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And you'd think you wouldn't mention the Jesus Lizard again... we got it that only you listen to cool and extreme music on Debaser, there's no need to repeat the same things every time you chime in. Write a nice review about Japanese noise: why waste time, like a broken record, on reviews of what you call "subhuman crap"?

Well done target: now it's time to get to work, we expect one of your sumptuous reviews imbued with your unmistakable "British touch" on "Actually"!

sanjuro, you know what? You've become davejongilmourized.....

@ghemison Jane's Addiction were contemporaries of grunge, especially of Soundgarden, although I agree that they had an edge over the others, and they were among the inspirers of the second wave of grunge (especially Alice in Chains and Smashing Pumpkins admitted their influence, and in particular Corgan revered them). What held back Jane's Addiction, who nonetheless sold a million copies with "Ritual de lo habitual," was an unfavorable timing, the classic bad timing. The band of Navarro and Farrell, in fact - just like the Pixies, another great forerunner of the alternative-grunge scene - broke up while "Nevermind" was released, thus unable to benefit from the impact of that album. If they had made an album in 1992 or 1993, they would have sold millions of records. But their greatness is undeniable.

@ocean, it's true that Pearl Jam formed in '90, but Stone Gossard and Jeff Ament were among the prime movers of the Seattle scene with Green River and then with Mother Love Bone... @ghemison I don't quite understand this contradiction between austerity and hedonism... grunge brought back to the surface Led Zeppelin, who were anything but austere, both musically and in terms of image... however, one of the merits of grunge was certainly to sweep away a lot of plastic and, in my view, crass hedonism... @eneacoid15-18. I agree on Buzz Factory and the great Tad, perhaps the most quintessential band of the Northwest in terms of attitude, largely ostracized by MTV and the press (NME even had a headline "the larder they come": after all, that magazine drooled over Franz Ferdinand, which is understandable...). On "Where did you sleep last night," you're right, but remember that Lanegan recorded it alongside Cobain and Novoselic on "The Winding Sheet," and the good Mark - class is not water - admitted that Cobain's version was superior.

Well done, I wanted to do it myself, but you beat me to it skillfully... the album is phenomenal like the others, but in my opinion it is more preferable for the here and now of the historical context: the magical/tragic 1969 casts its dark shadows almost everywhere, conferring a "generational" value that makes the overall worth greater compared to the already remarkable value of the individual songs taken separately. A classic.

A very beautiful and heartfelt review. The album is a classic, much to the chagrin of its detractors. @Sanjuro. I hold you in high regard, but I would like to say one thing. Cobain doesn’t deviate from the song format because, after the clangs of "Bleach," he considered himself a classic author, "pop" in the best sense, and he was interested in engaging with that genre: writing universal songs capable of reaching a wide audience, not in a trivial way but rather as an ideal training ground to exorcise his demons. After demonstrating with "In Utero" that he could still sound abrasive and stinging, with the Unplugged he further steered towards songwriting. The simple ability to write songs, transforming his suffering into art: this was his great talent. Therefore, it’s pointless to compare him with the names you mentioned. Sure, there is a prevalent attitude here of the type "I listen to cooler and more extreme stuff than you," but I don’t think that’s useful in an approach that wants to engage with the entire history of rock. Of course, you mentioned tracks like "Hairspray Queen" and "Big Long Now," which are among Nirvana's best, but in that genre, he was definitely not on par with the masters (whom he unconditionally admired and never hid). In the art of songwriting, however, he was second to none. At least for me. Goodbye!

the cover is beautiful and evocative, halfway between "black love" by the Afghan Whigs and "the blue moods" by Spain....I might just head over to soulse ehm to my trusted shopkeeper right away....

Anyway, Introspective is a great album; I would recommend it to those who are already familiar with the PSP discography: almost all the tracks have an unusually high runtime, and despite some excellent ideas, there's a bit of a dispersion in inspiration.