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Repulsion made my ears perk up and the singer ignited forbidden desires in me. I saw them live last week before Verdena. The songs were pathetic, everyone was annoying (who the hell is the balding forty-year-old nerd on the second guitar?) and she was totally out of tune. Amidst the dominating boos, she then toyed with the crowd saying that it's Luca from Verdena who wants them to play live with them. Mh. Luca, please smoke less.

You have done your best, darkeve, I really appreciate it. Friends, wake up. We are at an extremely high level here. Forget afterhours, forget Marlene, forget Teatro degli Orrori. These guys make them look like amateurs.

It's been a while since I've checked in on this site, but I remember very well all those moments when, while listening to music, I felt the strong urge to write about it. Thank you all.

Once (sigh of nostalgia) on this site, the left side was reserved for reviews with a beginning and an end, while the right side was for the rubbish, for those unfortunate souls who should not express certain things publicly.

Oh, the denial of the Punisher with the Bugatti will last for ages...the album is valid and Vivis' analysis enhances its essence. In a month, I will see it again since that 2003 when I ended up on stage playing it together. I'm eager!

"perennial last day of summer" - very good! For me, this is living proof that great composers still exist, and in this case, we are on par with a Verdi or a Rossini (only in modern music! Allow me this small exaggeration). One only needs to contemplate the ease with which he moves from violin to piano to accordion to guitar, etc. And in the DVD on tour, he also demonstrated his ability to reinvent, without losing control, his piano pieces in a noise key! Immense.

Truly chilling, dear paloz. What can I say, I watch this documentary almost once a month (and I force someone different to join me every time) since January... congratulations on this serene page that cradled me, amid enormous waves, pushing me all the way to that northern island.

You chose a truly striking theme for your departure. There's certainly no need to boast about it, but I actually come from Pordenone, and how many still do not know that in this grim province of the north, punk was born and established for the first time in Italy! And it cannot be considered solely as an age-related record but is the result of a condition of abjection and frustration that the post-war generation learned to live with as the countryside began to urbanize. And in Friuli, the countryside is everything; its death is the death of history here. Thus, you move to the city and rightfully feel like a small bourgeois. You can certainly get used to urban alienation and boredom, you, the peasant. Or you can't stand it, and you play punk. You detest trends, the morbid myths, progress, bell-bottoms, and the clichés of your time, and you create something that has never been heard before. The Tampax, the Hitlerss, and all the other groups certainly experienced cultural uprooting more drastically living in Pordenone than any other band from a large and ancient city in Italy. They understood (precisely because they were peripheral) that things were not good at all, that life was not getting better at all. (Excuse the digression. Congratulations, vellutogrigio, for the effectiveness with which you handled the topic. I hope that before putting the pen to rest, you think about it.)

I would say that in Quello che non c'è, Germi and Ballate per piccole iene you should also give them a listen, dear paloz. Then you'll certainly understand what they represent.

And "A doubt" and "An exercise," where have you forgotten them? Are these not perhaps other peaks of the album? In short, here we are not dealing with discarded ideas or B-sides but with a touching Frusciante, certainly also in dark hues ("everyone choose to live life, we confuse how with why..") but damn inspired, and in the end, always hopeful. It’s good that you’re taking the trouble to review all (?) of our artist's albums, but be careful not to fall into analysis and to repeat carelessly what has already been said in other reviews. Rather... does anyone have an idea of when the next one is coming out? The last I read, he's mixing it these days.