Matt Groening -The Simpsons
Season 1: beautiful. 2-7 = total, absolute. 8-10 = excellent. 11 = still good. 12-13 = bearable. 14-15 = noticeable decline. 16-20 = goodbye (I didn't even watch the last ones). more
AC/DC
Okay, "catchy riffs, stylistic coherence," but you can only put up with them until the end of adolescence, then ENOUGH. (I don't dislike them, but today I can't stand them.) more
Calibro 35
In a car, nothing works better. Especially when a police car with its sirens blaring zooms past you in downtown Milan. more
AC/DC
Hard and pure rock without compromises. It was great while Bon Scott was around, but after Back in Black, they started to get stale. more
Frank Zappa -Zoot Allures
Excellent Zappa “easy-listening,” split between dark and gloomy slow blues (the orgasmic The Torture Never Stops, Find Her Finer -with Beefheart’s harmonica-, the title track, and Black Napkins -one of his purest solos-) and heavier pieces like Wind up Workin’…(which kicks off with an “ignorant” riff like the Ramones), Wonderful Wino (another heavy riff by Jeff Simmons), Disco Boy (“It’s Disco Love Tonight!”), and Miss Pinky (a tribute to $69.95 inflatable dolls). more
Something Corporate
"ig u c jordan" reminds me of a bitch I liked in middle school who didn't even notice me. Maybe because she was a little redhead bitch! Anyway, it’s a song I still enjoy listening to. They, from what little I know of them, seem to be one of the few honest pop punk bands that existed during that time. more
Slayer
The greatest, fuck the detractors! more
Jawbreaker -Dear You
Punk rock with heart and brain more
Pixies -Surfer Rosa
one of the 10 best albums of all time more
Le Orme
THE ORMEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!! (quote) more
Peter, Paul and Mary
The neocatechumenals of folk. more
Max Pezzali
At school, he was the worst at accentuation. more
The Byrds -Mr. Tambourine Man
Debut album for McGuinn, Crosby, and company. A top-class folk-rock enriched by a beautiful rendition of the famous Dylan song that gives the album its name. Rating: 7 more
Max Pezzali
THE COMRADE MAX PEZZALI more
Frank Zappa -You Are What You Is
The We're Only In It for The Money of the rampant Reagan-era eighties. Flavorful freaky songs in a continuous flow in a carousel of genres (country, reggae, ska, gospel, blues…) plus a remarkable instrumental (Sinister Footwear) featuring Steve Vai and Ed Mann. The targets: little yuppies grown free as the wind, aerobics Beautiful Guys, stupid groupies, devotees of plastic surgery, high cocaine addicts, pathetic whites posing as badass blacks, tele-prophets with heavenly bank accounts… more
Franco Battiato -Gommalacca
Borrowing some samples from Stereolab and surrounded by talented youth (Morgan, Ginevra di Marco,...), Battiato synthesizes electronic sounds for the new millennium, amidst additional shocks, mechanical ballets, chaste divas, and Antarctic expeditions. Indeed, Shackleton, along with the instrumentals from "Campi magnetici" two years later, represents a return to the more experimental profile of the early '70s, and the old fans were exactly waiting for this... more
Rush -2112
For those who believed that prog rock was already dead in '76 more