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I read the book but I haven't seen the film yet. Around 1960, there was a great film about Naples, "Le mani sulla città" by Francesco Rosi. That film didn't show anything extreme, disturbing, or spectacular, like children driving garbage trucks, things that we can see even worse in real life, while up north they are appalled by these images. Yet Rosi's film makes it clear how local politics entangled with national politics exploited the citizens under the pretense of bringing toilets into their homes through real estate developers who inaugurated entire neighborhoods outside the urban planning scheme, with the blessing of the church and the grand presence of top law enforcement officials. But there is one point that I would ungraciously like to make to Rosi, and that is when, in the final session of the city council, the communist deputy (today Senator Fermaniello) addresses the real estate developer Nottola (a great, immense Rod Steiger) who switched from the right to the DC for opportunistic reasons, and he says... "and don't think that things will always be this way, because the people will become aware of all this." BALDERDASH!!!
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...far from the grunge of Seattle, the banner of a certain musical generation between 1987 and 1992 was Dinosaur Jr.
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Marlowe/Gould to the supermarket clerk: "Why, don't you have a cat?" And the clerk... "What do I need a cat for, I have a girlfriend!" Great Altman, a true pioneer of his time, was making all the actors speak together at the same time even before the Biscardi Trial. There's also Schwarzy in a small part as a bodyguard.
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Two years earlier, Fahey made an album for Takoma completely dedicated to trains and railroads, Railroad 1. I assure you, it’s exceptional; the one reviewed I’ve listened to, but it didn’t stick with me. This is a legendary character on par with his creation, the bluesman alter ego Blind Joe Death. Defying all logic, he bought his first guitar at 14 through the mail and, a couple of years later, he could play Delta blues.
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Upon reflection, Stanshall met the same unfortunate end as the great Steve Marriott (former member of Small Faces and Humble Pie) a few years earlier...
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The review is exciting, but in my opinion, it overestimates the album; the second one with the name shortened to Bonzo Dog Band (the one they are best known for) is much better than this. Those crazy ones interacted with those other crazies from Monty Python and even played in the Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour. However, I’d be cautious about comparing them to Uncle Frank, who with the Mothers had an entirely different solidity, even though "Canyons in your Mind," which mocks Elvis Presley, would fit perfectly on a Zappa album from the Ruben and the Jets period. And remember the voice that recites the names of the instruments in Tubular Bells by Mike Oldfield? It's that of Viv Stanshall, who was the guiding force of the band along with Neil Innes. Stanshall was a major flower-power figure who loved nonsense, and unfortunately, he met a tragic end, having perished in the fire of his home in 1995.
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Of course, if they had Hammill as a singer (especially in "Herold and King, Dloreh"), no one would take that 5 away from them.
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excellent album that surely must please fans of VDGG, the drummer and the percussion in general are complex, Zero is stunning, something that comes close to it are the Americans Yezda Urfa
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If we refer to the literal meaning of the term, then why not the Melvins as the most grunge group of all, since they were not only physically dreadful but were also immediately dropped after one album by the major label, only to return to the depths of alternative? That dirty, rotten, and decaying attitude was abundant among various bands scattered across the U.S. Why are the Screaming Trees considered grunge and not Dinosaur Jr. or the Flaming Lips? The Seattle grunge is a media invention.
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On the right side of my brain also perform Foetus, Henry Rollins, and Norman Westberg from Swans.