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Francis, are you also from Cagliari? I appreciate the sardonic spirit, the polemical force, and the courage of your ideas in your review. However, I don't like the language you use: you are too aggressive, especially towards the fans, whom you lump together into one big pot (just to be clear, I am one of those you refer to as "an agitated little girl"). In my opinion, you would have made a better impression if you had focused on discussing the (supposedly, in your view) musical flaws of the band, something you only briefly mention. Since you have shown elsewhere that you are very good, I invite you to write reviews with that approach. Bye!

Francis, the idea that Cobain went to Calvin Klein fashion shows is a colossal bullshit that you must have read in some pop-culture magazine worshipping Britpop and that crap you listen to like Mojo or Select. Specifically, your review is a cute provocation, and I can even agree with the criticism of Manzarek's organ (a wooden and sweetened version of Booker T Jones's work), but the rest of the critique is, as has been rightly pointed out, an adolescent outburst.

Hi satanic. Without a Sound is, along with Where You Been, the album I've listened to the most by the Dinosaur, and until I discovered their earlier works, it was among my favorites by J. Although I'm very fond of it, I think it's inferior to those from the past: especially the guitar parts seem a bit too unruly, even though I neglected to mention "Grab It," which is a perfect track in its conciseness. I recommend you get the other albums by the Dinosaur, and you won't be disappointed. Bye!

Always unmissable open mind...well done!

A group that perhaps acted at the wrong time, when rock was really "off," and bands like Prodigy and Limp Bizkit were thriving. It's a shame; some things really deserve to be reassessed. Leo wasn't particularly gifted as a singer, however: with a real vocalist, they would have had superior melodic impact. An album I would recommend one hundred percent. Well done, Don!

This was perhaps the epitaph of grunge, the last masterpiece born from the historical core of Seattle. I think it’s much more varied compared to Dirt, which certainly boasted a larger number of instant classics. But this is where Layne and Cantrell pushed beyond, forging an album that calling sick is a pure understatement. Frogs in particular sends chills down the spine, as Layne whispers with his faint voice, "What does friend mean to you / a word so wrongfully abused".....

By "self-indulgent," I mean an approach that sometimes puts one's own problems at the center of the narrative, with texts that are extremely didactic and emphatic in this sense (phrases like "for a minute there I lost myself" or "this is my final fit, my final bellyache") and pretentious in that it believes it's laying them out with innovative and intriguing sound language (like in "Paranoid Android"). A whole different story is the sound and lyrical minimalism of "Subterranean Homesick Alien." In my opinion, the right combination of emotional pathos and stylistic innovation is achieved in "Amnesiac," now that's a 5-star album. Of course, for me.

Alex77, the relationship between Pearl Jam and grunge, I don't think, is limited only to clothing. Grunge was a movement much broader than how it was portrayed in the newspapers, and it cannot be denied that Stone Gossard was one of the prime movers. Regarding the relationship between marketing and mainstream, it's indisputable that the PJ were among the very few to step outside the MTV logic by not making videos, and they lost quite a few million in album sales because of it: we all know that MTV in the '90s could determine platinum records (just ask people like Soul Asylum or Offspring). Vedder and the gang flooded the market with releases, but these are absolutely unnecessary: they can only be bought by completists, not by the core of their fans. That said, I still haven't listened to the latest album; honestly, it's been a while since I've grown tired of them, even though they were one of the bands I loved the most, and "Vitalogy" remains one of the albums I've cherished the most in my life.

Their best album by far.

Never heard of them, but I like the references you suggest and the way you introduce the artist. I'm downloading it right away!