Bartleboom

DeRank : 35,89
DeAge™ : 7610 days • Here since 9 august 2005
Nirvana All apologies
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Boh. You keep using reviews to talk only about the artists. Moreover, you reiterate concepts that are so overcooked, reheated, and microwaved that they've lost all flavor (Vasco is done and his audience is made up of fools, Vecchioni is cultured but hasn't made a decent album in 30 years, the Guns were just a means to an end). You could use the DeFinizioni section, but it probably wouldn't guarantee you the visibility and exposure that you are desperately seeking. Moving on to the content, the initial "boh" doubles. It seems written by some classmate of mine from high school, at 16, on April 6, 1994, with puffy eyes from crying and "Where did you sleep last night" on loop at full volume. "An outstanding singer”?!? “The megaphone for the overturning of a system”?!? “The soldier who went into battle to fight”?!? No. This is what we imposed on him when we were teenagers. And evidently, it’s what those of your generation read on Wikipedia and Rolling Stone.
Black Sabbath 13
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At the risk of sounding too prosaic, I'll say: too many wankers. Seriously, way too many. At least for this album, the result of too many furious and sometimes even blatant copy-paste jobs. And, let’s face it, it’s intentionally designed to please the fans of the Sabbath sound. With a drummer who's a total drag and makes you long for Ward with every snare hit. It's an album that has no reason to exist: the early Sabbath created a sound. From that sound, the entire stoner-doom scene has emerged (you said "cotica"). It’s a shame that while the founding fathers were busy doing other things, that very same scene churned out incredible albums that took the original canon and shaped it into breathtaking forms. With this album, the founding fathers return and want to set everyone straight... But, as I said in another review back in the day, what’s the point of this "13" when Holy Mountain came out twenty years ago?
Niccolò Fabi Ecco
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I believe he has found, over the years, an excellent compromise between singer-songwriter and pop. He composes catchy songs, doesn't shy away from "big" stages, radio, or television. Yet his tracks are very inspired in terms of lyrics and meticulously crafted in terms of musical arrangements. In short, it doesn't seem to me that he has ever made significant compromises. Of the Roman trio, he seems to be the least experimental, even less original and/or technically gifted. However, he has a more melancholic and delicate touch that makes me prefer him at least to Silvestri. I miss that, but I bought the two previous albums at the time of their release and I confess I listened to them quite a lot. Great review.
DANNII MINOGUE 2005 LIVE IN PARIS
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I agree with hjetcetc: you are the past. I confess that I'm a bit sorry about this, also because, according to my calculations, you only had left to review the amateur recording of Kylie singing in the shower at my place, after the coronation ceremony as "queen of triple penetration," and the burping contest that Danii participated in back in 1997. If you look back, you can see a long road filled with great achievements. But today your journey is over. Without you realizing it, the scepter slipped from your hand. It bounced on the ground. And it stuck up your ass... Peace.
Ozzy Osbourne Diary Of A Madman
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Objectively a classic. The first three tracks and the title track alone would be enough to make it a great album, but the real gem is SATO, which boasts one of the most beautiful riffs in the entire discography of the Madman. It was almost impossible for it to turn out to be a bad album: the lineup included top-level musicians from Rainbow and Uriah Heep, Rhoads was an absolute genius, and Ozzy was still using drugs in a scientifically precise way. Well done, a great retrieval.
Emma Pollock In Search of Harperfield
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It's so nice to read you around here... I spy on you from time to time, and I enjoy watching your musical career become inevitably more "real." And it brings to mind that concert by Il Teatro about, I believe, a decade ago, when you were still singing with your old group. Truly impressive.
Hate & Merda La Capitale del Male
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I just gave it a listen on YouTube, and it doesn't seem half bad. Nothing overly original, to be fair, but very balanced: heavy and violent, yet quite varied. Nice recommendation.
Vasco Rossi Il blues della chitarra sola
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The first sentence is objectively a syntactic-pharmacological coma. Slapping a subjunctive on the sixth word I believe might be an intercontinental record. Moreover, I didn't understand if this is supposed to be a review of some work and, if so, which work. As for the merit: I don't know, we're in the territory of the discovery of cold water. These are things that have been repeated on this site (but I could also say: "I repeat") for at least 10 years. Furthermore, you even forgot (or rather, you just hinted at) a fundamental aspect of the Vasco phenomenon: the live event. Despite the quality of studio productions hitting levels akin to an underground parking garage in the last 20 years (even if the latest one has at least 4 really good songs), live, Vasco continues to blow minds recklessly. And this is simply because, for over 20 years, it is not him who does the concerts, but his own audience of apostles. Vasco could step on stage with a chair and an acoustic guitar, play the first two chords of any of his songs, and the stadium would start singing it, in unison, until the end. And it would result in the most beautiful concert ever. I think I've seen a few small concerts in my unfruitful existence, but I don't know how many live shows can generate such a feeling of "life event." Then someone will come to tell me, "Eeehhh, but I prefer the intimate live show, in that little venue on the outskirts of Edinburgh that only me and the guy who played double bass with me know, and then they amputated his arm because he was doing drugs. Last week we listened to an exceptional Sinhalese percussionist, who at the end of the concert talked to us about the problems of the rainforest and drew us a couple of caricatures of the kind he sells in Piazza Duomo to pay the rent," for heaven's sake. But I think that's also why amphetamines were invented.
Zack Snyder Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
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As a total NON-fan of the character (and therefore not at all updated on his paper adventures), I ask you: is it really possible, today, in the year 2016, to tell a decent story about Superman? Or, in any case, to find something decent to say about Superman? Isn't the problem, PERHAPS, that he is a character who not only does not belong, but cannot even belong in cinematic fiction to our times? Am I the only one who thinks he has irreparably transformed from "symbol" to "caricature"?
Guillermo del Toro Crimson Peak
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The review is written masterfully, but I completely disagree with the judgment. I found it to be a rather mediocre film: predictable in its screenplay (the relationship between the brothers is evident from the very first shot), banal in its narrative solutions (yet again, ghosts trying to communicate?), grandiose in some ideas (the bleeding house), but acted in such a affected and exaggerated manner that it becomes cloying. And with a first part/introduction that is frankly interminable. Overall, it seemed to me a film with decent potential, unfortunately not exploited. Del Toro continues to have some interesting ideas, but they probably aren't enough to create a great film. He likely needs another couple of hands during the screenplay phase...