RingoStarfish

Well, a bit of movement! Fabbiu, sorry but knowing your previous results, I was a bit disappointed. I mean, Van Halen are already quite disregarded and/or slandered on the site due to a bias (who knows why..), so if you want to open a forum about them or about Fair Warning, I don’t think two objective and telegraphic words like yours would serve much purpose. For example, it seems more important to me, if you really must talk about Hagar or Cherone (which ultimately is superfluous in the context of Fair Warning), to tell us if they were good, who you think was better, how they compared to Lee Roth; Cherone's health problems are ultimately secondary. Do you think anyone would be convinced to buy or not buy Fair Warning after reading this review? Those who know it know it; those who don’t might just as well associate the comment "great riffs, excellent outbursts, great screams, solid melody, and plenty of technique from the drums" with bands like Led Zeppelin, Raven, Iron Maiden, Kiss, and maybe even Radiohead from the period of The Bends.

immense disk.....and Mr. Moustache has it all, and even more!

I quote little. floydman, take a better look at the site, I think you missed something.

But is someone forcing you to write these reviews? If you can't (try to) do them properly, why do them at all? To get to the top of the reviewer rankings or to feel present on the site? Or out of fear that someone else might steal the review in question (of an album that maybe you hold very dear even if you haven't shown it)? Since it's all voluntary, do it with enthusiasm or at least some desire, not as if the review were the answer to a quiz question like "summarize in twenty seconds the history of VH and Fair Warning."

Fabbiu, you seemed almost intimidated to say something more. Were you afraid of the comments, the Internet bill, or didn't you have time to write this review? Because look, the album deserved...(3.5) and it deserved a few more impactful words.

In the end, the Violent Femmes are this album and their debut. Already the third one makes you raise an eyebrow... but these two, different yet united, are magnificent. Something unique and timeless. Exalted zigzag.

I have some of the albums in collaboration with Brian Jackson (From South Africa To South Carolina, the one with the beautiful Johannesburg and especially the wonderful Winter in America). What can I say, the black music of the '70s gave us a pantheon of unique myths and heroes. Unfortunately. Those peaks of social engagement, of the quest for spirituality, of political reflection may never return. We will never again have a year when Winter in America, Stevie's Innervisions, and Sly's Fresh were released simultaneously. I want to find the book you mentioned. And thank you again for the effort of the review, which goes beyond the review and beyond the album, beyond the usual daily hooks of the site and its playmobil disputes. Here we are talking about life, about consciousness. Of all the historical moments when something goes wrong and we are uncertain whether to break, fix, or pretend that everything can return to place on its own.

You convinced me. If only I could find it (it doesn't seem to have been reissued like the other Stevie albums in 2000 with their digipack covers) and at an affordable price...

If You Really Love Me (that's the full title) wasn't so bad after all, with that legendary synthetic drum...

sorry for the words I left out during the speech... I hope it makes sense anyway... :)