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[ivyfic]

I just got Johnny Cash's album The Man Comes Around. "Hurt" is really the most emo song ever written. (Yes, I know it's Trent Reznor.) From now on, if someone asks me what emo is, I will play this song. I love it so.

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[ivy03.livejournal.com]

I love that album cause it sounds like a moment where it is still within the tropes of eighties pop music (the backing beats could be straight from anything on the radio--the beginning of one song always makes me think of "King of Wishful Thinking"), but it is also clearly transforming into something new.

I love transitional albums like that, like Genesis's eponymous album, or Supertramp's Crisis? What Crisis?