* Azerrad, Michael ( 2001 ), Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes From the American Indie Underground, 1981-1991, Boston, MA: Little Brown, ISBN 978-0-316-78753-6.

* 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 ".

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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.

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.

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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 ".

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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 ".

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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.

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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.

Michael Polanyi asserted that it is merely a commitment to universality that protects against subjectivity and has nothing at all to do with personal detachment as found in many conceptions of the scientific method.

She failed in her attempt to use a church synod to dismiss the catholicos Michael, and the noble council, darbazi, asserted the right to approve royal decrees.

All three names were equivalent and interchangeable ", asserted Michael C. Astour.

Entertainment Weekly asserted that, despite American audiences ' unfamiliarity with Clough, " what's lost in translation is recovered easily enough in Michael Sheen's astonishing performance ".

Michael repaid £ 19, 169. 56 although later in a 2010 Election Hustings meeting in Splott he said press reports of his having been forced to pay back £ 20, 000 were " untrue " and asserted he had " voluntarily " paid back the money.

Despite the Manifesto, historians D. Michael Quinn, B. Carmon Hardy, and Richard S. Van Wagoner have asserted that Woodruff continued to secretly encourage, or at least allow, new plural marriages to be performed in Mexico, Canada, and upon the high seas.

In 2010 Michael Gove, writing in The Times, asserted that, for Hitchens, what is more important than the split between the Left and the Right is " the deeper gulf between the restless progressive and the Christian pessimist ", and in 2010 Hitchens himself wrote " in all my experience in life, I have seldom seen a more powerful argument for the fallen nature of man, and his inability to achieve perfection, than those countries in which man sets himself up to replace God with the State ".

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.

In the 1960 compendium, City Invincible, written before 1958, he recalled Ventris stating that currency was absent from the tablets, but he phrased it in a different way: " Michael Ventris ... has asserted the absence of money in the palace economy of Mycenaean Greece.

Catholic holocaust scholar Michael Phayer concludes that the encyclical " condemned racism ( but not Hitler or National Socialism, as some have erroneously asserted )".

In a 2012 article in Bloomberg, author Michael Burgan asserted that there is a " grand tradition of private wealth furthering advances in rocketry and space exploration " dating back to the early rocketry experiments of Robert Goddard.

Many of the left-wing participants in the Historikerstreit were to claim that this museum was meant to “ exonerate ” the German past, and asserted that there was a connection between the proposed museum, the government, and the views of such historians as Michael Stürmer, Ernst Nolte and Andreas Hillgruber.

It is asserted that the use of this image on Progressive Democrats and Michael McDowell qualifies as fair use for the following reasons:

In this context he gained some very high profile admirers ; Sonny Rollins asserted at one concert: “ Does anyone here know how good he is ?” It is Tracey on piano which film viewers hear behind Rollins on the soundtrack of the Michael Caine version of Alfie.

On June 30, 2008, Lohan submitted a DNA sample for a paternity test after a Montana massage therapist, Kristi Kaufmann, asserted that Michael was intimately involved with her in 1995 while he was separated from Dina, and fathered her daughter, Ashley.

" The task Lewy sets for himself turns out to be surprisingly simple, for the laws of war are so vaguely stated and so radically incomplete that a brief for the defense is readily put together ", asserted Michael Walzer ; of America in Vietnam, Theodore Draper added, " It is a continuing shame ... that the shamefulness of this war should be incidentally taken up in a book designed to cover up the shame by taking refuge in narrow and dubious legalisms.

In January 1992, Nevermind replaced pop superstar Michael Jackson's Dangerous at number one on the Billboard 200.

In 1991, for instance, no awards were given to best selling and critically lauded albums like Nirvana's Nevermind or U2's Achtung Baby, but instead lesser known artists like The Riverdogs, Michael Lee Firkins, rapper Paris and instrumentalist Jean Marc Zelwer got the prizes.