easycure

it might be their most inconsistent album (aside from the last crap), but it's fun and spontaneous.. Robert Smith hits the mark (almost) every time when he writes pop.

But the silent man is the same the silent man or is he no longer him?

To those who don’t like the genre?! Oh no, Donz, the discourse is quite different: I was just re-listening to Crazy Rythms by the Feelies, a band that the Fanatics of FF and friends should definitely revisit in the magazines and among listeners, and they would understand a lot... besides the fact that the intro of "the boy with the perpetous nervousness" was literally plagiarized by Bloc Party at the beginning of their (pseudo) masterpiece Silent Alarm, but I mean, they sound JUST LIKE how FF and their band of New Wave revisionists sound now, but JUST LIKE. Like if they were to re-release Crazy Rythms now, not only would it not sound outdated (it’s from 1980), but it would be almost trendy. The only difference is that it is also ENORMOUSLY more oblique, original, creative, and intelligent than FF could ever dream of being. The issue is these little groups are not even capable of REinterpreting the past. They are pure mediocrity, the very essence of mediocrity. The originals still remain enormously superior today, quite ahead, there’s nothing to be done. So I’ll repeat, considering this album even just decent or good is at the very least ignorant (not your case obviously, I know you’re informed), if not dishonest in the artistic sense of the term!

Pulse is truly the worst bullshit of the century; it feels like watching a Vasco Rossi concert :D

Anyway, total rubbish all around: right in the middle of "Set the controls for the heart of the sun," there’s a saxophone solo (not one of those nice solos, same old stuff you hear in Pulse, just to be clear) lasting five minutes that ruins everything, muddying the atmosphere, meaning, and the very life of the song. I was about to leave.. really. That's when I realized that Waters as a composer, musician in general, or however you want to define him is dead, buried; he no longer truly knows where bad taste ends.

Well, Caz has already said it all.. the only thing I’ll add is that, regardless of whether you might prefer "Careful with that axe, Eugene" or "Wish You Were Here" (clearly, I or Caz don't compare on a level, you Enea on another), you must admit Enea that stuff like Radio Kaos or similar is nothing short of pathetic.. Anyway, I think my fairly radical viewpoint on Waters has matured after seeing his concert at Filaforum: Before, I credited, or at least respected his solo work and anything post '72 (but let’s say less radically post '79), but after that concert, no. I was completely disgusted. It gave me the impression not of maturation, but of a decisive shift towards total self-aggrandizement, total self-referentiality without any real interest in what he does. It's as if it was more important to exalt his neurotic message as much as possible rather than communicate it in a certain way. The process no longer interests him, the language no longer interests him, the HOW, he only cares about the WHAT, as if the world, in the same way, didn't care (frankly, I don’t care at all about his paranoia, what interested me was how paranoid the music was, that is, the HOW).

Well, in that case :) ..then let me know what you think of this, Caz, I'll know it will be an impartial judgment.

it depends on the point of view. And it depends on what you say. If that's the case, yours doesn't seem very restrained either ; )

No one sees anything wrong with it, I repeat, I certainly don't want to stop you from listening to it, what do I care, I personally won't listen to it anymore; I just want to specify what no one in magazines or on television is saying: it's mediocre. Period. A fairly unequivocal fact : )

I frankly do not understand such devotion towards Waters. He has written some truly great things, make no mistake, but personally, I consider him finished as a composer since '72, and in any case, I think it's impossible to pass off albums like Final Cut or even more so his solo records as great... It really feels like he’s been trying for the past couple of decades to recycle his dwindling creative vein, aiming for an ever higher self-celebration... To me, it definitely smells like nonsense.