Alfredo

DeRank ™: 6,73

DeAge™ : 7456 days • Here since 9 january 2006

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Ridley Scott Black Rain

11 feb 17

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I’ve always enjoyed it; every time it’s on, I watch it with pleasure.

MrGMauro “Il web e la democrazia musicale”

10 feb 17

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No damn, I missed the fakes for the self-pumping! Old Style Debaser!

MrGMauro “Il web e la democrazia musicale”

10 feb 17

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But it's kind of like having a DeUnpo'ditutto section where pieces like this are placed, or that are not related to the reviews, and where you can discuss while sipping a beer?

Royal Trux Twin Infinitives

9 feb 17

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This album has always annoyed me.

The Hellacopters & The Flaming Sideburns White Trash Soul

9 feb 17

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I had By The Grace of God and Rock'n'Roll is Dead by these rockers. I've always liked them; it was some seriously badass rock, but at the same time catchy. I didn't know about the guitarist's death; I'm sorry to hear that, especially at that age...

MrGMauro “Il web e la democrazia musicale”

9 feb 17

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I don't entirely agree; the drift of the web, the ease of listening, has allowed many more people to discover things that, just a few years prior, were unreachable. This does have its downsides, to be clear, but it remains a positive fact in itself. Of course, it needs to be used wisely. Let me give you an example: with pre-listening, I saved a lot of money on records that I would have bought blindly back in the day (well, of course, you had to rely on reviews most of the time), wasting quite a bit of cash.

MrGMauro “Il web e la democrazia musicale”

9 feb 17

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I believe that G meant to say that a piece like this could work well as an editorial and not as a review, since it is not a review.

The Residents Eskimo

8 feb 17

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They are absolutely great. If someone were to ask me for advice on the essentials to add to their collection, I would say Meet the Residents, Not Available, and, indeed, Eskimo. They have made other good ones, but I believe they are quite far from these three I mentioned. Duck Stab is good, the Commercial Album is decent, but it has always bored me, Third Reich never grabbed me either, God in three persons is interesting, but also a bit tedious. The mole trilogy is good too.

The Jesus Lizard - Nirvana Puss - Oh, The Guilt

7 feb 17

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Unfortunately, apart from rare cases (like Nirvana, for example), commercial success tends to favor artists who create music that can universally appeal, the kind of "not too much this way, not too much that way." They must be potentially digestible by everyone, and often this dilutes the music a bit and makes it less interesting. Take JL for instance: remove Yow's craziness, the extreme lyrics, normalize his voice, change Denison's guitar distortion to make it more radio-friendly... would they still be interesting? Who knows...

The Jesus Lizard - Nirvana Puss - Oh, The Guilt

7 feb 17

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One of these two groups achieved global success, which continues even now, while the other remained a great but underground band. Looking at it as objectively as possible, one can also understand why. Cobain had the physique du rôle of the troubled and depressed singer, which is so appealing to teenagers and young adults. Yow was (is...) simply too much of a wild card, making it hard to hope for large-scale success. Oh, then there's the beauty issue; Cobain was a good-looking guy (Yow, not so much), and this attracted more female fans, who are notoriously also attentive to the beauty and style of the persona, regardless of how irrelevant that is to the music.