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The generational masterpiece by Luca Carboni, the unrest of twenty-year-olds in the Eighties filtered into an album that speaks of fear ("La voglia di vivere") and coexistence ("Vieni a vivere con me"), the latter topic being (almost) taboo in Italian singer-songwriter music of the time. "Silvia lo sai" goes down in history; "Lungomare" is a little gem to be locked away in a drawer.

By intuition, the debt to Springsteen here is even more evident than in the debut album. There are a couple of missteps, but there is also a lot that Liga will never replicate again (not even in "Buon compleanno Elvis," whose sound is already softer—I belong to the "ClanDestino" faction): "Anime in plexiglass"; "Sarà un bel souvenir"; "Libera nos a malo" deserve the 4 stars.

Battisti's debut marks a reclaiming: after years of "back work" for the beat groups of the time, Ribelli, Equipe 84, Camaleonti, he takes back those songs and arranges and sings them in his own way. The leap in quality is enormous, and anonymous songs like "Non è Francesca" (given to I Balordi) become easily accessible cult classics thanks to the musical insights of Battisti and his collaborators (in this case Gianni Dell'Aglio on drums). "Un'avventura" and "Balla Linda" go down in history, along with other songs ("La mia canzone per Maria," "Uno in più") which, while pleasant, still seem immature and far from what will become the artistic path of the singer-songwriter from Poggio Bustone. riappropriazione: