Kid_A

Five-four

Come on, hey!... this is a masterpiece, for crying out loud, a masterpiece... I may be the usual voice crying in the wilderness... but let me shout it from the rooftops. Not to chase after the big shots of specialized magazines, but there’s more ideas and class in here than I’ve heard in the last decade.

a great comeback, less exuberant and bold than "Neon Golden" (which remains one of the best things heard in recent years), but just as convincing...to define these "faint and faded little songs," as someone mentioned above, really takes courage or perhaps just a lot, a lot of mental confusion...I mean a whole lot, you know...

I said "Pretend you've got no money. / But she just laughed an said "Oh you're so funny." / I said "Yeah? Well I can't see anyone else smiling in here.".... I love almost every single note of this album, even if it hasn't aged very well... The beginning is evocative, but my dear David, please prioritize quality over quantity. Yours, Kid.

Concerts in stadiums never reach these figures; here we are talking about concerts in theaters...reserved seating, armchairs, etc. And anyway, back in '95 (or '96?) for the U2 I already spent 66,000 lire and EMule was yet to come...

Well, I somewhat disagree. Tickets for certain concerts have always cost these amounts, well before P2P became prevalent. We're talking about artists with a very loyal following, with a long history behind them and very few dates scheduled. According to the law of supply and demand, the right price for tickets is what is actually charged (100-150 euros for Tom Waits, but also if you go to see, I don’t know, Paolo Conte or Keith Jarrett). At Arcimboldi, despite the prices, there wasn't even room for a pin. Here, it's more of a problem of the artist's conscience, knowing that with these prices, a portion of their fans, for purely economic reasons, has to give up attending their performance from the start, or they go, but they break the bank and then survive on bread and water for a week. That TicketOne charges these prices doesn't surprise me (it's just business); that Tom Waits accepts this gladly, does disappoint me a bit, because I'm sure he has the power to impose a different policy (the Pearl Jam did it a few years ago). I might still be able to afford 100 euros, and I don’t want to miss Tom Waits just to impose a boycott that ultimately changes nothing. However, I feel that something isn't quite right, and I would expect that good old Tom would have a sensitivity at least equal to mine.

I love reviews about me. This, however... well... I, on the other hand, am a five, it goes without saying.

masterpiece yes. 5 stars yes. a duplicate that doesn't say anything new, maybe not, but I still appreciate the spirit. Dull Flame that places 1 must have drunk his brain, thinking that on certain things he and I even agreed. If only Sufjan would make another album of this level, he should have made 50 (one for each state of the USA) and instead we're still stuck at the second. At this rate, it will take him those 250-300 years to complete the project. Sufjan, get it together...

So, kitties, we've finished our squabble, since you've even clogged my inbox. There are a lot of girls at the beach, stop by during the summer afternoons. Maybe you'll discover a valid alternative to putting it in each other's asses (always dialectically, of course!) Lux, Larrock and the gang, the next one of you who posts a comment below, won’t get laid for the next decade, as God is my witness. And 1 for me for this cocky post...

This has been sitting on the shelf for several months, written under circumstances that are easily guessable, and that time and a few jars of Nutella now make seem quite distant. In fact, I polished it up a bit for the occasion because as I wrote it back then, it was embarrassingly personal and cloyingly emotional. Hello.