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THE REVIEW
The good old province is a closed gas station lit up all night for no one, and Italian summers are fans, the noise of scooters, people languidly letting themselves go in front of popsicles. This isn’t a record: it’s a gentle curse thrown at the heart, and Battisti knows he can make songs so light they can emotionally ruin millions of people like little ants. He seems calm, but inside there’s the sadness of a dog waiting outside a closed bar. It starts, and suddenly it feels like you’re inside a Sunday afternoon in ’71, where no one really knows what to do with their life so everyone drives. On this record, maybe they drive too much. Battisti basically always sings like someone who just missed their exit on the ring road, even spiritually: then come songs that hit Italian music right on the head. “Guidare a fari spenti nella notte per vedere…” is such a dumb line that today it would probably get arrested, but Battisti manages to turn ugly images into personal memories for anyone. After this song, even crossing an Esselunga parking lot becomes cinema. A conversation held in the kitchen with the fridge light open, and he sings like someone who wishes he could explain himself better but is sleepy. That’s exactly why it all works. Every song seeps into your mind like damp in the walls, and without autotune. Clean arrangements, sweet guitars, polite drums, but underneath it all there was a desperation caught by surprise. We’re in the zone where music turns into the smell of gasoline, cut grass, and the most useless regrets at six in the evening, when dusk’s purpose is anyone’s guess. Emotional inspection expired. License and registration.
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The review celebrates Battisti's 'Emozioni' as a pinnacle of Italian songwriting. It praises the album's emotional resonance and timeless melodies. Battisti's unique voice and poetic lyrics are highlighted. Regarded as a landmark for Italian pop music. The review suggests the album remains essential listening decades after release.Tracklist Lyrics Videos
Lucio Battisti
Lucio Battisti (5 March 1943 – 9 September 1998) was an Italian singer, composer and producer from Poggio Bustone. With lyricist Mogol he shaped Italian pop in the late 1960s–70s; from 1986 he collaborated with Pasquale Panella on the experimental ‘white albums’, culminating in Hegel (1994).101 Reviews
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By Viva Lì
The most beautiful pop-rock album in history isn’t dated 1992. It’s dated 1970 and it’s 'Emozioni' by Lucio Battisti.
Friends, Debaserian, Castaldo: this is music, everything else, as Shakespeare said, is silence.
By TONI E FURMINI
"This CD is the result of the work of an incredibly inspired Mogol and Lucio Battisti in an extraordinary moment."
"The lyrics of this track are as valuable as those of the great foreign bands that were popular in the 70s... almost worthy of a Nobel Prize for literature."
By Fiumani
Battisti revolutionized well-established canons with rhythmic beat focus rather than traditional bel canto.
'Emozioni' is the masterpiece of his first period, equally revolutionary and closer to Italian song.
By Spoonful
Are you referring to something bittersweet? That dear sensation of almost unjustified happiness surrounded by a sadness that you can’t even explain?
Like a medicine, that’s what we need. Friendly hands, hands to hold, clean and sincere hands.
By Boop07
'Emozioni remains the best of the best expressed by Battisti over the years with Mogol.'
'A mixture of Rock and Rhythm ’n’ Blues, for which Battisti’s personal voice was perfect, and the lyrics that spoke of everyday life and feelings were textbook examples.'
