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De-Baser Marchigiano gathering! Good music, yes, passatelli never!!! Better the brodetto or the stocchfisso all'anconetana. Battiato has proven to be so far above the mediocre (in general) Italian music scene that, in my opinion, it's hardly debatable. I consider "la cura" and "stange days" to be the most beautiful Italian song and one of the most beautiful Italian albums ever. As for the money for "il violino e la selce," I believe the Fano administration made a great deal.

Wow G! I would have never expected such an angry post from you... and I hope it wasn't the Roman who used to annoy us at the Massive Attack concert at the arena!

Beautiful, truly beautiful the review, well done, and this is a great album, even though personally I see in "Nevermind" the complete synthesis of Nirvana, and in the Unplugged their transcendence, which for Cobain was a definitive beyond, as can be felt from the singing. Hal, don't be falsely modest; musically you have us all sitting down here (except Cappa, of course!).

From the review, you can't figure much out about this album; the comments leave you a bit confused, except for Kosmo's YESSSSS! which to me counts as an almost guarantee. But then I listened to the album for just a tenth (5') and I went back to understanding very little. At this point, a doubt arises (already expressed elsewhere as certainty): is it me who doesn't understand, or are the 50' missing from the listening that prevent me from getting it?

The concert? AWESOME! (and now I’d like 50 comments following on “awesome”)

I’m the first to admit that I don’t understand a damn thing, but I’m sorry to see that there are people like you on this site, so profoundly ignorant in musical matters that you don't even know FRANTZ Listz or FRANTZ Schubert, eminent musicians to whom my nickname simply pays a respectful tribute.

Mexican Radio was one of my favorite floor-fillers when I was a DJ and I was very into new wave back then. I should even still have a worn-out mix record hidden somewhere.

I don't know this album, the last one I do. Bought on heated recommendation, fascinated at first listen and tired by the tenth. Yet another spineless album of the era, I soon expect a new musical revolution; we are now scraping the bottom of the barrel in terms of new musical ideas, we are in the Mannerist period of indie-rock. Who the hell are these, the poor man's Coldplay? The new album isn't exactly money wasted, it's worth a burned copy.

I wasn't there, but I know who was, and all the references led back to my legendary Dyane.

I'm sorry to fuel this dispute again, but since I'm involved, let's dance.
Am I a seer? I took a guess, but if you can read between the lines, it didn’t take much to understand what music you listen to.
You contest what is less prosaically referred to as the "socio-cultural condition of rock phenomenology," asserting that only the musical performance matters at a concert? I disagree, for the simple fact that music, in all its forms, has always been an expression of social and cultural feelings. As for the "concert moment," it is a collective happening made up of a performer delivering a sung message and the responsive reaction of an audience member. If there are stereotyped "ways" in which this happens (rock concert instead of symphonic opera), it is because the social response to certain stimuli occurs according to social rules that change over time. I wouldn’t want to bore you with discussions on why tribal dances accompany and are an integral part of sounds made with drums, or of waltzes in Viennese halls, or performances in art galleries by artists engaging the audience to play non-standard instruments, or to go closer to you, to the Italian concerts of the 70s that featured "audioriduttori" (see De Gregori), now transformed into other forms and expressions. I wish that as a musician, you would think more about your potential audience and how they would enjoy experiencing you, rather than selfishly focusing on how clean your Fender Stratocaster sounds; in that case, you might as well stay in a recording studio and have fun... alone!