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A crude copy of Husker Du?! What do the Mats have to do with Husker Du? Two completely different things... I love them both, but if I have to choose, I clearly choose the Mats... Dear Donj, the review is truly inspired; I didn't know about that tribute in Ellis's book, in fact in the USA Westerberg is somewhat of an institution... As for Hootenanny, the only track I listen to with any frequency is Color Me Impressed (of course), which is one of the greatest rock songs of all time and a model for all melodic college rock, starting from the essential early Lemonheads... The two ballads Willpower and Within Your Reach are well-executed, but not at the level of those included in the three subsequent albums and they suffer too much, in my opinion, from the era in which they were conceived (new-wave)... Color Me Impressed on the other hand is TIMELESS... One more thing: what do you mean when you say that the legendary Stinson was "intangible" on Tim? "EVERYBODY AT YOUR PARTY THEY DONT LOOK DEPRESSED/ EVERYBODY DRESSING FUNNY COLOR ME IMPRESSED"

the original by Lou Reed already disgusts me, let alone this orchestral remake...

Yes, but I'm into Pleasant Street and Phantasmagoria; those two are enough for me...

Correction: the albums I like are, in addition to Starsailor, Goodbye & Hello and Happy Sad.

what happened to you, blackdog? I was expecting a polyglot review...but it's okay, come on...Starsailor is one of the most incredible things the human voice (as well as the brain and madness) has ever been able to produce...the voice of the siren, the title track for nothing but vocalizations that come and go, the French interlude...the absurd time changes of Come Here Woman...here we are beyond free-jazz...pure music...this is also, in a way, Buckley’s most "fun" album, because it’s the most mischievous and capricious...it entertains in an intelligent way, like an Art Of Walking by Pere Ubu...those records that are so without beginning or end that they leave you bewildered...in Buckley's career, Starsailor remains my favorite along with Goodbye & Hello and Blue Afternoon...but I don’t like Blue Afternoon and Lorca...

I disagree with the last sentence of the review: melodic hc originated, at the very least, in '82 (Descendents)... this album is nice, but it pays a huge tribute to Corgan's Siamese Dream (not surprisingly, pointed out by the new emo as a model) and it goes overboard in pathos... magical moments: Johnny On The Spot and especially the tear-your-pants-off Nickel Wound...

They have never excited me... already better the cousins Mercury Rev, but from that late 80s neo-psychedelic scene, my favorites remain Yo La Tengo...

Well, about Mudhoney (besides Blue Cheer), also The Stooges and Halo of Flies, off the top of my head... on the topic of truth, everyone has their say... it’s not like we need to come to a verdict...

what a drag... but why every time someone compares the name of some great underground band from the 80s to the grunge movement does an uprising have to break out?! come to terms with it: Wipers, Flipper, Meat Puppets, Melvins, Huskers, Dinosaur, Halo Of Flies etc... these and other bands had a fundamental influence on this or that grunge band... and while it’s true that these groups might often be better than those from Seattle, I don’t see why we should create a barrier at all costs... as for the Meat Puppets, with all the references you want to Young, the Byrds, the Grateful, Lynyrd Skynyrd, and other giants of country-rock, you can't deny that Kirkwood pulled something out of his guitar (and his throat) that had never been heard before the 80s... a beautiful and good transfiguration of the classic sound, made deformed on the first album, abstract on the third, and transformed into a "new classic" with this wonderful second album, which shines with its own light (like all classics) and on the other hand helped pave the way for so much indie... just listen to Mascis' debut to realize it...

@trell: I was referring to last year's massacre by that Korean, which killed 30 people… regarding the fame of TMBG, you're right, they used to be on MTV back in the day, but they’re still one of those groups that (because of their extreme catchiness and the joyfulness of their music) in a perfect world, would be eternally in the TOP FIVE with 5 singles… and instead they’re there, counting on one hand the number of people in Italy who know and appreciate them… too carefree for us… and we are Latin!!! :-D @ capitano: no no, I don’t do duplicates, especially since this review isn’t that I didn’t like it: I mean it would have been perfect if you had mentioned some tracks (personally I think that in albums like this, made of songs all different from each other, the ideal is to highlight the most interesting tracks to intrigue the reader more; whereas for more homogeneous albums, citing individual tracks can be superfluous in my opinion)… just to avoid misunderstandings, you did GREAT to dedicate a page of Deb to these irresistible jesters from the Big Apple… ah, and thanks for dedicating the review to me :-P @ Easy: oh no, come on! 3 stars for TMBG, no way!!! ugh… from the same year and the same city: the debut of the Giants and Evol by “your” Sonic Youth… there’s no comparison… down with Kim Gordon! :-)))