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Robert De Niro The Good Shepherd

18 feb 07

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The movie trailers have shown Lynch, and I remember Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. @Lord: congratulations on the triviality of your comment. One hopes that cinema still has an educational function and is not just for entertainment. Obviously, this function is now the predominant one, but that doesn't mean someone isn't right to criticize its lack. It's a bit like what has happened with TV, which has been dedicated to increasingly mindless entertainment for over twenty years now, with big brothers, Striscia la Notizia, Le Iene, Zelig, and various crap. I deliberately mentioned shows that are often (except for the first one) followed and respected by far more people than they should be. The movie, however, intrigues me. Bye, Nick.

MC5 Kick Out The Jams

18 feb 07

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finally a decent recording of a live track, with Kramer PHENOMENAL!

Beaver & Krause Gandharva

18 feb 07

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I found it last week in a record store in Moscow! They had everything, and I mean everything. A 5-meter wall + drawers only for garage and psychedelia. They had editions that I haven't even seen in Japan. The record still leaves me a bit bewildered, but I've only listened to it once.

The Strawbs From The Witchwood

17 feb 07

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I took Grave New World ...... but it left me rather perplexed; I was expecting something different, a bit pompous and cloying to my ears.

The Shins Oh Inverted World

17 feb 07

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As far as I remember about the album, it didn't seem very psychedelic to me, perhaps because we have different perspectives on the matter; everyone interprets psychedelia personally. For example, I find Grateful and Jefferson to be more on the acid side, while Syd and the early Floyd are definitely more psychedelic (again, according to my judgment). Perhaps only certain krautrock effectively describes a totalizing psychedelia. Great review.

Comets On Fire Avatar

10 feb 07

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I think the damn things removed it; already the week after my post, I couldn't see it anymore.

Soundgarden Badmotorfinger

10 feb 07

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good job mentioning Room a Thousand Years Wide, and its funhouse-reminiscent sax that I didn't understand back then... especially since the Stooges were unknown to me.

Soundgarden Badmotorfinger

9 feb 07

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I still remember when those damn guys messed up the transition of "Jesus Christ Pose" in Reggio Emilia (the concert where Kyuss scalped them like a live offering)... it was heresy for me. I had security take me away pretending I felt ill after 8 hours in the front row getting kicked by fake punk 15-year-olds (there were those losers, Pennywise, on the bill). I don't know which one I love more, this or "Supermattone." I discovered them with this, but I played "Superunknown" even more. However, there are peaks here that "Superunknown" doesn’t have, even if it’s more monolithic and layered.

Sigh Scorn Defeat

9 feb 07

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Sorry to interrupt, but does Slavonic Metal actually exist???? Damn, I thought only Slavonic wood existed (the kind used sometimes for oak barrels for wine). Then a small note (not to the reviewer): what sense does it make for a Japanese band to play black metal, that is (I believe, correct me if I'm wrong) writing lyrics against Catholicism, when the folk religion is Shinto, and where the majority of practitioners are broadly Buddhist? Unless it’s black only in the instrumental execution and not in the lyrical imagery. In the period you mention (it makes me feel old and also makes me laugh a bit to see "back in 1993" written... damn, time flies) I was heavily into black metal specifically Celtic Frost, Marduk, Darkthrone, Immortal, and Burzum, due to a friend who was a black metal fan, but none of those bands deviated from satanic themes. Can you clarify?

Sigh Scorn Defeat

9 feb 07

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Sorry to interrupt, but does Slavonic Metal actually exist???? Damn, I thought only Slavonic wood existed (the kind used sometimes for oak barrels for wine). Then a small note (not to the reviewer): what sense does it make for a Japanese band to play black metal, that is (I believe, correct me if I'm wrong) writing lyrics against Catholicism, when the folk religion is Shinto, and where the majority of practitioners are broadly Buddhist? Unless it’s black only in the instrumental execution and not in the lyrical imagery. In the period you mention (it makes me feel old and also makes me laugh a bit to see "back in 1993" written... damn, time flies) I was heavily into black metal specifically Celtic Frost, Marduk, Darkthrone, Immortal, and Burzum, due to a friend who was a black metal fan, but none of those bands deviated from satanic themes. Can you clarify?