easycure

I sincerely thank the anonymous person for already answering everything I would have said :-) ..I have nothing to add (for now)

It's easier to answer about my favorite group… of course, there isn't just one favorite. I'll tell you: My Bloody Valentine, Pixies, Sonic Youth, Slint, Velvet Underground, Cure, Yo La Tengo, Fugazi.

Matt7, it would take a while to tell you all of them, I think... maybe narrow it down by genre or year.

x "therootofitall": congratulations on your amusing collection of clichés, preconceived judgments, pure nonsense, and useless notes: I don't know where you got the idea that I am a "great failure", but it makes me smile the way you miserably try to compensate for your evidently total inability to respond to the arguments presented in the review and in the subsequent (thousands) of comments with these pathetic half-baked statements :-) .. "why don't you try to accomplish something in your pathetic life" .. but what are you talking about? You’re really pathetic.. you don’t know me, you don’t know who I am, you don’t know what I’ve done.. what have you done instead? If you’re such a winner that you can afford to rant about someone you don’t know, you must have done some things.. but more likely you're just a pathetic angry fan.. eheheh :-D how sad... anyway, look, I’ll stop at personal insults, I won’t respond on the rest because obviously I’d end up humiliating you too much ehehehe :-) bye.

Dear Pietro Gelmini, regardless of the fact that when it comes to drummers everyone has their own tastes, I absolutely won't comment on Portnoy. If you like him so much, good for you, listen to him. I couldn't care less if many esteemed musicians and equally phantasmagorical masters and experts on various instruments agree with you; it doesn’t matter to me because, with all due respect, it counts for nothing. One only needs to listen to understand the mediocrity of this group. Certainly, one needs a fair amount of experience; otherwise, one risks, as my young interlocutors a bit further up clearly demonstrate, mistaking a dreadful mix of clichés like Dream Theater for a great band. So I will rephrase your presumptuous question: how many records have you listened to? But above all, HOW MANY and WHICH records have you listened to? That’s the experience needed to claim the authority to judge any band.

To Mario, I say that his point is an excellent one, but I would like to add that I don't dismiss metal as a whole a priori (even though I acknowledge that I only really like a small part of it): in fact, there are plenty of metal albums that I don't find off-putting at all. But Dream Theater? No, they are the quintessence of musical conservatism, the musical equivalent of a Monti in poetry... they are dreary and inherently hypocritical, selling smoke, representing the utmost exaltation of form in stark contrast to a minimum of substance. Unsustainable.

Your problem is that, like most of those who come in here claiming to defend the DTs, you’ve confused quality with technical skill. You have no other yardstick for judgment; if there is no technique, there is no music, which, apart from being false regardless of the art form, is absolutely even more false in music. It wasn't valid in the case of classical music or jazz, genres where technique is indeed fundamental but absolutely not sufficient, nor is it even as important as elements such as culture and creativity, let alone in rock music, which was born as something absolutely elementary and has evolved in its best forms with an attitude similar, if not even extreme, in its NON-technicality.

What did the Velvet Underground do that was so special?? ..I just don’t understand you.. they were the dark side of psychedelia, they influenced much of the rock to come and at least 50% of the '90s output... they filtered blues and pop elements through avant-garde music (represented in the band by John Cale), they synthesized a unique, morbid, decadent, ambiguous, acid, paranoid, visionary style, with a disarming simplicity, completely devoid of technique (Maureen Tucker had practically never played the drums), they were the soundtrack of dark New York, the soundtrack of the dark side of the '60s, their sounds are still imitated, their terrifying expressiveness unmatched.. but what have you heard? ...one thing is for sure, your recent posts explain a lot..

all this experimentation, as you call it, was among the most important things artistically in the last century... and if it hadn’t happened, it wouldn't have laid the groundwork for the Prog that later allowed the existence of bands like DT... and you’re really just talking to the wind, the greatness of certain bands is undeniable. listen again.

X matt: "No no...maybe it's you who has a narrow mind about your genre...like I might as well...music is also technique, you can't disregard this." I note that you haven't responded to a single word of what I wrote...aside from that, it's true that music can't completely disregard technique, but only very, very relatively...of course, rock as an absolutely popular art (in the sense that its expressive coordinates are accessible to everyone) has fully demonstrated that it can do without it.