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Polenta taragna? If you have relatives here in Valtellina, you will know it.

But if you’re careful not to make a mess, you can have a good meal. The hardest part is that you have to hold your nose.

I don't agree about the '80s. Even though I'm not a metal aficionado (I have a few albums here and there), a lot of quality metal was produced during those years, sometimes even topping the charts, along with a lot of other stuff. The point is another: I agree that back then, there was crap too, but when a new Pink Floyd album came out, it would sweep all the crap away (do you remember "Coraggio e paura" by Iva Zanicchi? At the time it was a hit, but now? It's been swept away and thrown in the trash). Nowadays, if your favorite band releases an album, "Laddio Bolocko" Mika won't wipe it away, and it will just hang around like an octopus on a throne that actually belongs to someone else. The reason for this is mainly rooted in modern consumerism, but I don’t think it’s necessary to keep bringing up this story of consumerism (even though it's terribly true). The masses are no longer engaged by music; they only use it as toilet paper and then flush. It doesn't seem to me that you and I are saying something that different. And then, about technical bands, who put that idea in your head? Technique has never really bothered me; on the contrary, as I’ve stated, I like the raw and imprecise sound, and when I listen to a track, I especially appreciate its imperfections, smudges, and little mistakes here and there that make it unique: when I say that in the '90s everything became too standard (unlike in the '80s, when artists were still very personal), it's because all these things are missing. And when I say that everything became more standard in the '90s, I’m not generalizing, because if you dig through the chocolate-covered crap, you can still find some.

It is the embodiment of slow 4/4. In its own way, a legend.

Zaireeka, no, they are the ones from A Day in The Life and Let it Be.

And Nick Mason? Huh?

I don't know him.

I will be a disappointment, but I don't know him. Nice surname though. You must listen to the first 2 of Antonious Rex with Jacula, especially the first one IN CAUDA SEMPER STAT VENENUM (it's from 1969), an absolute masterpiece (at least for me), it's definitely a record for meditation (you put it on but you have to listen to it carefully, I listen to it while wandering through the woods above my house). And Alan White? He knew how to do it too, the intro of Sound Chaser is massive. And Clive Bunker? A bit unconventional... I prefer his successor.

Ah, I don't know why I included Metallica among the greats even though I've never liked them (while being aware of their importance).

In the last sentence, I wrote "schitto" instead of "scritto" (an unintentional play on words).