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Not after dessert, not even after the coffee killer. They just walked out of the restaurant. On top of that, they can't even perform at their concerts anymore, with the shitty audience they chose to create for themselves. Oh well!

Ahah, nice Enbargo. You let yourself get caught off guard by a little pea like Scaruffi. Poor thing.

But what a shitty life one must have to not only be outraged by Scaruffi's opinion, but to actually write to him? At this point, we are faced with a positive correlation between being a paramecium and writing to Scaruffi. All without offense, okay, it’s just the observation of a fact. From the Beatles to Scaruffi, now we just need a few comments on Berlusconi and we’ll be off to the races.

Okay, aesthetics for its own sake is fine; in the end, music is based on the pleasure it provokes, I think so too. But if you don't contextualize it, how will you be able to appreciate Free Jazz, Kraut, Punk, Hardcore, Post-Punk, and everything else? How will you explain the reasons why someone plays, internalizing the context in which they live, in that way? If you don't combine history with philosophy, what is this if not an empty mental exercise? And if you don't combine philosophy with history, what is this if not a continuous slaughter?

Scaruffi spouts nonsense with the same ease as Cannavaro in 2010 smooths the ball, but when it comes to the Beatles, he's absolutely right. From the first to the last word. The problem isn't the two minutes – unlike those who barely understand elementary Italian, like Enbargo – since the know-it-all has jacked off to the 40-second songs by the Minutemen (but it's likely your average Beatles fan doesn't even know what the Minutemen look like). The problem isn't even Pop, since he places 7 on Aqua, which is shitty Pop, while the Beatles' music is just Pop, aesthetically he should even prefer it… but it also gives him a chance to shoot at a sitting duck. The point is that, as a friend of mine says in reference to other stories, they were the armed wing of the reaction. The reasons? Scaruffi can explain them, but as often happens, especially when someone says something sensible, he says "penis" and the next person responds "banana." Just to say, the first Beatles album is from '63, the same year as Impressions, The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady, and One Step Beyond. Now, if you preferred the Beatles, it doesn't mean you were an asshole (you always are, a priori), but simply a little bourgeois reactionary wanting to have fun, but with the handbrake pulled, which later, doesn't look good, what might the neighbors think? Like those assholes who say, "yeah, I want to see the world" and then leave Naples for Barcelona. Clean Clean.

Nice stuff, Greg. They’re good guys, I played with them a few months ago. And live, Lightning Bolt get totally owned. I mean: G.I. Joe completely owns Lightning Bolt.

too much nonsense is read around. it's a good record, different from the self-titled and from You Forgot It in People (which is not the first album). it's a Pop record, almost sunny, perfect for summer, with a couple of pretty obvious lifts from Pavement. if you accept it for what it is, you'll still find joy in it. nice review.

In short: The Time of the Wolves + video clip directing + American optimism = The Road. Not bad, but it's not exactly a film that’ll make you tear your hair out. You'd want to tear your hair out for The Time of the Wolves, not for this one. Anyway, Vigo looking like Rasputin is nice.

Hey, you might not have noticed what has happened recently, let's say over the last 150 years, in Naples and throughout the south. The conditions of labor exploitation, in various ways and not for that less painful and oppressive than picking fruit, extend to everyone, regardless of where they were born, which team they support, and all the rest. So yes, you’re mistaken. But above all, "these things" can be said wherever you like, but not in Naples. By any chance... are you speaking based on what you hear from the news, newspapers, and such, or because you live in/know Naples and so on, or maybe you heard it on the subway? I already know the answer, and I don't even feel like starting a discussion (?) on this matter... I just wanted to say "not in Naples." Done.

not in Naples.