Peter Gabriel
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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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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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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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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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F Girls | DeRank™: 0,00

the best girlband ever existed!!!!! more
Sequestrum
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Sequestrum | DeRank™: 9,00

The preferred generator by the Anonima Sequestri more
Amon Düül II -Phallus Dei
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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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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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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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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
alice -park hotel
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alice — park hotel | DeRank™: 11,66

A beautiful album that introduces what has been, for me, the golden decade of Alice's career. An album that seems perpetually shrouded in mist, a constant fog created by Fedrigotti's keyboards that envelop the sound of each track, which even the sporadic guitar interventions by Phil Manzanera (of all people) cannot dissolve, creating a very evocative sonic blend. This marks the birth of a more "international" Alice, especially in the collaborations: the rhythm section is Levin/Marotta (the one from her beloved Peter Gabriel). It is the first album produced by Francesco Messina, who is also co-author, along with Alice herself, of almost all the songs ("Luci lontane" being the peak of the album, credited to Messina/Alice). Other contributors (who will return in her future albums) include Liverani, Di Martino, Cosentino, Zitello, and of course, the Camisasca from "Nomadi." more
Premiata Forneria Marconi -Jet Lag
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Premiata Forneria Marconi — Jet Lag | DeRank™: 3,06

The Jazz-Fusion/Prog album by PFM boldly ventures into territories that were still very much explored by many in the second half of the '70s, enriching it with "Mediterranean" sounds and some inspiration of another kind (in the beautiful title track, my favorite piece on the album, the first approximately three minutes are an apocryphal homage to Gentle Giant, with a Chapman-Gabriel hybrid on vocals like Lanzetti). It certainly makes one smile that just when they've found a true and capable singer like Lanzetti, they choose to create at least three instrumental tracks, but then just say it, as much as the genre typically leans in that direction, let it be clear. Then oh, "Peninsula"—Mussida's acoustic test—is a stunning instrumental, after all. Of course, the Jazz-Fusion evolutions lead the band—without Pagani and with Greg Bloch replacing him on violin—to get lost in music that, despite its undoubtedly evocative atmospheres, occasionally ends up tangled in displays of rather cold virtuosic skill. However, it’s a beautiful album, of great class, where we can hear Lanzetti singing in Italian (UH) in "Cerco la lingua," another of my favorites, indicative of an album that is a decent melting pot of sound influences, and a band suspended between Mediterranean identity and British international push. more
The Modern Lovers
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The Modern Lovers | DeRank™: 0,00

PIXIES ANTE LITTERAM more
Premiata Forneria Marconi -Chocolate Kings
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What a fantastic album, undoubtedly my favorite from Forneria; if "Storia di un Minuto" is somehow the most captivating, "Chocolate Kings" is simply the pinnacle of the band. This album features the best lineup of PFM (Lanzetti, Mussida, Premoli, Pagani, Dijvas, Di Cioccio) at the best moment of their career from every perspective; above all, there's Bernardo Lanzetti, finally a lead voice with real balls, this son of Chapman and younger brother of Gabriel, who brings to PFM a charisma and intensity, as well as a vocal ability that had never been approached before (and indeed it’s a much more sung album—thank you very much). Here they fully embrace the English model, and for the first time, Pagani writes lyrics in English, with the collaboration of Marva Jan Marrow—writer, poet, and partner of Dijvas). There are five tracks and they are five bombs; Franco Mussida is the great lord of this album, he is the one who dominates as the main composer (only in "From Under" is he joined by Premoli and—listen carefully—the guest Ivan Graziani) and he is at the artistic peak of his career; Mussida—and the band in general—proves they can keep up with the English masters (aside from Lanzetti, there’s a lot of Genesis in here) and then there's "Paper Charms"... "Paper Charms" that soars high, perhaps the only track from Forneria that gives me "the thrill", a fantastic piece, with a finally fantastic singer. more
Morgan
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Morgan | DeRank™: 0,00

Well, just 2-3 little things from the time of his one and only true group that can be called AVANTI will have the dignity of remembrance... then, gossip triumphed and after the years of being a "discoverer of unlikely mainstream talents," he was overwhelmed by the daze of substance use, the rehabilitations of Maria-maximan widowed Costantii, and a couple of Sanremo deliriums. After a silent three years, he ended up switching back and forth between monologues and covers of his "English-speaking cornerstone" filled with autotune (uh, great, totally ridiculous!), and just now I could hear him from the neighbor's house redoing everything with fervor (?) The Football Draft, La Canzone del Sole, Cosa Succederà alla Ragazza (with Dolcenera) and "Tempo di Morire," but to sum it all up, for him, whatever happens, isn't it time to disappear? more
Zelensky
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Zelensky | DeRank™: 0,70

despicable puppet of the Americans who has sent his people to slaughter more
MST -Evil Kids
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MST — Evil Kids | DeRank™: 0,00

Musically, a fierce and stimulating track, the work of a metal rap band that tells the story of the discomfort experienced by the youth of the new generations, without excluding the anger that transforms into a strength to declare themselves ready to face a new musical and personal universe. Evil Kids powerfully releases all of this, disappointment and courage intertwining as emotion, shouted out loud, breaking every chain as a metaphor for personal rebirth. more