Help


[permalink] [id link]
+
Page "Minor Threat" ¶ 89
from Wikipedia
Edit
Promote Demote Fragment Fix

Some Related Sentences

Azerrad and Michael
* Azerrad, Michael ( 2001 ).
A Show of Hands met with strong fan approval, but Rolling Stone critic Michael Azerrad dismissed it as " musical muscle " with 1. 5 stars, claiming Rush fans viewed their favourite power trio as " the holy trinity ".
* Michael Azerrad
The new album featured songs such as " I Will Dare ", which featured Buck playing lead guitar, " Androgynous ", with Westerberg on piano, and " Unsatisfied ", where, according to writer Michael Azerrad, Westerberg " had hit upon a moving new way to declare that he can't get no satisfaction ".
Michael Azerrad reported, in the book Our Band Could Be Your Life, that at Minor Threat's second gig, each of the seven bands on the roster performed its version of a Wire song.
While music writer Michael Azerrad acknowledged that early grunge bands like Mudhoney, Soundgarden, and Tad had disparate sounds, he noted " to the objective observer, there were some distinct similarities.
" Michael Azerrad asserted that Nevermind symbolized " a sea-change in rock music " in which the glam metal that had dominated rock music at that time fell out of favor in the face of music that was authentic and culturally relevant.
Nirvana's Kurt Cobain told Michael Azerrad, " Famous is the last thing I wanted to be.
Michael Azerrad describes the Minutemen's early output as " highly caffeinated Captain Beefheart running down James Brown tunes ", and notes that Beefheart was the group's " idol ".
Michael Azerrad, author of Our Band Could Be Your Life, calls Black Flag the " godfathers " of hardcore punk.
According to Michael Azerrad in Our Band Could Be Your Life, the artwork " was a perfect visual analogue to the music it promoted – gritty, stark, violent, smart, provocative, and utterly American.
* Azerrad, Michael.
Music writer Michael Azerrad wrote, " Ginn took his label from a cash-strapped, cop-hassled store-front operation to easily the most influential and popular underground indie of the Eighties ".
* Azerrad, Michael.
Michael Azerrad of Rolling Stone called it " superb ".
" Nirvana biographer Michael Azerrad noted that, nevertheless, many of the songs on the album reflected Cobain and various incidents in his life.
His drawl epitomised the band's slacker ethos and relaxed attitude ; author Michael Azerrad said " even Mascis seemed removed from the feelings he was conveying in the music ".
* Azerrad, Michael ( 2001 ).
Journalist Michael Azerrad later wrote: " A lot of people never knew about Swope's contribution and were mystified by how the musicians onstage could wring such amazing phantom sounds from their instruments.
* Azerrad, Michael.
Michael Azerrad of Rolling Stone magazine gave the DVD four ( out of four ) stars, describing it as the " Holy Grail of heavy metal " and " one of the best rock documentaries ever made.
Influenced by bands like Cabaret Voltaire, Killing Joke, and The Cure, the EP is described by Our Band Could Be Your Life author Michael Azerrad as " cold, dark, and resolutely unlistenable ", with the lyrics describing crack addicts and child abusers, and Albini later regarded the effort as one of his few artistic regrets.
Michael Azerrad comments that " by this time Big Black had both refined the ideas first suggested on Lungs and exploded them into something much huger than anyone but Albini had ever imagined ", while Mark Deming of Allmusic states that the album " upped the ante on the musical and lyrical ferocity of Big Black's previous body of work, an unrelenting assault of guitar sounds and imagined violence of all sorts.
" The effect was a monolithic pummeling, an attack ", says Michael Azerrad, " their groove, normally the most human aspect of a rock band, became its most inhuman ; it only made them sound more insidious, its relentlessness downright tyrannical.

Azerrad and 2001
Music writer Michael Azerrad asserted in his book Our Band Could Be Your Life ( 2001 ) that Hüsker Dü was the key link between hardcore punk and the more melodic, diverse music of college rock that emerged.
* Azerrad, Michael, Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes From the American Indie Underground 1981-1991 ( USA: Little Brown, 2001 ).
" Our Band Could Be Your Life " by Michael Azerrad, Back Bay Books, NY, 2001
Cool Rays is briefly referenced in Our Band Could Be Your Life by Michael Azerrad ( Little Brown, 2001 ).
* Michael Azerrad, Our Band Could Be Your Life, ( USA: Little Brown, 2001, ISBN 0-316-06379-7 ) has a chapter on Mudhoney.

Azerrad and Our
In Our Band Could Be Your Life, Michael Azerrad writes that " on the Jesus Lizard albums Albini recorded, singer David Yow sounds like a kidnap victim trying to howl through the duct tape over his mouth ; the effect is horrific.
Mould ultimately wrote that memoir with Michael Azerrad, the author of Our Band Could Be Your Life and Come as You Are: The Story of Nirvana.
Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground, 1981-1991 is a book by Michael Azerrad.
In the New York Times Book Review, critic Eric Weisbard wrote, " In the decade Azerrad covers, indie America proved that world-class rock could be created outside corporate structures .... Our Band Could Be Your Life passionately resurrects thirteen indie groups ... Azerrad is adept at drawing out musicians ' war stories -- and this bare-bones movement was full of them.
So, as Azerrad put it in Our Band Could Be Your Life, " his frustration fueled a Minutemen classic.

Azerrad and .
SST went on to release a number of albums by other hardcore artists, and was described by Azerrad as " easily the most influential and popular underground indie of the Eighties.
Additionally, by late 1983, Dukowski had retired from performing with Black Flag ( some accounts report he was " edged out " by Ginn ); Azerrad reports that Ginn was dissatisfied with Dukowski's failure to progress as an instrumentalist, and made things difficult for Dukowski in an attempt to make him quit, but in the end, Rollins took it on himself to fire Dukowski.
In 1987 SST released over 80 titles, a " ridiculous amount even by major label standards ", according to Azerrad.
'" Azerrad writes, " admonitions seemed preachy to some.
" Kerosene ", one of Atomizer < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s standout tracks, is viewed by both Azerrad and Allmusic's Andy Kellman as the band's peak performance.
Azerrad remarks on its " powerful rhythm ripped straight from Gang of Four and guitars that sound like shattering glass ", while Kellman calls it " undeniably Big Black's brightest / bleakest moment, an epically roaming track that features an instantly memorable guitar intro, completely incapable of being accurately described by vocal imitation or physical gesture [...] It's Big Black's ' Light My Fire ,' literally.
The sound that Big Black forged for themselves, however, was wholly original: Azerrad remarks that " the band's music — jagged, brutal, loud, and nasty — was original to a downright confrontational degree.
Albini used a specially-made hip-slung guitar strap worn around his waist like a belt, and would " prowl the stage like a spindly gunslinger ", according to Azerrad.

0.839 seconds.