Dislocation

Seminal suicides, a foundation for many, mentioned among the influences by Almond and Ball as well as by Gore and Wilder, and even by Tennant and Lowe, along with countless others. Vega was a quirky and inconsistent genius, multifaceted and speckled, with diverse life and musical experiences... He should be remembered more and better, even though he himself would first laugh at posthumous and apologetic citations... and then perhaps perform the apotropaic gesture.

"Bene, Soto" has nothing to do with it.

Dear Soto, your review is, as always, timely and clean, perhaps a bit restrained at a moment when one might have let loose with barbs against the travesty Verhoeven made of the original novel's text, but you, elegantly, limit yourself to a veiled citation of it and move on, perhaps aware of the futility of the battle that has always pitted those who judge a cinematic work against its literary source and the film's director who, perhaps rightly, considers the work "loosely inspired by..." and thus often allows himself every wickedness. In the realm of our beloved science fiction, we remember many heinous missteps introduced in films compared to the works from which they were derived and few, very few examples of almost absolute fidelity to the original, such as, I think, "2001: A Space Odyssey," from which Kubrick drew the best, leaving out the unnecessary frills and, often, improving the story compared to its paper origin, enriching it with meanings and topics that are all humanistic rather than merely spectacular or technological. What can we say about that abominable mess that was "I, Robot"? Perhaps "Starship Troopers" fared better, perhaps, which has deliberately and culpably, as you add, shrouded the description of earthly society at the time of the events to emphasize special effects and gore at all costs. In short, Soto, thank you as usual, fifty-five and three to the work.
Alright, Soto,

5/5, savasandir.

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I apologize for the undue introduction into your world of learned and less learned discussions, of hyperbolic responses to comments that are insanly déjà vu, or rather, déjà entendu... all this waste of words to keep up with a record by, listen to this, Jovanotti, the disarticulated idiot with a considerable following of die-hard fans who often coincide, it will be a coincidence, with the die-hard followers of the Vaschis and Tizianiferri... but what are we (you are) talking about? The very clever rider of every wave, the sugary radical chic rapper? Please, really, so much ado about nothing; he, as usual, showcases few ideas but very confused, off-key, and rambling....

Good little disc, we certainly don't expect anything more from them, let alone a masterpiece, you see...

@[joe strummer] Dear Joe, I can only thank you for this review that almost perfectly reflects my thoughts. I not only believe that this album is the best, although not the most complete and cohesive, from Dalla, but I'm always amazed at the fear the artist had of not being able to write lyrics that could compete with those of the recent Dalla/Roversi trilogy.... The simplicity of the description and the syntax was seen, at the time, as superficiality and stylistic unpreparedness, but it’s impressive to listen to it again now; the album flows so easily, describing without interruption landscapes, feelings, resentments, and miseries... Dalla tackled, in that album, themes like ecology, immigration (which back then, oh, surprise! was internal migration within the country), and the migrants were the southerners landing in the north), loneliness, love for travel, and for the heart of the other.... It was a "political" album but in the noblest and original sense of the term, indignant, moved, amused, and pissed off by the beauties, the trivialities, and the miseries of our time...
I would like to remind those interested that there is a great book entirely dedicated to this album by M. L. Giulietti, very technical and very useful for understanding the context, the time, and the specifics.... Again, thanks, Joe!
5/5, ça va sans dire....

Electronics in its natural state, pure and raw, cold and technological as it ought to be... Well, 5/5, right?