Sanjuro

The bullshit now is that Dave Grohl is a technical musician and the tracks from In Utero are complex. BUT then Mac MacNeilly from the Jesus Lizard is a fucking Beethovenian alien. Grohl was a decent drummer, but there’s very little difference between him and a Chad Channing (Bleach). He’s not a jazz musician like the guy from Can or the sacred monsters like the drummer from Popol Vuh, and just a mediocre with little imagination, highly limited compared to the drummer from Fugazi. Let’s face it, Nirvana were severely limited musicians, not only in terms of technique but also in structure: yet they were communicative, their only but great virtue.

The album closest to the primordial grunge scene, made up of clattering giants like TAD and Mudhoney, is paradoxically the one you’d label as the least "Grunge" but is actually the most. ENOUGH WITH THE NIRVANA, FOR GOD'S SAKE! Always the same structures, always the same hard-verse melodic chorus or vice versa. Nirvana, as much as they are admirable, are light-years behind many others. Names? Big Black, Fugazi, Jesus Lizard, Husker Du, Butthole Surfers - I could pull out dozens more. Even Babes In Toyland made more varied, innovative, and interesting albums than Nirvana. 3 out of 5 for their entire discography, and the most interesting things Cobain did are treated like crap B-sides, like Hairspray Queen or Big Long Now (respectively inspired by Butthole Surfers and Flipper). What can I say? An important band because they brought the underground to the forefront and introduced many to the alternative subculture of the 80s and 90s, but beyond that, they remain albums that can get a 7/10 and nothing more.

WHY ISN'T IT DE-CHOSEN!?!?! It's amazing!!! What do you think about Sebadoh? PS: I love the little dinosaur.

I just wrote and sent 5 questions to VILLE VALo, an interview... enjoy it. :)

Same dough as HIM, the usual white wall covers for girls. In this whole cauldron of pale faces on teenage shirts, Jim Morrison ended up there without distinction. So in addition to the useless Ville Valo and various crap, there's the face of one of the greatest geniuses of all time. The pretty and edgy My Chemical Romance, what a group of spastic kids.

2.55 for this record is like saying that the Mona Lisa is a man. Vote 1. Shitty group, a bunch of horrible kids, pure crap. That college video of them pretending to be neurotic when they are just a bunch of spoiled American brats. Total crap ^^

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Strasputtanati, they showed them on MTV while they were recording an album. These 4 or 5 idiots were trying to play the music parts as fast as possible so they could leave in the evening for the casino, to go out and be snobby rich kids. What a great concept of art. And then just look at the HIM cover: and it's only one. It's like making a Doors album just with Jim Morrison's face on it, but what credibility can a band like that have? They suck, a collection of horrific clichés, a unique emptiness. The pretty boy that the girls love, filling their rooms with his pale little shit face: HIM.

It's like this everywhere. Windows vs. Linux. Basically, when you go to buy a computer, most of the time they shove a copy of Windows XP or whatever the hell it is down your throat, whether you want it or not. I mean, they add 100 euros to the price of the computer for an operating system that you didn't personally choose. Linux is free; many say it's more stable and doesn't give you unreasonable blue screens. When you install Windows XP, you have a clunky little program to write with: Notepad. You have to buy Microsoft Word; you absolutely have to buy every tiny little thing. Linux is free, more user-friendly, and all that. So can you explain to me why people can't choose between the two or even potential third or fourth options? Because Linux is kept in the dark, and Windows gets shoved down your throat without you even knowing that other options exist. The same goes for music: you'll find yourself reluctantly listening to the latest from Robbie Williams because you're forced to see and hear that particular artist in supermarkets or everywhere else. In 99% of cases, people will never have another option: they're screwed.

Zion, I like you. And you’ve not only hit the jackpot with your review, but you've also addressed a very important point: rock, rap, as well as dance, and every other genre pushed by MTV and its related horrendous peers is neither rock, nor rap, nor anything else. It’s just a stupid shantytown of clichés, of golden chain necklaces and scantily clad girls, of decadent rock poses that have been outdated for 30 years: MTV. That’s why when I hear someone say “Rap sucks,” I wonder what musical experiences they’ve had to conclude such a thing. The big guy with the $ around his neck surrounded by ghetto-fabulous black girls is just a sort of garbage channel that has vague affinities with rap, just like rock; if a young person wants to know something about rock, they’re automatically screwed: they turn on the TV and find Blink 182 or My Chemical Romance, and if they search online for things like “100 greatest albums ever,” they’ll come across some music critic related to or coerced by the majors who will feed them a: 1) Meet The Beatles anything. That’s why we’re screwed, because there’s a pervasive darkness in everything, there’s a rigged monopoly with a thousand different facades that actually all emerge from a single money-grabbing machine. Even dance; there are genres like “Alternative Dance” or “Adult Dance,” rhythmic dance beats with introspective and personal themes. So Dance = Crap; these are considerations filtered through the darkness of MTV and sold-out critics.