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Tortoise Millions Now Living Will Never Die

5 apr 06

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Ok Panda, now it’s all clear! I agree with what you wrote. :-)

The Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground & Nico

4 apr 06

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I'll tell you: I really like this review; it really got to me! Anyway, VU&Nico seems to be decently recorded (at least for the time); it’s WLWH that has a poor recording quality (which doesn’t prevent WLWH from being an absolute masterpiece!). As for the album in question, it practically anticipated everything: no wave (European Son), raga-rock (Venus in Furs), psych-pop (Sunday Morning), gothic rock (All Tomorrow's Parties), then noise, punk, certain new wave, almost the entire underground (both US and otherwise), indie, and lo-fi from the 80s and 90s... Run Run Run pales in comparison to the rest, but in itself it's one of the grungiest and most abrasive garage tracks of the era! A must-have album. Absolutely.

Squirrel Bait Squirrel Bait E.P.

4 apr 06

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Oh guys, thanks for the mega-votes on the review! :-) Personally, I believe this EP is even better than the legendary Skag Heaven. Festwka: first of all, congratulations on the list of bands you included in your profile (all badass bands), then regarding the connection with so-called post-rock, yes, it's true that many musicians involved with Squirrel later formed various post-rock bands in the 90s, but you should know that Squirrel's music is very different from most of the post-rock (especially from Tortoise!). Anyway, get this EP, it’s truly amazing!

Tortoise Millions Now Living Will Never Die

4 apr 06

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Really nice this exchange of ideas...I believe that the essence of Odradek's long intervention is to support a fundamental idea, and the idea is that there have been no "revolutions" in rock: neither Chuck Berry, nor the Rolling Stones, nor the Velvet Underground, nor the Ramones, nor even the Tortoise can claim to have "revolutionized" rock. I ask Odradek if I see it correctly... :-) Ah, one more thing: Ugly Panda, don’t you think it’s a bit misleading to define the "Tortoise as cocktail, beach, and vacation music"? I mean, it seems to me that their music is rather complex, sophisticated, and intellectual to serve as a backdrop for an afternoon in the sun... :-D For that, there’s Locomotion by Little Eva!!!

Bob Dylan Highway 61 Revisited

3 apr 06

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Aside from a few blunders (metalheads in the 60s? R. Waters as a guitarist? Oh, and the shock of Vietnam hasn't been absorbed now, let alone in '65...), a great review... Ah, the album is unmissable, one of the most innovative of all time. Fuck Greenwich Movemente, folkies of the nonsense!

Queen Live Killers

2 apr 06

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so many memories! I've worn this record out badly, really... it's been years since I last listened to it... I have it on cassette, there was a time around '99 when it was always in my walkman... when I went to the mountains with my family, I would glide through my days on the sweet notes of Don't Stop Me Now, between one hot chocolate and another... What a beautiful time... Just thinking about it almost brings a lump to my throat... A record that makes you feel good.

Tortoise Millions Now Living Will Never Die

2 apr 06

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Wonderful review! Congratulations! Just one thing: you forgot the Neu. For me, the Tortoise have taken a lot from Neu, and indeed the only point I disagree with is this: "...they use the rhythmic section for its chromatic value and not to propel the music..." In my opinion, in Djed you can really hear the "motorik beat" of Neu! Anyway, the Slint are just present in the magnificent Glass Museum...for the rest, we are on two different planets: in Kentucky, electronics weren't used, in Chicago they were...For me, what Tortoise do isn't post-rock, but kraut updated for the computer age. Do you agree?

Minutemen Double Nickels On The Dime

2 apr 06

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When I feel like listening to something that reconciles me with rock, I listen to Double Nickels on the Dime. A masterpiece. Music for the mind, but also for the heart. Technical music, but not technicalistic. Intellectual music, but not intellectualistic. "Difficult" music yet immediate. Cultured popular music.

Black Flag Damaged

2 apr 06

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it's me again, BRIANZA DI BESTIA!!!, I signed up as Pretazzo... I'm adding "What I see" to the list of "important" tracks, especially for the bass line: it's perhaps the first "funk-core" track...

Fear The Record

2 apr 06

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Maybe, when I listen to Fear, I can already hear some crossover, but also a certain alt-metal vibe from the '90s (take the riff of Fresh Flesh, doesn't it sound like Pantera?). They had very original structures compared to the average hc bands of the early era... Anyway, yes, we've covered it all, maybe we're missing Descendents (whom I've never listened to), the underrated Legal Weapon (I miss them too), and the legendary DRI; I don't consider Flipper hc, but noise; and the X neither: to me, they are cow-punk or roots-rock...