Grasshopper

DeRank ™: 5,88

DeAge™ : 7973 days • Here since 11 august 2004

U2 War

1 jul 05

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It's true: even though some tracks seem to be cut with an axe, there’s a vitality in the latest "licked" U2 that we no longer find. However, in my opinion, their golden period starts with "Unforgettable Fire" and ends with "Achtung Baby."

Bruce Springsteen Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band Live/1975-85

1 jul 05

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For portfolio reasons, I don't have this monumental work (so the 5 is based on trust), but if the double "Live in New York City," featuring a Boss in his fifties who grunts more than he roars, gives an idea of immense energy, I can only imagine how this one will be.

Fabrizio De André Storia di un impiegato

30 jun 05

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Thank you, little ones: I see that you have quickly gathered all the reviews on De André, and even with the right accent. Sorry for my tendency to not just see the speck in the egg, but fuzzy eggs like kiwis. There's nothing to be done: maybe it's because I have 12/10 vision, but that's just how I am.

Michael Jackson Blood On The Dancefloor

30 jun 05

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I am not familiar with the album in question, and unlike you, I have never had a soft spot for Michael Jackson's art, not even when he was conquering the world with "Thriller." However, I fully agree with the discourse on pathos as a reason for living, as the dominant note of his entire downward spiral, which is as long as an agony.

Tom Waits Franks Wild Years

30 jun 05

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I join El Guevo (who I find very harsh with the ratings of the reviews, not just mine but everyone's) in recommending starting with Blue Valentine, which, besides being one of the best, is one of those whose impact is, so to speak, less "traumatic," especially if you are an aesthete like my friend.

Fabrizio De André Storia di un impiegato

29 jun 05

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Odradek, the title you mentioned without meaning to: it's the second part of the line you put in quotes "They will come to ask you about our love." As for Piovani, it was indeed him, and the same goes for "Not for the money..." while the arrangements of "Buona Novella" are the work, believe it or not, of the same Giampiero Reverberi who many years later would tarnish his reputation by distorting Vivaldi alongside some clown in a wig, namely the Rondò Veneziano.

Fabrizio De André Storia di un impiegato

29 jun 05

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A little note for the dwarves from the usual pain in the neck: a matter of accent. Under the entry "Fabrizio De Andrè" (with the open accent) there is only this review, which seems to be the only one so far submitted about the greatest of our singer-songwriters. This is not true because under the entry "Fabrizio De André" (with the closed accent) there are many others, of which a good 6 are mine. When you have time, and especially if it's possible, can you group them all together?

Francesco Guccini D'amore di morte e di altre sciocchezze

29 jun 05

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I agree about the ratings: perhaps it's the only flaw of Debaser, but the five-star system doesn't leave much room for maneuver: in just two votes you can go from masterpiece (5) to an okay album (3). For example, for this excellent album by Guccini, which I believe is the best of his latest phase, I would have given it a 9, so I was long uncertain between 4 and 5, not having the option of 4.5. Then my passion for this always-underappreciated singer-songwriter, especially musically, prevailed. The criticisms, when they aren't insults, are never either pompous or idiotic. As for Mollica, no comment... he’s the only person in the world capable of praising someone like De Gregori one day and then repeating the same judgments about Morandi the next. Bah.

Fabrizio De André Storia di un impiegato

29 jun 05

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On the fact that it is the most beautiful of all, I disagree: in my opinion, the two masterpieces that precede it, "La buona novella" and "Non al denaro, non all'amore né al cielo," are a slight notch higher, if only because the themes addressed (respectively God and Freedom) are timeless, while in "Storia di un impiegato" there is the sentiment of a very specific historical period, expressed in the best possible way.

Fabrizio De André Storia di un impiegato

29 jun 05

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Immense, huge, masterpiece, much like much of De André's work, who was notoriously lazy, in the noblest sense of the word, meaning he only made an album when he had a lot, a lot to say. The review was also appropriate, that is, excellent.