MMM: a "thing" to have without listening to, like "a" Wittgenstein or "a" Joyce to have without reading, "an" 8-1/2 without watching it: that touch of chic that makes so much sense in rock. Luigi Russolo is more trendy, please refer to Wikipedia.
I find him quite obnoxious; he seems a bit too cocky... I know and own his solo work, the trilogy from Transformer to Rock 'n' Roll Animal. For now, that’s fine.
I apologize for the boring justification, but honestly, I can't vote for this album because... I've never really understood it. In fact, I've never fully processed it. For me, L.R. is a great in the music scene. He has written some hits (for example, Rock'n Roll Heart), but many of his works are truly beautiful (I was recently re-listening to The Bells, which I believe has been underrated). Of course, Berlin is my favorite, but this work you reviewed... it's a bit hard for me to digest.
Beautiful page, Sell. Anyway, Lou wasn't the first to experiment with pure noise for its own sake, and this record – never listened to for more than 10 minutes – was just a way to do a huge disservice to music itself and the musical world (a lot of things make me think this...). In fact, I prefer him when he "is" (not "acts") the supreme incarnation of rock'n'roll, Lou. And by the way, in Sonic Youth, Lee Ranaldo and Thurston Moore used incredibly expensive guitars (Jazzmaster, one of the best)... Far from "cheap." :)
Lou was serious. Great record. A side note: in my opinion, Jaguars and Jazzmasters, although (now) quite expensive, have a rather insubstantial sound. Of course, if you’re Tom Verlaine, you can still make them sound good. But this, just to change things up, is another story.
<< MMM: a "thing" to have without listening, like "a" Wittgenstein or "a" Joyce to have without reading, "an" 8-1/2 without seeing it: that touch of chic that makes rock so in. Luigi Russolo is trendier; please refer to Wikipedia. >> Look, for me rock is anything but chic. Someone like Lou, definitely can't be chic since he's closer to reality than a David Bowie. There, David Bowie is chic (let’s be clear, I’m not saying “David Bowie sucks,” for the usual idiots). That said, Franci!, as far as I know, Ranaldo (sorry for the unforgivable "Renaldo") and Moore have shown a particular fondness for cheap guitars, and while it’s true that they also play Jazzmasters, that doesn’t prove anything. In fact, even Blixa Bargeld in an interview speaks positively about the Sonic as he believes they tend to use cheap guitars (that's his exact term, if I recall correctly) while simultaneously creating an incredible sound. Anyway, Lou certainly wasn't the first, but here it’s rock'n'roll just like in "New York." Only the face of the thing changes. Kosmo: yes, that quote comes to mind every time I put on MMM, God only knows why. But let’s face it, maybe we all know why ;-)
I'm afraid I might like it and one day I'll listen to it... one day... but since for me "Sister Ray" by the Velvet Underground is a masterpiece, it's quite possible that I might fall in love with it.
When they were starving, they used junk guitars...today they use Jazzmasters, and every now and then they dabble with the old trinkets...nice page sell|!
It's a shame that Lou can't listen to it all the way through, because in my opinion the fourth part is the best, but maybe he also has annoying neighbors armed with baseball bats. It's not (to put it in the words of Raul Malo from the Mavericks) "music for all occasions," but in life you end up with more than one crappy occasion to play it, and not to have it without listening like the first comment. Rightly unvoteable.
Nice review, Sellami, I agree with you on almost everything... for the others: in the late '70s and early '80s, both Jazzmasters and the Japanese copies (like the ones mostly used by the SY) were valued low and could be found (in America) for little or nothing in pawn shops. The market explosion happened after Cobain.
I was afraid of a duplicate, but instead I discovered new details about an album that has always intrigued me and that I still don't have the courage to listen to.
Good job to you and also to Kosmo, who caught the initial quote. In general, voodoo in comment 1 is not wrong – I've seen dozens of record stores with certain texts or certain records falsely displayed in disorder, but actually on full display – but in this case, the whole situation sounds different. It was 1975 (nineteen seventy-five, remember?), the label was RCA, there were contractual obligations, a different kind of musical history... I might be mistaken, but with this record, they started to disrupt rock, as always ahead of their time. More than unvotable, it's an inviolable record.
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