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Title: Navel-Gazing At Its Very Best
Review: Kudos to Centerman -- this entirely self-congratulatory sham is in essence a very pale imitation of the sainted Bangs, and the arguments contained herein are self-indulgent at best, nonsensical at worst. The time to get outraged by what is at heart an adolescent stunt -- "Your favorite band sucks!" -- is very much past its sell-by date. While remaining a far superior writer and critic to his Chicagoland buddy Greg Kot (who's finally moved on from Mekons Toady-in-Chief to Wilco's court jester), DeRogatis is fast becoming this decade's Jimmy Guterman; "Bore Your Idols" is redolent of nothing so much as Guterman's execrable "Worst Rock & Roll Records of All Time." Can't wait for DeR.'s next weighty tome, due in -- what? -- six months? "Milk it" indeed.
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