supersoul

you deserve another 5

these are damn underrated, it’s talked about too little. For me, a great album is "Where the groupies..." where "Hobo" was unjustly accused of copying the scream from "Immigrant song" by the Zep. In terms of dramatic presence in his voice, I think Lawton had nothing to envy from Freddie Mercury.

I have extreme respect for this man with a dog-like face.

an easy-peasy little game, take a track like "Alex Chilton," amp it up with more guitar feedback, and put a laid-back voice instead of Westenberg's... well, which album from the same year would it be perfect for?

The "problem" with Iggy is (as I mentioned in the review of the Stooges live show) that he is a survivor; had he died on stage at the last Broken Glass concert from a bottle to the head, we'd be celebrating his myth right now. It’s not that he has to pay rent, as the reviewer says, it’s that he has simply grown old. The kids (see users on this site like yosif) mock him because he’s into steroids, so what does he do? He buys Houellebecq’s book and goes to read it in the mists of Normandy, putting on his glasses like any old man who pisses himself. The result? A piece of shit of unimaginable proportions that only pretentious filojarrettiani can appreciate as a masterpiece. The fact is that records like those of Iggy with the Stooges cannot be made by ANYONE; an album like this can be produced at the same (if not superior) level by at least a ton and a half of musicians in this world. The cover of "Le foglie morte" is simply embarrassing; when the saxophone comes in, it sounds like something out of Fausto Papetti...

@ezekiel: if Wray was a weirdo, is that a plus for a rocker, or not? @vortex: Pupo? Come on... if you had said Bobby Solo... ahahahah

who knows why when talking about the Cramps, (the great) Link Wray is always mentioned but never Johnny Burnette, whose songs (e.g., "Tear It Up" or "Rock Billy Boogie") the Cramps absolutely devour.

"Finally Joel, even if he were really mainstream as you say, he doesn't go at all here in Italy." And what does this have to do with it?... there are mainstream singers who sell like crazy in America and in Italy nobody cares about them (rightly so), take Barry Manilow for example.

Most honored by the wonderful names present, truly honored. @easycure, is he "the typical English artist who can't escape the concepts of song form and airy melody even if threatened with death"? This isn't one of the cool Battles... it's like someone would say, a record to place on the soul's shelves, next to things like Nick Drake (as blechtrommel astutely remarked without knowing him) or Roy Harper. And with its surreal lyrics, neurotic playing style, and antics like the a cappella singing, it definitely breaks free from the airy song form. @ugly panda, don't worry, your head works just fine; it seemed to me that Hitchcock's "Queen Elvis" had already blended quite a bit with Cope's (for example) "My Nation Underground"... @odradek, you're right: the right word is spaced-out; this record spaces me out, in front of a ballad and the lyrics of "I Used to Say I Love You," I become someone else.

You might know Tom Waits, Rooftrampler; ask him if he has anything to share with Beefheart regarding his music and/or the way he makes music, or about his painting and/or the way he creates his artworks (and yes, the captain is also a good painter).