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DeRank ™: 5,88

DeAge™ : 7973 days • Here since 11 august 2004

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Edoardo Bennato Sono solo canzonette

15 dec 05

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Wow, but the 5 trend just ended and here I am jumping on the bandwagon... Now the 3 is in fashion. So I was right!

Edoardo Bennato Sono solo canzonette

15 dec 05

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Sometimes time is not a gentleman, averages (for what they're worth) are distorted at will, and my centrist balance goes to hell. Do you want a 5 from me too? Here it is!

Miles Davis Doo-Bop

15 dec 05

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Imone is about to impose, of course.

Sometimes you have to have the courage to criticize the untouchables, and the Punisher, albeit with the somewhat harsh tones that his nickname implies, has done just that. And he probably found the only loophole where it was possible to pierce the unassailable wall of Miles Davis's discography. The fact that his trumpet can make even a potentially flat album like this one sound good (but not excellent) is another matter: around here, we say that even a shoe tastes good when fried, and the mere presence of Miles's trumpet, like a perfect gilding, manages to overshadow the musical poverty of an album too much a product of the trends of the moment.

Edoardo Bennato Sono solo canzonette

15 dec 05

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Congratulations Enea: better than Gianni Pilo, the famous pollster of Silvio. Indeed, it would be unfair to give a 1 or 2 to an album that, for better or worse, offers so many points of reflection, just as it would be to overpraise it, because when it comes down to it, they are rock fairy tales. But time is a gentleman, and the average settles, coincidentally, right near that 3 that two bischeracci dared to assign. It feels like revisiting my review of the Eagles, where someone mocked me saying the album was legendary (a 5) and someone else saying it was rubbish (1). For the record, I gave it a 3, and in the end, the resulting average was more or less that. De-baser is too full of extremists: I feel centrist like Pier Ferdinando Casini. Long live the 3: let’s use it more.

Edoardo Bennato Sono solo canzonette

15 dec 05

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Ajeje, it's not that I don't agree with you about Guccini being a mediocre musician. Let's say that I only feel that way regarding the '70s and early '80s; then I noticed an interesting turning point (more or less from "Metropolis" onwards, with a peak in "Signora Bovary," which I even had the honor of reviewing) that surely is at least partly not even due to Guccini himself, but to the excellent musicians who have accompanied him for countless years. The fact is that the latest albums of the mountain man from Pavana don't sound bad, and if anything, they've become a bit repetitive in content, apart from "D'amore di morte e di altre sciocchezze" and "Stagioni," I would say. But here we end up talking about Guccini, while the review is about Bennato.

Eric Clapton Unplugged

15 dec 05

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I would like to support the reasons for the 5 in the most rational way possible. Uncle Eric, as our unmistakable trusted S.C. calls him, has just passed the grayest decade of his now forty-year career, dangerously flirting with easy-listening à la Phil Collins, with "Behind The Sun," of which the bald Genesis destroyer was, among other things, the producer. So what does he do in 1992? Nothing genius, but he goes back to his dear old blues roots and moreover throws away all the electronic frills. This turnaround alone deserves appreciation, and if you add that the album is played like a god, here’s my explanation for the 5. Even if it’s not the Uncle Eric of Cream, this is really the most E.C. could give in the '90s. Re-5

Edoardo Bennato Sono solo canzonette

15 dec 05

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The scale is subjective, being quite limited (I've always said that this is one of the few flaws of Debaser). I gave a 3 to the album in question, but I don’t consider it excellent. At most, it’s decent, and still one of the best, alongside "Burattino senza fili" by our Edoardo, who, by the way, as someone mentioned a few posts ago, really sings "with his nose holes," in a clumsy and cacophonous way. But this is fairly secondary for a singer-songwriter. Singer-songwriters generally find their strength in the content (and here we return to Guccini and risk never finishing...).

Edoardo Bennato Sono solo canzonette

15 dec 05

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Let’s say that Franco Simone stands 4 or 5 steps below people like Guccini, who is undoubtedly verbose, but he is because he has many things to say (“ho ancora tante cose da raccontare, per chi vuole ascoltare, e a culo tutto il resto...”) and indeed, not by chance, he is also a decent (if not really good) writer of torrential novels. Nice “apodictically,” huh? What a pleasure to speak eloquently... (like Guccini, to stay on the theme)

Edoardo Bennato Sono solo canzonette

15 dec 05

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Allow me to state apodictically (feel the weight of the words) that Franco Simone has absolutely nothing to do with the aforementioned and supposedly boring engaged singer-songwriters, as he is merely a Sanremo singer who acts a bit aloof and plays the intellectual, while, for example, Guccini is someone who is truly an intellectual and has never taken himself too seriously; on the contrary, he loves to poke fun at himself, as demonstrated by his recent participation in Pieraccioni's film.