francis

Discomfort, depression, nightmares, and malaise. I don't know about your life, but in mine, there's definitely much more than this.

What did all the Pearl Jam, Alice In Chains, Mudhoney-style groups manage to say together?..."I'm pissed off," "Life is shit," this is their message. Damn, what artists. Thank goodness britpop came along to sweep away the flannel shirts and teach these American bands to wash. Sobriety doesn’t mean having nothing to say; you don’t have to self-mutilate to be an artist.

beppe83 what do those bands need to learn? a lot of things, a lot of things.

Perhaps you have too much American earwax in your ears, but I remind you that Britpop, when it comes down to it, was the last great movement to give a voice to bands coming from the indie circuits; they were all groups, including Blur, signed to independent labels... and it was a phenomenon. I think anyone in Italy who plays in a band would sell their soul to the devil for this kind of visibility: Britpop, a term that I still find odious (what the hell do Pulp have in common with Oasis or Verve, for example), legitimized the indie mentality to the mainstream audience and showed that it’s not true at all that to be independent you have to be a bunch of pathetic autistics who dress like crap... Jarvis Cocker and Damon Albarn, who in terms of cultural and musical background know more than all the Seattle bands put together, presented "Top Of The Pops" to demonstrate that you can have talent and still be cool. This is a lesson from which I personally have learned a lot.

But maybe in 1995 you weren't born yet, however, I want to inform you that what you described in the excerpt I shared was EXACTLY WHAT THE BLUR WERE CONTESTING; "The Great Escape" is A SATIRE of that youth and the way the media manipulate generational phenomena at will, IT WAS A SATIRE. It's incredible that there are still people who haven't realized this...even the use of certain musical references and others is perfectly intentional. But have you ever listened to the other Blur albums? "Modern Life Is Rubbish"? The self-titled one? The truth is that they were far too sharp and intelligent to be understood by everyone, in fact, it's no coincidence that there are still people who confuse one thing for another, just like there are still people who believe that Duran Duran were a boy band like 'N Sync.

"In conclusion, 'The Great Escape' is the British equivalent of 'Nord sud ovest est' by 883. An extraordinary, unintentional sociological snapshot of the brain-dead youth in the country that buys it en masse. Specifically, of certain middle-class twenty-something posers and aspiring ones from the suburbs: those who wait for the weekend to drop the ecstasy (see 'Entertain me'), who are dressed in designer clothes from head to toe, who spend their sad summers between Ibiza, beer, and Coke trying to hook up."

Tegucigalpa, you really didn’t understand a damn thing about this record, neither you nor all those who keep lumping everything together. I imagine you wrote this review in the wake of mine about the Doors (and the first half of your review suggests that this is exactly the case), so what you've written is pretty much pointless.

fucking group

You know how it is, it's not easy to respond to everyone word for word while also receiving messages like this from Maurizio Testi "TESTA DI CAZZO TI AMMAZZO!!!!!!!!!CHIEDI PUBBLICAMENTE SCUSA O TI VENGO A PRENDERE DOVE STAI STAI E TI ELIMINO FISICAMENTE...COGLIONE!!!!!"

Look, I've already answered your questions, I can't help it if you pretend not to understand... enough with these mental gymnastics, today is not the day!