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wow great review! (even if you hardly talk about the album)
I give you five because I've been in the situation you described a thousand times and I could relate to it, but overall it’s very well written :)

the cover is not exactly very "artistic"

Hooray, gossip page. She's really beautiful.

It's a bit long and verbose, but I still made it to the end; I share many of the things you say. I'm not at all in an AC/DC phase right now, so I have a temporary "limited sensitivity" XD I give them a passing grade because I liked the title track years ago and because Bon Scott was still a "little great."

I've listened to this album a good amount, trying to justify the hype and even the amazement that their music elicits with each listen. In the end, I kind of liked the album, but it lacks direction and ambition when we widen the discussion to purely musical matters. To talk about the Italian situation, the good old comic satire (which is unfortunately increasingly rare) works just fine, and in front of certain lyrics (which nonetheless show great compositional intelligence at times, and at others just a pretentious attitude) one can remain pleasantly struck or fascinated. However, as mentioned above, musically they offer nothing new, and many of their patterns repeat several times within the same album; the choruses are sometimes endless and all aimed at highlighting the contrast between catchiness and harshness of themes. The production is horrific, the album sounds exactly like a record by Finley or Vasco Rossi, only the substance changes. Ultimately, the "trick," the foundation on which all the music of these Baustelle rests, is discovered right away, and everything loses quite a bit of its bite...

Just yesterday I bought the Japanese bootleg "knock me out," recorded in Germany in '74, just because the setlist included my favorite song, "the night watch." By the way, when's the new album coming out?

Come on, the covers are hideous XD here we’re definitely getting the one regardless, even though I unfortunately haven't had the misfortune of hearing it.

@if you were Lorella Cuccarini, we would have already arranged a candlelit dinner, all in anticipation of the AFTER :-)

oh my god, I wrote "review" instead of "management"

I find that, qualitatively speaking, those albums are untouchable, digressions aside. How currents and movements evolve often doesn't depend on the quality of the proposals they draw inspiration from, but sometimes it's just a matter of visibility and attitude. I don't agree with you on the expressiveness of punk; if it was a revolution, it was due to its social/cultural impact first, and then the music. The aforementioned kraut was much more transformative and innovative, and if the music isn't "evolved" in that review, it's because nobody paid attention to those bands. But then (especially in my case), personal tastes come into play and we don't objectify a thing anymore, but I wonder what I and anyone else would think of certain music without knowledge of the attitude and personality of those who compose it, and without an awareness of what would come later; probably some judgments would be completely overturned...