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Old 08-10-2011, 12:05 PM   #16 (permalink)
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I think the utter **** of hair metal and new wave (not that I don't listen to all of it without an ounce of shame) actually led to the formation of the underground music scene that we know today. Without A Flock of Seagulls, would Slayer or The Melvins have felt as much desire to be so different?
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There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.
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