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sooooooo great!!!! Few would have made such a loving and tasteful choice... one day even the Vaselines will get the glory they deserve! just hope they don't decide to do a reunion too, otherwise they'll start to get on my nerves right away.. congrats again!

Personally, I believe that the Family was the greatest black group, and perhaps it can sit alongside a group like the Velvet Underground: Sly and Lou experimented beyond imaginable levels at a time when others were just beginning to open their eyes. The fantastic subsequent era might not have been such without the contribution of such tireless minds. S&TFS, in any case, finds itself in the Olympus of the greatest bands that ever existed because it sought to create music that encompassed all the potential that a pop band could enjoy: massive public success (Elvis), articulation of protest ideas (Bob Dylan), slogan songs (CCCP, RATM), anti-racist and anti-classist struggle (Living Colour, War), maximum experimentation in music (at Woodstock, he was messing around on that keyboard that looked like Fatboy Slim and meanwhile sang like IL Ray), a proposal for a sunny yet convinced philosophy of love, peace, and freedom (Beatles). In this group lies the past and future of popular music. It's a shame he is now a black Syd Barrett.

Congratulations on choosing Go and for keeping us updated on this legendary band!

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This is a fantastic album, just like the one that sold you that magnificent CD. With "The Doors" or "Strange Days," you would have fallen in love with the lizard king right away, starting to spend nights proposing shamanic hookups to girls. This is ultimately "the lesser album" of the Doors, where few venture, and many actually prefer to climb up instead to The Soft Parade out of curiosity to hear what is officially considered (in my opinion, excessively) the crap of the Doors. This is a taste of what L.A. Woman will be, but with still some -fantastic- remnants of the previous psychedelia (Waiting For The Sun and Blue Sunday above all). Now thank me! Because I gave you the toughest nut to crack right away, now you will have a better understanding of L.A. Woman and you will be ready to have a blast with Light My Fire. PS I got fired for burning the tickets for DJ Francesco.

I apologize for "the year" but I was in urgent need to respond.

In my opinion, the farewell to the '90s was marked by the first Coldplay album and Kid A by Radiohead. That album represented a turning point: if it had been celebrated and acclaimed – which, in my opinion, it deserved – as the new ultimate sound to follow, like the new bible that the best band of the time had spent 3 years working on, perhaps the future would have been different. Instead, it was immediately snubbed, pushed aside, and with it, Radiohead. The followers like Muse, Coldplay & Co. didn't have an easy time either. Then, once the critics brushed their teeth after the bad dream of Kid A, they discovered Is This It by the Strokes, and then the frenzy began. Since then, we have lived off dazzling debuts (I got excited about Darkness and Scissor Sisters) but all so far have been of short breath, full of style and form, but lacking in substance. This is what is missing from the cut-and-paste-revival music that is all around us now. Everything is a revival, everything has style, and we are already scraping the bottom of the barrel (see Backstreet Boys, Mel C of the Spice Girls, etc.). Marcella Bella is back too... but I’ll just blast Outkast and screw these zombies.

Let's bring back the '80s!! I completely agree on the great value that decade had. My observation was about that myriad of one-hit-wonder bands that drew from this sort of white soul but lacked the passion, conviction, and talent of Paul Weller. I also grew up in the '80s and know that people like Prince, The Smiths, U2, Living Colour, Husker Du, etc., planted the seeds for the great adventures of the '90s when alternative music became the dominant sound. The problem lies with the 2000s, or at least this first half-decade: so many cool little bands (Libertines/Strokes/White Stripes/Franz Ferdinand/Hives, and a thousand others) with all the right credentials (Converse, glasses, beer in hand, two brawls a month, fans of Ramones, Lou Reed, Iggy Pop, New York Dolls, etc., and ultra-stylish Sixties haircuts) but lacking new ideas, without that magical blend of life and music (remember types like Jeff Buckley or Kurt Cobain?) and not much experimental sincerity. It’s no wonder that people end up clinging back to Duran Duran (80s) or Oasis (90s). The Stranglers said, "No More Heroes"... but some still do! Bring back the Bronski Beat!

Sorry for the delay... Setting Sons is a gem, short but compact, a kind of concept album about British lifestyle. You know I also have Our Favourite Shop? I really like All Gone Away, A Stones Throw Away, Down In the Seine, and others... I think the Style were a great period, maybe Paul Weller was at the peak of his creativity there. But he wasn't able to implement his original ideas with the perfection and style of the Jam. The Style defined that '80s sound that, after being copied by everyone, we ended up believing was banal and in poor taste. Or was it really?