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Originally Posted by Johnny American
I said specifically that I don't want them to revisit anything. I just don't cling to the weird rock critic canonization that all their best work was done between 1985 and 1988 and then they fell off a huge cliff into irrelevance around the time of Goo/Dirty/EJST&NS and never came back to ... a bunch of sounds that, if they did them now, would be really dated and irrelevant sounding. I love "Tom Violence" and "Expressway to Yr Skull"; I would not want to hear the band that they've evolved into attempt to do those songs, and yet that seems to be the thing that most people get excited by: paler and paler imitations of their old full-on rockin' selves. And to THAT end, I say, give me some Washing Machine and Murray Street sounds instead of dipping back to breaking into rock 'n' noise mode in a mindbogglingly heartless fashion as on this album. I blame Mark Ibold and Thurston Moore, and I like Pavement and Sonic Youth.
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You rip your hair out over what is or isn't relevant, don't you.