Best artist of the eighties secondo DeBaser.

❝ "\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..."

❝ “My name is John Francis Pastorius III and I am the greatest bass player in the world.”

❝ “I don't need that stuff, man, I'm already high on my own.”

❝ “Beware of imitations.”

❝ 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.

❝ “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.

❝ 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.

❝ Over these 60 years, countless artists have tied their image to the Telecaster, just think of Muddy Waters, Bruce Springsteen, Keith Richards, true music legends, but only one has earned the title of "Master of the Telecaster": Albert Collins.

❝ 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.

❝ The essence of New Order is here, along with the origins of much of the music produced in recent years.

❝ Fuck U2, this is New Order!

❝ Dance, dance, otherwise we are lost!

❝ The historic meeting between two legends of electric blues, an unmissable album, an unforgettable jam session, an extraordinary and unfortunately unrepeatable event... all this and much more in this wonderful CD/DVD that is absolutely unmissable for anyone who loves blues and good music.

❝ Albert King: one of the most important and influential bluesmen of all time, perhaps always a bit overshadowed by the rivalry with his coeval friend B.B. King, but certainly not less important than the great "Blues Boy";

❝ The godfather of electric Blues, ladies and gentlemen, Albert King.

❝ 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.

❝ "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.

❝ 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.

❝ If your limbs don’t move while listening, it means you’re dead and you haven’t noticed.

❝ To be listened to strictly at night, "Nightporter" is one of the most beautiful and intimate songs I have ever heard.

❝ The rhythm was defined, elevated by the magnificent funky bass lines, precise and round, of Mick Karn, a soft rubber ball bouncing sinuously between the walls in the listener’s room.

❝ 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.

❝ “Neither jazz, nor rock, nor jazz-rock, fusion, cross-over, or other useless and banal labels, these are the Weather Report, theirs is the music of the Weather Report.”

❝ “‘This is the baddest shit on the planet!’ said Joe Zawinul when, at CBS, he heard the lacquer of the record before it went to print.”

❝ “this record is a piece of music that one MUST absolutely own.”

❝ He is a king without a crown.

❝ The trumpeter Freddie Hubbard is an authentic Proteus of jazz, thanks to his indescribable ability to adapt to the most diverse musical contexts and instantly overcome enormous stylistic differences between his temporary collaborators.

❝ An album to buy, to give due recognition to Tina Brooks's talent and, above all, to confirm that of Freddie Hubbard, one of the most brilliant talents ever seen on the face of the earth.

❝ 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."

❝ 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?

❝ Every moment of this "Nocturne" (2001) is the product of a perfectly successful fusion between jazz technique and Latin creativity, in this case Cuban and Mexican.

❝ A metaphorically perfect record.

❝ A mesmerizing record.

❝ 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

❝ and when Tom puts his heart into something, you simply cannot be disappointed.

❝ The opening "The Waiting" is one of the great songs that Our Hero has written in his thirty-year career.

❝ High-level music, consistency, quality: all of this is Tom Petty.

❝ Stuart Adamson died by suicide in a hotel room in Honolulu.

❝ What can I say, sweaty, voiceless and happy, one hour and forty-five minutes of jubilation.

❝ The critics coined the term “bagpipe rock” to describe it.

❝ Every sound naturally flows into the next with no conceivable alternative. Everything is exactly as it should be.

❝ Reni was wanted by the Who.

❝ Second Coming is considered by many critics to be a poor album, perhaps because it's compared to the famous and successful debut album.

❝ Vangelis is the prototype of a complete musical genius: an eclectic composer, arranger, multi-instrumentalist, producer, and successful author.

❝ Great film, splendid soundtrack.

❝ This is a peculiar album in Vangelis's discography: curiously released on Deutsche Grammophon, one of the world's most prestigious classical music labels.

❝ 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.

❝ Daydream Nation is a masterpiece. Without a doubt.

❝ This is "Confusion Is Sex". An aural assault.

❝ Youth against time!

❝ 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.

❝ A masterpiece. There's no more suitable word to describe this album, which includes some of the songs that have made rock history and still know how to move us today.

❝ Journey are the pioneers, the founders of AOR.

❝ Thus, this is a record for only completists, die-hard fans, and the curious.

❝ 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.

❝ “Rattus Norvegicus” is not a record for punk lovers, but for those who love pure rock!

❝ The Raven is the fourth chapter in the career of these four Englishmen and also represents their masterpiece.

❝ This is one of the most beautiful songs of all time.

❝ An absolutely perfect song.

❝ Absolute perfection. Both in form and content.

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

❝ Marillion delivers it in 1985 with "Misplaced Childhood," a concept album based on broken love stories and lost childhoods.

❝ One of the greatest masterpieces in the history of progressive.

❝ Marillion have returned to prog, it's not the early days of "Script for a Jester Tear" or "Fugazi"...it's something different, something no one had done before,

❝ Yes, okay, I know, Toto is one of those bands labeled as "either you love them or you hate them" or "great musicians, but the albums aren't that great," but I'll try to describe them anyway, because between loving them and hating them, I love them.

❝ I find the rumor that Toto is a group of hired and obsequious studio musicians unbearable.

❝ If Toto are (rightly) considered a radio band, one cannot say the same when discussing their quality.

❝ 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.

❝ 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.

❝ the famous Here Comes The Rain Again, one of the trademarks of Eurythmics, is a genuine jewel of midtempo synth-ambient of effervescent avant-garde introspection,

❝ This album has everything and more of the best '80s radio rock and, at first listen, it almost seems like the small ensemble is having fun (and joking) as they delve into a musical genre already tried in all its sauces (and the grunge myth was yet to explode...)

❝ "Julia" is a small masterpiece, poignant and refined, almost in contrast to the other tracks.

❝ The first "Jeopardy" is, without a shadow of a doubt, their best release.

❝ I perceived The Sound’s songwriting as the darkest but at the same time hopeful I had ever dealt with, a trait that would reappear during the listening of the second album.

❝ Summing up: drama, emotional tension, despair, and apathy, sparse and sharp sound, harrowing lyrics... Joy Division 2? No, the ideal continuation of a path.

❝ Music in praise of dreams, to detach from the earth and remain suspended in space and time.

❝ Anyone intent on categorizing an artist into a genre will have a tough time with Jan Garbarek, because the Norwegian saxophonist encapsulates world music, jazz, new age, Nordic folk, and even electronic music, and surely there's some other genre that has influenced him.

❝ A few steps from Paradise...

❝ The firstborn is dead... let the sky break, spew out its tears and dress in mourning this red earth.

❝ I don't believe in an interventionist God but if I did I would ask Him to watch over you

❝ Nick Cave was probably (surely) the greatest rock star of the last thirty years.

❝ “Echo And The Bunnymen,” however, is instead a completely worthy album of the heavy name it bears, or almost.

❝ For this album, the adjective “classic” doesn’t make one frown for once

❝ But here it is...blast at full volume the sublime “The Killing Moon” one of the most beautiful songs of the ’80s, an endless romantic kiss with hazelnut flavor full of galvanized hormones ready to explode.

❝ Known simply as "the album that united rock with dance", "Screamadelica" was much, much more.

❝ The Primal always renew themselves (which doesn't necessarily mean they revolutionize or renounce what has been done before), but you never know with them how the next album will be

❝ One of the strangest musical careers I know is certainly that of Primal Scream.

❝ 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.

❝ Twelve thousand plus voices join the band to sing the song all together.

❝ A fundamental album, perhaps (indeed, certainly) the creative pinnacle in the remarkable career of R.E.M.

❝ R.E.M. have made indie rock a source of inspiration for many bands (see Nirvana).

❝ “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”

❝ Drip drip drip drip drip... [cit.]

❝ We are facing The Cure’s darkest work since “Disintegration,” an album seemingly designed to echo its glacial rhythm and introspective nature, yet it is not a self-inflicted effort by a declining band repeating its greatest hits.

❝ "And the girl with red hair and the summer nights and Three imaginary boys..."

❝ The significant influence exerted by Killing Joke on metal, industrial, and noise groups is unparalleled in the history of British music.

❝ Night Time, written and realized in 1984, was released the following year and probably represents their most famous creation, especially by virtue of the single Love Like Blood which became a sort of anthem of British dark rock.

❝ Without them, bands like Nine Inch Nails or Ministry would never have existed, and that must be acknowledged.

❝ Sometimes, when I look deep into your eyes, I swear I can see your soul

❝ The James, ultimately, remain one of the most valid and interesting bands on the British rock scene.

❝ This album is galvanotherapy

❝ “We are happy because it’s been ten years since we last came to Italy.”

❝ The Femmes' 3rd album has never received the attention it deserves compared to the first two albums, both masterpieces.

❝ “I hope you know that this will go down on your permanent record”

❝ Those seeking strong sensations can safely steer clear of this, as well as all Sade's albums, but those looking for excellent background music will find it absolutely perfect, even if they can't help but notice the absence of that spark of genius and creativity that usually marks masterpieces.

❝ “Lovers Rock” is the album I prefer the most: more cohesive and structured than its predecessors, it flows more smoothly and has a more defined personality;

❝ A “lullaby for adults” before falling asleep, sung (or sometimes whispered) by the sensual, enchanting, and delicate voice of this lazy 50-year-old who in 25 years of career has made 5/6 albums without infamy or praise.

❝ “There was a time when Hüsker Dü was the fastest band on Planet Earth.”

❝ “Zen Arcade is innovative not only for American hardcore but for punk as a whole.”

❝ “A milestone for all underground rock to come.”

❝ I didn’t marry a man, I married a mule

❝ GOOD EVENING

❝ And now all of you go to hell.

❝ Sly, cunning, perfect trend followers, yet extremely fascinating.

❝ Very few bands embody the concept of a "cult" band as well as The Cult.

❝ And they did so with one of the most robust and determined works of their career: "Beyond Good And Evil."

❝ Nothing is the same as before... this is what I feel about myself once the Dinosaur Jr. concert is over.

❝ Dinosaur Jr. is the creation of J Mascis, a versatile artist and despotic leader, here ("You’re Living All Over Me" is his second album, released by SST in 1987) still accompanied by Lou Barlow, who will soon be ousted for "artistic differences" and will find greater success with his Sebadoh first and Folk Implosion later.

❝ J is a strange guy, at least as much as I am: long white hair, a characteristic belly, and always wearing something purple.

❝ “Fedeli alla linea, even when there isn't one, When the emperor is sick when he dies or is doubtful or perplexed, Fedeli alla linea the line is not there.”

❝ “Live in Moscow, live in Budapest, live in Warsaw, live in Sofia, live in Prague, live in Pankow!”

❝ “CCCP is a segment in the life of each of us, very significant, decisive, and often illuminating. We have already written somewhere that before CCCP we lived and we will live even after. It will end, of course, we neither feel nor have ever been rock'n'roll stars, nor are we interested in a musical career. On the contrary, if it were so, perhaps there would be reason to worry...”

❝ After this maxi single dated 1979, Bauhaus would release four respectable albums before their premature breakup in 1983, never again matching the creative peak reached with their debut track.

❝ Never!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

❝ The Shadow is Cast

❝ ASIA, for those who don't know them, are a supergroup (formed in 1982) composed of individuals such as John Wetton, Geoff Downes, Steve Howe, and Carl Palmer.

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❝ "Aurora" isn't absolutely awful, but it's the cruel and ruthless rule of the 'music business' (a rule that, oddly, inherits from rural wisdom, which indeed says "nothing is wasted of the artist") that ensures the useless project gets a marvelous "1".

❝ "Thank you very much and welcome to the concert"

❝ Essentially, this band certainly does not burst with personality and innovative flair, but they are capable of delivering energetic and healthy rock, always with the heart in the right place and the right "drive", a prerogative not everyone holds.

❝ “We are the best band in the world. There's no competition.” (Andy Rourke)

❝ “So for once in my life let me have what I want, Lord knows it would be the first time”

❝ Driving in your car, I never want to go home,
because I haven't got one... anymore.

❝ they're still there to entertain, still as goofy as ever, still the same (except for the bassist who embarked on a decent solo career)

❝ the frantic title track dispels any doubt: a overwhelming rhythm, with organ, bass, and sax in the limelight for a deadly burst of energy lasting just over two minutes of pure ska.

❝ The best remedy against Hegelianism? The Pixies.

❝ The line between genius and madness is very thin.

❝ WHERE IS MY MIND?

❝ A somewhat underrated album that has always remained under a veil of "underground" and mystery, "Visage," the debut album of the eponymous group, embodies the essence of the English new romantic movement that in 1980 (the year of its release) was reaching its peak not only in cultured musical circles but also (incredibly) in dance halls, dethroning disco music with its irresistible decadence and modernity—a genre guilty of being merely a rotten remnant of the '70s, dead and buried for eternity.

❝ Tuxedomoon thrived on contradictions, Americans from San Francisco, yet European in their sonic influences and adopted Europeans in their exile to central Europe in the early ’80s, the bulk of their loyal following back then could be found precisely on the old continent.

❝ It’s already history. Immediately a slogan, an anthem, like a warning. No tears, life is hard but intense.

❝ So what exactly do Tuxedomoon sound like? Oblique music. Elusive. Fascinating.

❝ They thought we were too loud, but damn it, I had four military blankets folded over my amp, and the volume was at 2. I’m used to playing on 10!

❝ The helicopter that was supposed to take him to Chicago crashed on a hill just a few minutes after takeoff on the night of August 27, 1990.

❝ this collection of 10 tracks can be more than satisfactory for those who wish to approach one of the most significant rock blues artists of all time

❝ Overwhelming, carefree, irreverent, politically incorrect, boisterous, and alcoholic folk-punk, played by the most raucous, defiant, and moving crew of the '80s.

❝ Pogue Mahone, literally kiss my ass.

❝ Bearers of a folk that mixes poetry and pub brawls, the Pogues were one of the most beautiful realities of the '80s (a decade that many would like to discard but which actually contributed much more than is commonly thought).

❝ "Punk is whatever we make it to be"

❝ Minutemen = modest, minute men.

❝ And indeed it is a masterpiece of rock music composed of a whopping 45 intensely crafted songs made by perhaps the most creative trio in rock, none of which reach three minutes and rarely exceed two, but the surprising fact is that one is more beautiful than the other.

❝ “Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart” is a sacred circle drawn in a profane world: intimacy, escapes, rituals, healings, earth, rain, and warmth.

❝ The amalgam, the glue was the formula: “Surrealistic absurdist folk,” a kind of sparkling good energy, a quirk that guaranteed the unexpected.

❝ The Camper Van Beethoven represents roots rock better than anyone else in the context of the eighties, the decade that served as the backdrop for the explosion of punk and world music.

❝ Industrial waste playing romance.

❝ Wind in perpetual motion.

❝ “Tabula rasa”. Or the point of no return in the music of Einstürzende Neubauten.

❝ “I know I am imperfect, and it is this imperfection that makes me want to improve. If I became perfect, and were no longer vulnerable, maybe I wouldn't experience the same emotional shock that makes me feel the need to write music.”

❝ “We dive down? We dive down??? We dive deeper and deeper?”

❝ “Reaching out for the star / reaching out for the star that explodes”

❝ Simply, Madonna’s best album.

❝ "Bitch out of order - Bat out of hell - Fish out of water - I’m scared, can’t you tell - Bang Bang, shot you dead - Bang Bang, shot you dead [...] Now drive bitch - I said drive bitch - And while you’re at it, die bitch - That’s right drive bitch." Madonna, Gang Bang

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"Nero a Metà" remains a masterpiece from the first to the last note.

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"Bella 'Mbriana" is the evolution of the raw cry for help in "Terra Mia".

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Even in Bastogne, a Neapolitan remains always a Neapolitan.

❝ The title track is a little masterpiece and this author will one day be rediscovered, unlike the annoying intellectualisms of a Battiato or a Dalla.

❝ Pupo, in the world Enzo Ghinazzi, is undoubtedly one of those representatives and certainly one of those who had the most commercial success: 20 million records and 11 gold records are impressive numbers that make you think;

❝ In 1987, The Silencers debuted with a lean and sensitive new wave record.

❝ A really nice album, rich in moments of high inspiration, worthy of being placed among the unmissable ones, in the list of those who appreciate the new wave as well as those who are lovers of sounds, atmospheres, and suggestions (or more simply records) coming from that part of the world.

❝ this “So Be It” from 1995, undoubtedly the Celtic (pop)rock album of the 90s that U2 did not know how to (and most probably did not want to, it must be said) make.

❝ After forty years, evolving is not taken for granted, and often it is done in the opposite direction. But not here, not this time.

❝ My band and I never talk about this album, and we don’t even play it at concerts.

❝ No doubt, this album is an absolute must-have.

❝ 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.

❝ Ben Watt and Tracey Thorn are Everything But The Girl.

❝ This album represents to date the swan song of one of the most influential international pop groups: Ben Watt plus Lady Voice Tracey Thorn.

❝ For all those who loved the elegant atmospheres of the so-called English sophisti-pop, Everything But The Girl was an essential name, and this The Language of Life from 1990 sits at the pinnacle of their “new cool” period (there would later be a “dance” turn, but that’s another story).

❝ Nebraska is a disarming, timeless record with something magical about it.

❝ “Hello sunshine, won’t you stay?”

❝ There are two types of people in the world: those who have seen a Springsteen concert, and everyone else.

❝ “Love Song” is among my favorites from those years.

❝ I’ve never heard such hard rock in my life.

❝ Thus was born the precursor to MTV’s successful “Unplugged” series (or EmptyV, if you prefer) and one of the most interesting live albums in the history of this genre: “Five Man Acoustical Jam”.

❝ 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!

❝ 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.

❝ Minimalist psychedelia.

❝ Reaching mystical trance through noise: this has been their mission.

❝ Taking drugs to make music to take drugs to make music to create 62 minutes and 14 seconds of interstellar travel.

❝ Simple and sugary Pop melody submerged by a high tide of feedback.

❝ "We are the Beach Boys of the 80s; say what you want, but ours are just pop songs, even if they are different from all the other pop songs and even if they are not suitable for morning show deejays." (Jim Reid)

❝ It's the album for the disillusioned.

❝ What were Black Flag with "Damaged"? They were a loud, sweaty, and revealing Fuck You to what was shaping up to mystify the America of the Golden-Boy graduate, careerist, sexist (and I'd add, trailblazer...).

❝ My War is the album of the apocalypse, from which there is no return.

❝ Never was a title more fitting: "WHAT THE FUCK?!"

❝ Direct and essential.

❝ A record I truly recommend.

❝ I know for many new wave means Joy Division and Psychedelic Furs (bands I love), but this album is a giant wave, a rock and new wave breaker, whatever they say.

❝ One of the masterpieces of the 80s.

❝ The Big Black were an old Steve Albini band.

❝ The relentless drum machine seems to match the beats of my heart,

❝ A shocking listen, an innovative and extremely bold album, another reason to accept Gabriel's long-past and completed defection from the Book of Genesis.

❝ what emerged is the absolute masterpiece of Peter Gabriel, a work that goes far beyond its original function as a soundtrack, assuming a deeper meaning, that of authentic sacred music, a term usually understood in a classical sense, associated with solemn organs, majestic chorales, and heavenly solos.

❝ What's wrong if a record sells a lot? Nothing, it would seem.

❝ This live recorded in Ghent on June 28, 1992 is the epitaph of an extraordinary career, because it encapsulates all the energy of a band that in 8 years (and five albums) of honorable career never had a dip in style.

❝ "Moonhead" is the second LP (for Kuiser their best in the beginning), released in 1987, they were the Thin White Rope... unforgettable. Unforgettable.

❝ A great band that certainly deserves to be rediscovered.

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And in the end it happened, it was to be expected, and it's beautiful and right like this…

❝ Have you done more than seven thousand reviews and embarrassingly overlooked "Thriller"?

❝ Thriller is still the best-selling album of all time, with approximately 110 million copies sold, and the number increases every year.

❝ The brand "Michael Jackson" has unfortunately become synonymous with "pedophilia," "bleached skin," "psychopath."

❝ A record for true connoisseurs, for me the best.

❝ To be listened to without prejudice... to be owned without a doubt!

❝ This time I put on the album for the first time and... Bang!... Naptime.

❝ Toto is one of the most well-known singers of Italian pop in the ’80s, no longer as popular here, but still very famous in all of Eastern Europe, where he found himself, willingly or not, as an ambassador of our music...

❝ I have always had mixed feelings about our Toto... he is a good songwriter with a disarming naivety, populism, and communicativity; which borders on genius...

❝ There are few albums I have heard that, like this one, have the intensity and the effect of the despairing abandonment with which one takes the last alcoholic sip before collapsing prey to the ghosts of the mind.

❝ "Unknown Pleasures" scares me.

❝ It all begins with a faint screech, an undertone, which broadens and strengthens until the drums enter with force, and that screeching sound becomes a note, taking the form of a guitar.

❝ "The swans have returned."

❝ "We need a dream to escape."

❝ "This is one of the truest works you’ll ever hear, whether you like it or not."

❝ The most important hardcore band, for God's sake.

❝ "Last Song" puts an end to the greatest hardcore experience that ever existed.

❝ don’t smoke, don’t drink, don’t fuck

❝ Because the new Dream Syndicate album, in my opinion, is not a Dream Syndicate album.

❝ Holy words, dear Steve, holy words.

❝ The moral of the story, in short, is that the Dream Syndicate are in great shape, they proved it in the recording studio, they're proving it on stage tonight.

❝ There is a sort of musical Apartheid in some parts of the world, especially in the USA. According to these people’s theory, if you are part of a rock n’ roll band, you must remain trapped by the label given to you. I find it unfair; we are a rock n’ roll band, and we experiment with the sounds of rave, of black music.

❝ U2 have aged poorly.

❝ Like an electric shock.