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VortexSurfer, I would say we are at the festival of rudeness here, how dare you, you beggar. You give this album a 5 and you still talk? Clown.

You're doing everything you can to scrape together 1, I can't do more. Don't say we're bad then!

Sorry, I wanted to put 2, 1 is too much.

In fact, the record is derivative... it sounds like a poorly executed mix of Fugazi and The Killers, embodying the typical attitude of today’s indie band. Looking at the release year of the album gives me a shock... what a shitty decade for rock music we’re living in.

You can listen to whatever you want, but don’t try to pass off a piece of such astonishing banality and childishness as The Final Countdown as the best hard rock song.

"TFC dominated the radio in the '80s, so there must be a reason." Of course there’s a reason; it’s a commercial, catchy, radio-friendly piece, suited for those with questionable tastes. Perhaps you haven't realized yet that cheesy, flashy songs in music can be quite successful, and a lot.

But I never said that all eras are the same, as such an expression wouldn’t even make sense. I mean that each decade has its most popular artists (who are often remembered more, and often don’t even deserve it that much) and its underground artists that require more effort to discover, because it’s in the underground that the artistic aspect of popular music is mostly played out. Unless you want to consider the VU as emulators of the Stones... (and I don’t think that was your intention).

The aesthetic canons of beauty that focus on "pleasantness" and the pursuit of global harmony are the burden that popular music has been carrying since the Beatles, and it’s about time to suppress them once and for all. This conservative aesthetic is the anti-art, the anti-communication; it's the victory of form over message. Primiballi, everyone can think what they like about Rock, that's fine, but since Hendrix, a lot has happened, and it all depends on knowing those things because they are indeed more "hidden" than Vasco & co. But there’s a reason for that too: the art of popular music has never been a prerogative of the masses. (it may seem contradictory, but it's true) Or rather, the market of the past was undoubtedly more interesting than today's mainstream (not that it takes much...), but for every Rolling Stones, there are Velvet Undergrounds that simply need to be discovered. And this holds true for every decade.

I almost forgot: you forced that "moral lesson" out of me, and I've already come up with way too many names ;-).

I've already told you that, at a mainstream level, I don't mind Oasis as a whole, and if you knew even a little bit about NIN (which shouldn't be a challenging task, given their past success), you'd know that TDS ranked second on the charts (if I’m not mistaken) in America. Does that seem mainstream enough to you? As for the kind of things I generally enjoy: without a doubt, they shouldn’t sound cheesy, trivial, fake, and plastic like a lot of mainstream stuff (especially from the 80s). And I don't think I can be held accountable for that.