Love -Forever Changes
The most eclectic side of the Summer of Love. A masterful blend of psychedelia, folk, and flamenco with goosebump-inducing orchestral arrangements. more
Nick Drake -Bryter Layter
It exudes genuine insecurity. more
The Beatles -Rubber soul
From America comes the folk rock of the Byrds and Dylan's Highway 61. The Beatles will capture its essence without compromising their songwriting. more
Simon & Garfunkel -Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M.
A little gem from the Sixties folk scene. Bleecker Street and the ever-present The Sound Of Silence (here in a bare yet much more effective acoustic version) remain timeless masterpieces. more
Davy Graham -Folk, Blues & Beyond
Master of Baroque folk, brilliant in blending blues and folk with Indian music. more
Neil Young -Tonight's The Night
Distressing, claustrophobic. Sublime. more
The Beatles -Revolver
Musical zenith of the Liverpool quartet, nothing more. more
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young -Déjà vu
The album that perhaps best encapsulates the ideals of the Woodstock generation. more
Jorma Kaukonen -Quah
One foot in the blues of Reverend Gary Davis, the other in folk. Unforgettable. more
Goran Kuzminac
An excellent and worthy representative of Italian singer-songwriter music, also a great guitarist and master of fingerpicking. Among the many unjustly underrated. more
The Blasters
They are part of that vast sea of American bands that embody the essence of rock'n'roll. Among the genre, they are among the best. more
Suicide -Suicide
The record, like the cover, drips blood. more
White Noise -An Electric Storm
Pioneering proto-electronic sounds produced by a "scientist" of vibrations (David Vorhaus) + two technicians from the BBC: various noises, breaths and sighs, orgasmic whimpers. The result (the "storm") is shocking to say the least, for 1969. more
St. Vincent
The Most High evidently likes David Byrne. However, I don't like him, so what do we do about that...? more
Fabrizio De André
DARK, Scaruffo defines his ballads... but so dark, I add, that they precede Bauhaus and Sisters Of Mercy all at once. Uuh, what am I saying, let's throw in the Cure as well. So dark that when Nick Cave listened to it for the first time, he made the sign of the cross. more
Dave Stewart
Prologue: I'm not talking about Dave Allan Stewart from the Eurythmics, who unjustly occupies two sections among the artists, but rather about that other one who played with Egg, National Health, Hetfield and the North, etc., in short, the Canterbury Keyboard.
Definition: Wakeman or Emerson? Dave Stewart! more
Premiata Forneria Marconi -Passpartù
Splendid acoustic sound, original lyrics, subtle melodies...a little hidden gem. A record to be rediscovered, produced in a transitional historical period. Rating 3.5. more
The Beatles
I believe they haven't invented anything, but they have had a tremendous influence. It seems paradoxical, but Elvis had done the same earlier with rock'n'roll, and the Sex Pistols would do it later with punk. And Steve Jobs with the iPhone. more
Rockets -On the Road Again
I have it on tape, it must be somewhere... they can't have thrown it away! more
Pete Doherty
Damn, he's so cool! Among his favorite reads are "Les Fleurs Du Mal," "Dorian Gray," and De Sade! What a damn and decadent intellectual, a true genius!! more