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Originally Posted by Rob Instigator
what exactly is DATED about loveless? and how can you listen to beefheart? that shit sounds so fucking DATED!
if you mean that tons of LOSER FUCKS ripped off it's sound then I agree but that does not DATE the album
the album is genius fucking awesome shit and will be listened to for decades.
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Well I'd say that listening to Loveless it's pretty obvious when it was made while, to my ears at least, TMR could've been recorded yesterday, or tomorrow. Come on Rob, I know you don't like Beefheart, and I respect that, but you're just not making any sense about this. Loveless came at exactly the right time, bringing together the Dinosaur Jr/SY thing and fusing it with studio techniques that were unique to that moment.
TMR is a record that, when I hear it, despite the fact that I know when it was recorded, seems to stand outside of its era. There was a certain inevitability about the way in which Loveless was going to sound - given what was happening in the UK musically at that time. I don't think the same can be said of TMR. Not that that necessarily makes TMR a
better album than Loveless. Although personally I think it is.