John Bonham
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IlConte

John Bonham | DeRank™: 12,86

In the Midlands pubs, they didn’t want him because he played too loudly; it’s a pity that all the bands wanted him as their drummer. He never considered himself great, too humble. I won't even talk about the drummer; he made history. The man Bonham is my closest traveling companion, perhaps because we are similar (we were born on the same day). A sensitive person, deeply connected to his family; he hated being away so much that he had to become someone else, and with alcohol, he eliminated his paranoia and insecurities and became the Beast. But John was one of us, someone who found his greatest happiness and serenity on his tractor at his farm. A beautiful book (which obviously didn’t achieve "success" because it didn’t spew nonsense for shock value) is the one written by his brother a few years ago. It shows us Bonham, the man, with both his strengths and flaws, like everyone else. Thank you, John Henry, for the next birthday we will celebrate, as always, together. I hope you and your friend Keith are somewhere breaking some eardrums as always. more
Jimi Hendrix
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IlConte

Jimi Hendrix | DeRank™: 2,17

There’s Hendrix… Then all the various rankings start, said by someone who adores Page, Beck, Blackmore, Gallagher. How this guitarist has revolutionized everything is unique. more
Pet Shop Boys
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Pet Shop Boys | DeRank™: 0,00

Let's be clear, beyond the fact that they are 80's symbols, "always on my mind," "west end girl," "suburbia," "it's a sin" are little gems.
The best duo ever. more
The Velvet Underground
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The Velvet Underground | DeRank™: -11,14

"only 100 people bought Velvet Underground & Nico"... Thank God, people don’t really want to listen to """music""" as horrifying as this more
Neutral Milk Hotel
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Neutral Milk Hotel | DeRank™: 0,00

Oh my God, the singer is awful, and the music is terrible? Why is certain stuff being listened to? more
Neu!
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Neu! | DeRank™: 0,00

What could possibly be genius in a boring essay repeated for minutes and minutes? Unlistenable. more
Iron Maiden
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Iron Maiden | DeRank™: -0,24

A disgusting band symbol of a disgusting genre more
Lorenzo Lotto
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serenella

Lorenzo Lotto | DeRank™: 0,24

VENICE, 1527
Renaissance Venice is the city where the great Venetian artist Lorenzo Lotto is born and studies painting, a man who, during his life, will not receive the approval and success he deserved.
Lotto was a strange character, who must have seemed too restless and saturnine even for the rather liberal atmospheres of the salons in the Venetian patrician homes. more
King Crimson
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King Crimson | DeRank™: 0,68

The chameleons of progressive rock, capable of evolving from a seminal debut ("In The Court Of The Crimson King") to a "trilogy" of albums marked by experimentation (primarily jazz) ("In The Wake Of Poseidon," "Lizard," "Islands"), smoothing out and refining their sound during the golden triennium of Wetton-Fripp-Bruford ("Larks' Tongues In Aspic," "Starless And The Bible Black" and especially "Red," their greatest demonstration of maturity), returning in 1981 with a prog-new wave masterpiece ("Discipline"), all the way to the modernization of their sound, without falling into the commercial and without contaminating the progressive spirit that has been spreading since 1969... I believe that's enough to place them among the top 5 bands of all time... thank you very much, King Crimson... more
Sangue misto
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Sangue misto | DeRank™: 0,62

5 disk + 5 career + 5 elements = 15 more
Il serpente e l'infinito
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serenella

Il serpente e l'infinito | DeRank™: 0,00

In the beginning, there were therefore: the infinite serpent and silence, in other words, the absence of any sound or gesture that accompanies the first image, then absence and necessity brought forth time and breath-of-wind which, crushing the serpent, compelled it to act. more
L'infinito
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serenella

L'infinito | DeRank™: 0,00

Today we are afraid of the infinite because we no longer know where it begins, and, what is worse, we don't care to know. The future also doesn't interest us because novelties, whether beautiful or ugly, come in such a rapid and frantic succession that we are no longer concerned with what might happen in five, ten, or twenty years: rather, what will happen tomorrow or the day after becomes much more interesting. more
Steve Hogarth
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mrbluesky

Steve Hogarth | DeRank™: 0,92

Authentic Magnetic Splendid front man, author and composer, absolute artist who has restored glory to a band and an entire genre when we thought it was all over. Thank you, Mr. H. more
Sepultura
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Sepultura | DeRank™: 0,33

Great until the abandonment of "his majesty" Cavalera, with his burps and his moves, then they obviously lost their way. more
Elton John
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Elton John | DeRank™: -0,03

He has written great pieces like "your song" and "rocket man," but as a person, he has always been quite boastful, obsessed with crude and embarrassing sexual references, and from the '80s onward, completely sold out to a very kitschy chart pop ("sacrifice" is just ridiculous... him with platinum blonde hair moving like an obese eel, well... whatever). Today, he is a wealthy, arrogant, snobbish, and a bit gay. more
Ronald Reagan
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Ronald Reagan | DeRank™: 0,00

The one Bill Hicks hated to death, the one who started a campaign against Gaddafi, the one who called the USSR the "evil empire," the one who was nearly assassinated, who had cancer multiple times but survived anyway, a political figure often regarded as one of America's greatest statesmen, an emblematic representation of the most rampant U.S. imperialism and the militarism that emanated from him to later merge into the various Bush-Clinton mandates in a desert of wars. Coincidentally, one of the architects of the policy that "de facto" brought down Soviet Russia (at the time he skillfully did it by "softening" the only vaguely "pacifist" and non-reactionary Soviet leader, who paid the price for these characteristics). more
Yoko Ono
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Yoko Ono | DeRank™: 0,51

Maybe it's me who doesn't understand, but I don't see what Yoko has to do with the music. P.S.: it's not her fault that the Beatles split up. more
Pink Floyd -The Endless River
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Pink Floyd — The Endless River | DeRank™: 0,49

I found it truly beautiful; it’s the perfect conclusion of their journey, a instrumental, continuous, and emotional stream of consciousness that represents well what has always been their deepest essence: the journey in music, in whatever way it is conceived. Notably, it opens and closes in the same way as their four pearls from the '70s, almost further highlighting the idea of the "Infinite River" at the core of the album (and their music in general). And then, just like with the previous "The Division Bell", I feel particularly attached to this, since these are the only two albums of theirs that I have experienced live, due to my age. more