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The concert was ridiculously bad last night at Bloom... they played for almost an hour (too long for them), they were wasted and ridiculously serious (I mean, Marco was playing the guitar hero, you know? He was doing blues scales, he was channeling Ritchie Blackmore, pretending to play well... come on, the Wolfango shouldn’t play like this... the guitar was in tune, not a single note was off, ugh... and where's the no-wave??), I yawned a lot, they had a pathetic setlist: they didn’t play Uva Passa, Alligatori, Summer Holydays... they opened with Prima (come on, how do you start a concert with Prima?? and then they played it horribly, super slow, they’re the only band in the world that plays live slower than on the record)... then I lost it when they did the cover of All Tomorrows Parties: naaaahhh, really? them, who have made ignorance their banner, paying tribute to their ancestors (and in a pathetic way, I might add)! Anyway, Bruno wasn’t there, Marco was doing everything practically: kazoo, guitar (damn! I wanted the distorted bass!), and he played a kick drum with his foot (Batman and Robin without Brunone makes no sense :-((). Sofia was bouncing and sitting, getting back up and starting to bounce again, then sitting down again... no, they disappointed me a bit, but there were some nice moments (OZIO!), but the best show was given by the audience (at the end of Verità a guy shouted "E BASTAAAAA!!!")... too many applauses, though... I think a band like that doesn't want to be applauded; it’s not in their nature... of course, if they start to act like virtuosos...

Intergalactic Space Tree: many prestigious music sites don’t talk about it, but debaser does: and this automatically makes debaser the most useful and comprehensive music site in Italy. There's no escaping it.

"Misera misera" for a classic from the '80s.

a delightfully onomatopoeic review, an eclectic and bubbly album: both are entertaining.

Very good. Perfect receipt. This is what I’m missing.

I've never heard of these at all (not even mentioned). But where do you dig up such gems?? :-)

Well, they are famous also because of certain winks from the 80s (like "And She Was")... anyway, I believe their proposal was one of the most innovative and influential: my idea is that the whole new-wave trend that got contaminated with funk and other exotic rhythms owes a lot to the Talking Heads, including Devo (who debuted a year after the TH, if I remember correctly)... so, it seems to me that Devo develops that "mechanical," stuttering, detached, angular, neurotic rock that TH inaugurated with their magical '77...

But do they only annoy you with the TH or also with the whole disco-punk line (Blondie and similar) and funk-punk (Gang of Four and similar)?

The Feelies don’t seem that similar to Talking Heads to me :-/

Well, a pretty poor review this time... what a shame, a missed opportunity... and then, generally speaking, in this album the JA stick to the song format, albeit in their baroque way...