Mazzy Star
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rnr

Mazzy Star | DeRank™: 0,00

fade into you......
strange you never knew..... more
The Damned -The Black Album
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Gabitout

The Damned — The Black Album | DeRank™: 0,00

A link between New Wave punk and goth more
Animal Collective
Real87
Real87

Animal Collective | DeRank™: 0,00

Merryweather Postpavillion is already worth a 5. The rest too. more
Black Country, New Road
Real87
Real87

Black Country, New Road | DeRank™: 0,00

among the best things of recent years more
Arcade Fire
Real87
Real87

Arcade Fire | DeRank™: 0,00

The first 3 albums: Funeral, Neon Bible, and The Suburbs, are absolute masterpieces now regarded as classics. Since Reflektor, they have been coasting along, with occasional flashes of brilliance here and there. But if we don't give 5 to them, then to whom? more
The War on Drugs
Real87
Real87

The War on Drugs | DeRank™: 0,00

just one definition? I’m shocked. Lost in the Dream and A Deeper Understanding are among the best things of the past decade, 5 stars for life. more
Röyksopp
Real87
Real87

Röyksopp | DeRank™: 3,00

Melody AM and The Understanding are worth five stars. Then they drop in level but remain dignified. A 4 is fair. more
Brian Eno
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Real87

Brian Eno | DeRank™: 6,00

The first solo albums up to 1977 would already be enough to crown him one of the greatest geniuses of the 20th century. I can't find anyone more influential than him in music over the last 50 years. more
Peter Gabriel
Real87
Real87

Peter Gabriel | DeRank™: 0,00

I even feel embarrassed to define him... from a general standpoint, he is a genius with a unique voice, the most exciting in all of rock. Musically, he is an enormous artist, highly influential to practically everyone who came after. From a human perspective, he is a person worthy of the Nobel Peace Prize. For me, he is simply Everything. more
Taylor Swift
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Real87

Taylor Swift | DeRank™: 0,09

If this site weren't 99% populated by snobs, there would be at least 25-30% of positive definitions. Taylor Swift makes pop, yes, and maybe not the best, after all. But she can sing (listen to the acoustic versions of her songs, thank you), she can strum the guitar, she has stage presence, and she manages to move hundreds of millions of people (which, I understand, is not necessarily synonymous with talent, but on the other hand, neither is being listened to by a bunch of losers who think they’re the shit); Swift's pop is cheerful, it's fun music, you listen to it and it puts you in a good mood and that's it; she's never claimed to be Aristotle in music. Anyone who completely trashes her is either a snob or simply envious. more
Bodychoke
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dancica

Bodychoke | DeRank™: 0,00

It's incredible how this extraordinary band has ended up in obscurity or even completely ignored by critics. Authors of three sensational albums in the mid-'90s that are absolutely worth rediscovering. more
Daniel Johnston
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bluesboy94

Daniel Johnston | DeRank™: 0,00

One of the most free, pure, and original artists ever to emerge from American singer-songwriter music. more
F Girls
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luckystar

F Girls | DeRank™: 0,00

the best girlband ever existed!!!!! more
Sequestrum
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sfascia carrozze

Sequestrum | DeRank™: 9,00

The preferred generator by the Anonima Sequestri more
Amon Düül II -Phallus Dei
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hjhhjij

Amon Düül II — Phallus Dei | DeRank™: 10,28

Oh, Amon Düül II, how I love you. The God’s Dick is one of the greatest debut albums and masterpieces of acid-psychedelic rock of this amorphous "type" of music. This well-fed group of Teutonic hippies has taken Anglo-American acid and psychedelic rock and extremized it, transforming it into a grotesque sabbat, a distorted tribal party, deep within the Black Forest. And they do so with little intention of taking themselves seriously, embracing the taste of the grotesque, the theatricality of over-the-top, Eastern fascination, and darkness, the playful macabre, the fun of goofing around with shrieks, emphatic singing, nonsense, sweet and restless vocalizations from the woodland enchantress Renata Knaup. In the end, it’s psychedelic rock, but it’s also something more, so let the guitars rattle, the percussion tribalize, the bass boom, the violin sizzle, the saxophone hoot, the 12 strings arpeggiate, and the voices transport us to dark nights where Anglo-Saxon acid rock has ended up in Germany, in Hell, to have more fun, extreme, free, without boundaries, without cursed walls. As good hippie rockers at heart, they also pull out irresistible rhythms and riffs, and those percussions... Wonderful from the first to the last second, but "Luziferz Ghilom" and the overflowing 20 minutes of the God’s Dick title track are the two tracks that soar into infinity. I adore you. more
ABBA -Ring Ring
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hjhhjij

ABBA — Ring Ring | DeRank™: 3,00

Reassuring like grandma's Sunday lunch, with a sound that is polished and clean (even if they'll improve a lot with albums from the second half of the '70s onwards) like the floor of grandma's house after a deep clean, sunny like me after scraping a 6 on the math test, cloying like the third marzipan fruit eaten in a row; that’s the Abba for you, the first 4-5 songs are enjoyable, you appreciate their undeniable talent for beautiful melodies (and at least "Disillusion" with Agneta's voice taking the lead is a nice song, nothing special but nice), the tracks are all fun, engaging, with beautiful vocal harmonies and so on, everything is quite lovely... Halfway through the album it all becomes repetitive, there isn’t a single song that stands out from the rest, and you even get your first cavities and say "yes, guys and gals, but what a pain this cheerful and sunny pop is, huh." The Abba are like that, even if this is just their first album (which wasn’t even released under the name "Abba" at the time) and it also has a couple of songs sung in Swedish (like before they formed Abba, all four of them released solo records separately), including "taitoltrac", which is beautiful, learn some languages, you ignoramuses. They'll do better later, but the essence has never changed too much. more
801 -801 Live
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hjhhjij

801 — 801 Live | DeRank™: 19,05

5 extraordinary musicians led by Manzanera + the collaboration of Brian Eno. A supergroup of great value that debuts with this obviously remarkable live performance. Great emphasis on the leader Manza, but it must be said that MacCormick on bass is truly impressive, monstrous; impeccable background from Monkman and Watson, great Phillips on drums. The two covers are nice and there's a great version of "Third Uncle" (with MacCormick tearing down the walls, I adore him). Not a masterpiece, but if you want to listen to great musicians playing beautiful music, here they are. more
AA.VV. -No New York
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hjhhjij

AA.VV. — No New York | DeRank™: 12,00

One of my favorite albums. One of the albums of a lifetime. There's nothing more to say because, indeed, it's one of the most beautiful and important records in all my listening activity of musical notes. more
Abba -Waterloo
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Abba — Waterloo | DeRank™: 3,00

(Much) better than the first album and also better than the subsequent self-titled one (especially because it has "Mamma Mia"...). This one features the title track as an ultra-famous single, but it hasn't become stale like the other one and remains a lovely little tune. The whole album is very enjoyable; there's not a song that pisses me off (okay, maybe "Honey Honey" does) and there are several little pop gems, light as they usually are, but also built with their undeniable class and talent for pop melody and attention to sound and arrangement (especially "My Mama Said," with great bass by Gunnarsson here, and "Suzy Hang-Around"). But my favorite (by far, of all time, among ABBA, and you all hush) is that delightfully silly and fun track "King Kong Song," an irresistible piece of nonsense. Finally, a word about the session musicians (who are always the same anyway; they were actual members) who accompany them: Janne Schaffer is a guitarist into jazz and jazz-fusion who has played with folks like Gabor Szabo (a monster, obviously discovered by me recently here on the deb) Brunkert on drums played often alongside him, and here in "Dance" you get a cameo from John Bundrick, known as "Rabbit"... A guy who was in the circle of Paul Kossoff and who was the keyboardist for John Martyn on "Solid Air" (just to name two, among many big names). You can't say these four just called random assholes for their albums, eh. more