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David Gilmour | DeRank™: 12,37

I'm listening to "Live At Pompeii" right now... Hats off! Infinite class and a magical touch. more
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Baustelle | DeRank™: 0,00

Dysentery compared to Baustelle is an orgasm. more
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ThorsProvoni
Looking at the world through the eyes of another human being, discovering each month of the year how time passes, transforming the world out there and inside you. Every time I listen, I dive into myself and discover that it is beautiful to live.
And if it sounds too sugary as a definition, grab a very bitter coffee... more
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the king of soul! more
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Harlan
It’s hard for me to consider this work as an album by Virgin Steele. Too many tracks dragged out excessively, some disjointed (Devilhead, Glamour, Fallen Angels), others where the now-faded voice of Defeis is irritatingly not utilized to its best (Delirium, We Disappear), with only a few songs worth saving (Black Sun-Black Mass, Persephone), all surrounded by a disgraceful production and endless shrieks and meows. I can agree that the band doesn’t want to release an album that’s the same as the last one, but if Defeis had continued down the path taken with the underrated The Black Light Bacchanalia, we would now be talking about another masterpiece. But unfortunately, that’s not the case. more
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The Clash | DeRank™: 0,00

....they're just little songs... more
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Crass | DeRank™: 0,00

Punk with a capital "P" more
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Radiohead — Kid A | DeRank™: 0,00

forgive me, but when I don't understand, I don't understand... and here I don't understand! more
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Stanlio
It recounts the final years of the famous general Simón Bolívar and the memories of the events that made him a liberator, retracing the loves, adventures, risks, and passions of a man—before being a general—whose ideological strength for freedom swept Bolivia, Peru, and Venezuela to independence from Spanish rule in South America. (wiki) more
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Florentino Ariza, a clerk with a passion for poetry, falls in love at first sight with the teenager Fermina Daza, and, with the complicity of the girl's aunt, he begins a predominantly epistolary romantic relationship with her. However, the girl's father discovers the bond between the young lovers and, furious, moves with his daughter to a distant village for some time in order to make her forget the suitor: Lorenzo Daza, a ruthless mule trader, indeed aims to marry his beautiful daughter to a man far more important than a mere telegraph operator and cannot bear the thought of the young couple's infatuation obstructing his plans for social advancement. (wiki) more
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On the day of the dictator's death, who for time immemorial has governed the fate of the state, a crowd of citizens bursts into the presidential palace and watches in astonishment the countless bird cages, the dung fires that the general used to light at night, the cows grazing in the courtyards. Once already, the old dictator had made it seem as though he was dead when his lookalike, Patricio Aragonés, was poisoned in a plot... (wiki) more
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"That morning I had chosen between life and death. I had decided on death, and yet I was still alive, with a piece of an oar in my hand, ready to continue fighting for life. To keep fighting for the only thing that I no longer cared about." (The protagonist's despair) - The account of the episode, which actually took place, was provided by the protagonist to the writer when he was still a young journalist. - It tells the misadventures of Luis Alejandro Velasco, a sailor of the Colombian navy, who fell overboard from his ship. The ship had set sail on February 22, 1955, from the port of Mobile, Alabama, bound for Cartagena, Colombia. On February 28, he and seven other crew members were thrown into the sea by a wave, which dealt the final blow to a ship whose stability was compromised by the presence of a cargo of refrigerators, washing machines, radios, and televisions. (wiki) more
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Metaphorical interpretation of Colombian history, from its foundation to the contemporary state, brings forth various local myths and legends through the story of the Buendía family, whose different generations intertwine with the life of the country and allow for the narration, albeit with the distorting mirror of the linguistic mask, of the historical events of modern Colombia... (wiki) more
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Leaving home to go to work, César Montero finds a sheet of paper with a satire nailed to his front door. He goes to the musician Pastor's house and shoots him in cold blood, slaughtering him in front of his mother's eyes. The mayor arrests him, then in a spur of legalism entrusts the investigation into the murder to Judge Arcadio, whose predecessor was slaughtered after making it clear that he did not want rigging in the facade elections organized by the regime... (wiki) more
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Compared to the previous stories, in this novel, naturalism is tempered by a cynical humor and the proliferation of a series of symbols such as the rooster, the waiting for the mail, and hunger. The rooster, in particular, as a reminder of the deceased son and a vehicle of solidarity among the villagers, symbolizes the redemption of a continent, Latin America, that will never happen. (wiki) more
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The novel is narrated from three alternating perspectives: thirty-year-old Isabel, her nine-year-old son, and her father, a former colonel of the liberal army during the thousand days' war. The story unfolds in a single day, September 12, 1928, when the lifeless body of a doctor whose name no one knows is discovered; he has hanged himself in the house where he has lived a hermit's life for years. In Macondo, everyone has hated him since ten years earlier, when he refused to offer aid to the wounded during the crackdown on popular uprisings; from that moment, he has lived surrounded by general hatred, which does not even wane in the face of death. (wiki) more
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"On the day they were to kill him, Santiago Nasar got up at 5:30 in the morning to await the arrival of the boat carrying the bishop?" (Crónica de una muerte anunciada)
The story is based on a true event that took place in a small town in Colombia, which Márquez drew inspiration from thirty years later to write the novel. more
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The duo Fruttero-Gramellini retraces, with a joint effort, the major events in Italian history, from the establishment of Parliament to the world wars, from the birth of democracy to the events of our days, involving the personalities—politicians, intellectuals, artists, and scientists—who have contributed to making our country great. The result is a mosaic that reveals a different history of Italy, often more interesting than the one that has been told, somewhat monotonously, in school. By recovering dates and events sometimes forgotten and featuring a brilliant and ironic writing style, the book offers the public a fascinating and entertaining read of the 150 years of our National Unity. (lafeltrinelli.it) more
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Stanlio

Erich Fromm — Avere o essere? | DeRank™: 0,00

Man, Fromm observes, is like a vessel that expands as it is filled, so that it will never be full (p.93). Our ego is at the foundation of our sense of identity and encompasses both actual qualities (body, possessions, cognition) and fictitious ones (images of ourselves, p.100). The character structure of an individual constitutes their true being, while their behavior can only be a mask, an appearance (p.130). Having and being are potentials of human nature: at the existential basis of having lies a biological factor, the drive for survival (p.134), while at the existential basis of being there is the need to overcome one's isolation, which is a specific condition of human existence. The deciding factor regarding which mode will prevail for the majority is the social structure with its norms and values (p.141). more
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Erich Fromm — L'arte di amare | DeRank™: 0,00

In this essay, published in 1957, the German philosopher intends to show how love is a true art form and, as such, requires discipline, concentration, patience, supreme interest, and humility. It is not a "manual" as the author himself specifies in the prologue, but a demonstration of how every attempt to love is doomed to failure without an active development of one's personality, and there can be no love without the ability to love one's neighbor with faith, humility, and courage. Throughout the work, the sociologist analyzes "authentic" love, frequently referencing Greek mythology and the Old Testament; he also describes its various deviations and substitutes such as sadism and masochism. The work includes several critiques of Sigmund Freud and his patriarchal conception of sex. (wikipedia) more
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