Grasshopper

DeRank ™: 5,88

DeAge™ : 7973 days • Here since 11 august 2004

Tom Waits Real Gone

15 jul 05

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I disagree: it says almost nothing, but above all it is completely useless, being now the third, and this is what makes my judgment harsher (actually, worse has been written).

Tom Waits Real Gone

15 jul 05

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What else is there to add, since there were already two excellent reviews of this album?

Miles Davis Kind Of Blue

15 jul 05

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Class in its purest form. The review is good too.

Queen Queen II

15 jul 05

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"Technical trunk" is pure Frassica.... but is it a joke or did you mean it exactly like that? I'm not going to be harsh with a rating.

Weather Report 8:30

14 jul 05

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Better late than never... I only just noticed this review, worthy of the album (and with this, I've said it all).

Angelo Branduardi Gulliver, la luna e altri disegni

12 jul 05

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More or less yes, with the only addition of the excellent "Gulliver". It’s the perfect album to sweep away all the clichés about Branduardi, along with "Branduardi canta Yeats", where our minstrel tackles excellent translations of poems by this Irish "bard." If you give Branduardi decent lyrics, the job is done: the music is already of high quality.

Juri Camisasca Arcano Enigma

12 jul 05

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By now, Aeneas is a sure thing: perfect reviews, punctual and very learned, always sprinkled with a little-known word (in this case SUPERNE) but that’s just a triviality. It makes you want to know more about this obscure author of whom I only know "Nomadi" in Battiato's version.

Pietra Montecorvino Napoli Mediterranea

12 jul 05

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I almost forgot the vote for the perfect takedown.

Pietra Montecorvino Napoli Mediterranea

12 jul 05

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I believe I only heard her once, if I'm not mistaken, in an Arbore program. It was a hoarse whining that more or less went "Sud, Sud, nui simme d'o'Sud, nui simme spuorc' e 'nnire..." (I apologize for any mistakes, but I'm Tuscan) and I was disgusted, so much that I still remember it. I have the impression that she was there as an involuntary comic. I don't even want to think about what she might do with the songs of the Neapolitan tradition: I imagine a massacre. The review is a perfect example of a harsh criticism, without ifs and buts. When it’s needed, it’s needed...

Jethro Tull Stand Up

11 jul 05

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I don't know what podium the anonymous person is referring to. As for the rest, I've said it and I've repeated it: I am a dyed-in-the-wool traditionalist, a devoted admirer of classics, mostly from centuries past (Mozart, Beethoven, Bach...) but also from recent decades (Genesis, King Crimson, Jethro Tull...) and therefore I tend to talk about what I know best. I'm a bit of the antiquarian of debaser, actually at first I thought of "L'Antiquario" as a nickname, then since someone nicknamed me this way, which seems tailor-made for a nickname, I opted for Grasshopper.