Best artist of the nineties 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..."

❝ Four stars cannot be denied, Robben Ford is a great artist. Difficult to be deeply passionate about him, but impossible not to enjoy his music, his creativity, his rightness.

❝ “Revelation” is a concentration of technique and melody that involves the listener on an ecstatic level, delivering refined emotions.

❝ an excellent guitarist with great technique who has a predominantly jazz style

❝ 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.

❝ 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.

❝ “Take away to add,” Mark used to say.

❝ Morphine consists of: Mark Sandman (vocals and bass), Dana Colley (saxophone), Jerome Dupree (drums from 1989 to 1993 and from 1998 to 1999), Billy Conway (drums from 1993 to 1998).

❝ The Morphine were one of the most original bands of the ’90s, and Cure For Pain is their worldwide fame album, as well as their highest creative peak.

❝ “Tucson, Arizona.”

❝ “At the remarkable milestone of their tenth studio album, Burns and Convertino do not relent and gift us yet another little gem in their discography.”

❝ “The new album by Calexico is immediately set to be one of the greatest disappointments of the year 2018.”

❝ Nothing. I hope I have left you with enough curiosity to abandon the attempt of understanding "Crash" through the eye: here the only way is the ear!

❝ The DMB consists of sacred monsters in perfect harmony. Carter is an octopus, and his drums seem like extensions of his fast, powerful, elegant limbs.

❝ Listening to the albums of the Dave Matthews Band, I've learned to "musikimmaginarmeli" with the ear of someone who wants to hear them live, because it's live that the band of the Johannesburg native performs at 200%.

❝ Scofield possesses one of the greatest qualities of the great jazz musicians: you recognize him after two notes.

❝ John Scofield (b 1951 USA) is among the few guitarists, in the vast musical landscape, capable of 'giving' their instrument a distinctive, original, and unmistakable sound.

❝ As soon as I pop it in the player, it reveals itself to be one of the most pleasantly funky albums I have ever listened to.

❝ "Grit" is a monument to imprisoned anger, violent, jarring.

❝ Probably, however, it is Sivert Høyem's voice that did the rest: cobalt blue, soft and deep, enveloping like a heavy wool blanket on a rainy autumn evening.

❝ they were even invited to play at the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony in Oslo, and to attend, they had to cancel two sold-out German tour dates

❝ “Moon Safari” by Air is universally recognized as one of the cornerstones of 90s electronica.

❝ “Moon Safari” is a masterpiece!

❝ An album nobody needed.

❝ 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.

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

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

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

❝ Nothing. Nothing. Nothing new. Nothing new here, just nostalgia. So much, so much nostalgia.

❝ "It's challenging,but there's nothing wrong with challenging your audience. It shows respect, rather than putting out the same shit every year."

❝ "I'm still a mod, I'll always be a mod, you can bury me a mod".

❝ Silence the detractors of this flight of fancy! We’re talking about PASSION!

❝ Pure emotions. That’s all you can expect when Steven Wilson is involved, one of the many misunderstood geniuses of today’s music scene, on par with the likes of Daniel Gildenlow, Roine Stolt, Neal Morse, and the rest...

❝ 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.

❝ 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...

❝ In the aftermath of the well-known 1990 helicopter accident that deprived the world of the crystal-clear talent of a Stevie Ray Vaughan at the peak of his career, some of the major American labels specializing in blues-rock immediately set out in search of someone who could at least partially fill the void left by the Dallas guitarist, axemen capable of satisfying the growing number of \u0022hard-blues\u0022 enthusiasts that developed during those years, thanks especially to the lightning career of Mr. SRV.

❝ Unknown to the general public, Lisa Germano is perhaps the best songwriter of the ’90s.

❝ Slide is a record where suffering becomes singable, it clings to you, gets under your skin, becomes part of you, you can't do without it.

❝ Lisa still has stories to tell, even though she has been over fifty for a while and is still trying to 'live on music alone' (quote), even if this album has been less appreciated than the previous ones.

❝ “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 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.

❝ True fathers of alternative country, Uncle Tupelo was born in the second half of the Eighties in Belleville, Illinois.

❝ some have described it as "Gram Parsons-meets-Minutemen,"

❝ It's a great live album, "one of those they don't make anymore," and when they do, I add, no one unfortunately gives them any attention...

❝ "Whoever doesn't love the Blues has a hole in their soul," was read on the wall of an old record store in Mississippi...

❝ "What happened is what you hear, we kept it as real as possible"

❝ 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.

❝ Many claim that Lyle Mays was "half" of the future Pat Metheny Group.

❝ In conclusion: pleasant, not unforgettable, well-made for heaven's sake, rich and eclectic, but without peaks.

❝ One To Another is the essence of rock n roll.

❝ They are still the same, unmistakable Charlatans.

❝ A great return, very much a definitive consecration, for a band never quite appreciated and praised enough.

❝ If Southern Rock didn’t die with Lynyrd Skynyrd’s 'Sweet Home Alabama' or the Allman Brothers Band's 'Jessica,' it’s precisely thanks to “Shake Your Money Maker,” the debut of the Black Crowes dated 1990.

❝ This 2010 double album was the last from the Black Crows for a long time, followed by yet another brawl between the two bosses of the group, namely singer and guitarist brothers Robinson.

❝ Warmth, introspection, feeling, cohesion are adjectives that well describe the current status of the band, which seems to have been reborn after the entry of Luther Dickinson (North Mississippi All Stars) on guitar.

❝ Don't worry about me, I've got a bed. I've got a Christmas tree inside my head...

❝ Beauty is not useful but is indispensable. Beauty pierces.

❝ "Tweez": that is, almost half an hour of revolution.

❝ King Of Limbs is the opposite, a record made by Radiohead for Radiohead, experimental well beyond excess. Fake. Pretentious. Artificial. An exercise in style without spirit.

❝ It has everything: power, sweetness, the difficulty of living, irony, social criticism, harmony, love.

❝ Thom Yorke is undoubtedly capable of evoking forgotten sensations and distant memories.

❝ I am about to review what can, without any exaggeration, be rightly considered a cornerstone in the production of the great New Orleans saxophonist; an excellent and epoch-making work with which the entire contemporary Mainstream Jazz had the duty to engage.

❝ In conclusion, “Odelay” is a fundamental album for rock music in the ’90s and, in general, a model to follow when it comes to the ability to reinvent musical genres, blending them together in a unique and unrepeatable way.

❝ A melancholic cloud hangs over Sea Change.

❝ If one thing is certain, it's that the blond sprite from LA is not in a creativity crisis.

❝ Class is permanent. An old saying that Ocean Colour Scene have fully embraced.

❝ A milestone for britpop enthusiasts, a great pop rock album for others.

❝ There are truly beautiful pieces here, many indeed; there are pop rock gems that should be listened to and recognized more widely.

❝ Shirley Manson, beautiful and charismatic leader of Garbage, is approaching fifty.

❝ Their success is mainly due to the skill of the members, established producers (...) who arrive at a sound balancing between dance, trip hop, and the noise rock of My Bloody Valentine and Sonic Youth.

❝ Garbage is a rock/alternative music group created in 1994 by Butch Vig (producer, drummer), Steve Marker (guitarist), Duke Erikson (bassist, synth, keyboardist), and of course the charismatic Shirley Manson (singer, author, composer, guitarist, backing vocals).

❝ Kyuss, inventors of "Stoner Rock," are the expression of the frustrations and tensions accumulated by the youth in the usual and often-mentioned (by me!) town "Palm Desert", hidden in the southern California desert.

❝ This is not a review, it is a fact: Welcome To Sky Valley is one of the best albums ever released.

❝ Reviewing this album is like trying to give an opinion on an emotion.

❝ You either die a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become the villain.

❝ It’s fucking rock’n’roll after all, it’s live, it’s blood and sweat.

❝ A complete and essential album in music history.

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"After 10 years of inactivity, Uncle Jerry, the diabolical mind behind Alice in Chains, after the loss of one of the greatest singers of the '70s, a frontman of immense charisma such as Layne Staley, calls back the incredibly talented drummer Sean Kinney and bassist Mike Inez and recruits a new singer, one William DuVall, already with the Comes With The Fall, and decides to release a new album under the name Alice in Chains (bad taste or a brilliant idea?)."

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"If suffering had a voice, it would not be much different from Staley's, and if it had a soul, Alice's could perfectly personify it."

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"If you ever get the chance, go see Alice in Chains. Bring your mother, your father, your partner, and your lover together, bring the dog, the cat, and even your canary."

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"These guys are criminals."

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"The fact remains that these three gentlemen have now returned to being the best power trio around."

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"We are the Motorpsycho. Your musical and cultural characteristics will be assimilated. Resistance is futile."

❝ “Summerteeth is the sound of quiet desperation.”

❝ “The first great masterpiece of the millennium.”

❝ “Attending a Wilco live is like participating in a sacred performance.”

❝ Call it whatever you want. For me, the right name is: Maturity...

❝ He looks like Jesus Christ, for crying out loud.

❝ After 1992, they will never be so mean, sinister, wild, heavy again: a true and apocalyptic sonic orgasm.

❝ 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";

❝ Widespread Panic is the quintessential band out of their time, with no ambitions to be stars, no presumption of appealing to the masses, but with the undeniable ability to build a solid fanbase around the world thanks to their excellent albums with a retro flavor. In short, all steak and no sizzle.

❝ It’s different on the album, and paradoxically, that’s the limit of Widespread. They are better live.

❝ Great.

❝ This is love, I admit it.

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

❝ Reel To Real is the DNA of Simple Minds.

❝ 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.

❝ It feels like yesterday; it was ’98 when their debut “Bring It On” won the Mercury Music Prize and beat, in order, Verve, Pulp, Cornershop, and “Mezzanine”.

❝ Eclectic, unique, the Gomez are this and much more; one of the most underrated bands of the ’90s and the new century, creators of one of the most beautiful albums of all time, namely “In Our Gun”.

❝ Almost total anarchy in the interpretation of genres, also reflected within the group: between Ben Ottewell, Tom Gray, and Ian Ball, there is absolutely no leader, as each of the three takes turns being the lead voice or the backing vocals for the others.

❝ For a group of 40-year-olds like us, Nirvana is like milk for newborns: obligatory and essential.

❝ Audience: "MTV SUUUUCKS!"

❝ Frightening album, dirty, sick, which certainly won't be liked by everyone and which, especially in the second part, projects the mind into a parallel world.

❝ If you don't like Pretty Hate Machine, you probably just need to turn up the volume.

❝ "This is the first of my last days"

❝ End Hits is the definitive Fugazi album, the one that makes you think
"it couldn't get better than this; now they should disband and let others reckon with their work."

❝ If ours were a better world, Fugazi probably wouldn't be remembered solely for their political image, for their activism, for their 6-euro concerts, for their 10-euro CDs, for their resistance to the arrogance of the major labels, for their lifestyle in the face of which all these heavily promoted pseudo-punk bands come off as schoolkids.

❝ "Repeater" is rebellion!

❝ 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.

❝ I have never found any band comparable to them: unique, unrepeatable, masterful.

❝ An hour of sweet dark controlled noise and slow violent songs: a gloomy and compelling wall of sound based on both epic and sparse rhythms, an intense, emotional, balanced album between decadence and sound impact.

❝ 28 minutes of passion, 28 minutes of warmth, 28 minutes radiating fire and power.

❝ In Keep it together, there are 13 songs, each more beautiful than the last and each simpler than the last.

❝ Despite being categorized under alternative sections, this 'Parachutes' sounds more like a tribal folk-pop festival in a town square, where the undeniable protagonists are congas, acoustic guitars, and pseudo-pop harmonized vocals.

❝ In conclusion, an excellent folk-pop album with catchy melodies, simple and effective, conveying numerous emotions.

❝ One of Zorn's best albums of recent times and of all time, no doubt about it.

❝ Naked City is one of those albums capable of changing the vital course of every individual's musical tastes, an unsettling album at times, soothing, almost magical at others, then from intensity it gives way to the playfulness of music only to suddenly leave it behind and embrace fiery emotions drawn from a thousand kisses deep.

❝ a "smooth and delicate", dazzling/fizzy, summery little disc to take (perhaps) with us under the shading parasols to integrate the light and caressing mistral breezes coming from the facing waters

❝ Claustrophobia.

❝ Portishead's "Third" disconcerts, and immerses the beloved and iconographic sound of the Bristol trio in dark/industrial waters.

❝ It's like being in Chicago in the '30s, with too much LSD in your system.

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« ...she is the tear that will remain suspended in my soul forever... »

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"He died young because the gods loved him too much" (Fernando Pessoa)

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"Jeff Buckley was a pure drop in an ocean of noise"

❝ This is the best album ever composed by a band of semi-deities, and anyone who denies it doesn’t understand a damn thing about True Music!

❝ Tool is a group that undeniably has managed to create a style distinctly different from any other.

❝ The album starts immediately rough, hard, and uncensored: "Stinkfist" is a perhaps ambiguous metaphor in which the "sweet" experience of fist-fucking symbolizes the desensitization of the spirit and the constant pushing of boundaries to continue feeling emotions.

❝ In the beginning was, and still is, the voice of Stuart Murdoch.

❝ This album, completely self-produced, would remain hidden for years (in Italy it would be released only in 1999 - three years after its release in the UK - following the surprising success of "The Boy With The Arab Strap") but contains some of the greatest classics of this group whose name is a tribute to the famous novel by Cecilie D'Aubry.

❝ In short, never has beauty been more found in simplicity. Belle&Sebastian are exactly what was needed!

❝ "You can't hold no groove if ain't got no pocket".

❝ Victor Wooten was particularly inspired by the master Jaco Pastorius, uses the slap like perhaps no other bassist can, the musical taste of his phrasing is worthy of Marcus Miller and Stanley Clarke, and his technique is elevated to disproportionate levels;

❝ “Ultimately, we are witnessing the peak creative moment of the 'Phonics, as well as one of the best albums produced by post-britpop Britain.”

❝ “One of the most beautiful debuts of the late nineties, this “Word Gets Around,” highly recommended for anyone who wants to get an idea of Jones and company’s (good) music.”

❝ “Stereophonics continue their positive streak and give us an intense and convincing album, undoubtedly among their best.”

❝ There is an adjective that more than any other can qualify this album, the debut of the now-famous Morcheeba: sensual.

❝ A seductive album, not a masterpiece of its genre, yet fascinating, capable of soothing and lightening, for a moment, the weight of a day.

❝ Apparently, trip-hop is dead (critics rarely spread such news, perhaps they hide it even from themselves to avoid sending two flowers to the funeral).

❝ 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.

❝ World Party, or what to do if you’re interested in producing your music, achieving the right amount of success, and not becoming a major star in the pop-rock world, even though you have all the potential.

❝ “The Man Who” is an absolute masterpiece, an album that will influence countless bands in the years to come (even Chris Martin often candidly admits the enormous influence of Travis on the sound of the earliest Coldplay).

❝ “The radio is playing all the usual and what's a wonderwall anyway”

❝ “Cause you say you love me/ And then you do it again, you do it again”

❝ "eh, but they haven't changed at all, they're just like twenty years ago."

❝ "What you hear on \"Loveless\" really exists. And it's not a wall of sound, it's a vortex, something in front, behind, above, and below you, something you feel in your belly, under your tongue, something that suffuses you."

❝ 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

❝ 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

❝ “Play” was the album that, at the end of the nineties, gave electronic music the dignity it deserved as a musical genre, finally eliminating the concept of “computer-made stuff”.

❝ The first aspect to consider when reviewing “Play” is that, in a moment made difficult for the recording industry by the easy transfer of “data”, this work sold 23 million copies, 20 of which were albums and 3 were singles extracted from it.

❝ At 53, Richard Melville Hall gives us his best album in years, imbued with inspiration and immense class, crowning a journey that is increasingly consistent and never tamed.

❝ “The cost for recording Alien Lanes, if you leave out the beer, was about ten dollars.” [James Greer]

❝ “There wasn't enough music I liked, so I started making it myself!”

❝ “I write the lyrics in a notebook and record the music. Just a regular recorder, nothing special. In theory, I do things very simply…”

❝ their music is mostly banal and simplistic.

❝ "I’m a fucking genius" (Noel Gallagher)

❝ This is undoubtedly the masterpiece of the Gallagher brothers

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It’s pointless now if you come to tell me "yes, but Siamese Dream was something else" because yes, even Manowar knows that Siamese Dream was something else.

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Okay, "Mellon Collie..." is the album everyone considers the undisputed manifesto of the Smashing Pumpkins, but I much prefer this "Adore", to the point that I consider it the true masterpiece of the group.

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This album is something beyond music, something precious that Billy wanted to gift to the world.

❝ RETURN OF THE BASTARDS...

❝ Primus sucks!!

❝ Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to complete madness!

❝ Calm, storm, and calm again (live, it seems they are irresistible: three guitars, two basses, two drums, violin, cello, and visual projections!).

❝ A work of art.

❝ post-rock devotees will have one of the absolute pinnacles of the entire genre in their hands.

❝ This year marks the thirtieth anniversary of the seminal “Souvlaki” album, initially overlooked but later reevaluated to become a cornerstone of the shoegaze movement over the years.

❝ Nine tracks of calm melancholy, always ready to emerge through tear-inducing feedbacks.

❝ Slowdive were one of the best bands of the ’90s, as talented as they were overlooked.

❝ Ultimately, an album with innate cathartic abilities (at least for myself), absolutely timeless and detached from its time, standing like an unreachable peak in the mid-nineties pop landscape (and in the same discography of the band, both previous and subsequent).

❝ Welcome back Mercury Rev.

❝ It is indeed a flat, boring, and formulaic album.

❝ Propelled to the limelight by Robert Rodriguez thanks to the music and appearances in From Dusk Till Dawn, (those who play at the Titty Twister and turn into vampires are them) and Desperado (here only Tito), they unfortunately never truly broke through, which makes them all the more (if ever there was a need) a cult band.

❝ “…When I sing I’m not a singer And when I dance I ain’t a dancer When I cry I’m not a cryer And when I lie I ain’t a liar…”

❝ An archetypal album.

❝ “Orange” is everything an album needs to be considered a masterpiece.

❝ A sensational album, superbly produced, intelligent, modern, and classic at the same time.

❝ “Today Forever” EP probably represents the pinnacle of Ride's creativity culminating in the final track “Today”, one of the most paradigmatically beautiful pieces of the shoegazing era.

❝ Just naming the exceptional emotional peaks of tracks like “Dreams Burn Down” and especially the wonderful “Vapour Trail” (one of the most beautiful indie ballads ever made) is enough to highlight the status of “classic” of this work, suggestive and poetic in its apparent neglect, forgotten and unforgettable.

❝ “As you get older, you become a bit nostalgic, and it's natural to turn to the music we listened to as teenagers, for the new album I think of references like Tears for Fears, but also Depeche Mode”

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

❝ “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?

❝ And, I think it can be said in this case,

"they gave me a hard-on"

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Perhaps only one adjective is needed to describe these characters… CHAMELEONIC!

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An imposing fire-breathing machine with a noble soul.

❝ “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.

❝ “Babies” by Pulp is the voyeuristic anthem par excellence.

❝ it’s the Pulp of “Different Class” (1995 a magical moment for British Pop) ...one of the best records of the 90s, definitely the one that best describes England of those years.

❝ “His 'n' Hers”, released in 1994, is probably the true masterpiece of Pulp, one of the last cultured, intelligent, refined, and at the same time “accessible” musical realities to have climbed the Pop charts.

❝ “They made history not so much for their music (...) but rather for their statements, manifestos, always leftist, always provocative, always stimulating.”

❝ “The Holy Bible is an endless tunnel with no way out, the forlorn and funereal lament of those who cannot win their personal battles”

❝ “In the UK, they are considered a national treasure, not by chance.”

❝ Slackers have always been underrated. But they’ve taught a lesson.

❝ De-base, de-construct, de-regulate rock.

❝ Just to be clear, Pavement are not John Cage.

❝ “Starting from the strangest and most diverse elements, and then always finding the 'pop structure' in which to enclose everything”.

❝ “We had the drafts of these 10 songs, and from there we moved in no other direction but to create the best sound for each of them. I wanted these 10 songs to hit from the speakers like a punch in the stomach” (Tom Barman).

❝ “This record remains their masterpiece.”

❝ 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).

❝ Ritual Spirit is not an album, but rather an EP of four tracks, seventeen minutes long.

❝ In a single word Trip hop, a genre that brings together hip hop with the idea of a mental journey, waves that mesh with an indefatigable groove, environments that recognize and meld into an unexplored universe, an assemblage of diverse genres, all shaped into a sound flow that is ever gentle and aggressive, overwhelming, fascinating and sharp, violent in its voluptuous delicacy.

❝ The line between sweetness and unease is always thin: what attracts us the most often coincides with what scares us the most.

❝ I believe Doug Martsch is one of the most original guitarists of the last 20 years.

❝ But let's avoid unnecessary labels; behind Built to Spill lies the genius of Doug Martsch, a frontman with a keen sense for melody who has a great gift: making songs that hide intricate guitar passages and continuous tempo changes seem simple.

❝ If, later on, Built to Spill would reach their formal peaks in the undisputed masterpiece of "Perfect From Now On", here instead lies the proverbial expressive urgency of every debut.

❝ A monumental collection that traces the history of Tortoise through b-sides, collaborations, outtakes, assorted rarities, remixes, covers, videos, live performances, and every piece of goodness related to the band, mainly from the period 1995-2001.

❝ ...And to your left, we have "Millions Now Living Will Never Die", the greatest album by Tortoise, released in 1996 and already become an absolute masterpiece of 90s rock, you can admire it in all its magnificence...

❝ It is always about instrumental post-rock with sporadic dips into minimal electronics and glimpses (this time structural, however) of jazz with soft and dreamy hues, but never as with this album have I had the impression that every detail is exclusively aimed at the whole, managing to be both sharp and blurred simultaneously.

❝ It’s Ragnarök. It’s the apocalypse. It’s armageddon. It’s the end of days.

❝ The object that has been tickling my desires for weeks and made me smile like a kid on Christmas day when the courier rang my doorbell to deliver it, is composed of three vinyl records, the third of which contains six tracks not included in the CD, the CD itself, a DVD, and different knick-knacks, like a poster and a piece of cloth with the word Mogwai.

❝ And Holy Christ, they've done it again.

❝ 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.

❝ Mark Linkous, voice and guitar:
“I see songs as little planets, they don't have to be in alignment, if they orbit they become boring”.

❝ “Sometimes days go by fast, sometimes this seems to have to be the last.

It's a sad and beautiful world. It's a sad and beautiful world...”

❝ “You are worth thousands of sparrows..”

❝ there is a sensation of walking on tiptoes while being possessed by waves of vertigo.

❝ Devastating piece. Among the most unforgettable I have ever listened to.

❝ "Like blood, but even deeper and darker".

❝ Music from the old world, the new world and another world

❝ The birth of 16 Horsepower is lost in the dust of recent American history, in their gravelly way of playing a folk with a southern and mystical flavor.

❝ Ain't none ever seen the face of his foe no
He ain't made of flesh & bone
He's the one who sits up close beside you
An when he's there you are alone

❝ Few bands manage to divide like Phish.

❝ Delving into the live world of Phish is a daunting task, especially because each of their concerts is followed by an official bootleg of the same.

❝ Phish, like all my favorite music, is intelligent.

❝ Well. Pack your bags, then. We are departing on a journey lasting five minutes...three hours...six years.

❝ it is such a mesmeric work that rather than a review, everything should be articulated through a psycho-pneumatic analysis, such as to lay bare one's neuroses und frustrazionen in public, but the internet is not the public,

❝ In the stomach of a pantagruelian space-rock, tingling gastric juices corrode Time, and the psychedelic cyclicity of hyper-noise radiations horribly disfigures the line of the horizon.

❝ Their debut album is a hefty seventy-two-minute colossus and is a masterpiece, no doubt about it.

❝ “Limerick” is a nocturnal storm, a perpetuation of gigantic waves, a continuous swirl inside the ocean, wind and water and night, one of the most intense tracks you can listen to in that fanfare to the futile form that after 1991 went under the name of “post-rock.”

❝ “Come and play folks, you are welcome here. Sure you can smoke!”

❝ “If it's not broken, don't replace it. Leave it alone.”

❝ “Third World Pyramid is just another record from our band: out of focus, out of time, and out of fashion.”