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Very simple, those who "MC biggest disc of the '90s" listened to those records in the '90s. Mike76, get used to it, as soon as you touch this record, the insults come flying at you. It's enough to restore dignity to the fans of Dream Theatre :D

Well, I don’t know if I prefer the salty voting serial types or those who say "punk died with the Sex Pistols" :D But it's great to see people getting riled up after 30 years and still against the Pistols - they really broke your little toy, huh? ;)

Boh ... The turn before the Smiths was the 4 psychotics from London who not only couldn't write a good piece even if you dictated it to them, but they released an album that, aside from its strictly social component, is worth infinitely less than the other records of the time and is infinitely less complete. The point of the Smiths, as with all the bands that drastically changed the course of music in their time (and I repeat, the English wave after the Smiths _dissolved_) is that they interpreted the feelings of that generation of depressed dandy, without necessarily digging for causes and correlations in "society" or "the system," but with an approach that was much more suitable for the youth of the time who found themselves word for word. Musically, the Smiths are a very traditional band, and for this reason, they were probably also fundamental from this perspective; the rhythm section stopped being the predominant part of the composition (think of all the dark and all the wave), the songs were melodic, voice and guitar, an old new or a new old. As far as I'm concerned, The Queen is Dead is an exceptional album, of beautifully light music that Moz's whiner attitude makes irresistible for me. A murmur has little to do with it, it’s a great album, but in every sense a wave album that, even though it’s exceptional in certain ways, doesn't match the level of Queen is Dead, which is a bit of the conclusion and testament of the Smiths. It'll be a damn bouquet of flowers around the neck, who knows ... :D

This album isn't even punk rock, it doesn't resemble it at all. It's not enough to just throw down three tough and pure looks to make punk rock, you know... If you like this stuff, I recommend Dickies, Real Kids, Buzzcocks, Adolescents, I mean all those who were doing this kind of thing centuries ago without screaming girls around.

Young Loud and Snotty? Oh my God, I really don’t feel Television... Punk was like that back then, even the Avengers or Crime were very similar (but actually everyone, Blank Generation is a garage/r'n'r record, and it defined the aesthetics later expanded by the Pistols across the ocean). The Testors were a hardcore band without the themes of hardcore, splendid :D

I forgot.

@pretazzo, Hell was a Television. Legend has it that the good Hell and Tom Verlaine were reported together when they were very young for setting fire to a wheat field, and they ran into each other years later in New York to form Television a little later on. They're all connected in one way or another; they were all part of the same group (the ones from CBGB’s), Verlaine and Smith had a relationship, by the way. Along with them, many others who are now more or less forgotten. The Dead Boys are more punk '77 (if Sonic Reducer isn’t punk, I don't know what is). Was there an invasion of proggies? And nobody called me? Bastards.

First and Last and Always is a masterpiece, Only Theatre of Pain comes quite close. For the record, the Sisters of Mercy are among my all-time favorite bands :)
Marilyn's make-up, however, is a mix between Kiss and Bowie (who, by the way, has naturally different colored eyes), I’d say that already says a lot...

Read the texts too. My point is that Minor Threat were able to advance the movement towards an ideology that is less "buzzicona" but more focused on reality, starting to analyze the individual rather than the environment in which this so-called "punk" operated. You can make all the music you want, but if you don't have a damn thing to say ...

Anyway, the Bauhaus are a brilliant recommendation; the leader is definitely much more "aesthetic" than Manson, with immense artistic qualities and an innate theatricality that makes the band a must-have. The album is called In the Flat Field.