Piero Scaruffi

One forgets that Scaruffi treats rock music as art and filters only the essentials. Complaining about "negative" ratings of one's favorites or bestsellers, alongside the crowd, is more superficial than the rule (which everyone misinterprets) that Scaruffi listens to some albums only once because there’s nothing else to understand. He remains almost always consistent with his thought, and his criteria for judgment are different from any other critic: a 6 from him is practically equivalent to a 70 in today's world, and a 6.5/7 is an album of absolute value. I think I have read hundreds and hundreds of his pages, learning a lot and, why not, teaching much as well. His values are subjective, and when he was writing his notes or creating the consultable database in ftp or the website, he didn’t have all this traffic of people following him. Believing he’s a blowhard just because he has opinions different from yours makes me question who the real blowhard is. zot.