Best band of the seventies secondo DeBaser.

❝ 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.

❝ "Led Zeppelin? What's that?"

❝ "Best Band, Ever"

❝ 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.

❝ 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

❝ 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.

❝ 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.

❝ 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.

❝ 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";

❝ It goes without saying that it is a desert island record and a must-have at all costs.

❝ The sound is the rhythm, and the rhythm is the sound.

❝ Laughing to avoid crying, this is "Fear Of Music."

❝ With Chairs Missing, New Wave begins to define itself and come of age.

❝ Watershed masterpiece, symbol of the transition from the '70s to the '80s, manifesto of postpunk, 154 makes it clear once and for all that there would no longer be room for the sonic self-indulgence of progressive and that hard rock had given everything

❝ The Wire of 2003 are a band 20 years ahead, the Wire of 1979 were a band 20 years ahead, the Wire are one of the most ingenious bands ever, elegant, menacing, dark and furious:

❝ 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.

❝ It was supposed to be a messed-up evening.

❝ GENNAIO!!!!! Damn, GENNAIOOOOO!

❝ I won’t say more because this record must simply be listened to.

❝ “Give Ireland Back To The Irish”, never had such violent words come from Paul’s pen.

❝ But what the Wings recorded in a single recording session in ’78 is their masterpiece, and it’s truly a shame that it hasn’t been released.

❝ Macca’s idea is, we must say, genius.

❝ The sound is completely smeared with dirty slime, muddied with dark substances, and covered by a gloomy imaginary.

❝ Peter Hammill is, in my opinion, one of the greatest geniuses of world prog music

❝ Gentlemen, this is truly the pinnacle of progressive.

❝ 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."

❝ 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.

❝ “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.”

❝ “The Neu! would have changed rock 'n' roll even if they had broken up immediately after recording the first track of their first album (Hallogallo)” Julian Cope.

❝ “Neu!2”, wonderfully failed records.

❝ This is the first case of a remix in the history of music.

❝ A penguin magically in balance, between joyful melancholy and melancholic cheerfulness.

❝ In an almost soundtrack of themselves, the Penguin Cafe Orchestra navigates in a pastoral chamber sound.

❝ The first penguin is never forgotten...

❝ “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!”

❝ An immortal album, considered by many to be the masterpiece of the '70s progressive scene, something no one will ever be able to match in ideas and creativity.

❝ It represents a unique sound document of great artistic value

❝ Area was a group that made music, Demetrio was also an instrument of the group besides being a singer who at that moment brought the word through the lyrics.

❝ “Delay” is the great lost album of Can.

❝ “Packaged at the Inner Space facilities in Cologne (Germany) in 1972.”

❝ The perfect album.

❝ 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.

❝ “One of the things I am most proud of, in my heart, is that Black Sabbath was not created by any big shot... we were four losers who wanted to try to make a dream come true, which ultimately did, exceeding all expectations.”

❝ Black Sabbath practically invented heavy metal out of nothing.

❝ We were not hippies, and we hated the hippies

❝ Undoubtedly, the Gentle Giant can boast of being prog 100%, like almost no other band, from the beginning to the end of their career, which ended in 1980 for reasons of coherence, as they were reluctant to steer towards other musical genres just to remain in the public’s sphere of interest.

❝ Guys, do yourselves a favor, buy this album. It’s worth it.

❝ if I had to choose an album that encapsulates all the best features of progressive music without any negative side, without hesitation I’d choose Octopus by Gentle Giant. A milestone.

❝ "On the Beach" is Neil Young's masterpiece: the work in which the threads of his aesthetics magically converge, through an astonishing sonic alchemy.

❝ Le Noise should be listened to at night when darkness takes over your sight and you remain solitary with your doubts and thoughts.

❝ An epochal record, essential for every rock music enthusiast who doesn't already have the dozen-plus albums on their shelf from which these songs are taken.

❝ And here is the young John McLaughlin, having separated from Davis, forming with the great and energetic Billy Cobham what is perhaps the main fusion group of the 70s, the Mahavishnu Orchestra.

❝ the Orchestra was truly a war machine, very powerful and fiery, and here you can feel all their impact on stage.

❝ “Apocalypse” cannot be called the band's best record, but it remains a highly recommended, intriguing work that can be savored for the great and warm mastery of McLaughlin and company and for the great and positive symphonic openings that often illuminate and temper the typical sharpness of the jazz rock of the Mahavishnu.

❝ To wash your hands of the conflict, between the powerful and the powerless, means you are taking sides with the oppressors

❝ Capitalism is the most barbaric of all religions

❝ Sole definition: Milestone.

❝ And Abba know how to compose a chorus. These guys know what they’re doing. They know how to build a song.

❝ it is an album that essentially celebrates the era of discos, warm and carefree nights.

❝ Listening, savoring every single note of this record has the same rejuvenating effect as a cool shower after a hot, sticky day

❝ Fast, violent, and direct.

❝ It's the only single by the band to reach number one. (...and I could already put an end to my writing today).

❝ discovering the Clash at 16 is like... discovering the Clash at 16, period.

❝ It is bigger than me, it's as if God picked up the guitar and said: "Ok, now shut up and listen".

❝ "A soap opera in vinyl" Buckingham himself cleverly called it

❝ “Tusk” is a punk record, did you know?

❝ 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...

❝ Thus "Third" is born, a superb monument of experimental music and the entire art of the Twentieth century, a swan herald of a sudden dawn, a rainbow framing an autumn sunset, a blazing comet in boundless skies.

❝ "Playing now is lovely here in the BBC"

❝ Hang your ears on the handles of your umbrellas, you will be hit by a rain of electric and reckless sounds!!

❝ 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.

❝ I had always imagined it so desperate.

❝ This album is an enormous joke.

❝ I, without ifs and buts, consider it noise.

❝ "It's Alive", the double album that captures the concert held by the Ramones at the Rainbow Theatre in London on December 31, 1977, is the greatest live album in the history of rock’n’roll.

❝ The Ramones: 2263 concerts in over 22 years of career that established them as the greatest punk band of all time.

❝ 2,263 concerts in 8,165 days, one concert every four days.

❝ 'Exit... Stage Left' is their second double live album and the best record ever made by the boys from Toronto, and I’m categorical about that.

❝ One of the most underrated rock albums is the right definition for 'Caress of Steel'.

❝ The Canadian band Rush is a trio with undeniable technical and compositional skills, and in this excellent 1988 live album, they provide a brilliant demonstration of them.

❝ Am I a pirate, am I a gentleman? Or am I just an old senile fool? Please, don't be mean.

❝ If human thought had a sound to represent it, perhaps it would be this.

❝ Modern sonic contamination? Brian Eno and David Byrne!

❝ Glen Sweeney, drummer and percussionist, is the founder of the English group Third Ear Band; in the line-up are Paul Minns, oboist and flautist, Richard Coff, violinist, and Mel Davis, cellist.

❝ Instrumental pieces where free improvisation reigned almost unchallenged and could be fully appreciated only if received through the "third ear," a symbol of our deepest and most ancestral essence...

❝ In this self-titled album (also known as "Elements" due to the track names), even more so than on the previous "Alchemy," the band's (perfectly achieved) intention is to envelop the listener in a state of "tropical" tranquility...

❝ Without any shadow of a doubt, one of the masterpieces of the American new wave and the entire history of rock, certainly to be counted among the most important and influential albums of all time.

❝ Main protagonists alongside the Patti Smith Group, Talking Heads, and the Ramones of the American new wave of the mid-'70s, Television was part of that great New York rock season centered around CBGB’s, which saw an explosion of talent like never seen before.

❝ Built on brazen rhythms, clear melodies, obsessive guitar arpeggios, and subtle vocals, the songs of Marquee Moon possess such uncontrolled charm expressed in this phrase: few resources but many ideas.

❝ 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.

❝ A MUST not just for PROG-METAL enthusiasts but for all lovers of great music.

❝ Undoubtedly a little gem. However, the band will not succeed and will disband. S. House will later join Hawkwind.

❝ Guys, this is truly a gem of prog! Those who haven't should go out and buy it immediately!

❝ After listening to this album, you will remain silent for 1 minute to absorb it. And then only the following exclamation will come from your mouth: “MIIIINCHIA!”

❝ From start to finish, the record presents itself as an exhausting cavalcade through hard rock, blues, and boogie, all played even more crudely than in any previous work by the band.

❝ Pump is the second of Aerosmith's three "Big Ones," the three jewels of the veteran Boston band's discography.

❝ "We do not belong to anyone, we are a well-organized form of anarchy, like music, after all, a well-organized form of noise" (Ralf Hutter).

❝ Autobahn is a masterpiece, pure as spring water.

❝ “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”

❝ The sound of The Fall is dark, skewed, aggressive, syncopated, hallucinatory, schizophrenic.

❝ The Fall's tracks are the same from beginning to end: as they begin, they continue and end. They could go on indefinitely: they are the image of a state of affairs impossible to change.

❝ This means that from that moment on, anyone retracing those paths would draw from the production of these incredible formations;

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You’re not worthy of reading such a masterpiece, square.

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This is rock in its purest essence, ladies and gentlemen.

❝ “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”

❝ “Nobody knows / if it really happened.”

❝ “Are we supposed to be or not to be..”

❝ “Going places, smashing faces / What else could we do?”

❝ Strangers in the Night is one of the 10 best hard rock live albums of all time.

❝ One of the most explosive live albums in rock history.

❝ It’s 1977 and UFO reaches the pinnacle of a prodigious ascent, to be followed by the praiseworthy “Obsession” and the memorable live “Strangers in the Night”.

❝ 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.

❝ We should all remain silent.

❝ Yoga is not an album that strikes immediately, but over time it has achieved a cult status among fans of the German group and Eastern philosophies.

❝ Hey you… Yes you. Look at yourself in the mirror.

❝ A man, a name, a voice, Roger Chapman. I consider him, in the international music scene of those years, second only to Tim Buckley.

❝ A great and forgotten ensemble was the Family, who possessed great qualities increasingly rare in the years to come: imagination, instrumental talent, emotionality.

❝ Chappo’s throat gargles like a teapot boiling full of nails and bolts.

❝ Hawkwind's songs are perpetual motion sonic magma.

❝ In a word: House brought "order" where there was chaos before.

❝ What a CD you missed, what a fool you are.

❝ "Dove...Quando... was a small personal mantra that I sang to myself. I felt like it was about me, even if I didn't exactly know why. Today I know. That serene princess was poetry in its first appearance. Singing it was my way of welcoming it."

❝ An album that, relying on already-tested tracks, acts as an elegant passe-partout (oooppss) towards the English and American markets with supremely competitive material, to which even Melody Maker and Billboard could do nothing but bow in front of what was and surely remains the crowning jewel of the first example of export rock Made in Italy.

❝ This characteristic, combined with an apparently inexhaustible compositional vein, leads me to think that this is their absolute masterpiece.

❝ "Main Course" is an album that satisfies everyone, fans of the Bee Gees from the late '60s as well as admirers of the disco period, and it is simply one of the most important and influential albums in pop history: incontrovertible, impossible to deny.

❝ Even while continuing to produce excellent albums in the following years, the Gibb brothers would never again reach such heights: this album imbued with style, inspiration, elegance, and creativity will remain the most precious gem of their career, as well as one of the greatest masterpieces of pop music, even ahead of the Beatles' "Abbey Road" and the Kinks' "Village Green Preservation Society".

❝ My first memories, instead, are of that open hi-hat on the upbeat, and the guitar riff of Stayin' Alive.

❝ As their leader, Daevid Allen, said,
“a band that too few people love too much”.

❝ Suppose you are a brilliant personality, unconventional, an unabashed fan of more or less heavy drugs, but above all, suppose that you have contemplated a project that no one before had ever approached: summarizing EVERYTHING in three albums.

❝ Banana Nirvana Manana!

❝ If God had recorded an album, it would have been Pet Sounds.

❝ Smiley Smile is precisely the collection of the few published fragments of Smile.

❝ Published in 1971, "Surf's Up" is the last decent work of a group now divided by internal dissensions and the slow, inexorable mental deterioration of Brian Wilson.

❝ This is rock’n’roll!

❝ These gentlemen are the Stooges: take or leave, hate or love, ignore or listen.

❝ it's over for everyone else, there’s no more room for anyone.

❝ Cold Spring Harbor is Billy Joel's primary work, a gifted pianist strongly influenced by classical music, who silently enters the American pop/rock scene of the early '70s, offering right from the start an author's piano-rock with a nod to pop melodies.

❝ Even though Billy Joel's artistic life now seems anchored in the past (Joel has not released a pop album since the distant 1993, the year the successful "River Of Dreams" came out)

❝ "The Bridge" is not a masterpiece but only another good Joel album

❝ “I’m just an American artist.”

❝ “Horses” is not just what many have called “the sword that cut the destiny of rock in two”.

❝ “People have the Power”!

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The Strawbs had revolutionized the line-up to such an extent that only Dave Cousins remained to represent the original core, as well as the undisputed leader in all incarnations of the band.

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I confess that after the newly renewed listening experiences with the Strawbs, I’m a bit afraid to put it on the turntable.

❝ Having said that «Flamingo», from the first time I put the needle on the vinyl up to today, for me, it is the Groovies' most beautiful album, it remains to say something about what's inside.

❝ Precisely to be once more against the trend, "Shake Some Action" is a manifesto of power pop-rock so clean it smells like freshly done laundry, thus re-establishing a deep connection with the Byrds of "Younger Than Yesterday".

❝ «Now» is the twin of «Shake Some Action», but for some freak of nature, it arrived two years late, so it's the junior.

❝ “I Am The Cosmos” is his posthumous album, released in 1992 thanks to the stubbornness of his brother and all who have tenaciously cultivated the cult of the Great Star.

❝ I don't know what else to say except: MASTERPIECE!!! BUY IT!

❝ This work, predominantly built on brilliant but deliberately disordered medieval metrics, represents the possibility of dazzling any musical score that a normal staff could contain.

❝ Indisputably, Out of the Coma is a welcome and unmissable return for all the devotees of this great and influential band that resurfaces from oblivion with a renewed and mad artistic charge.

❝ Are you kidding?

❝ The Big Star are an archetype in the history of rock.

❝ The most refined pop record of all time was written in 1974 but only released in 1978, marking the end of Alex Chilton's Big Star adventure.

❝ Big Star and this pair of albums became cult classics almost immediately after being largely ignored commercially, a kind of 1970s Velvet Underground.

❝ A relatively little-known band, awarded far below their real merits.

❝ This sonic fluid is sap for attentive brains; a unique album that rediscovers itself, and you, every time.

❝ Solar Plexus, an excellent album entirely permeated with jazz rock/fusion with sporadic experimental elements ("Elements I & II"), is the third (master)piece by the British band Nucleus.

❝ 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.

❝ It's undeniable that a work of this kind can divide the Zeppelin nostalgics, but quite frankly, I find it hard for a rock music enthusiast to honestly claim that this is not a good album.

❝ A pity, because "In Your Face" is a firm and valid album, Zeppelinesque but no more than many others, with good songwriting, powerful and tube-driven sounds, irresistibly vintage.

❝ “Too” is a grandiose hard rock album, in the dramatic/melancholic style of the “fall of the gods”, filled with beautiful melodic ideas, with a brilliant management of rhythm guitars, few and minor concessions to solos, simple yet granite rhythmic push, meowing and characteristic lead voice.

❝ ...lamentations of guitars, wrongly suspected, softly sighed...

❝ Why do you want to disturb me if I might be dreaming of a winged journey on a wheel-less cart pulled by mistral horses, in the mistral... flying.

❝ releases one of the most beautiful prog albums ever on the national scene.

❝ It's 1970, Black Sabbath gives birth to their first self-titled album, Deep Purple releases In Rock, Led Zeppelin III, so it's normal for excellent works like May Blitz to be sidelined and forgotten in the face of such musical and creative fervor.

❝ in their productions, easy-listening has truly been elevated to an art form.

❝ Their sound is crystal clear, clean, polished to a shine.

❝ And they call it “Easy listening”...

❝ with this album have to put it mildly CREATED glam.

❝ The Slider is the apotheosis of his music

❝ “I am my own fantasy,” he said, constantly moving from one space of illusion to another.

❝ “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.”

❝ First of all, it was a DEMO of ideas and sketches thrown down by Manson with the acoustic guitar and little else, in a home studio with a single take, only one microphone pointed, and tapes that in the desert (where they were brought since Manson lived there) got quite damaged. The quality, therefore, is that of a DEMO. Do not expect anything more.

❝ After being responsible for the Bel Air massacre, Charles Manson, evidently unsatisfied, decides to kill music as well.

❝ “If you will suck my soul I will lick your funky emotion”

❝ "I have to rise above it all or drown in my own shit"

❝ "Funk is everything you need at any moment... Funk is really all music."

❝ One of the most beautiful albums of the 60s.

❝ The music of Traffic is one that makes you feel good about yourself.

❝ This masterpiece, to which no one would give 35 years, was born during yet another reunion of a band with a short and troubled history, full of breakups, departures, and reunions, and yet capable of leaving a beautiful mark in the history of music.

❝ They’ve been in the same formation for over fifty years, damn: maximum respect.

❝ "Eliminator" is the eighth studio album by the Texan trio ZZ Top, and their most known and appreciated work.

❝ Long beards.

❝ Born from the ashes of Rocket From The Tombs, the Dead Boys captured worldwide attention with their debut album: "Young, Loud And Snotty," a work dated 1977.

❝ Sonic Reducer, which opens the album, can undoubtedly be considered one of the classics of this genre, alongside Anarchy in the UK by the Pistols.

❝ I love Pere Ubu! I think everyone should love Pere Ubu as much as I do!

❝ How to slap technology without experiencing a deep sense of bewilderment and fear.

❝ The modern dance of Pere Ubu takes on obscene and dark connotations, its sole purpose is to delve into the human soul to bring to the surface its fears, its delusions, and its perversions:

❝ 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.

❝ In 1969, Pink Fairies was born, a group formed by the union of four musicians who were part of the London underground: guitarist and singer Paul Rudolph, bassist and vocalist Duncan Sanderson, and drummer Russel Hunter, who had played together in the Deviants, and another drummer, Twink, formerly of the Pretty Things.

❝ The opening is entrusted to the blistering "City Kids", a tectonic riff that recalls Steppenwolf but with a ragged singing that folks like Strummer would bring to worldwide attention a few years later.

❝ Well, in this work the Pink Fairies are still Pink and they are still Fairies, they have just slightly reduced the thickness of the abrasive paper, avoiding causing those ugly abrasions that we, incurable masochists, love so much.

❝ That same evening, the four of them meet at the Record Plant Studios in Los Angeles, and they record it live in a couple of takes.

❝ That year, the four were engaged in the triumphant tour supporting “Déjà Vu”, from which “Four Way Street” is taken, probably the most famous live album in the history of rock.

❝ Ten timeless pearls fixed in time.

❝ It's difficult to establish whether they invented British folk rock, but without a doubt, they were among the greatest exponents of that genre.

❝ "Unhalfbricking" is a quiet revolution, stillyoung and carefree, full of compromises and slight imperfections.

❝ With such premises, one might expect an inevitable drifting of the ensemble, orphaned of two personalities of such caliber; however, the remaining members prove everyone wrong by releasing this "Full House," whose music maintains a vertiginous level of quality, with nothing to envy from its illustrious predecessor.

❝ It’s a bastard R&R, subway style, that of the Heartbreakers. Johnny Thunders and Richard Hell are at their creative peak.

❝ Le Orme should be considered as one of the greatest Italian rock bands of all time.

❝ Are Le Orme no longer the fantastic trio Collage–Uomo Di Pezza–Felona e Sorona? Who cares!

❝ the four present themselves as a small orchestra in Piazza San Marco

❝ In thirty-one minutes, history is written; one of the most violent, sick, and insane albums of all time is given to posterity.

❝ "Frankie Teardrop" is the nightmare in music.

❝ Suicide is dangerous and avant-garde even today: they have always built all their songs on a single sequencer loop on which the voice à la Elvis on crack, like a devastated crooner, reverberated and blasted into a thousand in Vega's chorus and delay, always upfront, straight in your face, painting spectral and apocalyptic landscapes.

❝ “The case of Devo is singular.”

❝ “Shout”, released at the end of 1984, marks the true beginning of the end for Devo.

❝ “You might say: Oh, no! It's Muzak!”

❝ “We saw the Stooges and the MC5 – drove themselves insane alive”

❝ If music were mathematics, the equation would be: Radio Birdman are superior to 80% of all existing bands, "Living Eyes" is less successful than the striking debut "Radios Appear", so it's better than 70% of the music you hear around.

❝ Yes, indeed, it’s the EP «Burn My Eye» which in 1976 brought Radio Birdman to prominence.

❝ Sometimes even machines cry...

❝ With this (non) review, I would like to (re)invite you, without too much chatter, to listen to this immense (and underappreciated) 70s Prog masterpiece, conceived by a one-of-a-kind band that undoubtedly deserved greater attention.

❝ And right now... right now... right now it's time to... kick out the jams, motherfuckers!!!!!!

❝ Recorded live in 1968 (on Halloween night) at the Grande Ballroom...

❝ So far, dear friends, my enthusiasm in pointing out the extraordinary treasures bequeathed by the musical culture of the past century has not waned.

❝ Amon Düul II. Eh, not easy to talk about. A huge, multicolored, shapeshifting, indefinable, free group. Virulently free.

❝ "Tanz Der Lemminge" (1971), the third and final part of an unrivaled "triptych" (with "Phallus Dei" and "Yeti"), is an inexhaustible source of ideas and innovations, contaminations, a milestone of rock overall.

❝ The Amon Düul II had the intuition to merge American psychedelia with Stockhausen, and the result is epic, dark, pagan, and completely insane yet, at the same time, original and musical, unlike the senseless sessions of their little brothers, Amon Düul.

❝ Folk between rigorous Anglo-American tradition and jazz experimentation: this is Cruel Sister (1960), the fourth album by Pentangle, founded in 1967 by the Scotsman Bert Jansch and the Englishman John Renbourn, to which the extraordinary vocalist Jaqui McShee and jazz musicians Danny Thompson and Terry Cox would join.

❝ what these five Britons proposed was truly something INIMITABLE.

❝ Here, McShee’s voice becomes a "flute," poignant, sweet, and melancholic, the arrangement of the guitars is elegantly perfect, a timid flute duets without ever being intrusive with the voice, the double bass provides solidity and depth.

❝ I believe that Clannad doesn’t need much introduction, and since there isn’t a single review on DeBaser (how many gaps are there?) of this legendary and fantastic Irish group, it is a great honor for me to pave the way; adjectives are not enough to define such an extraordinary band.

❝ A pity, since they were, despite their short lifespan, the best rock band of all time.

❝ The Pistols never sounded so abrasive.

❝ Unhinged, irreverent, uncomfortable, and annoying... In short, fundamental.

❝ New York, after the Velvet Underground and before punk.

❝ Sometimes They Come Back.