Led Zeppelin: In Through The Out Door
CD Audio I have it ★★★★
Led Zeppelin: In Through the Out Door
17 dec 13
Ready for the worst insults - but if "Presence" makes me yawn, I've always liked this album so much more. And damn, there might be some filler but there's "Carouselambra", there's "Fool In The Rain" which tells the story of drumming just like "Home At Last" and "Rosanna" (and drummers know it well), there's "All My Love", there's "I'm Gonna Crawl"... if only we had more awful albums like this...
  • March Horses
    17 dec 13
    I think it's also ruined by an awful production.
  • ZannaB
    17 dec 13
    I remember very, very fondly I'm Gonna Crawl, a top-notch piece! The rest I recall as negligible, although Carouselambra was fun...
  • hjhhjij
    17 dec 13
    While I respect your opinion, this time I disagree; I’ve always found this album to be mediocre at best.
Living Colour: Time's Up
CD Audio I have it ★★★★★
Living Colour: Time’s Up
20 sep 13
"Funk-metal"...? - reductive. Here we’re dealing with a STRA-Disco based on one of the most explosive CROSSOVERS ever played. And with Vernon Reid in the role of a futuristic and visionary Hendrix, incendiary lyrics about sex, politics, and religion travel at the same speed as a furiously brilliant electric guitar.
Liz Phair: Exile in Guyville
CD Audio I have it ★★★★
Liz Phair: Exile in Guyville
14 nov 13
The pinnacle and the end of a career. After that, it will be just conventional and utterly banal American rock, closer to Sheryl Crow than to anything that can be defined as "alternative"; the 5, however, I would prefer to reserve for other albums.
  • cappio al pollo
    14 nov 13
    I totally agree with Cutugno, but I also give him a high five, if only for "Canary."
  • SilasLang
    14 nov 13
    I love this album. Even the next one, Whip-Smart, while still good, starts to show signs of wear...then unfortunately it goes from bad to worse.
Loop Guru: The Third Chamber
CD Audio I have it ★★★★★
Loop Guru: The Third Chamber
12 feb 13
Of those records that are referred to as..."monumental," indeed.
Loredana Berté: Bandabertè
CD Audio I have it ★★★
Loredana Berté: Bandabertè
7 jul 13
Good record... "Dedicato" surpasses Fossati's version as an interpretation, but the arrangement is terrible, with cheesy keyboards that don't match the blues of the song AT ALL. And then, well, the rendition of "Prendi fra le mani la testa" pales in comparison to the original.
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"...
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