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DeAge™ : 7424 days • Here since 11 february 2006

Genesis Foxtrot

9 nov 06

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And who said that punk has to be rawer and more popular? It’s the usual argument, there’s punk and punk. There are rough bands and others that are cultured, it depends.

Well, categorizing genres like that and saying "I hate this genre," "I like this one," "punk has contaminated music," seems a bit limiting to me. Bjork68 says "la disco usic....blehaaaaaaaaaarr." There's disco-music and discomusic. Kraftwerk, for instance, is a remarkable group.

Genesis Foxtrot

8 nov 06

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I'm sorry, I just happened to read the latest comment from pier_paolo_farina and allow me to completely disagree. The famous punk (which includes thousands and thousands of bands) has left an indelible mark on the history of music, influencing practically anything musical (in the rock field) since its inception. New bands, new ideas, and then a new way of thinking about production, do-it-yourself, independent record labels, noise-rock, hardcore, post-hc, post-rock, neo-psychedelia, everything that is low-fi, everything that in the 80s made sense to categorize as "underground," and again, the rejection of the star system, the ideal of simplicity in music, and I could go on for hours. Everything that comes after '76 has to deal with the so-called punk. It might not be liked, but that's another story...

Television Marquee Moon

8 nov 06

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Wait, I just noticed that I wrote nonsense earlier. Wipers—>1981, there you go (otherwise my post didn’t make sense). @s.kangaroo: it’s always nice to agree with someone :)

Sex Pistols Never Mind The Bollocks

8 nov 06

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"If you ask my mother, who listens to Pooh and Gianni Morandi, who Yes are, she, not knowing much about music, will reply, 'Oh yes, that English band with the singer who sang with that little voice...' If you ask her who the Jesus Lizard and the Minutemen are, she'll venture, 'Are they brands of cigarettes?' Do you understand what it means to make history?" Sorry Lord, is this making history? Come on, admit you were joking.

Television Marquee Moon

8 nov 06

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On a mass level, probably yes. But what is generally referred to as grunge is music that comes straight from the 80s, starting with the Wipers (1989) and Mission of Burma (1982), through much of the SST and T&G catalogs and the underground scenes in Los Angeles, New York, Texas, and Washington, well before the Seattle scene became prominent.

Sex Pistols Never Mind The Bollocks

8 nov 06

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Pretazzo, what are you talking about? Everything that has happened since '77 can easily be done without. Come on, it's obvious.

Television Marquee Moon

8 nov 06

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@Surferkangaroo: Has grunge arrived? But look, grunge has roots in the 80s. The eighties were a decade of fantastic, stellar music, in comparison to which the "explosion" of grunge is a mini-chickpea-sized pad. Grunge brought to the surface a music that had already existed for at least ten years.

Vampire Rodents Clockseed

8 nov 06

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Now I’m waiting for the other reviews; at least Premonition and Gravity's Rim are a must. Shaz, gneo, Villus, who's in?

Nirvana Bleach

6 nov 06

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Trooper, I would avoid discussing punk, rock, and metal as three separate entities; it's a too simplistic argument. It's like saying that Bleach isn't grunge because it's not pop. These are all terms that need to be handled with care and, in themselves, don't mean much. The definition of grunge is already quite shaky on its own...