2 only for his guitar skills and his past with the Semiramis... more
The Europe presented to us by Messrs. Carter Schmidt, Giscard, and Andreotti has no relation to proletarian internationalism; it is foreign to the Europe of the workers that, for a century, has been the ideal of the Western labor movement.
I find this enthusiasm for the European elections and the economic union ridiculous. In the end, it will all come down to hegemony of Germany, and for a bit of France, with the southern countries eternally oppressed and the English, conquered by their own arrogance, ready to carve out a market for themselves.
(Jean Paul Sartre, 1977). more
"The best people have a sensitivity for beauty, the courage to take risks, the rigor to speak the truth, and the ability to sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often hurt, sometimes destroyed."
(Ernest Hemingway) more
But "fighters" for what? The couch potatoes of pop-rock. more
Fortunately, it wasn't just Giggino Di Maio who came from Pomigliano d'Arco! more
Plagues more
Musically absent until "Evoluzione della specie," which is not bad at all. The voice, on the other hand, is amazing. more
Immense and somewhat underestimated by some. The fact that 40 years after his passing he is known and loved by the youngest is rather a credit. Far ahead, in fact, compared to many more celebrated singer-songwriters. Always relevant because universal. more
The Clash are what U2 have always wanted to be, but could never be.
Henry Rollins more
All reboots more
The Earthsea saga is a splendid example of how to write original fantasy that is at the same time very "down to earth." Its prose is also beautifully crafted—very spare, yet dense and capable of conveying vivid images in just a few lines. more
Differently tuned. more
Certainly a prominent figure in modern popular music even if her musical exploration isn't quite my thing. But the quartet of albums from "Debut" to "Vespertine" would impress anyone and is enough to place her in the pantheon. It's one of the few cases where I personally recognize the need to separate personal tastes (which would be three stars) from the undeniable value of the artist (five stars). So let's say an average of four, which I think "captures" her well. Also because after the dreadful 2004, she has produced a lot of mediocre material, full of vain experimentation and bland, soporific ballads cubed. It's still comical to see her profile on the Scaruffi website: a lot of 7s and 6.5s for the albums (which on average means at least one extra point for another critic), while in the descriptive text, she gets shredded from beginning to end with the usual killer style... a glaring example proving that some of the profiles were written by someone else. A cosmic clown. more
Thanks to my little fairy! more
Thanks to my fairy! (02/11/2011) more
Franke & Froese at the highest level, never reached again. more
Like K.Schulze, music that materializes the cosmic dream. more
The cosmic dream materialized in music. more
For beauty, grandeur, and atmosphere, I place it just behind the unbeatable "X".
This too is a masterpiece. more