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Are you serious? I mean, do you really think that "I'm a street kid" is worth more than an album like Remain in Light? Then you just don't understand a damn thing about music! Well, there you go, 3, this is 4!

No, they can be done, because the moment you start pissing people off around the site saying that bands like REM, Residents, Nirvana, Tortoise and millions of others suck and nonchalantly giving your one-star reviews, and then you see a 4 for the crows, you’d want to understand if you’re serious or if you’re just having fun messing with everyone.

but let's not talk nonsense, different genres. This is crap, funny for a silly party, played poorly, lacking creativity according to the commercial stereotypes of the time. A group of kids singing two bullshit songs that seem silly are at best good for laughing at them, not with them, at a party. Those are great records. Let's not kid ourselves. 4 for this, damn, you gave 4 to Faust too, for crying out loud. But now "I'm a street kid and you're making fun of meee" is worth krautrock just because they are "different genres"? Please.

No, I’m asking you if you really think this album, which you rated 4, is worth a millionth of those two albums to which you gave 2.5 and 3.

No, I’m asking you if this record that you rated 4 is really worth a millionth of those two records to which you gave 2.5 and 3.

But if you gave 3 to Remain in Light and 2.5 to Cure for Pain! and so many other votes to Pera that I won't remind you of.

But do you seriously consider the crows DISTINCTLY superior to the morphine or the talking heads? Just trying to understand :)

Of course, giving a 4 to "I'm a street kid and you mock meee" and a 2.5 to Morphine, not to mention many other bands, is amusing; it takes a lot of guts. When will there be a 5 for Ricky Shayne or the ragazzi del sole?

For once, I don't completely agree with Trell and Psycho; I liked The Castle of Cagliostro, but I don't consider it one of Miyazaki's fundamentals. Just as I don't find Howl's Moving Castle to be that bad, even though it has a sentimentality that, for once, fails to do the usual miracle of remaining poetry and becomes a bit cloying. Kiki, on the other hand, is one of the simplest along with Totoro (to be watched one after the other), but I really enjoyed it. S4 says, "It lacks the magic that is found in his other films; it lacks the film's own soul." In my opinion, what's missing is the epicness; magic and soul to me are the usual. After all, as you mentioned earlier, it's quite subjective; for example, Miyazaki is (literally) ashamed of Porco Rosso, which is adored by fans, and I liked it as well.

@vincent valentine: if you're looking for something dark, as s4doll has already told you, you won't find it in myiazaki. The most recommended title if you want something dark/gothic, and one of the best anime ever, is the legendary Tenshi no tamago (Angel's Egg for us, in Italian it's mostly available only subtitled) by Oshii Mamoru, even though it’s one of the most difficult and uncompromising works to come out of Japan, given its visionary nature, and it was indeed a complete commercial flop. I believe it’s one of the 4-5 most beautiful anime of all time, but I’m not the only one who thinks so, even though you either love it or hate it, as it's slow and cerebral. Then there's also Oshii's much more famous Ghost in the Shell, which I find inferior and leans more towards cyberpunk. And also Jin-Roh, which isn't exactly dark, but is particularly grim. Those are the good ones; if you want something more entertaining and less pretentious, there's Vampire Hunter Bloodlust. If instead you can't resist the charm of sesquipedalian nonsense, The City of Enchanted Beasts is for you. All films, I practically know nothing about the series.