luciano

:-D how cultured you make me feel! I wouldn't know, I haven't developed much of a taste for drummers, I don't like them that much, considering that I mostly listen to classical music. Thank you for your trust, I take it as a great compliment, but for point 1, you need to ask someone else. I get along very well with Mr_Iko, let's see if he has an answer for you. As for point 2, it's super easy: Cobham's best work is "Spectrum," rich, dense, with an energy that never wanes but softens at times, just long enough to regain attention and then it rises again. A masterpiece, a miracle for a work that, if conceived by a specialist, would lead us to judge it as limited. Its exceptional nature is precisely this, the work of a specialist that overflows significantly, also thanks to the contribution of Jan Hammer and Joe Farrell, the latter only present in the second parts of two tracks, but my goodness, how! Pay attention to how they intertwine on "Le Lis," what balance! "A Funky Thide Of Sings" more complete than "Spectrum"? It might be, but where, in what sense? I’ll try to give it another listen, paying attention, who knows. In the meantime, I'll send an email to Mr_Iko and summon him here for your consultation on point 1. Bye.

REVIEW OF THE REVIEW (by luciano): Stretched, concise, it risks straying from the now-famous "GAETANO-STYLE" when it fails to provide the production year and, mind you, even the number of band members! Fortunately, by not including the De-Genre, it swiftly regains focus. Nothing to add about the album, the best of Queen, but it doesn’t go beyond a 4. Gaetano, I want to trust you, but how can we be sure that an extraterrestrial didn’t create Bohemian Rhapsody and then hand it to the Queen? Haven't you noticed their predilection in their works, that other cover with the robot, Flash Gordon, Radio Ga-Ga, etc., towards stellar worlds? If that were the case, if their work was aimed at thanking their stellar benefactors, the architects of their success, then, but only in that case, we couldn't say "the most beautiful song that a human being has ever created," do you think?

Sure, no problem, friends. It doesn’t make sense for me to feel like an enemy just because someone doesn’t agree with me. I’m 30 years old: not too few, but still not too many... I’ve come across Pantera, I’ve listened to them out of duty; metal doesn’t attract me too much, that’s true, and I don’t really remember them. As soon as I have time, I’ll revisit them, and I thank you for the suggestion. I won’t hide that I have to overcome a prejudice, comparing two bands that are 20 years apart, but I’ll listen. Let’s catch up later, bye.

... anyway, I appreciate that you did some historical research and that's why I gave you an extra point. Don't be a crybaby, we all started with 1s, reflect on your mistakes and for the future, try harder, you'll see you'll be rewarded. Safe travels with the EXP to everyone.

... but please respond to me kindly and explain what you mean by "... merging together blues sounds and distortions that come closer to styles like the rock of that time."? The rock style of that time is ALREADY ABUNDANTLY FUSED with blues even independently of its contribution, and the "distortions" you allude to can be translated as "INNOVATIVE USE OF THE WHA-WHA, WITH SUCH MASTERY OF THE EFFECT THAT IT RENDERS A SOUND MATURE AND IMMEDIATELY ACCESSIBLE, WHICH SHOULD INSTEAD REVEAL AN UNCERTAINTY AND AN INDETERMINACY TYPICAL OF EXPERIMENTAL FORMULAS."

... he forms the band, with the help of Chas Chandler, but he forms it himself, and that's not the same thing. There are legends about Noel Redding being a guitarist and how he "bent" to accompany him on bass after being shocked by his sound, and well... a hasty departure from one historical narrative setup (?) to another critique, and well... but. he already had the technical skills, can you perhaps tell us that having put together that trio guaranteed him "regularity" in playing and in lifestyle (as much as possible given his nature), rather than the "economic stability" you're talking about? But what is it, an insurance company or a musician?

I mean, sorry, "... influenced what the electric sound of the '90s will be"...? Besides the fact that you should have written '90 (guys, correct it if you can), but why didn’t it influence the '80s? And what about the '70s? IT DEFINED THE WAY TO PLAY GUITAR IN ANY ROCK RECORD OR CONCERT - EVERY SINGLE TRACK CONTAINS THE GERMS TO DEVELOP A ROCK CURRENT - THE SONGS ON THIS ALBUM WERE THE FIRST CONCEIVED BETWEEN THE STRINGS OF A GUITAR (let me clarify: not that there hadn't been previous works with the guitar prevailing over the rest of the instrumentation, but here we have material thought out, elaborated, precisely "conceived" by the guitar). No mention of the influences of the sound from the States (the only ones somewhat recognizable, in an album that (perhaps) like no other can be defined as ORIGINAL IN THE PUREST WAY.

1 why do you only review the Smashing Pumpkins. I haven't listened to the CD enough to feel capable of giving it a rating. Bye.

It’s not called "their genre," it’s called "Grunge," and it’s not exactly a genre, rather a movement (which refers to a very specific city, Seattle, that features some films, some books, quite a few, etc...). 5 to the review for showing an enviable synthetic ability, 5 to the album for what you describe.

x the womb bit (or would you prefer to be called Mr_Iko?) - well, maybe he expressed himself poorly; I don’t think he couldn’t mean that Syd Barrett, unless he wrote "that other guitarist" instead of "the other, that guitarist," which, indeed, in a rather convoluted way, could have made sense. Poor thing, he must have gone through some trauma... Honestly, I didn’t like how he expressed himself with "impossible to choose..."; he got the key wrong there. If he wanted to adopt a negation, he should have said "an album (or a CD, or a work, even better) that you can’t not possess" or something along those lines. He got tangled up, but overall, it’s not a bad review (even though I wouldn’t know to whom to recommend it :-) I'm going back to studying, bye.