alessioIRIDE

Forget that I think they're disgusting, but it's also a formal matter. The Smashing Pumpkins have always been with Virgin... if a band comes out of nowhere and lands a major label deal right from their first album, I can smell something fishy. If this band sells 400,000 copies with their debut and faces dissolution because they didn't meet the rosy expectations, then the smell of death becomes unsettling. The beautiful thing about Nirvana is that everything happened by chance. Mr. Geffen expected to sell, with a bit of luck, maybe 500,000 copies... they sold 10 million just in the first year... today, in 2009, they have sold 25 million... and the beautiful thing is that Cobain didn't want to make that album... he repeatedly said he found "Nevermind" pretty disgusting, but he had to make that album. Different from Corgan... who wanted to make "Siamese Dream" and "Mellon Collie" and you can tell... pushed to the extreme, fake, pompous, and mediocre... that's why they appeal to people. Because they're mediocre albums... the Nirvana appeal is because they're genius... it's always the same story. Talent does what it wants, genius does what it can... Corgan has talent, but many do, and they especially sell it in confessions by the dozen liters. Nirvana were big kids... so much so that now Noselevic plays with his lifelong idols. I wouldn't go to bat for Dave, but he also plays the drummer every now and then, which is what he's meant to do... What does Corgan do? He got lucky... if it were up to me, I'd have him washing cars to make a living. Anyway, it's true... on that putrid sludge that is the soundtrack to Single, which even manages to make Pearl Jam sound like a breath of fresh air, the Pumpkins really shine... just there though. :)

<< But you only listen to 3-4 grunge bands, Alessio, so that doesn't really count :) >> hehehe, I completely agree with you on that :) you're right. I don’t know, the meaning of the word "levare" applied to music is quite different, but I’m all for more extreme relativism and I acknowledge that. So let's go with this new interpretation of the term levare. :)

I'm still wondering how he decided to sign them after listening to Bleach. Simple. Cobain sent him a recorded session with Butch Vig when Chad Channing was still on drums, featuring almost all the tracks from Nevermind... with different titles, just rougher and with a human drummer. Let's say it wasn't very visionary... you know, the kind of "I like to win easy" :) The Sonic Youth, for their part, recommended Das Damen to SST, about whom I would freely express a "they weren't that great." The perspective of "Grunge" is actually the first time I hear it... especially if referred to About A Girl.

B O S S! 4 is an appeal to the TAR of Lazio. The '90s are not the Smashing Pumpkins or various crap.

1. Everything is debatable. 2. I didn’t question anything. I simply said that I don’t know her and I don’t know her because I saw one of her concerts that disgusted me. If this is questioning... well, let’s just say we have different interpretations of the term.

I don’t remember how long ago it was, definitely more than three years... if I think about the people I went with, it feels like it was 30 years ago. I don’t know, let’s just say I’ll listen to it… someday. :)

Beautiful movie. Van Sant, when dealing with commercial stuff, always ends up throwing everything to waste... but not this time. Nice film, not a masterpiece - I consider other works by Van Sant to be masterpieces. Penn is always extraordinary, of course. I don’t know, I really perceive the director's eye in this one. Just the fact that the film opens by announcing how it will end (which, by the way, the ending is a kind of Italian-style instructional secret... everyone knows. All the informed) is a director's touch that enters the story... and then you can feel the heart. I think this comes from the fact that Van Sant is also a bit of a sissy. Everyone sees it differently... fortunately.

Seen live in an unplugged event, fortunately free. So disgusted that it will take another 30 years before I decide to listen to her again. What a piece of work, my god.

I prefer "To each their own." I'd be cautious about claiming the best Italian writer.

Stoney, I understand what you’re saying. The fact is that the instrument and the purpose of any policy is only and always one: man. If all the theories, no matter how perfectly developed, fail in reality, it’s because those who apply them are merely human and apply them – perhaps even less than that today – for the sake of other men. Universal suffrage is a scam. Since humanity was elevated, the true essence of things has been lost, making the various idols disappear and finding only one, a new one: that is, man. This is where everything ends. Rousseau said that to believe in democracy, one must have blind faith in the capabilities of man… well, I wouldn’t trust an average man with even a can of Rio Mare tuna. With all these rights and zero duties, the contact with the reality of facts has been lost, reducing democracy to merely a form of collective numbness. I find it truly sad when politicians accuse each other of being "non-democratic" or democratically deficient... if only they weren’t truly democratic. We would return to a ground of subordination rather than cooperation. Despite this, I am a fanatic of Kant, of the idea that with one’s mind, one can change the world, that one’s actions could be the starting point for the actions of the next… but this is not the truth. The truth is that 80% of the people populating this world do not understand when, how, and how much they are being screwed, and those few who do understand accept it as entertainment. We must start from one single idea, which is the only one truly right for these times. History is over; it is not possible to subvert the order of things. They’ve screwed us.