Teresa De Sio
Kism
Kism

Teresa De Sio | DeRank™: 0,00

Recently rediscovered, what can I say... well done, and quite a lot! The first albums up to "Africana," but also "Sindarella Suite," all spot on and inspired, and the very first "Villanelle popolaresche del '500" is beautiful as well. more
Blind Melon
IlConte
IlConte

Blind Melon | DeRank™: 1,82

I read now that they are defined as "alternative rock." Their sound is solid Rock, superb both in the folk-acoustic-bucolic ballads, perfect in the harder tracks, and remarkable in the pieces with a more funky or ethnic rhythm. Two delightful albums. Much better than many of their more famous contemporaries. more
Roberto Benigni
Martello
Martello

Roberto Benigni | DeRank™: -0,49

BEAUTIFUL PUSSY YOU more
Edoardo Bennato -Non Farti Cadere Le Braccia
Ditta
Excellent debut work. Musically speaking, it might still be a bit raw, but it's incredibly inspired nonetheless. "Un giorno credi" is my favorite of the entire repertoire, but "Una settimana, un giorno," "Campi Flegrei," the title track, and "Tempo sprecato" are also wonderful. Rating 4.5 more
Lucio Dalla -Ciao
Ditta
Ditta

Lucio Dalla — Ciao | DeRank™: 3,00

Re-listened today on CD. Nothing, for me it remains (along with "Il contrario di me" from 2007) the ugliest and least inspired album of Lucio, without a doubt. I hope his soul doesn't take offense, but I really can't find anything, not even a little decent passage... stuff that makes "Canzoni" from '96 look like a masterpiece in comparison. more
Edoardo Bennato -Burattino senza fili
bohhh
more bourgeois than the previous ones (musically), but wonderful. perhaps its melodic peak. more
Lucio Dalla -Dalla
Ditta
Ditta

Lucio Dalla — Dalla | DeRank™: 0,01

Simply a masterpiece: the final piece of the wonderful singer-songwriter trilogy 77-80, it has absolutely nothing to envy from the previous ones. "La sera dei miracoli," "Cara," and "Futura" among the best Italian songs of all time. Rating 9.5 more
Lucio Dalla -Viaggi Organizzati
bohhh
bohhh

Lucio Dalla — Viaggi Organizzati | DeRank™: 0,00

The album is overall decent, but clearly inferior to the previous ones, mainly due to the plasticky sounds. There are still some nice tracks (title track, "tutta la vita," "toro," "washington," and so on) unfortunately all drowned in cheesy and gaudy arrangements. It's a real shame; it could have been a great album...almost 3.5. more
Franco Battiato -Mondi Lontanissimi
Ditta
Ditta

Franco Battiato — Mondi Lontanissimi | DeRank™: 0,77

Not among Franco's best, but still a nice album, which very much follows the path laid out by the two years prior "Orizzonti perduti." "No time no space" and "I treni di Tozeur" are definitely the masterpieces of the album. Then, starting from the next one onward, the 5/5 ratings will return that had been absent since 1981. more
Lucio Dalla -Lucio Dalla
Ditta
Ditta

Lucio Dalla — Lucio Dalla | DeRank™: 1,51

It’s the album by Lucio that I feel most connected to. Simply extraordinary, nothing more to say. On the notes of "Anna e Marco" and "L'anno che verrà," a tear always falls. 9.5 more
Antonello Venditti -Benvenuti in paradiso
bohhh
Fuck, if I'm supposed to be welcomed into paradise by someone singing this bullshit... more
Scott Walker -Tilt
bluesboy94
bluesboy94

Scott Walker — Tilt | DeRank™: 3,00

The Engel/Walker ceases to be an unusual singer-songwriter and transforms into a visionary who deconstructs the song form with a marked cinematic and expressionist attitude. The result is an absolute masterpiece (which is overshadowed by an excessive legend that promotes it as unlistenable and/or inaccessible) that terrifies or melancholizes depending on the circumstances. Needless to say, full marks. more
Randy Newman -Little Criminals
bluesboy94
Fourth masterpiece in a row from singer-songwriter Randy Newman. It’s all a blooming of memorable tracks. From the satire of "Short People" (which got him into trouble) to the classic "Baltimore," from the chilling "In Germany Before The War" (which tears apart mountains of other discographies) to the seemingly festive parade of "Sigmund Freud's Impersonation of Albert Einstein in America" (with yet another surgical takedown of the "American system"), ending with a "Rider in the Rain" featuring the Eagles (which fits perfectly like sausage in those mythical beans) and the ambiguous "Old Man on the Farm" (is it or isn't it an autobiographical song?). more
Georg Friedrich Händel -Acis and Galatea (English Baroque Soloists feat. conductor: John Eliot Gardiner)
bluesboy94
Another marvel of the "dear Saxon"; to which I assign no rating because assigning a rating means confining the quality of a work, and this is not music meant to be confined. more
Edoardo Bennato
Martello
Martello

Edoardo Bennato | DeRank™: 0,00

A bit like Venditti, he was great until '84, then he had a decent period at least until '87, and then came the cosmic nothingness. But I give him a 4 because at least he didn't excessively sell out to the market unlike Antunello. more
The Shaggs
StormOTLB
StormOTLB

The Shaggs | DeRank™: 0,00

But fuck off. And then I’d be the idiot giving 5 stars to Lana Del Rey. more
Layla
Marcorock
Marcorock

Marcorock: Layla Traccia 01 in Layla Live - senza data

A masterpiece more
Tim Hardin -Tim Hardin 2
bluesboy94
bluesboy94

Tim Hardin — Tim Hardin 2 | DeRank™: 0,00

Hardin takes a step forward from the first album (which still contains beautiful songs). In this second chapter, there's less blues and more of a softly jazz-inflected folk that perhaps inspired Tim Buckley on "Happy Sad" and "Blue Afternoon." It’s his best studio work, especially since the third is a live album (and what a live album...) and considering that after this brief golden phase of his career (which can be traced back to 1966-1968) he begins a serious decline that will culminate in the cover-only albums of the following decade (with "Shiloh Town" - revived by Mark Lanegan in "I'll Take Care of You" - as his only notable track).
Rating= 4.5 more
Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds -No More Shall We Part
bluesboy94
Cave is objectively an artist who has undergone significant changes. Changes that were primarily necessary for his survival. Here, there is no longer the early Cave, that is, the caged animal ravaged by heroin from the Birthday Party and "From Her to Eternity," nor the black shaman who resurrects the Delta blues in "Firstborn is Dead," nor the polished crooner anxious for redemption in "The Good Son." Here, Cave has become a "traditional singer-songwriter," and as far as I’m concerned, it's still a pleasant experience. more
Edoardo Bennato -La Torre di Babele
Ditta
The latest album by Bennato is more “raw” and “angry.” Beautiful, although I slightly prefer the two previous ones and the following one. 4.5 more