Burns

Listen, Dracula, you can also say "if he would have lived," take a look on Google and search for the words "se sarebbe vissuto" and you'll see it’s used. Sure, maybe "if he had lived" sounds better, but mine isn’t a mistake, and even if it were, I don’t see what it has to do with musical culture, still with these clichés. Anyway, I reaffirm that I gave this album a 4, and there's a reason for it. In response to Hiver, I also find great tracks—"Dream Brother" and "Lover, You’ve Should Come Over," for example, I consider them immortal pieces—but I can’t help but think that 2 or 3 great tracks don’t justify the term genius or great composer. Also, I don’t know if any of you have listened to the posthumous "Sketches (For My Sweetheart The Drunk)" released in '98, which contains the almost finished material Jeff was working on before his death; well, it’s dull, disappointing, for someone who jumped out of their chair listening to "Grace."

jeff buckley a great composer? I don’t know, maybe if he had lived longer, but I don’t feel like saying he was a great composer, grace, and then? nothingness, yet he had another 3 years of life after his debut, in 3 years the joy division became legends, in 3 years the clash recorded their debut, london calling and sandinista, from ‘77 to ‘80, I don’t know, I just can’t feel it, say whatever you want, for me he wasn’t a great composer but just a good performer.

Just take a little trip around the web, all the expert critics say it: Father Tim has him beat in vocal range, so I don't think I said anything ridiculous; the ridiculousness comes from those who claim Jeff’s range is superior. You might want to listen to Tim Buckley because even a mentally challenged person can hear that in comparison to Father Tim's voice, there’s no contest—five and a half octaves of vocal range is no small feat, guys. Jeff never managed to match it. Tim Buckley, along with Scott Walker, is one of the greatest vocalists in rock history—aliens to anyone else. And let me reaffirm, Jeff Buckley was a mediocre composer. He died in 1997, okay, but "Grace" came out in 1994. In the three years that followed, he recorded some material that ended up in the posthumous album released after his death—mediocre stuff. But you can still listen to that posthumous record. I’ll say it again to avoid pointless arguments: I gave "Grace" a 4, not a 1 like some did, because I believe Jeff put everything of himself into it. However, I also think that if he had lived, he wouldn't have been able to surpass "Grace." He was, however, an excellent performer of covers; aside from those on "Grace," his concerts were full of covers, precisely because he had a mediocre repertoire of his own, including great covers of MC5 and Van Morrison that he often performed.

Anyway, even "Lilac Wine" isn't his own (if I'm not mistaken, it's a piece by Nina Simone). As a composer, he never stood out; instead, he was an excellent performer due to his overwhelming passion. As for voice, his father Tim was from another planet, it must be admitted.

It's spot on to reference Ken Russell; who knows how many times Cave has watched his film "The Devils" from 1971. This album, like many of his others, is steeped in those themes.

black maple maybe I'm missing something, I wouldn't know, but according to other people, what would I have written? Is it clear what I wrote up there? I wrote that a 4 rating is too low for this album, meaning that for me, rust never sleeps is a 5-rated album. I mean, is it clear from my sentence that this is what I intended to say?? I would like to have the testimony of other Italian speakers to see if my sentence is understood.

scrauso

stay remains a great song, lemon has succeeded in being a blatant mockery of Bono and company towards the electro scene that was replacing rock in the mid-90s. Anyway, it’s the only U2 album I can still listen to without feeling nauseous. The review is quite redundant, also because frankly I don't share many inspirations (velvet underground and de chirico, but maybe the reviewer got confused and meant McLuhan and his theory of mass media, considering then the technological and apocalyptic zoo tv tour of 92-93 that explicitly draws inspiration from him). This is the review that Wim Wenders would have written, since he too had quite lost his mind over these U2 and this did not benefit his cinema in those years at all.

The debut was never matched again by this band; now Draper works in a factory, an unworthy end for a group that, with their first grand and magnificent album released in 1997, had helped to curse many mediocre epigones of Britpop. I find "six" definitely inferior to the debut.

The true added touch of this album is precisely the last three songs, those that really set it apart from other bands of the time, and not because they are the best, but because it was, I would say, almost unheard of to close an alternative rock album like this, brilliant and innovative as well as courageous.