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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.
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* 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.
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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.
" 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.
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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 ".
* 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.
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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.
" 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 and comments
Historian Michael Lynch comments that " the Scottishness of Balmoral helped to give the monarchy a truly British dimension for the first time ".
On 3 May 2011, Michael O ' Flaherty with the United Nations Human Rights Committee published General Comment No. 34 on the ICCPR, which among other comments expresses concern that many forms of " hate speech " do not meet the level of seriousness set out in Article 20.
In Herman Melville's Moby-Dick ( 1956 ), Ishmael ( Richard Basehart ) narrates the story and sometimes comments on the action in voice-over, as does Joe Gillis ( William Holden ) in Sunset Boulevard ( 1950 ) and Eric Erickson ( William Holden ) in The Counterfeit Traitor ( 1962 ); adult Pip ( John Mills ) in Great Expectations ( 1946 ) and Michael York in a television remake ( 1974 ).
By the end of the decade, he had moved to the United States, but his choice of roles was often criticisedhe admitted to and has since made many self-deprecating comments about taking parts, strictly for the money, in numerous films he knew to be bad, despite working with Hollywood's highly regarded directors such as Irwin Allen, Richard Fleischer, Michael Ritchie and Oliver Stone.
* Michael Howard, portrayed as a vampire owing to comments about his apparent sinister personality by Tory MP Ann Widdecombe and his ancestors being from Romania.
Sports Illustrated ′ s Peter King called Smith's comments regarding Michael Vick's involvement in the Bad Newz Kennels " idiotic and inappropriate.
Accordingly, comments on the script from Hammer's Michael Carreras ( who had joined his father James as producer in the early 1950s ) were less than complimentary:
His future was deemed uncertain following critical comments from Sir Michael Lyons, Chairman of the BBC Trust and he resigned on 5 October 2007.
The phrase ' Rev Al is a racist ' was made # 1 on Google Trends for 07-08-09 due to the controversial comments made by Reverend Al Sharpton during Michael Jackson's Memorial Service.
When asked what he objected to about Michael Jackson at the time of the BRIT Award incident, he reiterated his earlier comments about Jackson and Christ ( whilst admitting he himself wasn't religious ).
Beyond scriptural similarities, Michael Pollak comments the Jews ' Pentateuch was divided into 53 sections according to the Persian style.
" The Australian phenomenologist, Michael Eldred, comments:
Adding fuel to the fire we're comments made in an interview with Dan Dodds ( aka Soul Jones ) earlier in the year where Riley suggested that there we're only elements, not fully produced songs from his work with Michael Jackson still left in the can.
The party also defended Anglican bishop Michael Nazir-Ali after comments made in the media.
Tamihere also made comments regarded as derogatory about other members of the Labour Party: Steve Maharey was called " smarmy " and lacking in substance, and Michael Cullen was depicted as cunning and manipulative.
The liner notes include comments from Fripp, Ian McDonald, Michael Giles, Peter Sinfield and manager David Enthoven.
* Follow-up comment from Michael Crichton: Crichton comments on the controversy over spoon bending
As Michael Axworthy comments, " In this way Shah Soltan Hossein gave in death a sharper answer than he ever gave in life ".
Labour Party leader Pat Rabbitte, in a press release immediately afterwards commented that " Any civilised society must consider the abduction and murder of a mother of 10 children to be a crime of considerable barbarism " while Mrs McConville's son Michael said that McLaughlin, along with Sinn Féin TD Arthur Morgan, who had made similar comments elsewhere, " should be holding their heads in shame ".
The rig was designed by Michael Willoughby, who wrote a few comments on the overall design of the brigs.
* Recent obituary for Tongan King also comments on Michael Oliver and the Republic of Minerva ( mental_floss magazine ; 12 September 2006 )
" EWTN head Michael P. Warsaw stated that the comments " should never have been published " and did not reflect the opinions of either the newspaper or the broadcaster.
Michael Foot's comments about the song, and snatches of the song itself, featured in a series on political song broadcast on ' The World Today ' on the BBC World Service-the entire series is now held by the British Library Sound Archive.
Although Michael Moorcock has encouraged other authors to use Jerry Cornelius, in a way that borders on open source, he has posted a number of comments about a couple of authors who, he believes, have directly lifted the character.
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