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I know the previous one... except for a couple of tracks, I remember it as a boring album, with a very brief stay in my player. I won’t listen to this one. In the pop-shoegaze realm, there’s much better out there. For example, The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart.

Thank goodness for torrent. Attracted by the enthusiastic reviews about this guy, I downloaded the album out of curiosity. What a complete bore. Boring songs, irritating voice. The ugly—no, really ugly—copy of Battisti? Yes. If I had bought the original, it would have already been traded for something more serious. And don’t even compare it to Moltheni: as someone rightly pointed out, we're on completely different levels there. In conclusion, a total failure.

In its genre, a fundamental album, full of songs that made history. At the time of its release, I was 12 years old; this and "Appetite For Destruction" were, for a couple of summers, the soundtracks of my pre-adolescence. Then, growing up, I moved on to more "serious" listens. But I will always hold this album close to my heart. However, the review is too descriptive and a bit lengthy.

Yeah, I'm definitely going to listen to these. Good job.

You piqued my curiosity, I don’t know them. I will listen to them. The length of the review is fine like this; no one reads those that are too long.

@PRIMIBALLI: I'm from '75, so I'm young but not too much. I quote: "In our case, you don't wonder why everyone speaks well of Mika, and as soon as you turn on the radio, almost everywhere, there's his new single...? Come on... to say that times don't change means committing to the most obvious of banalities." I completely agree with the commercial logic that drives the music industry. Here we discover hot water. Of course, tastes are driven by the majors, etc... On the other hand, the singer-songwriters of the '70s didn't record for small labels, they were all with Ricordi, EMI, and the like. But to say that once "quality reached the people," that seems banal to me. The Pink Floyd before "The Dark Side..." were barely noticed by anyone. Just to make an example, huh. But that's not the point. You argue (as far as I can understand) that it's the quality, measured by singability, of our works that has disappeared. That magical mix of catchiness and artistry that permeated the songs of various De Gregori, etc. I argue, instead, that this seems absurd to me, because to compare those tracks with today's ones, we will have to wait at least ten years, to provide the right "historical distance" between the respective works (I've expressed myself on this concept above, I don't want to repeat myself). The market logic has nothing to do with it here. I, for my part, have never hinted at this, just as I've never claimed that times don't change... if anything, I've said exactly the opposite. Let's do this: I promise to read you more carefully, but you do the same with your interlocutors. Thank you and have a good evening.

Good, good, good. Give me more reviews like this. Fantastic. I support your little girl who wanted to smash the latest Animal Collective. A complete flop. As much praised as they are misunderstood by this humble writer. If you want to satisfy her destructive fury, I'll send you my copy. It's been a few years now that I've been getting crazy "screws" one after another. This has progressively led me towards downloading. I continue to buy originals, but only sacred monsters and bands I've already appreciated. The new ones I put through the sieve of downloading. At most, I lose a CD-R worth 0.50 cents. Sticàz!

@Primiballi: I can certainly understand your point of view regarding the lost "mass quality," but I don't fully share it... and I'll explain why. I believe that Bersani (along with Fabi and a few others) is one of the best singer-songwriters of his generation, the most credible in navigating that narrow boundary between author music and mainstream, emerging from it, so to speak, "refined and credible." That said, your judgment lacks, in my opinion, a necessary historical perspective. It is indeed the historical distance that allows us to give the right importance to works that may have been either overvalued at the time of their release (leading to subsequent devaluation) or unjustly undervalued (resulting in later critical and/or public rehabilitation). I find it a bit simplistic to say that the singer-songwriters of the past are no longer with us. This is normal; everyone is a child of their own era. Today we have Fabi, Bersani, Capossela. Time will tell who among them will remain in the Italic collective consciousness. There’s also another thing. Back then, no one criticized the likes of Dalla, De Gregori, De Andrè. And yes, they too produced weak works (especially the first two; the third is out of competition). Today it seems there’s a kind of snobbish self-harm (of which it seems, without offense, that you are a part) whereby if someone like Bersani makes a stylistically perfect album, he is immediately labeled as overly formal, as "cold." I don’t know. I would try to protect the few happy islands present in our country, not to sink them. At least as long as they continue to produce worthy works. And it seems to me that the aforementioned young talents are doing just that. With sympathy, your geb.

a bit long review, but congratulations for the excellent choice. They and Agnostic Front, during that time (late 80s-early 90s), were kicking quite a bit of ass. I agree with the good Jurix, though: their peak is "Just Look Around," more punk and less metal.

@Lupin: the previous comment was for K, obviously... as for the debaseriano Emilio Fede, it's normal for him to make comments in good "faith"... wow, what a load of crap I just wrote, it must be the fatigue :)