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  response to  Brooklynpug's post Yes, but change is not always good....

  i agree but...

  i agree with you that a lot of bands have become lazier relying on technology to do what 10 years ago was done by touring and playing. great acts will always come from playing live and leaving it on the stage night after night. the problem is that now many artists rely on mega-producers to make their music shine. there was a time when great bands did not need a helping hand, only a guide to help focus their art. not to mention the talentless achieving success based on nothing. the lessons of the "great rock-roll swindle" only perverted more. so long as the britney spears and good charlottes of the world keep having their puppet string spulled, the worse music will get.

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  Commented on July 29, 2007 by - snowgrind

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  response to  Michaelangelo Matos and Brian Rea's post Michaelangelo Matos on the 1990s Music Renaissance

  finally something about the early 90's

  with everyone so high on the 80's, the early part of the 90's were an amazing time. musically it was just phenomenal, nirvana, pearl jam, soundgarden, techno, U2 reinventing themselves. all of the excesses of the 80's were stripped away and only the core was exposed. computers became cheaper and people were doing amazing things that years earlier were not even possible. i still have a few club fliers from that era and the creativity is just amazing with the limited technology. music is and always will be the barometer of eras and generations. i love the 80's, but the 90's have a very special place in my heart as well. people are always focusing on kurt cobain's death in 1994, but they fail to see the incredible amount of great music from 1990 thru 1997, acid house to grunge to brit pop. the 90's was also the decade that people embraced technology on a social level and the birth of the internet as a communications medium and a money-maker. cellphones were now in the hands of the masses. let's face it, the 90's were the bridge from the analog to the digital world we live in now.

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  Commented on July 25, 2007 by - snowgrind

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  response to  GOOD magazine's post Mixtapes: Ode to the E.U.

  very clever

  great idea! you may want to do a second mix and include "london" by the smiths or just choose another continent.

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  Commented on July 25, 2007 by - snowgrind

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  response to  GOOD magazine's post Mixtapes: 80's Covers

  as a youth of the 80's...

  it's great to see so many "now" artists covering 80's classics. especially when they take the song and make it their own. the only song i really dug was nada surf's version of "where is my mind". dug the cover, TRON. an underrated, under-appreciated movie.

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  Commented on July 25, 2007 by - snowgrind