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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federico"benny"

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
Tu stasera non esci (feat. Pino Insegno)
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Well, I can't wait to hear it. Thank you! more
The Rolling Stones -Beggars Banquet
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Perhaps the best studio album by the Stones. more
Gatto Panceri
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Gatto Panceri | DeRank™: 0,00

Pancho Gatteri..... more
Soley
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federico"benny"

Soley | DeRank™: 0,00

Subtle and dark elegance made in Iceland. more
James Brown
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James Brown | DeRank™: 3,00

…I can't do it… more
Tame Impala
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Tame Impala | DeRank™: 0,00

It started off well... then he met Daft Punk and messed everything up. But fuck it! more
steve hackett -bay of kings
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steve hackett — bay of kings | DeRank™: 2,96

His first album for classical guitar, all instrumental and acoustic stuff, of course. Here there is no orchestra yet, as will be the case in the classical albums of the '90s and '00s, and the only accompanying elements to the classical guitar are the cameos of John’s superb flute (which takes center stage in the beautiful "Kim" and "Second Chance") and the synthesizers of Magnus that replace the orchestral parts, just in a couple of tracks (especially in "Calmaria"). A perfect album for moments of quiet, filled with bucolic watercolors, enveloping atmospheres, notes like drops of dew, sometimes with an almost dreamlike sweetness, other times with a more restless, hazy grip. In the reissue, excellent additions of three more tracks, very valid ("Time Lapse at Milton Keynes" is one of the best on the album, the other two are traditional pieces). The gem remains "Horizons," a safe harbor reintroduced here, 11 years after the first time, but of course, it’s taken from Giovanni Sebastiano Ruscello; for the rest, everything is signed by Steve. The Bay of Kings is already a nice album; I have to say it’s the one I like the least among Hackett's acoustics, the only one that perhaps fails to envelop me in its atmospheres for the entire duration. Hackett will refine his style and later produce three stunning classic albums, all among my favorites in his discography: "Momentum" ('88), and with the orchestra, "A Midsummer Night's Dream" ('97) and "Metamorpheus" ('05). more