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I never thought I would ever appreciate a page from the Rivoli, given the many I’ve had the chance to read. Instead... I would like to see it, this little sorrowful film. At the Azzuro Scipioni, do they ever show it?

Poletti, regarding the music section, you have clearly shown your unreliability, and I don't feel like piling on. I have always thought that this openness to cinema was a mistake, and the overwhelming majority of the hosted pages, in my highly debatable opinion, has demonstrated this. Among that overwhelming majority are yours: due to the form, the content, the arrogance, and the superficiality of the topics expressed, as well as the inability to engage with the vast relationships between diverse elements that underlie an articulated reading of a film. Nevertheless, I refrain from hoping for its closure, since many continue to write and comment. If, given your attitudes and the repeated arrogance (unwarranted, considering your simplistic schematization of a rich visual language), you have managed to create a large audience of detractors who seem to enjoy having fun at your expense, the only person you can blame for the situation is yourself. That the site reeks of decay, as you say, may be true. Undoubtedly, your penny-pinching observations, generated by a paranoid compulsive syndrome, exude the stench of rotten infantile behavior, preventing you from engaging with reality and sustaining a dialectical exchange. The fact that you have opinions (about cinema, about jazz, about weather conditions) is not serious. It’s not even serious that they are completely drawn from readings (presumably superficial, given the results) of a few authors, which you have internalized as your own, continuing to refer to them whenever you lack arguments to support obviously unsustainable statements. A bit less tolerable is your allowance to adopt disrespectful attitudes towards a space (and the people who frequent it) or to hope for its closure after it has, until now, had the patience to host someone like you. Who wouldn’t even find space in a parish film forum. What you should do is thank the space that hosts you and behave like a decent person, for it’s never too late. If you wonder why I am intervening after months of having hardly interacted with you, the answer is simple: I have read this and many other pages, and now I wanted to tell you these little things. It’s part of the dynamics of an open space like this. You should know this, and you ought to have learned to behave accordingly. - As for the film in question, I find this page repugnant, as it, faced with the many possible considerations on a work that, whether we like it or not, has found and maintained space in the collective imagination, is solely concerned with "venting its ignorance," as he himself puts it. And he does so in a form that I find frankly pathetic. Best regards.

Great idea, Supersoul: a nice collection from Voxx, that's what I wanted to hear. With a nice gem. Thank you a lot.

Ah beautiful mother, wax and gasoline, there are people...

After a quick first listen, I must say it is very rich, definitely worth a careful re-listen. The talent is undoubtedly there, the care and effectiveness of the arrangements with a retro and slightly quirky taste are indisputable, and the voice has a timber that lends itself to play. A sort of Sufjan Stevens operation on the pop side, and indeed "Fantasilandia." I have the impression that, despite the abundance of the offering, after a few listens it turns out to be... flat. We’ll see. - P.S. Those at pitchforkmedia are not reliable anyway, so as far as I'm concerned, their rating doesn't count. - Hugoniot, the album is new.

Received. It won't happen again. Regards.

I'm not here because this isn't a Supremes record, because it is not, indeed, a copy and because we are in 2007. In fact, the songs have their own modern identity, rooted in a certain tradition. I would like to find writing as evocative as this. In my opinion, you have constructed a general discourse that goes beyond this album: it would probably hold up for many products, but you have sewn it, to me, onto the wrong record. However, I believe we wouldn't move much from our respective points of view even out of exhaustion, so I propose a stalemate. To which I add a small tribute that, in case you're lacking, you might enjoy. Simple File Sharing and Storage. and Simple File Sharing and Storage. respectively the self-titled and "They Say I'm Different", two albums by Betty Davis in remastered edition. Enjoy listening and have a good Sunday. (Please remove any spaces that may form in the links)

Wow, a curiosity: but if I think of it another way, does it depend on the fact that I haven't listened to Diana Ross? The answer is yes, even though she isn't among my favorites (and the comparison doesn't seem quite accurate, except for a certain "retro" taste in some of the arrangements). I've been revisiting a lot lately, though, Betty Davis (the recent reissues are splendid) and Martha Reeves And The Vandellas: by the way, I'm looking for their amazing version of "Working In The Coal Mine," which I only have on vinyl and isn't included in any of their official compilations.... - That said, for me, Winehouse is one of the best vocal talents of the last ten years. And this album will sound pleasant, "classic" even in another ten years. I repeat: if you're looking for "novelty," you can look elsewhere, but if you appreciate a singer with a great voice and style and interpretative personality, I don't think there’s much better out there today.

The album didn't convince me after a few listens. But I found a succinct judgment online that I really liked and wanted to share: This album is uglier than Schifani. The author of the brief criticism didn't really like it..:)

Vortex, I mention this especially because you really uncover a lot of material if you dive into the "retrobottega." I've been hanging around this place for about a couple of years now, and even now, from time to time, I come across little pages that lead me to discover or rediscover rather unusual things...