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Title: Piece of Crap
Review: There is nothing so loathsome in the world of rock criticism as the writer who fancies himself or herself the gatekeeper of a particular aesthetic. As the wannabe voice of "indie credibility," Jim DeRogatis is the very paragon of this stifling sensibility, in which music and musicians are subjected to a litmus test of political correctness and anti-establishment manners. It got to the point in the Nineties that the byword of indie-rock might as well have been "nothing fails like success," because popular appeal was the kiss of death with this alienated clique. Now DeRogatis has rounded up a crew of third-generation rock critics who vent their secret resentment at having missed most of what was good about rock music. To have these second-rate thinkers attempting to deflate the works of such artists as the Doors, the Beatles and Captain Beefheart is tantamount to trying to level the Taj Mahal by lobbing spoonfuls of oatmeal at it. Get a life, kiddies.
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