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Good job Giona, but I really remember them as mediocre, not a four for me, maybe around three (maybe, just maybe). The singer sings in a macaronic English that even Totò would frown upon, and there's that part with the guest saxophonist that, aside from being long-winded, is uniquely boring. Some tracks are good, but it's the sum that makes the total. Again, good job on the review.
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Comment no. 96, even without the very first sentence, still exudes a unique stick-in-the-mud attitude. This is rock 'n' roll; if you want moralistic preachings, go deliver them at Communion and Liberation meetings.
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nothing collapses, maybe you hear less of the wanking that Squire and company do to the instruments and maybe you understand that NGW meant exactly this, at the time the Beatles were considered, by those who pride themselves on knowing "superior" music, four brain-dead snot-nosed kids from the suburbs, and yet they influenced even Yes....
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Sure, but Bevis Frond was less hard garage than these bands. About the Filipinos, you’re right about the weakness of the second (the bananas) compared to the first live + EP, but there are still some tracks that make you jump out of your seat like "Voyage to the bottom of my soul." The great Walking Seeds revives "Bad Orb Whirling Ball," which is an outstanding album, if only for the covers of "She said She said" by the Beatles and the great and hypnotic "Peter's Trip" by the Electric Flag, from the soundtrack of The Trip, superbly reviewed here by master Tollani. This is the England I like.
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From a commercial standpoint, you are right, but when those fateful charts of the most beautiful albums of the various decades are drawn up, "Broken English" often makes an appearance, much like "Solid Air" by John Martyn...
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...damn the English Thee Hypnotics, a true force of nature, but I perhaps preferred the Filipinos and the Walking Seeds, hard psychedelia at full throttle, that was a great time for Albion, forget about these little faggots of brit pop...
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But there is also a third part of her career, one that shifts towards the chanteuse phase with a couple of albums produced by Hal Willner or orchestrated by Angelo Badalamenti. "Broken English" is neither unknown nor buried; since its release, it has always been talked about as a great album that almost captured the punk rage (and it's remarkable when you consider that the year before she had come out with a pop country album "Faithless"), which is why everyone liked it.
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If anything, more than "I soliti ignoti," it would be, given the plot (since I had the luck of not having seen this one), the remake of "Audace colpo dei soliti ignoti," the sequel directed by Nanni Loy a few years after the first, with the gang from Rome planning a heist at the betting office in Milan. I can't judge if it lives up to the original, but that one had Gassmann, Manfredi, Renato Salvatori, Tiberio Murgia, Carlo Pisacane, in addition to Nanni Loy as the director. Here, I see listed Amendola, Ricky Memphis, Ugo Conti, Bellucci... fourth-rate stuff, arms stolen from agriculture and thighs from prostitution. Dear Paolo, there are many ways to blaspheme; joke with the infantry and leave the saints alone…
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@ugly panda, you’ve come up with some great names, especially the one for Anastasia Screamed (which is a line from "Sympathy for the Devil" by the Stones) and technically they were better than Rein Sanction, plus they had a stellar singer in tune with the band name. Great reference as well, in the case of Anastasia, to the early Buffalo Tom; I would also say to pair them with, in some respects, the Lemonheads from "Lick."
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Wow, donjuno has pulled out the Fluid card! This is another old wound, another group relegated to general oblivion but capable of writing great pieces suspended between the fury of MC5-Stooges and the moderately paced hard rock that grunge defines, and for this, they will always be blessed (along with donjuno).