Word: rocks
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...getting in trouble, about getting in trouble. By turning a poetic eye on subjects normally seen as low or trivial, The Hold Steady has created a document of what it’s like to be young and stupid in America. By setting this poetry to incongruously positive pub-rock, they have made it essential listening...
...slept with someone who handled Kurt Cobain’s intervention.” Besides lacking rhythm or aesthetic sensibility, the lyrics have no comic timing. Before the song even reaches its bridge, the jokes have been killed deader than the ballad’s titular grunge rock star...
...Hardcore” music emerged as a consequence of the ’70s punk-rock explosion. Disappointed that their musical heroes were trading in black boots and militant politics for glamour and coke, down-and-out youth in cities across America decided to bleed rock dry of decorative superfluities...
Rachman isn’t interested in shining any kind of analytical light onto those six years of rock history. He just thinks Hardcore rules, and he wants you to think it rules...
...mediocre video consists of JB and Kage marveling at their movie outside, and later inside, a movie theater. They become so overwhelmed with the awesomeness of the movie that they stand up in front of the screen and proceed to rock out to the song, with Black annoying the whole theater (and the viewer) before they are both hauled out by security...