Alfredo

What a nice recovery, the good Enzo deserved at least a memory.

Did you know that I've never listened to INXS? Aside from a couple of songs by accident (which I didn’t like).

A record that is very much a product of its time, the sounds are completely '80s. I listen to it again from time to time; there are some great tracks.

One of the most important records of my life. On an emotional level, it's not a 5, but a 10.

In brackets I take the opportunity to mention (I don't think I've done it yet in here) a book I've read recently: "New York 1973-1977" by Will Hermes, a chronicle of the musical reality of the Big Apple during those fabulous five years in the heart of the '70s. I leave it to the description: "At the beginning of the seventies, New York was a city in chaos: crime, social unrest, filth, and economic bankruptcy made it a very different place from the sparkling metropolis we know today. Yet it was precisely in those years that an extraordinary creative explosion turned the Big Apple into the ideal laboratory where all the musical genres that would influence the following decades were redefined and invented: the jazz scene, the punk of the Ramones, the salsa of the Bronx Latinos, the New York Dolls, Springsteen and Patti Smith, the birth of disco and DJ culture, Africa Bambaataa's rap, Philip Glass's minimalism. Against the backdrop, a city on the brink of the abyss, dangerous and exhilarating, rough and pulsating, where the stories of future music stars intertwined with those of dubious characters, writers, and artists of every kind." One of the most interesting things I've read in recent years in the musical field. And you really understand the significance NY had during that period. Recommended.

Evacuation of the West (especially, for me a masterpiece), Prodigal Son, If I Was The Priest, and Randolph Street are absolute gems, a really beautiful album that captures Bruce's youth perfectly.

So many memories, between this and Street Fighter...

Great album, great review.

I'm rewatching it right now, it's still a great movie.

These days I'm re-listening to the Ramones' discography that I have at home (I'm just missing the last two and Halfway To Sanity), today it was time for Too Tough To Die. A killer album, perhaps the most hardcore of all.