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Fest, I didn't give you a 3 because I don't like your rec, on the contrary... I just found it a bit predictable, etc... but reading it was almost like listening to the album...

Very interesting... I’ve heard their name and I have a video, but I don’t know if it’s Amon I or II. As long as they’re not like the early Kraftwerk, who with "Kraftwerk I" and "Kraftwerk II" made me wrinkle my nose... in my opinion, they don’t experiment like the early Kraftwerk did...

Zarathustra, I agree with you, the Nomads are not communists, they are just as the rec says: open to everyone... Great!

sorry for the typos, the important thing is that it’s understandable! :)

Zarathustra respects your opinion. However, it cannot be denied that Battisti changed certain standards of Italian music... I mean, compare the pieces of Domenico Modugno or Claudio Villa with the singing and music of Battisti. (In any case, I consider Modugno and Villa to be two very talented singers).

For me, the unbearable nasal voice belongs only to Eros Ramazzotti... but just as Charley says, the world is varied...

Zarathustra, have you ever listened to "Love and No Love"? You’ll find a Lucio Battisti Prog Rock there, and certainly not just simple songs, some of them are beautiful. I have never listened to "A Woman for a Friend," only the title track...

Rec good. I listened to the album a few months ago and I don't think it stands out in my memory much due to its flatness of atmospheres, however I agree the first "Concerto Grosso" is by far superior.

Ghemison, perhaps you’ve seen a documentary about Britpop featuring Oasis and Blur where they made references to The Beatles or The Who. For example, I’ve seen something like that. It’s true that Oasis mimic The Beatles in their way of dressing and singing, but The Beatles were GENIUSES, I’m not so sure about Oasis, although "Wonderwall" is amazing. I agree with Zarathustra that including Pink Floyd in the Britpop context was a risky choice (just like with The Beatles and The Who). But your thesis about considering the Britpop category of the '60s as English pop isn’t wrong, dear Ghemison, especially when you think about the fact that the POP genre in the '60s and '70s was viewed differently than it is today; today, POP consists of junk like Britney Spears, Shakira, Blue, Anastacia, Backstreet Boys, which are real insults to music as an art form. Anyway, even the Moody Blues, from what I’ve read and heard around, were one of the first bands to experiment with Prog.

Interesting... very brief rec...