Premiata Forneria Marconi: Per un amico
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Premiata Forneria Marconi: Per un amico
27 mar 23
Here’s the main example for when I say that I don't love PFM as much as other names in Italian prog. "Per un amico" is an album that leaves me cold; it gives me the impression of a band that has created "the progressive album exactly as one would expect it to be" in the most institutionalized way possible: an elegant record, tracks with complex and multifaceted structures, numerous time changes, rhythms, styles, and atmospheres, played by excellent musicians... and none of it feels fully convincing. The compositions seem to lack cohesive flow, with various sections and constant shifts within this or that piece (for example, "Appena un po' ") appearing too distinct from one another—moments of well-played music but not particularly inspired, failing to create organic and truly engaging compositions. Moreover, the fragile and limp singing, with the exception of a few hints of bucolic sweetness borrowed from the atmospheres of "Storia di un minuto," further penalizes the album this time. It certainly saves itself with those beautiful melodic moments that, especially in this case, the keyboards of Premoli bestow here and there in this or that piece ("Geranio") or with other nicely placed touches, like Mussida's beautiful electric guitar on "Generale" or the title track, which is a good song. Yet, it gives me the impression of a forcedly intricate album that overall lacks inspiration.
Primus: Miscellaneous Debris
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Primus: Miscellaneous Debris
17 mar 13
Primus: Sailing the Seas of Cheese
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Primus: Sailing the Seas of Cheese
27 nov 12
Primus: Frizzle Fry
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Primus: Frizzle Fry
27 nov 12
Primus: Pork Soda
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Primus: Pork Soda
27 nov 12
My Name Is Mud. M-m-m-ud.
Prince & The New Power Generation: Diamonds and Pearls
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Prince & The New Power Generation: Diamonds and Pearls
22 mar 18
So far, the last album I listened to by Prince. I still find it a good album, even though the little guy is starting to consistently head towards musical shores that are less congenial to me, but there is still plenty of Funk/R&B/Soul/Pop and the pieces with irresistible rhythms are definitely not lacking. "Live 4 Love" is my favorite, but there are other great songs ("Insatiable," "Willing and Able," "Gett Off") and I even like tracks that are normally distant from my tastes, so oh, good for him ("Jughead"). But let’s get to the serious stuff: after a Jenny Calendar (those who grew up watching "Buffy" know...) like this Prince & The New Power Generation - Gett Off (Official Music Video) when will we get the revelation that the drummer of Death was actually Tonio Cartonio in disguise? I mean, that’s the direction we’re headed in, oh.
  • Mr Funk
    22 mar 18
    D&P is a purely commercial album. WB was pressuring Prince to reduce the material to be released to avoid saturating the market. Prince responded with this album, which enjoyed good commercial success, even placing a single (Cream) at the top of the US charts. Thanks to D&P, Prince secured a $100 million contract with WB, the most lucrative deal ever obtained by any rock artist up to that point. However, I recommend you listen to the next album, which is untitled except for the famous Love Symbol. It is a significantly superior work to D&P, both in terms of composition and production, featuring some excellent funk tracks (Sexy M.F.; The Max, The Sacrifice of Victor, Arrogance), soul/rock ballads (The Morning Papers, Damn U, And God Created Woman, 7), and other more experimental songs, from the reggae of Blue Light, to the techno of Wanna Melt With U, to the chaotic My Name is Prince, all the way to the rock opera of 3 Chains o' Gold.
  • hjhhjij
    22 mar 18
    Here, yes, "Cream" We want to emphasize that Angel was, is, and will always be a gigantic pain in the ass, an enemy of beautiful things? No, never mind, childhood traumas... I would have liked to have a computer science teacher like that too :(
  • hjhhjij
    22 mar 18
    I'm sorry, but I can't access or translate content from specific URLs or external links. If you provide a specific text, I'd be happy to help translate it!
  • hjhhjij
    22 mar 18
    Oh, here it is.
  • Belghazi
    22 mar 18
    3 Chains O' Gold is basically Prince doing Queen :D Check out the Black Album hj, for me it's easily one of Prince's best.
  • hjhhjij
    22 mar 18
    Absolutely agree, I've listened to (and re-evaluated) all the ones from the '80s; I'm just missing the first two, which are more classically soulful from the late '70s. The Black Album is one of his best, raw, genuine, and wonderfully Fanc. The stuff of Prince that sounds like Queen, I'm not sure if it's exhilarating or terrifying.
Pussy Galore: Right Now!
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Pussy Galore: Right Now!
16 dec 12
Masterpiece. Extreme and rotten, yet irresistible.
  • SilasLang
    16 dec 12
    ENORMOUS record. Shit, Heroin and Rn'R.
  • hjhhjij
    16 dec 12
    Yes, indeed it's only rock'n roll even if it's under a blanket of annoyingly (cool) noise and pure madness. I've said it before and I'll say it again, it's a personal opinion, but for me, it's one of the coolest things to come out of the '80s.
  • SilasLang
    16 dec 12
    This album is in the pantheon for me. You see, you also have a punk spirit, deep down, don't you? ;)
  • hjhhjij
    16 dec 12
    I have become that (partly) :D A year ago, I would have given this record a one, but fortunately, things change ;)
    What about the others, how are they, the ones I only know scattered pieces of? By the way, I had heard that Hagerty left the band after this.
  • SilasLang
    16 dec 12
    I highly recommend the album Sugarshit Sharp. Slightly more "palatable" but just as great. The second album, Dial M, is cool too, but this and Sugarshit are the best, for me. Hagerty is there until Dial M, if I'm not mistaken.
  • hjhhjij
    16 dec 12
    Up to and including Dial M? Anyway, I'll try to get the EP (it's the one with the Neubauten cover, right? I'm really curious to listen to it) then. Not right away because I think I'll resume listening to the Swans (most likely re-listening to that bomb of Children of God), but as soon as possible. Thank you :)
  • SilasLang
    16 dec 12
    Yes, yes, it's on Dial M Hagerty.
  • hjhhjij
    16 dec 12
    Well then :) A-ri-grazie.
  • SilasLang
    16 dec 12
    I think Sugarshit in CD reissue also contains quite a few bonuses, if I'm not mistaken, I don't know why I have it on 12". Anyway! Enjoy listening ;)
Pussy Galore: Sugarshit Sharp
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Pussy Galore: Sugarshit Sharp
11 apr 13
A magnificent EP, a worthy successor to the undeniably unreachable masterpiece Right Now.
Pussy Galore: Dial
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Pussy Galore: Dial 'M' For Motherfucker
12 jul 13
Pussy Galore: Live: In the Red
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Pussy Galore: Live: In the Red
7 mar 23
The true epitaph of Pussy Galore. An incendiary live recording from August 1989, a band that was already unraveling, Hagerty lost in drugs and Royal Trux, Cafritz already out of the group, Bert off doing his own thing, the Spencer-Martinez duo caught between Boss Hog and the last attempts to keep this band of crazies afloat. What emerges is a fabulous live performance, as dirty and raw as few, with the greatest jolts coming from the 4 tracks of Right Now! The garage-blues-noise that sets everything ablaze.
Pussy Galore: Groovy Hate Fuck (Feel Good About Your Body)
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Pussy Galore: Groovy Hate Fuck (Feel Good About Your Body)
7 mar 23
Recipe for Pussy Galore: take a hefty chunk of the rawest Garage Rock possible, preferably a bit rancid, cousin of the Cramps and nephew of the wildest garage bands of the '60s, mix it with its natural twin of Rolling Stones-style R'n'R, soak it with a good liter of Blues, but the Blues left to rot, darkened, that murky and shamanic cult brother of the Birthday Party's blues drift, and stuff it with a generous dose of everything that was the fury of Punk (and maybe even Hardcore-Punk) about ten years before. Alright, now blend it all; is the blender making noise? Great, because there's a need for plenty of "Noise" to cover the final result, along with a vocalist, Jon Spencer, who is a wild, shamanic voice, a beastly singer worthy of the Morrison-Iggy lineage, a younger brother of the Cave and Inner Light; of course, this is when the three guitars, divided between garage riffs and delirious noise clatter (Hagerty, Cafritz, and Spencer himself) don't almost completely drown out the furious performances. On drums, still John Hammill and not Bob Bert.
So, what does Pussy Galore sound like? The fiercest Garage, violent in sonic assault and dirty, that you can imagine. Or Garage/Noise/Blues/Punk/R'n'R to create the collage of terms.
Queen: Live Killers
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Queen: Live Killers
27 dec 13
Queen: Innuendo
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Queen: Innuendo
2 feb 22
The best Queen album since '76, arriving when no one expected them to make a truly valid and worthy pop record anymore, just at the final rush of Mercury, a step away from the end. The title track is beautiful and one of the best songs of their entire career, "Don't Try so Hard" follows closely behind, Mercury is often majestic (maybe helped by studio tricks and post-production, because it seems he was quite in bad shape, but still majestic) and above all his interpretations are, for obvious reasons, more vibrant and heartfelt than ever. Even the less successful and more pandering tracks (this time a minority) closer to the rubbish of the previous decade, never reach those depths, while most of the songs are well-crafted pop, dignified, pleasant, well-made, with some really good pieces. The only clunker is the one with the cat; the guitar purring is fine (after all, Belew let the whole zoo loose with his guitar) but there’s a limit to trash. Of course, here and there, the melancholic specter of Mercury’s end looms; this is the "mature" album by Queen. One of the best Queen albums and also the one with the coolest artwork of all, almost a sublimation of their former nature as flamboyant glam-rock-poppers who never took themselves too seriously.
  • Onirica
    2 feb 22
    Bijou is worth mentioning, though.
  • hjhhjij
    2 feb 22
    Mine is just a comment, I don’t have to mention them all, I go with the flow. Of course, "Bijou" is one of the gems of this album.
  • Onirica
    2 feb 22
    Don't worry, it wasn't meant to be a warning. And you're right, it's just a definition. It's just that it's my favorite from the album along with the Andalusian title track.
  • hjhhjij
    2 feb 22
    But of course, I wasn’t taking it personally :D It's definitely one of the most valid ones.
  • Pink84
    3 feb 22
    And what if I tell you that for me this is their best album... what do you say to that??
  • hjhhjij
    3 feb 22
    It's true. That he is one of the most capable is a given.
  • Flame
    3 feb 22
    mmmmmah ... I experienced the release of this album firsthand, a lot of time has passed, and I think today it can be judged objectively without fearing disrespect towards the Mercury situation. I remember that after a few listens, aside from the title track, the rest smelled musty to me even back then, like the haphazard hard rock of Hitman, the insipid I'm Going Slightly Mad, and I always found the rest very bland. Then he must have had an enormous struggle to sing, and he certainly put his all into it, that must be acknowledged, but an album must be evaluated primarily for the value of the music it contains.
    Today, I believe the only albums that might hold any interest are the first three, then some scattered songs up to Jazz. The Queen of the 80s, for me, is forgettable and can only have a nostalgic value for old fans; I don’t think they will remain in collective memory for much longer.
  • Flame
    3 feb 22
    In the Queen of the 80s, I also include this even if it's from '91.
  • hjhhjij
    3 feb 22
    The Queen of the '80s is crap, it's not that they are forgettable. That's why I say that "Innuendo" seems to me to be clearly, but so much, on another level, a much more honest and pleasant pop. As far as I'm concerned, all the first 5 Queen albums (if you like the first 3, I find it hard to forget the subsequent two; they have the same coordinates :D) I like quite a bit, they are very entertaining albums, taken for what they are, even with their flaws and their kitsch exaggerations, which sometimes irritate and other times are among the best aspects of those albums. This is different, less fun, more "serious" (obviously), less sparkling, but in terms of writing, it disintegrates not only, too easy, the '80s albums but for me also "News of the World" or "Jazz" (an album I can't stand, good only for the three singles, perfectly spot-on). But there you go, I mean, it's just a matter of taste, it’s not that it’s an incredible album or anything, so whether you like it or not matters little.
  • hjhhjij
    3 feb 22
    However, I can say that in my opinion, when you say "I don’t think they will remain in collective memory for much longer," you are making a big mistake. You confuse musical quality with commercial impact. The Queen of the '80s are the ones that will be most indelibly etched in collective memory; Queen is shockingly iconic, they are on par with the Beatles, and for some, even more so. We will never get rid of them from collective memory, Flame. That they may be completely bland artistically is a point I completely agree with you on, but that's a different discussion.
  • Flame
    3 feb 22
    I've always found Night at ... and Day at ... to be a mix of styles that I've never really digested. Sheer Heart Attack is somewhat like that too, but there I feel an urgency that I don't perceive in the next two. News and Jazz just a few pieces.
  • hjhhjij
    3 feb 22
    Ahahaahaha exactly exactly. As I always say, that soup either someone likes it, or they have fun with it, or they throw it out the window, I totally get it. And what you say about Sheer is true.
  • Flame
    3 feb 22
    I don't agree with your second comment. I've also experienced the unbearable resurgence of fans in Italy following Mercury's death (second only in unbearable-ness to Vasco's), it's them who keep that 80s stuff alive. In my opinion, the new generations don’t pay them much attention; the only ones who will bring them back from oblivion in the future are young rockers who go digging up past rock records to hone their craft and evolve the genre. Come on Guin, if you have to recover something, what do you recover? The 80s? ...
  • hjhhjij
    3 feb 22
    No Flame, the Queen of the '80s are part of the collective imagination far beyond the toxic fan base of the band, I tell you this from personal experience, which is clearly different from yours. You are more optimistic than I am about this matter; I think it will always be the Queen's songs that will be listened to first and that will remain in the imagination (additionally, among those who will discover them anew, many will stop at those because most people have atrophied musical tastes). Got it, I’m pessimistic; I would gladly forget them, huh :D
  • Flame
    3 feb 22
    I wouldn’t know, if your predictions are true, a good part of the credit will go to the advertising that’s recycling that stuff like crazy.
  • hjhhjij
    3 feb 22
    It's all part of the package. But I secretly hope you're right.
  • Pink84
    3 feb 22
    Yet, their '80s might be crap, but I personally don't mind them... do I have bad taste??? :) :)
  • hjhhjij
    3 feb 22
    Ahahahahaha nothing that a good ENT can't fix 😂
  • Pink84
    3 feb 22
    🙄
  • Onirica
    3 feb 22
    I agree with @[hjhhjij], we are the champions, we will rock you, radio gaga and all that stuff drives the new generations crazy too (just look at the success of the movie)... we’ll never get rid of them.
  • hjhhjij
    3 feb 22
    Do they still play that damned lullaby at the Champions League final?
  • Mr Funk
    4 feb 22
    This discussion reassures me; I thought I was the only one who considered the '80s Queen a joke. To be honest, I don't even like the '70s stuff, but that's just personal taste. However, with all the hype built around that little movie, I figured everyone had lost their minds.
  • fedezan76
    5 feb 22
    I've never liked Queen, but Innuendo and The Show Must Go On are absolutely insane masterpieces.
Queen: Queen II
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Queen: Queen II
20 mar 18
My favorite from the little queen. Bruno Mars pulls out the most beautiful song of their entire career, "White Queen (As it Began)," with a fabulous interpretation by Federico Mercurio, who in turn composes his trash-pompous masterpiece that is the splendid "The March of the Black Queen." Another great track is "Some Day One Day," sung by Bruno himself and one of their best. Others that drive me crazy are "Fairy Feller's Master Stroke" and "Ogre Battle" (with those super trashy backing vocals, but I've always loved it). In general, the quality remains good; in this sense, I find it their most "compact" album. "White Queen," however, is a masterpiece of a song; how the hell Bruno wrote it, not even he knows.
  • hellraiser
    21 mar 18
    Is Bruno Maggio a cousin of the one from Napoli? Or of Pasquale Bruno? Aside from the bullshit legendary album, the essence of Queen.
  • hjhhjij
    21 mar 18
    The father.
Queen: A Night At The Opera
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Queen: A Night at the Opera
20 mar 18
The last of the best triptych of the little queen, for me this is a great album, an incredibly successful mash-up of genres and styles, a gaudy and excessive spectacle that never gives the impression of taking itself too seriously, on the contrary ("Seaside Rendezvous" or the laziness of a Sunday afternoon or Taylor singing about his car, or even "Good Company") seems like the perfect musical equivalent of a Trash B-Movie that, for some reason, is beautiful and fun. Every now and then the excess becomes detrimental but overall it’s an album that never tires me. I like "39" with May on vocals, and Mercury brings out two of the band's best pieces: besides Bohemian, I'm talking about "Death on Two Legs."
  • puntiniCAZpuntini
    20 mar 18
    Never understood how you distinguish Queen's albums. First, I had the cassette with the best of, years later the CD-ROM, and even more years later I made another one to remove the "rock" tracks or even the ones that were just a bit too guitar-heavy for them.
    But I know that here there's Lazy on a Sunday Afternoon, and that's a track you rarely find elsewhere.
  • puntiniCAZpuntini
    20 mar 18
    Well, actually I wanted to say: I never understood how to listen to a whole Queen album. I've tried a bunch of times, but at least 3 tracks you skip as if there were no tomorrow.
  • hjhhjij
    20 mar 18
    I’m someone who stoically endures; it’s hard for me to skip a song, and anyway, it’s easily resolvable since I usually listen to them every once in a while, always stopping at the first 5 albums where things are better. Okay, maybe there are a couple of absolutely skippable tracks per album, but damn, some time ago I tried to listen to "Jazz" again, and it’s not that you skip 3 tracks there; you save 3, it’s different—the singles, the rest is garbage. If you stop at '76, listening to them in full is easier, and there are some beautiful pieces. Here’s "Lazy on a Sunday"—this is the Queen I like the most; the gems of this album are in tracks like this (and it doesn’t last long anyway). Even some of the guitar-driven stuff is nice, but overall, I agree.
Queen: A Day At The Races
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Queen: A Day at the Races
14 dec 22
The last truly great album by Queen before "Innuendo," fifteen years later. I've also reassessed this A Day at the Races; it's inferior to the previous three albums, but only just a little. It's a lovely work that wraps up the theme of "maturation" or greater ambition that began splendidly with A Night at the Opera. A quartet of particularly successful songs for me: "Somebody to Love," of course, one of the best in the Mercury repertoire; the other 100% Queen track, "The Millionaire Waltz," which recalls the operetta/suite style of Zeman's Rhapsody with changes in tempo, rhythm, and style, and is almost equally successful, very beautiful; the usual old-fashioned playful track "Good Old-Fashioned (indeed) Lover Boy" and the concluding choral ballad "Teo Torriatte," a cheeky... erm, homage to the band's Japanese fans, featuring a polyglot vocal from Freddie Mercury, a stunning melody but also a "stadium" chorus that the following year will find its ultimate sublimation in the two most annoying songs in all of music history. On the hard rock side, I find "White Man" to be more beautiful than "Tie Your Mother Down" (catchy, nice, but nothing exceptional), and then there are a few small gems scattered among the lesser tracks, which are all quite nice actually; perhaps the most charming among these is Taylor's "Drowse."
Queen: Made In Heaven
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Queen: Made in Heaven
9 apr 15
Shabby commercial-necrophilic operation. I even gave it away to someone just to get it out of my house, and I collect it under "Never (I don't care)" because these options in de-collection are awesome :D
  • Alemisso
    9 apr 15
    My favorite song from this album is "Yeah", it lasts only 4 seconds, and together with the last track, the 11-minute one, it really helps me when I'm on the toilet.
  • Alemisso
    9 apr 15
    My favorite song from this album is "Yeah", it lasts only 4 seconds, and together with the last track, the 11-minute one, it really helps me when I'm on the toilet.
  • templare
    9 apr 15
    One of the many reasons why I'm fed up with May than Taylor. At least Deacon had the decency not to continue with this pantomime.
  • templare
    9 apr 15
    ..."both May and Taylor." Pardon.
Queen: Queen
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Queen: Queen Rocks
4 sep 20
The beautiful debut of Queen. Kitsch pastiches, hard rock, pop, glam, ballads—a bit of everything—but they were a fun band that knew how to write some great songs, as long as you can digest the mix. And the choirs. Like "Fairy King," how excessively gaudy is "Fairy King" at more than one moment, yet it's beautiful; I like it a lot. That's the way the Queens are—they took from here and there, never truly original but so personal, positively or negatively, you decide, as they are among the most recognizable bands after half a note of any song. Oh, and Mercury's voice, well. I think this album starts with a bang and then drops off over distance, but it’s a solid debut; there are spot-on singles ("Keep Yourself Alive" but they rarely missed with the singles, even in the worst years), tracks that are a bit too cluttered and heavy even for their standards ("Liar"), and one of the absolute coolest songs of the band, "Great King Rat," the standout of this self-titled debut album. But... "Fairy King"... what a marvelous kitsch.
  • Martello
    4 sep 20
    What I miss about the British band is that they produced two masterpieces like A Night at the Opera and Innuendo, great albums like News of the World and Jazz, but also a rather mediocre album like The Miracle. Still, respect for what Queen did with Mercury.
  • hjhhjij
    4 sep 20
    Why are there Queen without Mercury? Anyway, a rather mediocre album? There's nothing worse than "The Miracle" (in the sense of miraculously bad), but every album of theirs from 1982 to 1989 is a torture. In fact, for me, the truly valid Queen ends with "A Day at the Races"; already "News of the World" convinces me less (and has THOSE TWO songs that damn them, damn them) and "Jazz" is unbearable (really, you find it excellent, even? Just asking) even though all the singles are spot on.
  • hjhhjij
    4 sep 20
    I think the truly juicy trio of the group is "Queen II," "Sheer Heart Attack," and well, "A Night at the Opera." And then there's "A Day at the Races" and "Innuendo" (the unexpected final stroke, just at the end) which are nice. "News of the World" and "The Game" from 1980 are cute. And then there are some singles here and there (like "Ander Presciur").
  • Martello
    4 sep 20
    I've never found jazz so unbearable; in my opinion, it's a nice album with a few good tracks. The last one worth saving is The Game, then there’s a bit of a chasm among the various Radio Gaga.
  • hjhhjij
    4 sep 20
    Oh yes. There are things from the '80s Queen that I would really like to forget, so much.
  • JOHNDOE
    2 nov 20
    NEVER ORIGINAL
    MY FAIRY KING is VERY TACKY

    Is this when you were still using drugs?
Queen: Sheer Heart Attack
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Queen: Sheer Heart Attack
14 dec 22
An album that I really like, just slightly below the previous one and absolutely on par with the next. The usual, incredibly entertaining queenly circus at its maximum splendor and inspiration; here more than ever, ideas that would later be presented on "A Night at the Opera" the following year are anticipated. "Sheer Heart Attack" is a lively, varied, colorful, kitsch, glam, pop, hard-rock album, filled with cabaret interludes, over-the-top choruses, stunning melodies, and silly glitz, all recognizable in a quarter note. Another merit, much more evident than in "Queen II" and "Opera," is the compression of the many ideas, from exaggerated kitsch to the sweetest melodies, into very short songs, averaging a couple of minutes, two and a half tops, sometimes even less, like in the delicate minute-long sketch of "Dear Friends." These are shards of songs, fragments of pop-rock-glam pearls ("Killer Queen," "Flick of the Wrist"), delicate ballads ("Lily of the Valley"), lightning-fast rock moments ("Stone Cold Crazy"), and brief flashes of brilliant retro oddity ("Bring Back That Leroy Brown"). Then there's "In the Lap of the Gods," which is both a curse and a delight, the trash and beauty of the Queen, emblematic of their style, and the "Reprised" version, almost the first "rock-arena" song from Mercury. The few longer tracks also work great (especially "Brighton Rock," a showcase for a great May on guitar, and "She Makes Me," also by May).
Queen: News of the World
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Queen: News of the World
8 apr 12
6.5
Queen: Jazz
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Queen: Jazz
4 sep 20
"Jazz" has three things: "Don't Stop Me Now" (sticky like honey, damn it, a bomb of a pop song that devastates the charts), "Bicycle Race," and "Fat Bottom Girls." Three perfectly spot-on singles. The rest, forgive me, ranges from horrendous to unbearably boring; I can't listen to this album except for those three. Three perfect singles, but the album itself is rather ugly, the first ugly one by Queen.
  • iside
    5 sep 20
    There must be a reason why their best-selling LPs are Greatest Hits I and II.
  • hjhhjij
    5 sep 20
    Oh yes.
Queen: The Game
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Queen: The Game
16 jan 22
The only decent album by Queen in the '80s. Oh my, it's not that I’m particularly fond of this one either, but it's still better than the subsequent quartet of horrors. I might prefer it a little over the previous "Jazz," which, aside from the three successful singles, I find largely unbearable; "The Game" is more cohesive and has a higher average quality, in the sense that it's almost entirely composed of completely innocuous and flat pop-rockers, like a cartoon character squashed by a steamroller, but at least it's not unpleasant to the ears. The best is probably the classic Mayan ballad "Save Me," followed by the '50s-early '60s Mercury revival of "Crazy Little Thing," that song about Pavesini. Then yes, there are another 2-3 nice tracks, roughly. There’s obviously "Anada uan baiz de dazt," well-ranked in the #diteloallozioiside all time, and a few really bad tracks ("Coming Soon," but bad-bad-bad, not just useless-bad). In short, it's a salvageable album with some nice and decent moments, certainly, but nothing beautiful.
  • musicalrust
    16 jan 22
    Agreed on everything... among the successful things, I would also include the opening Play The Game, which will indeed be part of their "minor" classics.
  • adrmb
    16 jan 22
    I have lost
  • Onirica
    16 jan 22
    In the 80s, let's not forget about I Want It All, an anthem of hard rock with few equals, and featuring a couple of solos that leave you stunned.
  • hjhhjij
    16 jan 22
    @[adrmb] in what sense?
    @[Onirica] I'm sorry, but that piece for me is the symbol of the garbage left around by Queen in that decade; you picked one of the worst things ever for me, perfectly fitting the (rightful) definition of stadium hard rock. Brr...
  • hjhhjij
    16 jan 22
    @[musicalrust] indeed that's one of the 2-3 nice ones on the album.
  • Onirica
    16 jan 22
    Well, a Final Countdown or a Jump or a You give love a bad name gives it an incredible edge. And the solos are fantastic. Of course, you have to enjoy the genre, but then even The show must go on shouldn't please you; we're always back to square one.
  • hjhhjij
    16 jan 22
    But no, I mean it's still pop, but that is definitely a melancholic pop ballad that could top the charts (well, that's Queen for you) but with a melodic taste far superior to that discount plastic piece. And certainly much more "felt." However, it's true that "I Want It All" gives a nod to the ones you've mentioned; even in the worst cases, the Queen singles were better than others. Still, I find myself saying for the second time today about the deb that I am not interested in competing over which piece of crap stinks more. As you said, the genre should be fun, and to me, that genre is the worst declination of pop music.
  • Onirica
    16 jan 22
    I don't want to compete, come on, it's just that The show also has a big hard-rock-stadium-80s-90s chorus, in my opinion. But you're probably right that I want it all is more over-the-top... but the two solos though...
  • hjhhjij
    16 jan 22
    rock-arena Show Must go on no. Well, not much has changed, huh? It's still catchy pop-rock getting heavy radio rotation.
  • Onirica
    17 jan 22
    Goat wool issues :D
  • Flame
    17 jan 22
    The piece is a stolen dust eater, more precisely it's the initial part of the killer bass line by Bernie Edwards from Good Times. I feel sorry for Deacon, who in the end is the one I dislike the least of the 4.
  • hjhhjij
    17 jan 22
    True, Chic, I wasn't even thinking about that.
Queen: Hot Space
CD Audio I have it ★★
Queen: Hot Space
9 apr 15
Once, I considered it the ultimate trash produced by Queen during their (horrible) '80s, but now I must admit that "The Miracle" has surpassed it. Still, it remains an overall mediocre album with some truly impressive peaks of horridness.
  • hellraiser
    9 apr 15
    I would say one to both, the 80s have done bad to the Queen, maybe just a little she can be saved.
  • hjhhjij
    9 apr 15
    I give an immeasurable amount of shit to the Queen albums from the '80s; they are all almost absolutely mediocre, but not immeasurable shit (except for The Miracle).
  • Vinst
    25 mar 21
    Go fuck yourself, pompous prick of my balls. The Queen are pure masterpieces. You don't belong here on Debaser.
Queen: The Works
CD Audio I have it ★★
Queen: The Works
9 apr 15
I know I'm being annoying, but today I feel like giving the Queen a hard time. Mediocre album, but in its mediocrity, it’s more pleasant compared to the previous and the following one ("A Kind of Magic"). There are a few decently bearable tracks, but nothing more. Right after "The Game," it’s the most "dignified" of the Queen's 80s albums, but I just can’t give it three balls.
  • darth agnan
    9 apr 15
    I, instead of giving three balls, would give three kicks, that's for sure! :)
  • Workhorse
    9 apr 15
    A real pain in the ass!
  • hjhhjij
    9 apr 15
    I agree to the three kicks and I humbly apologize to Worky :D
  • SydBarrett96
    9 apr 15
    What the hell, are we all high on Queen? :D I still keep saying that my three votes for various '80s songs are more of a non-vote than anything else; it's more of a matter of "affection" and stuff like that. :)
  • SilasLang
    9 apr 15
    It was the 'Radio Gaga' album, right? One of the absolute most corny songs I can remember...
  • Workhorse
    9 apr 15
    A hjhh, I listened to Breakthru again (along with the related video), which I had removed from my memory, and now I understand a bit more your intransigence towards The Miracle.
  • hjhhjij
    9 apr 15
    Really? Damn, what a piece of shit (literally). And yes, Silas is that record, and Radio CaCa isn't even the worst...
  • SydBarrett96
    9 apr 15
    In these moments, I miss Felo, the greatest detractor of Queen I know. :) But why The Invisible Man? With those four playing hide and seek with guns in hand? Chilling.
  • Workhorse
    9 apr 15
    That and Keep Passing the Open Windows are making me reassess Works and Miracle so much that soon they will drop below Kindofmagic, which at least had One Vision. Which is the most crass song in the universe, but it will always have a little piece of my corazón.
  • SilasLang
    9 apr 15
    @hj...so I got it right XD I had it on vinyl, I had almost all of them, my father gave them to me. But I sold them all many years ago, so my memory is failing... I only kept the first two and "A Night at the Opera"... even though they’ve grown moldy over time.
  • hjhhjij
    9 apr 15
    The first 4-5 albums by Queen are so far superior to this stuff that they would have personally asked you to sell "The Works," "A Kind of Magic," and various other flops :D
  • hjhhjij
    9 apr 15
    For example, my CD of "The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway" has been asking me for 5 years to set fire to the one of "Invisibile Touch".
  • piendepei
    9 apr 15
    Do you know who the blonde girl from Breakthru was?
  • hjhhjij
    9 apr 15
    I don’t really feel like watching the video again, and besides, how can you compare this?
  • Workhorse
    9 apr 15
    That should be Roger Taylor's girl! That video is magnificent.
  • hjhhjij
    9 apr 15
    Which one? :D
  • Workhorse
    9 apr 15
    Sorry, the one from I want to be free! The one from breakthru is distressing, blonde aside.
  • Danny The Kid
    10 apr 15
    but but but but but but I like Breakthru!!!! Are you saying it's crap? That's not true That's not true That's not true That's not true you can't do this you're making me cry!
  • hjhhjij
    10 apr 15
    Danny, the world is tough and mean, and you must know that, just as Santa Claus doesn't exist, Breakthru is terrible. You'll get through this, come on.
  • piendepei
    10 apr 15
    I know I'm being cliché again, but I insist, a theme like that of breicfru is among the most sterile of quirii_quiinn.
  • piendepei
    10 apr 15
    I repeat myself..
  • Danny The Kid
    10 apr 15
    And yet that refrain, that guitar, those backing vocals... for me it totally rocks, better than I Want It All, better than Who Wants To Live Forever (that one is really sterile, and it has driven me insane) and that half-assed amateurish mess that was Another One Bites The Dust... in short, in Breakthru the Kuuin are being Kuuin, they may not be at their best but they are definitely in their natural habitat.
Queen: A Kind of Magic
CD Audio I have it ★★
Queen: A Kind of Magic
10 apr 15
So, just to complete the "magical" quartet of shit-shit-shit albums by Queen from the '80s ("The Game" is half crap but I'll still somewhat save it, more or less). But yeah, in the end, the Queen made "only" four truly terrible albums, but damn, how bad are they. This one is 100% plastic, gaudy, and only partially salvageable for various sentimental reasons.
  • Danny The Kid
    10 apr 15
    how much I can't stand who wants to live forever, one of the most overrated songs in history. The guy conducting the orchestra is the same as that monstrous, mind-boggling abortion of nothing else matters, and then a lot of things make sense. As background music for braveheart or whatever the hell that shitty movie was for which this piece of trash was composed, maybe it has its reasoning.
  • hjhhjij
    10 apr 15
    Ailander. Which, for my tastes, is a shitty movie XD Anyway, "Who Wants to Live Forever" is a great track for a movie like that and there are other good ones on the album, but the quality is a different story...
  • hellraiser
    10 apr 15
    The problem is the mustache. Think about it, dear Hj... until "News of the World" in 1978, Mercury didn't have them, and only masterpieces/great albums were born. From "The Game" to "The Miracle" he wore them, with a series of poor/average records, before freeing himself from them with "Innuendo" in '91, not a masterpiece but a great work, unfortunately the last one...
  • hjhhjij
    10 apr 15
    Damn, it's true, the mustaches! "News of the World" and "Jazz" were barely anything but still decent and listenable, then starting in 1980 the mustaches came in and goodbye, you're right.
  • Workhorse
    11 apr 15
    Heeeeeere we are boooooorn to be kiiiiiiingss
  • SydBarrett96
    11 apr 15
    Anyway, the thing about the mustaches is true, but nonetheless, up until Live Killers, I still think they’re great. :)
  • Workhorse
    11 apr 15
    It's true: I just found out that in the video for The Great Pretender he doesn't have a mustache; in fact, it's a nice cover. Coincidence? I don't think so.
  • hjhhjij
    11 apr 15
    It's a shame that I don't like that song at all, in any version. Poor Freddie :D
  • Workhorse
    11 apr 15
    You're the one who's mistaken. The proof? Freddie doesn't have a mustache :D (okay, I'll keep going on with this story forever)
  • hjhhjij
    11 apr 15
    "The Great Pretender" is the classic exception that proves the rule. Mercury was only great without a mustache, and in the face of this undeniable statement...
Queen: The Miracle
CD Audio I have it ★
Queen: The Miracle
9 apr 15
Since the Quìn are back in fashion in the re-definitions-of-re-works, I’ll dive in too. Horrifying record, the peak of flatness and plasticity logically arrived at the twilight of a decade that had seen this group churn out one piece of trash after another. I save nothing, the deepest abyss before the unexpected and dignified last gasp.
  • EverardBereguad
    9 apr 15
    Invisible man, or how to ruin a nice bass line.
  • Danny The Kid
    9 apr 15
    I save Breakthru, for the rest I agree, although for me the worst are Tegame and A Kind Of Plasticaglia.
  • hjhhjij
    9 apr 15
    In fact, one can randomly pick from the deck for the worst Queen album from the '80s.
  • Vituperio
    27 jul 19
    A sister.
  • Martello
    8 jan 21
    Shit
Quella Vecchia Locanda: Quella Vecchia Locanda
CD Audio I have it ★★★★
Quella Vecchia Locanda: Quella Vecchia Locanda
25 mar 23
A beautiful pop-rock album deeply hybridized, with the Roman band skillfully maintaining a good balance between genres, inspirations, and the rich arrangements present in the tracks, which clearly go beyond the classic song form while keeping within the duration (all between 3 and 5 minutes). Compositional choices typical of progressive rock, elegant pop made of intertwining and vocal harmonies, a clear inspiration from classical authors, especially baroque style, and electric accelerations, with the inevitable flute (because Ian Anderson must have stopped to sleep in that old inn) played by singer Giorgio Giorgi (...) and the electric violin of Donald Lax (the acoustic violin plays a major role in the more evident classical excursions), instruments that stand alongside Roselli's keyboards, supported by the interventions of electro-acoustic guitars and a nice rhythm section. I find it a very cohesive album; the only weak point is the naivety of the lyrics, which seem to be written with the “big book of dark pessimism for beginners," but the melodies, both in the singing and especially those created by the violin and piano, are truly beautiful, and the more rock and energetic moments are very enjoyable with no poorly executed songs. The cover is a masterpiece, one of the most beautiful I have in my collection.
Quella Vecchia Locanda: Il Tempo Della Gioia
CD Audio I have it ★★★★★
Quella Vecchia Locanda: Il tempo della gioia
3 apr 23
A cover as beautiful as that of the previous album frames a work even more stunning than the last one. In "Il tempo della gioia," Jethro Tull have now left the old inn, but the Shulman brothers have briefly stopped by (in the title track, the inspirations from GG are evident at a couple of moments; it's a true "gentlegiantata"), and at certain melodies, the ear is drawn to the very early King Crimson; otherwise, in style, the band renounces their rock side (only guitar passages and the rhythm section remind us that we are still close to the "electric rock-pop" territories of the '70s) and the redundant pessimism of the lyrics (which remain a weak point, but are of the kind that—this often happens in prog—can slide away in the face of the central importance of the musical framework). Piano and violin are absolute protagonists; the backbone of the album is much more acoustic and has "classical" tones, the flute serves as a connector or performs in moments of beautiful calm ("E' accaduto una notte"). Basically, one finds oneself in areas of strong classical inspiration (especially "Villa Doria Pamphili" and the splendid "A forma di..." with its constant crescendo of volume and a start that is a whisper) and then it flows into distinct tones of that typical Prog-Jazz-Rock of those years, particularly in the beautiful "Un giorno, un amico" (marred only by those idiotic backing vocals, seriously, guys... Why?).
Quentin Tarantino: Le Iene
DVD Video I have it ★★★★★
Quentin Tarantino: Le Iene
8 apr 12
An exceptional debut work by Tarantino, Pulp at its highest splendor. His best film with Pulp Fiction, featuring a fantastic cast in peak form (devastating Keitel and Madsen, excellent Roth, Penn, and Buscemi, and a great acting performance by Tarantino himself), astonishing direction, brilliant editing, absurd and genius dialogues, and an excellent screenplay. In short, one of the two (and a half counting Una vita al Massimo by T.Scott) great films by Tarantino.
Quentin Tarantino: Pulp Fiction
DVD Video I have it ★★★★★
Quentin Tarantino: Pulp Fiction
8 apr 12
Alongside The Unforgiven, the only Tarantino film that I truly appreciated. I don't consider Pulp Fiction a masterpiece, but a stroke of genius, yes; a real, big stroke of genius. Fantastic characters, 2 and a half hours that fly by in a breeze, a very funny film, quick, snappy. Splendid, in short.
Quentin Tarantino: Jackie Brown
DVD Video I have it ★★★
Quentin Tarantino: Jackie Brown
8 apr 12
After two great films like "Reservoir Dogs" and "Pulp Fiction," Tarantino's inevitable decline begins. For me, this is consistently between 3 and 4 stars, a film still more than decent with some truly successful scenes, a great Samuel L. Jackson, and a good performance by Robert De Niro (barely decent compared to those from '68-'96, gigantic in comparison to those from '00 onwards). Good film.
Quentin Tarantino: Kill Bill Vol. 1
DVD Video I have it ★★
Quentin Tarantino: Kill Bill Vol. 1
8 apr 12
Recently rewatched, it annoyed me even more than usual. I consider it immensely overrated. Good job by Thurman, but I just can't stand all those "kung fu" scenes.
Quentin Tarantino: Kill Bill Vol. 2
DVD Video I have it ★★★
Quentin Tarantino: Kill Bill Vol. 2
8 apr 12
I’ve re-evaluated this one a bit; let’s just say it manages to save itself in the nick of time. Nice film, but come on Uma, Bill is charming, why did you have to kill him? The final scene is beautiful (except for the "Ken the Warrior" move).
Quino: Il Mondo Di Mafalda
Cartaceo I have it ★★★★★
Quino: Il Mondo Di Mafalda
8 apr 12
R.E.M.: Murmur
CD Audio I have it
R.E.M.: Murmur
17 mar 22
Murmur is a truly memorable debut album (previous EP aside) and despite a career rich in great records at least up until 1996, it ultimately stands at least on some step of the podium of their best works. Which step I cannot ascertain nor am I particularly interested in determining precisely, but it's a beautiful record. They are children of the Byrds and Jingle-Jangle, updating that sound for the '80s by filtering it through New Wave, focusing on those wonderful acoustic guitar frameworks that dominate and support the entire album, and managing to develop an excellent personal style, entirely their own, especially in the melodies that, starting from this album, become a trademark that has made them one of the most immediately recognizable bands ever. On "Murmur," all the songs, the melodies, Stipe's vocal harmonies, the guitar arpeggios create a wonderfully delicate Janglism from Buck and the others, whispered (indeed), played on tiptoe, almost as if they never wanted to disturb the listener too much. Even in the slightly more upbeat tracks, there’s this feeling. There are only beautiful songs here, particularly phenomenal are "Pilgrimage," the sublime melody of "Perfect Circle," the jangle manifesto "Shaking Through," and also the more "nervous" "Sitting Still" and another phenomenal pop-jangle like "Talk About the Passion," but everyone will have their favorites.
R.E.M.: Reckoning
CD Audio I have it
R.E.M.: Reckoning
3 apr 22
"Reckoning" is one of the R.E.M. albums that I digested more slowly; for quite a while, it struck me much less than their other works. Then the spark happened. It's beautiful, after all, even if it gets overshadowed by two of their albums that I personally adore, which are "Murmur" and the underrated "Fables...", and compared to which I still like it less, but we're talking about a "less" that is quite relative. There are many beautiful songs, indeed, ranging from anthology-worthy jingles ("7 Chinese Brothers") to perfectly catchy killer choruses ("Don't go Back to Rockville"), extraordinary fusions of their classic melodicism and the 60s acid ballad sound in yet another personal homage to the old masters in "Time After Time (Annelise)" (Buck's guitar here is wonderful), the slow, very calm, melancholy of "Camera," and various scattered gems ("Letter Never Sent," to mention one). While I don't consider it one of their masterpieces, it remains a very valid album that I will return to more frequently in the future.
  • adrmb
    3 apr 22
    Buh, for the spark it took me half a day, hehehe.
    Then if I think that even Murmur didn't impress me right away on the first listen...
  • hjhhjij
    3 apr 22
    Well, let's be clear, I wouldn't be shocked if someone came to tell me they prefer this to "Murmur," it's a matter of taste, the material is always of great quality.
  • adrmb
    4 apr 22
    No way, crazy
    For now, on Murmur I only accept Chronic Town.
  • hjhhjij
    4 apr 22
    No, Chronic is a great debut but "Murmur" is a step above.
R.E.M.: Fables Of The Reconstruction
CD Audio I have it
R.E.M.: Fables of the Reconstruction
3 apr 22
A splendid album and unfortunately one of their least appreciated and most underrated. Composed during a time of intense tension within the band, it absorbs the frayed nerves, and there’s a veil of gloom, a greater darkness that envelops their typical melodic tapestries, which are particularly inspired here, especially noticeable in some tracks, with the masterful opening "Feeling Gravity Pull" acting as a manifesto of this mood and the great music the four Georgians have produced (as often happens in art, from crises emerge works of immense artistic value). And just as it opens with a masterpiece, it closes in the same manner, with the heartbreaking melancholy of the killer melody "Wendell Gee," one of my favorites in their vast repertoire, which follows the almost equally beautiful "Good Advices." In between, a sequence of beautiful songs is delivered relentlessly to the ears, showcasing their usual delicacy and that extra touch of "tension" I adore in this album ("Life and How to Live It," the fabulous "Auctioneer"). But the other two masterpieces for me are "Driver 8" and "Green Grow the Rushes," must-have diamonds in the R.E.M. discography.
  • adrmb
    4 apr 22
    Evening listening? mmmh
  • hjhhjij
    4 apr 22
    Well, at least if you fall asleep with R.E.M. you'll stay on theme.
  • SilasLang
    4 apr 22
    Beautiful. Except for "Can't Get There from Here"...pure cancer of the album in question, but whatever...nobody's perfect.
  • hjhhjij
    4 apr 22
    Actually, that one isn't bad either, except for that rather unsuccessful cheerful refrain which, moreover, quite breaks the mood of the album; it’s definitely the only misstep of the record.
  • SilasLang
    4 apr 22
    To each his own. I always skip it. That piece makes me feel like an idiot... way more idiotic than I really am 😂
  • hjhhjij
    4 apr 22
    But no ahahaha
R.E.M.: Lifes Rich Pageant
CD Audio I have it ★★★★★
R.E.M.: Lifes Rich Pageant
16 dec 22
One of the most brilliant works by R.E.M before they became mainstream. Perfectly consistent with their previous path and their now established style, yet capable, with Gehman's production, of steering some tracks in decidedly more electric and rocking directions, featuring a rock-powerpop energy that partially replaces the electric nervousness closer to the wave sound that emerged in certain songs from their early albums (with the first EP and "Murmur" at the forefront, but not only). Meanwhile, there's a triplet of songs that are among my favorites from their rich repertoire: "These Days," "I Believe," and "Just a Touch," the latter exploding with the "rock" soul of the album, unleashed, pulsating, pounding like Mills' piano, irresistible. These are songs that thrill me, alongside other gems like "Begin the Begin" or "Swan Swan H" or the other "rock-pop R.E.M." track "Hyaena." A varied album, full of little treasures. You feel the most classic ballad-lullaby of the group ("Flowers of Guatemala") or a cover of the late '60s band The Clique ("Superman," which seems to say, "Yes, we love '60s pop, didn’t you notice until now? Are you stupid?" Stipe) and finally, something that even sounds like it was played by Marc Ribot suddenly pulled into the album while recording for any contemporary Tom Waits record ("Underneath the Bunker," and no one can convince me that these four hadn't just listened to "Rain Dogs").
  • Onirica
    3 jan 23
    I had a best of by R.E.M. that I wore out when I was a kid. I'm now starting to listen to their albums; could you recommend the best ones, the ones that are truly worth it? You give me the impression of being knowledgeable in this matter... So far, I've listened to the EP Chronic Town, the album Murmur, and Automatic for the People. All very beautiful...
  • hjhhjij
    3 jan 23
    Well, the EP is excellent, and the two you listened to I would place on the podium of their best. For the rest, consider that up to "New Adventures in HI-FI," they didn’t miss a single album, not even by mistake. I wouldn't skip this one, the underrated "Fables of the Reconstruction," this one here "Lifes Rich Pageant," and the subsequent "Document," if I really had to make a choice.
  • hjhhjij
    3 jan 23
    *selection
  • Onirica
    3 jan 23
    Thank you for the tips!
R.e.m.: chronic town
CD Audio I lack ★★★★
R.E.M.: Chronic Town
16 dec 22
A really beautiful debut EP, which works in harmony with that rich number of stunning mini-discs that popped up like mushrooms in those years. These are the most new wave R.E.M. you could ever listen to, and this is clearly evident from the typical rhythmic nervosity, the tension in the flow of some of the five songs present here (especially the beautiful "1,000,000"), unmistakable features of that segment of Wave/Post-Punk or however you want to call it; but even so, the nod to the Jangle sound, that acoustic guitar style and the forefathers of this style back in the '60s was already present, along with that delicate melodic taste, personal enough to become a trademark, which in this EP particularly shines with "Gardening at Night", the gem within the gem. All five songs are really beautiful, a perfect warm-up before truly starting to whisper. Belo belo.
Radiohead: OK Computer
CD Audio I have it ★★★★
Radiohead: OK Computer
8 apr 12
8/10
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