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Luk, let's get married on Pluto.
Melvins Ozma
30 aug 05
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In Rome at the Palaghiaccio? The one from the attempted suicide?
Melvins Ozma
30 aug 05
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It depends on what you like; the "easiest" or "most accessible" is Houdinì, followed by this and the early works. Otherwise, there are those that are more aggressive and experimental, like Lysol, Bullhead, Honky. Or the latest works that have various elements; for example, in "The Bootlicker," there isn’t even one guitar riff, not a single one, just a couple of clean guitar plucks here and there. In the end, I’d say Stoner Witch; I started from there, and it worked. It's a bit tough, between the nonsense and everything else, there are thirty albums :)
Melvins Ozma
30 aug 05
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Excellent. The description "crushing debut Grunge album" is a bit of an exaggeration, considering that they had already "started the movement" a few years earlier with 16 songs, but it fits well within the context since we are still talking about the Melvins, and when it comes to Grunge (and not just that), you can't escape them. Anyway, the writing is excellent; "elefante in distilleria" is truly anthological.
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Paranoid Android on solo piano, mmmh... it takes the right moment. It's not raining here.
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Oh yes, a separate case in the discography of the Magnet: not by chance I didn't include my beloved "stoner" in the genres, definitely very different from something like Spine Of God or Superjudge. For example, I would never recommend another Magnet album to Hal apart from this one; this one is much softer and psychedelic, you won’t find any loud guitar riffs or drumming outbursts, it’s a floaty trip through space, while Spine or Superjudge are more about "interstellar storm", I join Rocky and his "reassess Psycho!" ;-)
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Ah, they aren't singers, they're Mcs: Zack, in terms of rhythm, style, flow, and content, gives Rey a run for his money. The voice is more of a distraction, you can even overlook it; it's the rhymes that make the mc :)
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I don't know, I think you have your ears blocked because RATM have sold millions of albums, it's a snobby attitude. Read the interviews with D.Set, see what they say about RATM. It doesn’t make sense because it would be like saying "Hooray for Nirvana and fuck the Melvins"; without RATM you wouldn't have D.Set, according to D.Set themselves, mind you. Shamelessly derivative, it’s obvious: D.Set are RATM with a less technical guitarist but with a good drummer, the only difference is the sound, the rest is quite obviously derivative. Even you, despite talking bad about them, have mentioned Zack & Co. multiple times in this conversation because the derivation is evident. They can be as much to your liking as you want, I like them too, but they're just a faded version of RATM, there's little to go around it. RATM, as Sahen Embury would say, are "Leaders, not Followers"; you can also like the Floowers, but being against the Leaders doesn’t make sense. :) Ah, maybe you already know it, but I’ll give it to you anyway, this is the website of a friend of mine about D.Set, in Italian -> downset.tk <- maybe you'll find some nice interviews there too :)
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From those lands, more serious stuff is coming out now than in the 80s. Try Definitive Jux Records, Mush Records, Ninja Tune Records, the Rap sub-label of Warp (the name escapes me at the moment), try Anticon, check out Clouddead, Dalek, the X-Ecutioners... forget the 80s or 90s. In my opinion, real rap was born in 1997 with Company Flow; everything that came before is just prehistory made of rhymes on four beats, simple and more or less calculated: prehistory. Aside from a few funky chapters like ATCQ or Gang Starr, I hardly manage to listen to anything released before '97 or '98. The problem is that cheap rap sells now, so serious stuff is even harder to find than before (not that it was easy back then, mind you), but now there are many more people who know how to do it compared to ten or twenty years ago, especially between New York and Chicago; the rest of the world produces crap, including Italy.