Death -Individual Thought Patterns
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Thanks to my Rosaspina! (02/23/2023) more
Brian Eno -Discreet Music
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Brian Eno — Discreet Music | DeRank™: 0,00

Thanks to my Rosaspina!* (02/23/2023) more
Antonio Albanese
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Antonio Albanese | DeRank™: 0,00

Antonio Albanese is an actor, director, comedian, writer, cabaret performer, impersonator, and voice actor from Italy. more
Anthony Phillips -Sides
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Anthony Phillips — Sides | DeRank™: 0,00

The third album, if we consider the "PPP" series as a separate section of his discography, is overall a very beautiful record, but its quality is sharply divided in half. In the first half, there's an Ant who gives a bit too much to a light pop, perhaps with a hopeful eye on the charts, resulting in mixed outcomes (a couple of songs are frankly not great, especially "I Will Love You," a cheesy slow-pop number that's really far from his usual style, but others are quite nice, like "Um & Aargh" and "Lucy Will"). However, in the second half of "Sides," the level clearly rises; Ant moves away from hesitant "pop-rock" attempts and alternates between returning to his typical acoustic territories and experimenting with harder, fuller sounds ("Nightmare" is very Hackett, for example), definitely more electric and far from the pop songs of the first half. In this latter half, every piece is excellent, just great songs for Ant, which elevate "Sides" to an absolutely valid album, with just a couple of throwaway tracks at the start. As always, Ant plays all the guitars and keyboards, but here, except for a few songs, he often hands the microphone over to various other singers. Ah, the cover with the foosball is beautiful. more
Grinderswitch -Pullin' Together
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Grinderswitch — Pullin' Together | DeRank™: 0,00

I can't compete with certain comments, so I'll keep it to a minimum. Solid southern rock band, nice album, with at least a couple of truly remarkable tracks. more
Anthony Phillips -Wise After the Event
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An album that has grown in my esteem over the years. From being a very valid work, it has become, for me, a stunning piece, imbued with all of Ant's particular sensitivity, his intimate melodic, harmonic, and compositional delicacy; Ant's style in this album reveals itself more than ever as a child of the great POP melody Masters of the '60s and '70s, as well as of British folk in general, yet all of this is filtered through a highly personal and immediately recognizable style, the same one that indelibly marked the early phase of Genesis' career. Ant is so unique in his classical essence that on certain occasions, in some of these beautiful songs, the melodies, his singing, the touches of shy, discreet notes sound so fragile, so ephemeral almost, that they frighteningly remind me of the delicate and often painful melodies of much singer-songwriter or folk-pop "indie" (let's say...) from the '90s and '00s, something I hadn't noticed before but now sounds quite evident; not always, but sometimes it emerges strongly. Ant, who here begins to skillfully navigate keyboards and piano in addition to his mainly acoustic guitars, and who lends his voice—perfect for these songs—to the entire album, creates a masterpiece of intimate songwriting with a melodious sense that is simply sublime. Stunning. more
Metallica -Master Of Puppets
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Metallica — Master Of Puppets | DeRank™: 0,00

The most reviewed album of the realm more
Bee Gees -Bee Gees' 1st
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Bee Gees — Bee Gees' 1st | DeRank™: 0,00

First of all: this "1st" is an album that lies knowing it's lying, since it's not the first at all, but the third; sure, it's the first sold outside of their homeland, and the first two real albums are remembered only by a couple of dingoes and some poisonous snakes out there, but whatever. Seriously though, the international debut of the Bee Gees is the first of many pop gems they would produce in the following years. Following in the clear wake of the Beatles and fully integrated into the pop/psych-pop scene of the time (just look at that perfectly sixties cover), it reveals their talent for writing memorable pop songs, with a personal touch mainly given by Robin Gibb's quivering tone and melodramatic melodic sensibility. First among these pop songs is "To Love Somebody," an impeccable evergreen that will enter the repertoire of many giant artists (in versions that surpass this original, which nonetheless remains a flawless pop song); then there's "Holiday," "New York Mining Disaster 1941," "Turn of the Century," "Please Read Me," and so on. The quintessential beautiful pop album of the '60s. more
The Bee Gees -Idea
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The Bee Gees — Idea | DeRank™: 6,92

Great album, the best of the BiGis after "Odessa." I adore songs like "In the Summer of His Years," "Idea," and "I Started a Joke," but overall there's a string of beautiful pop songs and inspired melodies that stick in your head, following one after another with admirable continuity, with very rare "minor" or poorly executed moments. Truly excellent. more
Bee Gees -Main Course
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Bee Gees — Main Course | DeRank™: 0,00

For me, the last valid album by the Bee Gees. They're starting to peek into more danceable rhythms (see "Jive Talkin'," which is a good piece in its own right) or approaching more R&B sounds (the pleasant "Wind of Change" above all), but especially it introduces Barry's infamous falsetto, particularly in the closing track "Baby As You Turn Away," a song I would have gladly done without. Instead, I've always had a soft spot for "Nights on Broadway," and I also like "All This Making Love" and the piano-voice ballad "Songbird," which has a bit of an Elton John vibe. However, the masterpiece comes with the last "old-school" sting from the Bee Gees, the beautiful "Country Lanes," a gem where Robin's trembling voice takes center stage again with their typical melodramatic and melancholic melodies. The country ballad "Come on Over" is also nice, a classic from the "old Bee Gees," later covered by Olivia Newton John (Eh...). more
bee gees -trafalgar
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bee gees — trafalgar | DeRank™: 0,00

Once it was my favorite, now it’s no longer. I love "Lion in Winter" and especially "Israel" with Barry's incredibly awkward yells that make it sound like he’s being choked in the studio. "Walking Back to Waterloo" is the only one that comes close to the best pop gems of "Odessa" or "Idea." The title track is nice too. The rest of the album is filled with ballads that are frankly a bit too monotonous and cloying, some are beautiful, others definitely less so. Nevertheless, here are some of the most beautiful things from the trio, like Barry's incredibly awkward yells in "Israel," #falsettostocazzo. more
Bee Gees -Spirits Having Flown
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Bee Gees — Spirits Having Flown | DeRank™: 0,00

I used to kind of like it, but after listening again, almost out of "curiosity," I couldn't even make it to the halfway point. It just proves how the Bee Gees, for me, end after "Main Course" (and their true golden period actually ends even earlier, in the early '70s). Unfortunately, this genre is so far from my taste; even in "Disco" or whatever it is, there are things I appreciate more. "Saturday Night Fever," although I don't like it, is undoubtedly a milestone beautifully crafted around the film of the same name. This album, on the other hand, represents a side of "Pop-Disco" (totally random terms, sorry) that I can no longer digest. I hear bad taste and harmful tackiness everywhere, good only for listening to a piece of trash, in my ears. That falsetto, those overly polished sounds, those damned little screams, oh my... I know it's an important album in the genre, but to me, it's garbage. Sorry. more
Bee Gees -Odessa
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Bee Gees — Odessa | DeRank™: 3,00

The great legacy of the Bee Gees to pop music, a wonderfully inspired gem of 17 tracks without a dip in quality, imaginative, diverse, full of pop pearls with just a couple of songs below par. Among American tours, delightful instrumentals, and quirky gems like "Whisper Whisper," all things that add variety and color to the album, we find the definitive epic ballad of the group, "Lamplight," incredibly inspired in melody and truly moving. And then the title track, "Black Diamond," and many more. Truly beautiful. more
Blue Öyster Cult -On Your Feet on or Your Knees
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This is truly a great live album; BOC translates exceptionally well on stage. It's the band's first live record, which "celebrates" and wraps up their "golden" period, that of their first three albums (especially the two outstanding ones from '73-'74). Compared to the much lighter studio sound, here they lean much more towards Hard Rock/Hard Blues, with a much more muscular and aggressive sound and with the typical live approach of rock bands from the '60s and '70s: elongated tracks (albeit in a rather contained manner compared to many other rock bands of the time) with improvisations and alterations compared to the studio versions (like the phenomenal rendition of "The Subhuman" that opens the album or the splendid execution of "7 Screaming Diz-Busters") or other pieces that are true outlets for expression, freedom, and improvisation, particularly guitar-driven (though occasionally allowing for some excellent solos from Lanier) and Rock-Blues, in the instrumental "Buck's Boogie," in "ME 262," or in the two closing covers, including a "Born to be Wild" that transforms into a guitar maelstrom of pure psychedelic rock. Even "Last Days of May" is in a version superior to the already beautiful song featured on the first album (one of the best from that debut), and "Hot Rails Hell" always kicks ass. It's a shame to miss out on excellent tracks like "Astronomy," "Flaming Telepaths," or "O.D.'d on Life Itself," but the album is still really cool. more
Banco Del Mutuo Soccorso -Darwin!
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Banco Del Mutuo Soccorso — Darwin! | DeRank™: 6,21

Second in a series of three consecutive excellent works by Banco; with "Darwin!" I have a small paradox: of the trilogy of their best albums, this is the one I like slightly less overall, but it also contains my absolute favorite song by BMS ("750.000 anni fa... l'amore"). Minutiae and trifles aside, we’re talking about a fabulous record, the most complex of their works, as I’ve always perceived it. Among other things, Banco, especially Vittorio Nocenzi, confirms his mastery in creating particularly unique and personal atmospheres and in building grand "musical images." They are probably the best at doing this in the Italian "prog" scene, and it's one of their great strengths. In "Darwin!" Vittorio Nocenzi, with his keyboards and synthesizers, unleashes himself in creating exciting and multifaceted sounds that make this album a vibrant microcosm of fabulous sonorities, all while not forgetting their sublime, dramatic sense of melody. Splendid. more
Grey Daze -The Phoenix
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Grey Daze — The Phoenix | DeRank™: 0,00

Fourth studio album from Chester Bennington's first band. The record features the remastering and reimagining of tracks from the first two albums "Wake Me" from 1994 and "...No Sun Today" from 1997. more
Skiantos
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Skiantos | DeRank™: 0,00

remember for some unworthy little songs suited for a 3-year-old, overrated out of fear more
Alessandro Alessandroni
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Alessandro Alessandroni | DeRank™: 0,00

Not just the whistle of Morricone that everyone knows, but a prolific author and composer. Library music and soundtracks, up to some of the smoothest funk ever recorded in Italy. more