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What can I say, if the excitement is measured by the fact that I have never stopped listening to Modern Dance while the vinyl of Made In Japan hasn’t seen the light in a while... then yes.
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@romeo...I don’t envy your tastes at all!
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I apologize, I didn't read all the comments, just the latest ones; it's clear that it would be foolish to say otherwise. But let's leave the Pere Ubu out of this, they're people with guts, people who came from the streets of Cleveland, when they were called Rocket from the Tombs (with Cheetah Chrome who would go on to form the Dead Boys).... they are not the Cure :-)
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I’m one of those who had only the radio and a few industry magazines to stay informed, along with friends with whom I exchanged records. Interestingly, among the ones I bought are Made in Japan by Deep Purple and Modern Dance by Pere Ubu (Kiss Me by The Cure can remain on the vendor's counter). For me (just to be clear), the phrase "...Modern Dance isn’t even worth the cover of Made in Japan or In Rock" qualifies the speaker as a fool. No offense, okay? It’s just my opinion.
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@romeo in your comment you forgot (or perhaps you didn't notice) what might be Peppino De Santis's best film: "Caccia Tragica" from 1946. I would invite even those here who have easily dismissed "Riso Amaro" as unnecessary to watch it. Bandits rob the van transporting aid for the laborers of the agricultural cooperatives established after the war. De Santis once again uses the landscape almost like a documentary, this time it’s the Po Valley for a story filled with bandits, farmers, collaborating women, and partisans lost in the uncertainty of the post-war period. On debaser I see so many cinematic rubbish and superficialities praised from today's Italy, and then there’s indifference towards people like this who had the so-called...
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Yes, but I can't understand why you insist on framing this film as neorealist. In the end, it's a popular national film with a big production and big actors (not just taken off the street, Gassmann, Walter Chiari, the American Doris Dowling) that combines various genres, "including" the neorealist drama (but I would call it melodrama). But it is very far from realism as it was understood then, as it is understood today, and as future generations will understand it tomorrow. :-)
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...after sixty years...
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Great film made by someone on the left (De Sanctis) in the estate of a capitalist like Agnelli. It has everything: melodrama, western (the showdown), social criticism (the condition of the rice field workers), and the typical morality of early Billy Wilder, where those who want to achieve too much (Sunset Boulevard, The Lost Weekend, Ace in the Hole…) through easy/illicit/immoral means are ultimately punished. Not coincidentally, here is one of Wilder's actresses. In total disagreement with jargonking about neorealism, they are still copying it after forty years.
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But stealing reviews from other sites doesn’t really seem to me like a form of art, and in the internet era, it’s mainly pointless. Regarding the review, without Currahee72's comment, someone who doesn’t know the album wouldn't even be able to form an idea. Maybe if you had given a definition of the Zombies, it would have been easier :-)
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Well! If you're having fun like this... Currahee said it all, he needed another treatment, legendary album, starting from the typo in the title. Just listen to a piece like "Time of the Season" to realize the great work on the keyboards by Rod Argent, who will later form his own band (the Argent), heavy progressive.