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Dirk Hanssens
Hi all, I'm from 1963 and live in Belgium and have been following music a long time. I have gone through many musical stages like the Beatles, Metal, classic guitar rock, punk music, Indie, Grunge etc but the main focus is still on guitar music: favourite bands are of course the Beatles, but also The Kinks, Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd, The Allman Brothers Band, Led Zeppelin, Husker Du, Pavement, Dinosaur Jr., Sebadoh, dEUS, Metallica, Guided by Voices, Sonic Youth, ...
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Dirk Hanssens's Album Reviews
This is the 81th album of a thread of album reviews in which I'd like to guide you through my personal musical history based on my top100 Album list you can find in my profile: the previous album in the thread was "Painful" by Yo La Tengo.
Albums like this are not made anymore: the moment I bought "Troublegum" it grabbed me by the throat by its sheer energy and it has continued to do so since then.
This album doesn't contain one lesser song and the combination of the voice of Andy Cairns, the guitar playing and the songwriting makes this album a stand-out. Also live Therapy? emits the same energy.
There are 5 tracks on this album which appear in my Songs top 1000 and one on another album:
- Knives (this album)
- Stop it You're Killing Me (this album)
- Nowhere (this album)
- Die Laughing (this album)
- Trigger Inside (this album)
- Stories (Infernal Love)
Next album in this thread: "Blue Sky Mining" by Midnight Oil.
Albums like this are not made anymore: the moment I bought "Troublegum" it grabbed me by the throat by its sheer energy and it has continued to do so since then.
This album doesn't contain one lesser song and the combination of the voice of Andy Cairns, the guitar playing and the songwriting makes this album a stand-out. Also live Therapy? emits the same energy.
There are 5 tracks on this album which appear in my Songs top 1000 and one on another album:
- Knives (this album)
- Stop it You're Killing Me (this album)
- Nowhere (this album)
- Die Laughing (this album)
- Trigger Inside (this album)
- Stories (Infernal Love)
Next album in this thread: "Blue Sky Mining" by Midnight Oil.
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