luca reed

I share Easycure... moreover, it’s from this album that the Floyd became the Howard Hughes of rock music, all focused on the search for multimedia consensus... but Animals, yes, that was something different, if I remember correctly.

First of all, the fact that it is one of the best-selling albums of all time does not seal its prestige, and then the fan club that exists in each of us is conservative; it does not want to and cannot admit the possibility of questioning a historic album, just because it was and is such. It seems to me a fideistic attitude that does not take into account personal freedom to judge something that “everyone considers untouchable.” Well, not everyone, to tell the truth. Then, even if Dark Side was an important step in the attempt to bring avant-garde into the mainstream, it cannot be denied that certain progressive parameters, some technical virtuosity, certain pompous pretensions ("us and them") have had their time. With all this, I consider the album a decent record and at times even very beautiful (especially the first side), but certainly not “The masterpiece,” especially when compared to the first two albums or to "Meddle". Or to the live side of Ummagumma. And also, let me say one thing: it has the absolute demerit of having launched one of the most useless, rhetorical, plastic musicians in the history of rock: Alan Parsons. His solo albums are a true insult to good taste, especially for any respectable rock enthusiast. Of course, mountain curriculums give birth to a mouse…

Never tolerated, it’s like hearing Led Zeppelin playing a polka without talking about a certain rhetoric and eh anyway, if one adjusts to everything, I have an anthology at home and something isn’t bad at all.

Can you tell me where the good songs are? Not a single note worth listening to... a mishmash of the worst rock, the worst folk, the worst of everything... if nothing else, they’re less overblown than usual, but is this really the Zenyatta Mondatta or the Abacab of U2?

Do I need to say something in his favor? Well, let’s say that his latest video is well made; too bad it’s better to watch it without listening to it, haha.

I assure you it's a hell of an album, a double one with an experimental vein that recalls certain things by Billy Cobham/Mahavishnu Orchestra and Fripp's League of Crafty Guitarists... I also thought this reunion was pointless, but it's definitely not a group of zombies... they still play divinely, I recommend you give it a listen.

I'm not saying that certain things by Japan weren't remarkable (the live Oil on Canvas is stunning), but over time they have seemed rather artificial and overrated to me. However, if albums like this one or others by Sylvian, the solo works of Karn, and the project - but why the hell is it not available anymore? When will they reissue it? - Dolphin Brothers emerged from their experience, then Japan are welcome.

Yes, live they are still great, but that doesn't change the fact that St'anger is produced very poorly.

Thank goodness, I'm not exactly a happy person... I was worried about you.

I'm sure that certain detractors would change their minds if they saw a live concert... the reason for my long-standing quarrel with Metal Shock and Beppe Riva... de gustibus. Anyway, to say that the E Street Band or the musicians playing for Bruce don’t know how to play is absurd; it goes beyond personal opinions. Even the most disdainful detractor of the Boss knows that the E Street Band plays like gods...
But what a disappointment his latest album, "Devil § Dust," is—so static, so, well, mediocre. "The Rising" didn't excite me either, but at least it had a bit more eclecticism... At this point, I fear it’s no longer worth waking up in the morning thinking about the new album from the Boss; it’s no longer an event. I really fear that "Ghost..." might be the last glimmer of a twilight.