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Well, you uphold a text that I find unsustainable, but you do it well. I want to point out that it's quite difficult to turn the aesthetics of an era inside out without churning out masterpieces, exactly what the Smiths did with their music in the English wave, which pretty much evaporated after this album. The songs are definitely pop (the Smiths reintroduced a healthy sixties guitar sound into music; they couldn't have done it by making Tuxedomoon's music, I’d say :p), but they are all marked by Morrissey's black humor and "good ol' Britain," as well as his constant polemics against everything and everyone (only in this album: Thatcher, the royal family, the church, critics, contemporary bands). Perhaps he overindulges in lyricism, definitely in self-satisfaction, but I don't know of any band capable of influencing its times that has done so from the middle ground. And one of the most beautiful things about Zen Arcade is precisely its incompleteness, its "all this means nothing," let's not kid ourselves :p

I'm not very attentive to videos, sorry.

The early Radiohead, Buckley Jr., Brit-pop, all mixed with the equally boring revival wave, first among them the latest records of Echo and the Bunnymen (certainly not Crocodiles), especially in the lyrics, and so much, so much, so much the Church (we're almost at plagiarism here :p). It's certainly not an unpleasant little record, bought back in the day at full price because of Clocks, which I liked quite a bit. It didn't make it to the tenth listen, accompanied by curses for the 20 euros. For me, there's nothing wrong with following easy listening, indeed, even less with picking bits and pieces here and there, but here even though the result is pleasant, it's not enough to spark my interest. And then they really annoy me.

From the first piece to the last, it's a gigantic déjà vu.

What an album. What an album. What an album.

But are you stupid or do you just know how to stress yourself out? Do you realize that you've written an "review" full of insults? You've talked about "idiots," "little failed frustrated ones," and a whole series of embarrassing slurs that, even if often used just to give you a tone (that you don’t have), end up being quite annoying. Do you suffer from multiple personality disorder? An urgent stick-up-your-ass complex? You haven't said a damn thing about the album in question, nothing, kids reviewing the gansenrosis describe the album better, you've only and solely insulted anyone who doesn’t have as a hobby dropping acid and staring at a flower for 18 straight hours. And you'd like to pass that slew of insults off as "I like Area, punk makes me sick"? Kid, just to stay on theme, the one looking like an idiot here isn’t the old punk, but the young proggy. If I were you, I would avoid these outbursts, especially if you can’t back them up.

You made me grin quite a bit here.

An artist must not absolutely conform to the demands of the audience; it doesn’t exist in the world. Between Agnelli's unrestrained egocentrism and arrogance bordering on nausea (which only God knows why he is so puffed up, he has made a few "nice" albums, that's it), don’t bother him once he gets it. Requests are made to Queen cover bands, not to rock concerts.

Come on, no offense but it's the usual revisionism... Nirvana were a "phenomenon," which is why today many bands are more appreciated, like Pavement (whom I adore), simply because the "sound" of Nirvana has been absorbed and re-absorbed over the course of a decade, aided also by the thousands of clone bands that drew heavily from Nirvana. I'm not a huge fan of Nirvana, but it's definitely one of the most important albums of the past decade, IMHO much more significant than the '90s output of Sonic Youth and Pixies, just to name one, and I say this as a "die-hard" Pixies fan (so far only 7 concerts :p).