easycure

Hello beautiful! :-) The difference (a bit "Scaruffian," I admit) is that this one is more typically "indie" in its greater variety of tones: "Soft as snow" is ultimately a pop piece, albeit conceived in a completely atypical way, just as Feed me with your kiss is a sort of raw punk or lose my breath is how My Bloody Valentine conceive the "ballad" format. All the references are distorted according to their vision, of course, but it’s a more "diffused" album, with a poetic already creative and wonderful, yet more naive, less mature, less condensed and homogeneous (which could be a merit depending on taste). Loveless is more complete; not by coincidence, even though it is far from being monochord, it is clearly traversed by a precise and strong leitmotif and stands as a masterpiece totally outside any possible definition of genres. Like only musical monuments can do, it’s literally a certain "feeling," a certain emotionality translated into music, which is much more than any genre-related issue. (But I repeat, depending on tastes, one might also prefer the worldly creativity of this!) Hello big guy :-)

Here’s dear Christian... well well, it seems you did your homework ;-D... no one wanted to compare Slint with Muse, Christian, I simply wanted to see if you knew them. That has always been my question, remember? ...and yet, looking closely, they are not so incomparable after all... in a track like Washer, for example, with much more humility and a far more personal and original harmonic attitude, Slint create a sense of drama and a dynamic alternation that closely resembles what Muse somewhat uses as a fixed stylistic element... yet the intensity is vastly stronger even without necessarily resorting to sound paroxysms (which, by the way, are often too canonical) like in Muse... the only moment of true accentuation is in the special part immediately before the final arpeggio, and yet such drama has a real sense of liberation after the restrained singing and the suspended intervals that repeat throughout the piece... but Slint follow an exactly opposite path to Muse: whereas in Muse, dramatic tension is forcibly an exhibitionistic matter, continuously imposing an emotion on the listener with the insistent, gaudy, pompous strategies typical of Muse, the soaring vocals, like the drumming, the entries of distortion, with a completely unpersonal compositional attitude, in Slint EVERY performative aspect (thereby completely negating any sense of meticulously describing the use of chords) is subservient to the transposition of a state of mind, of a dream or of a feeling... this is the greatness of Slint, this is what makes them a classic, and this is what renders Muse a mediocre band: Muse impose a feeling with a stylistic element, Slint sever every stylistic element to serve a feeling.

Even here?? I really annoyed the good Christian/Mika! ahahahahah :-D

oh oh oh, someone is very angry.. I wonder why.. let's talk about it! hehehahaha :-D

Finally, regarding the comment you mentioned: the umpteenth distortion, more or less intentional, of what I wrote. That comment was not directed at the content per se, but obviously at the way it was presented... which is completely non-explanatory, non-analytical, and doesn’t actually say anything. How is it that Baroque music is a consequence of a musical need for communication and emotion? What does this sentence mean? I hope you can realize that it doesn’t actually say anything at all. I only asked for an explanation, of course, not receiving any response. Anyway, teto, I really don’t know who is more in a contest to pretend not to understand… :-D It would be much better to respond to the arguments (obviously if one is capable of doing so, eheheh :-D)

In conclusion, only after several insults and after more than one invitation, even through private messages, the good Mika decided to reveal himself, as usual not shining for "style" eheheh :-D

3) "Going back to easy, Mika did not make any a priori statements." Since you joined the discussion later, you obviously can’t have an idea of the premises. But when you don’t know something about a topic, it’s better to stay quiet, teto; this is a basic rule of discussions..:-D Therefore, I refer you, to "educate" yourself, which, as is evident, is needed, to the comments of 12/6. After a brief exchange of opinions, I elaborated in two comments to better explain my point of view about Muse to Mika: in response, I only received incomprehensible insults like "his is just a culture of ignorance"—not only exaggerated, not only absurd because they were not supported by any argument, but especially not accompanied by any counter-opinion on the album in question. In other words, while making offensive (and unproven) statements, the good Mika did not give the chance to respond because he did not reveal his opinion. I call all of this a series of childish a priorisms, childish because they are not even capable of discussing on the same level, of placing themselves on the same plane. And the term "a priorism" I did not invent out of thin air; by definition, it refers to something expressed not a posteriori, not based on demonstrations, but a priori, that is, out of pure prejudice. This is the case of the comments in question, as already explained. Therefore, I invite you to a bit of honesty, and once again to take a complete view of what has been written, if you wish to comment on it; otherwise, the alternative of silence is always very dignified, eheheh ;-D

2) Regarding the discussion about Slint, you are clearly speaking in a completely irrelevant manner. That is, you obviously haven't followed the conversation. I'm insisting on this matter about Slint simply to point out how Christian constantly avoids answering my questions (and why this seems quite obvious at this point :-D). Moreover, not knowing Slint is quite serious... because it only takes a minimally trained ear to understand that a band/artist uses diminished chords (like Slint, for example ;-D). Of course, it's not an issue for me, as I've been in music for ten years, but not knowing a fundamental pillar of the last 30 years of rock history means you can't really make any decent critique (this is regarding "you need to know a bit of everything"... it's not that you need to know a bit of everything; the issue is a bit more differentiated qualitatively in terms of WHAT is more important to know). So, I wanted to get a grasp of this, but you obviously distorted the conversation more or less. A little relevance, please ;-)

teto, we’re not on the same page.. you either continue to not understand or are pretending not to understand: 1) I have never talked about simply "copying others," and I’ve emphasized that at least 3 times.. even in the post where I replied specifically to you, I concluded by saying: "it’s not a matter of 'taking from others,' it’s a matter of not being able to create a real personal expression, it’s a matter of lack of poetic quality, it’s a matter of mediocre communicativeness." From this, the only thing that comes to mind is that you don’t read carefully. Please avoid such slip-ups in the future ;-)

Heavens, dear Mika... far be it from me to resort to your own childish a priori assumptions: I point out to you that YOU, without even expressing your opinion (that is, not placing yourself on the same level, which is at least disrespectful), have thrown yourself into criticisms that are at least daring (because they are anything but substantiated or argued) about my way of commenting... so what do you want? what do you expect? what are you looking for? Take responsibility for your actions if you are mature enough to do so... when you finally posted your review of Muse, I simply commented on what you had written, just as you did with me in a way that was enormously more dishonest, since I did it based at least on some "evidence," whereas you did it, I repeat, entirely a priori. Reread above, it’s all up there, there are no misunderstandings in this regard, I’m sorry for your praised arrogance, but you really have nothing to complain about... as for the question of whether you are or are not one and the same person, I’m only interested in the truth... it would really be sad for you :-D but I repeat, I will verify, and if you are not the same, you can rest assured that I will not bring this up again... I have no difficulty in finding arguments, unlike others, eheheh ;-D