Gramsci wrote: Sat May 25, 2024 12:23 am I’m genuinely surprised at the almost 50/50 split. I’m assumed a 80/20 not crap / crap.

I guess that’s a reflection of the two sidedness of their career.

I think it's because he was once one of "our" artists but is now decidedly middlebrow. I make this observation neutrally.

I'm kinda sad cause I've never really got into Bedhead, apart from the debut. Feel like I'm missing on something great. Who knows, maybe one day I'll try again and click with it. Same, I missed them when first delving into this scene but checked them out when seeing the cavalcade of hosannas on PRF...

Not a big fan past the period that kind of sounds like the Birthday Party, and I've tried. It's all such forced maturity to me: the suits, the ballads, the literary themes. I'm getting sleepy just thinking about it. The Grinderman stuff was ok. Yep, some of it is very dull from The Good Son onwards...

...post by Angus Jung... A. Jung was unusually gifted at communicating his thoughts about music and culture. I learned a lot from him when I started lurking on this board as an adolescent; both from his sheer breadth of knowledge, but also from how he was able to express himself and his personality...

I get the arguments made for their greatness, but I remain unmoved by their music and can't ever imagine why I'd listen to them out of choice.

Crap for me, friends.

Al is looking and moving very well, and they could all do with some vitamin D. Frankly this is the best Ministry performance I've seen in decades. So many of them felt like exploiting a crack addled homeless guy who had to entertain you with his craziness for spare change. Ja, I thought they did a ...

I think AAP is their best record, but my favourite is Terraform , which finds them pushing at the edges of how a rock band operates and writes songs while still rockin'. Many great, clever bands released a 'bit-bored-of-rock' album around this time, but this is bolder effort than most, mostly by din...

Al is looking and moving very well, and they could all do with some vitamin D. Frankly this is the best Ministry performance I've seen in decades. So many of them felt like exploiting a crack addled homeless guy who had to entertain you with his craziness for spare change. Ja, I thought they did a ...

Their apologies for the frat era still seem a little insincere—the frat persona clearly wasn’t just a put-on, even if it had started as one I think this was much less a "frat" thing than it was a continuation of the willfully obnoxious / offensive element of the various underground scenes...

Awful. One of the worst.

Crap