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Some time ago, waking up one morning in a central area of Milan, I was astonished to hear from a considerable distance the megaphone of a knife sharpener. For years, I believed it was a privilege of the countryside folks to have a guy who takes your money to run a piece of steel over a stone for 4¤, yet even in big cities, the knife sharpener rules. It’s a clear sign of how the whole world has become a village, no longer just countryside like it used to be.

<< but please realize that the problem is yours >> But you really have a knack for discovering hot water: of course it’s a """problem of mine""". I didn’t come here looking for anyone. I wrote this review myself; I didn’t go to bother anyone else’s writings, so since I wrote it, it’s MINE, the content is MINE, the thought is MINE, and the vision is MINE. I’ve never written anywhere that I was talking about great truths. Moreover, it’s not even a punk album that I don’t like, but a prog one that I really like. It doesn’t get more personal than that. But excuse me, where have I ever written that it's a problem for those who listen to punk? WHERE? Now tell me where I wrote that, come on. Read everything again; for 135 posts, I've been repeating the same thing: I THINK IT SUCKS, PERIOD. I don't give a damn about teaching anything to anyone; the only point of this review was and is: I like Area, I think punk sucks. For me, for me, for me. My review, my comments, an album I like. To you, I didn’t ask a damn thing. So, let's recap: where does it say that it's your problem and not mine? Come on, tell me.

"fackata sey i do mi sci nau, fakka presenza as mai trov el maut fack ol dos kissis dey didimi giekk fak iu o I DON'T WANT YOU BACK." I must say that I liked the beginning. I haven't read the rest nor will I, but it's a nice start.

I can't do a Top 3, except for putting Funcrusher at No. 1. I can't evaluate the first Wu album properly after '94-'95 anymore; they had worn me out. Damn, every three months (on the dot, exactly three months) there was an album coming out with the same style. All great, don't get me wrong... but Kun-fu this and Kun-fu that had really worn me down. And even though 36 chambers made me scream "miracle" as soon as it came out, Funcrusher made me scream "what's this?", so I put it first. But I’m not shocked to see thousands of top tens with 36 chambers in the first place; it makes sense.

Dad has style.

The gut punch was more beautiful, it knew more of "it guts you and it sews you." Very brutal.

Yeah, but Primo is Raw, Jeru is not. That Primo is Raw makes sense, that this CD is half Primo and half Jeru too. But Jeru, he's a little brat.

It's not a derogatory term, it's just a way to classify the guys. Mobb Deep rough (I shoot that one, I chop up the other, I'm the coolest), Jeru The Damaja Mr. I-know-it-all, just like me.

I don't have to know it by heart to say that I don't like it. I might enjoy the various influences of Killing Joke, but the rest, no. You can come up with 8,000 discussion points that might support an argument, but when I go to listen to the records: they suck. If you don't want me to repeat the same things: don't make the same observations.

Your arguments are as follows: << punk '77 is defined by the lyrics and the attitude of the artist, not just by the music >>. Well then, that’s great. About 87 posts above, I repeated 80 times that I couldn't care less about the attitude, and even less about the lyrics. If you tell me the same things 80 times, I will respond 80 times the same way: to me, punk musically sucks. I couldn’t care less about the socio-cultural movement; there’s music on CDs that I don’t like. And I couldn’t care less about the minimal differences between one band and another; I understand that to you, listening only to punk or wave, they may seem like abyssal differences, but to me, frankly, they seem like small points of difference. For me, John Coltrane is different from Cannibal Corpse; that’s different, not a chord played differently: it’s still a chord. It would also be something if they all played the same song. The problem with this discussion between you and me is that you have come to repeat the same things for the 80th time; I’m also fed up with repeating: I’ve heard it too much, I keep hearing it, and I don’t like it. I can’t understand why I should not like something because I don’t know it: everything that sounds similar to me doesn’t appeal to me, so I don’t delve deeper. Obviously, I can’t differentiate a 77 London Punk from a post-80 New York Punk... but who cares, my friends explain to me when they make me listen to what type of punk it is, and I think both suck. Aside from Minutemen, something from Buzzcocks, and 90s Hardcore, everything else either doesn’t please me or makes me sick.