c'è Banned

Oh yes, it also won 3 Oscars (3 more than "Once Upon a Time in America" by Sergio Leone). The only funny film by Benigni that I remember is "Non ci resta che piangere," where Troisi buries him and shows that he is at least a good ten spans ahead. An essential album.

Ligabue believes in the riffs of Keith Richards and has been playing the same song for 20 years. But he can go fuck himself, Pino Scotto would say.

Well, I think the reviewer meant that the Clash started with punk and made it all the way to the triple Sandinista, passing through London Calling. It doesn't seem to me that other punk bands, least of all the Pistols, have had such an evolution.

great page, more for the comments though. Let's hope the debaser mafia comes up soon so I can call the postal police. Comment 20 simply genius, hurry up with the democracy because I want to vote...

just one thing: check with ONE L!

My vote transcends issues like the Sabbath after Ozzy, the Sabbath with Gillan, in the sense that for me, after 1977, Sabbath stopped existing. I downloaded this because I’ve always been curious about: what would a Paranoid sound like sung by Plant, or a Whole Lotta Love sung by Ozzy, etc. I got this specifically to hear the great classics of Sabbath with Gillan’s voice. And I believe the only reason Iommi did it was to be able to take a crack at the riff of Smoke On The Water and slow it down to a doom tempo. Anyway, on Paranoid and the final part of War Pigs (Luke's Wall), Gillan really shines, Iron Man has arrangements that are too '80s to be decent, and I remember Children Of The Grave being too sluggish, but it’s been a while since I listened to this album, so I’m going by memory. As always, Starblazer is brilliant even in the comments.

Ah, if you listened to African folk music, especially from the West, you would find so much blues that you wouldn't believe it.

Let's throw a veil of pity on Pino Daniele and especially Zucchero, or rather, let's not.

No, what I meant was: are you really sure that the blues is something American? In my opinion, it has roots that go way back in time, and the black people in America were brought there (perhaps against their will). With this, I don’t mean to say that the blues originated in Africa, which would be a huge-gigantic-stupendous nonsense. I mean that it was born where there was conflict between cultures, between “races” (black people were pushed to the margins for centuries, especially in the southern USA). A few weeks ago, with some other users, we concluded that while the blues cannot be defined (in the sense that you can only talk about blues to someone who already knows it, but you can't explain what the blues is to someone who has never listened to it), the blues arises from the awareness of having an inner pain (that's why it is said that "you have the blues: I've got the blues") and at the same time from the impossibility of understanding where this pain comes from (it stems from conflict), almost like a dog chasing its tail (you also say: "when something doesn't come out of your soul [...]" etc., so we agree). Now, to say that it is something only for Americans seems limiting (and a bit presumptuous), just as it is limiting to say that the blues is something for black people (I’m not putting words in your mouth that you didn't say, don’t worry). Let’s say that the Mississippi Delta blues (that of various Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, B.B. King, etc.) is often considered the only blues, and it is always related only to that. In reality, there are different ways of playing blues, and many were born outside the borders of the stars and stripes, even if they often pay tribute to that way of playing blues. The moral of this long, boring post is: never make such general statements ;D

I wanted to do this myself. Fantastic Luke's Wall in War Pigs, there Gillan gives you goosebumps. Iron Man is terrible instead. Beautiful smoke on the water at a doom pace.