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Anthrax State Of Euphoria

25 dec 07

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The beginning of the decline, those before were all saved, this one wasn't.
(Live, they didn't deliver shit)

Keith Fullerton Whitman Recorded in Lisbon

23 dec 07

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Your father listened to rock, so it all makes sense.
I should have figured it out.
My father, imagine that, he had been a partisan—he didn't have anything other than songs of the resistance.
But that was the case for those of my generation; music was only listened to outside the family context, in a group dynamic of friendships.
As a result, groups formed based on tastes, so in some way there was more extremism, against the mainstream or pop or disco music as it was called back then.
In short, less eclectic, more foolishly rigid, if you prefer, but that’s how it was.
Those who listened to alternative indie or whatever you want to call it hated commercial music and vice versa.
I don’t think I explained myself well anyway, compliments on the reviews, and thanks for the advice.

Charged G.B.H. City Baby Attacked By Rats

23 dec 07

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claISdead You're right, it's the reasons that make it inferior, the first one. But I don’t agree with the comparison: if "wild in the street" is just an adequate album (as you rightly said), well, a bit of a letdown. "Baby Revenge" is still a great album and there isn’t that huge qualitative difference from the first one, as it was indeed for the Circle Jerks. Besides, I've always had a soft spot for GBH, so I'm not objective. You know, I even found the later ones enjoyable. For example, right now (you know how it is, talking about it makes you want to listen), I’m playing "Malice in Wonderland" from the EP "Oh no it's G.B.H. again." And after all these years of having this record, I still consider it a good piece.

Francesco Baccini Nudo

23 dec 07

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this guy is full of himself!
He was a friend of a friend of mine from Milan; when she introduced us, I told him that the only bearable song of his was "Rifacciamo il muro di Berlino" (I didn't really find it bearable, but I wanted to be polite).
His response was, "Of course, it's a masterpiece," good for you, but at that point my friend intervened and the debate ended. We never saw each other again.
I wasn’t keen on deepening the friendship.

Crass Christ The Album

23 dec 07

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No. I didn't know that, I must admit that the only Italian H.C. band I've continued to follow (from that wave, I mean) were Kina and Quinto Braccio, where Tax, the guitarist who would later be part of Negazione, got his start. The others, I only remember the chaos they created and how beautiful that was. Clearly, the worst punks must have matured quite a bit since the days of the little house I was telling you about. They were very amateurish, like almost all the others, after all.

Crass Christ The Album

23 dec 07

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andre86, you're just asking for it!
I Sellac, Carla Bozulich, Battles, Arcade Fire, Ghost, Liars, Xiu Xiu, Black Dice (and I could go on for a while) is all that crap to you?
Of course, if you cite those MTV "alternative" groups, it makes me think that you lack a good indie culture more from YOUR time than the punk masterpieces from 30 years ago.
Which, despite being such, are indeed 30, actually 37 years ago, and in the meantime a lot has happened, you know?

Crass Christ The Album

23 dec 07

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You weren't even born yet, and do you know them?
But why did they publish something, I mean officially, in the following years?
I remember a concert, ages ago.
But the only thing I possess from the peggiopunx is a self-produced cassette from the fanzine 'Ansia',
where they played alongside other punks from the Turin scene, among them the legendary Blue Vomit, the authors of the most punk song (in the strictest sense) ever written in Italy.
Damn, I feel so old, but in my bitterness, I'm comforted by the fact that even now, kids
appreciate the bands that made me mosh at 16.