vellutogrigio

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DeAge™ : 7216 days • Here since 6 september 2006

Blue Öyster Cult Cultösaurus Erectus

26 sep 06

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I’ll take care of it as soon as I have time… even if, as you can see, not everyone appreciates my work on the Oyster. Bah, it’s a matter of tastes. I prefer oysters to mussels.

The Beatles The Beatles Collection (16 CD)

26 sep 06

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Beautiful review. I personally proudly belong to the 5% of humanity that "ignores" the greatness of the Beatles: but appreciates that of all the artists who truly invented something. Zappa & the Mothers, The Who, Jimi Hendrix, Eddie Cochran, Yardbirds, Cream, MC5, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis, Pink Floyd, just to name a few. The Beatles were honest pop craftsmen, creators of great melodies, who, however, did not experiment with anything, but recycled others' experiments "ad usum populi."

Montrose Montrose

26 sep 06

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Thank you, Hellas, but let's not exaggerate. I take this opportunity to correct a typo in the second paragraph: the correct sentence is "Montrose is, in every sense, a masterpiece of '70s rock, recognized as a model for many bands that exploded in the years to come, foremost among them Van Halen, who will share their producer, Ted Templeman, with Montrose, and deserves a rediscovery, given the band's scarce fame on Italian soil."

Judas Priest Stained Class

23 sep 06

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Anyway, be careful with the connections: the Priest don’t strike me as contiguous to "satanism" etc., rather to the violent and perverse side of society, taken to the extreme in their tracks. As for subliminal messages, I don't know what to say; the visual ones perhaps have a certain degree of "effectiveness," while the sonic ones, like records played backwards or flashes in the choruses of songs, are basically inconsequential: keep in mind that discovering them certainly requires tips from those who recorded and produced them, and there's a suspicion that they are tools deliberately created by record labels to increase the sulfurous fame of certain groups: when we talk about it thirty years later, they were right all along!

Fabrizio De Andrè / Premiata Forneria Marconi In Concerto Vol. I e II

23 sep 06

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De Andrè doesn’t reinvent himself, many other songwriters do. PFM didn’t get caught up in "cerebralism" like Area (which, make no mistake, are absolute greats) but sought to reinvent itself in the early '80s (actually recycling themselves then). If I haven't explained myself clearly, I apologize.

Rush Test For Echo

23 sep 06

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I’m sorry to disagree with Ocram, but, although it’s a Rush album, I find it very disappointing, with too many filler songs and, above all, utterly forgettable tracks, except for Test for Echo, which the reviewer doesn’t appreciate. However, even the title track would have been a minor piece in the Rush of the '70s...

Judas Priest Stained Class

21 sep 06

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I'm sorry, but I cannot access external links. If you provide the text you'd like translated, I'd be happy to help!

Rush Rush

21 sep 06

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It's among the Rush albums I haven't listened to. The review is nonetheless excellent, especially for the background details you beautifully illustrate.

Talking Heads Speaking in Tongues

21 sep 06

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Interesting topics: you’re right about TH, but in my opinion, Little Creatures and True Stories are rather weak albums compared to the group’s first four; there’s a strong desire to "revisit" and little to "experiment," all for the sake of sales (think of singles like LC as well as Wild Wild Life). In any case, TH are among the few bands worth purchasing the entire discography, except for the last one, Naked. I can’t disagree with you on the Beatles either, but at this point it’s really a matter of taste: I prefer harder sounds and more wild and experimental approaches. It strikes me to hear that the Beatles were experimental or avant-garde, precisely because - as you rightly say - they were simple and popular. Which is not always a virtue. Anyway, if you like them that much, give Deface the Music by Utopia a listen...

Judas Priest Stained Class

21 sep 06

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Vinsex must have visited an Italian site that indeed confuses the waters... it was precisely the song pointed out by Jawbreaker that brought the Priests before the Court. Acquitted under the First Amendment of the Constitution of the USA (freedom of speech and, by extension, expression).