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After the CAZ only dots............................... ..................................

"The final countdown" represents one of my clearest post-adolescent nightmares. At 19, in the distant 1986, as I was about to roll a joint during my high school graduation exam inside the gym of the art institute in Fano, dressed in black like the best days of Robert Smith (his), the bravado intro of "parapapà, para pa pa pa" started blasting from the speakers. Oh myyyyyyyyy!!!!!!

I give 5 to the review and 1 to the album, so it creates a sense of balance for the numbers. For a detailed comment on this sad album, I refer you to the comments in the review made by Francis.

My heart aches, but this album is terrible! It's not terrible in absolute terms; if Laura Pausini had made it, it would be beautiful, but it’s bad precisely because it was made by R.E.M. I mean, R.E.M., not... Laura Pausini!
It's terrible because, as Easy says, it’s a studio-made album, composed of nothing but arrangements without a single original idea! "Leaving in N.Y." is a catchy radio tune that hits the mark, but then you go over it with a cotton ball, disinfect where it touched, and everything passes as if nothing ever happened, absolutely nothing.
Certainly, this album is the best of the last three (the previous two were unlistenable); I’m still trying to understand it, to absorb it, I insist on playing it in the car, I try to agree with Peter Buck when he says that an album needs to be listened to multiple times to be comprehended, but then why the more I listen to it, the more it drives me crazy? Can someone explain it to me?

Beautiful toad :-D

This collection is the MOST BEAUTIFUL CD I'VE BOUGHT THIS YEAR!!! (but being a compilation, it won't make it to my end-of-year top list) It's gorgeous, I've been listening to it non-stop for months, and "Haja o que Houver" made me fall in love to the point of tears, and not just me. The last album is not bad, but I bought it three months after this one, and it spent no more than 10 days in the player.

Today I listened to this album, I really can't understand why I can't seem to like Waits, I hope it doesn't end up like Bjork did, with no chance of redemption. Hal, help me out, I only have Mule Variation by Waits, make me a compilation or maybe just this one, but help me avoid falling into rejection mode, it might be the time, it might be whatever, but right now that voice just isn't getting through to me.

The people from Livorno are rustic, not gourmets! And the Livornese born in Pisa are even worse!!! (Do you need an emoji?...ah, you need the one that’s a bit cheeky!? Here it is :-3 )

but the perfect pop song sample doesn’t work for me either :-(

In the mid-nineties, while everyone was immersed in QOTSA, Tool, Pearl Jam, and more, I was only listening to acid jazz and electro-funk. Now I've returned a bit (but just a bit) to rock, yet I've always really liked the Galliano, Africa or not.