Rodja

While I'm at it, let me clarify the "stupid-ignorant-dead": stupid because the Nazi-fascist ideology is not based on rational foundations (is eugenics?); ignorant because only those who do not know History can fail to condemn Nazism-fascism in its entirety; dead (provocation, I admit) does not mean killed: it simply means that to be fascist, one must belong to another era (like, I don’t know, born in 1910) and hence be, from an age perspective, dead.
And then, excuse me, why are you throwing out statistics about the death toll of Communism? Are we talking about that? No, we are saying that Hitler was a piece of shit like no one else ever. If you want to tell me that Stalin was worse, that's a founded position. Beatles or Rolling Stones? We are there. And then, why the barrage of insults?
P.S.: you also forget about Gaddafi in Libya and Castro in Cuba. Just to clarify that I am not a communist...

Sorry, but if you call me a converted communist and other things, at least have the courage to sign your name? Start from there if you expect your vulgar ramblings to deserve any consideration. By the way, you talk about me as if we knew each other since kindergarten and as if I didn’t have relatives in the camps. Look, if you feel like it, sign your name, and let’s continue this conversation privately. Provided that you can handle one-on-one as well as you throw punches at the wind.

I haven't read the review, but I gathered that the reviewer doesn't seem to disdain Uncle Adolf. This has sparked a discussion that doesn’t really relate much to music. Speaking of which, I feel the need to say something. First: I am not a communist. Second: the camps were opened by Hitler as soon as he took power in '33 for political prisoners. They were concentration camps (not exactly a Club Med kind of prison, let’s put it that way), it's true, not for the systematic extermination of the Jews, which indeed began with grim German precision only in '41, when the never sufficiently despised Führer launched the "Final Solution." The Soviet gulags predate this by a few years, that’s true. But to be totally honest, they only get the silver medal (or bronze if we're very generous with the concept of "lager"). The first camps are actually seen in the Anglo-Boer War from 1899 to 1902, where soldiers of Her Majesty also confined women and children, killing an unspecified number but over 20,000. Then the Italians in Libya in the second half of the 1910s used similar methods to quell the Senussi revolts. This is for history. For everything else, I always listen with dismay to how in 2004 someone could even think of vaguely imagining giving a not completely negative connotation to the biggest piece of shit we’ve ever known. Like calling oneself "Nero Befehl." It’s not a matter of right or left; if someone is a fascist nowadays, they can only be three things: either stupid, ignorant, or dead. Stop.

Francis might have been referring to the decidedly negative reception that American critics and the public gave to Adore when it was released in the States? That's exactly what Corgan said...

3??!!!? Just 3? Let's say you were mistaken, especially given how you talk about it in the review. Maybe you should have also focused on Davis's mental struggles, which are the real highlight of the album, creating unique musical monsters like Daddy. Is it exaggerated to say that it marked the history of metal?

Big Blue.

Terrifying, claustrophobically perfect. It's so beautiful that it makes you feel unwell. Great review, my only note is that I would have focused more on the two episodes that I think are the best, namely Angry Chair and Down in a Hole.

Here I understood what true freedom of expression is. You can really say whatever you want! Rage Against the Machine are fascists, Nirvana radiant and euphoric like "Frena!" by Carlotta, Led Zeppelin a rap group, Guns 'n' Roses committed defenders of civil rights, Jeff Buckley...well, copy and paste the review above. You can say what you want. What’s the harm? The problem is that such freedom leads to no good. And then about Hallelujah, oh my goodness, Francis!!!

I read that grunge would just be flannel shirts and greasy hair... well... The SP weren't grunge, at least not in that sense, but to say they had nothing to do with it seems at least bold. The recession is too short, especially to describe an artist like Corgan who was quite baroque and not very synthetic. An almost perfect album, it has moments of musical ecstasy of a kind that only Billy Corgan could conceive. At this point, to say that Mellon Collie is even better would be impossible. But it's true...