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If you think Mina is banal at a compositional level (?! she has never composed anything) or correctly interpretative, it means you have a vague idea of the genres that shaped 20th-century music: from jazz to popular song to Mediterranean music... And when you listen to "Mina" from '71, "Quando mi spiavi in cima a un batticuore" or "Bugiardo e incosciente" and you don't feel any emotion, well... that's serious, very serious... and if you want to listen to something TRULY intellectual, check out "Ascension" by Coltrane or "Miles Ahead" by Miles Davis (the God Miles) or even "Hot Rats" by Zappa... you'll see that then you'll use rock Bottom as a leg for your wobbly coffee table in the living room :-))

Lux, Rock Bottom will be what you want, but my balls always drop... Just like when I listen to Mozart... the rare times... Two ppalleee :-)) Instead, Ludovico Van really excites me, from the sonatas to the piano and orchestra concertos or those for piano and violin... not to mention the symphonies... So? Wish You Were Here has made history and set a standard, Rock Bottom I'm sorry NO. In England, if you say Robert Wyatt an Englishman might reply that he’s his butcher or his neighbor. Okay, I like Rock Bottom, but it hasn’t been seminal for Rock, sorry. I much prefer the "Hosianna Mantra" by Popol Vuh... shall we compare? Guys, let’s get used to the idea that great public success (not always) doesn’t mean an opus omnia. Yes, because the final word has always belonged to the People, not the intellectual elite.
It's a bit like the leftists of the '70s who used to widen their mouths with De Andrè, Marini, Ciampi, Area, etc... Then when the police raided a hideout of the Br, they found, along with the submachine guns, revolvers, and bombs, the entire discography of Battisti...
It’s a matter of emotions, just to quote Lucio: Wish You Were Here moves me, Rock Bottom does not! In The Court of The Krimson King moves me, Vu does not! The Doors move me, Crayola does NOT!
Pt moves me... bye.

Surely with this album the sound becomes more mature, the introspective and vaguely arcane lyrics... "no quarter", "Over the hills", "the crunge" are anthems... I don't know why, but I don't consider it a winter album... to me it recalls walks in the first spring sunshine or under the light rain of April... It was not understood because the sound was the synthesis of a lot of music that was in vogue, revisited and corrected: from Jazz to Funk, from psychedelic reminiscences to Folk\Rock! My father was never a big fan of Zeppelin but he always considered "Over the hills" a masterpiece, more than many others...

I agree with the reviewer: my favorite of the Zeps always. "SIBLY" is perhaps THE electric blues "par excellence"... in the sense that England teaches America how to do blues... :-)) Tangerine is simply superb. Beautiful the presence/quote of the great underrated Roy Harper, who will take revenge a few years later by singing in "Wish You Were Here" by the Floyd...
III is a work born in absolute freedom, reflection, far from metropolitan and record industry conditioning... and you can feel it... The best examples of English music indeed arose from rural hermitages: see "Liege and Lief," many works of Tull, Honky Chateau by Elton John...
What to say about Immigrant Song? Well, a book wouldn't be enough. Too bad for the terrible recordings that the various Remasters certainly haven't improved much...

It would be useful to remember that the sound technician, the true architect of "Made in Japan," is none other than Martin Birch, who was hired 10 years later by Iron Maiden and who duplicated the success of MIJ with "Maiden England" and especially "Live After Death."
A complete work and a handbook for every respectable rocker. Gillan's scream in "Child In Time" has entered into legend, also sampled by Lars Von Trier in his masterpiece film "The Waves of Destiny"....Salutations...

The first Hard Rock album of the '80s. Far from the embryonic metal of the early Scorpions, enriched by the folk experimentalism and vaguely prog influences of Roth and Schenker, Lovedrive kicks off a new era for the Hannover quartet: tear-jerking ballads and lightning-fast fillers, equally simple to slip into...the Walkman when I came home from school, after my afternoon studies...And especially the girl of my heart, who took shape in my desires and illusions as an adolescent alongside the Scorpions...
As a music enthusiast, I prefer the Scorpions of the '70s (which I listened to indiscriminately in the '80s alongside those from that era), and when it comes to ballads: "In Your Park," "The Yellow Raven," and "Born to Touch Your Feelings" are among the best in rock overall, even though "Still Loving You" sold a few million more copies :-)
PS I wasn't very fond of the ending of the review: Germany in the 1960s and '70s, with that rock derogatorily labeled as "cosmic," effectively invented electronic music, which later found its expression in Jarre, Vangelis, Tomita, and others, leading to the electronic music we know today. From Klaus Schulze to Edgra Froese and Florian Fricke, Germany once again redefined the concept of music during that period, creating a genre that, while drawing heavily from psychedelia and Anglo-Saxon prog, distinctly distanced itself in terms of intellectualism, "Weltanschauung," and the "decadent Romanticism" typical of the German people. The Scorpions in their early years were also children of those experiments of what I would dare to call Central European music, that unique blend of Hard Rock and progressive that was also unparalleled in its own way. Then from Lovedrive onwards, they preferred Money like everyone else....
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A legend tells that one fine day in the year of our Lord thirteen hundred and something, from the dark workshop of a Florentine carpenter (or maybe it was a knife grinder?... It matters little) came an awkward song, off-key like few, a sort of nursery rhyme that smelled of "Rap Ante Litteram".... They were strange words, uttered by a poor illiterate, but the man who happened to be walking by the workshop recognized them! Oh yes.... "Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vitaaaaaaaaa, Firulì, firulà.... Mi ritrovai per una selva oscuraaaaaaaaa, Firulì, Firulà...." The man, who was Dante Alighieri, rushed in like a madman and smashed everything in sight.... The chronicles do not recount whether he also smashed the head of the careless craftsman..... Moral? Well, Dante was the first to suffer from Celebrity Syndrome!... Is that why the Divine Comedy should be thrown in the toilet? Best regards....

So, point one:
The entire Beatles Catalog up to Sgt. Pepper's was released a few years ago in HDCD, so obviously (and I emphasize OBVIOUSLY!) remastered... and just listen to Rubber Soul or Help to notice it... given that I was able to make the comparison having some CDs from 1987 (not 88!!)....
The White Album was already released remastered, about 2 years ago, it seems.... Abbey Road too (the Millennium Remaster edition) and finally Let It Be (Naked)..... So please, every now and then between one torrent and another, step into a record store....
LOVE is stunning! Period! For an audiophile like me, it's pure delight for the ears... and for the other half of music lovers, it's perhaps the most complete, interesting, and brilliant "artistic" endeavor ever done for a musical band.... Some songs in this new guise are "thrilling," and you don’t need to be a Beatles fan to realize it... If many are relatives of Scaruffi.... well... may the music God have mercy on you....
Best regards

The Rock Lux is no more! We live in a Transgender world... There is no more rock, Metal, Jazz... Miles Davis understood it 40 years ago... there are bands that take, manipulate, amalgamate... Metal is 80s, Lux... that’s where it was born and died... What came after was an "experimentation" in multiple directions of a genre that then enriched itself with new (or old) lifeblood to please an audience that has changed... an audience that has gone through Grunge and the "new" rock from Seattle and its surroundings... If you talk to me about "metal", you cannot ignore the discography of Maiden up to "Seventh Son" and that of Metallica up to "Justice"... I repeat, what came after is just manipulation... And I’ll tell you... I've noticed that today there’s much more professionalism than in the past... such professionalism often compensates for a lack of ideas... But I have listened to great things in Gothic Metal, from Arcturus to Stratovarius, each one brings something to the table... some good, some bad in a genre that I find more vital than ever...
However, when it comes to progressive rock or, rather, Art Rock, well, Porcupine Tree are undoubtedly the flag bearers of the third millennium... Then, of course, it's a matter of taste... But if I listen to Rock Bottom (I have it) after 5 minutes I want to throw it out, while "wish you were here" I could listen to on loop for 6 hours... do you understand what I mean? Tastes... perhaps.
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@Bernard
I’m sorry, but I didn’t understand this: the Kinks are legends and they didn’t copy a damn thing! If anything, many have copied from them (and I’m not referring to the Beatles).