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Originally Posted by lucifer_sam
While I'm still here, can someone explain this sacred cow to me:
I cannot understand for the life of me why this gets lumped in with other seminal punk albums, it's just a bunch of recycled riffs with little to nothing to support it. And aside from the title song there isn't a memorable track in the bunch, it's just about as disappointing as Tom Verlaine's countenance is in the album cover. I don't get it at all. |
That's a fantastic album. Just pay lots of attention to the guitar lines and arrangements and you'll see the genius of the album. I think it's very unfair that they get lumped in with the punk scene at the time, they were very much parallel to it.
I can understand though why some people might be put off at first. I didn't really dig Tom Verlaine's voice at first but i soon grew to like it and started to hear the unhinged passion in his voice. It's an album that does take repeated listening to realise it's genius, it has no shortage of memorable tracks, some less immediate that others. Then there's the classic case of if you're never going to dig it, it's not the music for you, but this album deserves it's status as a classic