16 Horsepower: Secret South
File Audio I have it ★★★
16 Horsepower: Secret South
2 sep 15
Inspired record, with Edwards' pure talent unfolding at 360 degrees - despite some shortcomings, and even though 'Hutterite Mile' is not included in this tracklist, but in the subsequent one of "Folklore."
A. Inarritu: Biutiful
DVD Video I have it ★★★★
A. Inarritu: Biutiful
5 feb 16
A bitter micro-epic in the Barcelona we do not know, made up of migrants, outcasts, innocents, and petty criminals. Bardem at his best. Inarritu, already among the greats of cinema, sketches the descent into physical death of a man who is just a step away from resurrection.
Blood, Sweat and Tears: Child is father to the Man
Vinile I have it ★★★★★
Blood, Sweat and Tears: Child is father to the Man
31 aug 15
Overwhelming!
Bob Theil: So far
File Audio I have it
Bob Theil: So far
31 aug 15
Strongly evocative, one of the great singer-songwriter albums of the early '80s.
Bod Dylan: Oh! Mercy
CD Audio I have it ★★★★
Bod Dylan: Oh! Mercy
31 aug 15
A shadowy, atmospheric Dylan, surprisingly alive on the level of melodic invention.
Captain Beefheart: Trout Mask Replica
File Audio I have it ★★★★★
Captain Beefheart: Trout Mask Replica
31 aug 15
An ocean of ideas that stands on disorder, a provocative and brilliant disorder.
Dannii Minogue: Live at mardi gras 2015
CD Audio Not intrested
Dannii Minogue: Live at mardi gras 2015
4 apr 16
Alright, I already sent the photo, since it wasn't there!! Don't ask too much of me!
David Bickerstaff: Goya: visioni di carne e sangue
DVD Video I lack ★★★
David Bickerstaff: Goya: visioni di carne e sangue
5 feb 16
The subject of the documentary, which stems from the exhibition held at the National Gallery, is beyond the human, as it deals with Goya's art, but the execution, filled with unnecessary inserts and lengthy discussions about secondary aspects of a career instead marked by sublime achievements, could have been better; noteworthy is the philosophy of art expressed by some of the experts consulted.
David Bowie: Outside
CD Audio I have it ★★★★
David Bowie: Outside
31 aug 15
A serial killer narrates himself in a series of pieces that evoke his altered state of consciousness. To be listened to and relistened: inexhaustible Bowie.
Dead Can Dance: Toward the Within'
CD Audio I have it ★★★★★
Dead Can Dance: Toward the Within'
31 aug 15
Live on this album, you traverse a good portion of the duo's production, with the usual distant scenarios in time and space evoked flawlessly, under the light of a perfectly inspiring intensity.
  • hjhhjij
    31 aug 15
    Until this album, it's hard not to give the maximum rating to their records.
  • Dan Erre
    31 aug 15
    I agree
Einstürzende Neubauten: Tabula Rasa
File Audio I have it ★★★★★
Einstürzende Neubauten: Tabula Rasa
31 aug 15
Disturbing, innovative, energetic, with incredibly original lyrics (on the web you can also find the translation from German, if you look for it a bit).
John Surman: Private City
CD Audio I have it ★★★★★
John Surman: Private City
31 aug 15
Absolute masterpiece, in which Surman transcends the boundaries between genres and creates his own masterpiece after decades of great albums.
  • Muffin_Man
    31 aug 15
    I miss this! But also "Road to Saint Ives" seems like quite a record.
  • Dan Erre
    31 aug 15
    I also have that one, but it's more impressionistic, ethereal. Great art, always. But among all, I definitely recommend 'Private City.'
  • Muffin_Man
    31 aug 15
    "impalpable" yes! so I will look for this as soon as possible... I absolutely have to feel it!
Joni Mitchell: Hejira
Nastro Audio I have it ★★★★
Joni Mitchell: Hejira
31 aug 15
Mitchell at his peaks. Interiority told like, perhaps, no one else.
Lou Reed: New York
CD Audio I have it ★★★★
Lou Reed: New York
31 aug 15
The divine cruelty of life according to Lou. From the very first piece, where he pokes fun at the Shakespearean drama and the idealistic view of love: "Romeo Had Juliette"...
  • east of eden80
    31 aug 15
    However, I didn’t like this very much. The other day I happened to listen to the first two tracks of "The Bells" and I was captivated. But this and Ecstasy didn’t appeal to me.
  • fuggitivo
    31 aug 15
    This is stunning. Maybe a 5, but I should listen to it again.
  • fuggitivo
    31 aug 15
    Now it's spinning, I feel a lot like Exile on Main St.; when you're wrecked from sleepless nights and days cooped up at home, you finally step out in the morning half-drunk from sleep and the cigarette you’re smoking, and despite everything, you feel the cold and clean air hitting you like a punch in the gut, forcing you to straighten that damn posture (personal experience, I've let myself go).
  • Mr Funk
    1 sep 15
    For me, a 5-star album, no doubt about it. My favorite by Lou.
Lou Reed: Magic And Loss
CD Audio I have it ★★★★★
Lou Reed: Magic and Loss
31 aug 15
No one has ever written an entire album about the death of two friends. Heartbreaking lyrics, Lou more melodic than usual but still sharp, raw, real.
Lucio Dalla: Il motore del Duemila
CD Audio I have it ★★★
Lucio Dalla: Il motore del Duemila
1 sep 15
Imperfect, yet prophetic, incisive: the fresco of the world from the perspective of the last, or the penultimate, with magnificent texts by Roversi.
Mark Isham: Castalia
CD Audio I have it ★★★★
Mark Isham: Castalia
1 sep 15
Among Isham's best productions, with angelic trumpet flourishes, unforgettable.
Nick Cave: Henry's Dream
CD Audio I lack ★★★★
Nick Cave: Henry's Dream
31 aug 15
Cave's nightmares and his visions, a gallery of characters moving against their backdrop, an unblemished inspiration...
Nico: Desertshore
File Audio I have it ★★★★
Nico: Desertshore
31 aug 15
Arcane, solemn, unsettling, unique.
  • fuggitivo
    31 aug 15
    4 to this? Then people will send you there.
  • Dan Erre
    31 aug 15
    4 out of 5!! But it's more like a 5.
  • fuggitivo
    31 aug 15
    Far from sending you there, but it's one of the greatest musical works created by man. 4 is a bit ridiculous, but I also see that you have it in mp3 files, maybe you've known it for a short time.
  • fuggitivo
    31 aug 15
    Then I'm just messing around, it's just a little vote. "Unique" fits perfectly as a definition.
  • Dan Erre
    31 aug 15
    Who knows, maybe even from 5. Right now, it doesn’t push me that far, but it’s close.
  • fuggitivo
    31 aug 15
    I'm sure we'll get there :-) my dear Desertshore, at 5.
  • bluesboy94
    1 sep 15
    argh!!! This album, besides being a masterpiece in every way, is unique... uniqueness should always be rewarded, praised, and so on; so why only 4 stars for "DesertShore"?
Radu Jude: Aferim
DVD Video I lack ★★★★
Radu Jude: Aferim
5 feb 16
A small and recent (2015, Silver Bear in Berlin) Romanian gem in black and white, the photo-radiography of a forgotten world, that of the Romani slaves in mid-19th century Wallachia. Raw, painful, epic. Essential.
Robbie Robertson: Music for The Native Americans
CD Audio I have it ★★★★
Robbie Robertson: Music For The Native Americans
31 aug 15
From "Ghost dance" onwards, a masterpiece that moves between Indian tradition and that of the European colonizers.
Sixto Díaz Rodríguez: Cold Fact
File Audio I have it
Sixto Díaz Rodríguez: Cold Fact
2 sep 15
Imperfect but sincere, like everything Rodriguez (his little), with that raw and melancholic tone of his.
Sona Jobarteh: Fasiya
CD Audio I have it ★★★
Sona Jobarteh: Fasiya
31 aug 15
From the youngest specialist of Kora, a finely inspired album, powerfully evocative.
Sonic Youth: Daydream Nation
CD Audio I have it ★★★★★
Sonic Youth: Daydream Nation
28 mar 16
The double of the doubles!
  • hjhhjij
    28 mar 16
    Before it was almost a perfect score. Now it has completely won me over.
Sonic Youth: Dirty
CD Audio I have it ★★★★
Sonic Youth: Dirty
31 aug 15
Destruction and reconstruction, the eternal dyad embodied by the music of the Sonic.
The Beach Boys: Pet Sounds
CD Audio I have it ★★★★
The Beach Boys: Pet Sounds
17 feb 16
Disc that covers with pop gilding, making it accessible and digestible, a huge labor limae, which places it on the same level, or almost, as "Sgt. Pepper's...", in defiance of Scaruffi and his grumpy counterparts who would throw the Beatles out of the window en masse, and maybe even Wilson & co.
The Beatles: White Album
CD Audio I have it ★★★★
The Beatles: White Album
31 aug 15
Finally, the Beatles sound turns acidic, becoming angular; in short, the beginning of a new and brilliant era, which will already conclude with "Abbey Road."
The Velvet Undergound & Nico: The Velvet Undergound & Nico
CD Audio I have it ★★★★★
The Velvet Undergound & Nico: The Velvet Undergound & Nico
31 aug 15
The rock masterpiece, released before "Sgt. Pepper's..." but overshadowed by it because of its complexity, based on suites, on acid and distorted timbres.
  • hjhhjij
    31 aug 15
    I love him viscerally but... Suites? Suites? Tell me you're joking.
  • Dan Erre
    31 aug 15
    I am referring to 'European Son' and 'Heroin'. Except for the paradodecaphonic 'Revolution 9', when had the Beatles ever made tracks longer than 7 minutes?
  • hjhhjij
    31 aug 15
    Yes, but suites are something else ;) Those are simply rather long songs. For the rest, NO ONE had ever done what the VU did with this album, let alone the Beatles.
  • Dan Erre
    31 aug 15
    Absolutely. It was VU and Led Zeppelin, with their undisputed instrumental superiority and the best coherence with the times, that brought down the Beatles, certainly not Yoko Ono or Linda Eastman.
This Mortal Coil: Blood
CD Audio I have it ★★★
This Mortal Coil: Blood
31 aug 15
Imperfect as it is, it remains one of the peaks of the 4AD label.
  • fuggitivo
    31 aug 15
    In fact, Down Colorful Hill has been out for 3.
Tim Buckey: Lorca
CD Audio I lack ★★★★★
Tim Buckey: Lorca
31 aug 15
Beyond any classification, at the very heart of music and its arcane mystery.
Tom Waits: Bone Machine
CD Audio I have it ★★★★
Tom Waits: Bone Machine
1 sep 15
A record where there's everything, from noise to lyricism, passing through the dark visions of "Black Wings" and the mockery of "I don't wanna grow up": Waits at his peak, once again.
  • hjhhjij
    1 sep 15
    One of the albums of my life, no doubt about it. And all of this was achieved with twenty years of career already behind him.
  • Dan Erre
    1 sep 15
    Yes, impressive. Music and lyrics.
  • hjhhjij
    1 sep 15
    And you were right to mention "Black Wings," the most classic of "masterpieces within a masterpiece."
  • Dan Erre
    1 sep 15
    Where, among other things, her voice slithers down to the lowest imaginable level, with that heartbeat in the background that is the fluttering of luciferian wings. Magnificent.
  • hjhhjij
    1 sep 15
    Well, I have nothing else to add; I can only praise this record, there’s not much more to say.
  • hjhhjij
    1 sep 15
    However, I must say that the theatrical "Black Rider" from the following year (the 1990 show, though) I like even more, and here I’m going a bit against the tide.
  • Dan Erre
    1 sep 15
    Yeah! There's little to do and a lot to (re)listen to.
  • Dan Erre
    1 sep 15
    I love 'November' there. In general, I like it a lot too.
  • hjhhjij
    1 sep 15
    I’m happy about it; it’s a bit underrated (compared to some of his others). I was immediately hooked because I managed to find the show on YouTube, which they’ve now removed—such a blast. But I understand that if someone isn’t familiar with the story, it might come off as challenging (not in your case, though) unlike “Frank's Wild Years” or “Alice.”
  • Dan Erre
    1 sep 15
    I actually don't know the story. By the way: I also love "Franks Wild Years," with "More than rain" and "Temptation," not to mention "Hang on St. Christopher" or "Cold cold ground"; from Alice I remember the beautiful "Watch Her Disappear"...
  • hjhhjij
    1 sep 15
    It's a heartbreaking song. Those are all the discs taken from the theatrical performances or from Waits/Brennan (Frank) or from Waits with Robert Wilson. In Black Rider, William Burroughs also collaborated :-) That's why I was talking about history. They all follow each other (especially "Alice" and Frank) very well even without listening to Black Rider; knowing the show is priceless (a classic story that combines love and a pact with the devil). Just think, I even have the outtakes version with songs excluded from the original CDs but also present in the show. In short, I'm a bit obsessed with Waits...
  • hjhhjij
    1 sep 15
    Anyway, it seems to me that you like them all, same for me. Including the more "classic" ones from the '70s, which I adore. The trilogy of "Closing Time," "Small Change," and "Blue Valentine" especially is a marvel.
  • Dan Erre
    1 sep 15
    Never heard "Closing Time," to be honest. The other two, yes, but I don't know them well. I'll review them...
  • hjhhjij
    1 sep 15
    "Closing Time" is simple, but how to say it... The summary of the "Perfect Singer-Songwriter Song." Waits, at 24, was already an exceptional songwriter.
  • hjhhjij
    1 sep 15
    Oh yes, he still had a normal voice :-D
  • fuggitivo
    1 sep 15
    coff Foreign Affairs coff
  • hjhhjij
    1 sep 15
    You run away, you know how I think, THEY ALL are worth gold. Even if Foreign is one of those few to whom I would only give 4 balls (plentiful, in his case). "Burma Shave" is a piece for the annals.
  • fuggitivo
    1 sep 15
    Yes, it wasn't directed at you, because I seem to remember how you thought. Anywaaaaay cough better than Blue Valentine cough
  • Dan Erre
    1 sep 15
    Even just for "Kentucky Avenue," I prefer BV... Maybe it’s because I have a very dear disabled friend, which makes that song resonate with me deeply and adds extra value to an already great album, with "Somewhere," etc...
  • fuggitivo
    1 sep 15
    I've always mixed up the tracks from Blue Valentine; I can't distinguish the titles or the music, except for Somewhere and Blue Valentines. It shouldn't even be among my favorites anymore, given how much I like it and how often I listen to it today, but my brain tells me to leave it in that pathetic ranking on my profile.
  • fuggitivo
    1 sep 15
    *but the brain and memories (like a post-it)...
  • Dan Erre
    1 sep 15
    Better to leave it. Those three tracks are enough to make it an album that can't be missed in certain selections. I chose 'Bone Machine', but maybe it is indeed less emotionally engaging.
  • fuggitivo
    1 sep 15
    You can only say that. For me, BV is much more emotional; BM is the one I like the least from Waits.
  • fuggitivo
    1 sep 15
    And what do the gentlemen think of Nighthawks?
  • Dan Erre
    2 sep 15
    I will listen to it soon, but I confess I don't know the early Waits. Only from "Small Change" onwards...
Tom Waits: Mule Variations
CD Audio I lack ★★★★★
Tom Waits: Mule Variations
17 feb 18
U2: The Joshua Tree
CD Audio I have it ★★★
U2: The Joshua Tree
1 sep 15
The U2, more or less in their most complete expression, epic-melodic rock with great impulses, ideals, whispers, and screams: there's the needle in the vein, there's the escape from the city, there's the bombing of El Salvador, there are the mothers of the desaparecidos...
  • odesso
    3 sep 15
    this CD is awesome and the unforgettable fire
Van Morrison: Astral Weeks
CD Audio I have it ★★★★
Van Morrison: Astral Weeks
1 sep 15
Interpretations, lyrics, harmonies have made this album famous and well-known, but that doesn't mean it's any less beautiful, precious, or refined than it is: the classic style of the V.M. era, through accumulation, unfolds in now-legendary songs, from the resigned "Madame George" to the ethereal "Ballerina," from the drunken music box of "Cyprus Avenue" to the bolero anthem "Sweet Thing," culminating in the nostalgic jolt of "The Way...".
  • Mr Funk
    2 sep 15
    One cannot give less than 5 balloons to Astral Weeks, come on!
  • imasoulman
    2 sep 15
    So, do you recommend this album? I've heard some decent things about it, but I don't want to take a leap into the unknown.
  • SydBarrett96
    2 sep 15
    You can't give less than 6 balloons to Astral Weeks, come on!
  • imasoulman
    2 sep 15
    ah, 4 stars..ok. And Padoin is the strongest midfielder in the history of football.
  • Mr Funk
    2 sep 15
    As far as I'm concerned, it works like this: there's Astral Weeks and then everything else.
  • Mr. Money87
    2 sep 15
    One of those albums for which a sixth star should be added! Five is not enough!
  • Dan Erre
    2 sep 15
    Imasoulman, did I maybe ask you for an opinion or force you to read my selection? Feel free to do as you please, but don’t feel obligated, okay?
  • Dan Erre
    2 sep 15
    Mr. Funk, I really like your 'as far as I'm concerned.' An unknown expression, on this site, or almost.
  • imasoulman
    2 sep 15
    Dear Dan E(tt)e, thank you for the generosity you bestow upon me. After approximately 2800 days of staying here, I thought I had understood how things worked inside, but you have now lifted the veil. It was unpleasant to live in ignorance; thank you, truly thank you.
  • Dan Erre
    2 sep 15
    You had already taken your freedom. Hello dear.
  • mil
    2 sep 15
    I agree with Mr. Funk, 5 stars and that's it.
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