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messed-up post, I hope it’s clear what I meant!

@NettaDeb: look, I wrote music reviews that were read very little (Fowley that you mention, but also Max Webster) not to mention some about cinema, but not because the artists didn’t deserve it, simply because they didn’t mean anything to the site’s users (or the artist didn’t mean anything). I don’t correlate the number of comments to the value of the artist (otherwise Ligabue...), I just think - I only think that Genesis, for better or worse, interest many people for various reasons.

I would say this one competes with "On Your Feet..." by Blue Oyster Cult (entire booklet), although I'm also fond of "A Farewell to Kings" by Rush and "Animals" by Pink Floyd.

Regarding the controversies over duplicates, I believe that Debaser's usefulness also lies in hosting various opinions/reviews of the same albums (the more opinions/reviews there are, the more evidently the album deserves to be discussed, for multiple reasons: there are dozens of sites, both Italian and otherwise, with a review for every album, but they are evidently something different from this site. That said, I liked Paolo1968's - provocative - review. Clearly, Genesis evoke passions and debates in Italy… I believe that this album, like all releases from the '80s, is definitely inferior to the works from the early part of the band's career, yet it must be contextualized: however you look at it, at the time it was classy and adult pop rock, which qualitatively stood apart from the average of the mid-'80s (let’s remember: Sandy Marton, Den Harrow, Samantha Fox, etc. etc.). Then, personally, I remain attached to "Foxtrot" and "Selling England," but in the end, it was a different band and a different era!

Refusing by criticizing typos is, by now, a classic of mine: "to me, personally, it drives me crazy."

Beautiful, Axl, for the kind ladies who, for years, have brought me this judgment (implicitly criticizing the fact that I had nothing to do with the loud red).

I have – like many – personal memories of this album, as it marked, between the late '80s and early '90s, the resurgence of hard rock as music for the young (along with the much-maligned Black Album by 'Tallica and some works by Skid Row). Then these bands were overtaken by the grunge wave, being partly swept away. Its historical importance is indisputable, although re-listening to it today might raise some reservations about the band (Aerosmith imitators from the classic era, a poor rhythm section, Slash being a bit mannered, an okay singer but mainly remembered for being handsome and troubled... my favorite remains the brooding Izzy Stradlin)... "Rocket Queen" remains, in any case, a must.

Thank you all for stopping by and, above all, for not noticing the typos - thanks also to Word's autocorrect ("herpes for heroes" is even better than "whistles for fiascos") - that plague this review of mine. Il_Paolo/Lavalin, while reading your "calls for help," I got to work to promote Fowley on this site; it drives me absolutely crazy...

Oh, finally a Poletti who stops pretending to be someone he's not with useless controversies and starts talking about cinema as it should be.

His masterpiece remains, in my opinion, the review of "Andrea True Connection."