MR

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Wow, I want 5 mins of my life back. What in the world was this guy trying to accomplish in this article?

Kansas released Point of Know Return, a quadruple platinum heap of dung

WTF, this guy has no taste.

This guy has no ideas what he's talking about. 'Nuff said.

It's just the same ol' same ol'. Nothing new with his point-of-view. Many of the albums he dissed were ones I loved.

Bugsy

what an arrogant piece of shit this guy is ! I have no use for the likes of him.

"I’m not denying the real enjoyment to be had pumping your fist to Styx or appreciating Joel’s deft touch with a melody; what I’m saying is that if you were a music fan in 1977, and just six years earlier you had seen the release of Led Zeppelin IV, Electric Warrior, Imagine, Miles Davis’s Live-Evil, B.B. King’s Live at the Regal, The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys, Funkadelic’s Maggot Brain, Black Sabbath’s Master of Reality, the posthumous Janis Joplin release Pearl, Sticky Fingers, Who’s Next, What’s Going On, and other classic albums, you’d be sitting there thinking, “What the fuck happened?”

As someone who owns none of the forementioned records (except LZ IV), I can answer his question.... music improved!!!

chowhall wrote:http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/blog-entry/2008/08/23/sucking-77.html

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Well, you have to look at what this guy likes and realize, he's one of those critics who thinks liking things that are less popular makes him somehow counter-culture and therefore, cool. I don't know how you can have any rational grasp of the pop culture that transpired when you were one year old.


Sterling

Rockwriter wrote:

chowhall wrote:http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/blog-entry/2008/08/23/sucking-77.html

Read this piece of crap

Well, you have to look at what this guy likes and realize, he's one of those critics who thinks liking things that are less popular makes him somehow counter-culture and therefore, cool. I don't know how you can have any rational grasp of the pop culture that transpired when you were one year old.


Sterling

I don't have any problem with what this guy likes, but he didn't have disparage a lot of great music in the process. Even Rolling Stone spoke favorably of TGI after the fact. It took them a few years to get it, but while they were slamming Kilroy, I seem to remember a back handed compliment to Styx's earlier work.

Maybe this dweeb took out an old Rolling Stone review and plagiarized it. His age was annoying but I don't necessarily hold that against him. I wasn't alive in the 40's so I can't speak to the culture of WWII, but I can still have an opinion of Big Band Music. I just don't have to cut down bands I don't like to make a case for the ones I do like.

For some reason, the main thing that's really sticking in my mind about the whole article is calling "Foreigner" bombastic.. really? Of course "Styx" and "Meat Loaf" are bombastic, but "Foreigner"? I've never really picked that up from them. This either really says something about the relevance of the article, or I have A.D.D..

It's all just about personal taste.. I for one, don't really care ALL that much for a lot of the bands he's singing the praise of, mainly "The Sex Pistols". I don't really feel he's making a very strong point with the whole '75-'78 time period, or the whole article. It just sounds to me like he recently read a copy of "The Rolling Stone Guide To Rock", and decided to elaborate in his own words on what's already been said by music critics thousands of times.