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DeRank ™: 3,14

DeAge™ : 7374 days • Here since 2 april 2006

Dirty Three Ocean Songs

17 apr 06

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Highly evocative record, with the sole flaw of being a bit too long. Brilliant use of all three instruments; very well-crafted timbral aspect (considering who was in the production booth... :-D). Ah, of course, it has nothing to do with post-rock! :-D

Tim Buckley Happy Sad

17 apr 06

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One of the most significant examples of dreamlike and impressionistic music. If the absolute pinnacle is the overwhelming "tribal-soul" of Gipsy Woman (a lesson on how to create music that is both hedonistic and profound at the same time, translated: how to talk about sex without being superficial), the peak of abstraction is Love from room 109, where there is no longer folk, blues, or jazz, but a new music, outside of genres, in which the vocal flow is one with the instrumental, like a lifeboat adrift in an immense ocean.

Thin Lizzy Jailbreak

15 apr 06

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Great album! Thin Lizzy were perhaps the best hard-rock band of the mid-70s. They knew how to incorporate references to soul and folk into their style with great elegance and restraint. The "twin" guitars have also had a significant influence on Maiden and much classic metal. Forget Uriah Heep... :-D

Yes Close To The Edge

15 apr 06

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I love the title track and "Siberian Kathru"; however, I've never been able to stand "And you and I," which is mysteriously regarded as one of the peaks of Yes. Anyway, one of the best prog albums of all time.

Tim Buckley Goodbye And Hello

15 apr 06

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"Pleasent Street" and "Phantasmagoria in two" are worth the ticket price by themselves. Even confined to the narrow space of the song form, Buckley senior's vocal cords soar with authentic emotion. A poetic voice.

Butthole Surfers Psychic... Powerless... Another Man's Sac

15 apr 06

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"For once I agree with Scaruffi and Ondarock!" <--- Sanjuro, are you also part of the "third pole"? :-D

Wire 154

15 apr 06

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A charming review (for those who already know the album, of course!!! :-D). The album is one of the masterpieces of British new wave and a summa of it: it contains Eno, dark, industrial, minimalism... everything. The imaginative ideas of a band (that was) in a state of grace are truly countless; and none of these ideas are excessive.

Leonard Cohen Songs of Leonard Cohen

15 apr 06

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Tender. An example of Art created with the bare minimum. Before Drake and before Kozelek. We stand in contrast to Morrison and Buckley: over there, dense arrangements and free-flowing developments; over here, bare (but brilliant!) arrangements and linear progression.

Van Morrison Astral Weeks

15 apr 06

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Wonderful. The arrangements are inspired and lush; the singing is intense and extremely varied, despite the apparent monotony. We are on par with the best Tim Buckley. And like in Buckley, folk, jazz, soul, psychedelia, chamber music, and whatever else flow together with absolute naturalness into true streams of consciousness reminiscent of Joyce or in impressionistic watercolors like Renoir: they are high, free, poetic, deep songs. They are the peaks of songwriting.

Queensrÿche Operation Mindcrime

14 apr 06

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:-D I'm sorry Omega, but I wasn't joking... :-D My opinion is that this is an excellently played album, but far from original (there are strong debts to the classic metal of Maiden and Priest, not to mention hard rock, see Revolution Calling). I see few time changes and fast scales alone aren't enough to make it prog. For me, prog metal is what Rush, Dream Theater, Fates, and Nevermore do... Perhaps the only track on this album that could be defined as "progressive" is Suite Sister Mary... Obviously, this is just my personal opinion... :-)