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DeAge™ : 7424 days • Here since 11 february 2006

Neil Young Freedom

7 mar 06

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"Rockin' in the Free World" gives me goosebumps every time; it’s fantastic (both the acoustic version and the closing electric one), and to think it could have been written in 2 minutes since it’s so simple. The album is stunning but fluctuates between highs and lows, with the best moments being the blues of "Eldorado" and the epic "Crime in the City."

Neil Young Sleeps With Angels

6 mar 06

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Maybe I’m the only one who thinks this, but for me Sleeps with Angels is Neil Young's best album. There isn’t another one that’s as emotionally powerful. Harvest is at times excessively bucolic; it’s certainly not the peak of his career.

Ligabue Giro D'Italia

5 mar 06

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I HATE the term "rockstar"! What’s the point of being a rockstar? What artistic value does it have? Why should anyone want to be a rockstar? What does being a rockstar have to do with music and rock?? If an artist cares about making music, they couldn't care less about being a rockstar!! oh dear..... the album is nice but Ligabue doesn’t have the qualities to propose 3 CDs of semi-acoustic music, it gets noisy in the long run. Much better "Su e Giù da un Palco". Oh, one last thing: let’s try not to give a 5 to EVERY ALBUM, a good 80% of reviews give a 5-star rating, for crying out loud! Sorry for the rant, the review is nice anyway.

Bruce Springsteen Darkness On The Edge Of Town

5 mar 06

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4 to the record, 3 was a bit too little: it’s still a really great record.

Bruce Springsteen Darkness On The Edge Of Town

5 mar 06

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To say that it is a summary of rock history is another exaggeration. Where are psychedelia, krautrock, freaks, punk rock, prog rock, etc.? Not on this record.

Hüsker Dü Zen Arcade

5 mar 06

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Oh my gosh, Zen Arcade is the most exciting album ever! It doesn't matter that it's imperfect, too long, sometimes verbose, with poor sound quality. It's sincere and direct like a punch to the gut. Surely it's innovative, varied, influential, etc., but what matters is that it's truly thrilling, bursting with honesty! 23 tracks that express incommunicability, fierce psychological struggle, social discomfort, and family issues, amid nightmares/psychedelic dreams and psychotic instrumentals. It concludes with an encouragement (DON'T GIVE UP, DON'T LET GO) only to give a non-answer to all the problems raised ("All this uptight pushing & shoving keeps us away from who we're loving, so TURN ON TURN ON TURN ON THE NEWWWS!!!!" - in an ironic sense).

Bruce Springsteen Darkness On The Edge Of Town

4 mar 06

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Beautiful review! The album has never captivated me that much; I've always preferred the even darker Nebraska (which, however, is definitely not rock). To say it's one of the greatest albums in history seems a bit exaggerated to me; Bruce has been great but not THAT great, generally a bit overrated (and that’s coming from someone who owns his entire discography, including the original TRACKS!). In my opinion, Nebraska, Born To Run, and The Ghost of Tom Joad are better than Darkness.

Lou Reed Transformer

2 mar 06

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Well, the truly important names in the early '70s are Wyatt and Faust (and krautrock in general), not Deep Purple and Genesis.

Wipers Over The Edge

1 mar 06

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The Wipers were a decade ahead of the music scene of their time (and indeed nobody paid them any attention for several years) but personally I find their records not that exceptional musically; Sage's songwriting doesn't seem particularly varied to me. Nonetheless, a fantastic band! Oh, the box set containing the first 3 albums is really cool (not to mention a great deal - about $15-18) and can easily be found on eBay.

The Gun Club The Fire Of Love

1 mar 06

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Fantastic, one of the top 5 albums of the '80s, in fact one of the greatest of all time! Miami and Las Vegas are muuuch inferior, but you forgot the EP "Death Party," in my opinion the best thing the Gun Club has done after Fire of Love.