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Nugae, who the hell are you? Mazzantini or Castellitto? Or maybe Gerini, who notoriously calls up reviewers to complain and insult them when she's torn apart? I'm not horrible and crude: it's the film. And it's you who has no sense of humor. P.S.: Give me back Sanjuro and Happypippo!

Ah, it could be, but I understood it to be this way... otherwise it just becomes moral censorship. Oh dear, I don’t want to start any controversy... I abstained both on Happy and on Black... Oh for heaven's sake, I really don't feel like it...

How is it possible that someone with a nickname like that writes "traccie"? It's a double insult to every human logic, if there is still any left. Why then is my friend Blacky sent to the literary cases and the editors don't correct such third-grade blunders? A nice little question...

No, sorry Blacky, but fuck it because why should Edoardo be sent? At least let me be sent by Guendalina (and then I don't understand why she doesn't send Cristiano Martino, who gets up every morning, sits at the piano and starts with his whining, and she, either goes shopping or sticks her fingers in her ears and starts screaming: Chris, you’ve broken my balls!). And then he takes her to eat in shitty little restaurants, fake osterias in London, with checkered red and white tablecloths. Sorry if I’m digressing, but I don't know how to take a stance on the issues you're raising, which are no small matter. As you may have seen, I haven't taken a stance on the Happypippo issue either. Not out of cowardice, okay? It's just that my brain is a bit confused and rotten.

Blacky, I read it, come on, you’re just trying to get sent on cases. What the hell. If you write "fanculo" without the apostrophe it's inevitable. You see that I wrote it right and I'm here? Cute, though a bit wordy... you could use an editor :-))). Then I absolutely disagree that Albini’s production of "Rid of Me" was pandering. It's the same production as the first Pixies, just a bit more extreme. Only that the Pixies, who wanted to be more popular, later chose Norton. Polly, who is crazy, took him for the second album, making the entire English press angry because the American had ruined the future of English rock (I’ve talked about this before, and I don’t want to get into it again). I'm sorry to disappoint those who think they’ll find something Radiohead-like in Polly's album: I find absolutely nothing. Well, maybe if Radiohead had made the leap from electric to acoustic (but not even, because Yorke is capable of writing songs on the piano), but the transition was from electric to electronic (I’m simplifying). Polly had already tried this transition with "Is this desire." The comparison with Radiohead doesn’t hold because they were among the very few to change so radically and yet manage to produce those well-known masterpieces. Sorry, I’m talking about this while many of you haven’t heard it, but here we are very far from a masterpiece. Unfortunately.

Black, the last time they hid Prince from you, you gave me the address, but you didn't explain how to get to the human cases section. I'd like to read you on Iggy. I'm not participating in the ranking; I just say that the best, pour moi, but I believe it’s clear from the review, is "Rid of Me," both for the quality of the songs and because it has one of the best guitar sounds in the history of rock in the last twenty years. @ilpanes: just so you know, I’m not offended by the three, de gustibus, and besides, Black, for the first time gave me a 5. I also notice that the album is perhaps overly produced, and I want to point out that I haven't liked Flood's productions for a few years now. The underlying concept is still that of the unplugged, starting from another consideration. One of Polly's great strengths is that she writes the songs entirely on her own with the electric guitar, something very few people do in the type of music she makes. The piano writing is noticeable, especially since it's done by someone who fundamentally doesn't know how to play it. And that's a significant limitation, and you can really feel it.

I'm sorry, but I don't find anything vespertinian about it, except, on this the baker is right, the ten-second chorus of "Broken harp."

@Odradek: I made no reference to the joke because it was nice. Cheddovevodì? I completely agree, and I believe I explained it in the posts, that the problem is the "how."

@ Ilpanes: the reference to Santa Patti is not musical, but relates to the almost liturgical aura that the record has. The opening "The devil" is a classic piece in the style of Aimee Mann, and it’s only natural that Polly sings it in a completely different way. I was expecting, given the use of the piano, some Cave-like references, which I find completely absent instead.

Ah, by the way, I got emotional writing it too :-). What a shitty September! Anyway, on Saturday the 22nd we’ll drink, eat, and laugh until we cry. It’s just a pity that that crazy guy Blacky can't join us.