Best band of the eighties secondo DeBaser.

❝ 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.

❝ Offramp remains a historic CD in Metheny's production, clean, perfect, emotional.

❝ Throughout the album, you can hear and feel the characteristics that made this group famous: well-crafted dynamics, fresh and never banal melodies, complex and studied harmonies, a particular taste for minimalism, and improvisation.

❝ The breaking down of musical barriers led, in 1987, to the composition of what is considered by many to be one of the guitarist's highest musical/artistic expressions, and it is with this 'Still Life (Talking)' that Metheny reached one of his creative peaks.

❝ "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.

❝ 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!

❝ 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.

❝ 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.

❝ 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.

❝ “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.

❝ “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.”

❝ 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."

❝ 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.

❝ 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.

❝ 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.

❝ 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.

❝ Daydream Nation is a masterpiece. Without a doubt.

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

❝ Youth against time!

❝ I ain't got no idols/ I ain't got much taste/ I'm shiftless when I'm idle/ And I got time to waste

❝ Stayin' out late tonight
Won't be gettin' any sleep
Givin' out their word
Cuz that's all that they won't keep

❝ Bring your own lampshade, somewhere there's a party/Here it's never endin', can't remember when it started

❝ 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.

❝ 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.

❝ "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.

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the Prince of Minneapolis, the sprite of post-modern funk, the Artist who will decide one day not to have a name: ladies and gentlemen, Prince.

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Prince has now been dethroned; he has returned to being Mr. Roger Nelson. But he is among the few in the last twenty years not to be considered an usurper, to have worn those jewels with regal demeanor, of which too many of his so-called successors have a tacky abundance.

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A great album, in short, a step above “1999” and “Dirty Mind”; perhaps surpassed just by “Sign ‘O the Times”... But that’s another story...

❝ 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.

❝ 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?!"

❝ If the word "Blues" means "suffering" and if "Punk" translates to "filth," then this is the album that not only invents Punk-Blues but also represents its pinnacle, unattainable by anyone else.

❝ Well, when you put it in the stereo. . . it catches fire. Literally.

❝ Mother Juno is a great album.

❝ “Ritual De Lo Habitual” is to be counted among the milestones also for this.

❝ THESE GUYS REALLY ROOOOCK!!!!!!

❝ They basically paved the way for Alternative and the last generation of good rock in the nineties, and what do they do?

❝ 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).

❝ The best remedy against Hegelianism? The Pixies.

❝ The line between genius and madness is very thin.

❝ WHERE IS MY MIND?

❝ 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.

❝ Recorded in just a few days and with a budget of only four hundred dollars, Valley of Rain is a brilliant and jagged melting pot of post-punk, garage rock, country, and blues.

❝ And so, "desert rock" it is.

❝ Swerve: deviation.

❝ "New Miserable Experience" is an album that is born wisely rock, traditional and radio-friendly.

❝ Against all odds, two years after "New Miserable Experience," they poke their noses out with an EP; two more years of efforts and here they are, ready with a new album.

❝ The first album by the Gin Blossoms, like what happened with many bands, especially in the nineties, is a work that initially went completely unnoticed and was re-released later by the major labels.

❝ “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”.

❝ “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.

❝ 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,

❝ “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”

❝ The lights of Galaxie 500 dazzle and dishearten, protect and sublimate. Codeine and Low will continue the work.

❝ The predominant mood is one of melancholy and intimacy, tracks with weak shades and unclear contours, with a repetitiveness and slowness with a typically psychedelic flavor.

❝ Their songs represent the philosophy of loss and regret, and perfectly describe the arc of their musical lives: swelling only toward the end, when the song is about to end, when someone has already hit the fast forward button on the tape player.

❝ “Anastasis” comes from Greek and means “resurrection”: this is what you find written everywhere.

❝ 1981, the Dead Can Dance are born: one of the most innovative and mysterious bands of the decade.

❝ Solemn and mystical ceremonial, “Spleen and Ideal” presents itself as the ideal boundary between popular music and medieval religious chant.

❝ 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.

❝ The compelling melody of "Pretty In Pink" is a small masterpiece of restless and oblique rock, alternating between moments of sunny melodic openings and others of dark paranoia.

❝ The substance is that here we are faced with ten pop gems, the kind most bands would commit mass murder to have all on the same album.

❝ And if this album is ultimately saved, we owe it to the frontman Richard Butler, one of the most remarkable voices of the '80s: a phlegmatic but expressive voice, rough without being raucous, which like many other vocalists of that generation finds its inspiration in David Bowie, succeeding in the best cases in emancipating from it.

❝ 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."

❝ “Treasure” is recognized as one of the fundamental albums of the New Wave.

❝ “Treasure” is a timeless album in essence, to be discovered with each listen.

❝ For Treasure, 4AD called on the famous Brian Eno for production, who had dealt with a similarly expansive and layered approach to the genre.

❝ 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".

❝ 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.

❝ 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 new X album is out.

❝ The fire still smolders beneath the ashes of the blank generation.

❝ When I look at the misery of so much music today, I feel like saying this is a colossal album.

❝ Nervous pace, broken rhythms, relentless minimalism, controlled fury, and those guitars not even Television could match.

❝ One cannot avoid using the adjective "seminal" when talking about "Crazy Rhythms" (but the Feelies themselves also moved along already mapped coordinates), just listen to R.E.M. of "Murmur," for example.

❝ 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.

❝ 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.

❝ Raw metal, fire and flames, sweat blood and anthracite: this is "Entertainment!".

❝ The sound is alive, it pulses.

❝ The album is certainly among the best albums in history (100), perhaps even better than "Entertainment!", but it requires infinite listens because it is complicated and not immediately catchy.

❝ 'Time to burn' is the second album by Giant, a band dedicated to melodic hard rock with AOR overtones.

❝ But now that I listen to it again, after a rest period of at least 10 years, it's like hearing a record just released, centered around that great musician Dan Huff and his rocky guitar sounds interspersed with fantastic solos, and Alan Pasqua's keyboards never in the background and not getting lost in unnecessary solos.

❝ In short, it's a great record: a journey through the most fascinating moods of pop at the end of the '70s, with the ability to restore the centrality of melody amidst so much avant-garde: the latter, moreover, has aged decidedly worse.

❝ The group led by the brilliant Andy Partridge, an adjective used in this case without hyperbole, has always stood out, from their debut, for its imaginative, brilliant, psychedelic, ironic pop.

❝ English Settlement is much more acoustic than previous works, and precisely this lightening allows one to fully enjoy the captivating melodic inventions and the elegant ties between verses and choruses that the Partridge-Moulding duo is capable of embedding in every single track.

❝ 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;

❝ 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..."

❝ An absolutely perfect song.

❝ Absolute perfection. Both in form and content.

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

❝ The term "hair metal" is a pejorative coined by some prankster journalist to describe all those metal bands that, in a historical period that can be placed in the eighties, sported voluminous and teased manes (hence hair).

❝ The album seems to fully synthesize the group's tenets: easy-to-grasp Hard Rock tending toward AOR, energetic ballads rich in pathos, and bursts of Heavy Metal, elements that rightfully place this work among the combo’s most successful pieces.

❝ “The music of the Meat Puppets is like an idiotic laugh right in the middle of a funeral ceremony.”

❝ “In two words: PURE GENIUS”

❝ “The Meat Puppets are one of those bands for whom superlatives never suffice.”

❝ Desolate Notes of Faith and Devotion.

❝ For me, it was that image of the Rose Bowl. At one point, during the song "Never Let Me Down Again," I jumped onto one of the pillars and saw a couple of people in the audience waving their arms in the air, I started doing it too, and suddenly there were seventy thousand people doing the same thing! I was overwhelmed, feeling something like tears inside me, and sweat running down my face, but that was pure joy! A feeling like, "It can't get better than this!" It was wonderful, the Basildon boy had made it...

❝ The thrill of the crowd's roar as "In Chains" is played is wonderful.

❝ 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.

❝ Trusting in your intelligence, I would advise against listening during happy and intimate birthday parties.

❝ A fundamental record if on some evenings you feel prey to dark pain, or certain delusions and want to break everything around you; a record that performs a catharsis on sadness, but that not everyone will manage to listen to: one of the most violent and impressionistic records of Nick Cave.

❝ ZOO-MUSIC GIRL.

❝ Hailing from the gray Manchester, they infused their debut work with the desolate atmosphere of their city, forging a dark sound, filled with desperate melodrama but, above all, an epic "mood" which, speaking of influences, contributed significantly to inspiring the masterpiece "Turn On The Bright Lights" by Interpol.

❝ Timeless and spaceless works, a bit like the music of the Chameleons.

❝ Third album for the group led by Mark Burgess and the third and last album of the trilogy that made the Chameleons famous, the most authentic and '80s.

❝ 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

❝ Oh, I forgot: nazi punks fuck off!!!!

❝ It's Time to Put Democracy to Bed

❝ This is not a hardcore album. This is an album that, together with a few others, has defined what hardcore is.

❝ Among the "Big Four" of thrash metal, alongside Slayer, Anthrax, and Megadeth.

❝ And they’ve written unforgettable pages for crying out loud...AND JUSTICE FOR ALL...

❝ CARVED UPON MY STONE, MY BODY LIE BUT STILL I ROAM.

❝ “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.

❝ 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.

❝ Despite everything, Mr. Rotten is a genius.

❝ A sui generis Lydon or maybe a highly personal and ordinary Lydon. A Lydon, ultimately, UNFORGETTABLE.

❝ Press the play button, the first track, "Albatross", starts, and it's already a masterpiece:

❝ The Descendents are one of the best bands in history, period, end of story.

❝ Despite their historical importance on American soil, and beyond, the Descendents remain an underrated band that has surely not been given the proper recognition relative to their value, merits, and strong influence on many future bands.

❝ The Descendents have never been seriously a band, more of a project to make fun music and captivate girls by the band's own admission, never too well-known to the general public but a small phenomenon in the underground.

❝ But it would be criminal to limit the history of the Survivors to only their presence in some Rocky movie, to that captivating riff that, for better or worse, consigned them to history.

❝ “Eye Of The Tiger” represents the album of commercial success for Survivor, an American band led by guitarist/keyboardist Jim Peterik, achieved mainly through the title track, released as a single and made known to the public as part of the soundtrack for the famous film Rocky III, dominating the Billboard magazine charts for 7 weeks and earning the group a Grammy Award.

❝ this album is a milestone in melodic rock and music in general.

❝ “If I could live one day/ again, that day will be the one”.

❝ “Bizarro” probably isn’t a five-star album but it definitely contains “Brassneck”, “Granadaland”, and “Kennedy”.

❝ The production by Albini is that of the uterine nightmare: a work according to the moderately deafening standards that will characterize In Utero some years later.

❝ "Signals, Calls And Marches" (Ace Of Hearts, 1981) is a seminal EP, which potentially contains all the characteristic aspects of indie rock bands of the '80s and '90s of the caliber of Sonic Youth (first and foremost), Nirvana, R.E.M., Pixies, Fugazi.

❝ However, gentlemen, Burma's music is not just this: it is also research, contamination, experimentation, in a word, avant-garde.

❝ On its own, Donna Sumeria is worth all the new bands put together.

❝ Dadaist art, no-sense, hardcore, all blended together to generate one of the most vitamin-packed, innovative, and pure cocktails of the time. Go get them!!

❝ Butthole Surfers have coined a new language that will soon become highly imitated, but most importantly, they have performed the noble act of elevating burps and farts to an art form.

❝ Among the most important and underrated bands in the history of rock, the Texan Butthole Surfers must be mentioned first.

❝ '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.

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

❝ One foot in hell, Cirith Ungol had in practice throughout their entire career.

❝ Cirith Ungol were a cornerstone of '80s Epic Metal, representing its most decadent and dark soul.

❝ The final yet underrated effort from the fundamental Heavy/Epic Metal band known as Cirith Ungol, "Paradise Lost" was released in 1991 under Restless Records.

❝ Manowar is a complex band, much more so than critics and "experts" might think.

❝ Beyond their questionable image and attitude, Manowar remains, by virtue of albums like this one, a great band, which shares nothing with the current Power Metal bands so useless and inconsistent, who vainly try to emulate their feats.

❝ The album, allow me to say it, is awful.

❝ Colin Hay's voice presented itself before me in all its richness after so much time and so many different listens and musical loves, disturbing and nourishing my spirit, benefiting my body: truly a great, great voice, capable of enchanting the soul even when singing simple pop rock tunes.

❝ Men At Work are a well-rounded Rock band, also thanks to the skill of Greg Ham, an additional musical resource who dispenses flute sounds and great sax improvisations.

❝ Regret remains for an honest, likable band, that has delivered a non-original but fitting and sincere sound, thanks to the flair of Colin Hay, a likable character who still writes music today and has never let it go to his head.

❝ Rock is necessary in life, no kidding, tell my father, tell him.

❝ This album should be reviewing me rather than the other way around...

❝ Calling it a "group" would actually be incorrect, for the Alan Parsons Project was already bizarre in itself, breaking the standard of a group, the "bass - drums - guitar" triangle:

❝ The logo, the image wants its share, and that prohibition sign imprinted on the cross is iconic like few others;

❝ This album is composed of unforgettable and unforgotten tracks for every true punk rocker who respects themselves.

❝ “The story is this: once, in a hole-in-the-wall venue in New York, towards the end of the nineties, there was a kid leaning against the wall with his Bad Religion patch prominently displayed on his jacket. Above the band’s name, with a marker, he had written the word "OLD". That's how much Bad Religion fans had come to hate the band after its foray into the major world.”

❝ Agnostic Front = Roger Miret. Roger Miret = Agnostic Front.

❝ Agnostic Front is back; and they hurt badly.

❝ The combination of Agnostic Front/CBGB's is one of the strongest and most enduring in the history of hardcore punk.

❝ It would be a dishonor not to mention the name of the Shop Assistants in this distinguished venue.

❝ The AOR (Adult Oriented Rock) of Foreigner includes excursions from pure Zeppelin-style hard rock, rugged and far from adult, dominated by the prevailing guitar riff, to hypermelodic ballads full of keyboards and void of guitars, intensely romantic and indeed very "adult."

❝ Foreigner follows the path indicated by groups like Boston and Journey, along with whom they lay the foundations for the future AOR.

❝ “"Hong Kong Garden" is the most perfect example of pop punk of all times...”

❝ “When you're a young, dreamy kid, it's easy to get disappointed.”

❝ “Just a year after the sinisterly tinged punk of "The Scream", Siouxsie and the Banshees released this "Join Hands," one of the most controversial works of their career.”

❝ 'As Light Return' consists indeed in a skillful manipulation of empty spaces in which sound waves loaded with fuzz, feedback, and distortions compose music that is not just avant-garde for its own sake, but what is a real album made of songs that hit straight to the heart and nervous system of the listeners.

❝ 'Stone Tape' is conceptually built on the 'Stone Tape Theory' (1961) by archaeologist, parapsychologist, and explorer Thomas Charles Lethbridge, according to which inanimate materials can absorb and store (and reproduce under certain conditions) mental energy of an electrical nature from living beings, released during emotional and/or traumatic events.

❝ A blistering concert, whose impetus could be equated, without too much head scratching, to that historical one of MC5 in the reinforced concrete pillar on an indestructible steel beam that is "Kick Out the Jams".

❝ 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.

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For over 30 years, Slayer, to quote a fine thinker of our time, have been the best at what they do.

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The Slayer have broken up.

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If Metallica in the '80s played with heart, and Megadeth were cerebral, Slayer can only be physical and use muscles.

❝ Ruthless, outrageous hardcore.

❝ The spirit continues, the spirit continues, the spirit continues... Behind melodious laments, an old man's voice resonates to tell the meaning of life... A collection of moments, for the best sensations, a collection of moments for the best sensations! But the spirit continues!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

❝ hardcore that wears a flannel onesie, sips a big hot herbal tea, and goes to sleep.

❝ 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.

❝ I say Voivod and I immediately write PERFECTION!!! Never a wrong album in 35+ years of career. Psychedelic-mutant, evolutionary, space Thrash Metal.

❝ They are Voivod, the flying Canadian masters...THE WORLD TODAY...

❝ Killing Technology” is the third phase of that process of deconstructing the thrash genre that will lead Voivod to the most beautiful pages of their career.

❝ "Scum", as we know, is now history, a work that shines more for its conceptual significance than for its intrinsic content, a work that, for better or worse, marked a point of rupture and no return in the history of music as a whole.

❝ The fathers of Grindcore are back; once again to confirm their absolute dominance... Coded Smears and More Uncommon Slurs... Ad Maiora.

❝ "You Suffer But Why" screams Nicholas Bullen with his cavernous growl.

❝ Whoever loves psychedelia cannot ignore this work, which dated 1980, in the full psychedelic revival, becomes a masterpiece of the aforementioned genre.

❝ The Soft Boys remain a unique group, "outside" even the big pot where all their various stepbrothers were gathered in the early '80s ... thanks to the speed with which you immediately recognize one of their tracks: the interplay of guitars, Hitch's whining voice, the fluidity of the rhythm section.

❝ 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

❝ 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.

❝ "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."

❝ 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:

❝ The recipe has been the same for thirty years: ultra-slow, ultra-despairing version of Hardcore, as if Joy Division decided to play “Damaged” thinking they were Black Sabbath...

❝ Love Canal is a pachydermal catharsis of noise and visceral hypnosis, the three feedbacks of the intro sizzle the gonads with immense pleasure.

❝ “Have you ever seen a flower and hated it? Have you ever seen a couple kissing and it made you nauseous? Have you ever wished that the human race never existed, and then realized that you belong to it too?”

❝ God bless Fear.

❝ If you listen to the lyrics of any track from "The Record" and try to say that this was a group of lunatics, criminals, delinquents, maniacs, well, I tell you... that you're absolutely right.

❝ “We can't read music, but we're good at shaking our butts in time” (Poison Ivy).

❝ If Rock 'N' Roll doesn't scare your parents, you're not listening to the right stuff.

❝ Songs The Lord Taught Us belongs to the class of landmark albums, medicinal products that combat boredom and apathy.

❝ It is not only one of the best collections of pop songs of the post-Beatles era.

❝ This is the curse of the Prefab Sprouts. People like them. Selling, they do not.

❝ No, Swoon was not an ingenuous debut and cannot be classified as such.

❝ Industrial waste playing romance.

❝ Wind in perpetual motion.

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