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Michel Petrucciani Power Of Three

5 jan 06

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truly excellent record. beautiful.

Bruce Springsteen Tunnel of Love

5 jan 06

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I don’t know... I’m very conflicted... for me it’s an essential and beautiful record. I basically consider it a masterpiece. But there’s probably some purely generational reason... the fact remains that it’s one of the albums unfairly mistreated by the unbearable criticism of the eighties...

Van Morrison A Night in San Francisco

5 jan 06

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Dear Punisher, this time I really don't agree. The comparison between surnames, first of all, is bullshit unworthy of your (otherwise) happy pen. Van and Jim never had anything in common, and it's hard to argue otherwise. Sure... the cover of "Gloria" by The Doors. Well... nothing else. And this album, I'm sorry to contradict you, but it's definitely great. Played by God, sung by God, an excellent selection of songs. And it captures, in my opinion, a perfect moment of Van "The Man" Morrison. What I gather is that you can't stand VM. I don't feel that way. In fact: he perfectly fits the theory of five albums brilliantly explained some time ago by someone...

The Doors Live at The Wembley Arena, 10th July 2004

2 jan 06

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But if Ian was this absolute genius... how did he end up singing in a cover band painted like Jim...? Oh well... let's hope we don't have to see, sooner or later, Pupo dressed up as De Andrè....

John Lennon Acoustic 2004

26 dec 05

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it was still scraping the bottom of the barrel... (what's more, almost nothing entirely new... not even in this version)... bah... either they managed to do a real cleaning up of the sounds or the work can only be labeled as the manipulative commercial product that it is (still keeping in mind that JL is a genius and remains a genius).

Arcadia So Red The Rose

20 dec 05

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Yes... but the Arcadia (Le Bon - Rhodes) who would become Durans in the '90s are the sound of the '80s... the Power are not! They were a nice one-hit wonder, a sort of pleasant meteor and nothing more (if it weren't for the dispute, they would be remembered less than the excellent Howard Jones...)

Paolo Conte Parole d'amore scritte a macchina

20 dec 05

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First of all, thank you again. Let me clarify: "Una faccia in prestito" is a really beautiful album (just consider "Dancon metropoli"... stuff that only he and Waits can afford...), but in my opinion, it stands between two superior albums, like "900" on one side and "Elegia" on the other... but, of course, it's subjective. Regarding the "unconvincing" aspects of "Parole d'amore," I actually disagree quite a bit...: they are arrangements experiments, things that Conte, fundamentally, doesn't do and wouldn't have done again, comfortably leaning on the pleasantly swinging style of his group of professors (which, as you might have guessed, I really can't stand...). One more little note: the choir on "Il Maestro" is much more playful than "Verdiamìno" (for me, for example, it's one of the things that "moves" me the most...)