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Well, this is really digressing. These are all theses on which one can construct a proof at the table, but what's the point? Everything is true and the opposite of everything.

As a "genre" that is not very communicative, I was referring to the 80s underground. They added melody to the Black Flag. It's not just my opinion, but some think so. // The Nirvana are not psychedelic, absolutely the most "weighty" movement in the history of rock. The Husker Du are, and they made songs. What do you make of that?

Alessio, right now the importance of Nevermind in that sense is nothing. We have the internet, hundreds of sites and forums, peer-to-peer, DeBaser. To indulge ourselves no longer requires going through Nevermind. That album was the leader of the emergence of "real" rock from the underground: where's the musical importance in this? The innovation? @pretazzo: I just don't believe it. Nirvana made rock songs like they had been made for quite some time; they didn’t invent anything new. They can be liked or not, it's all a matter of taste, but the story of the synthesis just doesn’t add up for me. The Husker Du, then? Grunge is already a non-genre, furthermore the perfect conclusion of 30 years of rock? According to some, Nirvana introduced melody into a rather uncommunicative genre. And this would be the brilliant idea? No one had thought of it before?

Okay, I withdraw, I said I could be wrong :)

The groups mentioned by Funeral, I might be wrong, seem to me more like melodic pop-punk with adolescent themes.

I can only quote AlessioIRIDE, emocore is somewhat of a nonsensical hoax (and by the way, Ian MacKaye hated the term). Isn't Zen Arcade twisted and emotional hardcore?

Anyway, the reviews of Nevermind always lead to waves of comments that celebrate clichés and (false) tired-and-true myths, like rock played with heart that no longer exists, the death of rock that occurred after the seventies, the resurgence thanks to Nevermind that swept away the disgusting glam-metal, Nirvana as the perfect synthesis of 30 years of rock, and so on and so forth. Do you really believe in all this bullshit?

After End Hits and Instrument Soundtrack, the worst of Fugazi. A great album nonetheless, obviously. A rather pointless review.

Of Titan, I know the latest (a raining sun of light and love for you and you and you and you) which is really tasty heavy psycho stoner kraut. I'm downloading/listening to this Giant Brain one now and I'm enjoying it. At first glance, it seems much less heavy and way more krauto.

In fact, I like them, otherwise I wouldn’t have three records :) I got to know them thanks to the split with Electric Wizard, and so I got the double album with the first two. Great, eh, like the Trouble of the early '90s but even more acid. But really, Electric Wizard leaves them pretty far behind. Then I don’t know where or who told me (or I read?) that this The Big Black was just as good as The Art of Self Defense by High On Fire. And again, with that album, there’s just no comparison. For me, they’re a decent band, but nothing to tear your hair out over.