Understated ‘sad dad rock’ for depressed, middle-aged, middle-class, unhappily married men, is how a cynic might characterise the National’s music. As I slot very neatly into precisely that demographic, I believe I am well placed to offer an evaluation and ranking of their discography. As it happens, I came to the National later in life; […]
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Alice in Chains made no impression on me as a teenager. I grew up in the UK, where grunge in general and this band in particular made less of an impact than in the US. Moreover, I came of age at the end of the 90s, after the relentless wave of flannel shirts, heroin addiction,
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Type O Negative were perhaps the paradigmatic purveyors, and maybe even the originators, of gothic metal music and, technically, they were only the fourth band I ever got into, at the tender age of 14. So they have a special place in my heart, though I was never completely sold on their brand of plodding,
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