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Oh my God!!! I wrote Bancks... I meant Banks...

An example. Did you know that the intro of Watcher of the Skies was born as a simple sequence of chords (used by Banks before the start of concerts to test the Mellotron's ability to stay in tune?

I take this opportunity to point out to all the fans of Genesis during the Peter Gabriel era (which I am one of) a book I'm reading these days, "Genesis - The Prog Years". Really beautiful and exciting, packed with anecdotes and analyses of the individual tracks from the first six albums based on listening sessions with the band members and the author of the book (Giammetti). Aloha.

I've finished listening to it... More attentively, obviously (I had already listened to it).

I’ve finished listening to it. At times it seems like a less original, less "spontaneous," and more hyper-produced version of the tracks from the early Mercury Rev (Yerself is Steam).

Very beautiful, it's a shame that it's a bit spiteful (but this makes it very unique and is part of its beauty) and poorly recorded.

However, veryyyy beautiful the review

I want to add something about the ending of TTOL, which is enigmatic and indecipherable in pure zen koan style... Nevertheless, that ending also hides a great banality that almost all of us forget. That is, each of us is responsible for an entire universe, made up of people we have known, places we have been, real or "dreamed," and that entire universe could very well be the only thing that exists. This is what I believe Malick wants to convey with his "disturbing" cinema, marked by "gnostic Christianity" and similar themes (the same philosophy, in my opinion, advanced by a great writer like J.L. Borges)...

These days, I’ve been listening a lot to the second album by a certain Dimartino, "Sarebbe bello non lasciarsi mai, ma abbandonarsi ogni tanto è utile." In a YouTube video, this person introduces a song by quoting Lauzi and the response he gave when asked why he always writes sad songs: "Because when I'm happy, I go out." Probably, Malick, when he's carefree, goes out and doesn’t stay home thinking about the scripts for his films. I admit that TTOL is a film that can only divide opinions. Years ago, I bought a little book titled "Lo Zen a fumetti." It’s full of cartoons where clichés abound, and the "truths" stated are so profound that they can only seem obvious. Malick's philosophy goes in that direction, and he adds "only" his cinema made up of natural light shots that attempt to evoke the deepest, rhapsodic, elusive images of our thoughts and memories (for those who have, even from a distance, a life story similar to that told in the film). Beautiful review.

The album title and the band's name aren't bad at all (and neither is the sound of certain songs, even if it's of a "derivative originality" (wonderful oxymoron, how clever I am....) and not very spontaneous.