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Queen? I feel personally called out: Percy, you are right. The Queen, before being a big business machine, are first and foremost a rock band with quite remarkable talents and a high level of creativity: 4 people, 4 songwriters, 4 musicians. There are few bands that can boast such a thing (yes, I know there are some, don’t bother listing them...). If we want to take each band member individually, Mercury, besides his (inimitable) voice, had notable songwriting abilities, as did Brian May who, moreover, invented a unique guitar sound, recognizable since the first seconds (the orchestras of guitars). Deacon was the typical bassist (you can barely hear him, but he had a lot of technique) with the merit of being a good songwriter; Taylor was also an explosive force, a drummer (he too had a unique sound, just listen to "It's late" from 1977), a singer ('na voice...), guitarist, keyboardist, eclectic composer... In short, sometimes they even have the audacity to compare them to Aerosmith (who aren’t too shabby) or Kiss (for heaven's sake), but do you realize the nonsense? @Neu!, in Queen you will never find jazz drums, saxophone solos, long tribal pieces, dodecaphonic sections, because they chose another path, that of hard rock, which is also praiseworthy. Experimenting doesn't only mean doing weird things; you can experiment in Pop, like the Beatles did, and you can experiment like the Queen did: they didn’t invent anything, nothing at all, but they took the choirs of opera (very different from those of Gentle Giant, or the musical choirs of Jesus Christ Superstar to which they are mistakenly compared), hard rock, and progressive and fused them together: for me, that’s what experimental means. Moreover, I saw you give a nice 1 for free to an album that you almost certainly haven’t listened to, judging the Queen as useless but not justifying why. Maybe because you’ve never listened to them? Anyway, I don’t understand why, at the dawn of 2007 (now 2008), there should still be this form of musical racism: I’m not racist, and I can listen back to back to "Caution Radiation Area" and "Sheer Heart Attack" without any kind of intestinal imbalance.

The Christ will come and give him a 5.

5 atutt' e due. The film is a masterpiece. Eastwood reveals himself as one of the greatest characters in 20th-century cinema: an actor with a cold, harsh, and therefore captivating expression, a director with impressive skills, he has been able to traverse many genres, always delivering good and often excellent results. Long live

Well said dEDOLUZ, as creativity is zero, but technically there’s no arguing. Graziani was a tough one, one of the most underrated Italian singer-songwriters of all time.

Mario Bava invented horror cinema as we understand it today. He was from Sanremo. Ahhh Lariana, Lariana...

Battaglia has a lot of technique, which allows him to hold his ground against Mussida and others. However, he's a sellout; for 30 years he's been repeating the same thing, and that's only halfway through the little song written by Facchinetti—this is another matter. I too prefer Mussida; he has a unique style and, above all, he has never made the crap that the Pooh have. But when it comes to pure technique, I think the phrases in "L'ultima notte di caccia" are enough to showcase Battaglia's skills. Let's not confuse technique with creative talent and originality. "...every rock band in Italy that has a guitarist probably has a better one than Battaglia..." let's not say nonsense, please. Ivan Graziani is better than Battaglia, there's no doubt; he was a more complete artist and composer, but it's also true that he didn't have all of Battaglia's six-string technique. That said, the Pooh are what they are; they've made good albums and some quite terrible ones. They're good musicians, but almost always absent composers. They do have some merit too.

"No Quarter" seems more successful to me. In fact, it’s a bit of a masterpiece.

No, but I've been wanting to listen to something from Formula 3 for a while now (I only know "Questo folle sentimento"). But on the solo albums, does he also play or sing?

Remove Mussida from PFM and put in Battaglia, and the band wouldn't lose a bit of quality. Then, Battaglia is a trivial composer compared to Mussida, but he is far from being a "shoe." Radius I don't know well enough; I only know him from Battiato's albums, and he does his job decently.

I don't have it very clear in my mind. "Achilles Last Stand" is a masterpiece, "Tea For One" is disarmingly heavy. You listen to "Tea For One" and you realize how beautiful "Since I've been loving you" is.