Posted by Trung
on 7/21/2012, 7:23 am, in reply to "Yeah I can see that"
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I remember writing a "history of rock music" essay back in school when i was like 12 and I wrote something moronic like how Radiohead invented prog rock (really that's debateable whether Radiohead are really a prog rock band to begin with) and Blur invented britpop.
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: It has one foot in both their early years and
: their later years representing some of the
: best of both styles. I definitely agree it's
: probably the best album to get first.
:
: I have huge nostalgic feelings towards The
: Mollusk, since it was not only my first Ween
: album, but also the first album to break me
: out of a musical funk I had gotten myself
: into (I like to call it the "I am 13
: and therefore I know what I'm talking about
: when it comes to music" funk). It
: pretty much blew my 13-year-old brain that
: music could be that strange and that
: compelling.
: I remember debating between it and C&C in
: the store and ultimately choosing it because
: I was worried what my parents might think if
: I bought an album with boobs and a
: "parental advisery" label on the
: cover. Though I went back and bought C&C
: anyway a couple weeks later (turns out my
: parents weren't the least bit concerned.
: though i was sweating bullets when I paid
: for it at the til, I felt like a kid trying
: to get away with buying a porno or
: something).
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