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The cool thing about timeless badass tunes is that whenever I tire of them...I can take a break. And whenever I return to them, sometimes years later, I remember how fucking amazing they are and they'll sound new to me again. Television's "Marquee Moon" is a prime example of this. So is virtually everything by Nirvana (a band I usually spend a week out of the year re-absorbing/getting excited about before I bore of them again).
A lot of those old guys paved the way so much shit it's unreal. Like w/ Television...a lot of folks like to talk about them as being this prototypical punk rock band. Whenever I listen to them, they sound more post-punk to me. An evolved form of punk before punk happened. So damned far ahead of their time. I still, whenever listening to them, will pick up on suttle things I don't remember from previous listens. Modest Mouse/Pavement/Fugazi could never do that for me. Whenever I go back and listen to them they sound just as boring as they ever did.
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