pier_paolo_farina

DeRank ™: 9,02

DeAge™ : 7265 days • Here since 20 july 2006

Vasco Rossi Gli Spari Sopra

20 oct 06

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Sorry for the intrusion, but when it comes to Vasco, you're touching a sore spot for me: I know people (Sollieri foremost) who "pass" the songs to Vasco, Elmi pays him a flat fee with the clause of waiving any copyright, and then the tracks are released under the name of the Great European Performer... Shit.

Vasco Rossi Gli Spari Sopra

20 oct 06

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Voiceface wake up: the "catalyst" is called Guido Elmi, he's Vasco's producer and tells him what he should do and what he shouldn't do, he chooses the musicians, for example, he decided to relegate Sollieri to second guitarist (Sollieri got an ulcer but it's still better than playing in front of four cats with an unknown band, so he swallowed the toad) when Riva died from pears. And by catalyzing, they mean hiring paid American musicians, as good as they are anonymous, to give live thickness to the group. I don't know Vasco personally, but those close to him have described him as mmmuuuuuch less tough and charismatic than what his image management has managed to instill in everyone a bit. Paranoid, insecure, extremely worried about not making missteps, far from being carefree with the world. Shit shit shit shit.

Saga Trust

20 oct 06

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Well! The album you own is the sixth in their discography. After various deviations, which I've summarized at the end of the review, they have firmly established themselves for many years now in their own genre, which you aptly define as easy-prog, and of which "Behaviour" is certainly one of their most successful albums.

Saga Trust

20 oct 06

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You know how it is... when you describe the album in detail and there's always someone who comments, "I can't stand track-by-track reviews...". Since Saga are relatively unknown and still absent from the site, I felt it was important to drum up some attention for them "in general."

Vasco Rossi Gli Spari Sopra

20 oct 06

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Ugh. "Vita Spericolata" wasn't written by Vasco, not a single note! I find it unbearable that myths are built on ignorance. Vasco is a great, I mean great lyricist; the music is done by others, he doesn't even know how to play, he just shows up with four phrases and the various Curreri, Sollieri, his producer and who knows who else build a structure around it that he then makes "mythical" with his "charisma," his eeehhh, aahhh, his big voice. Like and even more than Ligabue, he deserves mediocre success and not all this following. The fact that in Italy he represents the peak of rock says a lot about how clueless we are in this genre.

Le Orme Collage

20 oct 06

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When you ask an English or American rock musician which Italian band they know, they still answer PFM, Banco, Orme... certainly not Pooh or any of the Pugliese rap crews. In the end, the progressive season of the early '70s, with its naivetés, its imitations, its exaggerations (everyone doing forty-minute suites about God, Man, the Cosmos, Ancient Greece, the Pyramids, and Atlantis...) was the best rock moment in Italy.

Madonna True Blue

19 oct 06

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The only thing I like about Madonna is her breasts. Just yesterday, an ignorant journalist on TV called her a rockstar. Instead, she’s a popstar. An honest singer, an inexplicable media myth. She doesn't mean anything to me.

Madonna True Blue

19 oct 06

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Annoying review

Le Orme Collage

18 oct 06

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Good times... I have never been able to stomach Tagliapietra's voice. A very evocative record. A must-have.

Little Feat As Time Goes By

18 oct 06

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I don't know, I tried to love them but it just didn't happen. A completely personal style, but the few albums of theirs I've gotten have always sat dusting away at the back of my collection. It happens to everyone.