Viva Lì

Giving a 5 to this Vasco is not a crime (check out the posts of other users too). Or maybe you’re just 20 years old and think you can play the professor? Idiot, listen to the albums.

From here begins the decline of Litfiba: the music is still beautiful, but the lyrics start to become excessively ridiculous and Pelù's out-of-the-box satanism seems like a game for hyperactive teenagers, and the decline is precisely due to the most celebrated songs like "Lacio Drom," a dull song that is neither meat nor fish, just ridiculous and cartoonish. Renzulli still plays very well, Pelù sings terribly. The end starts from here.

Bold and brash, what a decent debut. Those who criticize these Oasis are actually criticizing the modern Oasis, the ones who have lost both the desire and the taste to play. Here they were still musical talents that would be a crime to underestimate, especially since tracks like "Supersonic" and "Live Forever" are the most superbly pop sounds heard in at least a decade. With the next album, they replicate their success and deliver a masterpiece, then they fell completely vertically into horrendous realms filled with cheesy songs and music that sounded just like itself...

A decent (good?) guitarist who in Italy can afford to do whatever he likes, but if he just goes to play in Chiasso, he gets nothing but fruit and spit. The lyrics are like homework from a third, fine, fourth grader, and he’s a truly ridiculous character that today they want to pass off as a Great Guitarist but who is only good for five minutes of glory on Buona Domenica, on All Music or MTV. He’s not even self-ironic, and how seriously he takes himself...

Well, the original "Let it be" from 1970 can easily be counted among the less successful episodes of the Beatles' career. This reissue, clearly strongly desired by McCartney, aims to, and partially succeeds in, improving the original: the arrangements are less pompous and pretentious, and some original fragments that might have seemed a bit hard to digest have been removed, the listening order of the tracks has changed, and re-listening to "The long and winding road" without that annoying orchestra in the background finally brings some joy (and Paul will be happy). However, the fact remains that "Let it be" cannot shake off the label of a cursed album: already distant from the usual perfection of the Beatles back in '70, slightly improved in 2003, it still possesses a few flat notes that unjustly degrade it, even when it appears to be perfect. The 20-minute bonus disc is completely unnecessary (and boring): pointless chatter, snippets of tracks that, taken alone, say and mean nothing.

It's natural for a group like the Beastie Boys, after two superb masterpieces like "Licensed to Ill" and "Paul's Boutique," to experience a moment of haze and confusion. This "III Communication" is, in the end, one of their least successful albums—strangely disorganized, not particularly original, a bit underwhelming—despite the presence of some nice songs and an absolutely excellent gem, "Sabotage." I don’t understand all the glory and these generously given 5 stars, which I think are a bit unwarranted. A formally nice review, but I don't agree with a word of it.

The film was a masterpiece, but only if watched in the original version. In Italian, the dubbing is at times outrageously terrible; the only redeeming factors are the beautiful performance by Renato Zero and some truly excellent songs (especially the first one, the one that opens the film and introduces the city of Halloween, and the girl who always loses an arm is brilliant). After all, it's a Tim Burton film, a gem in stop-motion, not Alvaro Vitali. Let's say 5 for the film and 4 for the soundtrack, altogether compensating with a much-deserved 5.

This is beautiful, it's a fantastic debut, but the best is the second one "Fan House", give it a listen, then let me know...

I adore David Byrne, but perhaps the person who wrote this review of Byrne only knows this album. If they compare "The Forest" (terrible, too dark, too philosophical) with "David Byrne" from 1994, I believe they will have an epiphany and understand what the real Byrne is made of. There are few excuses for "The Forest": excessively slow and boring, stuffed with often elusive cultured references, some good moments but a lot of dark pomposity. To call it epic and monumental is an insult to music and to Byrne himself...

Frenzied rhythms and exuberant solos, a cornerstone (then copied by many) of the most extreme metal. And this isn't a matter of taste: I can't stand metal, but this, to be impartial, is truly an excellent album. The review of Korn, as always, is a solemn load of nonsense.