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If you don't know it, there's a beautiful cover by Teho Teardo, better than Grace's...

Trell, my dear, I must unfortunately withdraw my marriage proposal, which, although not accepted by you, was still valid. The Levellers, no, I've never been able to stand them. In fact, to be honest, I've always found them repulsive. They’ve always seemed to me like Waterboys, with splashes of Alarm, the poor kind. Forget Clash, forget Billy. On the Espers, however, you were right: generally speaking, duppalle.

At this point, after a lovesick Psycho and a Trell with rolling bolas, Azzo will rise as the ineffable Sphinx.

Oscia Psycho, look, I’m trying here, but if it doesn't work, I’m sending the Banshees to pull your blankets at night. @Trell: Kilbey made a Kraut record??? I don't believe it even if you come to pull my blankets :-)

1 for consistency, 5 for reception. Can I tell you about something that really annoyed me? Did you know that stalker has become synonymous with harasser? Fuck, shit, and fuck off. I’ve always loved the term, not just the movie, because originally, it means something like "one who hunts by following tracks and natural signs." The umpteenth abomination of modern times and some ignorant journalist. P.S. Of course I don't know the album, I’ve only heard "se devi morire, muori," and a bit of the solo career which I caught without ever actually owning it.

@47, imagine, I didn't even remember if I had reviewed them or not, and I had to go check :-)

@ Hi T., I don’t really know if I’ll resurface, there are a couple of gaps in DeData that I want to fill and then I’d like to do an Echo, but that’s all packed, I’ll come up with something without duplicating. And you said it too, annus horribilis (and last year, too). @Miss B: so double compliments, I think I was almost better off, at least at home there were a couple of De André and Sticky Fingers (I’m sending you my review of this for my initiation into rock'n'roll, settepofregàquarcosa)

@ Trilobita, welcome, stay tuned, sooner or later I will unveil the art of bluffing. @Miss Blinky: just because at your age I wasn't so "advanced" in my listening. By the way, it's great to have such prepared fourteen-year-olds (maybe too much, maybe too much :-)). Let me satisfy my curiosity: older brother or dad (who is roughly my age), or even mom—are they rockers?

Minchia Vortex, this leads to the conclusion that you don't give a damn about football, that you were in good company, and that your dealer is friends with Cope's. I don't know if the two sixty-year-olds have ever been jealous, but last night I put on Wah! and Heaven up Here, and I thought to myself, "Damn, what a scene Liverpool in the early '80s!" @ Super, you've now reached a cosmic pessimism; Don, who's been around a bit longer than us, is right in a way — for example, we missed out on the whole Korn saga! By the way, the two ladies who passed through seem like excellent acquisitions, even if Miss Blinky scares me a little (as I've already mentioned, I think she's the illegitimate daughter of Trell and Sfascia). Anyway, you're right that these reviews help dust off old records. @47 I’ve never reviewed Afta, only defended them; as for Ac/Dc and Metallica, I'm sorry, I'm not in the mood to deal with that because I’ve indeed lost the desire to argue and fight a bit. I would only give negative critiques, and I know some fan would come tell me that I don’t understand a thing, and I'd be forced to call them an idiot, and it would never end. Just look at my critique from last year of Qotsa, where I was completely right (damn), but I was showered with insults from a flood of ignorant people. So I retreat into my ‘80s, and bonalè.

@Pixies: I realize that I'm actually writing for about fifteen people who, on a rotating basis, come to visit me, plus two or three, like in this case, new/different names. The most embarrassing thing is that almost all of my guests, like you, Don, Vortex, Lewia, Super, Psycho, and the rest of the over-thirty/forty crew, certainly don’t need my notes and, although always kind, you might even write them better. After all, if people prefer to write and comment about Metallica, the only thing to do is to resist by writing, at least for a little while longer…