Peter Gabriel: Peter Gabriel IV
Vinile I have it ★★★★★
Peter Gabriel: Peter Gabriel IV
3 feb 19
Tribal nightmares, subversive electronics, ethnic rhythms, destabilized and destabilizing sounds. In this masterpiece, Gabriel tells our story from the perspective of others and, at the same time, others from our perspective. A milestone of World Music. #zublime
  • pier_paolo_farina
    4 feb 19
    World Music is tedious. Melodically boring. Very often made up of drone songs dominated by their rhythmic loop, which after the canonical three minutes lose their effectiveness and fill me with boredom. Gabriel is a huge singer, but a poor songwriter. I love his Genesis from 1970-1975. I am not, however, engaged by his solo career.
  • Kotatsu
    4 feb 19
    Well, to be honest, the use of drones and loops is not exclusive to world music, just as drones and loops are not exclusive to world music: in Gabriel's album, their use is quite sporadic. My opinion as a musician is that repetition is a fascinating language that touches on very deep chords, but it can easily descend into banality. It requires skill, of course. Is Gabriel a poor composer? I wouldn't say so at all. In fact, just take any random track from So to realize this: exquisitely pop songs, yet unique in their kind and perfectly calibrated. Especially in III and IV, Gabriel does not simply choose to adopt the rock language, but he shapes and bends it to his liking.
  • Kotatsu
    4 feb 19
    And telling you this is a die-hard fan of Genesis until 1977 ahahah
  • pier_paolo_farina
    9 feb 19
    For drones and rhythmic loops, I didn’t mean the use of electronics, but rather the repetitive scores to which Gabriel's musicians are subjected. His bald drummer starts with a groove and keeps it going, with no hope of a break, a chorus, or any kind of occurrence. Unlike you, who are fascinated and touched in your deepest strings, I find it quite tedious.
    It’s not exactly a general issue of repetitiveness... I have no problem with Popol Vuh or other people who develop musical "drones"... it’s really just him, his style. Maximum respect for Gabriel's art, which is peculiar and straightforward, but it doesn’t do it for me; it doesn’t grab me. I’m not fond of his depressed accent, his drummer's view of music (and he was a drummer, as a kid, before he gave that up to focus on his talent as a frontman... in fact, what he retained more was the taste for rhythm rather than for harmonic progression).
    I care about Gabriel... I saw him half a century ago, dressed in black and as thin as a reed, writhing in front of the microphone with a small drum kit at his feet, just to emphasize, and I was fascinated. I saw him again wearing the flower, the bat, and the fox, and I was pleasantly entertained.
    But I don’t own any of his solo albums, neither this one nor any others. I’m not interested.
Pink Floyd: Wish You Were Here
Vinile I have it ★★★★★
Pink Floyd: Wish You Were Here
21 feb 16
Ethereal masterpiece, sailing in its majestic sense of solitude. An absolute must!
  • perfect element
    21 feb 16
    Latest, wonderful work by Pink Floyd
  • madcat
    21 feb 16
    latest? After at least those 2 masterpieces of Animals and The Wall
  • Aquarius27
    22 feb 16
    Indeed, then "Animals" was released, yet another immense work! There’s not much to add about "Wish," my favorite by Pink!
  • luludia
    22 feb 16
    From very recent revelations by someone who goes by the name of fuggitivo, it has emerged that this is not a Pink Floyd album... I had suspected it for a long time...
  • luludia
    22 feb 16
    update yourselves!!!!!!!
  • Kotatsu
    23 feb 16
    Animals and The Wall still magnificent works :) (I put the "Bel" in my own comment by mistake... Forgive me!)
  • tonysoprano
    27 jun 16
    Welcome To The Machine is worthy of a bow.
Pink Floyd: The Dark Side Of The Moon
Vinile I have it ★★★★★
Pink Floyd: The Dark Side of the Moon
5 feb 16
What can I say? It struck me at a young age. Unique, perfect, and eternal, today just like in 1973.
  • adrmb
    29 sep 17
    Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr rrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
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