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DeAge™ : 8378 days • Here since 6 may 2003

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Skiantos MONOtono

7 mar 05

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yes, it's true, brilliant and crazy

Zita Swoon 5 Questions to Stef Kamil Carlens - Antwerp Special

7 mar 05

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Congratulations on the interview (really nice) and welcome :)

Franz Ferdinand Franz Ferdinand

7 mar 05

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On Saturday, I listened to "Divorce At High Noon" by "the karelia". This reissue has just been released as it was part of this group Alex Kapranos. Honestly, I much prefer this album compared to the experience with Franz Ferdinand (the usual story... de gustibus) which, after a while, has tired me out. If you come across it, I would be curious to know what you think. Bye

Dälek Absence

4 mar 05

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Really, Giubbo? I'll discreetly check :)

Dälek Absence

4 mar 05

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Affinity with the Cloudded? Good, it inspires me. I'll look at the link later. Bye

Luigi Tenco Luigi Tenco

4 mar 05

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Oh, I almost forgot... a few years ago, two interesting albums dedicated to Tenco were released. The first is a two-CD anthology that contains many of his most beautiful songs. A well-curated edition, finally, also in the booklet. The other album is a tribute featuring various covers by many Italian artists, from Fossati to Lalli to Il Parto delle Nuvole Pesanti. The title of the album is "come fiori in mare," and it’s worth listening to more than once. Bye!

Queens of the Stone Age Lullabies To Paralyze

4 mar 05

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welcome.

Luigi Tenco Luigi Tenco

4 mar 05

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It's not an easy art to condense thoughts and emotions into such confined spaces, as can be seen in "Quando," which De Andrè claimed he wrote in his youth "to get girls." After this incident, Faber and Tenco became friends, a genuine friendship that De Andrè later honored after Tenco's death with one of his most beautiful songs, "preghiera in gennaio," which also touches on suicide, another difficult topic for Italy at the time. None of the music industry – aside from Faber – went to place a flower on Tenco's grave; only in the following years did the obituaries appear (to which I still send my sincerest fuck you). And I don't believe that Tenco's gesture was born in Sanremo; I've always thought that gesture was also hidden in the words of "ciao amore ciao": "to go far away, to seek another world, to say goodbye to friends..." Not to mention many other earlier songs where the struggle of living emerges. The review is recommended.

Luigi Tenco Luigi Tenco

4 mar 05

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The comparison with Dylan's protest doesn't hold for me, mainly due to the differences in context, because singing "dear teacher" or "women's magazines" in Italy around the mid-60s was by no means simple; it was already a strong protest, a voice out of tune with the chorus. If we see it as naive today, it certainly wasn't back then. He was also the singer of bitterness, as in "Vedrai Vedrai," which he wrote thinking of his mother. Furthermore, Tenco was also the singer of love at a time when songs had to last the standard of 3 minutes - an intrinsic limit to musical development as well.

Luigi Tenco Luigi Tenco

4 mar 05

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So much to say ... perhaps too much. Tenco even today has not been fully understood by me, perhaps because we tend to forget the context in which he developed his art. Tenco did not reach '68, but in some ways he had already arrived at it in many of his songs that were against conformity and hypocrisy. Today, the everyday language of his verses - far from being lofty - might make one smile, but if we think that those songs were born in that Italy, then one realizes that perhaps they are not as naive as they may seem. An Italy where you couldn't sing on TV "se sapessi come fai a fregartene di me," because "certe parole" were not allowed, so the change to "a infischiartene di me" emerges.