Faust'O -Suicidio
a concentration of nightmares and visions, grafted onto complex and unpredictable arrangements more
883
stuff for second-year kindergarten kids more
Metallica -Garage Inc.
Double album, over two hours of music and not a single cover that comes even close to the original. I don't know what they were hoping to achieve, but the burps and the nonsense they say into the microphone between songs are just so endearing, making it clear that they are passionate big kids. more
Fabrizio De André
The best singer-songwriter of all time. Period. more
Death SS
Legend! Black/doom metal ante-litteram since the '70s, the so-called "horror metal," which also anticipates the visual-musical formula that the more famous Mercyful Fate would adopt a few years later. Essential is the lineup with guitarist Paul Chain (1977-1984), and the subsequent (master)works up to "Panic" are very solid. A demonstration that innovative proposals do not only come from abroad. more
The Saints
their debut album is my absolute favorite punk '77 record...screw the Sex Pistols, Ramones, and the like. more
The Who -Tommy
A rounded 5. For me, just a tad below "Quadrophenia" and "Who's Next"... more
The Who -My Generation
A too important, historical album... Giving less than 5 is impossible for me!! more
Cannabis
Trash, you can't hit a note anymore. more
Jovanotti
Rating 0 - - It's not my style and I find Jovanotti quite annoying. more
Amok
The Swiss Archspire. Is there anything else to add?! more
Joy Division
I listen almost every day, compulsively, one or more times, to the album "Unknown Pleasures." Ian's voice has captured my soul, the music simultaneously destroys and enchants me. Pure, minimal suffering, no need for grandiloquent words. I can no longer live without Joy Division; they have become a part of my life. I wish I could relive the first listen of "Unknown Pleasures" ten thousand times. more
Zygoat
2 men who sounded like an orchestra and a composer who composed like Beethoven, but American. more
Depeche Mode -Sounds Of The Universe
And finally, the moment has arrived to talk about a Depeche Mode album that struck me in an almost entirely negative way. A sense of déjà vu, of having heard better things before, and of boredom, pervades most of the thirteen tracks that make up the album; aside from the long and nighttime "In Chains," which opens the work, or the driving lead single "Wrong," there is very little else to salvage. The first and only slight misstep in an otherwise exemplary career...HOLE TO FEED... more
Iron Maiden -Killers
With Di'Anno, it was a whole different story. more
Joy Division -Unknown Pleasures
The ultimate expression of darkness, even more than The Cure for me.
A poetic album, as devastating as life was for Ian Curtis.
You don't need much technique to create Art. A few perfectly calibrated chords complete the circle of one of the most important albums in the history of music. more
Neurosis -Times of Grace
A sonic revolution whose echo can still be felt.
An album to be experienced. more