Best artist of all time secondo DeBaser.

❝ There is always a certain reverential fear when approaching Beethoven.

❝ The purest talent in the history of music was named Ludwig Van Beethoven. He broke the strings and hammers of all the pianos he touched because he had no limits. And he broke souls.

❝ Art, just art held me back

❝ If only one name from the entire history of rock remains in a hundred years, it will inevitably be Jimi Hendrix, said Pete Townshend.

❝ Here. In about two minutes, Jimi Hendrix one day decided to show us his soul and we all realized that his soul was so, so beautiful.

❝ Hendrix and the completely still and mesmerized audience in front of this being who came from who knows where to express everything he had inside with the howls he managed to produce from his guitar..

❝ I will have no other Floyds besides Syd!

❝ Goodbye Cruel World (of Business).

❝ The Dark Side Of The Moon is not only the compositional and musical climax of the post-Barrett group's experience

❝ “because Mozart's Requiem is a cornerstone of my world, and what I think has not yet been said.”

❝ “Mozart, like it or not, is in our musical DNA.”

❝ “In the summer of 1788, once again in financial difficulty, he decided to surrender to a phenomenal creative raptus”

❝ Indispensable box set, contains the most moving hesitation in jazz history, the insanely delayed entry of the sax in "Lover Man." Trembling tale of a man touched by God, perhaps too abruptly. That man died at 35, but those who buried him thought he was 53

❝ Charlie Parker was the greatest musician in the history of modern jazz.

❝ In conclusion, "Bird at St. Nick's" can be defined as an album intended particularly for Charlie Parker enthusiasts.

❝ The albums of this quintet are an orgasm.

❝ The result is an indispensable and moving work, which a year ago saw the release of the Sony/Bmg Legacy edition in dual disc format, sold in millions of copies worldwide and which some critics claim represents the actual Bible that every enthusiast should know.

❝ Miles hits hard too, but in a silent way.

❝ Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) is universally considered a genius, if not THE genius.

❝ «If I decide to be an idiot, then I will be an idiot on my own initiative.» (Johann Sebastian Bach)

❝ They are just voices.

❝ "The only thing to expect from John Coltrane is the unexpected" (Zita Carno)

❝ Silence. This is the silence before something unique, marvelous, and splendid that one fears just to speak of (the first example that comes to mind is Beethoven's Ninth), something known for its superhuman, celestial and infernal power at the same time, a continuous shiver, a dive into the dark depths of ecstasy breaking the heart, tearing it apart, making it believe, understand, see a tear of life above the sky amid flames, light, again flames, again light.

❝ For a journey into space, all you need is about twenty euros, even less if you find "Stellar Region" on sale.

❝ Fourteen albums covering the most creative period for one who is the best artist of the Twentieth Century: Louis Armstrong.

❝ It's pre-war jazz, we know it, we don't expect 15-minute solos or electronic contaminations: it's Satchmo, to the nth degree.

❝ Preludes that prelude to nothing. Delirious musical intuitions.

❝ It is never easy to talk about classical music.

❝ Chopin: a soul that transcends the body.

❝ "Led Zeppelin? What's that?"

❝ "Best Band, Ever"

❝ Is it possible to listen to “My Generation” without screaming and shaking?!

❝ Less than forty minutes, but an actual punch in the stomach, a pure distillation of that thing that someone called Rock and which instead I like to call Rock.

❝ LOVE REIGNS ON ME.

❝ "Every man prays in his own language, and there is no language that God does not understand".

❝ Like an artist on the verge of decline, Duke Ellington took to the stage at the Newport Jazz Festival knowing he had to risk everything.

❝ those who have never heard jazz and intend to approach such music can safely start with an album like this

❝ "World-class!"

❝ "Dizzy has always conveyed a cheerfulness and a vitality that were deeply rooted in him."

❝ Impossible not to affirm that what comes out is an absolute masterpiece.

❝ Year 1968, “Wheels Of Fire” by the British Cream. The pinnacle of their short but very dense career.

❝ Cream’s performances are intense and captivating, with extremely long solos and improvisations at the end, at high volume and energy.

❝ Santana is sweat, it is eroticism, it is shaking your ass to the relentless rhythm even if you're at a funeral.

❝ So let's confidently be guided by our expert shaman and embark on this adventure called "Caravanserai."

❝ This album should be listened to with company, because it must be danced to.

❝ Let's begin by clearing up any doubts: this is a classic among classics.

❝ The Creedence Clearwater Revival are a band, in the true sense of the word: the undisputed leader is John C. Fogerty.

❝ The latest studio effort from the American band, an intentionally driven musical suicide at the height of their fame.

❝ Unmissable, for aficionados and not.

❝ How much I adored that refined touch, that artistic elegance, and the style always precise and impeccable.

❝ The true gem of this album remains "Tears In Heaven" – inspired by the tragic passing of his little son – and a timeless hit.

❝ Recorded in 1960, "The Incredible Jazz Guitar" is, forgive the cheekiness, among the best jazz records of all time.

❝ For those who want to learn to play the guitar, there’s nothing worse than an album like this.

❝ This man has been a master. He has inspired great musicians, he will inspire you too.

❝ This is not a record for everyone.

❝ John Hammond had unearthed the Rosetta Stone of rock

❝ If you place one of the two optical discs in the player, you hear a man playing a guitar.

❝ Some things don’t happen by chance. It is no coincidence that B.B. King has the word King as part of his name.

❝ Spending 70 euros for a concert of not even an hour and a half might seem like madness, but seeing a music legend perform live with such passion has a value that goes far beyond those 70 euros

❝ BB King’s sound is not the sound of Blues, it is "a" sound of Blues.

❝ First, buy the record, it’s essential.

❝ Frank Zappa remains nevertheless one of the greatest Composers of the 20th century. Period.

❝ Sheik is essential; it’s true that the orchestral suites of The Grand Wazoo are a work of art, but Sheik is mandatory; it’s true that Over-nite sensation is a revolution, but Sheik is inevitable.

❝ The mwandishi Herbert Jeffrey Hancock —the watermelon man & the great finger dancer of the Blue Note âge d'or— gathered a band of headhunters armed with percussion instruments of Mother Africa and whatever else could be used to coax the spider out of the hole (and that spider is us, lazybones elites); he made himself comfortable in front of rainforest keyboards, clavinets, synthesizers, donned a tribal mask (or a boiler with horns? both: a pressure cooker full of hyperagitated afrofunk) and began the hunting season.

❝ "Cantaloupe Island" is known by everyone, even those who claim they don't know it: those who are now around twenty will remember the sampling in "Cantaloop", male members who have eyes to see will remember Rossella Brescia's backside and therefore, by association, also the piece that serves as the soundtrack to her strip.

❝ The title alone says it all: this is an album completely centered on groove.

❝ When the alien DavidBowie, restless astronaut of the deepest spaces of the human soul, encounters the musical architect of perfect cosmic spaces BrianEno, an extraordinary album emerges.

❝ HE'S OUTRAGEOUS, HE SCREAMS AND HE BAWLS

❝ We know, David Bowie is not a man of this planet, not in a strict sense, at least.

❝ And that "Shhhhhhhh"......

❝ you are actually reliving those years with them.

❝ "Now and Then" is just a useless commercial move exclusively aimed at keeping a flourishing enterprise (not only artistic) called "The Beatles" well-oiled.

❝ The Mona Lisa, oil on poplar wood painting (Paris, Louvre Museum, 1503-1506)

❝ Leonardo da Vinci: An Unfathomable Genius!

❝ Probably the last painting Leonardo completed, it portrays Saint John the Baptist with his finger pointing towards the sky, meaning God.

❝ The right hand. Beautiful. The most beautiful detail of the entire sculpture.

❝ A statue so real that, if you create a void around it and concentrate solely on it, you get the feeling that, any moment now, it might actually step off the pedestal and walk, such is the high resolution of every minute detail and so pulverized is the concept of staticity.

❝ The dynamism of the work is enhanced by Michelangelo's sculptural technique, the "non finito" that he practiced in the last years of his existential and creative arc.

❝ Ella Fitzgerald was without a doubt one of the greatest singers of all time, both white and black, and she is especially universally recognized as the absolute queen of jazz vocals.

❝ In 1981, Norman Granz, Ella Fitzgerald's producer and founder of the record label Pablo in 1973, as well as the man, in my opinion, who more than anyone promoted jazz worldwide, writes a note for the album "Ella abraca Jobim" where he expresses his personal love for this album which he considers to be "Fitzgerald's best, the most exciting and explosive."

❝ Elusive as the unconscious, indefinable as a free-associating stream of thoughts.

❝ I think that listening to ‘Brown Eyed Girl’ makes life better.

❝ But at 80, his distinctive voice remains as powerful and remarkably emotional as ever.

❝

"This Is The End" had already been announced years earlier by James Douglas Morrison.

❝

"This is the end, beautiful friend. This is the end my only friend..."

❝

"Break On Through (To The Other Side)"

❝ Chet Baker doesn't play the trumpet, he whispers it.

❝ Chet had the bleak feeling that every time he played it could be the last, he confessed to me on several occasions.

❝ “She Was Too Good To Me” is one of the most significant episodes of Baker's tumultuous life.

❝ "If you tried to give Rock n' Roll another name, you might call it Chuck Berry"

❝ Chuck Berry remains the unsurpassed icon of rock and roll: he holds the formula of this bold and dangerous alchemy, having shaped the expression and definitive language of the main instrument in such a liturgy: the electric guitar.

❝ There was a period in my life when I had only one ambition; to play like Chuck Berry

❝ You cannot own what you love and you cannot love what you own.

❝ Monk is DEEP

❝ “What do you mean by weird? They are perfectly logical chords...”

❝ How Jazz Found Itself. Through the Symphonic Poem.

❝ George Gershwin is not an artist for discography; he never wrote to create an album and sell records.

❝ The question here isn’t whether you own 'Made In Japan', but: which version do you have?

❝ The Deep Purple, then! Even though they are all more or less in their sixties, except for Steve Morse, our guys manage to rock like never before.

❝ I am "selfish," I wish that Deep Purple had stopped making records after "Perfect Stranger";

❝ Janis doesn't sing like others, she screams her need to be loved!

❝ Janis Joplin: one of the greatest "white" voices to sing "black" music (forget about Eminem...). This album was released posthumously in early 1971, a few months after Janis had already left us (she died in October '70). The album is the true masterpiece of this sad, melancholic woman, who searched for love she never found.

❝ Listening to "Pearl" is like making love with 25,000 people, savoring in the air the scent of those years, then falling asleep with Janis by your side.

❝ "\u201COrchestrion\u201D is Pat Metheny’s latest madness."

❝ "undoubtedly delivers one of the masterpieces of his decades-long career."

❝ "... a new milestone in electric guitar music... searing, soaring, twisted chords of action guitar/thought process. An incendiary work by an unpredictable master, a challenge to the challengers..."

❝ So Burnin’ was and remains, in the end, Hooker’s show—a thoroughbred, not tamed but energized by his own band.

❝ A deep and cavernous voice, raw and visceral, bold and insolent, evocative and sensual, in a word incomparable.

❝ Yes! This is truly the great John Lee Hooker!

❝ Ian Anderson and the others have not yet stopped delighting the ears of connoisseurs with their very own progressive rock, based on the extraordinary versatility of an instrument more typical of classical music than rock: the flute.

❝ And in the introduction to this album, Ian Anderson states that Wight wasn't the best concert of their lives, and I sincerely remain perplexed because both in terms of sound quality andperformance, we are at absolute levels.

❝ Under Wraps is Jethro Tull's worst album: cold, too technological, not acoustic enough, not melodic enough, and especially lacking the flute that made the band famous.

❝ If only one adjective could be used for B.O.C.'s music, I would undoubtedly use: VISIONARY.

❝ Secret Treaties will make Blue Öyster Cult appreciated even by critics.

❝ "It's the nexus of the crisis / and the origin of storms."

❝ My life's a mess, I'm waiting for you to pass by... I'm sitting here at the bar with an empty glass in hand

❝ A man who still doesn't seem to have found a minimum of inner peace and serenity.

❝ It's a fact that Townshend needs to play at least three strings at a time (that is, play rhythm) to be great.

❝ This is love, I admit it.

❝ An album composed and played in a state of grace.

❝ Reel To Real is the DNA of Simple Minds.

❝ At least that damn record still sounded like it used to.

❝ Some say they do it better than anyone else, others say they’re now pathetic, and some, like me, claim that this is the true classical music of the late twentieth century, together of course with the best jazz.

❝ This album, despite being recorded under the most terrifying conditions and remixed an indeterminate number of times, remains one of the main cornerstones of the Rolling Stones' discography.

❝ it was a band, did you know?

❝ I love you.

❝ A great man, old Greg.

❝ Brain Salad Surgery, in its vast power, in its meticulous rehearsing perfection, is in some ways a necessary evil.

❝ This album sucks. And it stinks, too.

❝ Emerson, Lake & Palmer concerts were simply overwhelming: perhaps rough, perhaps approximate, but overwhelming.

❝ Well, yes. Once again, the old bastard has fooled us all.

❝ What's this shit?

❝ My relationship with "Starless And Bible Black" is instead on another level of values, being the album that has most contributed to developing my way of perceiving music over the last twenty years.

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Charlie Christian appeared with an electric guitar, a synthesis of technological progress, and some original insights, and his example was so convincing that a few years later almost all guitarists adopted a similar instrument and began to closely follow the moves of the Afro-American prodigy originally from Texas.

❝ “At the moment, Rory Gallagher!”

❝ “Overwhelming.”

❝ “Irish Rory Gallagher has been one of the best rock-blues guitarists of all time.”

❝ "... And God was left riding the donkey, the devil is in heaven and made a nest there..."

❝ I believe this is, hands down, De André's most beautiful work and one of the highest in the Italian (and global, since it was also appreciated by a certain David Byrne) songwriting landscape.

❝ "Squeeze" is the apocryphal album of the Velvet Underground.

❝ This album is stunning, chiaroscuro and sadistic like few others.

❝ This double live album, recorded between Dallas and San Francisco, is a confession.

❝ "This is a song that was stolen from me by a girl".

❝ Aretha's voice is something unspeakable, and with the Sweet Inspirations, it's a real orgy, of notes we mean,

❝ For me, only a badass woman knows how to love and sing about love with this passion.

❝ This is it

❝ “Explorations”, recorded in 1961 in the company of Scott LaFaro and Paul Motian, is no exception, and is one of the cornerstones of Evans’ work.

❝ Miles described Evans’ style "like crystal notes or sparkling water cascading down from some clear waterfall".

❝ 53 minutes of real delight, of pure art exposed by those who know how to do art well.

❝ Beautiful cover by Hipgnosis studio.

❝ It’s difficult if not impossible to find a weak spot: the Genesis funeral is postponed indefinitely.

❝ Let’s clarify one thing right away: Orson Welles was the greatest of them all.

❝ Masterpiece. You never stop learning.

❝ He had a greatness of his own, but he kept it all to himself.

❝ “I don't even have a seed when I start playing. It's like starting from scratch. [...] Jazz is letting the light shine. Not trying to enhance it, just letting it be” (K. Jarrett).

❝ “The heart is where the music is”

❝ “relax, because I certainly cannot”

❝ “The Trouble with Harry” is a film by Alfred Hitchcock from 1955.

❝ “The Birds” is Hitchcock's metaphor for the human condition.

❝ Sabotage is a Hitchcock from '36.

❝ We’re talking about Stan Getz, that is, one of the best saxophonists in the history of jazz, and probably the best non-black one.

❝ A relaxation session for Stan Getz (no need for introductions) on sax, Laurindo Almeida (whom I don’t know, but she appreciates immensely) on guitar, George Duvivier on bass, Edison Machado, Jose Soorez, Dave Bailey on percussion, and Luiz Praga and Jose Paulo directing the Latin rhythms.

❝ In the ’80s, Getz was at the height of his maturity.

❝ “Georgia On My Mind”: simply celestial, a song that needs no comments, Ray's masterpiece

❝ There’s all the blues in this album, and that’s that.

❝ The soundtrack of this film is, just to repeat myself, fantastic.

❝ Life is strange.

❝ And that "Pink Moon" is a masterpiece, an absolute masterpiece.

❝ Bryter Layter is a very beautiful record. Perfect. The best I have ever listened to.

❝ Night is a journey to distant places that the morning light dissolves.

❝ Wayne Shorter: one of the greatest composers to have ever lived; a perfect connoisseur of traditional theory and an insatiable innovator.

❝ Technical, but not boastful.

❝ "Don't you remember anything? Well, I had already seen him in the morning in the hotel lobby... HE looked at me as he passed by, just a glance..."

❝ War is too important a matter to be left to the generals.

❝ Watch closely, brother, watch closely

❝ "My hero? Definitely Muddy Waters... I know his music well, it's sublime. I also know him personally, a true gentleman, quite the opposite of me..."

❝ From Mississippi to Chicago. A fateful move for the king of blues.

❝ In short, the electrifying energy that runs through it from start to finish, without any drop in tension.

❝ Sweet Tea is nothing but an extremely gritty, raw blues record, with nothing sweet about it.

❝ Buddy Guy this time leaves the electric guitar at home and doesn’t leave it because he forgot... quite the opposite... he leaves it because this time he doesn’t need it, this time a good acoustic guitar and a good microphone are enough and more to create yet another great blues masterpiece.

❝ How many guitar styles this artist has influenced is impossible to say, but it is worth remembering how a great like Eric Clapton said that his career as a musician was strongly influenced by him.

❝ Ornette Coleman had the idea to remove the shackles from jazz once and for all.

❝ I say there is no ‘right’ way to play jazz.

❝ An aesthetic adventure, that's free jazz.

❝ Bob Marley is an example of how music can sometimes transcend its limits, exempting from any merely technical and evaluative considerations, and move beyond the confines of purely artistic discourse.

❝ FIGATA (!*) RASTAFARI!!!

❝ Union. Fusion. Liberation.

❝ I hate Quincy Jones…

❝ His voice, an instrument to be played, vocalizations that imitated the solos of his guitar, to become one with it, sometimes hard to distinguish.

❝ It is, in fact, a very pleasant album from start to finish, a delicate, sometimes gentle album, in which Mike Stern, while being in the forefront with his guitar, showcases his great talent without exceeding in unnecessary protagonism and deplorable mannerisms.

❝ and above all, a “Moodswings” to die for.

❝ The record is beautiful; as mentioned, the tracks follow one another without straining the ear, which luxuriates in the cascade of scales, arpeggios, and patterns played almost in a whisper, with the rhythmic accompaniment wisely reduced to the essential.

❝ Five hours of which not even a millisecond can be thrown away.

❝ Ladies and Gentlemen,
Fellow Americans,
Lady Americans,
This is James Brown,
I wanna talk to You about one of our most deadly killers in the country today...

❝ Pure adrenaline. Ten minutes of animal power, without a moment’s pause.

❝ Her tormented tone and her ability on the piano led her to her thirteenth album at only 30 years old.

❝ After a first track of vocals alone that flows majestically like a mass, here's the masterpiece, the song that made me dance and sweat with passion: "Four Women," simply a precious little lace made with love between the thighs of a Mississippi peasant woman.

❝ The voice and the piano as the only ingredients for a work that documents a traumatic period in the life of the 'High Priestess of Soul'.

❝ Now I know that the vibrato is a distorted guitar, that the voice is Joe Cocker's, and the song, signed by the Lennon-McCartney duo, “She Came In Through The Bathroom Window,” but the knowledge doesn't change the outcome: I can't help but follow the voice in awe, shaking, according to the place I'm in, the shakeable.

❝ A goosebump-inducing song, like the subsequent “Cry Me a River”

❝ In my opinion, “With A Little Help From My Friends” can calmly be included among the 10 most important and influential albums of the Woodstock generation. A record to own.

❝ If a bunch of music critics got together, watched, selected, evaluated, left the room, and said, "Ladies and gentlemen, this is the best rock music performance of all time," then there is clearly a reason.

❝ Your life is your own You're in charge of yourself Master of your home In the end In the end You have to face it alone

❝ "A night at the Opera" is Queen's masterpiece.

❝ “If Oscar Wilde had ever founded a rock band, it would probably be very similar to Roxy Music.”

❝ “For Your Pleasure is an alchemical work where the High meets the Low and lead transforms into gold.”

❝ “Among the best live performances of the era. A must-have!”

❝ “Who the hell is that guitarist?!”

❝ “Many times their fame is overshadowed by the great “giants” of English rock of the period like Zeppelin, Purple, or Sabbath, but Ten Years After, led by the great and unfortunately recently deceased Alvin Lee, the “Fastest Guitar in Rock 'n Roll”, are absolutely no less in terms of skill and spectacle, and this double album is the most sincere testament to that.”

❝ “This is essentially the band’s most original work, perhaps also the most refined, and (needless to say) misunderstood by most fans at the time.”

❝ An album that truly borders on (if not reaches) formal and stylistic perfection.

❝ Can a voice say more than just words alone? Yes, and evidently this album is proof of that.

❝ Otis Redding, the king of soul music. A legend.

❝ “The Lynyrd Skynyrd that once were will never exist again.”

❝ “Music is all we have and know. If it hadn't been for rock'n'roll, we would have gone to pick cotton.”

❝ “Don't tell me nonsense. You know it. You know it better than I do. Even the stones know it. Lynyrd Skynyrd has not existed since 1977.”

❝ Many know the Free only for their worldwide hit “All Right Now”, and it's a real shame.

❝ A roaring boom greets a random note, an almost intimidated "Hello" and one of the most famous riffs of the '70s.

❝ All Right Now - an extraordinary piece, with incredible drive, with a sharp and indelible riff, very current, undoubtedly the emblematic track of Free and a true generational anthem.

❝ “Watch us, girl, we’re staying up all night destroying our love. Aren’t we the same two people who went through dark years?”

❝ “On a dark desert highway, cool wind in my hair...”

❝ “when Hell freezes over”

❝ "This is dog shit!"

❝ Did you see that drive, that groove?

❝ If you don't know him (is that possible?), listen to these recordings and the primal howl of Mr. Wolf; I assure you, it will never leave you.

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Isn't a drawbridge an allegory of life? You cross it and everything goes smoothly. You reach the other shore.

❝ An exclamation point can sometimes really make a difference.

❝ Alongside the renowned "Marquee Moon," "77," "Suicide," "Pink Flag," "Horses," "Modern Dance," "Are We Not Men," "First Issue," "Unknown Pleasures," "Buy Contortions," "Killing Joke," this magical "Ultravox!" deserves a place in the showcase of dazzling debuts that changed the course of alternative rock, founding the various "new waves" in the late '70s.

❝ "This means nothing to me," a phrase shouted with all the breath Ure has in his body and soul, for those who can listen to it, it has the same effect as a stab, of something now lost and what is sadder than the end of something?

❝ The myth of Danae has been used over the centuries to bypass ecclesiastical censorship and depict seduction and sensuality.

❝ The Sophisticated Giant: what better definition for the tall, slender, and elegant tenor saxophonist Dexter Gordon.

❝ "Our Man In Paris" is a little gem of seven tracks recorded in Paris in 1963.

❝ Produced by the legendary Alfred Lion, founder of Blue Note, it is considered one of the most important Jazz albums in jazz history.

❝ It's hard to separate the name of Procol Harum from the song that made them popular worldwide back in 1967, namely "A Whiter Shade of Pale"...

❝ A refined and elegant work, standing among the very first albums of progressive, then still in the womb of the groups that were giving birth to it, including Procol Harum.

❝ It is an unjustly overlooked work, which I consider worthy of a well-visible place among the usual titles reviewed here at the pace of a mushroom cultivation.

❝ The Animals revived the old black tradition and gave it a sound slap to free it from austerity and academic formalities (namely, the ills that have plagued the genre, sometimes relegating it to cocktail music, although fortunately a good part of it continued to carry forward its visceral nature).

❝ A band of true rock blues purists, on par with the contemporary Rolling Stones, with a singer like Eric Burdon whose intense singing style would also inspire other subsequent rockers like Jim Morrison and Joe Cocker.

❝ If we go back to the sixty years of the "British Invasion", when many were singing the blues, no white singer had a soul as black as Eric Burdon;

❝ The alternation between Petrucciani’s ever-emotional piano and Miller's precise bass pulse is, in fact, a real pleasure, as are Garrett's sax forays.

❝ M2, an album released in 2001, winner of a Grammy award, represents the pinnacle of Miller's most mature and prolific phase;

❝ This album represents everything that is Miller's music, it is and remains his most beautiful record, and it is certainly one of the greatest fusion releases ever.

❝ “Duane told me he needed me to keep the band in line and write some songs. It was the best compliment my brother ever gave me.” (Greg Allman)

❝ Whiskey instead of LSD.

❝ Do you want The Allman Brothers Band with the original line-up and at their peak? Well, this is the album for you!!!

❝ "Brief compendium in 13 lessons of predominantly black-origin musical genres, curated and played by strictly white British musicians".

❝ It manages to hold together something that may escape those who do not know English or do not have the lyrics at hand: catchy melodies, never taken for granted, sophisticated in some cases, which, however, have come to terms with the punk tabula rasa, and committed lyrics, explicit, strongly political, in the best sense of the word.

❝ An overtly political album, decidedly correct. Still today, Our Favourite Album by the Style Council.

❝ Probably, Thin Lizzy is the most underrated band in the great rock landscape of the seventies, overshadowed by the quadrumvirate Zeppelin/Purple/Sabbath/Uriah Heep that reigned supreme among the fans of Albion.

❝ Thin Lizzy: arguably the most underrated band of all time.

❝ This Black Rose: A Rock Legend, from ’79, is seen by many as the swan song, the last noteworthy one before the personal problems of the individual musicians engulfed everything.

❝ For a good five years, Supertramp didn't miss a beat and were the Lords of Pop. Maximum respect.

❝ A decisive push in this direction came from an album in the latter half of the decade, which represents, along with Michael Jackson's "Thriller", the aforementioned "Dark Side", and a few others, the perfect blend between commercially and artistically valid: "Breakfast in America" by Supertramp.

❝ Who knows why certain bands, although deserving from an artistic point of view, after years no one pays attention to them anymore. They simply disappear.

❝ An absolutely perfect song.

❝ Absolute perfection. Both in form and content.

❝ The Police are unparalleled live" – wrote "Billboard" commenting on the VHS.

❝ Legendary 70s British rock band, Bad Company are recognized as the inventors of AOR.

❝ What more can be said about Bad Company... nothing, it bears repeating: a voice of unique beauty, agility, and masculinity; three or four ideas per song, no more, but often more than meaningful; gorgeous guitar sounds, not a note more than necessary according to the blessed “less is more” rule; rhythm section on the same wavelength, powerful yet economical, not a single extra note, not even under torture. Minimalists, subtractive.

❝ “Rough Diamonds” is an incredibly banal album, stereotypical and devoid of any convincing idea...

❝ “Spirit Of Eden” is a rarefied poetry of the soul....

❝ The Talk Talk are one of the mysteries of the 80s.

❝ A masterpiece built through the dripping and polychrome layering of sound bands, an uncircumscribable radical jazz-rock work, with vocal melodies no longer tangible, yet so intimate and intertwined with the human soul.

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This is the first album that absolutely puts the electric guitar at the center of attention, a forerunner of works of the caliber of Are You Experienced and Texas Flood, to name a few, and a precursor of genres and trends that would prevail for over a decade.

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Much, much honor and respect for them, history of rock.

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The Yardbirds were incredible.