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Deep Purple: Made In Japan
CD Audio I have it ★★★★★
Deep Purple: Made in Japan
22 may 16
Incredible live performance, historic, one of the best and most charismatic ever. Technically flawless, it falls just short of perfection due to a slight "out of tune" moment from Ian Gillan in Highway Star, but those are just details.
Eiichiro oda: One Piece
CD Audio I have it ★★★★
Eiichiro oda: One Piece
26 jul 16
A decent but not thrilling start (volumes from the first to the ninth), thrilling and unique from 10 to 65, has somewhat lost its way with the Caesar the Clown saga (ridiculous saga!), only to return to high levels thanks to the legendary Doflamingo... I stopped there because I got fed up, it’s too long... :(
  • COX
    26 jul 16
    Is the Punk Hazard saga ridiculous? But there are epic moments like Zoro vs. Monet, Vergo vs. Law, and Doflamingo's arrival! The post Dressrosa arc deserves a lot instead. The Zou arc (which has been concluded for a while now) is one of the best in the entire work.
  • tonysoprano
    26 jul 16
    The saga of Doflamingo is unique... the best is that of Marineford...
    that of Punk Hazard makes me anxious, too predictable and not unexpected enough for the standards of OP.
  • tonysoprano
    26 jul 16
    Don't take it the wrong way... @[COX]
  • tonysoprano
    26 jul 16
    I still have the last 30 chapters to go through.
  • COX
    29 jul 16
    I don't take it personally; your judgment is your own, just like mine, after all. I don't agree that Punk Hazard is predictable.
  • tonysoprano
    29 jul 16
    I'm not saying it sucks, just that the absolute unpredictability of Marineford is lost.
Emerson, Lake & Palmer: Tarkus
CD Audio I have it ★★★★
Emerson, Lake & Palmer: Tarkus
4 sep 16
What a shame, they could have really hit it big. The titular suite is ridiculous at times, and way too long. The second half, beautiful, makes it even more frustrating. A great opportunity wasted.
  • sergio60
    25 jan 17
    every opinion is sacred but.....tarkus is more so....the suite is simply magnificent with no weak moments and it flows by all too quickly....the B side has the flavor of filler with the sole exception of only way featuring the Bach-like insert of the fugue, the rest would also be good (for the rest of the prog groups) but not by the standards of ELP at that moment....
Emerson, Lake & Palmer: Emerson, Lake & Palmer
CD Audio I have it ★★★★
Emerson, Lake & Palmer: Emerson, Lake & Palmer
4 sep 16
A good debut for ELP, very inspired, although they suffer from slight prolixity in some long tracks (Take A Pebble) that could have lasted 2 or 3 minutes less, even if they are beautiful and powerful. Good first impression, as they say. But definitely not a masterpiece. Too immature.
  • hjhhjij
    4 sep 16
    Well, you're obsessed with immaturity in the wrong records. These were very mature, all coming from significant experiences that had been made and finished ;) Probably the one about excessive prolixity is more focused and mature, but that's just my opinion.
  • tonysoprano
    4 sep 16
    I find this one by Brain Salad Surgery more verbose.
  • tonysoprano
    4 sep 16
    There are moments when I feel bored, and others that are very exhilarating.
  • hjhhjij
    4 sep 16
    Of tastes.
  • tonysoprano
    4 sep 16
    I like them, but sometimes I don't understand where they want to go with it, so many poorly managed ideas at certain points, wordy and sometimes even boring. Tarkus becomes deadly dull after 5 minutes.
  • hjhhjij
    4 sep 16
    And I prefer that of Karn Evil :D But I agree with the concept. It's not that they had poorly managed ideas, it's that they always focused too much on technical performance (where they were monsters) compared to composition (which I think Emerson has always been somewhat limited in). Just a bunch of show-offs. Except for Lake, bassist, singer, and when he felt like it, also a great songwriter. All the short songs of the band are his, and to me, they are the best things in their albums.
  • tonysoprano
    4 sep 16
    Lake should not be touched, Palmer was a great drummer, the blame was on Emerson, there were ideas. Poorly managed.
  • sergio60
    25 jan 17
    Well... defining E.L.P. as an immature work is absolutely incorrect. It has all the hallmarks of a masterpiece, with the significant addition of having opened a highway for all the upcoming bands (given that the Nice had only blazed the trail and that only Emerson had the courage to continue straight in that direction). Forty years later, it still sounds fresh, intriguing, and grandiose. Keep in mind that in the 70s, they had an immense following—far more than M. Jackson...
Emerson, Lake & Palmer: Brain Salad Surgery
File Audio I have it ★★★★★
Emerson, Lake & Palmer: Brain Salad Surgery
4 sep 16
The best album by Emerson, Lake And Palmer, technically analyzed in almost every detail, with that wonder of Karn Evil Nine which rightfully enters among the best suites of all time. It would be a record worthy of the title masterpiece, it’s a shame there’s a filler, namely "Benny The Bouncier" that disrupts the balance. They came very close to the title of masterpiece. A magnificent album.
Eric Dolphy: Out To Lunch
File Audio I have it ★★★★★
Eric Dolphy: Out To Lunch
24 jul 16
A disgustingly perfect album...complex, refined, and at the same time melodic...my god, the sax!
Fabrizio De André: Tutti Morimmo A Stento
File Audio I have it ★★★★★
Fabrizio De André: Tutti morimmo a stento
28 may 16
One of the darkest albums I have ever listened to. The first "classic" Italian album I heard was love at first "sight" for this masterpiece.
Faust: Faust
File Audio I have it ★★★★★
Faust: Faust IV
5 jul 16
One of those albums capable of completely transforming the history of rock and music as a whole... "Miss Fortune" feels like it's from another planet...
Flower Travellin' Band: Anywhere
File Audio I have it ★★★★
Flower Travellin' Band: Anywhere
6 sep 16
Great debut, excellent fusion of blues. A really nice "on the road" album:
Focus: Focus II
File Audio I have it ★★★★★
Focus: Focus II
2 aug 16
Album, eclectic and with a perfect blend of hard rock and a progressive sound reminiscent of Jethro Tull. A masterpiece! Holy smokes, what a suite "Eruption"!
  • hjhhjij
    2 aug 16
    Surely the Tull were also much more folk. But if there’s one group between the two that was more heavily tilted toward hard-blues/blues-rock, it was Jethro. The Focus had this "classical" melodic ability that was quite evocative.
  • hjhhjij
    2 aug 16
    The Tull are much more unclassifiable and versatile.
  • tonysoprano
    2 aug 16
    true
Francesco Guccini: Via Paolo Fabbri 43
File Audio I have it ★★★★★
Francesco Guccini: Via Paolo Fabbri 43
4 jul 16
The beginning of "Piccola Storia Ignobile" is at too high a level... it's too little to give it a 5...
  • SandroGiacobbe
    4 jul 16
    'Il pensionato' and 'Canzone quasi d'amore' are the absolute top.
  • Zimmy
    4 jul 16
    "I pretend to have understood that living is meeting, being sleepy, having appetite, having children, eating, drinking, reading, loving, scratching..."
    I don't even comment on the poisoned one.
  • tonysoprano
    4 jul 16
    how nice this album is, just discovered it today... :)
  • Zimmy
    4 jul 16
    I see you’re discovering Italians, great! Guccini deserves a lot, also try "Radici."
  • tonysoprano
    4 jul 16
    I will definitely give it a try... I also discovered, even though he’s not really a singer-songwriter, Lucio Battisti... with “Anima Latina”...
  • Zimmy
    4 jul 16
    Battisti doesn't drive me crazy and I know little about him, but I have no doubt that Anima Latina is a fundamental album. In any case, Italian singer-songwriter music is a world to be discovered; from Battiato to De Gregori to Fossati to Lolli and so on, there's truly something for everyone :)
  • tonysoprano
    4 jul 16
    Sure! Now that I've finished high school, I have plenty of time...
  • SandroGiacobbe
    4 jul 16
    Italy has gifted us with pearls of unparalleled songwriting. Italians, renowned for their exquisite taste, prefer foreign music... Heaven forbid listening to Italian music, what kind of impression would that give me?
  • tonysoprano
    4 jul 16
    Italian singer-songwriters are amazing, but my favorites are foreign, just a matter of taste…
  • Zimmy
    4 jul 16
    It would be pointless to belittle the Anglophones to praise the Italians or vice versa. It’s like asking: who’s better, Dylan or De André? Absurd. Of course, people like Dylan and Cohen are the foundation of everything that followed, even in Italy (without Dylan, De Gregori would never have existed, for instance), but in the end, that doesn’t mean much. So long live the Italians who are second to none, but also to the foreigners who have set the standard like no one else.
  • Zimmy
    4 jul 16
    Second to none
  • SandroGiacobbe
    4 jul 16
    I don't want to say who is better than whom; I'm just being sarcastic about the many who don't listen to Italian music because it's not in line with their coolness.
  • SandroGiacobbe
    4 jul 16
    I said it a bit clumsily, but oh well, it's understandable.
  • tonysoprano
    4 jul 16
    Snobbism is an ugly disease.
Francesco Renga: Camere Con Vista
CD Audio I have it ★★★★
Francesco Renga: Camere con vista
2 sep 16
Yeah... I think I'm the only one who is attached to this album. I've always liked it, don't stone me for that!
Genesis: Foxtrot
CD Audio I have it ★★★★★
Genesis: Foxtrot
27 aug 16
The best album by Genesis: between the solemnity of "Watcher Of The Skies", the captivating calm of "Time Table", the polyrhythm of "Get'em Out by Friday" with an astonishing vocal performance by Peter Gabriel (just listen to believe), the "charismatic" sweetness of "Can-Utility and the Coastliners", Mr. Steve Hackett gracing us common mortals with "Horizons", a breathtaking acoustic piece, and "Supper's Ready", their ultimate musical manifestation, 23 minutes that change the lives of those who listen. In just 50 minutes, Genesis produces their masterpiece and firmly establishes themselves among the greatest progressive bands of all time.
  • hjhhjij
    27 aug 16
    Once, I would have agreed with you. Now, it's hard for me to prefer one over the other, in Genesis up to 1977.
  • tonysoprano
    27 aug 16
    It depends. Let's say that on a pseudo-emotional level, I slightly prefer Foxtrot to the others.
  • PrincipeAnchisi
    29 aug 16
    I agree. Foxtrot changed my life from the very first listen. And now it's been 45 years...
Genesis: The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
CD Audio I have it ★★★★★
Genesis: The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
26 aug 16
"The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway," or the wonderful yet dramatic and convoluted adventure of Rael, who finds himself unwillingly in the "hell" of Broadway, among bleeding lambs, trapped in an ever-tightening cage, and other surreal situations that make his tortuous journey an experience that can often happen to those who struggle to face the world. A TRUE MASTERPIECE OF THE GENESIS DISCOGRAPHY, although I still prefer the magical "Foxtrot" by a hair, it’s more appropriate to consider this as a separate album in the Genesis discography due to its uniquely developed and particular concepts.
Gentle Giant: Gentle Giant
CD Audio I have it ★★★★★
Gentle Giant: Gentle Giant
1 sep 16
Monstrous even at their debut... gigantic band, even if the best is yet to come, heheheheh
Gentle Giant: Three Friends
CD Audio I have it ★★★★★
Gentle Giant: Three Friends
1 sep 16
A concept album about the friendship between three friends, who find themselves forced to part ways to pursue their dreams, only to reunite after a thousand adventures... From a musical standpoint, well, I think words are unnecessary to describe it: an absolute masterpiece once again for the Gentle Giant discography, exactly between "Acquiring The Taste" and "Octopus". Damn how much I love them.
Gentle Giant: Acquiring The Taste
CD Audio I have it ★★★★★
Gentle Giant: Acquiring the Taste
1 sep 16
Alright, here you reach nirvana! Monstrous! Continuous evolution from Gentle Giant, both in terms of rhythm and melody, until this album arrives, the first true masterpiece, after the nonetheless grand debut album. Favorite songs: ALLL!
  • Kotatsu
    1 sep 16
    I've already expressed myself on the magnificence of the album... It reaches nirvana but not the Nirvana! xD
  • Kotatsu
    1 sep 16
    Before getting stoned, let me clarify that I'm joking! #SeptemberJoy
  • tonysoprano
    1 sep 16
    I just made a joke about poor Cobain too ahahahah
  • Kotatsu
    1 sep 16
    I'm afraid I missed it xD
  • tonysoprano
    1 sep 16
    it's in my listening XD
Gentle Giant: Octopus
File Audio I have it ★★★★★
Gentle Giant: Octopus
10 jun 16
Tentacled music, which twists and changes tempo continuously. EXTRAORDINARY!
Gentle Giant: In a Glass House
File Audio I have it ★★★★★
Gentle Giant: In a Glass House
2 sep 16
The sound of breaking glass capable of creating a rhythmic section at the beginning of the opener. After the first 20 seconds, the album already kicks off with a bang... Let's add the rest, and we'll have yet another masterpiece from Gentle Giant, their fifth in a row. THANK YOU AGAIN GENTLE GIANT.
  • hjhhjij
    3 sep 16
    Ah, here it is. It’s competing for the debut for the third step of the podium, if you ask me.
  • tonysoprano
    3 sep 16
    So, I’ll tell you, I liked the king's album, but it's a bit like World Record, it’s a freebie that of Power and the Glory.
  • tonysoprano
    3 sep 16
    Based on the 6 albums I’ve listened to, I can identify 2 masterpieces, acquiring and octopus.
  • hjhhjij
    3 sep 16
    Yes, yes, whatever, I’ve removed the stars from my life :D
  • tonysoprano
    3 sep 16
    Anyway, the Gentle Giant are incredible...wonderful...
  • tonysoprano
    3 sep 16
    In here, I use balls. Elsewhere, I use other measures of evaluation, but that's another story.
  • sergio60
    25 jan 17
    By coincidence, it was my first encounter with the giant... and it was true love. I took the reverse journey, discovering many gems of the same kind, but... the glass house remains a must. The only one in a glass house contains more ideas than many LPs by other artists; or rather, anyone who had the mountain of insights present in that track instead of a song could have made an LP... and maybe even a double one. Paradoxically, precisely because of its (beautiful) complexity, it is not always indicated as a masterpiece.
Gentle Giant: The Power and the Glory
File Audio I have it ★★★★★
Gentle Giant: The Power and the Glory
3 sep 16
Sixth magnificent album for Gentle Giant, who triumph once again with a concept album, this time with a grotesque and satirical portrayal of the questionable methods of a monarch. Wonderful...
  • hjhhjij
    3 sep 16
    You missed "In A Glass House" Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh hh
  • hjhhjij
    3 sep 16
    No seriously. I’m telling you the truth, the album is beautiful (and has two or three wonderful gems) but out of the first 7 by Gentle Giant, it's the only one I have never (yet) been able to fully love, the only one that sometimes feels a bit self-indulgent in certain virtuosos and a little uninspired. Less engaging than the others. For me. It remains, however, a great album with a couple of masterpiece tracks inside, I mean.
  • tonysoprano
    3 sep 16
    Look better hj, I defined it.
  • adrmb
    11 may 19
    GOLD COMMENTS SECTION
Go Nagai: Devilman
Cartaceo I have it ★★★★★
Go Nagai: Devilman
21 apr 16
I bow to Go Nagai, not so much for the drawings, but for the philosophical depth that he has given to this milestone, which has given rise to immense musts like Berserk, Dragon Ball, and Monster.
Grateful Dead: Anthem Of The Sun
CD Audio I lack ★★★★★
Grateful Dead: Anthem of the Sun
13 apr 16
Masterpiece of psychedelic rock, a band as memorable as few.
Grazhdanskaya Oborona: ??????? ? ?????
File Audio I have it ★★★★★
Grazhdanskaya Oborona: Здорово и вечно
5 jul 16
Great album that makes it clear once and for all that the Russians can do punk the right way!
Hatfield and the North: Hatfield & The North
File Audio I have it ★★★★★
Hatfield and the North: Hatfield & The North
21 aug 16
Playful, experimental album, featuring keyboards played with the innocence of a child. Thanks also to a distinguished guest, Robert Wyatt, who in "Calyx" delivers an exceptionally high-level vocal performance. An outstanding album!
Hatfield and the North: The Rotters' Club
File Audio I have it ★★★★★
Hatfield and the North: The Rotters' Club
23 aug 16
Take the sounds of the grandiose debut, compact them, mature them, and you will have the masterpiece of Hatfield And The North. Surely one of the best records produced by the glorious Canterbury scene and progressive rock in general.
HBO: The Wire
File Video I lack ★★★★★
HBO: The Wire
30 apr 16
The Wire, a vast fresco of a city, Baltimore, which is nothing but a reflection of all the possible and imaginable corruption in this world... The Wire merely describes reality, and it does so in a maniacally perfect way.
Henry Cow: Unrest
File Audio I have it ★★★★★
Henry Cow: Unrest
6 sep 16
Deadly, experimental, reckless, vastly different melodic lines intertwining with each other without ever clashing and never slowing down their crazy and desperate improvised run... divine...
Hiromu Arakawa: Fullmetal Alchemist
Cartaceo I have it ★★★★★
Hiromu Arakawa: Fullmetal Alchemist
26 jul 16
This shonen, among the few I've read, is probably the best (Devil Man allowing)...
Il Mare Di Ross: Fin
File Audio I have it ★★★
Il Mare Di Ross: Fin
28 aug 16
Sufficiently good album, too bad that musically it's nothing that crazy and that it has truly ridiculous lyrics.
Invisible: El jardín de los presentes
File Audio I have it ★★★★★
Invisible: El jardín de los presentes
6 sep 16
Anyone wanting to listen to Argentine rock but also progressive music in general must absolutely get to know this monumental masterpiece by Invisible. A wonderful album, technically flawless, with compositions that are not even that complex, but stunning...
Iron Maiden: Iron Maiden
File Audio I have it ★★★★★
Iron Maiden: Iron Maiden
1 jun 16
Raw, brutal, direct, majestic, highly technical, with a slightly punk vein: INESTIMABLE MASTERPIECE.
Iron Maiden: Powerslave
File Audio I have it ★★★★★
Iron Maiden: Powerslave
24 may 16
The masterpiece of Iron Maiden, which explodes with power, aggression, and emotion. Powerslave stands as the absolute pinnacle of the English band.
  • odesso
    24 may 16
    "two minutes to midnight" is indeed a great track.
  • tonysoprano
    24 may 16
    and Aces High?
J.J. Abrams: Lost
File Video I have it ★★★★★
J.J. Abrams: Lost
6 sep 16
One of the most beautiful and touching TV series of all time. The ending, well, it was a bittersweet blow to the heart, one of those unforgettable moments...
Jeff Buckley: Grace
File Audio I have it ★★★★★
Jeff Buckley: Grace
1 jun 16
Powerful, moving, angelic album that goes straight to the heart. Jeff could have had a brilliant career like his genius father Tim. One of the most direct and spontaneous albums in history.
Jefferson Airplane: Volunteers
File Audio I have it ★★★★★
Jefferson Airplane: Volunteers
27 may 16
An absolute masterpiece for Jefferson Airplane, who close with a bang an unrepeatable and absolute cycle of albums. "Hey Friedrich" remains the landmark of the record.
  • hjhhjij
    27 may 16
    For me, the definitive piece of Slick is "Hey Fredrick," including the Kaukonen-esque ride of the second part. But THE piece of the album, inevitably, remains "Wooden Ships."
  • tonysoprano
    27 may 16
    Incredible even "Wooden Ships".
Jefferson Airplane: Surrealistic Pillow
File Video I lack ★★★★★
Jefferson Airplane: Surrealistic Pillow
7 apr 16
Jefferson Airplane, the story of a band capable of producing nothing but masterpieces, starting from this, a drug in its purest form.
Jefferson Airplane: After Bathing at Baxter's
File Audio I have it ★★★★★
Jefferson Airplane: After Bathing at Baxter's
26 jul 16
After the incredibly important and historic "Surrealistic Pillow," the Jefferson Airplane reassert themselves on the music scene of the late '60s with their second masterpiece, even more complex in its compositions...my god, Grace Slick's vocalizations are UNIQUE!!!
Jethro Tull: Thick As A Brick
File Audio I have it ★★★★★
Jethro Tull: Thick as a Brick
23 aug 16
After the sensational Aqualung, Jethro Tull, with a megagalactic suite of 43 minutes, create their best album. An outstanding record!
  • SalvaDM
    23 aug 16
    I prefer Aqualung, but it's definitely one of their best. I think I might be the only one who doesn't really care for 'A Passion Play'; in fact, I'll say it: I don't like it!
  • tonysoprano
    23 aug 16
    I'm missing passion. I don't think you're the only one. In fact, everyone criticizes it for being too wordy.
  • tonysoprano
    23 aug 16
    *a passion
  • SalvaDM
    23 aug 16
    Well, actually, it has a great reputation on the web, but here on Debaser, I'm not sure; I've only been here for too short a time!
  • tonysoprano
    23 aug 16
    Hj and battlegods don't speak very highly of it.
  • tonysoprano
    23 aug 16
    Here on deb, it is criticized for being verbose.
  • SalvaDM
    23 aug 16
    So I’m with them :) If I were you, I’d definitely give it a listen too!
    P.S. I’m reading your review on Czesław Niemen, an artist I didn't know at all! And I thought I had a basic knowledge of music. In 10 minutes I’ll listen to the album and let you know :D
  • tonysoprano
    23 aug 16
    Look, I also have this vast musical knowledge, you know.
  • SalvaDM
    23 aug 16
    But of course not! I didn't mean to offend you, especially since that message wasn't directed at you. Before discovering Debaser, I thought I had a good knowledge of music, but I have to take back all my previous thoughts now that I'm here. No worries <3
  • tonysoprano
    23 aug 16
    *me neither
  • tonysoprano
    23 aug 16
    In the sense that everything I know, I have known for about a year.
  • hellraiser
    23 aug 16
    The best for me by Tull, with Stand Up, Aqualung, and Minstrel in the Gallery...
  • tonysoprano
    23 aug 16
    I miss Stand up and minstrel in the gallery.
  • hellraiser
    23 aug 16
    Get them somehow, they are worth so much. Then all of JT's works/masterpieces are excellent until Songs from the Wood in 1977 (let's also include Heavy Horses from '78)...
  • SalvaDM
    23 aug 16
    It's Stormwatch from '79 :P Personally, after 'A', I don't know anything else about JT. Is there anything else worth mentioning??
Jimi Hendrix: Are You Experienced
File Audio I lack ★★★★★
Jimi Hendrix: Are You Experienced?
10 apr 16
Jimi Hendrix picked up the guitar and, in just one hour, changed the game, turned everything upside down, with just one album.
John Coltrane: A love supreme
CD Audio I have it ★★★★★
John Coltrane: A Love Supreme
22 jul 16
The free flow of thought in jazz, experienced in a spiritual dimension, described in a whopping 32 minutes. A fucking masterpiece.
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