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DeRank ™: 7,00

DeAge™ : 7455 days • Here since 11 january 2006

Franz Ferdinand You Could Have It So Much Better

24 jan 06

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The point is that The Strokes had immense success in the UK, a country where, to put it in Jon Spencer's words, guitars are used as accessories: a country where that kind of pop-rock is "a national resource" (Tony Blair dixit). After the Libertines, there was a whole series of bands that reinterpreted the lesson of The Strokes in an Albion-style, creating an extremely self-referential phenomenon, artistically poor in content, but in a country whose record industry bible is the musical equivalent of Novella 2000 (see the Blur/Oasis battle of the bands in '95, or the "Lucignolo-style" chronicles of the Doherty-Barat saga), it made waves. Thus, a whole bunch of bands sprouted up like mushrooms, from Franz Ferdinand to the latest Arctic Monkeys, whose fundamental purpose is to sell copies to the NME, allow record label employees to pay their mortgages, and revive the image of Cool Britannia worldwide with a new British invasion.

Franz Ferdinand You Could Have It So Much Better

24 jan 06

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I don’t think there’s much qualitative difference between The Strokes and Franz Ferdinand. Easycure, you mention Lo Mele's noise guide, but in that very guide you'll remember there were bands like Boss Hog who were doing the same things as The Strokes years earlier, and much better. The Strokes arrived at the right time, thanks to pretty faces, the good offices of daddy Casablancas, and without paying their dues. Is This It was harmless but clever in retrieving sounds that had been on the margins for years and it didn't have that disruptive effect that many people claim. Just to give you an example, Nirvana knocked Guns N' Roses off the top of the charts, while The Strokes certainly didn’t do the same to Linkin Park. In the United States, the new rock and roll has remained fundamentally a phenomenon for college kids, apart from a few numbers by Jack White.

Soft Cell Non - Stop Erotic Cabaret

24 jan 06

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Thank you, Mike, no one better than you can understand the essence of this record... for demographic reasons, you experienced it firsthand! If you are referring to the incautiously added apostrophe by the ineffable staff of Debaser between the words "qual era," I can't do anything about that... the unrefined masses proliferate even on this site.

Neil Young American Stars'n Bars

23 jan 06

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violator, this review is nothing short of sublime. It perfectly captures the moment when Neil composed it, what the pieces meant to him, and the quality of the work. You are also great at highlighting the majesty of "will to love," one of the most underrated masterpieces of the Canadian… even though I would have mentioned some lines that never fail to move… like "And I still think that someone really cares / so I keep swimming till I stop." There’s all of Neil Young in those words.

Bathory Twilight Of The Gods

23 jan 06

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nice review, I won't give a rating to the album because, unlike you, I don't express myself on things I don't know!

Dave Navarro Trust No One

23 jan 06

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No Emanuele, it's not the nonsense you think it is. But don't worry: it's not your fault if you haven't gone beyond Iron Maiden... and maybe avoid making judgments about things you've never heard.

Nine Inch Nails With Teeth

22 jan 06

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This review is excellent for the simple reason that it does what every review should do on this site: take an album that the writer enjoys, recommend it to the forum's visitors, and advocate for it with solid arguments. Mission perfectly accomplished. Specifically, with teeth doesn't convince me as much as pretty hate machine and the fragile, which for me are Trent's masterpieces, but it remains an album well above the average of today's productions.
For cyco: in Trent's art, malice and cunning have never been lacking, but if you talk about commerciality or wallets in that genre, maybe you've forgotten bands like White Zombie...