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Francis, as always, doesn't miss an opportunity to be silent: first of all, the fundamental difference between American and British bands - to quote the great Jon Spencer - is that "in England, guitars are used as fashion accessories, in the States, they play them." Grunge bands certainly expressed a deep inner discomfort, but they certainly didn’t do it using the language you attribute to them; on the contrary. "Dirt" by Alice in Chains, for example, presents the nightmare of drug addiction with a series of references to Cronenberg, as in "Angry Chair" or "Sick Man." Chris Cornell also forged a vivid and intense lyricism with both Temple of the Dog and Soundgarden, not to mention Kurt Cobain or Eddie Vedder, who, despite having only a middle school education, wrote unforgettable lines to express their discomfort such as "Give me a Leonard Cohen afterworld/ So I can sigh eternally." If you refuse to listen to them because those bands dressed poorly or didn't wash their hair, that’s your business.

Well done, Antonio, you have filled a significant gap: it's curious how there are very few reviews of a band that is undoubtedly among the most important of the last 20 years.

The subject may not be the most noble, but it's a good review. Not like those of Korn...

Wonderful, there's not much else to add. "Another Day" is one of my all-time favorite tracks. Well done!

A highly overrated band, they've truly only made "slanted and enchanted"... this is a very pretentious album, range life is an insignificant and unbearable little song famous only for its lyrics.

Regarding the first point of your review, it cannot be said that cammariere hasn't been hyped: he was even a guest on Costanzo's show... maybe you don't like him because he's a bit boring.

Because if you're provoked, what do you do? Flood the site with another dozen unmissable reviews of Fausto Leali or Donatella Rettore? Come on.

Undoubtedly, Duran have had a great influence from a formal standpoint, both in terms of arrangements and Le Bon's singing. Especially because theirs was an extremely commercially successful model. But it seems to me that the artists you mention haven't reached any significant artistic heights, except for Korn and Deftones (whose singer was clearly in love with Le Bon from "the chauffeur"). But the emotional and social impact of bands like The Doors or (random name) Sex Pistols is a different story altogether. There are those who create records and those who create worlds.

Well, Francis: Duran were the symbol of 80s hedonism, the Doors of all the social changes of the late 60s. This is something that transcends mere subjective tastes. I'm not a fanatic of Morrison, especially the last albums by the Doors don't tell me much. But one cannot ignore the context in which a musician operates and the way it influences them.

Well Francis, if you say that the Durans marked an era, the Doors did it a hundred times more significantly: regardless of tastes, which are notoriously subjective. Don't you think?