Re: the greatest album ever

Dan Pfleging (PhishHed@prodigy.net)
Tue, 02 Nov 1999 12:24:21 -0500

       Hullo all.  Dan here.  I've just been watching from the sidelines
observing all the goings on here, and being generally amused when people go
off on tangents about getting drunk and so on.  I also remember something
about "intelligence atheletes".  Anyhow, I don't know how old all of us are
(I myself am 15), but I'd just like to offer up a sort of different
perspective on the whole "greatest album ever".  I love all classic rock
(beattles, hendrix, dylan, the dead, the doors, floyd, all that stuff), but
I noticed nobody mentioned anything a little... er... harder?  Suggestion:
Nine Inch Nails "The Fragile", hey, get back here dammit, hear me out.
       In the 90's, this fast-food music age of phonyisms, with fake teen
angst like "Limp Bizkit" and "KoRn" (both of which I find to be utterly
repulsive) Trent Reznor of NIN commits a sort of taboo, and releases an
album that actually means something.  It's a CD about redemption, and trying
to pull yourself out of the hole you've dug over the years by emotional
self-mutilation.  If you can handle something a bit edgy (that doesn't look
like it's spelt correctly, but frankly m'dear, I don't give a damn) intense,
and loud, please give it a try.  The only drawback is that it really drains
you to listen to both CD's because it puts you on such a roller coaster of
emotions.  You just might need a nap. (surprisingly enough this CD did
horribly, which doesn't say much for my generation IMHO)
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Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 1999 7:50 AM
Subject: Re: the greatest album ever


> In a message dated 11/2/99 5:57:40 AM Eastern Standard Time,
> rbowman@indigo.ie writes:
>
> << What a relief.  And what a gracious, ungrudging tribute
>      to my compatriots.  As the heart-stopping curve of
>      'Here, there & everwhere' uncoils in one's head,
>      these old Brit eyes grow wet with poignant memory
>      & gratitude.
>
>      Scottie B. >>
>
> For, eh, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin and the Beatles?
>
> (speaking as a fan of all three...)
>
> Jim
>
> P.S. Jimi Hendrix's career could have taken off in Northern Tibet and he
> still would have been AMERICAN :)