Word: nihilisme
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And one night (epiphany not too long ago, was it?) i reconciled the false world-historical contradiction between ethics and aesthetics. (irony: the resurgent dawn of nihilism.) I probably should've written it down, but i plead 'catnap': coerion by my spiteful and neglected excuse for a body: the revenge...
This is not music for the squeamish -- or even the optimistic. Meshing the angry nihilism of punk and heavy metal with the synthetic sheen of techno, The Downward Spiral is a 14-song, 65-minute howl of somebody falling into the void. What keeps it from being just another nauseating...
In 1992, Cobain expressed his disdain for the glory of rock culture: "...at this point in rock history, Punk Rock (while still sacred to some) is, to me, dead and gone." In 1994, Cobain made himself dead and gone, while overcoming the cliche of accident with the violence of willful...
His subject was the same perennial, youthful fury captured by the Sex Pistols, before they too self-destructed, and by the Who, before Pete Townshend survived to purvey nostalgia to Broadway theatergoers. Youthful nihilism may not be new, but no artist invents all his materials; it's what he does...
The New York Dolls' 1972 version of Human Being, for instance, seems washed out compared with Guns N' Roses' fierce, tightly controlled update. Rose -- whose voice sounds like an angry air horn -- is one of the most distinctive singers in rock, and his prowess is on display throughout the album...