Lou Reed: Rock 'n' Roll Animal
CD Audio I have it ★★★★
Lou Reed: Street Hassle
11 sep 13
For the quality of the recordings, it would be a full 5. HOWEVER... I don't like the version of "Heroin" here at all; it betrays the entire spirit of the piece... and also "Sweet Jane," with that intro... I haven't listened to it in so long, and it didn't convince me like it did in the past.
  • GIANLUIGI67
    11 sep 13
    The songs of the Velvet Underground could only be played by the Velvet Underground and only during the period they were recorded. Only they and only those years had the tension to make them immortal.
  • rossana roma
    11 sep 13
    I love this album, especially for the title track... as for the rest, I think you're right... maybe the live performance of the songs you mention is better... have you listened to them on Abridged?
  • whocares
    11 sep 13
    From here to Lulu
  • templare
    12 sep 13
    For me, it's still one of the best live albums. I've literally worn out the vinyl.
Lounge Lizards: The Lounge Lizards
CD Audio I have it ★★★★★
The Lounge Lizards: The Lounge Lizards
28 aug 13
Screw the purists, screw the anti-war jazz aficionados, screw the jazz critics who have never understood anything about this record. This wasn't punk mocking jazz, as Arto has been tired of saying for 30 years (because he has never improvised jazz), but jazz rhythms and standards subjected to the New York-NO treatment - which, in Lydia Lunch's words, "had nothing to do with punk."
  • hjhhjij
    28 aug 13
    True, they were doing No-Jazz-Wave, and it’s awesome.
  • March Horses
    28 aug 13
    Damn, so I have to listen to them.
Lucio Battisti: Una Donna per Amico
CD Audio I have it ★★★
Lucio Battisti: Una donna per amico
2 apr 14
Do you want to know what I think, for what it's worth? That this is the most overrated of Battisti's works. Yes, okay: technically it's perfection, played like a god, whatever you want. But there's no madness, no bite, no sweat. I've always found it a cold record. So impeccable that it's insubstantial. At the opposite end of "Anima Latina."
  • De...Marga...
    2 apr 14
    Dear Lao, it’s time to unleash the claws... Anima Latina remains somewhat of a standalone episode in the immense discography of our National Lucio. As for Una donna per amico, while I respect your beliefs, I only partially agree with you: it’s an album that contains my masterpiece of the entire Battisti work, namely "Prendila Così", which, in terms of sound, is of unique beauty, where one breathes such a sublime air through its long yet not verbose duration. Regarding the bite that you don’t find, I believe it is indeed present and measurable in songs like "Una donna per amico" and even more so in "Nessun dolore."
  • hjhhjij
    2 apr 14
    I agree, Lao. On the other hand, I’m not tearing my hair out over Battisti, except for that great album Anima Latina. Sure, he’s made quite a few good records, but none of them have me tearing my hair out.
  • dosankos
    2 apr 14
    There's nothing experimental, is there? There aren't those alienating vibes and those universally irresistible sounds of the cornerstone "Anima Latina." It's pure and raw pop. But for me, it remains the greatest pop album of all Italian seventies. A masterful record, crafted with manic attention to detail and a year and a half ahead of everyone else. 5 for life.
  • Lao Tze
    3 apr 14
    In fact, I've never got along with my fellow Battistiani of the same age regarding this album... I've always preferred Una giornata uggiosa with Westley, which on the contrary mostly plays the part of the weak episode... it's precisely the maniacal meticulousness behind it that puts a wall between me and these songs. I don't like the lyrics at all; the music of the early tracks is acceptable, but then the album has always seemed to me to fall apart greatly in the second half. Honestly, I find "Maledetto gatto" to be something embarrassing by Battisti's standards. Just my opinion.
  • Lao Tze
    3 apr 14
    It goes without saying that sound quality and production are cutting-edge, certain keyboard sounds anticipate the '80s.
  • Mauro82
    31 jan 20
    Fully agree with Lao Tze.
Lucio Dalla: Dalla
CD Audio I have it ★★★★★
Lucio Dalla: DallAmeriCaruso
4 may 13
Well, it's true that Bologna is Bologna and Milan hits you in the gut every time you have to come, but even Rome has inspired something like "La sera dei miracoli"...
Marillion: Fugazi
CD Audio I have it ★★★★★
Marillion: Fugazi
21 nov 13
In my opinion, this is the masterpiece of the Fish era. More mature in sound than the first, more experimental than the nevertheless remarkable "Misplaced Childhood."
  • hjhhjij
    21 nov 13
    Good job, but they hardly ever tell me anything. Misplaced is good, for example, but it leaves me as cold as an iceberg; the famous spark just doesn't ignite, not even with this one.
  • BARRACUDA BLUE
    21 nov 13
    In my opinion, there are better albums than the first three Marillion in that New Prog sector, but I must acknowledge that here we have Assassing, Jigsaw, and that wonderful prog-pop gem Punch&Judy. I agree that it's the best of the three; however, the real masterpiece is the 18 minutes of Grendel, the b-side of the first historic 12".
  • Lao Tze
    21 nov 13
    "Grendel," absolutely. Outside the LP group, that’s where all the Genius of the early Marillion lies. But even for me (in their genre), they aren’t my favorites from that era, and neither are Pendragon, to be honest, though they were exceptional in their early days, but...
  • Lao Tze
    21 nov 13
    ...setting aside the Asia Minor, which I always consider as a distinct entity.
  • BARRACUDA BLUE
    21 nov 13
    Of course, that’s where you have to go. Lao, Tales from The Lush Attic, and The Wake are musically another planet. Being an indie band has helped them avoid the compromises that Marillion had to accept, and quite willingly, considering they were filling Wembley back in '85. The credit goes 80% to Fish, a great communicator on stage, capable of holding multiple curtains with the audience that rightly adored him. Asia Minor, like England and Machiavel, have the sole fault of having released their work during the only "thumbs down" years for prog (1977-80).
  • SilasLang
    21 nov 13
    I prefer quite other Fugazi ;)
  • federock
    22 nov 13
    In short, I’ll have to take the CD back in my hands and listen to it again... because when I bought it, after one or two listens, I was quite indifferent and disappointed, so I put it back on the shelf, where it still lies. Let it be clear that I have great respect for Marillion, both the Fish era and Hogarth. It’s also true that Grendel is the manifesto of their aesthetic; I would say that in that suite lies their essence.
  • Lao Tze
    22 nov 13
    A good way to reconnect with this album is to go listen to "She Chameleon" when the keyboard solo kicks in, around 2' and 40"... no comments needed.
  • fiomamyblue
    7 feb 15
    I also recommend the best
Marisa Monte: Mais
CD Audio I have it ★★★★
Marisa Monte: Mais
18 nov 13
I produced this. I played on this album. I even SUNG on this album. And among others, I invited to play some old acquaintances named John Zorn, Marc Ribot, Nanà Vasconcelos, Ryuichi Sakamoto...
  • hjhhjij
    18 nov 13
    I didn't know that Lao Tze made records... :D
Massacre: Killing Time
CD Audio I have it
Massacre: Killing Time
9 sep 14
Happy nervous breakdown.
Mazzy Star: So Tonight That I Might See
CD Audio I have it ★★★★★
Mazzy Star: So Tonight That I Might See
14 nov 13
The sweetest state of trance one can fall into. Ethereal nocturnal poetry. A dream stretched across a record.
  • GIANLUIGI67
    14 nov 13
    the new doesn't mean anything to me.
  • Lao Tze
    14 nov 13
    some remarkable pieces. You couldn't ask for another masterpiece after all this time.
Meat Puppets: Up On The Sun
CD Audio I have it ★★★★★
Meat Puppets: Up on the Sun
28 dec 12
Thought, written, and played while listening to Duran Duran – and eating mushrooms...
Melvins: Ozma
CD Audio I have it ★★★★★
Melvins: Ozma / Gluey Porch Treatments
27 oct 13
At the first, epic listening (and I started to get to know them with this)... it was something I had NEVER experienced: I couldn't keep up with the tempo of a single piece. The only thing that comes close is a drunken bicycle ride at night, with no lights, in a downpour on a flooded road.
  • Michoos What
    27 oct 13
    Absolutely the first primordial form of sludge-metal can be found in this song:
  • aerdna
    27 oct 13
    Even Paper Cuts by Nirvana, from the same year, with Dale Crover on drums, stinks of sludge from the sound to the vocals (the voice, regarding sludge, should not be underestimated at all). Embryos, definitely embryos. Occhioodiodio will bring stylistic fulfillment.
  • SilasLang
    27 oct 13
    My God, the Melvins, like the pig!
  • Lao Tze
    27 oct 13
    "Paper Cuts," absolutely yes...
  • Psychopathia
    27 oct 13
    And to think that I only have bullhead (too short, by the way)... the stores are no longer there and with mail orders it takes forever to get them... do you know if what I have is one of the best?
  • SilasLang
    27 oct 13
    DAMN, it's a masterpiece! I repeat, the Melvins, at least for me, are like the pig...
Miles Davis: TUTU
CD Audio I have it ★★★★
Miles Davis: Tutu
17 jan 13
This album, on the other hand, deserves a reevaluation, too often overlooked due to the "trendy" production of factotum Marcus Miller. A Miles enchanted by Prince and new funk-tronic inspirations, a beautifully deep record beneath the apparent synthetic veneer, with extended pieces and flashes of genuine genius.
  • sezzer
    17 jan 13
    great record, you can say it loud
Miles Davis: You're Under Arrest
CD Audio I have it ★★
Miles Davis: You're Under Arrest
17 jan 13
Weak, uninspired, commercial. Unlistenable moments ("Mr Morrisine," for example) mixed with covers of Michael Jackson and Cindy Lauper. The only moment of true great fusion is "Katia," thanks to McLaughlin. For the rest, one of the worst records of Miles ever.
Mission Of Burma: Vs.
CD Audio I have it ★★★★★
Mission of Burma: Vs.
23 dec 14
Several nautical miles beyond the territorial waters of the Punk.
Mono: Under The Pipal Tree
CD Audio I have it ★★★★★
MONO: Under the Pipal Tree
9 dec 12
Masterpiece
  • Mr. Money87
    9 dec 12
    Masterpiece seems a bit exaggerated to me. I love Mono and this album, but I prefer the subsequent ones.
  • Lao Tze
    9 dec 12
    Maybe the question is: which one to rate lower than 5? In this, the Mono are one of those bands that never leave me in doubt. I am too attached to this. If there had been another one like it instead. But let's say it quietly, because I know that for other users they provoke less pleasant effects...
Monte Hellman: Strada A Doppia Corsia (Two-Lane Blacktop)
CD Audio I have it ★★★★★
Monte Hellman: Strada A Doppia Corsia (Two-Lane Blacktop)
10 mar 13
By far the best road movie ever made - featuring just one professional actor and an unforgettable, icy, and unsuspected James Taylor, known only to those familiar with him as a singer-songwriter. Hellman is a genius, as well as one of the most underrated directors in history.
Motorpsycho: Demon Box
CD Audio I have it ★★★★★
Motorpsycho: Demon Box
17 dec 13
Those 17 minutes of the title track (among the most WILD things of the '90s, for sure)... if you play them on a Pioneer A-209R amplifier cranked up high... first, they’ll blow out your speakers. Then they’ll level your room. And maybe they'll even generate an earthquake of magnitude 7.5 with the epicenter in your stereo, burying you alive.
  • alexx
    17 dec 13
    hahahahaha beautiful!!!
  • SilasLang
    10 aug 14
    A great album... in my opinion the first record that truly touches perfection... which will arrive the following year with 'Timothy's Monster' and will last until 'Trust Us'....
My Sleeping Karma: Tri
CD Audio I have it ★★★★
My Sleeping Karma: Tri
9 sep 13
But can someone explain to me what it means that the MSK are "R-E-P-E-T-I-T-I-V-E"...? - I mean, can one convey through music the eternal circularity of the Vedas and Indian myth without the hypnosis of repetitiveness... ? (oh my, what a sentence that turned out to be...). Anyway: NO.
  • GIANLUIGI67
    9 sep 13
    I don't know them, what do they sound like?
  • Lao Tze
    9 sep 13
    I'm sorry, maybe we can talk about it tonight because I have to wrap things up now ;-) Sorry again.
  • SilasLang
    9 sep 13
    mmmm...I have their album [Satya] but it doesn't tell me much..
  • GIANLUIGI67
    9 sep 13
    feel in the magic box... it seems to me that they have a circular sound, which is based on almost hypnotic repetitiveness. With due distances, very different groups but it's the same talk they give me when I listen to "Alchimy" by the Third Ear Band. The important thing is that repetitiveness doesn’t turn into boredom. To truly feel, one must experience a complete work and not scattered pieces.
  • Lao Tze
    9 sep 13
    Well done, you hit the mark. The problem is that if you don't like music without key changes, I'm not referring to you but in general... you can't stand a whole album of this. Perhaps, even more than the Third Ear Band, they are the evolution of people like Quintessence, who with the naivety of their times and the rampant hippie movement tried to do the same thing - "In Blissful Company," 1969, with the last track ending with a sitar C (ideally) prolonged infinitely.
Neil Young: Rust Never Sleeps
CD Audio I have it ★★★★★
Neil Young: Rust Never Sleeps
15 jan 13
It starts with an acoustic guitar and ends up at grunge, in fact. Beyond the weight of an album that weighs TONS on the history of Rock as a whole, there's the emotion of the first listen that will never come back, when you hadn't yet read credits or reviews and you didn't know that that beginning would correspond to that end. And you felt the sound change, evolve, grow darker piece by piece, minute by minute... OUT OF THE BLUE AND INTO THE BLACK.
  • Mr Funk
    16 jan 13
    One of Neil's many masterpieces. Immense.
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Your Funeral... My Trial
CD Audio I have it ★★★★★
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Your Funeral... My Trial
13 mar 13
Perhaps not the most emblematic, but definitely the most complex, difficult, and profound album of Semi Cattivi. Lyrics worthy of literary analysis, images drawn freely from the Bible, and arrangements crafted by genius/drugged minds. This album is Blixa's guitar on "Jack's Shadow," Mick Harvey's xylophone on "The Carny," the sexual delirium of "Hard On For Love," and the organ in "Sad Waters," which is a glimpse of the heavenly amid the hell. A record for life.
  • Psychopathia
    13 mar 13
    I’ve always considered it a "difficult" listen and have always preferred from her and the firstborn. But indeed, each of her albums was different from the previous one, and even in the double 12" format, stranger than kindness is worth the price of admission.
  • Lao Tze
    13 mar 13
    ...whose words are by Anita Lane, to music by Bargeld. And for this reason, it is not included in the collections of Cave's lyrics.
  • hjhhjij
    13 mar 13
    Great Anita.
  • Josif
    13 mar 13
    Well done, well done. Now that you’ve written your nonsense, we will listen to it differently.
  • Inox
    13 mar 13
    hey, giuseppe, my dear clueless-loser, still no luck with the ladies, huh? ;-))))) ... now that you've written your usual comment from a insecure teen, I can go make a nice hefty half kilo, I dedicate it to you... see you LOSER ;-)))
  • edoardobannato
    13 mar 13
    Anyway, it’s my favorite.
  • ZannaB
    14 mar 13
    I see that the fakes care about you, Lao! Anyway, nice definition!
  • Lao Tze
    15 mar 13
    Thank you, but this Josif/Peppino is truly a historical case. After a month, I take an hour to look at the comments on my stuff, and I see he’s everywhere despite the fact that no one has cared about him in months. And he conjures up imaginary clones, throwing accusations at me. What can we say: may the new Pope pray for him, for this lone and outcast soul.
  • Inox
    15 mar 13
    oh, yes... because gioseffa is convinced that I am you, threats of phantom beatings, babbles, thinks he can scare someone, raves... classic syndrome of chronic lack of pussy... he’s a loser, poor thing, he can't vent otherwise. he always and only says bullshit, the usual ones. a giant pain in my ass, and the more you provoke him, the more he dives into political bullshit... if stalinslao is funny, he’s just hopelessly ridiculous... bye, idiot ;-)))
  • Josif
    15 mar 13
    Ah, why has LaPo never accused me of having clones? In fact, the others (Alfonso, Giangastone, etc...) are just users who are tired of people like LaPo the leftist and similar crap. Instead, Lapo's desperate choice to create a clone to write all the repressed vulgarities that he couldn't type on S&llino is sad and terrible. But talking about pussy?? Since you're a Vendoliano, you only like cock and, maybe, ass. Go back to sucking, because in the USSR, people like you didn't end up very well.
Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds: Nocturama
CD Audio I have it ★★★★
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Nocturama
22 sep 13
Among the last to truly move me, great ballads and interesting writing even if not at the level of past masterpieces, even some memories of the distant (and toxic) Berlin days in "Dead Man In My Bed" - Blixa is magnificent - and in the EXHAUSTING "Babe I'm On Fire."
Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds: Murder Ballads
CD Audio I have it ★★★★★
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Murder Ballads
10 mar 14
It was exceptional, both in terms of concept and execution. Then of course, between "Henry Lee" and the wild roses, I will always prefer "Henry Lee," but also because among the Ladies involved - I hope the OTHER won't hold it against me - there's a certain difference...
  • darth agnan
    10 mar 14
    I definitely prefer where the wild roses grow between the two, even though it’s definitely more commercial and melodic. Anyway, henry lee has the SAME chorus as the curse of millhaven…! I conclude by saying that for me it’s not exactly the most successful first album of Cave.
  • hjhhjij
    11 mar 14
    For me, Let Love In already didn’t reach excellence; of course, for that reason, we’re still talking about very good albums. Only "Nocturama" (excluding the last track) and Scava Lazaro Scava did not appeal to me at all from Cave. Immense.
  • De...Marga...
    11 mar 14
    As a top-notch fan of the crazy Australian, I don't dismiss anything from his rich discography; the work collected here by our esteemed reviewer is one of his finest, and the piece where he collaborates with Polly J is a sublime peak... and who better than Nick could tackle the deadly ballads... "Death is not the End" by the minstrel from Duluth appropriately concludes an excellent work.
  • Psychopathia
    11 mar 14
    @HJ: I don't even save that from nocturama. It's not a suite; it's a rather repetitive medley of the same song, quite artificial. Any random piece from grinderman 1 is worth much more. I wore this out in '98, but now enough is enough. I save Nick Cave up to and including The Good Son, there you go.
  • SilasLang
    11 mar 14
    Here the former King Ink was still producing works of dignified elegance, like this one, even though the demon had already been dormant for a few years... in short, personally, since "Your Funeral..." he hasn't thrilled me anymore, but the fact remains that at least until "the boatman's call" he maintained more than decent levels... then, ouch... that's where my troubles with Nicolino Caverna begin.
  • hjhhjij
    11 mar 14
    Well, in the end, Cave's evolution has been quite natural; he has grown and calmed down. Fortunately, he has also maintained a certain inspiration, and that doesn't happen too often in cases like his 'getting soft'—after all, how many UGLY albums does Cave have, I mean really ugly? There are some, but they are definitely few. Psycho, you are right, but that track has always resonated with me; I'm not saying it's a masterpiece, just that all the other tracks from "Nocturama" I really didn’t like—this one gave me something. The first Grinderman isn't bad.
  • Lao Tze
    11 mar 14
    To be honest, something is missing from Murder Ballads - keeping in mind that the albums by Cave that I would put on the podium are quite different, but it’s clear that we are in a particularly unique phase of his career, just as this album is unique. And it lacks THE murder ballad par excellence: Hey Joe. The only thing is, he had already recorded it 10 years earlier...
  • Lao Tze
    11 mar 14
    In the end, I don't mind Nocturama, but aside from two tracks, it's an album of only ballads, and not even the best ones. It's quite monotonous. It could have been worse, though.
  • hjhhjij
    11 mar 14
    Point taken. And by the way, "Kicking Against the Pricks" is a wonderful album even though Cave had already proven to be an IMMENSE interpreter two years earlier ("Avalanche"...) so one might have expected the result a bit. However, in Kicking he brings out a series of interpretations of touching beauty, damn.
  • matteooo
    11 mar 14
    in the top ten best rock albums of all time for me, a masterpiece
  • matteooo
    11 mar 14
    Nick is in a state of grace; in short, I could have written this record too and no one would have cried scandal.
  • matteooo
    11 mar 14
    scandal, on debaser the letters don't go it's official
Nobuhiko Obayashi: Hausu
CD Audio I have it ★★★★
Nobuhiko Obayashi: Hausu
4 feb 13
A fresco of hallucinatory magnificent surrealism. Sublime colors and shots. A great film that I will have to watch again, sooner or later.
  • fuggitivo
    12 aug 15
    What the hell wouldn't I give to find both this and Maborosi on DVD. Damn...
Open Mind: Spiritual Lovers
CD Audio I have it ★★★★
Open Mind: Spiritual Lovers
13 nov 13
These are not the Open Mind of the '60s, those of "Magic Potion," but a band that in '92 released a highly contaminated neo-psychedelic album enriched with long instrumental sections for guitar and organ. Those who find them discover a (small) treasure.
  • GIANLUIGI67
    13 nov 13
    I had the CD, sold it a while ago... anyway, I remember it was a great album.
Opus Avantra: Lord Cromwell Plays Suite for Seven Vices
CD Audio I have it ★★★★★
Opus Avantra: Lord Cromwell Plays Suite for Seven Vices
22 mar 13
Thematic journey through the capital sins among opera, avant-garde, concrete, and much more. When you look for a title to include among the boldest trials ever attempted in Italy, remember this.
Parliament: Mothership Connection
CD Audio I have it ★★★★★
Parliament: Mothership Connection
27 jul 15
What can one expect from someone with legs wide apart on a spaceship? The album starts from the cover. And it ends (that is, continues…) where it began for people like the RHCP, who were more than happy to pay a huge tribute to Mr. George Clinton while on acid.
  • imasoulman
    27 jul 15
    the record begins with the cover, of course, iconographically alien but also musically: James Brown back from Pluto
  • imasoulman
    27 jul 15
    Is it just a coincidence that the RHCP had "Freaky Styley" produced by George Clinton...is it really just a coincidence...
  • Mr Funk
    27 jul 15
    George Clinton was truly out of his mind. This is a stratospheric album (Give Up The Funk is the epitome of funk music), even though I've always preferred the Funkadelic. Just think that with good old George played monsters like Bernie Worrell, Bootsy, Eddie Hazel, Maceo Parker, etc.
  • zooka
    28 jul 15
    I have practically worn out this album during my Parliament phase... their peak along with Funkentelechy vs Placebo Syndrome, I can never decide which one I prefer.
  • HOPELESS
    28 jul 15
    Kiedis declares that Eddie Hazel is in heaven playing next to Hendrix. Flea plays wearing the robes of Bootsy Collins. Clinton producing them. The band covering "Dr. Funkenstein." It must be just a coincidence... Who Said a Funk Band Can't Play Rock?
Paul Weller: Wild Wood
CD Audio I have it ★★★★★
Paul Weller: Wild Wood
1 apr 15
The album that a solo Clapton didn’t even come close to achieving.
  • G
    2 apr 15
    Beautiful... it always takes me away
  • imasoulman
    2 apr 15
    the Clapton soloistaaaaa? aside from the fact that I totally agree 120%, but come on, I really can't see any similarities with the Modfather even if I try.
  • Lao Tze
    2 apr 15
    Let's say I recently listened to 461 O.B., by far my favorite solo Clapton album, and I happened to think about the gap that can exist between a record like this and that one. Just in the way two Englishmen (re)use certain forms of American music, aside from the fact that there are covers and aside from the two different careers. But in general, in terms of the pieces... well. Hence the definition that may seem a bit strange.
  • imasoulman
    2 apr 15
    The "popular" flavor and the ease of instant writing of Paul Weller is such a characteristic and "English" trait that Clapton can only dream of it. The only close relative (if we really want to find one) might have been - perhaps - Steve Winwood: in my opinion, he would have managed to create a "Wild Wood".
  • Lao Tze
    3 apr 15
    To anyone who loves Traffic, I would play 'Wild Wood'.
  • hjhhjij
    3 apr 15
    Interesting "debate." It has nothing to do with anything, but it gave me the idea: I heard a lot of good things about Winwood's first soloist... Did I hear right?
  • Lao Tze
    3 apr 15
    this could be better said by imasoulman, hj, since I don't have it. And I only know Winwood's solo work well with 'Arc of a Diver', but certain synthetic sounds may not appeal to everyone.
  • imasoulman
    5 apr 15
    listen to both of them, the eponymous and Arc of a Diver. In the latter there will also be synthetic sounds that may be disturbing (not true for me, there's maximum discretion in their use), but the pop-soulful vein remains completely unaffected. Four stars to both.
  • hjhhjij
    5 apr 15
    Thanks, as usual.
  • Lao Tze
    6 apr 15
    In fact, I tend to make these clarifications about sound ever since I heard (but it’s better to cover my ears) that 'Seventeen Seconds' is ruined by electronics - aargh. 'Arc' is a nice album.
  • hjhhjij
    6 apr 15
    No, come can you say something like that about "Seventeen Seconds"? If the sounds are synthetic (?) at that level, then it's fantastic. I usually reserve that kind of comment for Battiato's mid-'80s albums; I can't stand the sounds...
Pavement: Slanted & Enchanted
CD Audio I have it ★★★★★
Pavement: Slanted and Enchanted
16 apr 13
Not even forty minutes, but as weighty as at least 30 discographies. I love all of Pavement, from beginning to end and from the first to the last album. But if I had to choose a title for History, I would choose this one.
  • SilasLang
    16 apr 13
    I choose "Crookedrain", but this too... damn!
  • cappio al pollo
    16 apr 13
    I choose "Slanted and Enchanted," decidedly pure.
Peter Case: Peter Case
CD Audio I have it ★★★★★
Peter Case: Peter Case
12 jun 13
Rece in the works - in the meantime, I vote for this songwriting masterpiece signed by the former Nerves and Plimsouls, featuring contributions from Roger McGuinn and Van Dyke Parks among others, along with an excellent cover of the Pogues. Great for those who remember it.
  • imasoulman
    14 jun 13
    Who remembers this??? I've been here and I've praised Peter in at least fifty scattered comments... come on, do the review on this great album (and who would have ever thought that David Geffen would give credit to someone like him?), because if you're waiting for me... ;) and then Satellite Beach is to be handed down to posterity.
  • Lao Tze
    15 jun 13
    ;-) but indeed you are an exception, if we exclude you and a few other souls it’s hard to find anyone around here who still talks about Plimsouls, Peter Case, Paul Collins Beat etc... in general, silence reigns.
Phil Lynott: Solo in Soho
CD Audio I have it
Phil Lynott: Solo in Soho
16 dec 15
Listened again after years. Same impression of a messy, confusing album, hindered by certain production choices that... meh. Yet, the few times I've read about it, I've always read great things. For me, a bad record. And it does not do justice at all to what Phil was with Thin Lizzy.
  • Matteo Tarchi
    17 dec 15
    If you, me, and the others had to make a list of all the albums that have been talked/written about wonderfully but the more you listen to them, the worse they get... well...
  • Lao Tze
    17 dec 15
    I'm going to seek out other opinions, especially on albums that I don't like. Out of curiosity.
Phil Manzanera: Diamond Head
CD Audio I have it ★★★★
Phil Manzanera: Diamond Head
10 dec 12
Great debut with luxury names from Eno to Wetton, but not his best as a solo artist.
Phish: Junta
CD Audio I have it ★★★★★
Phish: Junta
3 feb 14
The Genesis intertwining with Zappa and jamming like the Grateful Dead, pulling out of the hat whimsical Pop-naif pieces worthy of the best solo Garcia.
Phish: Lawn Boy
CD Audio I have it ★★★★★
Phish: Lawn Boy
1 mar 13
Demolished and cheerfully trampled are any possible gender conventions; what remains is the genius of Anastasio and the almost scornful nonchalance of a group that can do everything and its opposite - from a Zappa-esque jam to a two-minute jazzy prank. A monstrous record.
  • Mr. Money87
    1 mar 13
    Seriously beautiful! Monster group! I still slightly prefer A Picture of Nectar.
  • Lao Tze
    1 mar 13
    Me too, probably. I'm attached to this because it's how I met them, since I didn't know "Junta" yet.
Placebo: Without you I'm Nothing
CD Audio I have it ★★★★
Placebo: Without You I'm Nothing
5 dec 13
I’ve left more than a few pieces of my life on this record; today it might sound almost ridiculous to say it, but I like it more than I did back then – and I like the previous one just the same. I don’t feel like an idiot, and why should I, in saying that in my opinion “My Sweet Prince” is a masterpiece.
  • Psychopathia
    5 dec 13
    but indeed it's a nice album. I liked it in '98 and I like it now. and the voice fits well too. after this, I probably won't like them anymore, but this one and the first one were not bad at all.
  • musicanidi
    5 dec 13
    EXCELLENT
  • GIANLUIGI67
    5 dec 13
    I’ve only heard the first one and various radio snippets of their subsequent works, but I don’t like them... I find their music a variation of the same song, and the voice contributes to the monotony. Over time, they annoy me... I don’t understand the success they’ve had...
  • Lao Tze
    5 dec 13
    Well, the radio passages of the subsequent works were to be avoided, like earplugs. Someone told me the latest isn’t even that bad, but I’ve avoided it regardless; it's hard to convince me... The first two were something else, but you have to like them or forget it. It’s a style that repeats itself, for sure, but what I like the most about P., even more than the voice, is Olsdal’s way of playing the bass. He often plays with harmonics; a bassist like that is perfect when paired with an essential guitarist like Molko.
  • pozzo
    6 dec 13
    Stunning album (just like the first one, which is also stunning)... it's well-known that they have lost a lot over time, but I still enjoy them through ups and downs. This, however, is a different story; intense, emotional, and visceral... one of my all-time favorite albums. Great job bringing it back and remembering it.
Pooh: Poohlover
CD Audio I have it ★★★★
Pooh: Parsifal
24 may 13
The "commercial" Pooh from the subsequent albums are infinitely better than these who try to be serious and then fall into laughable things like "Straniero venuto dal tempo" and "Padre del fuoco del tuono bla bla," which speak for themselves. Aside from "Pierre" and the piece sung by D'Orazio ("Fare, Sfare..."), this album is an incredibly tedious trip.
  • Turbitt
    5 jan 20
    We are telepathic. You took the words right out of my mouth Lao... I appreciate the Pooh, but with very clear limits: for me they seriously exist from "Poohlover" in 1976 until "Oasi" in 1988. From then on, a few scattered tracks can be saved... here and there. Another sleep-inducing bomb (and with a sadness that borders on depression) is "Un po' Del Nostro Tempo Migliore" Even though everyone here praises it. For me, a "Stop" or a "Buona fortuna" is a thousand times better.
  • Turbitt
    5 jan 20
    Sorry, I meant AFTER Poohlover...
Primal Scream: Riot City Blues
CD Audio I have it ★★★
Primal Scream: Riot City Blues
19 dec 13
Well... honestly, the Swedish model in the "Country Girl" video (which is not the one by Neil Young) is far more memorable than this album... not bad, but way too conventional for them.
Primal Scream: Screamadelica
CD Audio I have it ★★★★
Primal Scream: Screamadelica
27 jun 14
I don't feel like giving it my all. And not because I consider "Sonic Flower Groove" their highest point, but because it definitely has its weaknesses (the gospel-pop of "Movin' On Up," "Damaged" which sounds like Oasis ahead of its time, "Come Together" which is drawn out WAY too long and should have been saved for the end...). The absolute best part for me is "Inner Flight."
  • Psychopathia
    27 jun 14
    never loved it too much, to be honest. but since I listened to it 7/8 years after its release, I never understood what was so important about it back then. but don't listen to me, because I've never really appreciated much of anything by primal scream. de (dis)gustibus
  • SilasLang
    27 jun 14
    Instead, I give it my all. I love the Primals from this album, especially from 'Vanishing Point' and 'XTRMNTR'.
  • tia
    28 jun 14
    Flower sonic.. I'm listening to it right now... Beautiful and delicate, perfect for this lazy morning!! ..Listening to it again after such a long time, I find it very Byrdsian in the jingle jangle of the guitar... Anyway, it deserves five stars for me, just like screamadelica, as well as vanishing point... xtrmntr but also give up etc... and I can't remember the title anymore..
  • extro91
    28 jun 14
    I didn't expect this harassment from you. "Damaged the Oasis in advance" is a provocation on your part, come on. It's like saying that a philosopher from the '700 is a Nazi in advance... it's a sentence that makes no sense, plain and simple. Movin On Up is a great track as far as I'm concerned, and I'd love to hear Come Together even if it were longer. A bit like Funky Drummer by James Brown at 9 minutes. To me, it deserves the utmost.
  • Lao Tze
    28 jun 14
    Why the persistence? It's a catchy pop piece and also mediocre; if it had been done by the Gallaghers or any other lackluster Brit-pop band, it would be judged for what it is. Among other things, the guitar solo is almost identical to the one in Don't Look Back In Anger. I don't understand why I should throw out a provocation about an album I rate 4, then.
  • Lao Tze
    28 jun 14
    As far as I'm concerned, I can't give a 5 to a Blue Lines (for example) and a 5 to this one - I mean, a 5 to a perfect album that invented a new era and a 5 to an album that is not perfect at all, that's my personal judgment but the rating comes from that. It's a nice album that alternates between brilliant moments and others that are purely professional and even repetitive.
  • Lao Tze
    28 jun 14
    ---- in the sense that Damaged corresponds 99.9% to the standards of THAT brit-pop, not that the blame of the PS has been to inspire the Oasis, but to have made a piece that, whether you like it or not, is closer to that "philosophy" of pop than to that of Madchester or the early Stone Roses. It’s well known that the Stone Roses also inspired the Oasis - indeed.
  • extro91
    29 jun 14
    Yes, but by saying that it approaches a "philosophy," you're reiterating what you said before. That philosophy didn't exist yet. However, I understand your point a bit more, that's for sure. I also get it when you talk about "craft," even though I absolutely disagree that there are pieces that are purely craft. As for being repetitive, I would say no... there are pieces that completely disrupt the overall atmosphere of the album. For me, the pieces are not out of place. Honestly, I'm happy with how it ends, no matter how it ends. For me, it's an album without particular defects, assuming that perfect albums exist at all. And given that there are relevant ones, like it is for you, I take a historical approach and say: it had to be this way! ;-) The importance, then, is undeniable, and in fact, it seems to me that you agree on this too.
  • extro91
    29 jun 14
    How many times have I said PIECES?!
    The historicist*
  • Lao Tze
    30 jun 14
    It's not that they didn't exist yet... the Oasis didn't create anything out of nothing, be it in '94 or '95. At the core of it all is the first album by the Stone Roses, which was a turning point. From there, the English pop of the '90s began to take shape, with some artists taking the lesson in an original way, while others trivialized it because they lacked the flair to reach those heights. If the anachronism "Damaged-Oasis in advance" doesn't sit well, the definition "mediocre pop piece recorded in '91" fits, and in both cases, the judgment isn’t positive. A judgment that can be agreed with or not.
  • Lao Tze
    30 jun 14
    the importance... I repeat: surely, but not the whole record in the same way. Loaded was a stroke of genius in itself, so was the psychedelic house track, as were the two versions of Higher Than The Sun, I'm Coming Down... but for me it’s not that extraordinary from start to finish. It has never given me the same feeling that other masterpieces do. In general, I don't like them when they lean too much towards pop or those classic "rollingstonate" sounds like in some of their more recent albums. When Gillespie writes songs, he is a good songwriter, he knows how to create catchy tracks but he is not one of those pop geniuses who leave you in awe. I mean, he’s not an Andy Partridge. It’s not in that arena where he has excelled, I think that’s understandable even if one might disagree.
  • SilasLang
    30 jun 14
    But why are you all so encyclopedic, damn it? It's an amazing album...especially in '91 it was even more so. The rest is just nonsense found in music atlases written 10-20 years later...
  • extro91
    30 jun 14
    Yes, now I understand much better. I don't completely agree, but I have to say yes to some extent! Let me explain: while I consider Damaged a nice piece, they're definitely not my favorite Primal Scream. The best they've done is dive into tracks that you've mentioned in your last comment about that album. In fact, I don't know if it's the best, but it's certainly what resonates more with me (no coincidence that I love the underrated Vanishing Point). Also, I would never dare compare that little ditty called Country Girl to Damaged, just to be clear... but I believe that if there weren't this fluctuation between more or less pop tracks in Screamadelica, it might not be as cool in my opinion. And as long as the album dips into pop, I'm more than happy because I generally love the Madchester sound and grew up with MTV playing Britpop from morning till night and FIFA '98. So not Oasis, but Blur on repeat. Even though I hardly listen to them anymore. Blessed self-awareness!
  • extro91
    30 jun 14
    Well, Sila... in my opinion, encyclopedic knowledge is something else entirely! Here, we're mainly talking about preferences in the end.
  • shark
    30 jun 14
    hahaha...lol
  • Lao Tze
    30 jun 14
    But indeed, Silas... if one were to be encyclopedic, they would say that this is an absolutely essential album. Then maybe they wouldn't know why, but they would say it nonetheless. Because, like it or not, this is what - I think - you read around. Here we only ponder why an album like this doesn't flow for me like a Mezzanine, a Loveless, a Dummy... the first ones that come to mind. Eh. If not, I would have to give Sgt. Pepper a 5 regardless, but that's not the point.
  • Lao Tze
    30 jun 14
    Extro, as I mentioned in the definition, I prefer the Byrdsian PS of the first album, even though I think the critics have praised it less. It’s a matter of details; I’m not talking about nitpicking, but about details that separate a 4 from a 5. And the 4 goes to a great album; I won’t call it a masterpiece only because I reserve that word for others—it’s all subjective.
Pulp: This Is Hardcore
CD Audio I have it ★★★★★
Pulp: This Is Hardcore
30 sep 15
"Here comes the fear again, the end is near again..." (one of the least erotic albums ever).
  • madcat
    30 sep 15
    masterpiece, probably for me it's their peak
  • Lao Tze
    1 oct 15
    As always stated, with Different Class Jarvis Cocker reached his pop pinnacle. But with this, he has gone even further.
  • madcat
    1 oct 15
    I agree Lao, as you know I also love Different Class (and the previous His n Hers), top-notch levels.
Pulsar: Halloween
CD Audio I have it ★★★★★
Pulsar: Halloween
4 sep 13
Among the most beautiful French records of all time, without a shadow of a doubt. But ALL of their production deserves recognition, even the interstellar journeys of their early days that may sound naive today, but... when it comes to TRANSPORT, they truly transport you...
  • BARRACUDA BLUE
    4 sep 13
    What a wonderful album, every self-respecting progster should be familiar with it.
  • GIANLUIGI67
    4 sep 13
    beautiful, among the greatest French artists I would also mention the Dune Dün - Eros
  • GIANLUIGI67
    4 sep 13
    I really like the debut album by Pulsar, which I believe is self-titled.
  • GIANLUIGI67
    4 sep 13
    DUN...I slipped up an E. Great record that I'm rediscovering just these days.
R.E.M.: Reckoning
CD Audio I have it ★★★★
R.E.M.: Reckoning
2 dec 15
If only all "transition" albums were like this... 'Time After Time' is a thing worthy of the best Paisley - not that there is a "worse" Paisley, to be honest...
  • hjhhjij
    2 dec 15
    I hope to re-evaluate it one day; compared to their early works like "Murmur" and "Fables," I liked it only a little. More than decent, of course, but the other two I mentioned are exquisite.
  • Lao Tze
    2 dec 15
    Until 'Reckoning', the best for me is on 'Chronic Town'. It is worth as much as the best tracks from Murmur. Then with Fables, another story begins.
  • hjhhjij
    2 dec 15
    It's true what you say about "Chronic Town"; the only flaw it has for me is that it obviously has fewer songs than "Murmur."
  • De...Marga...
    2 dec 15
    No stories: for me it’s a great album. And it boasts an engaging opening (see "Harborcoat"); and what about "Pretty Persuasion"?
  • imasoulman
    2 dec 15
    Ah, here it is, "Reckoning" must be reevaluated... an album that starts with such a triple header (Harborcoat, 7 Chinese Brothers, and South Central Rain) must be reevaluated... not to mention the rest... it must be reevaluated...
  • madcat
    2 dec 15
    I include "Pretty Persuasion" in my top 10 of their favorite tracks, I adore the first 4 r.e.m., and in the 90s, the levels of the first 4 I would place are Automatic and New Adventures.
Rain Parade: Emergency Third Rail Power Trip
CD Audio I have it ★★★★★
Rain Parade: Emergency Third Rail Power Trip
21 dec 12
Let's let the sounds speak for themselves; there's little to add here Rain Parade - Look at Merri
  • cappio al pollo
    22 dec 12
    yes.
  • Lao Tze
    24 dec 12
    To respond to the comment in the playlist, my "period" - Paisley is a period that has lasted for about 25 years... this is stuff that never gets old, and I'm only realizing it now ;)
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