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However, there should be a review of Sleepers/Ricky Williams; it's a shame that a singer of that caliber (in recent years he resembled more and more an amphetamine Bowie) is almost entirely forgotten or unknown.

Didn’t you get the copy of that collection from me? :-)))))

Uniform Choice? mmm bad story: newhardcore- straight edge, as far as I know they ended up being metalheads... The Sleepers? a few hints: Ricky Williams (R.I.P.)---> Crime--->Flipper--->Toiling Midgets

Bubi, what does the judgment about the evaluation of an album I know have to do with respecting other people's ideas? So let's eliminate ratings from reviews; I, for one, don't use them anymore. You say, "In my opinion, a review should be evaluated based on how it's written and how the reviewer's arguments are presented, regardless of whether one agrees or not." Well, if someone writes a good review of a crappy album by the Pooh and presents them as the best of the best in Italian progressive (which has actually happened), then out of respect for their opinion, I should give it a 5 because I have to remember that tastes are tastes? Anyway, I would propose to remove these ratings from reviews.

I carefully read the review, and if I can give my opinion without being told to go fuck myself, I find it quite distant from the sensitivity of Joy Division and more akin to the style of the arrogant "kritikini" that the reviewer despises. For example, I envy (but not too much...) the reviewer's ease in asserting that he can review essential albums like "Unknown Pleasures" or "Closer" with absolute calm. The Joy Division, during their brief existence, never made me feel calm or secure... However, on Still, in addition to tracks discarded from the main albums that I remember, there’s "Glass," which had previously been released with "Digital" in a beautiful double EP from Factory along with tracks by Durutti Column, Cabaret Voltaire, and singer John Dowie. Some other pieces from Still were already recorded for the John Peel sessions that were published later. The cover of "Sister Ray" was also recorded live but from a different concert, not the one in Birmingham. Honestly, I don’t see it as a 5-star album unless for Joy Division fans, because let's be clear, the really beautiful studio tracks are few: Exercise One already reveals a great singer with his own personality, the great "Something Must Break," where Ian sings "this life isn’t mine, something must break"… The live part, on the other hand, is an exceptional document even if it shows considerable roughness; we can hear Curtis's voice (which is late) on a track that would become a successful single for New Order, "Ceremony." A great "emotional" band; that's how music should be… fuck the technique.

"I can’t stand Renato Zero, so does that mean I can’t stand the review either? Help me understand... the review is written very well." Having said that, I only stopped by to read, and I didn't vote because Renato Zero is not among my usual listens. I would like to ask what on earth it means for a review to be well written? If I rate an album a 1 and the review instead praises it with the maximum score, it could be written by a Pulitzer Prize winner, but in my opinion, it lacks that ingredient which MUST characterize a good review: the ability to judge an album. Reviewing doesn’t just mean presenting a perfectly written paper in Italian; it also means evaluating. If, in the opinion of those who know the album and comment on it, this evaluation is completely off the mark and makes no sense, then why should the review be considered good? Just because it’s written in good Italian?

@vortex... were you talking about Edward Bunker? Just so you know, he passed away a few years ago ;-)

hahaha Warner CANNOT reissue that vinyl on CD, Frank won the lawsuit and the rights belong to him (or rather...to his heirs)

Don't you like the sung versions? Then you have to thank Warner Bros for releasing the vinyl with the instrumental masters and tell Zappa to screw off for reissuing the CD for his Barking Pumpkins, restoring the tracks the way he intended: with vocals.

Anyway, I recommend that those who have only listened to the covers from the three albums of the This Mortal Coil project go back in time and get the original tracks: Roy Harper, Big Star, Chris Bell, Gene Clark, Rain Parade, Pearls Before Swine, Spirit, Gary Ogan, and Billy Lamb ("I want to live" is beautiful), Tim Buckley, etc. The originals are stratospheric and unattainable, but at least Watt-Russell has reintroduced them and made them known to a wider audience.