Come Ti Va in Riva Alla Citta [Import]

1. Come Ti Va

2. Weekend

3. Quartiere Otto

4. Rock in LA

5. Chi Ha Paura Della Notte

6. Indians

7. Poeta Mancato

8. Meno Male Che Ci Sei

Tracks:

Come Ti Va
Weekend
Quartiere Otto
Rock in LA
Chi Ha Paura Della Notte
Indians
Poeta Mancato
Meno Male Che Ci Sei

Customer Reviews:

With this album I met PFM.......2002-10-20

This album has been unfairly undergraded in prior reviews here published. I was introduced to PFM's music with this album, when I visited Italy for the first time in 1981. I cherish this album. It may not be the progressive PFM of the 70s but please note that this PFM was also changing, as much as the rest of the world was. This is more commercial pop, "pop for the masses". However, the lyrics and the music are neat. I love Patrick Djivas' bass technique and sound, it's awesome. "Meno male che ci sei" is carved deeply in my mind as a beautiful love elegy.
If you are curious to know PFM, I advise you start with this album or its sequence, the unknown "PFM?, PFM!" (1984). Then proceed to PFM from the 70s and 90s. That way you all be able to understand and better gauge this album which I insist, has had very unfair critics

Completely different direction-pop.......2000-02-19

This album is completely different than any of the earlier works. It is kind of along the lines of when PFM was backing up an pop Italian singer. It isn't very good pop music either. One song does start out promising, but that fades by the end of the tune. It is the only high point on the alburm. Sometimes, an album will have one song worth recording before you dump it. I don't think this one song would make the cut.....

For unconditional fans only..........1999-09-18

From early seventies till the release of Ulisse in 1998, PFM has released many albums, some that are considered real masterpieces (Storia di un Minuto, Per un Amico/Photos of Ghosts, L'Isola di Niente/The world became the world, to name the most impressive), and a couple of albums that are not so impressive. "Come ti va..." belongs to the second category. I still wonder how the band that was able to make one of the best prog albums of all times (Per un amico/Photos of Ghosts), an album so complex and sophisticated with magic at every turn, how the same band could come up with "Come ti va...", a very disappointing one. OK, with PFM every next album is very different from the previous ones. But with this one where are the inspiration, the sophistication and the magic gone ? One of very very few PFM's CDs I must admit I can hardly listen to. Maybe, in a way, the ancester of Ulisse; go with "Ulisse" instead, at least the magic is back, and some tracks are excellent. Ciao Georgio