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I've already expressed my thoughts on the album elsewhere, the review doesn’t add anything, but I won’t rate it. As for The Edge as a solo artist (a rather bold term for him), I like the solo in Bullet The Blue Sky.

Beautiful

The Velvet Underground, born and raised in the Warhol era of NY, are still vastly underrated, and Lou Reed had to emigrate to England to the court of David Bowie (notably also Iggy Pop) to achieve success. Chris Cornell even made an album with Timbaland, yet I can't picture him, Arm, Cobain, Vedder, and others from that late '80s scene sitting around discussing and deciding: "Come on guys, we need to do everything and more to get to the center stage of the world, then one day, when no one cares about us anymore, we’ll all sell out."

Sacred doubts, yours too; after all, the truth will never be fully known. However, when considering the origins of certain cultural phenomena, one cannot deny that at least in those origins the intentions were honest. I almost felt sick as well a few years ago when Dylan sold out to a brand of underwear or when he retracted certain pacifist positions, but I doubt he was calculating on becoming a sellout back in the 60s. The grunge? Warhol's NY? Subcultural phenomena that, when they emerged, were strictly underground. The fact that they later became models for mass consumption, labels, and trends is a separate issue that nonetheless involves all phenomena.

I liked the review; besides being entertaining and well-written, it brings to light interesting notions and viewpoints. The attempt to write a bitter ending is also commendable, but I don't completely agree with what is stated: the various Dylans, Simon & Garfunkel, Buffalo Springfield, Crosby, Stills, Nash (and sometimes even the good Young), Jefferson Airplane, and many others are undeniably American, but they belong to a period when the utopias of freedom were widespread on a global scale, not just in America. "...This has been the one that, by promoting a seemingly ideal system of life, in the last century has sanctioned the affirmation of the American capitalist way of life and led to the definitive twilight of ideologies, the collapse of the Soviet Union, the fall of the Berlin Wall": true only in part, thus regarding the political and economic perspective. From a cultural standpoint, America has always proposed countless models, such as the life depicted in "On The Road" or "Easy Rider" in the sixties and early seventies, the hedonistic disengagement and suppression of ideals in favor of fun at the end of the seventies with disco music and "Saturday Night Fever," the disillusionment, and the revived generational anger of grunge and Lollapalooza. To say that "where military strategies, satellites, and space flights failed, Mickey Mouse arrived and cleaned house" is reductive and does not do justice to a land rich in contradictions and certainly filled with spectacles, but which has also always been the epicenter of diverse cultures.

I didn't understand the review, better not to rate it. However, I can't see a page about King Crimson on the homepage and then not give them the highest score. And every word I say about this album would be obvious and rhetorical, so I’ll let the number I use to rate the work speak for itself.

I also wanted to write a review of this film... Not much else to say, perhaps the most effective addiction movie I have ever seen, jarring in its raw hyperrealism (marked especially by the total absence of music, as well as by the cinematography) and extraordinarily bold for its time. A film capable of making your stomach knot even today, nearly forty years since its release. And there must be a reason for that. A must-see.

Nice report and great review

Why do you break it down every time you write a review, then tear it apart? Anyway, it wouldn't be bad, as someone has already noted, if you went back to your old language. Best regards.

I really liked this review, regardless of the subject being reviewed (which I still appreciate something about, although that something is now very, very distant). It's certainly frustrating to see tens of thousands of people whistling at the Afterhours and P.F.M. supporting acts on a May Day because they prolong the wait for the headliner Vasco, but I don't think it's his fault, or at least not intentionally. In short, for at least ten years, Vasco has been pathetic and really awful, and I certainly wouldn't spend even ten euros to contribute to his "retirement life," but I don't see in him the willingness to overshadow much more deserving icons. The fact that millions of Italians see him as an unreachable prophet can be attributed to a rather widespread artistic ignorance in our country. In simpler terms, to give an example, I don't think it's his fault if I hear people say, "I don't mind the pin floi, but I prefer Italian music, and in particular Vasco, because I don't understand shit of English."