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I don't have much to add to this other than to say Big Black produced some of the most beautiful music I've ever heard and that probably says something terrible

I don't have much to add to this other than to say Big Black produced some of the most beautiful music I've ever heard and that probably says something terrible about the way my mind works. It's hard to explain Albini without the context of the 80s. You can watch Stranger Things all you want, if you weren't someone who grew up in the 80s political-cultural-social-economic environment the statements and actions of guys like Albini(and much of the punk and even thrash movements) are going to seem bewildering and/or purely offensive.

Solvency 3y ago
Albini. Torvalds. What other two names can round out the four horseman of the surly rantiness?
- potta_coffee 3y ago
  Buzz Osbourne of the Melvins. Dave Mustaine.
- TylerE 3y ago
  Lenny Bruce was the OG.
- jtode 3y ago
  I dunno if Torvalds gets in there before St. Ignucius. That said, somewhat obsessed with answering that lol
darkwraithcov 3y ago
I was just talking about this with my other genx/millennial friend on how fucked the 80s were and how very little media nostalgia reflects this. The Reagan era was like the Trump era on steroids basically, but the colors were nice I guess.
- jtode 3y ago
  It was the start of the decline. America caught a real wave for about a hundred years, and that's when the wave started to recede, the shoreline not so lush, getting dryer by the year...
jtode 3y ago
That... that noise on Kerosene. It's a guitar I think, but just, what the hell did he do to it? Not actually asking, don't actually wanna necessarily know. But just... and then the article is wrong about the lyrics of course. The lyrics are not about the joys of arson; there is no joy in the song. The song is about being stuck in a small town life with no possibility of escape, and getting so bored that self-immolation like South Vietnamese monks starts looking like your best option. It's the internal sounds of a mind damaged beyond recognition by the rust belt. And I agree, it's some of the most beautiful music ever made.

Solvency 3y ago

Albini. Torvalds. What other two names can round out the four horseman of the surly rantiness?

potta_coffee 3y ago
Buzz Osbourne of the Melvins. Dave Mustaine.
TylerE 3y ago
Lenny Bruce was the OG.
jtode 3y ago
I dunno if Torvalds gets in there before St. Ignucius. That said, somewhat obsessed with answering that lol

darkwraithcov 3y ago

I was just talking about this with my other genx/millennial friend on how fucked the 80s were and how very little media nostalgia reflects this. The Reagan era was like the Trump era on steroids basically, but the colors were nice I guess.

jtode 3y ago
It was the start of the decline. America caught a real wave for about a hundred years, and that's when the wave started to recede, the shoreline not so lush, getting dryer by the year...

jtode 3y ago

That... that noise on Kerosene. It's a guitar I think, but just, what the hell did he do to it? Not actually asking, don't actually wanna necessarily know. But just... and then the article is wrong about the lyrics of course. The lyrics are not about the joys of arson; there is no joy in the song. The song is about being stuck in a small town life with no possibility of escape, and getting so bored that self-immolation like South Vietnamese monks starts looking like your best option. It's the internal sounds of a mind damaged beyond recognition by the rust belt. And I agree, it's some of the most beautiful music ever made.