Stanlio

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Fabrizio De André: Non al denaro non all'amore né al cielo
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Fabrizio De André: Non al denaro non all'amore né al cielo
7 sep 17
This is also a concept album inspired by some poems from the Spoon River Anthology of 1915 by Edgar Lee Masters (even the rocks know this by now, at least those with a minimum of culture...).
Fabrizio De André: Tutto Fabrizio De André
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Fabrizio De André: Tutto Fabrizio De André
7 sep 17
To be honest, it would be a compilation of tracks already released on 45 rpm records starting from 1963.
Fabrizio De André: Volume I
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Fabrizio De André: Volume I
7 sep 17
Almost all the songs from the album were also printed on 45 RPM records at the time.
Fabrizio De André: Volume III
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Fabrizio De André: Volume III
7 sep 17
Here are two translations from Georges Brassens: Il gorilla & Nell'acqua della chiara fontana.
Fabrizio De André: Storia di un impiegato
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Fabrizio De André: Storia di un impiegato
7 sep 17
In an interview with Corriere della Sera in 1974, FDA said: "... written in a year and a half of tremendous turmoil and when it came out, I wanted to burn the record. It was the first time I declared myself politically and I know I used a language that was too obscure, difficult; I know I failed to express myself clearly."

The musical value of the record will be fully recognized by much of the critics only in the 1990s. (cit. wiki)
Fabrizio De André: Canzoni
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Fabrizio De André: Canzoni
7 sep 17
It is considered a transitional album as it closes the era of the four concept albums and foreshadows, with the unreleased "Via della povertà" (lyrics and music by Bob Dylan, translated by De Gregori at the time of Folkstudio, co-signed by De André), the collaboration with Francesco De Gregori and an openness to Anglo-Saxon folk/rock influences, which will manifest even more with the albums composed together with the Veronese singer-songwriter Massimo Bubola.
Fabrizio De André: Volume 8
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Fabrizio De André: Volume 8
7 sep 17
Written in collaboration with my friend Francesco De Gregori.
Fabrizio De André: Rimini
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Fabrizio De André: Rimini
7 sep 17
Written with Massimo Bubola, co-author of all the tracks.
Fabrizio De André: Fabrizio De André
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Fabrizio De André: Fabrizio De André
7 sep 17
The theme of the album is the comparison between two peoples, the Sardinians and the Native Americans, who are similar in some ways and very different in others, both threatened by external invaders. (cit. wiki)
Fabrizio De André: In concerto con PFM vol. 1
CD Audio I have it ★★★★★
Fabrizio De André: In concerto con PFM vol. 1
7 sep 17
The full title was "Fabrizio De André in concerto - Arrangiamenti PFM"
Fabrizio De André: In concerto con PFM vol. 2
File Audio I have it ★★★★★
Fabrizio De André: In concerto con PFM vol. 2
7 sep 17
For the sake of accuracy, the true title would be:
Fabrizio De André in concert - Arrangements PFM Vol. 2º

This is the second album recorded during a series of concerts in January 1979 held together with Premiata Forneria Marconi, which rearranged the songs of the Genoese singer-songwriter.
Fabrizio De André: La Buona Novella
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Fabrizio De André: La buona novella
7 sep 17
This is a concept album inspired by the reading of some apocryphal Gospels, in particular the Protoevangelium of James and the Arabic Gospel of the Infancy (ugh, for me, a real pain in the ass...)
Fabrizio De André: Tutti Morimmo A Stento
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Fabrizio De André: Tutti morimmo a stento
7 sep 17
The work "Tutti morimmo a stento cantata in si minore per solo, coro e orchestra" is one of the earliest examples of a concept album in Italy. FDA said in an interview with L'Europeo in 1969: The record is already a best seller; it is among the girls, students, and middle school teachers...
Fabrizio De André: Creuza de mä
CD Audio I have it ★★★★★
Fabrizio De André: Crêuza de mä
14 sep 15
David Byrne stated in Rolling Stone magazine that Creuza is one of the ten most important albums in the international music scene of the eighties! (cit. wiki)
  • hjhhjij
    14 sep 15
    I stated it after listening to him and before reading what Byrne thought. Rightly, I don't get as much attention as Byrne, but we are both right, take that.
  • tia
    14 sep 15
    Well, you are better than Byrne!
  • hjhhjij
    14 sep 15
    Thank you, the parallel dimension you live in must be really cool, man.
  • Stanlio
    14 sep 15
    look hjhhjij I didn't want to question either your good faith or anything else, I just looked for some supplementary information on Wikipedia, I stumbled upon one of the first sentences and included it, if that's all it is I thought pretty much the same thing about this record, bye
  • hjhhjij
    14 sep 15
    Ahahaha Stanlio, I'm just goofing around calmly.
  • tia
    14 sep 15
    David Byrne called me, telling me to stop talking nonsense.
  • hjhhjij
    14 sep 15
    And he's right about being right XD
  • Stanlio
    14 sep 15
    He called me Fabrizio De André, telling me to say more bullshit..
  • tia
    14 sep 15
    I see that we are pleasantly a nice group of idiots... oops, the phone is ringing. I wonder who it will be?
  • tia
    14 sep 15
    I see that we are pleasantly a nice group of idiots... oops, the phone is ringing. I wonder who it will be?
  • Stanlio
    15 sep 15
    it will be Umberto, from you there's, um, the echo...
  • tia
    15 sep 15
    you won you..into you..otu.you..uu
Fabrizio De André: Le Nuvole
CD Audio I have it ★★★★★
Fabrizio De André: Le nuvole
7 sep 17
One of the emblematic pieces shared with Ivano Fossati describes the enchanting preparation of a Ligurian dish, and in the finale, the chef exclaims: "mangè mangè nu séi chi ve mangià," cursing all those who will consume his 'A çimma...
Fabrizio De André: Anime Salve
CD Audio I have it ★★★★★
Fabrizio De André: Anime salve
7 sep 17
His best work (just because he won’t have the chance to create others up there or down there or wherever the heck!)
Fabrizio De André, Alessandro Gennari: Un destino ridicolo
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Fabrizio De André, Alessandro Gennari: Un destino ridicolo
12 oct 17
A Marseille intellectual who has moved from the Resistance to a life of crime, a dreamy and lazy pimp, and a Sardinian shepherd who has escaped a heavy sentence organize the theft of a load of precious goods.
Three men worlds apart brought together by fate in Genoa for the "heist" of a lifetime.
Two women, a shy prostitute from the port and an enchanting Istrian... (einaudi.it)
Fëdor Dostoevskij: Ricordi dal sottosuolo
Cartaceo I have it ★★★★★
Fëdor Dostoevskij: Ricordi dal sottosuolo
21 sep 17
An unnamed space of literature and soul emerges and is outlined: the underground, a place of all that consciousness vainly attempts to set aside.
And it is like the sudden emergence of a continent: no one, after having explored it, will ever forget the shrill, penetrating, shameless voice that speaks in these pages and poses questions that leave one speechless.
Are we really "convinced that only the normal and the positive, in short only well-being, is advantageous for man?
That reason cannot be mistaken about these advantages?
Is it not possible that man does not only like to feel well?
That he actually equally likes suffering?
That feeling bad is just as advantageous to him as feeling good?" (from Adelphi)
Fëdor Dostoevskij: L'idiota
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Fëdor Dostoevskij: L'idiota
21 sep 17
"For a long time, an idea has been tormenting me, but I was afraid to turn it into a novel because it is an idea that is too difficult, and I am not prepared for it, even though it is extremely seductive and I love it. This idea is to depict an absolutely good man. Nothing, in my opinion, can be more difficult than this, especially nowadays."
.: Fëdor Michajlovic Dostoevskij :.
Fëdor Dostoevskij: Il giocatore
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Fëdor Dostoevskij: Il giocatore
21 sep 17
- it’s a novel dictated in just under a month
- Written out of necessity (the writer needed to pay off gambling debts)
- It analyzes gambling in all its forms with the different types of players, from wealthy European nobles to the poor souls betting all their possessions, to the typical thieves of the casinos
- It is also a study of the various peculiarities of European populations
(cit. wikipedia)
Fëdor Dostoevskij: Le notti bianche
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Fëdor Dostoevskij: Le notti bianche
21 sep 17
Beginning:
A dreamer, isolated from reality and any friendships, during a night walk meets, by the riverside, a girl who awakens in him the feeling of love. Her name is Nasten'ka...

End:
Nasten'ka sends a letter... and arranges a meeting for the night that will not happen.
Then, she decides to forget him, though with little success, and in her, it seems, the same feeling that the dreamer experiences has also been born.
Everything ends when the man, who had not forgotten her, arrives at the meeting on the fourth night, reappearing in the girl's life.
(from wiki)
Ferenc Molnár: I ragazzi della via Pál
Cartaceo I have it ★★★★★
Ferenc Molnár: I ragazzi della via Pál
10 oct 17
This is the bittersweet story of the struggle between two groups of kids for the conquest of a free space for play, which ends with real estate speculation.

The world of kids stands in contrast to that of adults, but it is the kids who create their own rules and laws, an alternative ethical code.

The young heroes of via Pál play at war, managing to strip it of the violence and drama characteristic of the adult world.
(cit. ibs.it)
Flann O’Brien: Il terzo poliziotto
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Flann O’Brien: Il terzo poliziotto
22 sep 17
"Have you ever seen a bicycle coffin?"
Reader, this is the only novel in the world where such a question can sound even too obvious.
Just as it will seem obvious that a police sergeant considers humans to be intertwined with bicycles – a bit like, according to the theory of another policeman, the entire universe can be reduced to a fundamental substance called omnium. (from Adelphi)
Francesco Guccini: Cròniche epafàniche
Cartaceo I have it ★★★★★
Francesco Guccini: Cròniche epafàniche
3 nov 17
The novel, while not a biography of the author, becomes autobiographical due to Guccini's propensity to want to reclaim his own roots. The stories told in the different chapters of the novel are tales of the mountains and mountain people, of a peasant culture that has now disappeared for several decades.

Despite the novel being a memory of times and eras gone by, Guccini does not succumb to trivial melancholy; instead, he brings the characters to life by recounting anecdotes and everyday stories with tones that are at times moving and poignant, at times ironic and very entertaining. (wikipedia)
Francis Scott Fitzgerald: Il grande Gatsby
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F.Scott Fitzgerald: Il Grande Gatsby
21 sep 17
In this book, as his biographer Andrew Le Vot writes, Fitzgerald "reflects, better than in all his autobiographical writings, the heart of the problems that he and his generation had to face... In Gatsby, permeated as it is with a sense of sin and fall, Fitzgerald takes upon himself all the weakness and depravity of human nature."
Frank McCourt: Che paese, l’America
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Frank McCourt: Che paese, l’America
22 sep 17
From the railing of a ship, America had seemed to young McCourt the very embodiment of redemption from that "unhappy, Irish, and Catholic childhood" which had been portrayed in Angela's Ashes as the most atrocious, yet also the most comical, of possible worlds.
Here the scene, different and more tumultuous, is instead that of New York in the post-war years.
A working-class New York, where among red brick houses, pubs of Irish emigrants, and loading docks cluttered with goods, with the distant and unreachable backdrop of Manhattan, Frankie finds himself navigating, step by step, a grueling apprenticeship. (from Adelphi)
Frank McCourt: Le ceneri di Angela
Cartaceo I have it ★★★★★
Frank McCourt: Le ceneri di Angela
22 sep 17
- The story of "an unhappy Irish childhood," which "is worse than any unhappy childhood, and an unhappy Irish Catholic childhood is even worse."
- creates with his words, with his rhythm, a marvel of contagious comedy and vitality, where all the atrocities, even without losing any of their often grim harshness, turn into episodes and apparitions of a wind-swept journey toward a promised land... (from Adelphi)
Frank Zappa: Them or Us
Nastro Audio I have it ★★★★★
Frank Zappa: Them or Us
21 sep 17
There’s also an unreleased version of Valley Girl (with Moon Zappa on vocals) overdubbed and played in reverse.
Frank Zappa: Zappa In New York
CD Audio I have it ★★★★★
Frank Zappa: Zappa in New York
11 sep 17
Among the musicians involved in the recordings of this album are the famous jazz brothers Randy and Mike Brecker, along with Tom Malone and Lou Marini, who would soon become members of the Blues Brothers.

Disc 1

Side 1
Titties & Beer - 6:28
I Promise Not To Come In Your Mouth - 3:33
Punky's Whips - 10:59

Side 2
Sofa - 3:00
Manx Need Women - 1:39
The Black Page Drum Solo/Black Page#1 - 4:07
Big Leg Emma - 2:17
Black Page#2 - 5:43

Disc 2

Side 1
Honey, Don't You Want A Man Like Me? - 4:17
The Illinois Enema Bandit - 12:47

Side 2
The Purple Lagoon - 18:00
Frank Zappa: Joe's Garage
CD Audio I have it ★★★★★
Frank Zappa: Joe's Garage
9 sep 17
Joe's Garage (Acts I, II & III) is a triple album.
Frank Zappa: Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch
CD Audio I have it ★★★★★
Frank Zappa: Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch
9 sep 17
The title of the album translated into Italian means: "Ship that arrives too late to save a drowning witch" and takes its name from a Droodle (humorous book/game) by Roger Price.
Frank Zappa: Apostrophe
Nastro Audio I have it ★★★★★
Frank Zappa: Apostrophe
9 sep 17
Considered one of the two lightest and most commercial albums by Zappa.
Frank Zappa: Sheik Yerbouti
Nastro Audio I have it ★★★★★
Frank Zappa: Sheik Yerbouti
9 sep 17
Sheik Yerbouti is a work in perfect Zappa style, featuring humor, improvisation, and satirical references.

Structured as a single sequence of interconnected tracks, the album mainly consists of live performances, along with two studio recordings.
Frank Zappa: You Are What You Is
Nastro Audio I have it ★★★★★
Frank Zappa: You Are What You Is
9 sep 17
The album relies heavily on overdubbing; it was the first to include material recorded by Zappa in his home studio.
  • Johnny b.
    9 sep 17
    A great record overshadowed by better and more creative works. The first Zappa album I listened to, recommended by a friend because it’s more accessible and a good introduction to Zappa's world.
Frank Zappa: The Man from Utopia
Nastro Audio I have it ★★★★★
Frank Zappa: The Man From Utopia
9 sep 17
I wore this out back then; I used to listen to it even in the shower as a soundtrack with the stereo dragged into the bathroom.

The cover designed by the Italian artist Tanino Liberatore depicts Frank Zappa busy with a fly swatter trying to kill mosquitoes during a concert, referring to the American musician's performance on July 7, 1982, at the Laghetto di Redecesio in Segrate and to other concerts from that Italian tour.
Frank Zappa: Jazz from Hell
Nastro Audio I have it ★★★★★
Frank Zappa: Jazz From Hell
9 sep 17
Entirely instrumental and with a rock-jazz setting, it was recorded with the Synclavier synthesizer, except for the track St. Etienne.

Zappa won a Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance with this album in 1988.

An unusual fact about this album is that it was given a Parental Advisory sticker for explicit content by the RIAA, even though the album is completely instrumental.

This is due to the title of the fifth track (G-Spot Tornado), where G-Spot refers to the female erogenous zone known in Italian as Punto G.

All tracks are composed and arranged by Frank Zappa.
(quoted from Wiki)

1. Night School - 4:47
2. The Beltway Bandits - 3:25
3. While You Were Art II - 7:17
4. Jazz from Hell - 2:58
5. G-Spot Tornado - 3:17
6. Damp Ankles - 3:45
7. St. Etienne - 6:26
8. Massaggio Galore - 2:31
Frank Zappa: Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar
Nastro Audio I have it ★★★★★
Frank Zappa: Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar
9 sep 17
It contains live recorded material from February 1976 to December 1980, except for the last track "Canard du Jour," a duet between Frank Zappa on bouzouki and Jean-Luc Ponty on baritone violin, recorded in 1973.
Franz Kafka: Il Processo
Cartaceo I have it ★★★★★
Franz Kafka: Il Processo
21 sep 17
Max Brod, his executor, began publishing the posthumous writings of his friend with the work that, verbally, Kafka would call "Der Process" and it first appeared in 1925, a year after Franz Kafka's death, defying the author's wishes, who had entrusted him with the task of destroying all his papers upon his death...
Franz Kafka: America
Cartaceo I have it ★★★★★
Franz Kafka: America
21 sep 17
Kafka's description of America is similar to that of emigrants in the presence of their relatives who remain in their homeland. On one hand, it highlights an extreme mechanization and a disproportion in scale, while on the other hand, it emphasizes social disparities, difficult working conditions, and inhuman rhythms. (from Mondadori)
Franz Kafka: Il Castello
Cartaceo I have it ★★★★★
Franz Kafka: Il Castello
21 sep 17
The Castle is the last of the three novels by the Prague writer. Remaining unfinished, The Castle, often obscure and sometimes surreal, is centered on the themes of bureaucracy, law as a global order, and thus the alienation and continuous frustration of the individual attempting to integrate into a system that, while inviting him in, simultaneously pushes him away by marginalizing him. (quoted from Mondadori)
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