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Crumbsuckers Life of Dreams

29 nov 08

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good but not as much as the ludichrist

Technically speaking, it's perfect, but it's incomparable to the debut for the simple fact that the songs on Marquee Moon are more beautiful... furthermore, with Adventure, it seems to me that there's a rethinking from the co-founders of New Wave, leading to a return to the 60s roots of rock (country, blues, rock'n'roll, vocal harmonies, psychedelia)...

Devo Duty Now For The Future

28 nov 08

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Wow! I don't know if Bogus's review or Kosmo's anecdote is better (a warm hello to both)! The Devo were perhaps the conceptually most important group of the new-wave, yet this album is much less fun and convincing than the groundbreaking debut LP...

The Replacements Sorry Ma, Forgot To Take Out The Trash

22 nov 08

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I never went crazy for the early Mats records... I think their heyday was between '84 and '87... on Sorry Ma, Stink, Hootenanny, I'm only engaged by the ballads, which are splendid: Johnny's Gonna Die, Go, Color Me Impressed... the first two are really bitter songs, I like them but I don't listen to them often because they are truly sad... Color Me Impressed, on the other hand, puts me in a good mood, even though that underlying feeling of anxiety and the lump in my throat is always present in many of their songs... moving to the other side of Minneapolis, regarding the Mould-Hart rivalry, I stand with Mould... the Soul Asylum are a bit boring though... the review is remarkable, like all those by Donjunio, whom I send my warm regards to...

Black Sabbath Paranoid

16 nov 08

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supersoul, ok, from a compositional standpoint, the Sabs were blues-rock, no doubt about it... but it's the SOUND that made the difference...

Black Sabbath Master Of Reality

16 nov 08

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all in all, the most successful and modern album by the early Sabs...just listen to Children Of The Grave (a metal masterpiece ahead of its time, perfectly balanced between thrash, epic, and gothic, when these styles had yet to be formalized) to attest to its quality and significance...

Black Sabbath Paranoid

16 nov 08

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Well... aside from the fact that the Vietnam War wasn’t over in the 70s... in any case, I disagree that this album lacks the jazz-blues-psych digressions; in fact, they are abundant in the final part (even more than in the first album) and, in my opinion, they significantly undermine the overall quality of the work... As for the rest, Paranoid contains some of the riffs that have made the HISTORY of metal and have been endlessly copied... this time the gem is Planet Caravan, an ancestral invocation of spirits, which stands on the same level as Over My Head by Pere Ubu...

Black Sabbath Black Sabbath

16 nov 08

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From the perspective of sound power, it’s the most devastating album by the Sabs, impeccably produced...as far as the compositional aspect goes, what prevents this monumental debut from reaching perfection is the final part, where too much space is given to Iommi's late-psychedelic temptations...Tony is much better when dealing with his monolithic riffs, with that unmistakably BLACK sound...the title track is truly terrifying, N.I.B. is a hard-rock legend ("Your love for me has just got to be real"), but my favorite track remains that oddity of Wizard, a small earthquake capable of unsettling and alienating without resorting to sensationalist tricks...great review, even if Butler's bass is anything but soft! :-)