Bartleboom

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DeAge™ : 7611 days • Here since 9 august 2005
Vasco Rossi Vivere O Niente
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mmm... I can't really see Vasco as an aspiring poet. It might be true for the first album, but by the second, his songwriter aspirations take a back seat and his rocker's approach, dedicated to booze and women, comes to the forefront. It's in this dimension that Vasco has delivered his best, when he spoke of simple things, everyday relationships, of sex and wine. It's more or less since the '90s, when he discovered he was the figurehead of an immense mass of ignorant people without a homeland and a god, in need of a balding, overweight 60-year-old to point out that "Living isn't easy," that things have gone south. Not because he wanted to be a poet, but because his fans elected him as one.
Gillo Pontecorvo La battaglia di Algeri
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Unfortunately, the infamous job didn't allow me to ask you these questions sooner. I apologize if they have already been posed by others: but if this friend of yours, the mandrill, came looking for you as soon as your boyfriend turned his back, could it be that you gave him a little hint? I mean, usually, one doesn’t hit on someone else's girlfriend unless they know that she quite likes the pepper... But, above all, does this friend of yours, Simona, have a Facebook profile that we can check out?!
Vasco Rossi Vivere O Niente
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Among other things, the passage: "remains in a state of perpetual precarious balance, often falls but luckily has the strength to get back up; and can do so by itself, or relying and counting on those closest to it, in a mutual support" is a description of any afternoon of an elderly person with walking problems, at risk of femur fractures every time they go to the bathroom. In practice, we are witnessing the birth of a new musical genre, gerento-rock, rock for the elderly...
Barcelona Absolutes
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Good review. As for the proposal, I’ll just let out a few awkward coughs while scratching my head, smiling, and walking away waving goodbye.
Boredoms Super Roots 6
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I've always been curious to listen to your namesake band. Tell me which album you think I should listen to first (and if you have a little link handy... :)). In the meantime: great review, as usual.
Vasco Rossi Vivere O Niente
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My son, in nearly 400 days spent on this site you have: a) left 2 comments on the review of the Bastard Sons of Dioniso; b) filled out 11 rankings, each worse than the last; c) reviewed and dropped 4 bombs on the latest Vasco. Basically, you have the social uselessness of Gasparri.
Roger Waters Live @ Mediolanum Forum, Assago 05.04.11
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It depends. I sent a registered letter with acknowledgment of receipt a review of Reign In Blood in '86 and it hasn't been published yet.
Vasco Rossi Vivere O Niente
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In my experience, the crux of the matter is that the average Vasco fan suffers from the same "mono-artist satisfaction syndrome" that also affects fans of U2 or Ligabue. Basically, that single artist provides them with everything they need musically. They don’t seek out other similar bands, don’t buy other albums, don’t go to other concerts, and at Christmas they can’t miss out on the box set with the reissues for 60 euros that contains 1, at most 2, unreleased tracks. In the car, they listen to the radio, but they despise commercial pop music because it’s not true rock or, in any case, it doesn’t give them the same emotions. If you ask them what music they listen to, they respond not with a genre, but with the name of a singer/band. Needless to say, as far as I’m concerned, they would all deserve to be mowed down with a lawn mower, but after all, the world is beautiful because it’s diverse.
Vasco Rossi Vivere O Niente
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With the only difference that the vast majority of people KNOW that "At Any Cost" is a cover of a Radiohead song. Instead, for Gli spari sopra, it’s a bit like what the girl in the Skele video says in comment 16: "An Emotional Fish?!? No one ever gave a damn about them! Vasco mayor of Italy!".
Vasco Rossi Vivere O Niente
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To tell the truth, "Gli spari sopra" seems to be a cover of "Celebrate" by An Emotional Fish (and indeed it's one of the five songs by Vasco in the last 20 to stand out). It's just that in the original version it says "This party's over" with a strong Irish accent (I believe), so it comes out as something like "Gli spari sopra" (which actually means nothing in the Italian lyrics). The moral of the story: good cover in terms of instrumentals, a dinosaur shit translation of the lyrics. Result: ignorance 1 - sense of decency 0.