COME TI VA IN RIVA ALLA CITTÀ

Warning: this is not a prog album! After "Suonare suonare" Flavio Premoli left the band and PFM went on looking for an Italian way to AOR roc". Franz Di Cioccio became the "front man" with Walter Calloni on drums on stage.

«"Come ti va in riva alla città" contained a different musical language, maybe less poetic than the previous LP. Lyrics told about sub-urban stories: they were about young people who cannot get used to social reality which wants everybody to be homogenous; lyrics told also about young people who want to be protagonist in their life, in a good or bad way. The LP atmosphere was very well represented by its cover. As always critics were different, even if we had a great success during the Italian tour. Di Cioccio's front man role was giving the band a lot of energy» (from the official website of the band).

Lyrics have never been PFM strength and I prefer Franz Di Cioccio as a drummer. The music here is far away from the mood of early seventies albums: just some good simple pop-rock songs like "Come ti va", "Quartiere otto", "Chi ha paura della notte" and "Indians" to save (anyway the songs used to be dilated and improved in the live performances to let the band show his great musicianship). The rest is to forget. An album only for die-hard fans and collectors!