Newsgroup: it.arti.musica.rock
Titolo: [Fugazi, The Argument] secondo AMG

www.allmusic.com
AMG EXPERT REVIEW: It's unfortunate that a band so forward looking as
Fugazi has been criticized over and over for not remaking "Waiting
Room", or "Repeater". Some have called them sellouts, regardless of the
band's integrity and class, while others consider them elitists,
"guiding" the Washington, D.C. scene. This could not be further from the
truth. As the film and soundtrack to Instrument proved, this is a band
that is only concerned with musical growth, with each album improving on
its predecessor. But no album they have put together has the jump ahead
that The Argument has. Being both ear shattering and spine tingling at
once, this is Fugazi at their "musical" best. Incorporating melody with
texture and their signature angular approach, the band has raised the
bar for themselves and others once again. The first "full" track,
"Cashout," (an anti-gentrification anthem) is classic stuff, with a
subtle guitar line exploding into a screaming chorus, but this time
there is less of an emphasis on the screaming and more on the gentle
melody of the verse. Slower tracks like "The Kill", and "Life and Limb",
touch on strange new territory. Gentle with sense of swagger, these
songs lack none of the power that the band is known for. While the two
drum assault of "Ex-Spectator" (courtesy of Brendan Canty and second
drummer Jerry Busher) has just as much potency on disc as it does live.
And the final song, "Argument", with its rolling guitar lines, dreamy
breakdown, and vocals that build from gentle to screaming, may be the
best closer on a Fugazi record since "Promises". Listeners may be
surprised to hear strings open up the record, or piano guiding the
brilliant "Strangelight", but this is the album that proves once and for
all that Fugazi has become a purely musical force. Fifteen years in and
Fugazi is still progressing. It makes one wonder what they're capable of
in the future.
  -- Chris True
Intanto cresce dal decimo ascolto in poi (ahi, Murmur, tu che l'hai dato
via dopo 10 ascolti!! :)) questa specie di End hits 2.
Strangelight, The kill, Cashout, Argument su tutte.
Non si riesce a riascoltare Five corporations dopo avere sentito cantare
MacKaye su TA.
Hooker, e altri: perche' non dite la vostra?
(notiamo che la parola "punk" non compare piu' nelle recensioni)
Ciao
-- 
Francesco Giannici  --  
gian...@mbox.infcom.it
 
http://home.dal.net/zenarcade
"You should pay rent in my mind"  -- Fugazi

 (notiamo che la parola "punk" non compare piu' nelle recensioni)
Io e il post-*punk* in questo periodo non andiamo proprio d'accordo... ;-P
--
Morris Lord of the Wolves
"Quouro l'ome ourè touchà
la terro estremo ente si pià
pausen e i à de veire
pus deren dran l'Univers,
enchà tournar areire"
Pick of the day:
HEM - Rabbit songs (Setanta, 2001)

la dico eccome. anzi, leggiti il post "di wag" poco più sopra... rispecchia
abbastanza bene quello che penso... ;-)))
non è il loro disco migliore e neanche il peggiore. è un disco dei fugazi.
punto e basta. ciò significa: meglio di qualsiasi altra cosa ci sia in
circolazione. Lo dirò finché campo: solo i VU sono riusciti a fare dischi
altrettanto belli. Però loro, a differenza dei Fugazi, un Loaded bruttino lo
hanno fatto.
Probabilmente la band più imprescindibile degli ultimi 20-30 anni IMHO IMHO
IMHO.
(Sono di parte, lo so.)
--
--
"Personally, I am pro-nuclear war. I want to destroy the earth, 'cause it
will get rid of everyone. All the mafia, all the clubowners, all the
neurotic cocaine-sniffing wenches, all the fucking scumbags. I want to start
clean and after the bomb drops, there will be nothing left but big old
roaches, mutants and stuff like that."      - Henry Rollins (1984)

 wrote in message
1f2d3h0.14il8i81erjrnN%gian...@infcom.it...
