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Good job, beautiful, Mwòùh Yeah. I really like the example of Hella. But I have to say, I like Acme a lot, even more than Orange, I find it more structured and refined. Orange has energy, but it's less fine and precise than Acme, though I think it's all a matter of taste. Anyway, in the end, I agree with you about the album but not about the rating (roughly speaking, I think I'd give it a 5), since if you like Orange more (oh, it’s not that I don’t like it, quite the opposite, I just prefer Acme) you should like this one a lot too. I can't give it more than a 4. I haven't listened to it that much, but I have heard it about 20 times for sure; a friend of mine has it on loop in his car for days and days (he's also an ORANGEiano). :D Again, great review.

They are my next exploration target, after the CAN I have to discover the Faust. Sooner or later I have to uncover all the seminal bands, and then I will move on to classical music :)

Easy, what are you doing, discussing music with Vrensis? Just so you know, he thinks based on the NME and sales... it's a conversation that's dead from the start. //// PS Hi VV!!! :D

Guys, this thing is an impressive historical document, there’s nothing superfluous, it’s been edited perfectly. Like, you see Clapton saying “that time in S.Farncisco with feedback was a show” and...bam! the footage Clapton refers to starts rolling, Townshend says “I liked how he did Wild Thing” and...bam! Wild Thing starts. Seriously, hats off to whoever came up with this because not a single second is out of place. And it sounds absolutely perfect, hearing Jimi so clean gives you chills, FURIOUS, as Mick Jagger said (at the end of the DVD) “Many fill their mouths with phrases about Jimi, what can you say about Jimi, nothing, except that he was and will always be the best guitarist in the world.” No nonsense :D

Antimo, for me the best ones are the LIVE albums, because they go off the rails at levels, if I really have to pick one, I'd say "The Best Band You Never Heard In Your Life" from 1991 (released in '91, recorded I believe in '87), a title that couldn't be more fitting, truly The Best Band I Never Heard In My Life, mind-blowing :))

Of course, I can't even dissect a piece of Zappa to save my life; sometimes I listen and think, "How many are there? What instruments are they playing? Is it a drum or are there 3 basses together?" I couldn't care less and I listen to it because whatever it is, I like it. I sponsor Zappa as the artist of the 2000s; he needs to be rediscovered in full. It's a crime to leave him on the shelves of music stores because you want to buy the new band that just came out yesterday. Listen to Zappa, for a better future.

Living example I, Easy & Antimo, three extremes: I fell in love with it since I’m in love with all those people I mentioned earlier, starting from Zappa and going further (I’m not saying they’re better or gayer, I’m just saying that being born later, to impress, they have to go beyond Zappa, but only as a concept, and they have three times the tools he had with machines, mixers, etc.). Easy doesn't really like the stuff I enjoy, but he appreciates some of Zappa's work, not the "easier" ones, but those more like “let’s play a record” and not “let’s show them where we can go.” Antimo, on the other hand, after constantly reading “CRAZY/AMAZING/TOUGH/EXPERIMENTAL ON ANOTHER LEVEL!!”, naturally expected to find something out of this world, but since he lives in 2000, he had already heard quite a bit of out-of-this-world stuff, so it was a bit hard for him to find a record from '66 (I mean, 19 6 6, not just yesterday :D) more advanced than, say, Mouse On Mars. The point is that now Zappa shouldn’t be seen as <<< I’m way ahead, I’m cool because I listen to Zappa >>>, because that's nonsense; now Zappa is easily listenable, wonderful music, not a "cute experimental gizmo just because it’s tough." Also, in my opinion, tough stuff is tough if it's minimal. Steve Vai is "tough" (although this term doesn’t make much sense), doing "the Zappa stuff" (thank you very much, he was his guitarist :D) but much more minimal, and you feel the "rhythm" less. Zappa mixed in so many "tough" things that he created a unique sound, which I like when it's all put together. [...]

Now let me explain myself better :) In my opinion (I suppose from what I've read and from what I was told before I listened to Franco, since I've seen the 60s in DVD :D) the image of Zappa has stopped in the 60s, in the sense that music and the "tastes/knowledge of the people" have moved on, while his image has remained still and unmoving on a pedestal. At the time, Zappa amazed everyone; he was thirty years ahead of his time. However, thirty years have passed now. Now we're all somewhat "used to" the various experimentation of Fantòmas, Aphex Twin, Merzbow, AREA, Primus, and various MAFIE. I don't think Zappa is any more challenging than these. Of course, Zappa is miles ahead because he pulled these things out of a hat when everyone was going crazy for "she loves you yeh yeh yeh," and in Italy, we were in the midst of "Cuore matto matto da legare." Thank goodness we've moved past that level. In the 60s, there wasn't this massive musical culture that there is now. And above all, there's much more "scazzio" now. What was most surprising was the fact that Franco was doing "demenziale" JAZZ NOISE (well, demenziale as a concept, but go and try to play it and see if you can do it :D), and he was seen as crazy; now Demenziale isn't such a challenging thing. [to be cont...]

I’ll respond well tomorrow, but this thing about "difficult discs" really "gets on my nerves" (don’t get mad, it’s just a figure of speech "gets on my nerves" ;D) The CD is the same as the others, you put it in the same player, no one is stopping you from hitting Play... what’s so difficult about it? Maybe I’ll explain better tomorrow, but if I can listen to it and I’m a certified idiot and I like it, why can’t you? ;) / But it’s nice to see Turkish spamming me with the Tests!!! :))))

Daddyyyy!!! What a pain in the ass without you!! Ollllèèèè, I was losing my mind writing bullshit without a partner!! You need a partner in nonsense, damn it!! :)