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What a great record

Man, do you know that it sounds like a text from a drunk Ferretti? :D

New Bomb Turks had a great debut but a disappointing follow-up, really a shame. Try the Teengenerate, you'll see you'll thank me later (and Bluetip, but I think you already know them). Normally, I would say that buying Dischord is rarely a bad deal; the worst that can happen is getting a challenging and not-so-accessible experimental band (U.S. Maple, to name one).

Come on, you can't possibly give this a 4, come on...

They don't drive me crazy.

It's not bad, actually.

Fugazi was the code used in Vietnam to say "we're dead already," meaning Fucked Up Got Ambushed Zipped In. Better Repeater and End Hits, the others a step below, but all worth having.

Beautiful record.

Various responses, but we really are not on the same page here... The look and attitude of the Ramones are not punk; they’re "junkies," as they themselves defined it, and their music doesn't resemble surf—it is surf, clearly speeded up. What the Ramones lack is all the philosophical apparatus of early punk, all the attitude towards society that was typical of the first punks. The Ramones are all about "hey, I vomited in the park and sniffed some glue, yabba yabba hey." The Exploited are an absolutely mediocre band that plays on punk stereotypes and easy anthems. They are still punk, though. In the '80s, they roamed the States calling themselves "Real Punks," and I assure you they ran away with their tails between their legs when they actually met real punks. strawberryNgarlic: the only house of cards here is your rather shaky musical knowledge. The non-musician Rotten, as clearly stated in the review, after dissolving the Sex Pistols created a band called P.I.L., an excellent group that produced at least two masterpieces (which you obviously do not know) that founded the British dark wave, a fundamental cornerstone for the new wave. The house of cards directly generated people like the Clash, Siouxsie and the Banshees, and Buzzcocks, and indirectly much of the music of the '80s and the following decades. I wouldn't say the same about the "real band" you mentioned, and I can imagine they would cut off their balls to have 1/100 of the importance that the Pistols had with *just one* album.

I won't go into detail about the 883, which I consider a Cecchetto band, thus unworthy of any consideration. We weren't discussing objective beauty; you’re twisting that. I told you that the lyrics of Husker Du are objectively not trivial. If they are trivial, the discussion is very simple: find me other bands that have addressed the same themes as Husker Du and in a manner that at least comes close to their greatness (the same greatness that, objectively, has influenced all subsequent artists of the genre and a good part of artists who have nothing to do with hardcore). The only examples you’ve brought me are two bands that, again objectively, have nothing to do with it. If you want, you can keep talking to me about 883 and psychology treaties (ignoring the fact that if everything is subjective, the value of any artistic criticism, the entire history of art, a site like this, or any museum becomes unclear: it's all subjective, down with Picasso, long live the scribbles of my son), I can very well direct my attention to something more useful.