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Sure, Randolph, I really love the Germs, Black Flag, Dead Kennedys (ideologically at the opposite end of Fear :-D), and then there were also the great East Coast hc bands (Bad Brains, Minor Threat, Misfits)... Let's just say that Fear were the craziest and most eclectic of the era (early '80s)!!!

Ah, I see... it was just a curiosity: I asked you because generally people from the North-East talk about "muli" and "mule" to refer to guys and girls... Anyway, great Lee Ving!!! Not by chance, buddy of the great and missed John Belushi... Bye. :-)

Maurizio Testi, are you Venetian by any chance?

Ostia! That one was mine, the one by the Fear! Anyway… Great review and awesome album. If there's something that really lifts my spirits, it’s the Fear. I always listen to them to cheer myself up. It’s 26 minutes of delirium. I regret never having been able to see them live. Tabba, the Adolescents were cute, but the Fear were on another planet, 10 years ahead of their time, 4 badass musicians! Not only did they kick ass, but their sound was also avant-garde hardcore. I mean, where do you find a hardcore band in '82 with a rhythm section that blasted all those syncopations, a singer/stevedore who looked more like James Brown than Darby Crash, and two guitars open to any kind of acrobatics? The Adolescents could only dream of that kind of creativity, even though "I hate children" is really something. The Fear were catchy, violent, neurotic, experimental all at once. And those lyrics!!! Stuff to give chills even to the worst squadrist of the Ventennio! "New york is allright if you're homosexuals!" Cheers. :-)