BARRACUDA BLUE

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Saga: Images at Twilight
Vinile I have it ★★★★★
Saga: Images at Twilight
2 sep 12
The best response to the decline of classic '70s Prog: Canadian, yet with a European sound through and through, vocal and instrumental technique serving a quirky attitude that blends pop and classicism, hard and fusion into a perfect amalgam. An album from '79 that feels like it was recorded 10 years later, and still enchants today. Blast it through headphones for an amazing experience.
Saint Etienne: Good Humor
CD Audio I have it ★★★★★
Saint Etienne: Good Humor
5 sep 12
It's hard to come across an album with 11 potential hit singles, where samples play with real harpsichords, flutes, and mellotrons. Sarah Cracknell takes you for a Vespa ride through late millennium London, with a Mod attitude that never fades and a tone that warmly pays homage to Dusty Springfield. The band's best record, from the heights of '90s British pop.
Sally Oldfield: Water Bearer
Vinile I have it ★★★★★
Sally Oldfield: Water Bearer
27 aug 12
Criminally overshadowed by the looming presence of her brother. Magic and mysticism at the service of an exotic and super sensual vocality, from which Kate Bush and even Enya will draw their cues. The ideal record to fully appreciate the sound of the Glockenspiel.
  • hjhhjij
    7 sep 15
    I've heard a lot of good things about it. Her voice on her brother's records and on "Voyage of the Acolyte" stands out, and from the credits, I saw that she plays a thousand and one instruments as well. I'm interested, I trust the 5 stars.
  • BARRACUDA BLUE
    7 sep 15
    Knowing your tastes a bit, this is the album you must have. Already with the subsequent Easy, the lady dangerously veers towards an original and high-class Pop, but still Pop, with some of her Folk-Exotica concessions making it just a bit more interesting. Splendid melodies, graceful and insubstantial, had made me purchase all the studio vinyls up to Strange Day in Berlin (1983).
  • hjhhjij
    8 sep 15
    Yes, I think I'll get that, and on CD. Anyway, as for the rest, if you’re talking about original pop and high quality, it shouldn’t disappoint me. I always listen to good pop with great pleasure, I admit it.
  • hjhhjij
    8 sep 15
    And then I'm one of those who also likes the brother's albums from '80 to '83.
Silicon Teens: Music for Parties
Vinile I have it ★★★★★
Silicon Teens: Music for Parties
27 jul 15
The story of Mute Records begins in '79 with a series of quirky '50s-'60s covers treated with a Casiotone, too beautiful to choose just one, and the few new tracks that Daniel Miller played for the Baby-Depeche to teach them how to do it. A toy-record for toy-boys.
Siouxsie & the Banshees: The Scream
Vinile I have it ★★★★★
Siouxsie and the Banshees: The Scream
1 dec 15
'We're not going to explain ourselves any more, we're just going to do what we want and if no one understands that's their problem'..(Siouxsie)
Siouxsie and the Banshees: JuJu
CD Audio I have it ★★★★★
Siouxsie and the Banshees: Juju
22 nov 12
Once matured, the apple is picked and bitten into. Siouxsie, like Eve, encourages us to transgress by offering us snapshots of Arab knights, night shifts, and voodoo dolls in a perfect sequence of tracks teetering between esotericism and hypnosis. Here, Halloween is celebrated all year long!
Soft machine: Bundles
Vinile I have it ★★★★★
Soft Machine: Bundles
8 mar 15
The blend of Karl Jenkins and the fleeting appearance of Allan Holdsworth illuminates the new direction of the band, exemplary in the 5 sections of Hazard Profile, relegating the veteran Mike Ratledge to a faded and disinterested third wheel, a shadow of a past too different to remain. Excellent Jazz Rock for connoisseurs.
  • hjhhjij
    8 mar 15
    It was valid Jazz-Rock. By now it was completely another band, in every way, another band that frankly never captured me as much as the first one.
  • macaco
    8 mar 15
    Holdsworth doesn't sit too well with me. Just this album and with Bruford.
  • BARRACUDA BLUE
    8 mar 15
    They should have changed their name too, but being musicians is a source of income like any profession, a winning name is not changed, Amon Duul II did the same, and in their own way, so did Renaissance.
  • BARRACUDA BLUE
    8 mar 15
    Dear Macaco, I would have loved to see Holdsworth in the studio along with that other phenomenon, Ollie Halsall, in Jon Hiseman's Tempest. The two played together for a very brief period, as evidenced by a bootleg I own, "Live in London '74," which has mediocre recordings but fabulous performances. This was shortly before his erratic wandering into Jazz Rock territories without ever finding peace, but at least with Bruford, he would record two splendid albums.
  • R13569920
    8 mar 15
    I really like 'Softs' a lot.
  • BARRACUDA BLUE
    9 mar 15
    I like it quite a bit too; Jenkins was composing in a state of grace, Etheridge is precise, technical, elegant, but where are those Holdsworth solos? The album is a step down just for this reason.
  • Lao Tze
    9 mar 15
    I could never truly get moved by an Allan's solo, then it also happens that certain sounds appeal to me for a while, but it doesn't really happen that often. The fact remains that the first 'U.K.' is one of the rare cases of albums born from a supergroup that I love wholeheartedly.
SPARKS: Kimono My House
Vinile I have it ★★★★★
Sparks: Kimono My House
29 apr 12
The most entertaining rock album of the '70s. Ron and Russell Mael, uncontrollable and brilliant. LES FLEURS DU MAEL!
  • Matteo Tarchi
    9 may 12
    I agree. Not to mention the quality of the tracks. "This town ain't big enough..." features one of the most genius and timeless melodies in all of rock, an absolute gem!
  • BARRACUDA BLUE
    9 may 12
    I never get tired of hearing it... and then it hits hard!
spring: spring
CD Audio I have it ★★★★★
Spring: Spring
21 mar 13
Listen... so give me your hand... I will make you discover the most beautiful time of spring.
  • Lao Tze
    21 mar 13
    those from the great Pick, I assume... but that wasn't the cover!
  • BARRACUDA BLUE
    22 mar 13
    I love to remember him as the drummer of the Primitives during their golden period in Italy, unfortunately ending 10 years later in one of rock's great mysteries, but at least he must have made some money. With the Springs, he rightfully entered into legend. The cover is in the DataBaser, and there’s also a review.
Starcastle: Fountains of Light
Vinile I have it ★★★★★
Starcastle: Fountains of Light
25 nov 14
Do you want to fool your friends? Let them listen to this record, claiming it's an unreleased album by Yes from their golden period. They'll surely believe you and say it's beautiful... and it really is.
  • hellraiser
    25 nov 14
    Mmmm... what years are they from? Peers of Anderson and company?
  • BARRACUDA BLUE
    25 nov 14
    Yes, it’s the most successful clone of rock, zero originality but crazy songwriting and vocal-instrumental technique. After so many years of listening, I can find ideas that even Yes didn’t have, in addition to always keeping it under 10 minutes per piece, avoiding those long abstract drag-outs of Anderson and company.
  • hellraiser
    25 nov 14
    Very interesting, I'll try to find this album, thanks for the tip.
  • BARRACUDA BLUE
    25 nov 14
    You're welcome. I assure you that the first listen is hilarious, it's hard not to laugh.
Steely Dan: Pretzel Logic
Vinile I have it ★★★★★
Steely Dan: Pretzel Logic
7 oct 13
The American album that made me take a step below everything else, a brief showcase of different and intoxicating styles, an urban and rural sound at the same time, blended to conquer the passing of time. The alternative to rock, jazz, and country, to be savored by igniting the details.
  • Lao Tze
    8 oct 13
    My favorite remains The Royal Scam, followed closely by Aja and Katy Lied, but choosing among so much beauty is almost unnecessary. Rikki Don't Lose That Number has the power to imprint itself in your memory at first listen.
  • BARRACUDA BLUE
    8 oct 13
    More than in the rest of their discography, here Fagen and Becker strive to maximize the arrangements: in "Through With Buzz," the ideas for a 6-minute song are condensed into a minute and a half, allowing no room for solos or digressions; the vocal bridge brutally arrives right away and is overwhelming. Many tracks are at least five years old, so there was ample time to work on them, also realizing the need to part ways with the collective, such as Jeff Baxter, who surely wanted more performance space.
STEELY DAN: Aja
Vinile I have it ★★★★★
Steely Dan: Aja
29 apr 12
When perfection turns into music...
Steve Hackett: Voyage of the Acolyte
Vinile I have it ★★★★★
Steve Hackett: Voyage of the Acolyte
15 oct 15
Today marks 40 years since its release in stores. A splendid forty-year-old and a masterpiece of Classic Prog.
  • hjhhjij
    15 oct 15
    Here, after several years during which it occasionally returns to my headphones or player, the melody of "Shadow of Hierophant" sung by Oldfield is still one of the most beautiful I've ever heard, for me the best ever written by Hackett.
Still Life: Still Life
CD Audio I have it ★★★★★
Still Life: Still Life
30 aug 12
As dated as it may be, it remains a magnificent and sinister cornerstone of the English Dark Sound, melodic as was fitting in 1970, complete with an unstoppable Hammond dusting and a voice from another era. Lost classics like October Witches and Time do not diminish the rest of the tracks. The legendary cover encapsulates its gothic secrets.
Sun Dial: Other Way Out
Vinile I have it ★★★★★
Sun Dial: Other Way Out
9 jul 12
Rest your head on the grooves, lie down, close your eyes, and trace your circles in the grain...Sweet is the journey when the record is custom-made!
Supertramp: Crisis? What Crisis?
Vinile I have it ★★★★★
Supertramp: Crisis? What Crisis?
16 oct 12
A splendid embroidery of notes, irony, and defeats, an unspoken concept on human existence, from the whistling stroll of Easy Does It to the heart carried in hand in Two Of Us, it’s all a flow of emotions. Vocally and musically at the top. It’s a shame not to fall in love with it.
  • Karter4
    16 oct 12
    an album whose title, modestly, fits the current political/economic situation perfectly
  • BARRACUDA BLUE
    16 oct 12
    If that's the case, the cover is even more fitting, the crisis that wishes us good holidays... amidst smog and garbage!
  • Matteo Tarchi
    17 oct 12
    As often happens, the most underrated albums of a band deserve a more attentive listen, because they hide unexpected gems: how can one not mention Another man's woman (a bit in line with I want you by the Beatles?) in a soapbox opera, wonderful? Great album.
  • BARRACUDA BLUE
    17 oct 12
    Well, there isn't a bad piece, and that's no small thing.
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