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@eldiablo: thank you so much. I know, it’s objectively inferior to the triptych, I agree, but it gives me unique and intense feelings, definitely personal ones. Anyway, it’s definitely among the top five...

Good job, and you’re right: this album can be an excellent summary, even for those who have little... maybe better than the many compilations out there... anyway, I think one should have everything by Conte. He has never lowered his standards, the concept of compromise or sell-out is unknown to him. Kisses

First of all, thanks to everyone. @voodoomiles: of course, I'm not generalizing. But take 10 jazz musicians, 10 bluesmen (meaning those who are not graduates, the vast majority), 10 "light" musicians and 10 classical ones, and compare their technical skills and their soul quotient. Then analyze the relationship between the two rates. That's it: I know amazing graduates, but the fact that it’s not taught at the conservatory that Duke Ellington is the true classical (both high and popular) music of the 20th century—and the necessary consequences are not drawn, even in terms of education...—is simply a scandal. I think you'll agree. Kisses

@e lorenzo: you also seem to me an incredible (as you are evidently educated) victim of hypnosis: berlusca has continued the (worst) DC, that of the last fifteen years before tangentopoli, of the steel pact with craxi, certainly not the previous one, and he's added a ton of his own issues on top (let's not go into the details of the deals he made and that we let him make, allowing his empire to grow against every law and logic, saving himself from certain bankruptcy in the process). It's a shame that a theory which, unfortunately (I have to agree with stoney) is rather populist, although well expressed, can convince you this way. Berlusca has developed our worst and will leave a country certainly worse than the one he found (we hope, in any case, that this happens soon). Kisses

@EROZINIA: utmost respect, but in my opinion we need to be a bit tougher: here the soul is completely absent, and incredibly even the technique is shaky.... kisses

Unfortunately, I agree with both of the last comments...

Apart from the fact that if they took care of Chechnya, they would be dealing with one of the best associates and friends of the Little Man... picturesque as you like, but much, much, much more serious than a mere clown.

Dear Punisher: it seems to me that anti-Berlusconism has never been as out of fashion as it is today (in Italy), nor has it ever been as much in vogue as it is now (abroad). That means something, doesn't it? (since I believe no idiot here thinks that the poor PD of today can "inspire" all the biggest newspapers in the world...) @larrok, you’ve got the numbers wrong: the PDL has had an embarrassing dialysis of votes: go check how much FI had (around 30) and AN (more than 10 almost always). Added together they don’t make 35. And then 4 out of 10 Italians eligible to vote didn’t, which skews the numbers much more than what you’re saying. If we want to agree that Italy and Italians have never been so stupid and culturally broken, in general... well... you’re preaching to the choir. Kisses (and of course thanks to everyone... here there’s been a bit of debate...).

@larrok: the league has a foolish electorate, who will eventually realize they've been played for fools... while Mr. "80% approval", that is "the most loved prime minister in all the West", with his PDL (which has lost votes along the way) was voted for by just over two out of ten people, meaning the other 8 either voted for someone else or stayed home. As Travaglio would say, these are facts, not opinions. The Dwarf wins only because of the scandalous incompetence, often culpable or even worse, colluding, of the PD.

@contemplation and geeno and others: Italians....bah.... in the last elections, they got 35% (with the substantial disappearance of AN) and with 40% (!) abstention. If math isn't just an opinion, about 2 out of 10 people voted for PDL....these are facts, the rest is mass distraction.