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Well! And to think that among us Neapolitan rockers thrilled by Osanna and various offshoots (Uno, Nova, Città Frontale) and the first progressive Alan Sorrenti, Ranieri has always been considered a worthy representative of the traditional musical culture that really got on our nerves. I see that nowadays he is even praised by those who profess to be rockers. Paraphrasing McCarthy and the Coen brothers: "It's no longer a rock for the old." Let the end of rock come in eighty days :)

On this album, the Kinks are anything but poppy.

Information will not be knowledge, as Michoos says, but please avoid saying/writing gratuitous nonsense like that in comment 62. The remaining Mothers of Invention hated Zappa because in his presence they even had to hide their joints. The fact is that the fourteen-year-old with acne mentioned in the rock dictionary sees the poster of the freak Zappa sitting on the toilet, and in his little head, he must automatically think of him as a drugged long-hair.

The true fanatics of Frank Zappa may be very few and, of course, they are absolute blockheads, but excuse me for saying this, I think they would have understood (and explained) this collection of pieces, which range from December 1967 to mid-1969, a bit better. It's somewhat like the operation the mustachioed one will carry out with albums like "Broadway The Hard Way"; certain tracks have one source for half and a different one for the other half, then mixed together into a single body. Regarding the issue of DETERMINING what is better to review about Zappa, I am rolling on the floor laughing. I already said that for me Frankie was a genius like Totò, who could bring out that extraordinary spark even in the worst film, which is worth watching—indeed, the more you see it, the more you catch things that you missed. For this reason, I hope (and find more interesting) reviews of Zappa's lesser works.

@kosmo the cover is by Neon Park, the same one who created those crazy ones for Little Feat and in fact, in some tracks, you can even hear Lowell George. Well... from the review it seems that the mustached man wanted to make a jazz album but glosses over the fact that it lacks a unified intent because it groups together pieces recorded both in the studio and live that were already prepared for previous Mothers albums. The fact is that Uncle Frankie was a genius and knew how to turn even the ideas he nicked from the great musicians he had at his disposal, Don Preston, Art Tipp, Ian Underwood, into gold. For example, that great live piece (from a concert in England) "The Orange County Lumber Truck" with the guitar assaulted by the horns is a rock boogie with the idea he stole from Roy Estrada when he was a truck driver transporting lumber.

In fact, I personally hate to associate the word pop with XTC, even though you can hear it, especially in "Oranges & Lemons," with the evident turn towards that direction... For me, they remain the corrosive interpreters of fiery material like in "Drum & Wires" and the stunning "Black Sea."

hahaha at this rate the XTC are going to become the ultimate pop group, rivaling Michael Jackson for the crown. The problem with Partridge and his merry band is that they are too intelligent to be truly POPular and so they have never achieved the commercial success they deserve.

You have the copy of the Australian Citadel, while the one from What Goes On starts with "Blue sky day," which is a magnificent pop track that’s a bit misleading (complete with cello and mandolin!) because they were actually heavily influenced by the furious Radio Birdman. In "Just Skin," Myers’ solo is truly furious, and Frank Brunetti's keyboards are very Doors-like. Like all Australians (with Rob Younger leading the way), Ron Peno was infatuated with Iggy Pop to the point of being called Ronnie Pop, the bastard son of Iggy... When the iguana released "The Idiot," he, a boy who was in the first line-up of the Screaming Tribesmen, was so upset that shaking his head, he kept repeating... "this is disco music... it's disco music... it's disco music..." Great record!

@muffinman "But are we really sure that this John Mellencamp isn't just doing the same old tired rock we've heard at least a million times?" Sorry, who cares? Who says otherwise? These are artists that, if you have a bit of rock blood in your veins, will hit you with an alarm pressure. Take the latest from Tom Petty under the name Mudcrutch or the one from Steve Wynn like The Baseball Project; it may not be anything new but, thank God, if you’ve inhaled and know rock (and I think curraeh would agree), you can tell the difference from the prevailing crap. These are top-class musicians with quality standards that are unreachable for most of those making rock music today. You might have digested all the music you want, but this never sits heavily on your stomach.

"because it's like Berlusconi that most want to be" reviewer, I'm sorry but despite your essay, this sentence demonstrates all your naivety. We would all like to be like Raoul Bova, who is even more handsome than Berlusconi, but that doesn't mean that if he runs for election, he will automatically be elected. We are talking about a person who controls 90% of the information, and Pasolini used to say that the democratic regime based on consumer society (including information, which has long since become consumption) has managed to standardize people even more than a dictatorial regime like fascism. Berlusconi is a great deceiver, but many come away burned from his dream; take the great opportunist-journalist who wrote the preface to this pile of garbage of a book, who has abandoned him by moving to the PLI today!!!!