Mike76

DeRank ™: 1,28

DeAge™ : 7594 days • Here since 24 august 2005

Crass Bloody Revolutions

14 nov 08

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Yes, beautiful lyrics, but to turn them into a song, they should have had more capacity for synthesis. If I take a whole nice speech by Martin Luther King, Gandhi, or Veltroni and put it to music, it’s hard to believe something good will come out of it. On the other hand, if I start reading the lyrics of the Cocteau Twins, I’ll find them absurd, but when set to music, they work perfectly.

Garbage Version 2.0

13 nov 08

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Bah... Garbage, just the word.

Crass Bloody Revolutions

12 nov 08

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No, they were not absolutely rhetorical in the texts, but certainly verbose, and the passages were musically affected by it. After all, as noted in the review, music for the Crass was a pretext to spread their ideas.

Guns N' Roses Chinese Democracy

11 nov 08

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Hoping that I Gansenrosis will make a good album is like hoping that Alvaro Vitali wins an Oscar.

Joy Division Heart And Soul

10 nov 08

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"With the remaining material left outside, you can easily fill another 3 CDs." Three CDs of duplicates, though.

The Cure 4:13 Dream

7 nov 08

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Not a bad review from BEFORE3, which went from 1 to 5 in just two days.

Anastacia Not That Kind

7 nov 08

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Well, they certainly have the voice, it's the repertoire that isn't great. Anyway, it's slightly above the average fluff you can hear on the radio.

Interpol Turn on the Bright Lights

6 nov 08

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@Easycure: It wasn't a diktat, but I knew that their manager Chris Parry (who, like you, considered Pornography their worst album, and like me, Faith their best) did a lot of persuading for them to choose the pop route, but maybe the truth lies somewhere in the middle. Anyway, you explained yourself well, even though I don’t agree much with what you wrote. Perhaps I've listened to less dark music than you, but I think that the Cure created their own personal version of this new wave genre, different from all the others, and if they had disbanded after 1982, they would still be remembered. I also think the decision to turn to pop was spot on and I would have found it pathetic if they had released more "Pornography," but I'm glad that there was at least one.

Hiroshima Mon Amour Embryo Tour 2005

5 nov 08

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But look... I had some sort of demo from these guys that I bought through a fanzine about ten years ago. They seemed like a cross between the early Cure and Lucio Battisti, quite pitiful to be honest. I don't know if they've matured over time.

Cranes Cranes

5 nov 08

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Thank you all for the comments. @Mien_Mo_Man: I actually still write but publish very little because I often change my mind about what to review; I wrote this one on the spur of the moment (and it shows) in a burst of enthusiasm, but lately I've been gathering my aborted reviews. @Macaco: I wasn't convinced it was nice to mention Scaruffi in a review, but when the CD revealed itself to me listen after listen, I thought of him, as he claims that to judge music you only need to listen to it once, just like judging a book or a film that you read or watch only once.