Deftones -Diamond Eyes
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Deftones — Diamond Eyes | DeRank™: 6,00

I'll be honest: I got this physical copy purely for the cover with the strigoid (that's how it works for me; any album cover with a dinosaur—birds included—is a gold medal) but, aside from that, it's a good album. Here, the vibe is much more melodic than furious, and that works for me; personally, I prefer "Diamond Eyes" to "Adrenaline." Also, I continue to appreciate the melodies from Moreno and company (for the first time without the poor Cheng) on this album, with a style that's decidedly more "pop" and accessible yet still absolutely of high quality. Well, at most I can say that I don't find a song that stands out particularly; there aren't any "big hits," and it might sound a bit flat from that point of view, without those moments that make you jump out of your seat and say, "Oh damn, that's awesome!" However, it's also true that everything maintains a good qualitative level, without even a bad or unsuccessful track, as if it were a standard Deftones album, a good example of their solid music without peaks or troughs. It's fine. It's not bad at all, and it's enjoyable to listen to every now and then. The next one, for instance, is a good notch above. more
Deftones -White pony
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Deftones — White pony | DeRank™: 3,76

A classic of music at the dawn of the third millennium. White Pony is the album of maturity for Deftones, more eclectic and refined compared to its predecessors, without neglecting the extremely fierce outbursts. A truly remarkable number of great tracks: "Passenger," "Pink Maggit," "Feiticeira," "Knife Prty," "Digital Bath," the melancholic sweetness of "Teenager," and so on. Songs of great power and emotional intensity, a beautiful wall of sound and a lovely melodic taste. While it's not my cup of tea, I warmly appreciate Deftones, especially this album, which remains my favorite of theirs. more
Cannibal Corpse -The Bleeding
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This is where Cannibal Corpse begins to widen the spectrum of solutions at their disposal. more
Cannibal Corpse
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Cannibal Corpse | DeRank™: 0,03

When you are so consistent, both in quality and quantity of releases, you risk the audience getting used to it and taking a lot for granted: this is how many overlook the deep, relentless long maturation of their sound. They stopped being a monochord band after the third album (which I love). more
Kraftwerk -Autobahn
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Kraftwerk — Autobahn | DeRank™: 15,00

Perfect album to spend some time staring blankly at the walls of your home. more
Iron Maiden -Powerslave
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Iron Maiden — Powerslave | DeRank™: 1,84

This is probably THE NWOBHM album by Maiden, their 100% '80s "Heavy Metal" record, the most representative of their classic sound: this very pumped and epic metal/rock, with grandiose tones that here become increasingly ambitious, both in composition and song structures, featuring long instrumental passages and that mix of cheesiness and "refined" metal style that has reached its definitive maturity. This expansion of Heavy Metal into more composed and complex structures obviously peaks in the 14 minutes of "Rime of the Ancient Mariner," a tribute to Coleridge (complete with quotes lifted directly from the original text) and perhaps the highest point of Harris's literary references. In any case, here the intention to blend "progressive" inspirations (a genre the Maiden clearly explored in their listening) with the NWOBHM style becomes very evident, in one of the most ambitious yet successful tracks in their repertoire. Make no mistake, the style and sound are always the same, and I will never go beyond calling them "pleasant," but I have always liked this one, probably one of the "New Wave Metal" tracks I enjoy listening to the most. Not bad either is the title track. Overall, I find the album a bit better than the previous one, but it ultimately leaves me fairly indifferent. more
Kiss -Destroyer
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Kiss — Destroyer | DeRank™: 0,03

The Cartoons of 70s rock'n roll. An album that comes right after "Alive" and is probably their best "classic" among the studio recordings. Perhaps it's their best (I'm not really sure, up until "Love Gun" the level is more or less always the same), in any case, like all their albums from '74 to '77, it's fun to listen to and has some excellent tracks in terms of rock'n roll (much more forgettable in the ballads, as far as I'm concerned). more
Catherine Ribeiro + 2 Bis -Catherine Ribeiro + 2 Bis
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Debut album of this extraordinary French band (here still 2Bis and not Alpes), firmly led by the brain duo Catherine Ribeiro (vocals and author of all lyrics) and Patrice Moullet (guitarist, multi-instrumentalist, inventor of instruments like the Cosmophone, half guitar and half lyre, and composer of all the music). Here Ribeiro and Moullet are still on more singer-songwriter/folk coordinates compared to the more experimental/prog/spacepsych expansions of the '70s, the arrangements are quite sparse and minimal, pure accompaniment to Ribeiro's vocal performance, strong, magnetic, and charismatic. Ribeiro's lyrics, well, you don't need to be an expert in French to understand that the vibe is quite angry, quite polemical and the style is that of modern electro-acoustic folk protest singer-songwriter, Ribeiro writes and sings (a lot, there’s a bit of verbosity) like in the best streams of consciousness of singer-songwriters, with the added virtuosity of her exceptional voice, which is sweetness and anger, bel canto and raucous screams, theatricality, cartoon whistles, and shamanic hallucinatory declamations, anathema and laughter (certainly not joyful, but derisive and mocking, or anger also). The only track where the stage is left to Moullet and the other musicians is "Voyage 1" which instead directly embarks on the path of 60s psychedelic hypnotism 100% and does so quite well. Very beautiful, but the best is yet to come. more
Tal Wilkenfeld -Love Remains
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Tal Wilkenfeld — Love Remains | DeRank™: 0,00

Tal Wilkenfeld reveals herself as a singer and band leader in addition to being a talented bassist. more
Cream -Wheels Of Fire
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Cream — Wheels Of Fire | DeRank™: 0,00

Two albums: the studio one, although of very high quality, somewhat follows the psychedelic trend of the moment, while the live one is pure "Hard Rock". The three musicians play each on their own, but the overall result is incredible. more
Striscia la notizia
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Striscia la notizia | DeRank™: 0,00

THE VELINEEEEEEEE more
Chiara Civello
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Chiara Civello | DeRank™: 0,00

A beautiful velvet voice and records that are generally more than pleasant. more
David Lipsky
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David Lipsky | DeRank™: 0,00

Writer & Journalist at the cultural magazine Rolling Stone more
Iron Maiden
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Iron Maiden | DeRank™: 0,00

hahahaha the irons, legendary irons, are the primordial icon of the evolution of punk into something epic indeed. I believe that Harris’s riffs and Dickinson’s vocals have produced something akin to what Tolkien created in literature. more
Pink Floyd
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Pink Floyd | DeRank™: 0,00

The Pink Floyd have a merit: that of shifting the lyrics into the realm of individual psychological analysis, and being a natural inclination of the group members, this has carried the music along with it and has also taken us with it. From the 60s to the early 90s, they always interpreted the inner aspect of contemporary existence. They are magnificent interpreters of our anxieties, our visions, the need for peace that we all nurture deep within. more
Beck
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Beck | DeRank™: 0,00

Beck is a time-traveling genius; he is naturally able to interpret any 60s suite, R6B, 70s funk, 80s electro pop, always adding something that makes it uniquely his. It’s impossible not to love Beck. Even in his latest album, he embraces current technologies to offer today's generations something that brings them closer to a more comprehensive musical listening experience. more
Le Vibrazioni -V
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Le Vibrazioni — V | DeRank™: 1,92

Not a few thinking minds on debt argue that this would be a group of former craftsmen (initially of acceptable tones) who later sold out to the fake rock market, much like Negramaro, Virginiana M (discovered too late), or Subsonica, and abroad Fun, Coldplay, or Struts. Here, this LP is concrete proof to the contrary, because if in two or three songs a forceful guitar returns to the forefront over a “so & so” text, in episodes like "Nero," "Voglio una macchina del Tempo," and "in Orbita," one can hear an Indie vein mixed with the historical Italian singer-songwriter tradition of the 70s (with Fortis and the "more prog" Battisti leading the way). What can I say… Italians outside Milan, whether they like it or not, will have no choice but to reevaluate V upon a second listen; if it weren’t for the fact that in the "Sanremon" two years later, with the virus at the gates of the Mediterranean, they once again fell into mediocrity?? more
Queen -The Game
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Queen — The Game | DeRank™: 3,61

The only decent album by Queen in the '80s. Oh my, it's not that I’m particularly fond of this one either, but it's still better than the subsequent quartet of horrors. I might prefer it a little over the previous "Jazz," which, aside from the three successful singles, I find largely unbearable; "The Game" is more cohesive and has a higher average quality, in the sense that it's almost entirely composed of completely innocuous and flat pop-rockers, like a cartoon character squashed by a steamroller, but at least it's not unpleasant to the ears. The best is probably the classic Mayan ballad "Save Me," followed by the '50s-early '60s Mercury revival of "Crazy Little Thing," that song about Pavesini. Then yes, there are another 2-3 nice tracks, roughly. There’s obviously "Anada uan baiz de dazt," well-ranked in the #diteloallozioiside all time, and a few really bad tracks ("Coming Soon," but bad-bad-bad, not just useless-bad). In short, it's a salvageable album with some nice and decent moments, certainly, but nothing beautiful. more
High on Fire
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High on Fire | DeRank™: 3,00

Big, bulky, pissed-off cavemen wandering around armed with clubs, bathing in swamps amidst mud and shit. more