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1	* HarsherInHindsight:
2	** Their 1993 song "Sunset Boulevard", which mocks football players at the end of their careers, urging them to stop playing (with lyrics like "a fat and slow guy, who came to sunset boulevard") is sometimes used by some fans in reference to [=EelST=] themselves, feeling that their output from the 2000s onwards does not hold a candle to their earlier material (to be fair, their first albums are definitely a ToughActToFollow). The band somewhat acknowledged this, saying that they will retire after 2017. (And then pushed the date forward to 2018, another move that alienated some fans.)
3	** Their 2004 single "Oratorium" mentions in the spoken intro someone named "Kevin Pirola" who apparently was the one who wrote the song we're going to listen. [=EeLST=] most likely chose the name just because it sounded funny, but there was actually someone named Kevin Pirola, a football fan who was accused of stabbing a fan of a rival team in 2016 and put in jail for a month and a half before having his record cleaned. He even lived near Milan, [=EeLST=]'s hometown.
4	** This is somewhat both Harsher and Hilarious. In their 2003 album ''Cicciput'' there was a song titled "Litfiba tornate insieme" ("Litfiba, Come Back Together") which jokingly asked the two founding members of Litfiba (a famous Italian rock band) to make peace and give an end to the band's hiatus. The funny thing is, in 2009 the two guys actually went through it and brought Litfiba back, and they show no sign of disbanding to this day. However, in 2018 [=EeLST=] seemingly retired for real...several fans joked that Litfiba should write "[=EeLST=] tornate insieme".
5	** The band unceremoniously coming last during Sanremo 2018 hits somehow harder if one remembers that, when they placed second during Sanremo 1996, more than a few people downright accused the festival to have ''rigged'' the result so that they wouldn't win first place.
6	* HilariousInHindsight: Their song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVXZNRCNwIU Arrivederci]] sounds really similiar to the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-eOtcyP9l4 staff roll of Super Mario Land 2]].
7	* SuspiciouslySimilarSong: "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sTwTRSHaSE Servi della gleba]]" has several elements that remind of Music/{{Toto}}'s "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JB1c4_4tbxo Pamela]]", among them the refrain and the guitar solo.
8	* TearJerker: "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMcY8CwD2hY Arrivedorci]]" ("Good Bye" mispelled), the last song of the band after ''38 years'' of activity. It's made like a CreditsMontage, showing pictures and clips from the band's past. The commotion for those who literally grew up listening to the Elio e le Storie Tese can't be overstated.

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