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Metallica ...And Justice For All

14 mar 11

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Well, you can't just start publishing recipes after only 7 comments on a debut review, can you? What kind of impression will the new user have of the site and the characters that populate it? :D Anyway, good album, but: <Ulrich's drums sound really heavy, with a snare that has a dry and rocky sound and prominent bass drums.> I must have listened to a different record then... to me, it seems like this is the work where Lars, for the first time, experiments with drums made from the most different and varied components, starting here with some detergent containers, I think...

Metallica & The San Francisco Symphony Orchestra S & M

10 mar 11

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Master of Puppets in this version is one of the worst things I've ever heard! Seriously, the orchestral arrangement has nothing to do with the song! Well, maybe I'm just a fool who doesn't get it, right? But other songs have turned out really well (Hero of the Day, Bleeding Me, Nothing Else Matters... or really?). A project that's a bit too ambitious, but back in the day I really liked it :-)

Mr. Big What If...

7 mar 11

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Ah, @The Decline: in my opinion, it's absolutely on par with the first two works ;)

Mr. Big What If...

7 mar 11

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@Superboia: your comment on the review of The Scream got me thinking about reviewing this one too, and so I did; within a couple of hours, inspiration struck, and here’s the result :D
@Marmar: I agree, but what impresses me the most is that they didn’t need a “settling in” album after so many years; they returned with a bang right from the start... As for the mixing, it's true, it’s a minor thing; Sheehan has always had (rightly, I’d say) a high volume, but the clarity of the early works with Kevin Elson remains unmatched... Thank you all for stopping by :-)

Loreena McKennitt The Wind That Shakes The Barley

7 mar 11

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Did you know that a new album by Loreena McKennitt has come out? I didn't; I've been stuck on the beautiful "An Ancient Muse," and I didn't even consider the next one, since it mostly contained rearranged traditional Christmas songs... If this one is also just rearranged traditional songs with no new material, I think I'll skip it too. But it's a shame... good review anyway.

Ghost Opus Eponymous

5 mar 11

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These guys are out of their minds! :D I read some outrageous interviews in which they claimed to be messengers of the devil and stuff like that... the proposal is completely different from what I expected; I thought I was going to encounter some fourth-rate black metal, but instead, I discovered (from what little I've heard) a good mix of Sabbath, Mercyful Fate, and BOC, as you rightly pointed out. So, I still haven't figured out if they are geniuses or perfect idiots :D

R.E.M. Collapse Into Now

5 mar 11

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I've only listened to the tracks circulating on YouTube for a while, and they didn't blow me away... REM are one of those bands for which I only have a couple of best-of albums, and that's enough for me: always the same formula, but very pleasant... and they're among the few that don't irritate me to the point of switching the station when I hear them on the radio.
Speaking of feeding the old dinosaurs: a record store near me is selling "The Wall" for the modest price of €40: is anyone interested?

The Scream Let It Scream

5 mar 11

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@Superboia: not at all! :-) As for the Crüe, I also like the self-titled album; it's not a masterpiece, but a good album, very "raw", quite different from what they were doing before, but not necessarily worse (for instance, definitely better than that mess they made later with "Generation Swine", proving that Corabi wasn’t the cause of the "evil", actually). Then for Mr. Big: indeed, the AOR label feels a bit restrictive; perhaps with Bump Ahead they veered a bit too much towards that genre, but the self-titled debut and the subsequent "Lean into It" are, in my opinion, two masterpieces of technical, powerful, and melodic hard rock at the same time; the latest "What If..." is great too; I was just thinking of reviewing it :-)