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Cirith Ungol King Of The Dead

27 jan 20

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After two weeks spent listening to Rush (I needed to cool off from a certain pain), I don't know how I found myself listening to this album by Cirith Ungol again, alongside other more or less contemporary works by Rush and Manilla Road (also throw in Agent Steel, even though they're quite different). It's incredible how the "underground" metal of that time sounds to me with an unbelievable freshness, originality, and timelessness. After the 80s, this spirit has been irretrievably lost, and I’ve always found it harder to find something equally stimulating in metal.

The Who WHO

28 dec 19

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I agree with the review and the album. There's always so much quality in what the Who do, and they had widely announced that they would somehow reinterpret their past (I also find a lot of self-deprecation in it, which never hurts). The only sour note is Pete, as a person. His recent attacks on everyone are becoming less and less bearable, especially considering his latest comments about John Entwistle. He harshly criticized his way of playing, saying that it felt like he had a church organ beside him, not very useful for a band; now I listen to this album with pleasure, but I can't help but notice that the bass lines are very much in the Entwistle style...

The Moody Blues A Question of Balance

28 oct 19

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It's one of the classic albums by the Moodies that I listen to the least. "Question" is definitely one of their most successful songs, with a timeless freshness. I also adore "Dawning is the day." The rest slips away from me a bit. Thank you for speaking so pleasantly about them!

Marracash & Guè Pequeno Santeria

16 oct 19

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And what if the new benchmark were actually Bocelli and Il Volo? Looking closely, they are the Italians climbing Billboard (I'm just joking, of course).

James Gray Ad Astra

16 oct 19

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I agree with you on everything (well, not everything: I liked the sequence with the monkeys - too bad you don't understand its purpose within the film). Personally, I felt the same irritating sensation with this movie as I did with Midsommar (and also Hereditary): it's clear that the directors want to make "serious" films, they want to be Bergman (or, in this case, Redford in "Ordinary People"), but they use the guise of genre films, perhaps just to make their works more marketable. In this sense, I am very strict: if you make a genre film, you must first and foremost love and respect the genre. Kubrick's "2001" or Tarkovsky's "Solaris" are packed with meaning, but they are above all science fiction films, and you can feel that their creators respect the genre above all else. Not here.

Warrior Soul Drugs, God and the New Republic

14 oct 19

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They are part of a period in rock that I didn't resonate with. However, it's always nice to read a review that makes me think back to the old pages of HM and Metal Shock.

H.P: Lovecraft Oniricon

24 sep 19

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Another piece to add to my "collection." Lovecraft is perhaps the only one who knows how to describe the geography of dreams (try it for yourself: The Dream Quest of the Unknown Kadath and its singular unfolding of space/time).

Colin Higgins HAROLD E MAUDE

20 aug 19

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My vote goes mainly to the film, which has always moved me. My father often quotes a saying: "L'amor l'è matta, la s'enamora pur d'ona ciavata" (translation from Milanese - the "o"s should be pronounced as "u" - love is crazy, it falls in love even with a slipper); the possibilities of love are so vast. Then, I always feel particularly touched by films that deal with the end of life... well, I'll stop or I'll get choked up.

Middle of the Road Middle of the Road: The RCA Years

15 aug 19

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Carefree music, but enjoyable, and above all played (today's bubblegum is all sequenced). I recommend, in the same vein, an album I recently discovered on a phenomenal YouTube channel (Jack Beatrici): Kathy and Gulliver, or bubblegum according to the De Angelis brothers (the Oliver Onions). He, I mean Gulliver, would later lend his voice to the epic "Dune Buggy."

H.P. Lovecraft Studi Lovecratiani 17

31 jul 19

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Very interesting. And what about Lovecraft and his thoughts, his racism and his ideas: we all admire the paintings of Caravaggio, and he was a murderer; we read Hemingway and he was certainly not a nice person driven by good feelings - and I limit myself to the first two examples that come to mind. At some point, one must learn to separate the work from its author.