Edoardo Bennato -Uffà! Uffà!
Martello
Martello

Edoardo Bennato — Uffà! Uffà! | DeRank™: 0,00

If it had been recorded by Elio e le Storie Tese, I wouldn't have understood that the songs were written by Bennato. A very strange album, completely outside the box. I won’t venture a rating; for certain works, it’s better to leave the voting slip blank. more
Cattle Decapitation
JOHNDOE
JOHNDOE

Cattle Decapitation | DeRank™: 0,00

AHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!! more
HUGOMORALES -OCEANO
VIOLA DE SOTO
VIOLA DE SOTO

HUGOMORALES — OCEANO | DeRank™: 0,00

Surreal like the scene from Magnolia where frogs rain from the sky, fluid and super cool like Guillermo del Toro's The Shape of Water, Oceano is a grandiose postmodern pop album with elements of indie and dream pop, with a healthy dose of psychedelia sprinkled here and there. At times, it surprises with its almost absurd drift (like in the chorus of "In piedi sulle pinne," which riffs on a historic ad from the Carosello era for Negroni… there are so many stars…. Got it, right?) but in general, given the initial premise of an upside-down world (the fish have taken over the world (in the first track, La pesca degli umani), nothing else could be expected. Imaginative in its lyrics, Huomorales outdoes himself in the beautiful Tracheotomia, a lovely dreamy pop song that evokes a sort of Morrissey thrown into Il bar sotto il mare by Stefano Benni. Aquatic. more
Indochine
Turbitt
Turbitt

Indochine | DeRank™: 0,00

Very big. The Depeche Mode of France. The opening trio "L'aventurier," "Le péril jaune," and "3" alone would be enough to consecrate them in the new-wave/Synthpop Olympus. But they also delivered a masterpiece like "Paradize" twenty years after their debut and have consistently scattered pearls throughout their career. The '90s were the darkest period, while the 2011 live album "Putain de stade" is something imperial. more
Edoardo Bennato -E' arrivato un bastimento
Martello
The latest masterpiece by Benni, national and at the same time the most eclectic. A ship has arrived with electrical interventions that will make your hair stand on end, The city trembles, loaded like a spring, Mirrors of my dreams has extraordinary drum timings. 4.5 rounded up, does it deserve it?? more
Danilo Rea
ghostinger
ghostinger

Danilo Rea | DeRank™: 0,00

If he had emigrated to America or Northern Europe (but he didn't), he would be up there (even though still alive) looking down on everyone alongside Keith Jarrett. more
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