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I feel like sharing some impressions I had while seeing them live as well... I was in the front row, by the way, not that it was anything special since the venue wasn’t exactly packed. Anyway, I don’t know about now, but back then they were really down-to-earth, signing autographs, taking photos, chatting, and they were packing up by themselves. And the bassist seems to have a particular preference for polo shirts buttoned all the way up.

Interesting! As I often say, sometimes I also go to see.

The text of "A Sangue Freddo" struck me, almost like an invective, too bad the music doesn't go hand in hand. Here too I read "ferocia" and "noise," which I find wasted words; but I want to trust and I'll try to delve deeper before passing judgment. The fact that they are perceived as a "cultured" group doesn’t seem absurd to me: the very mechanism of citation implies it, especially when it’s not strictly functional to the discourse or when it’s not "specialistic," like, say, Tarantino who throws around pop culture and b-movies that no one has ever heard of. It’s also true that there are quotes I find much more fitting than Baudelaire, like Celentano and De Gregori, national treasures (the latter, the former I'm not sure how much), presumably less "high" and more substantial, let’s say. Anyway, what seems to be missing is rather in the music, not in the words. @Fiquata: honestly, how many people have you heard talk about Ken Saro-Wiwa? How many do you think the Teatro Degli Orrori would like to reach have read anything by Ken Saro-Wiwa? These are issues that the system imposes silence on, or at least distance, so it’s no wonder that those who notice it come across as "cultured" or "alternative." However, I think artists could take a step further; for example, I’ve hardly ever encountered a group that talked about the mafia and camorra.

What Sting quotes in his latest album... I've always loved Calvino, but I’m missing so many chapters of his bibliography. This is one, le Città Invisibili is another, at least I'd like to manage to read the latter sooner or later.

No no, I'm not turning my nose up...great loss for the Bad Seeds, and it’s not even clear why this departure happened. I believe Mick Harvey is an exceptional arranger and co-writer, but I've never listened to anything exclusively his, only his collaborations with Cave.

One of the most influential bands out there, it must have been great. Anyway, I actually learned "Cult Of Personality" for real, not with Guitar Hero (after all, I don't think I'm a "younger" one).

Great Japan, great bassist (and not only) he. They were all great musicians, just think that Karn does what he does, Sylvian too, and Barbieri is in Porcupine Tree. As a solo artist, I've listened to little of his work, but excellent reviews, technical.

Yeah, I liked this album back when I was listening to a lot of rapcore. I would also label it as cross-over between genres, however, the review seems alright to me apart from a few exaggerations; I haven't really followed them much since then, but I believe this is their best work.