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Nice album, not the usual post-rock brick, so it's lean and enjoyable without getting bogged down in excessive cerebralism. 3.5

Blackdog, but it was too predictable that you would take it to persecution and self-importance... rhetorical X-D. Don’t swing from one extreme to the other, I never talked about offenses or "humiliations" (!!!), but something more subtle, come on, don’t make me repeat the same things.. What a Pinocchio, straw man... all your answers are too predictable X-D. I didn’t even talk about hypothetical discussions, in fact, if I think about it, we’ve never really discussed; I’m talking about the "sermon" that starts every time I don’t agree with you on an album. Look how concrete and down-to-earth I am in my argumentation, no Pinocchio, no Judas, no headache-inducing Italian-American panegyric. But with someone as proud as you, I doubt I’ll get a fly out of the wall, so adieu canenero.

The album is nice, but I share Sfascia's opinion: Are we sure it's a masterpiece? Too theatrical to seem visceral, too visceral to be theatrical... the suites are disconnected, take the first song: it's 4 tracks poorly stitched together. Let's not talk about progressive.

Oooooh, it seemed strange to me.

I know hemophiliac, you have to get used to this in life too ;-)

You won't chase me, but you've always thrown shade at my posts whenever we commented on the same review, come on, don't play coy... there's no doubt you don't do this only with me (of course not), but this is an attitude you at least have towards me as well. Just look at the reviews on The Fragile by NIN, Fear of a Blank Planet by PT, A Day at the Races by Queen, and maybe there's another one I can't recall... oh yes, Made in Heaven, also by Queen. Don't make me look crazy with persecution complexes; it's all written in the reviews I've mentioned. Unfortunately, you have a tendency to belittle (always playfully with your mixed-Italian-American language, but it’s still belittling) anyone who doesn’t think EXACTLY like you, and you know it well. You say it’s really hot... it’s hot for you too, so don’t act like it’s not (calla) ;-)

I agree with Alessio Iride, politics in America is not viewed through a profound underlying ideology, but rather through the motto "as long as you get fed." Ah, Americans are devoted to institutions and to the current head of government, no matter who they are; they respect "the boss" and generally back them up. They have a strong sense of nation and are nonetheless more inclined than us Italians to overlook political fragmentation and differences. Precisely because they aspire to "maximize," not to get lost in chatter... we have something to learn from them in this regard.

But Dog, you don’t have to "make me happy", if you don’t like an album you can express it however you want, but if I, on the other hand, am not crazy about The River because its rock doesn’t really resonate with me, what can you do about it?

Blackdog, I imagined you would respond like this, but don't play the victim, you know what the point is... leave the persecutions and the decadent posts aside, enough with the rhetoric, please. Comment on my posts if you want, but don’t expect everyone to conform to your point of view.

We're talking about the Boss, not Alan Vega (as someone else pointed out in the other review of Born in the USA). Come on.