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I also expected more when I started writing it. Then I realized I didn't have much more to say. I heard others feel the same way, but mainly it was the attitude that I liked, which has greatly pushed back the temptation to go through the references one by one. As you can see, 3 is also my rating. I don’t always expect masterpieces: sometimes, as in this case, I appreciate "unfinished" works that seem to echo others I've already heard. You know how it is, if I like it, I like it... It wouldn't be bad if you wrote something too, about what you think. After all, there are tons of duplicates of well-known records: two different perspectives on something quite new wouldn't be a bad idea. Bye!

Fidia, forgive me for "reading" it this way, but the tone of the closing and a bit of the whole page allows it to a certain extent. Still, I agree that some groups are quite forgotten despite having produced more than worthy things, overshadowed by the consuming shadow that bands and charismatic leaders cast all around during those years, extending even to today. I completely understand your intent, likely motivated also by the enthusiasm for discovering certain records. After all, the primary purpose of DeBaser, at least for me, is exactly this. There remains a difference of opinion, which may also stem from the ways and times in which we've encountered certain records and authors. Then, masters and disciples, you know... I believe everyone was looking for their own path, their own "voice" after what I have described elsewhere as the little big bang of punk. If you're interested in some lesser-known groups from those years, take a look at the reviews of Egebamyasi; they've unearthed many interesting records. Bye and have a good evening.

I don’t even remember this album existed. And it’s so good, three 5s and even a 4 from Josi? Alright, need to give it a listen!

Like many who knew the Sound, I only learned of Borland's death not long ago. Right on DeBaser, in the comments to Ege's excellent review. These are albums I listened to back in those years, and even heard again today, they come back to me with all their temporal context. I prefer Jeopardy, I’d rate this a 3.5. I repeat what I said to Ege: - their sound almost makes me feel nostalgic, thinking back on it - I add: I appreciate your recovery, but I can't agree with the idea of placing the two albums by J.D. on the same level as those by the Sound. If, however, the discussion is focused precisely on the figures of the characters, on the aura of the icons, then I completely abstain. It’s a way of looking at things that really doesn’t interest me. - P.S. I have always liked this cover very much.

ZiOn, it's your turn to dig and bring the funk to DeLuce :)

Oh, Lovely Joan, you can’t trust my opinion: I have notoriously terrible taste. The Ballard, for example, always leaves me puzzled. But his insistence on linking sperm and metal in that book must have convinced me at the time... - I believe Saville was in Rome some time ago, perhaps with that very series. One of the many "events" I diligently noted and promptly missed. Josi is right: you need to have certain works right in front of you. Instead, I keep feeding on reproductions. And I go googling for closed contact. Bye, Regular.

It doesn't matter, but looking at the surface of the painting you sent me, I was reminded of a great artist who worked on canvases treated with sand... Domenico Gnoli, considered a sort of European counterpart of American pop art, especially because of certain paintings with close-up cuts of objects or details of things. In reality, very different and much more refined. Now I’ll stop, as I don't joke around with painterly logorrhea. Bye bye.

Yes, Josi, I'm here, thank you. More than a thick painting, it seems to "treat" the surface first... Is that the piece you'd like to take home? Do you have anything by Daniele? - Do you also like the Saville mentioned by Regular? I saw enormous canvases, 2 or 3 meters, with close-ups of devastated faces... A sort of updated macro-Freud with an added "sense." Mhhh....

Regular, I found Cronenberg's work with Ballard's book to be good but not excellent, a bit mannered at times. On the other hand, these texts (this, Naked Lunch) are so capable of generating instant images during reading that they make the transfiguration on film even more challenging... Also Jenny Saville... Yes, in fact...

Wanderer is generous in his commentary on the brevity of the treatment given to Chopin, and even more so in the accurate and shareable dissertation on the issues raised here and elsewhere. I agree with him 100%, including the inclusion of Sylvano (or at least part of his "strangeness") among the names worthy of attentive listening, to be spared from the cursory judgments of those who manage with ruthless and reductive definitions of music they have not listened to, except superficially. And I emphasize the invitation to secular listening, in every direction. Like the perfect synthesis contained in "perhaps more in the mind than in the heart." The overwhelming presence of "religious" attitudes (related to untouchable classicism or enlightened "modernity") is always an obstacle to listening and understanding. It even happens with rock... - The vast ignorance from which my statements arise is an encouragement to know, and Wanderer's way of presenting things seems to suit even more those who are interested, precisely, in exploring a territory of such vastness (also temporal) rather than those who seem to have definitively understood, mapped, and cataloged it. Without a shadow of a doubt...