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In fact, folk-rock and certainly acid, when listened to today, might sound a bit dated... I don’t know the Beau, but I absolutely love California Dreaming by the Mamas and Papas, one of the most beautiful songs of the '60s. Bitterly sad, it gives me a lump in my throat. The Byrds were great! For me, they easily fit into the history of "major" rock. And in my opinion, they are anything but dated: the first time I listened to them, I could hardly believe they were a band from 60 years ago! They had such a clear sound! Their influence has been felt up to the present day, even in completely different genres: listen to the intro of Newest Industry by Husker Du... it’s a hundred percent Byrdsian! I think they were great because they managed to break away from the rural and "frontier" stereotype that folk music had been tied to until that moment... With folk-rock (electrified and amplified folk), they invented a new imaginary linked especially to adolescent moods, intimacy, lyricism: Big Star, REM, Replacements and other college bands have drawn on the language coined by the Byrds to accompany their heartfelt confessions.

The votes (I'm still Brianza...)

Donjunio, Big Wednesday is one of the FUNDAMENTAL films of 70s US cinema!!! Certainly not on the level of its contemporary The Deer Hunter, but still an unmissable film. And it's by no means a light watch, but one of the most bittersweet ones I've had the chance to see. (a tear slipped for me too...)

But I wonder: what’s the point of all this? What artistic value do you expect a record like this to have? These are fundamentally wrong and petty operations.

Oh my god, I didn’t know this: the DT covering an entire (masterpiece) album by Metallica... There’s no more religion...

Yes, I agree with Beatboy about Kennedy and Vietnam... But what does the Berlin Wall have to do with it??!! Anyway, All summer long, Wendy, and Little Honda are beautiful.

Seminal record. Basically Venom to the umpteenth degree. Glacial, wicked, authentically Norwegian. Disconcerting Silvester Anfang, the percussive house intro (no kidding!).

I notice that FLOYDMAN places a lot of importance on lyrics; I prefer reviews focused on the music, but everyone has their style and anyway this review is well done... I haven't read all the previous comments because they're lengthy (I'll do it another time when I have more time), but I must say that I quite like this album. The opening suite is a compendium of baroque, romanticism, jazz, and psychedelia; it doesn't have much to do with "contemporary" classical music (which in the 60s/70s mainly meant "minimalism"), but it remains an enjoyable piece. Fat Old Sun is more somnolent; nice is If, the quintessence of Waters' intimacy; then there's the great Summer '68 (which shamelessly mixes the Beach Boys with more symphonic strings and epic brass); finally, the meta-musical experiment of Alan Psychedelic Breakfast is interesting. A white album like milk. Rating: 3.5/5

So, first of all, I want to clarify one thing: for me, an album rated with a 4 is absolutely a must-listen, a masterpiece! I'm quite strict with my ratings: I reserve the 5 for those albums of quality, significance, originality, influence, and creativity that are truly exceptional, like the first two Velvet Underground albums, a Modern Dance, a Zen Arcade, a Spiderland, a Double Nickels, a Daydream Nation, a Tago Mago, etc... @Antmo: it’s true, extreme can mean different things; however, I meant extreme in terms of speed, power, loudness, and conciseness. I drew a parallel between punk/hc and hard'n'heavy by bringing up Motorhead because, if you think about it, in '79, Motorhead's sound was the most extreme metal that had been heard up to that time, just as the Germs were the most extreme punk band until that period. Not by chance, Germs and Motorhead inspired respectively hardcore and thrash metal, which are the two ultra-orthodox evolutions that garage-punk and hard rock (and metal) from the '70s would undergo in the following decade.

damn trellheim, what a beautiful text you posted! It was the first song by Big Star that I got to know...