Mike Oldfield -Hergest Ridge
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Mike Oldfield — Hergest Ridge | DeRank™: 0,00

It’s always difficult to replicate a masterpiece, and Oldfield does his best with Hergest Ridge, but he doesn’t quite succeed. The album is still excellent, but it lacks the inspiration and variety of Tubular Bells, which give way to a compactness that ultimately ends up feeling repetitive. Still, congratulations. more
Depeche Mode -Playing The Angel
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Depeche Mode — Playing The Angel | DeRank™: 0,00

With this work, we return to the Depeche sound, with few influences from Exciter. Similar to Ultra. more
DEPECHE MODE -speak & spell
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DEPECHE MODE — speak & spell | DeRank™: 0,00

Due to Vince Clarke's leadership, they release a predominantly dance album, featuring gems like Just Can't Get Enough and New Life. A band at its dawn. more
Klaus Schulze -Irrlicht
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Klaus Schulze — Irrlicht | DeRank™: 1,29

Schulze's masterpiece, refined and innovative, new and unique. Mythical, but I feel less attached to it compared to my "loves" Moondawn and Mirage. more
Placebo -Meds
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Placebo — Meds | DeRank™: 0,00

Very, very beautiful, although maybe not quite up to the level of the previous one. Here the listening experience is more complex, the tracks more experimental, and in the end, it turns out to be somewhat less smooth in certain parts. With Meds, we return to the sound of WYIN, Infra-Red is still elegantly pop-rock. The closing track is stunningly emotional. more
Mike Oldfield -Tubular Bells II
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Mike Oldfield — Tubular Bells II | DeRank™: 0,00

Failed attempt to adapt Tubular Bells to more modern sounds. There are a few highs, but mostly it's an album that doesn't leave a mark. more
Muse -Black Holes & Revelations
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Muse — Black Holes & Revelations | DeRank™: 0,00

Their most commercial album manages to be so with great style and gives us a couple of gems worthy of the two previous masterpieces. We're naturally talking about Assassin and Knights of Cydonia. Invincible reminds of Falling Away With You, while Starlight is their first pop track, but very beautiful. more
Klaus Schulze -Cyborg
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Klaus Schulze — Cyborg | DeRank™: 0,00

I am less attached to it, but together with Irrlicht, it is the most innovative and sought after. more
Franco Battiato -Battiato
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Franco Battiato — Battiato | DeRank™: 0,00

With this work, Battiato definitively steps outside of "musical" norms. The first track is a repetition of chords for about 20 minutes, the second a collage of seemingly random sounds and fragments that almost resemble pieces by Messiaen. Unlistenable, 1. more
Franco Battiato -l'egitto prima delle sabbie
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If in Juke Box the concept of the second track of the album "Battiato" was evolved, here the idea of the first one is taken up again. Two long sides where the same scale of notes (first) and chord (second) are repeated. Hammering and oppressive, experimental yet (in my opinion) useless. Unlistenable, 3. more
Franco Battiato -il vuoto
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Franco Battiato — il vuoto | DeRank™: 0,00

Enjoyable and listenable disc. Pure pop, with some electro-world influences (title track). Good but nothing more. Nothing new. more
Dave Gahan -Hourglass
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Dave Gahan — Hourglass | DeRank™: 0,00

Magnificent, perhaps better than many works with the group. Gahan shows that if he had given up drugs and contributed more to the band, things would have gone even better. No track feels out of place, everything aligns perfectly. The arrangements by Christian Eigner are spectacular, the electronics dominate majestically. more
Placebo -Without you I'm Nothing
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Placebo — Without you I'm Nothing | DeRank™: 0,00

The first great masterpiece. The darkest album, the most cohesive, the most akin, the unforgettable one. The title track remains to this day their most beautiful and touching piece. Also very beautiful is the famous Pure Morning. more
Mike Oldfield -Crises
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Mike Oldfield — Crises | DeRank™: 0,00

Among Oldfield's pop works, this is undoubtedly the best. The suite is beautiful, Moonlight Shadow is unforgettable, and Foreign Affair is predictable. more
Jean Michel Jarre -Magnetic Fields
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Jean Michel Jarre — Magnetic Fields | DeRank™: 0,00

Inferior to its predecessors for some, simply different in my opinion, it nevertheless fails to touch, in the realm of electronics with rhythms and drums, what the predecessors had touched in melodic music. Still very beautiful. more
Mike Oldfield -Incantations
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Mike Oldfield — Incantations | DeRank™: 0,00

It could have been another 5-stars, but this time, bravely, Oldfield "drags it out too much." Four tracks of about 30 minutes each inevitably end up being boring, but still, compliments for the music and the courage. An album for a few. more
Mike Oldfield -The Songs of Distant Earth
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One would hardly have expected, after the various pop works, such a great album from Mike. After Tubular Bells, which is from another planet, the best album is Ommadawn, a sublime work with which Oldfield forcefully raises his head again after the messy works like Heaven's Open and TB 2. more
Mike Oldfield -Heaven's Open
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Mike Oldfield — Heaven's Open | DeRank™: -0,96

The worst along with Earth Moving and Tubular Bells II, Oldfield's voice isn't bad but often unsuitable for the pop context (or maybe it would be better to say the other way around). more
Mike Oldfield -Islands
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Mike Oldfield — Islands | DeRank™: 0,00

Another album of highs and lows, excellent The Wind Chimes, beautiful Flying Start and the title track, terrible Magic Touch, a prelude to the crap music of Earth Moving. A lot of smoke and little roast. more
Jean Michel Jarre -Oxygène
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Jean Michel Jarre — Oxygène | DeRank™: 0,00

Indissoluble milestone of electronics, beautiful in its entirety, innovative for its time and style, compared to what electronics of the developing '70s was. Part IV is a hit that sticks in your mind even today. more