Premiata Forneria Marconi -Storia Di Un Minuto
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I never loved Forneria as much as other Italian bands in the prog scene, but it must be admitted that their debut album is truly a splendid work. "Storia di un Minuto" is an album with suspended, delicate atmospheres, in which it is pleasant to immerse oneself; it is extremely fascinating and represents one of the peaks of melodic sublimation in Italian "pop-rock-folk" music, with its substantial acoustic sections, the cornerstones of the album, painted like watercolors by an inspired Mussida, and a Padanian fog that sometimes clears into more dynamic and equally exhilarating electric sections. Then, like a true fantasist who enriches all the compositions with his touches of pure melodic class, the final stroke is always given by Mauro Pagani, the real "extra man" of PFM, on flute, violin, and piccollo. Even the absence of a true singer, a weak point in the subsequent albums before Lanzetti, here—with the delicate and fragile voices of Mussida and Pagani—becomes a strength in the delicate landscape presented in the album. It is Mussida and Pagani who dominate the composition and write the entire album together, while Premoli sprinkles immortal moog hits (who said "Impressioni di Settembre"?) and various keyboards. The masterpiece of the lot: "La carrozza di Hans," long acoustic reflections and reminiscences of early King Crimson (which Fripp had just nuclearized, by the way). more
Fabrizio De André -La Buona Novella
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Well, I listened to it again not long ago, and what can I say... One of the essential albums of singer-songwriter music and of Faber's discography. Just to avoid stating the obvious, especially about the intelligence in addressing these kinds of themes and the quality of the lyrics (duh!), it's also worth noting how this album served as quite a training ground for a bunch of remarkable people: the bare but captivating arrangements were played by "I Quelli" in full (of course, the future PFM) along with their future associate (theirs and, again years later, De André’s with those suggestions from the sea of Genoa...) Mauro Pagani on flute and piccolo, as the backing band; additionally, the violin in "La Buona Novella" is played by a young Angelo Branduardi, a few years before the start of his solo career, and Maurizio Fabrizio also participates as one of the guitarists. In short, quite a few people were honing their skills under Faber in one of the great masterpieces of Italian singer-songwriter music. more
Banco del Mutuo Soccorso -Garofano rosso
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Very beautiful album, Banco del Mutuo Soccorso in the version of film score composers for the homonymous film ("Il Garofano Rosso") by Faccini; the beautiful—sometimes even stunning—musics of Banco remain, in the end, the most memorable thing about the film, and the album is fortunately entirely autonomous and detachable from the movie, valuable as an instrumental album in itself, with refined, elegant compositions inspired by the usual exchanges, duets, and intersections between Gianni's piano and Vittorio Nocenzi's keyboards, accompanied by the guitar of Maltese (not the short one, the taller one), now the new guitarist of BMS in place of Todaro; the Nocenzi brothers nail some very beautiful recurring themes, and as far as I’m concerned, one does not feel the absence of Francesco Di Giacomo who sits on the bench and is credited with a supportive role in documentation and research for the creative process; almost to compensate for the absence of vocals, the arrangements are enriched by trumpet and French horn (Maltese), as well as by the clarinet that Gianni Nocenzi had already played here and there in previous albums. The "essence" of the whole album is probably the title track, which encapsulates all the best of these twelve instrumental compositions. more
Rovescio della Medaglia
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Rovescio della Medaglia | DeRank™: 3,00

The Italian prog of the seventies is still admired and loved all over the world. A sign that in our country we have always been able to create music of sublime quality. Il Rovescio della Medaglia has been a worthy standard-bearer of our prog rock and even today amazes with this Contaminazione, a spectacular, modern album that only feels dated due to its understandably old-fashioned sound. But the content is simply exceptional and, despite everything, the sound, already considerable at more
Alphataurus
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Alphataurus | DeRank™: 0,00

Great music of Italian progressive, "la mente vola" is a very beautiful track. more
Eric Clapton
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Eric Clapton | DeRank™: 5,58

Brush of notes more
Camel
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Camel | DeRank™: 0,00

Great progressive rock band from Canterbury, among my favorites along with Caravan. more
Story of the Year -Tear Me to Pieces
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Sixth studio album, this time with SharpTone Records, for the St. Louis band led by Dan Marsala. more
Metallica
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Metallica | DeRank™: 0,00

A band overrated to the nth degree. They are annoying and unbearable clowns.
Cliff Burton saves you from a minimum rating = 1/5 instead of 0/5. more
Calvin Russell
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Calvin Russell | DeRank™: 0,00

TO THOSE WHO HAVE SEEN A CALVIN CONCERT, IN WHAT YEAR AND WHERE? I SAW HIM IN VENETO AROUND VENICE-TREVISO IN '93 OR '94, HELP ME REMEMBER. more
Emerson, Lake & Powell
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Emerson, Lake & Powell | DeRank™: 0,00

Reheated soup from the beautiful times that were. more
Dans le château
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rotodareius77: Dans le château Traccia 06 in Dans le château Album - 1978

A little French tune, fitting perfectly, danceable music, and a melancholic and nostalgic accordion... more
Gianna
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rotodareius77: Gianna Traccia 04 in Gianna Album - 1978

Beautiful, very famous, even though it's not among my favorites by Rino. more
Stoccolma
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rotodareius77: Stoccolma Traccia 03 in Stoccolma Album - 1978

Exceptional. A limerick, a non-sense that just adds a single touch to the song and makes it very entertaining! more
Fabbricando case
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rotodareius77: Fabbricando case Traccia 02 in Fabbricando case Album - 1978

A song not too necessary for the album, nice musically, with very funny lyrics but also serious from some points of view. more
Nuntereggae più
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rotodareius77: Nuntereggae più Traccia 01 in Nuntereggae più Album - 1978

Music of a repetitive reggae, as the title of the song suggests, with very meaningful lyrics, a semi- denunciation of Italy during the years of lead, accusing Agnelli, Costanzo, Bongiorno, and many other showmen of the time. A song that is nothing less than magnificent! more
Bauhaus -This Is for When...
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Bauhaus — This Is for When... | DeRank™: 0,00

A live from cristiddio "This is For When..." Remastering and remix of the original recordings from November 9, 1981, has done an excellent job of refreshing the sounds (and so it’s clearly polished in the studio, but that’s typical of many live recordings, and who cares) and the band is highlighted, in an exceptional shape. In short, this live is a blast. Of course, "Mask," freshly released, is the most represented, offered almost in its entirety (8 out of 10 tracks, almost half of the live set, which has 17 tracks) and how beautifully they come across here, the already beautiful songs from The Mask, the live outfit gives them more energy, a newfound strength, both in those performed faithfully to the studio versions and in pieces where Bauhaus really give them a new garment (the live version of "The Man With the X-Ray Eyes" is stunning); then there are gems like the preview of the next album with a beautiful "Silent Hedges" and the cover of another guiding spirit of the band, John Cale, "Rosegarden Funeral of Sores" (otherwise found only in singles collections). And then phenomenal versions of "Dancing" (with Daniele Cenere having fun on the sax with much more freedom than in the studio) and "Stygmata Martyr" and so on. Exceptional live from a band full of imagination and in an exhilarating form. A masterpiece. more
Tangerine Dream
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Tangerine Dream | DeRank™: 0,00

Fabulous, I have almost all the albums from one of my favorite bands. more
Gianluca Grignani
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Gianluca Grignani | DeRank™: 0,00

Cocaine mixed with plastic and snorted from nowhere.. more
Gorillaz
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Gorillaz | DeRank™: 0,00

A redundant group like few others. Aside from the singles that made it onto the radio and MTV, the tracks on the rest of the album were more than questionable, and Albarn's mumbling (typical of most English singers from Brit-pop and indie bands of the '90s and 2000s, with rare exceptions) only made things worse. Over the years, they've gotten even worse. Just think that the lead track from the new album sounds incredibly similar to "SexyBack" by Timberlake (...and I've said it all). more