Prince
Renagade
Renagade

Prince | DeRank™: 0,00

A nice vegetable soup, all considered quite successful, at least up to a certain point. Then it started changing its name every two weeks, and I didn’t understand a damn thing anymore. more
The Smashing Pumpkins
Renagade
Renagade

The Smashing Pumpkins | DeRank™: 3,00

Pretty cool, although the bald guy's voice sounds like the meowing of a cat stuck in the exhaust of a 127. more
Lucio Dalla
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alemonsa

Lucio Dalla | DeRank™: 0,00

If Dalla has been dead for twenty years, it's been twenty years since the deaf have increased... more
Gabriele Salvatores
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pierpaolo79

Gabriele Salvatores | DeRank™: 0,27

The best Italian director after (or on par with) Mario Monicelli... overrated my ass. more
New Found Glory
Tom 182
Tom 182

New Found Glory | DeRank™: -4,36

pure punk rock! more
Yes -Fragile
splinter
splinter

Yes — Fragile | DeRank™: 3,22

The perhaps most complete album in their catalog, not a song alike another, from the lengthy and symphonic-tinged track to the more upbeat one, from the piece centered on acoustic guitar to the one focused on drums, moving through the one centered on bass... more
Yes -The Yes Album
splinter
splinter

Yes — The Yes Album | DeRank™: 0,00

The sound still feels a bit "old," Tony Kaye is not yet the right man and he is not very present... but the band is already showing what they're made of after two rather forgettable albums. more
Yes -Tales From Topographic Oceans
splinter
There’s little to be done; I think it should be appreciated precisely for its almost overwhelming pompousness! Not appreciating its pomposity is almost equivalent to renouncing the nature of progressive music, which often aims to be pretentious! It’s a bit like loving cooking and not appreciating a hearty cake! Okay, the four suites may not flow as smoothly as in the previous three albums, but progressive isn’t exactly meant to be fluid! more
Sigmund Freud
RIBALDO
RIBALDO

Sigmund Freud | DeRank™: 0,00

a twisted and perverse drug addict. a madman. that's why he was so successful. more
Thomas Vinterberg -Il sospetto
Lao Tze
Lao Tze

Thomas Vinterberg — Il sospetto | DeRank™: 2,06

A Masterpiece that bites in the gut. And a gigantic Mikkelsen. more
Axl Rose
Lao Tze
Lao Tze

Axl Rose | DeRank™: 6,00

"Where do we go, now...?" I would say to go fuck ourselves, perhaps. more
Alfred Hitchcock
RIBALDO
RIBALDO

Alfred Hitchcock | DeRank™: 0,00

He is among the greatest of all time. Perhaps in the top 5. Consider that during filming, he wouldn't even stand behind the camera to position the actors; he did it by eye. His eye was the camera. He drew the storyboards himself and never deviated from them. Every drawing had to be reproduced exactly as he conceived it. more
Miles Davis -Miles Smiles
Mr. Money87
Mr. Money87

Miles Davis — Miles Smiles | DeRank™: 3,00

Star quintet! Devis, Hancock, and Carter are sublime. But shining the brightest are the brilliant Shorter on tenor sax and that "son of a bitch" Tony Williams on drums. more
Byrds -The Notorious Byrd Brothers
madcat
Ecstatic and hypnotic atmospheres: the latest album in the Byrds' psychedelic trilogy is in some ways also its pinnacle, not in qualitative terms (it's really hard to choose between the two previous ones and this one) but in terms of "lysergic awareness" (which is a contradiction, I know :D). more
Sonic Youth -Washing Machine
madcat
madcat

Sonic Youth — Washing Machine | DeRank™: 6,00

My favorite Sonic Youth album after Daydream Nation: a thrilling trip (in The Diamond Sea it feels like traveling through the depths of the ocean) and songwriting that reaches the levels of their masterpiece. more
Mike Patton Invictus Ensemble -Luciano Berio - Laborintus II
Piero Basèta
Revisiting an experiment that had already said almost everything, a controversial operation even to have it interpreted by Mr. Patton, still excellent, mind you... one could say this operation is a bit forced, yes. Minimum rating, but also because there's a whole series of choirs and theatrical pantomimes... there's color and even the orchestra! But after a while... more
Cesare Basile
SilasLang
SilasLang

Cesare Basile | DeRank™: 0,23

I'm a bit annoyed seeing certain media getting all worked up talking about half-baked talents like Dente, Brunori, Colapiscio, that other idiot who sings random words, what was his name, Brondi... while someone like Basile, one of the few truly valid singer-songwriters, hardly gets the recognition he deserves compared to his merit. more
Marilyn Manson
SilasLang
SilasLang

Marilyn Manson | DeRank™: 0,00

A clown that makes you cry. At this point, I feel sorry for it; it doesn't even scare a one-year-old anymore, ahahah. The 2 is only thanks to "Antichrist Superstar," which, perhaps also thanks to Trent Reznor, who was at his peak back then, remains a great album. more
Philippe Daverio
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holdsworth

Philippe Daverio | DeRank™: -0,23

"Daverio is not an art critic; he is a showman." Francesco Bonami more