Dubbel Mono

dinsdag, november 12, 2002

 
The Art of Stopping: 18 Albums That Should Have Been Goodbye
Mind you, het gaat hier dus om platen die een mooie afscheidsgroet zouden zijn geweest voor een mooie carrière.
The Ramones - Too Tough to Die
That's right -- you don't know any of the songs on this one. This isn't one of those Ramones albums that everybody talks about -- but it's as good as their best work. Inspired, melodic and hard-hitting, Too Tough to Die is the last great Ramones album; their career nadir, the Pet Semetary soundtrack, was only four years away...

Maar vooral ben ik het eens met
Suicidal Tendencies' self-titled debut
That's right -- one record. Between 1983 and, oh, 1986, Suicidal Tendencies was as essential to high-school quasi-punk-rock rebellion as hating jocks and telling your parents you were thinking about getting a mohawk. You hadn't lived 'til you'd heard "Institutionalized" and "I Saw Your Mommy". Shit, nineteen years later, bands are still ripping off "Institutionalized". Unfortunately, between 1983 and 1987, Mike Muir and his buddies decided they were skate punks. There's nothing wrong with being a skate punk -- but no matter how much you might have loved "I Saw Your Mommy", there was very little reason to love 1987's execrable Join the Army.

(En The Sugarcubes hadden het inderdaad moeten laten bij Life's Too Good.)
|| 10:58 a.m.