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Who knows, maybe I'll read it. Who knows...

I’m changing the name, but fortunately the style remains the same. I know these guys very little, but I might have the chance to see them in Brescia on April 3rd (or the 4th, somewhere around there).

I'm not a film buff, but I have a soft spot for Truffaut. In particular for this film (it might also be because I've always considered "Fahrenheit 451" one of my favorite books).

Great choice, Graham Parker has been underrated so much and instead deserves a significant reevaluation.

Welcome to Debaser. A good start, all in all. I’ve never liked Vasco, whether it’s regarding the albums from thirty years ago or those from today. However, one interesting fact is that those who were around 20 years old or so do generally relate to his words and songs (of course referring to albums like this one and those that came before). The options are two: either the old folks have become dimwitted after years of drugging themselves with Roipnol, or it’s us twenty-somethings who find it complicated to judge the Vasco of those days due to the justified disdain for the current one. To future generations the hard judgment.

Aren't we in a dictatorship? A doubt arises when I hear this; it is governed in more insidious ways. If we think about it, Berlusconi uses the same methods as Mussolini. "Cinematography is the strongest weapon," he said when Fascism created Cinecittà. Now that Berlusconi has the 6 largest TV stations in the country, doesn't he take him as a model? After all, Italians want this; they like that there is Fascism, and do you know why? Because we live off false myths. What does the average citizen know about fascism (and what do they really teach in high school)? That it performed the miracle of Quota 90, that it made Italy economically powerful, that trains ran on time, that with him the mafiosi disappeared, that there were no crime problems (and thus people could walk safely in the streets). When I hear people on the street saying, "If Mussolini were here, he would have kicked the immigrants' asses," what am I supposed to think? That Italians care that Berlusconi's co-defendant was convicted while he avoided trial with a tailor-made law? Let's not kid ourselves. Blessing the Brigate Rosse? I would broaden the discussion a bit: blessing the regicide. After all, Gaber taught us about this: "And if my God, who still gets heated, gets angry at those who shoot, He also gets angry at the fact that some random politician, when shot by a brigadist, becomes the only statesman!" It’s the same thing that happens with Bresci and Umberto I, if you think about it. A king who sent the army to shoot at the crowd protesting not to die of hunger, and when he was killed (and Bresci did well), everyone celebrated the "Good King." Moro was the same; he was someone who created the perverse machine of the Center-Left, favoring the status quo and the rise of very "democratic" figures (one name for all: Amintore Fanfani). When someone killed him (those same people who were front-row at his funeral, and four idiots, that's why I despise the BR; they did him a favor by pulling the trigger in their place), everyone remembered him as a man of principles. I'm not very optimistic, I’ll be honest.

Fantastic review, immense record (loved also thanks to the feelings that Clementi experienced while listening to it)

I quote the Punisher (on the record) and I totally second Tepes! Welcome back!

I've always thought it was a bit ugly as a record, to be honest. A good review.