primiballi

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Mina Mina Canta Lucio

18 mar 07

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Oh my goodness, this album, like all (or maybe all) deserves an analysis (like the following and partially coincident "Mazzini Canta Battisti"). But this review...oh my goodness. I’ve been hanging around here for years but this is truly the lowest level.

Madredeus Ainda

18 mar 07

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I must say: I'm a fan of Wenders and the Madredeus, so you touch a nerve with me. But the style... well... on one hand, I don't fully know if you're sincere or just playing around, and on the other hand (if you are sincere), the power of the rhetoric might even deserve appreciation... but that style, with Wenders and the minimalism of the Madredeus—what does it have to do with it, as Di Pietro would say...? Well...

Steven Spielberg Schindler's List

18 mar 07

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It is necessary to distinguish between two levels: the technical and the artistic. Spielberg, from a technical point of view, is absolutely unquestionable. He is brilliant and has been (more than once) innovative, very much so. However, on the artistic level, placing him on the same level as a Fellini, a Kubrick, or a Wenders is a joke.

Pink Floyd A Momentary Lapse Of Reason

18 mar 07

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I completely agree with the analysis: then it diverges into the subjective, and there I must say I have an unconditional love for "About Face," for AMLOR, and for "On an Island" among the five "Gilmourian" works... "David Gilmour" and "Division Bell" follow closely, but just barely. And I also share the sentiment that the "libido" inherent in Dave's singing and guitar playing is the added value, the reason why the rating never drops below an 8...

Oasis (What's The Story) Morning Glory?

18 mar 07

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then we are, absolutely, in agreement

Oasis (What's The Story) Morning Glory?

17 mar 07

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I take note of your suggestion and thank you. In the '90s, I was still playing out, I was younger, I wasn't working yet, and I bought and listened to a ton of music. I’ve studied the so-called "forty years" of light music with the same diligence and passion with which I study and listen to jazz. Trust me, I speak with knowledge of the subject. It’s just that I try to make my analysis as objective and detached as possible (though maybe I don't succeed, for goodness' sake...): you’ll see, in a few years, that finding the music you listened to at 16-17 beautiful and essential is behavior as natural as it is, in hindsight, flawed. But, if you want, we can talk about it. Obviously, with the utmost respect.

Vasco Rossi Basta Poco

17 mar 07

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Oh my... are you referring to me or to someone else... because I wrote a review/article on the commerciality of the move, not on the piece, which I too have acknowledged is neither better nor worse than many other things by Vasco.

Pink Floyd A Momentary Lapse Of Reason

17 mar 07

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I instead consider "Division" a beautifully packaged album (written, played, sung...whatever you want) but where Dave imitates the Pink Floyd too much, and if we take the entire Gilmourian work into account, the three soloists and the two "Floyd," this is undoubtedly the least original and the most compositionally impoverished. AMLOR, if nothing else, tries some new paths (at least compared to "Final Cut") and, in my opinion, there is a great effort from the three remaining members to make an album that wouldn’t make one miss Roger. "Division" is a "sitting" album. But, as you rightly say, tastes are tastes...

The Doors The Doors

17 mar 07

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It's a bit "far from" my tastes but not bad. The album is undoubtedly one of the most important in so-called light music of all time. Those who don't have it, or don't know it, apart from not knowing what they're missing, can only speak to a certain extent (with some knowledge) about the 10,000 imitators (explicit and implicit) who followed Jim and his (primiballi.blogspot.com).

Bill Frisell Have A Little Faith

17 mar 07

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Frisell is definitely my favorite guitarist (and I assure you that I am a knowledgeable and obsessive fan of guitar and guitarists). This album, mysteriously and shamefully, is missing. I will have to remedy that (and I’m very intrigued). "Live to tell"? No problem: Bill would even make the tomato soup from Pavone sound perfect. (primiballi.blogspot.com)