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In your comment 95, Psycroptic, you said that communism would be a fossil from 200 years ago... but maybe there are no longer wage earners and owners? Humanity is in the greedy hands of capitalist imperialism today just as it was yesterday, and these social systems were born long before Marx came along. But what do you think Marx saw if not the overcoming of such systems? Now, due to ignorance, the content and dates are being twisted, and no one bats an eye. Perhaps when you talk about fossils you’re referring to the dark state capitalisms of Stalin or Mao... well, the false socialisms of Russia and China have always been convenient for various Berlusconis around the globe, not because they fear them (they've always done great business with those countries), but because with those sad social models they could invent demonizing ideologies and tarnish ideals of struggle. If we add to this the parliamentary left parties that year after year have distanced themselves from their own principles, we have a complete picture filled with all the ridiculous ideologies that derive from it. So are we supposed to settle for Travaglio and Grillo?? We’re in a good spot; I prefer Lennon with his utopias, at least they start from universal needs.

"Damn it, the first time I read the lyrics of 'Imagine' when I was little, I couldn't believe what I was understanding... well, you were a kid, but damn, if you still don't get it today, you're quite slow, kid."

When you talk about the themes of the songs... are you especially talking about Mogol, and not even giving a nod to him?

We know that Paolo's music will never grow old, but his physical appearance does... in the cover photo, he looks like a 20-year-old.

She, extremely ambitious, has definitely gained in image with this marriage, but if we consider who she has replaced, we can say that Sarkozy has reaped some nice benefits... having Carla naked in bed, compared to before, makes a difference. However, beyond the silly gossip from "novella 2000," to speak of the ex-model’s music projects as works to be evaluated with attention seems a bit much to me.

We are all consumers of garbage and trash of every kind, if we don't comfortably limit ourselves to rock music. Those kids who drool over Tokio are certainly no more to blame than you or me; they are also poor victims (the weakest) of a market shaped for that target. It’s pointless to rise so high as to judge with disgust people like us. I’ve read comments that I don’t agree with; no one is superior to anyone else.

What you say is true, Larrok, but if John and George hadn’t returned to dust, maybe, just maybe, they would have come back to be the Beatles with Paul... who knows.

Paul has been the only one who never abandoned the Beatles. After 40 years since their breakup, after the death of John and George, he has always spoken of them with great affection... and perhaps out of respect, he has never surpassed them.

Missing, the rock era of those years has nothing legendary about it, contrary to what you claim. ROCK proved to be a rather ineffective weapon against the bourgeois industrial society; it was a boomerang, to put it concretely. It helped them on the economic front, and the social changes that the new generations brought about were only superficial, aspects of lifestyle: musical, behavioral, mass consumption of "prohibited" substances... paradoxically, they renewed the image of an old society (they didn’t change it), and it obviously took advantage of that. But you are very young, and from those years, you have a lot of beautiful music to sift through (there's a lot of garbage)... with this album, you’ve sifted through well.

Coolermaster@, why poor Americans?? The Americans we know (not the real ones in reservations) are not the sum of other peoples... especially Europeans? With thanks to our predecessors, we could trace back to the Stone Age. If we really wanted to thank the "Americans," we should do it (...and it’s not nice) for having deported "Africans" as slaves, who I believe were the first sowers of contemporary music. And then what wrong did Europeans do by promoting music from overseas... did they affect the profits of American record labels? Did they make Chuck Berry, Hendrix, Dylan, or Elvis less important? No, they gave vital life (and money) to rock music in general, so there’s nothing to worry about... except for the fact that the right pairing is not identified as Rock=Transgression... but Rock=profits. This is true everywhere in the world. Commercial music or as an artistic form, to be heard by everyone, must go through the transformation into a mass-consumed product and thus generate profit... those are the rules if we want to be disenchanted.