easycure

And just to make a note that you probably won't understand, their very comedy is completely self-serving, that is, it makes no sense, it simply targets the lowest and most spontaneous humor without taking on the form of a personal worldview, as was the case with the Skiantos. In other words, as already mentioned, they simply want to attract as many people as possible by making them laugh in the most base way. To conclude, the peak of genius is reached when you respond to their lack of modernity by stating, verbatim: "cicciput is from 2004/'05" ...it speaks for itself, come on, I don't want to be too harsh. ehehehe : D bye bye

"connect your brain before you speak"... I would authenticate myself if I were you, so you lose credibility right from the start, and that doesn't help the almost endless stream of nonsense you’ve written. Now, I can understand and imagine that for you the concepts of "sense" and "meaning" might be a bit too difficult to grasp... so let’s skip that, I don't want to be harsh, come on... as for style and originality, I thought that maybe you could get there too, so I will try to explain it to you: as you can clearly see, you have contradicted yourself, effectively answering yourself; if indeed Elio e le Storie Tese cover all musical genres, as you yourself said and as it is, it is very difficult that at the same time they have a style, as they indeed do not... they simply skillfully exploit, but far from creatively, their years of study with quotations from the most disparate musical sources without this ever taking on, not even once, a homogeneous form, a structure that indicates an approach, a clear vision. From this perspective, despite their technique, they are in fact the exact opposite of the classical composer.

Do you know how many musicians graduated from conservatories are out there? Thousands... it’s not like the "great musician" (which in the case of conservatory graduates is more accurately the great instrumentalist) is a rare kind to idolize. You just need to work hard for ten years, which certainly requires great will but not necessarily great talent, and you become a "great musician." Elio e le storie tese, as good schoolboys who really like Zappa, make no sense, have no meaning, lack style, lack personality, are not modern, are not innovators, are not original, are not exciting, they are nothing. And I wholeheartedly quote Freak Antoni, who gave SENSE to his comedy, he didn’t just provoke to sell a few tens of thousands of records with each release.

The quintessence of nullity.

I was saying "Take me out" as an example... it doesn't seem to me that the rest of their production deviates particularly; on the contrary... furthermore, you didn't grasp my point if you say to counter with Wyatt and Buckley, who ABSOLUTELY lack the communication of the Floyd.. I don't lump everything together, in fact, I've separated the Strokes from the rest. But regarding the latest wave of English bands, I'm sorry, but we really are not on the same page... it's not that I'm trying to simplify, but just listen... it's truly a generalized tragedy.. even Bloc Party, who are decent... meh.. luckily there’s Blow Up, the only magazine that didn’t include Bloc Party (coincidentally) among the ten best albums of the year, and that even described them live as "characterized by calculated posing"... they’re little bands without a backbone, without culture, above all... they think that just copying here and there is enough and they've already done the rest.. they'll last two or three albums, they’re really sad. They have no idea what the intent of the new wave was (especially the American one)... they've forgotten that it was created first and foremost (as is easily inferred from the name) to innovate... they don’t replicate the intent, but simply the form, and in this respect both the FF and Bloc Party are no exception, in fact.. they’re among the worst of the bunch with their predictable yet pretentious intellectualism.. at least Kaiser Chiefs are more “working class,” even if that’s now become a trend as well.

…in fact, when trying to analyze your speech, you always try to justify them by referring to "external" factors : ) …as if these could legitimize the music: I mean, what will change if Kapranos has an unusual and rich personality? It doesn’t seem to me that it changes the essence of "take me out" etc., pieces that are of a certain (scarce) expressive weight and remain such..

Of course, I'm approaching it from a strictly musical perspective, until proven otherwise, it seems to me that they make music, not poetry... (and here we resolve the answer to the first episode)... as for the second, being communicative is a wonderful thing, but there's a difference between being so by doing what they do, that is to say directly, of course they're communicative, it takes little... and being truly communicative by conveying something real, rather than just luring people in with easy "tributes"... the first example that comes to mind, just to aim high, is Pink Floyd, one of the most communicative bands you can imagine (there isn't a single piece of theirs, even the longest and most complex, that isn't easily assimilable even by those with little musical culture), yet in them there is real torment, a real meaning beyond the signifier, a unique and original expressive urgency... this, it should be emphasized, can be noted without even getting into the lyrics but purely from a musical standpoint... and this is what is completely lacking in the FF, (the comparison, in fact, doesn't exist but was meant to clarify), who, with their musical poverty, can claim to communicate whatever they want, but in reality they are not capable of doing so...

I totally agree with donjunio, like, about everything. So there you go.

The greatest guilt of today is letting people believe that such groups are major groups... ten years ago they would have been at most a curiosity... now they are the non plus ultra...

Yes, but Arianna, the fact that they write "hermetic" lyrics doesn't inherently make their music better... music is music, it's not words; the lyrics can complement the judgment but certainly don't overturn it... If musically they are light, insubstantial, a nice text doesn't suddenly make them interesting and creative. Furthermore, I agree (I've said it myself) that there is no real evolution from the first to the second album... they've just become more référentiel, if you will more "varied," but without a shred of real personality or artistic ambition.