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Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie & The Infinite Sadness

11 jan 06

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I apologize if I hurt the feelings of some fans (the ones who up there are whining as usual). Ah, the album still costs around 30 euros, barring any special discounts; back then it was about 40,000, but to know certain things you had to be there at the time, not just download it from eMule. But didn't fans used to know something generic about their idols? Now it seems like the ultras are arriving, and if you touch their toy, they just mock you and don't provide any reasons. At least back then you acted like punching bags, and quite well! But let's not dwell on the kids. Just to understand, since we're talking about "masterpieces," what have the Smashing Pumpkins contributed to rock? What is their significance? I'm curious.

Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie & The Infinite Sadness

11 jan 06

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We only come out at night is a piece of crap, if that fucking little electronic pop is original, and on top of that it messes with Corgan's voice, we're in real trouble. Fuck you is the usual ridiculousness of "deheho now we sell when you told us we were idiots, deal with it." What does it mean that releasing a single CD was a "commercial gimmick"? They came out with a very inconsistent double album, a double album that they charged for, not that they gave it away. And there are really a lot of double albums without a second of drop, you just need to have the material to fill it with.

The Books Lost and Safe

11 jan 06

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But weren't they Dutch? Did I screw up my brain?

The Books Lost and Safe

11 jan 06

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For me, disappointment number one of 2005, it makes me comb my hair. And beating the coccorosa to disappointments this year was tough, eh ... I even gave it more listens than it deserved; usually, if I don't like something, I don't like it.

Litfiba 17 Re

11 jan 06

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For me, Desaparecido is clearly superior, an essential wave album in Italy. I love Litfiba; in trying to follow the wave trend, they released a couple of albums that couldn't be more out of style, adorable. And they are Italian, not cheap copies of some English band, which no one ever says. This is also a nice record; I've had it on vinyl since back in the day, sooner or later I'll buy the CD.

Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie & The Infinite Sadness

11 jan 06

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Baroque to the unbelievable, the Pumpkins overdid it without having the ability to handle a double. Tonight Tonight, for example, is pathetic—a sentimental little song with the usual adolescent redemption, always hated. Porcelina, on the other hand, is a great piece. Generally, it's an inconsistent album, alternating stunning tracks with truly terrible ones. Still, an album with verve, for the time when if you didn’t do grang you were a poor delicious idiot; for me, not a masterpiece, I prefer Adore, but I think that's more due to personal inclinations than actual value. Just to confirm my frontal lobotomy, am I the only one who hears "I bleed" by the Pixies in "Love"?

Guns n' Roses Use Your Illusion II

10 jan 06

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Easy... I've given you my take, and I have very few expectations of objectivity. For me, Psycocandy has always been overrated, and its monotonous backdrop, in my opinion, is not enough to justify shoegazing; it's just an opinion.

Guns n' Roses Use Your Illusion II

10 jan 06

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The masterpiece is Surfer Rosa, but from what I understand, you might appreciate Bossanova. However, there's not much to say; if you don't like it, you don't like it. Nobody is obligated to like something here. I honestly don't hear a damn thing in the SGs of Black Sabbath. Led Zeppelin... come on, that's a given. Anyway, I got caught up in the usual pointless discussion; "grunge" doesn't affect me one way or the other, and it tends to annoy me since (like every trend) it overshadows absolutely deserving works. Take Pavement, for example.

Guns n' Roses Use Your Illusion II

10 jan 06

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What an encyclopedia, let's not bullshit. I lived through the '80s and "bought records," that's it. Pop is not a genre, more of an attitude. Even XTC were pop, for instance. These statements always make me smile, a bit like the pompous punk of Fugazi going to war with a Genesis fan—claiming that an entire current of thought, or artistic, or anyway a considerable group of artists hasn’t produced anything good is madness. Because, as I've already repeated to the point of exhaustion, it’s certainly not your tastes that are being called into question.

Guns n' Roses Use Your Illusion II

10 jan 06

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I mean, don’t you hear the Pixies in Soundgarden? With Pearl Jam, sure, they are a Hard Rock band that slipped into the damn Grunge for whatever reason only God knows. With Soundgarden, definitely yes.
I don't love Nirvana either (nor Soundgarden, nor Pearl Jam). I do love the Pixies, though, a lot; I think they might be my absolute favorite band. I'm primarily into wave, punk, dark, '80s stuff, you know. Just tell me one Tool album and I’ll buy it; I know them very, very little.