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Sorry, but you're only making your position worse. Isn't this the place? But when talking about this album, you can't not mention Albini's production. What does mixing have to do with it? Sorry, but you're really pissing me off. If you don't know what you're talking about, please focus on something else. The sounds of this album are intertwined with the artistic side of the work. Otherwise, Pj as a producer would have gone for Vasco. In fact, even Cobain chose Albini for "In Utero," not Vasco's producer. I don't know, maybe you're too young, but in England, when the album was released, there were horrendous controversies about the young girl from Dorset (for the first time in their history, the English had a singer with guts) having Americanized. And this was attributed to Albini. Which, of course, is complete bullshit, because Pj grew up on Dylan, Cohen, and Cap. Beefheart. This isn't just a matter of looking it up on Wikipedia. It's about realizing that a producer can sometimes influence an album in incredible ways. Albini is one of those: after Pj, he didn't "sound" like that anymore, nor did he before. Listen to the sound of "Nevermind" and "In Utero," "Surfer Rosa" and "Doolittle." And just putting Pj and Bjork together says it all. The only thing they have in common is that they sing and they're women. If you want, you can throw Laura Pausini in there too.

To talk about a masterpiece, one should be a bit more prepared... what the hell does PJ have to do with grunge? And the Zep? And the Doors? Not to mention Bjork... in PJ's first two albums, there's not a second of electronics, unlike Bjork's first two albums, where electronics reign supreme. The greatest influence on this album is the blues (never heard of it? Maybe that's why it reminds you of the Zep). With PJ's brilliant move of not playing it in twelve-bar blues, but almost always in uneven time signatures. You don't say a word about Albini's production, which at the time stirred up a lot of ink and sparked an endless controversy, so much so that PJ was almost forced to release the demos of the album that hadn't been touched by Albini. I open a parenthesis: Albini may be liked or not, but this album has one of the most beautiful sounds in all of rock music in the last twenty years. Obviously, not a word about the sound either. Dear Rec., do me a favor, study a bit more.

I haven't heard the album and I won't. It would cause me too much pain. I've been listening to rock'n'roll for too long not to know that Lesto is right. Patti has made four albums that are in my heart like few other things. But she's always been contradictory... from the love for Papa Luciani to wrapping herself in the USA flag at the 1980 concert in Bologna. Back then I was too young. I saw her only about ten years ago in Verona and anyway, she was out of this world: she started with Redondo Beach, and I was already sobbing, and she did a terrifying version of Rock'n'roll nigger. So Iside, if you’ve never seen her, take the chance. For me, one of the best concerts of my life. And I've seen a few. Now I'd prefer if she'd hang up her shoes. P.S. If you get the chance, read a poem by Benni called Pattiland... it expresses all the love and disappointment for her already 25 years ago.

If you're referring to me as well, I'm a vinyl god! :-) The concept was: You listen to Teatro, I listen to Bachi, and the best are still the After.

Well, if the masterpieces, Iside, are on the side of the Renati (Zeri and Vecchioni), I can only stay silent. Here we're talking about rock'n'roll, not about mediocre singer-songwriters. In the realm of Italian rock, the best albums of the last ten years are the ones I've mentioned. This isn't a matter of opinions; here, alessioiride, you're stepping onto a minefield, and you don't come out alive. For me, the best are Bachi Da Pietra, but I fully understand that it's just an opinion, which has nothing objective about it. However, one can also go out on a limb to say what is the best overall. And they certainly aren't a bunch of buzzkills like the Renati.

I'm sorry, but I don't believe it even a little. As I mentioned on another occasion, One Dimensional Man live didn't last more than three songs, Super Elastic not even those... they bored from the start. I strongly doubt that together they produced this 'masterpiece.' Then again, I can't stand this thing of giving 5 stars to anything. 5 stars means that the album must be absolutely bought. Come on! We're talking about Rockerilla, so you'd have to buy 30 albums a month? A little restraint, please. 5 stars means it’s worth as much as the first Zep, or, to stay in the Italian field, like Hai paura... or Il Vile. It's an injustice to the Teatro themselves to give them 5.

Oh, how nice! There are a lot of people who think the Muse suck. I think they suck too! Oh, I'm open-minded, but these guys do pomp-rock without knowing how to write Terrible songs. There's nothing worse than a band that imitates another one closely. These are the poor man's Radiohead. Remember the Bush who imitated Nirvana?

Iron Maiden obviously a 10. In 2007? Gosh!!! If Pappalardo was there, would you give them an 11?

I only listened to the album during my summer vacation in a friend's car, and I didn't think it was half bad. But does it also have the track "Milano e l'impossibile"?

I'm sorry, but I have to mess with this idyll. The statement that "progressive is the highest form of contemporary music" simply cannot leave me indifferent. I know it's just an opinion, and therefore entirely legitimate. But my opinion is that "prog is the worst form of music ever played in the rock domain." And this is simply because it has nothing to do with rock. Most prog musicians come from classical music, but they weren't good enough to have a career in that field. So they've contaminated commercial music. When I hear the claim of "great technical and instrumental qualities," my hand reaches for the gun. I would much rather listen to a band that lacks technical skills but has energy, strength, aggression, and inspiration. In reality, it's much harder to make a great song in three minutes than to ramble on for twenty with a couple of ideas here and there. What impresses me the most is that after this music was swept away by punk, there are still plenty of young guys around who follow it. Too young even for Nirvana? Well!