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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Another album branded Gore, which represents an innovation as there is something different from the previous ones. After years of activity, the band still knows how to innovate. It can be classified between Violator and SOFAD. more
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A soundtrack probably composed with little effort (practically every track is a reinterpretation of a single theme), at the time Jarre was already engaged in composing what would become a masterpiece. more
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Jean Michel Jarre — Zoolook | DeRank™: 0,00

A complete turnaround for Jarre, highly successful and original. From compositions without voices or titles (only divided into parts), here the sampled voices take center stage and for the first time titles of the tracks also appear. The most experimental and original work of JMJ. more
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Jean Michel Jarre — Rendez-Vous | DeRank™: 0,00

Almost exclusively composed in honor of the event of the same name (concert in Houston), it results in a beautiful album, with soft and very sad tones (Part IV, another hit, aside) and thus different from the previous ones. For the first time, the entrance of acoustic music in a JMJ composition. more
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Jean Michel Jarre — Revolutions | DeRank™: 0,00

Jarre's most "politically engaged" album, characterized by a mix of Arabic and pop sounds, isn't bad, but in comparison to the others, it is slightly inferior, also due to tracks (the title track and September) that are almost nonsensical. more
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Jean Michel Jarre — Chronologie | DeRank™: 0,00

After years, here comes an album worthy of the title masterpiece. Jarre adapts to the times and delivers a "modern Oxygène" worthy of his first two works. The overture (Part I) is beautiful and moving, while IV (coincidentally, the number is always the same) once again becomes a hit. more
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Jean Michel Jarre — Oxygène 7-13 | DeRank™: 0,00

Reprise of Oxygène, well done overall but beautiful only in parts. Oxygène 9 is an obvious reprise of Part I of the original; it's hard to catch differences between tracks Oxygène 7 and 12. Ox. 8 is perhaps the last Jarrettian hit. more
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Jean Michel Jarre — Sessions 2000 | DeRank™: 0,00

Few are the details about this album, the result of various sessions with other musicians. You can definitely hear the lack of exploration in the arrangements, but some tracks are quite good. more
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Chillout Project underestimated by critics and unknown to most, showcasing how Jarre can adapt to various contexts while maintaining an exceptionally high level. Beautiful are the title track, Electric Flesh, and Velvet Road (already performed earlier in a concert in Okinawa). more
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Jean Michel Jarre — Téo & TéA | DeRank™: 0,00

Jarre returns to the scene after four years with a dance album. The attempt to achieve a new commercial success fails due to the lack of originality of this enjoyable and catchy project, which is not, however, worthy of his best works. Waiting for something better... more
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Jean Michel Jarre — MEtamorphoses | DeRank™: 0,00

Second album featuring the voice, this time not sampled, but the result of numerous guest singers and Jarre himself (who still sings with a voice filtered through a vocoder). The first two tracks are very beautiful, the rest is nice and the album as a whole is decent, but nothing more. more
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Placebo — Battle For The Sun | DeRank™: 0,00

A sort of return to the past, with results that are only half good. At first listen, it seems boring and in the style of BMM, but then you realize there's a lot to discover. But songs like Ashtray Hearth or For What It's Worth take away the elegance that has always characterized them. Beautiful Kitty Litter. more
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Björk — Volta | DeRank™: 0,00

New style in this album, which completely abandons chillout and pop to make way for rhythm-focused electronics. Bjork always knows how to innovate, and this is her latest, beautiful metamorphosis. more
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PHIL COLLINS — ...BUT SERIOUSLY | DeRank™: 0,00

Pop here finally of high class, the best production from Collins (which says a lot about the rest). Many beautiful and well-made tracks. But a prog album from Collins we will never have. more
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Muse — The Resistance | DeRank™: 0,00

I give a 5 to Exogenesis, which is their best work, light-years away from any other music they've composed. It seems that the three of them focused on that during the three years of its creation, because the rest (rating 2.5) only features Uprising (a new Time is Running Out) and Unnatural Selection. For the rest, there are too many references to other artists and it's too pop. The Pink Floyd did the same with Atom Heart Mother: the suite is beautiful, less so the rest. more
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