Sanjuro

You're a little RoadDogg, do you think that the history of music can be measured in millions of copies sold, in popularity, and concert attendance? Then at this point, Green Day and Blink 182 should represent the state of punk in 2000. MTV shines a spotlight on a certain movement, and for most people, that represents the real evolution of music. Before Slash, there were a ton of guitarists who seriously revolutionized, used peculiar cacophonies, altered the concept of time, and deconstructed the canonical song form. Slash in 1987, when the rock 'n' roll of Guns was already 15 years old (AC/DC, much more likable and intelligent, had already done superior things since Let There Be Rock), didn't invent anything at all. Axl Rose is an inconsistent character; he wants to critique certain values of the America in which he lives, yet he has a 5 million dollar house. It’s like those riot kids who scream and scream and then go back to their parents’ warm meals at night. He is a product of the very state of affairs he would like to pretend to criticize. In the '80s, just think of bands like Sisters of Mercy, Killing Joke, Big Black, Rapeman, The Smiths, The Cure, Butthole Surfers, Pixies, Flipper, and another 10,000 I don’t even feel like mentioning to understand how the work of Guns is just useless garbage.

I agree...same old stuff, nice review.

The era of Luca Sardella Jonson I would almost toss away entirely; AC/DC had finished saying something with "For Those About To Rock," they had completed their mission and could have retired. There are a ton of dynamic and innovative musical trends in the '80s that make the band's lesser works, like "Blow Up Your Video," "Fly on the Wall," "Flick of the Switch," etc., seem trivial. Bon Scott was the essence of rock 'n' roll, while Johnson is more professional, less emotional, less wild, and his songs lack character; a "Jailbreak" or "Ride On" sung by Luca Sardella Johnson are just gasps thrown out there, and they don’t carry the theatrical and mimetic nature of the great Bon. This is also Angus's opinion! But I think everyone who has a lot of video material on the band, including bootlegs (like me), has realized that. AC/DC can’t hold up against hardcore, and if they hadn't run out of ideas during the punk era, they definitely did from 1982 onward. Nice songs, nothing more. In slang, "want" becomes "wanna" and "you" becomes "U." So for me, the album is "If U Wanna Blood U Got It!" It was perfectly clear that I was referring to that... you couldn't possibly get it wrong... I have 20 bootlegs with Bon Scott and about 100 videos of AC/DC, including concerts, TV appearances, curiosities, etc., etc., etc... you could say I know them!

The blackberry must be punished...and not for the music :)

You mentioned the 3 most obvious metal groups... Metallica and Iron Maiden anyway just don’t do it for me (even though the latter is more likable) and I'm indifferent to Pantera.

Nothing new, but cute.

Ah beautiful, I'm more Roman than you, I’ll even give you a wake-up call, you baby... Still with this fucking ostentatious Romaness blowing in the wind. Look, you don’t win anything by making others understand you’re Roman, or Genoese, or Sicilian, or Venetian, or from any other fucking region. Go listen to Oasis and review the shit that concerns you.

Sanjuro is an unreal character born from the pen of Akira Kurosawa; he is certainly not a public domain figure and overused, unlike poor Morrison. For you, having talent will likely coincide with having played at the conservatory or not having left the house to focus for six hours straight on a particularly complex solo. For me, talent means being able to communicate. Listen to this simple consultation scheme: Emotion equals END vs Technique equals End. Is it necessary to move your fingers quickly, to be able to sweep epically across the six strings to be worthy of note and talented? This is not my idea of music. Technique is a means, not an end, which is incomprehensible to 95% of people, but I could say even more about bands and people who play metal. The average metalhead has multiple orgasms watching fingers fly nimbly across the guitar... ahhhh but who cares?!? The average metalhead is a crude and inexpressive (not to mention unlucky) human who thinks the height of musical evolution is the raspy growls of Metallica. Ever heard of Residents, Chrome, Throbbing Gristle, Sun City Girls, Negativland, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282? Those, my dear, are unruly composers free from the rules of musical tradition, not the sub-human nonsense that requires days of sterile schooling. Nirvana, in their simplicity, put much more dedication into their music than the bureaucratic artisans of the instrument, not to mention they had evocative lyrics and a melodic spirit far above average. Do you consider the singers of Jesus Lizard and Butthole Surfers or those of DNA, Mars, Teenage Jesus, and The Jerks to be mediocre just because they were out of tune? Never thought that an approximate style might be a way of positioning oneself and communicating...?

It's true because with music "you either understand it or you don't." If someone tells me they listen to Jazz and Blues, do I say they don't "understand" just because I don't share their musical taste? Already, someone who has the nickname Jim Morrison is on the verge of 0 originality. I mean, you write your thoughts and sign off with someone else's name. Among other things, one of the most overused icons in the entire history of music. When the window opened for you to create your nickname, you must have thought, "Ceeee I’ll use Jim Morrison, the name Jim Morrison just sounds so cool" or failed..................MAssimo perhaps you missed what I said, I included in the melting pot of criticism the rhetorical phrases inherited to define Nirvana’s albums. The willingness to seriously address the band has largely been lost, starting from prejudices and well-tested constructions that are often misleading.

So: I adore Nirvana. I believe Chris Novoselic and the crew are among the most talented musicians in music history. With very basic means, they managed to paint inner landscapes... and blah blah blah, I don’t feel like finding the words. Nirvana is one of the greatest bands in history, leaving their contemporaries in the dust with their intensity and compositional intelligence. YES, COMPOSITIONAL INTELLIGENCE. The one that’s missing in 95% of metal bands on the planet; Nirvana's work is communicative and doesn't rely solely on masturbatory exercises and classic fillers, unlike others. It was an ironic review of the average Nirvana fan (the disturbed and inconsolable girls) and the average reviewer of Nirvana albums (the one who always has to write the same cosmic bullshit: ADOLESCENT RAGE, THE MOST IMPORTANT ALBUM OF THE 90s, VOICE OF A GENERATION... these things have been drilled into their brains and now must appear by contract in any reference to the Seattle trio. Enough. KURT, THE SWEET BLONDE ANGEL WHO LEFT FOR HEAVEN TOO SOON. You girls should go see a psychologist instead; it would do you good, my dear little girls... or maybe I'll just do it for fun.