easycure

You don't realize the enormous contradiction in wanting to set the complexity of the "inevitable transience of human existence" to a music that is ultra-formalized, ultra-canonical, and never free in its expression? One of the worst groups in the history of rock, with ever less doubt ;-)

I personally know the May I Refuse and also the Velvet Score from Black Candy. We all used to hang out (and work) at the pub La Mula in Sesto Fiorentino. Unfortunately, they evicted us to build a house; it was paradise: there was this huge field behind the pub where in the summer you could literally do whatever you wanted... unfortunately, a thing of the past :-)

Great film: nihilistic and terribly unsettling in its juxtaposition of surrealism and hyperrealism in an utterly amoral way. Even better than Korine and Larry Clark, it has a more expressive style.

great MIR

Has it changed science fiction?? But where... then it really changed it much more than Star Wars, to tie into the discussion from another review. This is nothing more than a decent action film with some clever philosophical references more or less connected to the works of the poor Dick (poor because he’s been too plundered and misinterpreted).

For once, I’m extraordinarily and completely in agreement with Dave ;-) ..absolutely terrible. However, this album seems to me, in the end, the least worst..

Well... for me, the most striking case of commercial success that has gone down in history is precisely "Dark Side of the Moon" :-) ..of course, we can debate as much as we want about its qualities, but the fact remains that those 28 million copies sold are quite staggering... who knows, who knows ;-D

great Mr. Sfascia! It’s been a while since I’ve listened to Unsane. I’ll gladly give it a listen. Regards to the max!

But precisely, in your first comment you talk about arrangements as such, in the second you speak of expressive solutions. These are two very different things: since the arrangement as such is obviously a purely formal device, and it is as such that, for me, it is not fundamental at all. For me, an arrangement is valuable when it has an expressive meaning; otherwise, simply a matter of logic, it is merely unnecessary formal exhibitionism. In the second post, however, you give it a different meaning, and this makes me realize that our divergence has mostly been a matter of misunderstanding. As for the Arcade Fire discussion, I do not grasp the meaning of their arranging choices, a meaning that seems purely self-referential, thus valuable as such and therefore predominantly formal. Regarding enduring quality over time, we agree. But the albums that withstand the test of time are, I think logically as well as historically undeniable, the most revolutionary and/or the most influential ones, characteristics that often go hand in hand, or those that have "made history" in purely commercial terms, which, you will agree, do not necessarily withstand the test of time for qualitative reasons... indeed... so the endurance over time can be effective or not, but in any case, it does not seem to me that the Arcade Fire can achieve such an objective.

X joe: you keep bringing up comparisons with neoclassicism and baroque, and I admit, they accurately reflect your point of view :-) ... However, when it comes to rock (as well as to many other genres and forms of art), I like to think that frivolity, formalism, self-referentiality, and revivalism are all dreadful aesthetic flaws (which unfortunately postmodernism often elevates indiscriminately to merits), hence my reflections ;-)