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How derivative it is, though, in relation to You're Living All Over Me. The melodies from that album are truly from another planet.

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HAHA what a cut, good job. Even though the review is clearly sad.

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post-rock brick, the interesting moments wouldn't be lacking, but it's toooo long-winded. I prefer At The Soundless Dawn. 2.5!

Yes, yes, I know well what the Opeth have done, but are we sure we can talk about innovation with a capital I? I believe that the innovations are elsewhere anyway...

not the best of Neurosis..

Regarding Fugazi: it’s easier, extremely easier to listen to the stereotypical and canonical songs of most prog metal bands than to a song by Fugazi, which might be dismissed by the majority of the "ill-mannered" audience (in the literal sense of ill-educated) simply because Fugazi truly has something to say.

Point 3: The mass itself is a specific social actor, the individual is another social actor different from the first. Let's not confuse the two levels. I'm talking to you, who is an individual. You are part of it at the level of "habitat," but you can have values, beliefs, and opinions that are completely different and opposed to those traditional and popular among most. Point 4: "I think you have a strong envy towards those who live music with ease (which from your speeches doesn't seem to be the case for you) and this makes you even more aggressive against realities that have many supporters ETC..." Allow me, all this is extremely false. For a simple reason: many fans of artists and groups unjustly idolized demand to recognize an artistic value in their idols. An artistic value which, to be frank, they do not possess. Or rather, (I’m trying to meet you halfway) they do not possess compared to the true giants of rock. In a nutshell: the fans of Laura Pausini, Meneguzzi... all the way to the latest DT are convinced that their music is "art," in every sense of the word. And that is really hilarious, don’t you think? When I hear "this song is beautiful because it’s catchy" or "because it has this amazing super-fast solo, plus it’s epic and powerful"... what am I supposed to think? Should I cry or laugh? X-D

Strange my attitude?? Bah... to me, it seems rather consistent instead! You use terms like "frustration" and "envy," which I can only accept if in quotation marks, otherwise you risk really going off the rails and getting into truly pathetic discussions, if you allow me... So, point 1: the average musical taste? Take 100 people in Italy and ask them what rock they listen to, let’s see what they say. Their answer will represent the "average musical taste" (it’s pure statistics). Point 2: what relationship exists between relativism and charts?? I really don’t understand it… Of course, everything is historically confined, thus relative, but there are always the so-called historical trends and recurrences, and if you read history you can observe some homogeneous and unifying tendencies, let’s say objectively presentable again. So, if Vasco, Tiziano Ferro, Laura Pausini, etc. are always among the top positions in the sales charts in Italy, what do you see as relative in all this? The only "relative" element is that this chart is relative, indeed, to Italy (I’m talking about our country). But for the rest, it is an undeniable fact that the vast majority of people, still in Italy, follow certain "artists"...so, what relativism are you talking about? The fact that Systematic Chaos came second in the charts is of INCREDIBLE importance, rather than a trivial matter. An album of such "caliber" reaching second place in Italy is paradigmatic of what I’m trying to explain. That album is terrifying, tastes are tastes, but artistically it’s a disaster. I really don't understand how one can compare that catastrophe of technique for its own sake and redundant with "Perfect from now on." I’m not interested in tastes, personal tastes (and thus subjective and individual) have never interested me, I won’t engage in discussions about these things, it’s pointless. Sure, critics also have their personal taste, but at least they have a certain competence, for heaven's sake. Like: between the two evils, I choose the lesser one (if we want to go down the road of saying critics are frustrated, stupid, saying nonsense and such...)