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listened to quite a long time ago...then set aside for a bit...epidermic blues-rock as Australians have always liked it...nothing to do, of course, with the masterful Birthday Party (one of the greatest rock bands of all time...quite different, in my opinion, even from Lubricated Goat (mentioned by the reviewer), the experimental band straddling Scratch Acid and Residents, led by Stu Spasm, an obscene blues vaudevillian dedicated to the pouring of bile surrounded by grotesque settings...the Beasts of Bourbon, on the other hand, are much more "traditional"...

To Fabia: me and some other male users, seeing that you are a female, want to contact you in private to try our luck with you, as suggested by your modest profile... Can we? P.S. If a FRIEND of mine accepted to go out with me bringing necessarily a "buffer," I would be really upset because it would be a sign of lack of trust and little consideration for the feeling of friendship itself... P.P.S. I've never read so much arrogance and egocentrism from a user on Deb, except for the fakes, of course...

I’ve heard them mentioned countless times, but I’ve never made up my mind to listen to them. This could be the right time for me to dive headfirst into the delusions of Japanese psych-noise-freak bands!!! Hi Bore :-)

In the end, it's always thanks to the fakes that the most interesting music discussions are generated :-)

beautiful page, Greg...it's nice to find you again...I still remember your beautiful review of a Bad Religion album, written a few years ago, which I liked a lot...great job, also in this interview (credit goes to both you and the interviewee)...as for MV, I saw them live a few weeks ago, truly an impressive band, especially for Lungo i Bordi...Clementi's lyrics are perhaps my absolute favorites in rock, precisely because (as Ugly Panda partly suggests) they are much less conceptual and much more narrative compared to Ferretti's...Ferretti is cryptic, wavering, allegorical, etc...while Clementi mentions names (Leo), places (Pizza Express), dates (winter '85), historical figures (E. Carnevali), descriptions of what could be scenes from a movie (Fuoco Fatuo, with the beautiful part about the "karate magazine")...in short, Clementi's prose/poetry is very evocative, it never lets the viewer's interest drop, it doesn't retreat into abstraction and generalization (unlike the splendid Negazione di Lo Spirito Continua), even though it ends up creating the same enigmatic sensation as Ferretti or Battiato...music chapter: why haven't MV become as famous as CCCP? Ugly already answered you, I’ll add one thing: the noir-tinged post-rock of MV is DAMNEDLY MELANCHOLIC and ANGUISHING, far more so than that of the Kentucky school (perhaps the only post-rock capable of creating such discomfort musically is the English one by Bark Psychosis, although there's much less tension there)...finally, I loved the concept expressed in the last 3 lines of Ugly's comment...

silvaplana you are the greatest heir of the unforgettable "uolter" starman :-DDD (do you like Slint?)

@ Germs: in the collective imagination, Californian punk is represented by Bad Religion: powerful, fast, and above all melodic (preferably with epic backing vocals, as in Bad Religion, or dark ones in Orange County bands like Adolescents, D.I., Agent Orange, Legal Weapon, T.S.O.L., in any case a clear legacy of the old "west-coast" rock, which placed a lot of emphasis on backing vocals). Now, it’s clear that this is a distortion, a cliché, a "historical falsehood," an approximation, whatever you want to call it… because we know very well that Californian hc also included Black Flag, DK, MDC, DRI, who were very little melodic... on the other hand, we must keep one thing in mind: the image and idea that too many uninformed and superficial "kids" of the 2000s have had of hc in the States has been shaped by records like "No Control" by Bad Religion: with that masterpiece, Graffin and Co. essentially invented melodic hc as we know it today (also in terms of production aspects, like sound, recording quality, etc...).

This is one of the worst things hardcore ever produced in the 80s. A true mockery. Limp, more like "mosh"!!! :-) That song you mentioned, the one that goes "Hi my name is Jimmy, we're Murphy's Law," is ridiculous for how self-referential it is. Bands like Murphy's Law were jokes that put an end to the glorious hardcore era. Unlistenable. Rece ok, but...Anthrax absolutely rock huh!!! ;-)

Ole, Fosca, thank you very much ;-)

True Germs: Screeching Weasel were from Chicago, but they sounded 100% Californian :-)