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@dreamwarrior I know Afragola well because I worked there during the reconstruction of Law 219 in the Salicelle neighborhood, and I assure you that's a world apart that I, being Neapolitan, cannot understand or be a part of, not to mention others...

@captain, on the other hand, I notice exactly the opposite. When the conversation turns to Naples, I sense a certain anti-Neapolitan sentiment that is quite incomprehensible, as if the crooks, the sly ones of the neighborhood, the schemers, the exploiters, the drug traffickers, the rapists, the scammers, the toxic waste dumpers, and the violent fans are all from Naples and don’t exist in Belluno, Vercelli, Crotone, or Milan.

Regarding the Marxist-qualunquista attitude of Neapolitans, I would say it’s a devolution (or a conquest; it depends on your point of view) of the latest generations. In the mid-seventies, there was strong active and cultural participation in the hope that something would change. Just to give a mystic aura :) to the four nonsense I just wrote, I’ll transcribe an interview with Lino Vairetti (who still lives and culturally animates a disastrous place like Afragola), the singer of Osanna, who with "Palepoli" remains the highest expression of Neapolitan music that I am proud of (rather than Pino Daniele): << "I WOULD HAVE LITTLE TO SAY TO THAT PEOPLE BECAUSE MAGICALLY THEY WOULD BE IN SYNC WITH US. WE WOULD UNDERSTAND EACH OTHER IN SILENCE. I WOULD TELL THEM ‘WE ARE STILL HERE AND STILL WITH JOY IN OUR EYES FOR WHAT WE HAVE BUILT.’ BECAUSE, DEAR ‘PAGINE ’70’, AGAINST THOSE WHO STILL CLAIM THAT ALL VALUES AND IDEALS IN WHICH WE BELIEVED HAVE FAILED, I THINK THAT WE ARE THE POSITIVE PART OF THIS NEW WORLD. THE FAILURE IS OF THOSE WHO, FOR THEIR OWN DIRTY INTERESTS (AND THERE ARE MANY), TODAY HAVE A LITTLE MORE MONEY FOR THEMSELVES AND FOR THEIR OWN BUT HAVE LEFT A DRIFTING WORLD AND A DIRTY SOCIAL, CULTURAL, AND ENVIRONMENTAL LEGACY FOR YOUNG PEOPLE AND FUTURE GENERATIONS. WITH THAT MICROPHONE, I WOULD SPEAK TO THE NEW GENERATIONS SAYING ‘WATCH OUT. OPEN YOUR EYES AND FIND SIMPLE MOTIVATIONS WITHIN YOURSELVES. RUN AWAY FROM MORAL, COERCIVE, AND REPRESSIVE RULES THAT OFFEND THE DIGNITY AND FREEDOM OF INDIVIDUALS.’ TO ALL THE OTHERS I WOULD JUST SAY: ‘BE ASHAMED!’ >>

@capt so it's true that you've been losing it lately :-D the review and the (few) Neapolitans who commented have implied exactly the opposite of what you understood :-)))

you can't imagine it, but I remember it; with all its problems, it was a VIBRANT city that I long for. Just look at this grand debut rooted in the city's very core. Today, Pino Daniele gets on my nerves, like all those who have left to live elsewhere and cling to the nostalgia of Naples. I prefer those who forget about it; they are less sad and don't bore you to death when you happen to hear them. Any reference to my friend Vicienzo who is in the Netherlands earning a fortune is not casual :-)

No way, let me disagree with you completely. If we accept the logic of ratings, it's also understandable that someone, while appreciating the review (by voting 4), may not consider it the pinnacle of their dreams due to some detail they find off-key. And in my opinion, they have every right not to conform to giving it a 5 even if 10, 20, or 30 other commentators have done so. Take the example of my review on Iggy Pop, where after about thirty five-star ratings, popoloitaliano read it and rightly decided, according to his standards, that what was written is good but not earth-shattering. And without any hint of controversy, but simply as a matter of fact, I swear by how much I love my bicycle, I was also happy because it seems entirely coherent and not strange at all coming from someone who rates the Gravedigger V's album with a meager 3 and says the Polyrock sound like Heaven 17 and ABC ;-)

Unlike the Italian people, I am one of those who, in 1980, bought a ticket to see the Cramps with Lux Interior, who held up his leather pants with one hand while shoving the microphone into his mouth with the other. Afterward, we left because we couldn't stand the Police dirtying our ears with their corporate sound. I still have the vinyl of the songs that the gentleman taught us, and the spine of the cover is now worn down; you can barely read the phrase "file under sacred music," but what thrilled me was the dirty sound of singles like "Human Fly" or "Surfin' Bird." But fuck Sting; he's the anti-rock. Lux Interior was ROCK as I understand it.

...the covers of the Bitols...great topic, I see yours and raise you with "She said, she said" done by the fantastic Walking Seeds with a great fuzz-psychedelic guitar, in the same exceptional album there was also the ultra-acid one of "Peter's trip" by Mike Bloomfield/Electric Flag...and the circle is complete :-)