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But yes... appreciable Firestarter and Waiting For The Morning Light. Asshole is nice but the original is still better (although there aren't huge differences from Shirley's Temple). The cover may be tacky (how could you disagree :D), but good for him! :D

Think about how many characters you would have saved if only you had consulted Wikipedia... I did it for you... if I understood anything (but I doubt it): first comes a homonymous novel from 2003 that I haven't read, then the homonymous band from 2005 that I've never listened to, and then the homonymous film from 2006 that I've never seen. I think I understand everything now :)

Champions League Final 2007, award ceremony moment. How sad :(

Beautiful Tender and Feeling A Moment. Especially the latter, I love it. And as a Napoli fan, hearing it as a background while the Milan fans lifted the trophy was a hard blow. Fortunately, I can separate the rossonero from this wonderful song :) Nice review.

I don't rate the film; I saw it too long ago, I only remember the final scenes.

Regarding the "mummy" Tom Cruise, I read that Kubrick ultimately chose Cruise (and consequently Kidman, because it seems he initially preferred a different real couple) because he was just the right level of expressionless :)

Great! I agree with the opinions on Mann. By the way, is there anyone following Prison Break?

You're right, but I try to maintain a certain underlying diplomacy. After all, it's a simple and civil exchange of opinions (and jokes :D) between two music enthusiasts, not a face-off between Prodi and Berlusconi. Although it's not hard to imagine that, in our place, someone else wouldn't hesitate to go for each other’s throats. We are for a clean Debaser hihihi :D

Look, I raise my hands up to you regarding grunge, but leave the Manics alone :) For goodness' sake, you might not like them, but you can't say they haven't been (or aren't) diverse: hard rock-punk-stadium rock- "britpop"-elegiac pop. I think they're the only band included in the "britpop" scene with 3 hard rock albums to their name, starting with a sound that was completely different from the standards that Blur and Suede (just to mention a couple of groups considered pioneers of britpop) were offering at the same time. And, despite everything, now that britpop is dead, they are still around :)

If they eat the goals like they did last Saturday against Napoli, I doubt it :D Anyway, if we can talk about "tiredness" at this point, I must note that Alice In Chains got tired long before Nirvana's unplugged, and they proved it with Sap and Jar Of Flies... In my opinion, it was a great response to the standardization of grunge sound. Experimentation, then, is an “essential” artistic necessity (even if Ligabue might not agree); using the emergence of clones invading the charts as a justification doesn’t seem the best to me; I doubt Cobain was unaware of what he was at that moment, and of the immense impact of the Nirvana phenomenon and grunge in general. Therefore, the slew of clones was, in my opinion, a predictable consequence and circumstance that fits within the course of events (of business). With Nevermind and In Utero, he had earned well enough to afford any experimentation he wanted, and to end grunge at any moment. For better or worse, he was always the protagonist, and no one else would be like him. When I think of grunge, the first face that comes to mind is his (even though I’m not a big fan). I understand that after the boom he wanted to break away from his cliché, but the problem is ideas, and for musicians with a not particularly varied sound universe like Nirvana, the fight for “survival” started to become tougher compared to... I don’t know... Pearl Jam. The only possible solution/experimentation, in their case, was also the simplest, which was the acoustic one (with covers included). That doesn’t take away from the fact that it’s still a great album (the fact that I prefer the one by AIC doesn’t mean I despise Nirvana's). Since history repeats itself, if you pay attention, the same was done by the Foo Fighters of survivor Grohl: he standardized his sound well and then first made a double album half acoustic, and then an unplugged that you reviewed yourself. Only now good old Dave has his loyal followers, has less pressure compared to the times of Nirvana, and the specialized press is focused on other phenomena, rivalries, etc... so I imagine he doesn’t care about his cliché and any lack of ideas. As long as his wallet keeps getting fatter :)