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30 jan 24

DeRank™: 24,13

Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner
Incredible, but I don't think I've ever played it in my listens. Yet YouTube doesn't lie. It's one of the things I've listened to the most.

So, even though I'd like to listen to the Wizard, I'll stop here, at this album from '78 (well, nobody's perfect), with this strange face. And these really strange stories. A guy who talked about zombies (almost like Gianfranco Manfredi), about serial killers (that we didn't even know what they were), about tenderness in bulk (or in the block? Never understood), about casual love, about abandoned love, about crazy love... An extraterrestrial, seriously. But one who talked about his planet. And who loved that planet.

He gained some notoriety in those years because he was friends with Jackson Browne. Regarding this, I invite everyone to watch the video of Mohammed's Radio, with the aforementioned Californian. Zevon's expressions say more than a million words and, if it were needed, they carve it into my heart.
Well, what can I say, the Wizard won't mind if I make him wait a little bit. And maybe, like me, he’s singing it at the top of his lungs right now. And, like me, he always messes up guessing when, in the chorus of Roland the headless thompson gunner, he adds talkin' 'bout the man...
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12 dec 23

DeRank™: 12,79

Verdi: Don Carlo / Act 5 - "Ma lassù ci vedremo in un mondo migliore"

So: we need two explanations, right?
1. It’s not my favorite version, Abbado '77, but I can't find it in fragments... never mind. I have to say though that this one with Bergonzi (well, a great gentleman, but not much else), Tebaldi (absolutely magnificent), Ghiaurov (absolute confidence), and Dieskau as the Marquis of Posa seems definitely worth seeking out... As soon as I’m done with the first one from '77, I’ll give it a try.
2. It's not an aria (hahahaha) but a duet. It’s the equivalent of "si schiude il ciel" from Aida. The two (Carlo and Elisabetta) are without hope. They say goodbye to each other. And they tell each other they will be happy. In a better world.
3. Yes, now you know why in the coming days, whatever I do, I will do it singing "in a better world."
4. But how beautiful is Abbado’s version? I mean, really all of it, not just this non-aria... someone should write about it...
5. Yes, I have to say I'm thinking about writing about it. Seriously, and there's a reason. But let's see if it comes to fruition...
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andisceppard
12 sep 23

DeRank™: 20,42

This morning, around seven, I was thinking about a friend of mine, from Venice (no, she doesn't live by my dentist...).
And I was thinking about this.
Death Don't Have No Mercy (Live at the Fillmore West San Francisco, 1969) (2001 Remaster)
Well, anyway, soon they'll ban it. They'll say there's no doubt, it doesn't just make you want to, you need to smoke a joint while you listen to it... It's true. And it's not good. That's why it's beautiful.
I don't know, anyway, I'm going off on a tangent, maybe it's because I read about a pen pal of mine who's reading Vannacci's book. (What do I think of Vannacci? Well, that letters are important! YouTube video non trovatoa0rBFBEQkRo)

Who knows, it's me who's rambling... in the end, I think there's only one thing, and I know I've posted it a thousand times. But in my opinion, you hear it and you start to cry, without anyone seeing you...

Gram Parsons, "Return of the Grievous Angel"
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6 sep 23

DeRank™: 6,00

Jimmy Buffett - Cheeseburger In Paradise (Live)

Did anyone think I wouldn't have the courage??? Me??? Noooo
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15 aug 23

DeRank™: 11,18

Juan Diego Florez & Nino Machaidze - I Puritani - Fini...me lassa - Vieni fra queste braccia

for three days?

P.S.: note at 0:41 the leitmotif... you know, those things that if Wagner had had the sea nearby, he would have been a little Bellini?
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andisceppard
10 aug 23

DeRank™: 12,00

The Byrds - I Am A Pilgrim (Audio)

But how much it disturbed me to hear love made by hands? I mean, it doesn’t even say it, but whatever.
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8 aug 23

DeRank™: 24,31

The Byrds - Hickory Wind (Audio)

they say there's wind in Monza - Brianza...
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4 aug 23

DeRank™: 32,47

The first is a little tune that must come to you from the radio, maybe from one of those old transistor radios, and for me, every time I hear it, it's a blow to the heart. Like a sweet sadness. Like nostalgia, like a summer day, like a thousand things. And undoubtedly one of the things I love the most. I think I've already told you that I lost some friends just to hear it blasting all night...
Gram Parsons - Return Of The Grievous Angel
The second comes from the radio, practically every evening. And – I swear – even if I don’t have it, every time I hear it, it makes me feel good.
A Far Cry - Igor Stravinsky: Concerto in D Major for String Orchestra, II. Arioso & III. Rondo
I don't know, maybe the only common thread that connects the two listens is the radio. Or maybe that the other day, while chatting, it happened that both came to mind. At very little distance. Perhaps for no reason at all. Like it happens to you if you listen to the radio (and Nick Hornby can screw off!)
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14 feb 23

DeRank™: 18,00

Povera Consuelo-Banda Bardò
For Erriquez, Marco Pantani, and also a bit for me...
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andisceppard
26 jan 23

DeRank™: 9,45

Tamerlano - Act 2: Aria: Non È più tempo no
Well, a little while ago someone said to me: I was born in '95. What did I miss?
- the '82 World Cup
- black and white TV
- the Netherlands of '74
- the snowstorm of '85
- the fog
- Gianni Rivera, who no longer scores for me (0-0 again yesterday this Milan here)...(quote)
- smoking by putting out cigarettes in the drawer of the desk
...
and what do you think?
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andisceppard
23 dec 22

DeRank™: 6,37

Let It Snow

it may be cliché... but... it's love...
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andisceppard
20 dec 22

DeRank™: 18,28

Lascia la spina cogli la rosa - Händel - Rosa Feola, Daniele Gatti

Thoughts:
1. Kudos to those who - rifling through my listens - recognize it. But it's not her. It's just that the whole remastering thing wasn’t invented by kids… (by the way, I would love to feature one from Peppino... And what about Mozart? Shall we talk about it?)
2. What? Isn’t this from Tamerlano? Is a new review on the way?
3. Notice (there are little words below) the usual pattern (a winning team doesn’t change) two stanzas two. Three is too many, one is too few...
4. Many years ago, I don’t remember where, maybe in a niusgrup (you know those ancient things?) someone said that, phew, Don Giovanni, in Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno (or the truth) had it all already... Who knows, for now I’m rummaging and being amazed...
5. Who knows, while I was writing it ended, and I moved on to this...
Joni Mitchell - River (Official Music Video)
But then that's two listens, that’s not good... Then there are people who scold me...
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