u/DoomedPinnacle

Niente, adoro questi ragazzi qui e volevo condividerli, nella speranza che qualche fan dei Death, Atheist o Cynic dia loro una possibilità e gli compri il disco.

I think this song is great, really original Guitar work (It reminds me of Death) and unique chorus.

It's one of their Hidden gems, imo

Scrivo questo post un po' per sfogo notturno personale, un po' come spunto di dialogo.

Premetto che: ho un gruppo di amici a cui voglio molto bene e ci vediamo e ho conosciuto diverse persone nel corso della mia vita, questo poiché sono sempre stato attivo sia online, condividendo la mia passione per la musica nonché tante altre passioni che ho, sia offline, grazie anche all' aver frequentato l'università ed essermi laureato e ad aver svolto alcuni lavori, ora sto cercando un impiego "serio", diciamo.

Ho una storia familiare non facile, che però ho accettato e va bene così, non importano più le cose passate.

Però, mi sento molto solo, come da titolo, un po' perché ho praticamente tutti amici fidanzati, soprattutto quelli che vedo spesso, il che comporta ad uscire sempre "tra noi" e stare sempre "tra noi", il che mi piace moltissimo come tempo di qualità, ma allo stesso tempo vorrei vivermi una relazione anche io, vorrei finalmente - dopo il percorso di miglioramento che ho fatto - poter progettare qualcosa di concreto.

Al momento la mia vita ruota attorno ad ascoltare dischi, suonare, vedere film, ogni tanto giocare a qualcosa, uscire con gli amici o anche solo, insomma tutte attività che mi piacciono ma che non riempiono un bisogno di dare e ricevere affetto in modo diverso dalla semplice amicizia e appunto giustamente i miei amici le loro storie le hanno, non possono né devono pensare alla mia, quando torno a casa torno nel mio mondo e loro nel loro.

Oltre a ciò non nego assolutamente che la vita offra molto altro e sento di aver trovato, nel tempo, quell'altro che mi fa stare bene.

Spesso mi guardo e mi chiedo se cambierà mai qualcosa.

Ho fatto - e faccio - percorsi psicologici e quant'altro, per cui non mi sento in pericolo di vita, non sento che il mondo sia solo brutto e negativo, mi piacciono le persone, mi piace stare in sto pianeta blu in mezzo al nulla, sono davvero contento di stare qui, ora - anni fa non era così -, però allo stesso tempo mi sento terribilmente "condannato" ad una vita di solitudine, senza persone con cui poter davvero condividere la mia quotidianità, senza poter esprimere parti di me che ho come tutti.

È probabile che cancelli questo post poiché un po' mi vergogno pure a scriverlo, però vorrei solo che in qualche modo venissi notato.

I momenti peggiori, per me, sono quelli in cui ho bisogno di parlare anche di cose leggere, scrivo ad alcuni amici e passano quelle ore di vuoto in cui - giustamente eh - vivono la propria vita, hanno già le persone a cui dedicare il proprio tempo, le proprie energie, ed inevitabilmente io sono meno indispensabile ed è, ripeto, sacrosanto, poiché una persona non può esserci sempre, io stesso non ci posso essere sempre.

Ogni tanto, però, mi sale questa sensazione terribile di rassegnazione, mi viene da pensare "vedi, sono tutti a viversi le priorie vite" e la mia vita sono davvero solo dischi, passioni, progetti futuri nei quali però credo solo in parte.

C'è questa ansia che permea tutto, come se ripeto, fossi un accessorio per molte altre persone e mancasse quella persona speciale, a cui potermi dedicare, per la quale esserci e che ricambi.

Purtroppo, a causa della suddetta storia familiare e di altre cose subite da piccolo - essere quello sfigatello alle elementari, appassionarmi di cose di nicchia alle medie e superiori, ecc... - ho sempre avuto poca autostima, ma nell'ultimo anno anche quella pian piano è salita, accetto i miei problemi e li affronto.

Pur non essendo un modello, mi guardo e alla fine vado bene, sono una persona come tante con un corpo come tanti, e non rimpiango il passato perché quel passato è stato fondamentale per costruire chi sono.

Ci sono giornate però, serate soprattutto, in cui sopraggiunge questa solitudine dolorosa, che provoca un magone veramente forte.

Ho vissuto un lungo periodo senza social né altro, per focalizzarmi di di me ancora di più, ci sono tornato da poco, poiché ormai avevo capito quello che dovevo capire con quel lungo periodo di distacco totale da tutti i social.

Mi è venuto anche in mente, ora, che a volte mi sento proprio "stupido", come se fossi un inetto incapace di qualsiasi cosa, inferiore a priori, questa insicurezza coincide proprio con questa solitudine, come se in qualche modo boh, fossi un giullare.

Grazie a chi leggerà, scusate se il post è stato un po' confuso e magari noioso, ho solo voluto esprimere un po' di cose.

I had this "past memory" of seeing a clip of someone singing Another Day in an italian talent show, but sadly i never found the clip as the video is no longer available on Youtube.

Then i forgot about It until today so i searched, and nothing, so i start looking for old Facebook posts and found the name of the guy, who is also the one who uploaded the video, which is pretty long because it's actually not just the clip but even an interview and stuff like that, which isn't related to Dream Theater.

I'll translate the part regarding Dream Theater, so y'all can roughly understand what's going on, it's pretty funny and i think might be a piece of DT's related stuff, lemme know if it's OT and i'll delete the post.

FROM 40 seconds:

Giuseppe: Hi Mara, Enrico, Anna, Elio

Anna: Wow

Giuseppe: I'm Giuseppe Binetti, i'm here at X Factor for... the launch of the new elegant Italian Rock's icon (literally is "faccia - face" which can mean the new "icon" of a genre)

Elio: ...alright

Giuseppe: I feel like a fantastic truth in this stupid display window called reality. We usually surround ourselves with "apparences", so i'm a real, humble and sincere person and this is what i want to show to people.

Mara: Geez, you said nothing! Real, humble and sincere, man, you said that like you wanted...

Giuseppe: I-I-I am like that, down to earth (he says "pane pane vino al vino" which is an italian way of saying down to earth)

Mara: Good, you're also an author? Do you write, play?

Giuseppe: Yes

Mara: What do you play?

Giuseppe: Guitar

Mara: Guitar... and you write your own songs?

Giuseppe: Yes

Mara: What are you playing for us?

Giuseppe: Another Day by Dream Theater and Con il nastro rosa di Lucio Battisti

Mara: alright, go ahead! (then they start laughing for some reason)

Giuseppe then start singing another day 1:30

Mara: Go with Nastro rosa

Giuseppe sings that at 1:53 until 2:1o

Giuseppe: I lost my number

Mara: hahaha i don't know if you lost just that... Elio

Elio: You amazed me when you said what you wanted to do but then it's not that simple, sadly (In Italy we say "tra il dire e il fare c'è di mezzo il mare", which is literally "between said and done there's the sea", for things that you want to do but you're not able to do, Elio said "tra il dire e il fare c'è di mezzo un mare enorme" enorme means huge, like the sea Giuseppe has to cross to be able to perform at high level is really huge)

Anna: I'm always the one who search for anemotion and i couldn't feel that, i'll tell you the truth.

Enrico: Big presence in terms of look and physique but everything else i still se a little bit of frailty from a vocal point of view, i see more of a womanizer (animale da rimorchio means someone who is good looking and can get many girls... honestly, it's not a nice thing to say, expecially in TV) than a showman (animale da palcoscenico means a performer with great stage presence, Enrico chose "animale da rimorchio" to mirror "animale da palcoscenico", which is alright to say, Dickinson is an "animale da palcoscenico" for example) so for me it's a no.

Elio: For me is no

Mara: Tatangelo (anna)

Anna: For me is no too

Mara: For me is no.

Giuseppe: Alright Enrico you called me "Animale da?" scarico? (he was asking which term enrico used after Animale, which is rimorchio and not scarico as Giuseppe wrongly recalled

Enrico: Not "scarico"

Giuseppe: How did you called me?

Enrico: I don't remember

Elio: "Rimorchio"

Giuseppe: For me... i call you a B-tier TV Host

Enrico: "Animale" it's not offensive (to be fair, depends, going to someone and just say "animale" is offensive, animale da rimorchio might be offensive aswell, of course with friends you can freely use these terms as a joke, but let's say that "animale" is not offensive only if you put a real qualiy after, like "animale da palcoscenico" which means being a really good performer)

Giuseppe: No, it was offensive, for me it was offensive

Enrico: Sorry, Vasco Rossi is a "animale da palcoscenico" (which again, he said that Giuseppe could be a womanizer because of his look, not that he is a great performance and Enrico is now saying that "animale" was offensive, when it was "da rimorchio" and he never addressed that)

Giuseppe: If i say that you're not a TV Host or a singer? You come here and judge an artist

Enrico: it's a matter of italian language, sorry (like saying, "you didn't understand what i said)

We are now at 3:40

Giuseppe: Maybe the problem is that in Italy Rock music is still misunderstood, i mean, Dream Theater, have you ever listened to Dream Theater? I guess not

Mara: We were waiting for you

Giuseppe: Sure! In my opinion you never listened to Dream Theater.

Mara: As i said, we were waiting for you

Giuseppe: Today i made you listen to them. Mara, i'm sorry but you can just do promotions-

Mara: Be careful, Be really careful and mind your own business, you came here, you sang- listen "ciccio" (which can be both positive if said with a funny tone, like "buddy" but also negative if said with an angry tone like you're asking for attention like "oh ciccio, listen to me and stop what you're doing"

Giuseppe: I have my Curriculum, i won many contests... Elio, being here in front of you saddens me, as you're a person who made non-commercial music

Elio: I didn't said you suck, this performance didn't impress me, what should i do?

Anna: Critics exist, in life they're not only here (classic italian bullshit, you say "i don't like that" and people go "yeah out there is stuff even worse" or "i did this but they did that", it's one of the most annoying things you can say during an argument, i mean, i'm here and i talk about here, who cares about what's out there or about others, in italy this way of arguing is called "benaltrismo")

Giuseppe: Yeah but that someone tell me... i feel like you're making fun of me, there are some insults and how can i get 4 no?

Mara: so think about that

Giuseppe: It seems impossible

Elio: What you did here, sadly, is worth 4 no

Giuseppe: But i felt offended

Elio: We're here waiting for someone really strong

Giuseppe: i feel like that, one day you'll hear about me

Then there's a little "solo" moment with Giuseppe

Giuseppe: These 4, i can destroy them, they don't understand shit about Rock music so they didn't know what to say when i came here, i'll let X factor go, because if there's this kind of people that thinks they're experts it's not worth it.

Here we are, hope people are enjoying this thing, of course there's no offense or anything against anyone, it's just a funny moment that happened in italian TV, which is however full of... let's say "funny" moments.

Don't get me wrong, i love their reunion albums, expecially Brave New World and Final Frontier, but i think each record contains at least 2 outstanding tracks (like The Legacy and Lord of Light from AMOLAD, Hell on Earth, Writing on the Wall and title track from Senjutsu, Empire of the Clouds, title track and Eternity from Book, ecc...) so i'm not saying this in a sort of "they were better", 'cause that's not the case.

However, i do enjoy Blaze as an artist, both with and without Maiden, and there are times where i feel the "urge" to go listening X Factor and Virtual XI, go watching YT videos about that era, play a few tracks on guitar, and so on.

It's a fascinating era, short but full of "odd" stuff and contraddictions - and drama - , but most importanlty what i enjoy the most is Blaze trying his best, you can hear his passion and love for Maiden's music, even when the crew was against him by not turning on the guitar volumes in the monitors, or when most of the bandmates threatened to leave the band to force Harris into firing Blaze.

But then the music was indeed odd, they had something to say, X Factor is in my opinion an underrated masterpiece, there are a few fillers but overall a great gloomy and dark record while Virtual XI could've been a great almost "Progressive" record, with most of the tracks being different from the standard "E minor classic Metal", but the band gave up during writing process, i think, cause it feels rushed, unfinished and unpolished, i think they never completed the songs as they were supposed to.

However, the creativity was there and Virtual XI in particular is full of good ideas, even the infamous Angel... works way better in the radio edit version - still the worst track on the record, but it's not as bad as the album version -.

Am i the only one with this strange "fascination" for this era?