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Hey, so many people have come from my area (I'm from Saronno) to see Gilbert. Honestly, I just can't picture a guitar hero like him in that Ligabue cover band place that is the Black Horse.

The reviewer literally entered the wolf's den with this review. However, someone was too offensive.

Grant is not completely wrong; after all, Cobain himself admitted that Nevermind was a commercial album. And indeed, at least formally, it is: riff - verse (clean) - chorus (distorted). The problem is that Cobain's compositional class elevates it from the status of commercial rock music to which it formally belongs. Cobain's choruses are catchy, but in a completely unprecedented and original way. Often, rock bands, when trying to write a catchy piece, end up sticking to the usual chord progressions and melodies, relying on the already heard. The Nirvana, on the other hand, were capable of creating a radio-smashing single on a half-dissonant harmonic progression. Perhaps this is one of the great merits of Nevermind: having created memorable and "commercial" rock pieces using a compositional approach typical of alternative music.

Distant memories of this movie, definitely positive. I saw it for € 6.90 somewhere, maybe I'll grab it if it comes my way again.

@happypippo: yes, in fact, if you read his posts carefully, it was pretty clear that it couldn't be Scaruffi. Anyway, that user is really crazy.

@nofake: I read your post about the meaning of "seminale" and I would say that Björk intended to use it - metaphorically - in the sense of sub 1), precisely of the seed. Among the properties ideally - or metaphorically - attributable to the seed is undoubtedly that of giving rise to further forms of life, or, in any case, of giving rise to something different from itself, albeit derived from it. If I had to ask myself whether words have an arbitrary or objective meaning, I would reply, perhaps fearing to be a bit cryptic: neither, in my opinion, words have a subjective and inter-subjective meaning. The meaning that we assign to the signifier is the result of a sort of involuntary convention among interacting subjects. The efforts of those who try to "paralyze" the meaning of a term therefore seem flawed to me. It is certainly not necessary for me to provide examples of neologisms or terms that have assumed, over time, different meanings. In the case of "seminale," despite the codified meaning not perfectly aligning with the one used by Björk, in my opinion, the use of this term has been "correct" or at least effective, as it conveyed a meaning consistent with what the reviewer meant to express, thus becoming "inter-subjective." Probably, this did not happen in your case, hence your legitimate question, which I felt compelled to define as somewhat captious because it seemed frankly unlikely that the meaning assigned by Björk to "seminale" was not clear to you. I was wrong, then.

I took a look at the comments page of the user P.Scaruffi. I must change my mind; I really think he's a fraud. In any case, anyone hiding behind that nickname suffers from serious psychological issues. Best regards, I'm off to grab a snack at a renowned rotisserie in San Jose.

Well, honestly, I doubt that Poletti would be able to discuss music with the same ease as our "Scaruffi". If it were Poletti, he would surely have mentioned Ligabue in the ranking of the best singers of all time.

Damn! I read the whole discussion, now I understand why it was so long! Scaruffi is in the house! Anyway, you've got to give him credit, if it's not the real Scaruffi, he’s certainly a very convincing impersonator. I admit I'm a gullible person, but it doesn't seem that outrageous to me that the "real" Scaruffi visits and comments on Debaser. After all, the bassist of Pandaemonium has also written on this page;-) Maybe you've somewhat mythologized this music critic, who in this thread (if it really is him) has shown to be a bit too egomaniacal and arrogant.

Long discussion instead, I haven't read it all, though. The review is very interesting. I want to contribute to the (somewhat pedantic) debate about the term "seminale." I would say that in the context of the review, it's quite clear that by "opera seminale" it refers to a work that has sown the seed (seminale, precisely) from which genres like the thriller have sprouted and flourished. Moreover, I feel like I've heard this adjective used in similar contexts before.