El-P
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He isn't from Glasgow, Scotland ? Damnit !
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Yeah, I thought about putting Steamboat in the mix too, but there is that pretty long span of being a single wrestler that prevented me from doing so. That being said, he was a pretty awesome tag team worker too, yes.
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Stupid question : quid de joshi puroresu ?
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I'll add that some people are technically able to judge music, and they will tell you that what you think is great is pure crap to their hears. Because they have a totaly different perception. I'm taking about people working in high level music academy for instance. I had tons of exchange with a guy like that. He's classicaly trained, he teaches music at a conservatoire, all kind of musics, he worked with modern composers like Pierre Boulez and such. He can talk heavy metal, techno, pop, hip-hop or jazz, whatever style you want to. Well, that guy just doesn't understand some music because of his actual ability to technically understand composition, some lo-fi stuff like folk or blues or garage punk he just can't handle and think it has zero interest. We never talked Bob Dylan, and maybe he would say good things about him. Maybe he would say his guitar work his shit and totally uninteresting. On the other hand, some stuff he loves I find totally flat and bland and boring, it just doesn't resonate with me on any level, on the contrary I find some of the stuff he loves quite ugly (and I don't mean because I don't feel like I can understand it, no, I mean ugly or bland period). And then we agree and tons of stuff too, especially in the realm of house and techno, despite the fact I have absolutely *zero* knowledge, I mean real technical knowledge, about music and composition. We don't hear the same thing. And sometime we do, in a different way. So yeah, using metrics and star rating for pop-music, or art in general seems just pretty useless to me. There's so much subjectivity in all of this, so much sensitive, social, psychological, sentimental issues that goes along perception of music. (For the record, I couldn't care less about the Rolling Stones or Bob Dylan for instance. I probably love tons of people who love the Stones and Bob Dylan, but as a huge music fan, I have no interest in listening to them directly, really. Maybe one day for some reason I will, and then will love them. But certainly not because Allmusic or Rolling Stones tell me they are the GOAT because of metrics.)
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Since when Allmusic's ratings mean anything whatsoever ? I mean, seriously people. And arguing about metrics in art, even popular art, seems totally irrelevant to me. As does GOAT discussion on the matter, really.
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Over a span of about 15 years. Yeah, that's pretty damn impressive. Morton, Eaton, Arn and Windham are the quintessential US tag team workers to me too.
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Indeed. It was during that time that my tastes had definitely smoothed a lot, for instance discovering some lucha gems, watching The Rock under a complete new outlook and finally enjoying him a lot (I really couldn't stand The Rock back in 98/99), and basically settling down from my "puro-elitist" phase once and for all.
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Hakushi was more understandable to me, he was one hell of a worker, and he had a look and a mystique that was easy (well, should have been at least) to market. Nakanashi was a big green goof at this point. And why the hell would they call him Kurosawa anyway ? It's like a green Johnny Ace coming to Japan and being called Ford.
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