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1951, this was recorded in 1951

They reinvented the then dying form of Big Bands in Jazz, but instead of going towards the complexification of technical standards like most of the 50s Big Bands went, Kenton allowed Graettinger to compose with full freedom. The result is an album that feels as close to Webern as to Duke Ellington.

It's fun that, as a social critique, this one is much more interesting and well thought out than "The Wall" (which was naively simple, vague and innocuous). But if i don't like "The Wall" musically, i like this one even less. This is Roger Waters having his "70s Ray Davies" moments, of focusing more on theatrics and a sense of grandeur than in actual music, but since Waters never had half of the pop sensibility of Davies, his megalomaniac opera rock ... read more

The guys play well and there's explosion and passion here, but this sounds like 9 out of 10 metalcore bands of the 90s and in a time where most metalcore just sounds the same already

The quote "I miss the innocence i've known" is the synthesis of the ethos of indie rock, both in lyrical content and in the formal aspects of the music