* 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, 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.

Archbishop of Canterbury Michael Ramsey describes three meanings of " apostolic succession ":

Biblical scholar Michael D. Coogan describes the importance of understanding the covenant in relation to interpreting Hosea.

Jean-José Puig describes how Massoud often led prayers before a meal or at times asked his fellow Muslims to lead the prayer but also did not hesitate to ask a Christian friend Jean-José Puig or the Jewish Princeton University Professor Michael Barry: " Jean-José, we believe in the same God.

In his memoir, All Souls, Michael Patrick MacDonald describes how many white residents of the Old Colony housing project in South Boston used this meaning to degrade the people considered to be of lower status, whether white or black.

Historian of science Michael Shermer describes its website as being one of " the two best resources on the Internet on the evolution / creation topic " ( the other being TalkOrigins Archive ).

Robert G. Picard similarly describes a democratic socialist tradition of thought including Eduard Bernstein, Karl Kautsky, Evan Durbin and Michael Harrington.

As Michael Harner describes it:

The Book of Pluscarden describes ' a detestable split and most unworthy difference arising from jealosy ' within the Scottish camp and the historian Michael Brown explains that a contemporary source has James appointing his young and inexperienced cousin Robert Stewart of Atholl as the constable of the host ahead of the experienced march wardens the earls of Douglas and Angus.

Michael Lynch describes how James's positive reputation began immediately after his death when the Bishop of Urbino kissed James's wounds and declared him to be a martyr.

Michael Brown describes James as an ' able, aggressive and opportunistic politician ' whose chief aim was to establish a monarchy that had stature and was free from the confrontations that had beset his father's reign.

As author Michael J. Trinklein describes it, " First Montana was carved out, then Idaho, then Wyoming ... there remained a tiny piece left over — at the point where Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming meet.

* The backstory of The Dancers at the End of Time series by Michael Moorcock describes a civilization which consumed all the energy in all the stars in the universe, save Earth's own sun, in order to fuel an existence in which the inheritors of Earth lived as near omnipotent gods.

New Auburn is the setting of Michael Perry's memoir, Population: 485: Meeting your Neighbors One Siren at a Time, in which he describes his experiences as a volunteer firefighter.

In the final version we are presented instead with, as Michael Robinson describes it in The Long Sonata of the Dead: A Study of Samuel Beckett, “ the three corners of love ’ s eternal triangle ( the emphasis here is on the eternal ) … They have no names, simply the designations M, W1 and W2 which aim at anonymity but also stand for all men and women who have, like them, been caught up in a three-part love affair ,”

Michael Barnett describes constructivist international relations theories as being concerned with how ideas define international structure, how this structure defines the interests and identities of states and how states and non-state actors reproduce this structure.

Scholar Michael E. Mooney describes Richard as occupying a " figural position "; he is able to move in and out of it by talking with the audience on one level, and interacting with other characters on another.

His biographer, the Englishman Michael St. John Packe, describes him:

Little wonder that, of all the Symphony's movements, this has come in for the greatest amount of criticism and puzzlement ( it has been seen by many as something of a let-down and somewhat superficial, dodging questions set by the previous movements ): its virtually unrelenting mood of celebration seems quite at odds with the dark character of the earlier movements – " a vigorous life-asserting pageant of Mahlerian blatancy ", is how Michael Kennedy describes it.

Among lyric poets, the most important figures are Anne Bradstreet, who wrote personal poems about her family and homelife ; pastor Edward Taylor, whose best poems, the Preparatory Meditations, were written to help him prepare for leading worship ; and Michael Wigglesworth, whose best-selling poem, The Day of Doom, describes the time of judgment.

Historian Michael Sibalis describes the belief of the French homophile group Arcadie, " that public hostility to homosexuals resulted largely from their outrageous and promiscuous behaviour ; homophiles would win the good opinion of the public and the authorities by showing themselves to be discreet, dignified, virtuous and respectable.

Michael Knoll, in The Ancient Roots of Modern Financial Innovation: The Early History of Regulatory Arbitrage, describes the important role that put-call parity played in developing the equity of redemption, the defining characteristic of a modern mortgage, in Medieval England.

Michael Harner describes tutelary spirits among the Jivaro ( Shuar people ):

One analyst, Michael Shelden, calls Newspeak " the perfect language for a society of bad writers ( like those Orwell describes in " Politics and the English Language ") because it reduces the number of choices available to them.

San Miguel, Spanish for Saint Michael, describes numerous locations.