Larrok

DeRank ™: 5,57

DeAge™ : 7250 days • Here since 5 august 2006

Pendragon The Window Of Life

8 aug 07

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Oh my God, the Pendragon, unbearable... neo-prog is a genre that, by itself, gives me hives and, unfortunately, continues to churn out new followers in industrial quantities... but how many less shitty bands would there have been without Marillion? Pendragon, IQ, Arena, Spock's Beard, etc... all the same, a singer who confuses expressiveness with theatricality, keyboards always in the spotlight and shockingly predictable in their desperate attempt to create an epic atmosphere, and a rhythm section that shamelessly copies Genesis... in short, bands made from a mold that produce nothing interesting, except for the most conservative listeners...

Low I Could Live In Hope

6 aug 07

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masterpiece album...total trip

Oasis Standing On The Shoulder Of Giants

2 aug 07

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"Gas Panic" and "Roll it Over" are the highlights, the rest is quite forgettable... Liam Gallagher versatile? Well...

Kansas Leftoverture

31 jul 07

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I take back my comment from almost a year ago...5 stars don’t really suit this album; Kansas is a band I've definitely reassessed, just like ELP...too little substance and too much form...still remains valid entertainment.

Alfred Hitchcock Intrigo Internazionale

31 jul 07

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Gigantic film. One of the finest masterpieces by Alfred.

Jim Jarmusch Broken Flowers

31 jul 07

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Seen at the cinema, not bad, the problem is the too many dead spots... anyway, it makes it to a passing grade.

The Vines Highly Evolved

31 jul 07

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5 stars for this record?? Let's not kid ourselves, 5-star albums are elsewhere... "Highly Evolved," if we're being generous, can at most snag 2 stars, just for a couple of catchy tunes... 5 stars are reserved for "On the Beach" by Neil Young, "Rock Bottom" by Robert Wyatt, "Spiderland" by Slint, "Zeit" by Tangerine Dream, not for this half-baked hype machine...

Nazz Nazz

28 jul 07

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Kosmo, calm down. Is there really a need to attack someone for no reason? "The same old story is getting boring"?? Who do you think you are?

Symphony X Paradise Lost

25 jul 07

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@47: if you like Panopticon, the first ones I recommend if you don’t know them already are Red Sparowes with their albums "At the Soundless Dawn" and especially "Every Red Heart Shines Toward..."; or "THE FIRE IN OUR THROATS WILL BECKON THE THAW" by Pelican, or "Samus Octology" by Irepress. But there would be many others…

Symphony X Paradise Lost

25 jul 07

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I also think that Burn the Sun by Ark is the best or one of the best examples of prog-metal, and I still enjoy it today, but I increasingly realize while listening to it that, like 90% of albums in this genre, it has the flaw of not striving for a personal reinterpretation of the languages and styles used, even though there is considerable eclecticism and excellent preparation. I’ll skip the childish discussion of always and forever dividing everything into technique and feeling as if they were the only elements that make up music, and furthermore reducing them to cold percentages...