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better album? To my mind this is the great unasked question of music
criticism, certainly as interesting as any other compare-and-contrast
question, much more interesting to my ears since 1) pretty much any
answer anybody gives is bound to be a brand new answer and 2) anybody
who even bothers to answer such a question in the first place has
to be somebody with a pretty passionate opinion about Eyehategod,
which people make for better answers than the short-attention-span
shmoes who’ll all weigh in with their unconsidered opinions on
such dull battles as Sgt. Pepper vs. Their Satanic Majesties’
Request (Satanic Majesties by three-and-a-half lengths)
or Oasis vs. Blur (nobody cares, anyone who says they do is lying
or high). When I wrote a review of EHG’s live album for the St
Louis Riverfront Times, the paper actually got mail from Eyehategod
fans thanking them for reviewing their favorite band. Maybe this happens
with any record that gets reviewed, I don’t know -- but I don’t
suspect it does. I think people who’ve locked into the anti-groove
that Eyehategod throws down are people who feel like they’ve
struck oil in some long-empty Texas ghost town and who are just sitting
around bathing in crude waiting for somebody to notice how lucky they
are. |
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