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Me neither.

Oops, I'm late... my little friends Alessio, Super, and Vitalogy have already said what needed to be said. So besos a todos los compañeros, hasta la vista e que viva el rumor!

Sorry, but were you the chubby kid with the red hoodie who was cheering for Mancini's goal?:-). I like Isabella too, don't get me wrong, but she's a bit ugly. Whereas Roberta, when you're there, has those big doe eyes:-)

To be honest, I had a little drink with her this summer, and the toxicity did her good; she lost weight and looks gorgeous. I hadn't seen her in a few years, and inside I was saying, "Damn, she finally became a woman and look how pretty she is." There's no comparison with Santacroce.

The National's album has songs that are definitely superior to those of the Polli, but as a friend of mine says, you know women never remember names, "They look like someone, like who?" "Like the Interpol" "Which in turn reminds me of...". In short, compared to their previous work, this one seems a bit too "catchy" to me, even though the quality of the songs, especially the opening quartet, is truly remarkable. As for Roberta and company, it was Guglielmi who said, exaggerating, that it’s been since the '80s that he hasn’t heard such an "important" Italian album. I prefer the one by Bachi, but we old folks, when we see some young bassist, we don’t understand a damn thing anymore, that’s well known. I hope Alessio doesn't read all this, otherwise he'll lose the little respect he has for me. I’ll leave you to the second half (hey, when are you going to beat these guys?).

@Blacky: at least it's the International, which is in first place :-) Randomly, among five, besides Radio, Caribou and Bachi, Lcd and Grinderman; among ten National, Interpol, The G The B & The Q, the unreviewed Nostalgia by HTRK, and just to scandalize, Requiem. Most listened to album of 2007: James Holden - The idiots are winning. Reissue: deluxe edition of Daydream. Disappointments of the year, besides Polly, QOTSA and Battles. Not yet evaluable, I've just got them, Warlocks and Low. Three concerts: Liars, Mouse on Mars and Arctic. Was I thorough and did I exhaust you? Out of ten, we have three in common.

Oh, Cap, my knight, my defender :-). The only thing I want to point out is that I'm so in love that I would forgive her even if I found her in bed with you, so I believe her when she says she’s not in a creative crisis. She simply wanted to compose differently. She had already tried in "Uh Uh Her," but she realized she didn’t succeed. So, to truly change, she decided to compose on the piano. It's fine to embrace minimalism, but watching her play only highlights the inability. There's no point in making comparisons, but American singer-songwriters know how to play the piano, and the difference is palpable. Coming from me, who notoriously believes that technique means nothing. The problem is simply the expressive range she can have, which in this case is very limited because she can't handle the instrument. It's true that she had laid the groundwork in To Bring, but with electric keyboards and organ, not with the piano. And even there, the best pieces from To Bring to Send his Love, from C'mon Billy to Down by the Water were written with the guitar. @Black: the first three that come to mind are Radiohead, Caribou, and Bachi da Pietra. Let me think about it calmly, though.

Poor Azzo, now the only one saying that it's a rather boring, superfluous, and trivial album. I can only trust time. I still believe that Harvey's compositional poverty, who started playing the piano at almost forty, is nothing short of disarming. She’s doing a few concerts on her own. Try listening to them and notice the difference between the old songs, mostly rearranged for solo guitar and some for keyboards, and the new ones. The comparison is nothing short of embarrassing.

Well. I agree that the original of Hallelujah was better (I even saw Cale perform it live, and he did it better than Buckley). I don’t agree with the emotional discourse. It’s not even my genre, but the first side of Grace really seems to be one of the best sides of the '90s. Great singer, beautiful lyrics, the band that at times "soars". For once it doesn't seem to me that fame is usurped by a young death. Although, ultimately we can only talk about an album, not an artist, since that's what he left us.

P.S.; notable the slip of the tongue, I naturally meant to say "The Beautiful Heiress":-)