Socrates

DeRank ™: 2,30

DeAge™ : 7890 days • Here since 2 november 2004

Coldplay X & Y

21 may 05

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Well, let's say that for me the album is worth a 4: don't you think it would be impossible, given the reviewer's premises, for me to give a good rating to their analysis? I'm just saying that the more I read some of the review's considerations, the less convinced I am. But I, while waiting to listen to the album, suspend my judgment. Could it be that he is right, despite the premises?

Coldplay X & Y

21 may 05

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The review is, for me, unjustifiable, too tied to the quality of the work in question (it could be a 5 or a 1, in my opinion), and I'm a bit surprised by all these 5s without having listened, by your own admission, to even a note of the album, "a prescindere," as the great Totò would say. However, one thing I can say: if for you all the bands you mention are interchangeable and indistinguishable, we have a profoundly different concept of song and melody. I gladly leave you to await your "cavalli di ritorno"...

Danny Wilson Meet Danny Wilson

16 may 05

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“The message in a bottle” has finally reached the right beach. Hello, Danny, and come back confidently to visit us: who knows, you might find in the future the review of “Steve McQueen” by Prefab Sprout... ;-)

Edoardo Bennato I Buoni e i Cattivi

15 may 05

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For reasons of nostalgia that I mentioned in the other review and also because at that time Edoardo was a true singer-songwriter, I’m giving it my all.

Underworld Beaucoup Fish

15 may 05

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I bought it back then and I must say it's damn relevant. The proof, if there was ever a need for it, that dance and pop, at certain levels, are in the Empyrean.

Perturbazione Live @ Circolo degli Artisti Roma 07/05/2005

15 may 05

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Well done both of you, you and the Perturbazione.

Robin Holcomb Robin Holcomb

13 may 05

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I thought I was the only one who owned this CD: the review reflects my opinion.

Pink Floyd The Wall

11 may 05

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I no longer receive any notifications, so I read only after Hal, Logic, and Kosmo have already shared their opinions, which I agree with. For me, it's an album that has to divide, that cannot leave anyone indifferent, but I, unlike the reviewer, consider it "epochal". Kudos, in any case, for the boldness.

Edoardo Bennato Non farti cadere le braccia

10 may 05

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Even "La Torre di Babele" is one of the best Italian albums of the time, alongside "Buffalo Bill" by De Gregori.

Edoardo Bennato Non farti cadere le braccia

10 may 05

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I completely agree with Kosmo about Bennato (I would add "Sono solo canzonette" to the must-haves), even though I'm a bigger fan of Gaetano than of Vecchioni.
I must add that in the years when this album was released, in Bagnoli, amidst the smoke from the chimneys of Italsider, a nine-year-old boy often saw the Bennato brothers (Eugenio was also there), but didn't yet know who they were. To him, they were just some local musician neighbors.
"In my childhood dreams/the guitar was a sword/and those who didn't believe it were pirates..."