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Beautiful review, clear, clean, coherent, and with a touch of poetry as well.
I really like Soldini, more than anyone else, I believe "Pane e tulipani" from the year 2000.

Dear Odradek, good to see you again. In that passage, I refer to certain critics who called the film a neo-Marxist work, just like that, quite bluntly. I respect the idea of those who argue for the presence of a neo-Marxist element within the film, a psychological, and therefore subjective, reworking of the "class struggle," but it seems reductive to me to read the film as an entirely Marxist work. In my opinion, there are two different nuances, two distinct depths of interpretation. We are still talking about trifles on the slippery surface of a shadowy filmmaker! As for Stoney, I don't know, you judge for yourself... it makes me laugh a bit; for some time now, my reviews seem to be all case studies for the Accademia della Crusca.

And I can only thank you for this discussion... never has so much importance been given to my frivolous words. I won’t go into the specifics of syntax (you surely know more than I do... and I'm not being ironic) nor the meaning (it's an evocation, and each person can draw out whatever they want). I would just like to remind you that sometimes certain pages are written while listening to a melody, whistling it, letting the sense of the music dictate the words, even if they are wrong. It seems to me that this sketch, nothing more, has also been appreciated by some, and that is enough for it to have achieved its goal: to bring to light, out of curiosity, charm, or who knows what else, knowledge of the album. All in all, a good album. The breaking of the rules is the foundational principle of the game. This review was written not to exhaust the subject, just like that, as a game.

Tourists are far worse than irrationality... they are the perversion of rationality.

A useful review: for once, a useful review that helps shed light on a corner of Italian cinema, one of many that have fallen into oblivion. Good Pol.

I must denounce a certain (erroneous) musical prejudice towards those who appeal to young girls. But Cremonini, who is terrible at playing and terrible at playing any instrument, among the commercial – beach or park songs on a Sunday afternoon – is one of the few who stands out. I would go further, Cremonini has an above-average compositional talent (of course, the average is low..) a knack for writing melodies that positions him, if nothing else, as the heir to a certain tradition of Italian melodic song, which, for the ecology of music, deserves to be saved and continue. He has written some beautiful songs. Then, of course, he pays for his winks to the crowd, winks that create around him a detestable and hypocritical aura of prejudice.

Well, Tom Waits certainly doesn't need my positive opinion; he’s someone who always manages to communicate, to go beyond. It’s better that I compliment Zaireeka for this imaginative review which, far from being gratuitous, accurately traces (inevitably hazy) outlines of Waits’s work without excessive zeal. We need many reviews like this. Excellent.

Woodstock, don't take it as an affront or an act of courage towards anyone; my observation is pro-DeBaser... because this site should be a place for in-depth analysis and, why not, valid impressions. Of course, I wouldn't have written what I wrote - to say that a review was superficial is honest, but honesty doesn't redeem the act - I would still give you a low rating because aside from the lack of depth (as you said, I could have read it on Del Rock..) there's also no sense of engagement in what you write. I repeat: nothing personal, no a priori judgment, I've read other reviews of yours, like those on the Stones, and I found them really good, objective.

It deserves a 5 in terms of genre albums: among Pop albums, in fact, one of the closest to perfection. The Abba managed to churn out catchy hits with each record, featuring a voluptuous structure that, as you rightly say, cannot fail to engage even the most reluctant listener, always at a respectable level, even in the worst dance perversions of the '80s. Amen.

Nannini has done nothing but good for the Italian music scene; at the very least, she has made us all have fun. Moreover, she is among those few renowned artists who, when you hear them "live," don't scare you. Sure, not extraordinary merits, but dignified ones. Reviews would be better written about works that are actually known. Writing just for the sake of writing helps no one; it leads to superficial opinions, more so than an opinion is already by nature superficial and partial.