that it can be overwhelming, but once you learn to use it, it’s the best of all (which is obvious: it’s the largest on the planet :D).
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Tzè... these reppettari...
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1995: One CD better than the other.
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Ghezzi, however, has that Krautomane face (a kind term for saying "drug addict").