Best band of the nineties secondo DeBaser.

❝ 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.

❝ “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.”

❝ 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.

❝ 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.

❝ 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...

❝ their music is mostly banal and simplistic.

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

❝ This is undoubtedly the masterpiece of the Gallagher brothers

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

❝ “Moon Safari” is a masterpiece!

❝ An album nobody needed.

❝ 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.

❝ 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!

❝

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.

❝

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.

❝

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

❝ 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).

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

❝ Audience: "MTV SUUUUCKS!"

❝ 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.

❝ 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.

❝ "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."

❝

"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."

❝

"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."

❝ 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%.

❝ 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.

❝ 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.

❝ 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"

❝ It's important to clarify what "Dookie" actually is: it's "poop," but not only that; it's the boredom, anger, fun, and "meanness" of three guys.

❝ This results in "American Idiot", a public denunciation of George W.'s administration set like a rock opera.

❝ The real gem is in the simplicity of "Time Of Your Life", in those strings that give you goosebumps!

❝ “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.

❝ “Fuck you I won’t do what you tell me!”

❝ “Father Zack, who art in heaven,”

❝ “Zack has always said that RATM is not a band, they are the RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE, and the music is secondary.”

❝ Daydream Nation is a masterpiece. Without a doubt.

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

❝ Youth against time!

❝ 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.

❝ 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.

❝ Like a formidable Prophet, raising the index finger, Dulli then seemed truly an envoy of some Superior Entity, commissioned by it to admonish rock saying: "Remember you were born black and black you must return".

❝ The music is the kind that gets under the skin immediately, visceral, able to wander inside the host organism to shake it mercilessly or to caress it gently.

❝ "So understand
Now that I come to you
To understand my little self
To understand my little self
And baby you be sweet..."

❝ There is a thin red line.

❝ It's the same old story since 1916. In your head, they're still fighting with their tanks and their bombs. In your head, they're dying.

❝ A great farewell gift.

❝ Few Italian albums are so genuine and intense as 'Linea Gotica', and if you do not yet have it in your collection, this is definitely the time to seize it.

❝ “Linea gotica” is a difficult, intense, painful record, but also radiant and fascinating. An album to strongly discourage anyone who considers music a mere diversion, a harmless pastime.

❝ One of the best works of one of the best Italian rock bands.

❝ “Films About Ghosts” is nonetheless a more than good level album for lovers of these sounds, or in any case of music that is not too complicated and cerebral; today, however, the Counting Crows are probably better on a stage than  on record.

❝ A splendid album, I was saying, that no one should ever omit from their personal list of “favorites.”

❝ “August And Everything After” is an honest album that finds its strength in expressing a sense of conflict typical of a disillusioned generation, but not for that reason more superficial.

❝ 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.

❝ “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.”

❝ 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.

❝ With "Goat," the Jesus Lizard reach the peak of their art.

❝ In 1999, the Lizard dies.

❝ Regarding the history and importance of this band, much has already been said, so I won't go on with predictable praises, simply one of the best bands ever.

❝ 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.

❝ In 1993 Richard Ashcroft, frontman of the emerging English band The Verve, stated:
"There is a place in history for us. It will take three albums, but we'll get there".

❝ "You're a slave to money then you die": probably never has a song so prophetically and ironically told the truth.

❝ In short, forget about "Bitter Sweet Symphony" and go try this album with a rainbow flavor.

❝ 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.

❝ "Pod", or how the Pixies should have sounded according to Kim Deal.

❝ Who, after loving them, does not miss them now?

❝ "All Nerve" keeps you on edge, captivates you, leaves a mark.

❝ Where's the love song to set us free?

❝ What can I say: I’m pleased to remember this milestone of the '90s and a band that truly had balls. Until next time!

❝ Long live Blur.

❝ RETURN OF THE BASTARDS...

❝ Primus sucks!!

❝ Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to complete madness!

❝ 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.

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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."

❝ The best remedy against Hegelianism? The Pixies.

❝ The line between genius and madness is very thin.

❝ WHERE IS MY MIND?

❝ 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.

❝ There are two versions of Shock Me here, both transfigured compared to the sound and the classic moldy-rock direction of the original: the first is an electric and distorted sadcore, with a canonically dark paintersian mood, anticipating the vibe of Ocean Beach; the second is a ballad for piano and acoustic guitar that ends with an instrumental version of the beautiful A Million + 8 Things, by the very first Red House Painters.

❝ Rock is a discipline that requires grace and sprezzatura.

❝ Ten minutes of splendid dreaminess, of elegant rarefaction, the nocturnal landscape drawn by the instruments hypnotizes and seduces from the first listen.

❝ 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.

❝ The impossibility of finding oneself again.

❝ Sigur Rós don’t play Post-Rock, they play the way Sigur Rós play, which is like no one else plays.

❝ The feeling is that of being part of an important moment in the History of Music:

❝ Choosing a Yo La Tengo album is not easy. One of the very few bands, alongside Fugazi and even more than Sonic Youth, to have maintained a huge qualitative standard throughout their career, adhering to a simple precept: expressive freedom. Nothing more, nothing less.

❝ Fade puts you in front of yourself, it forces you to question your entire existence.

❝ Yo La Tengo are aliens.

❝ Manuel sings well and never slips up, his voice and his Thai-Chi-forged biceps both in top shape.

❝ Hai paura del buio? is an album in which fragments of hardcore, folk, electronic, psychedelia, jazz, grunge, and even pop coexist, yet it never gives the impression of being confused or scattered and instead manages to captivate with the class it displays in virtually every single moment.

❝ A violent album. These words would be enough to give an idea of "Germi."

❝ 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.

❝ “Better keep on going
It’s the only thing I know
Oh Lord, it won’t change
It won’t change
It won’t change
It won’t change...”

❝ The subsequent “Buzz Factory”, released in 1989 on Greg Ginn’s label before their inevitable major-label arrival, is perhaps the quartet’s most mature work, perfectly realizing the grunge syncretism.

❝ An album that, with all its objective quality, its historical value, and its simple beauty, you end up loving.

❝ “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.

❝ Codeine is a band formed in 1989 in New York, with a lineup featuring Stephen Immerwahr on vocals and bass, Chris Brokaw on drums, and John Engle on guitar.

❝ Frigid Stars, the startling debut by Codeine, released by the Sub Pop label, a magnificent praise of slowness

❝ Silence as a musical element perhaps forgotten for too long.

❝ Fuck everything and everyone; fuck the money; fuck the world; fuck all of you; this is the message that Refused have always spread in their music, and listening to their work, you understand that their intention has been fully accomplished.

❝ “The Shape of Punk to Come”, despite the insurrectionist anthems shouted at the top of their lungs, did not change the world.

❝ Refused, hailing from Umeå, can be considered one of the most important European hardcore ensembles.

❝ “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?

❝ Few albums possess an intensity comparable to Through Silver In Blood.

❝ The Eye of Every Storm is therefore a work to be promoted with full marks, another success in the catalog of the Californian band, to be worthily placed in your discotheque, alongside the other masterpieces of the group.

❝ A Neurosis concert isn't a concert: it's a journey, at the end of which you're not exhausted, you're destroyed. Physically and psychologically.

❝ When it comes to American indie rock, an important name not to forget is Throwing Muses.

❝ House Tornado is their second work released in 1988, and it confirms their penchant for a sort of psychedelic ballad characterized by the jingle jangle of guitars blending with rather complex rhythmic patterns, based on time signatures rarely frequented by other musicians in the scene.

❝ “The Ulver are the living proof that music has neither boundaries nor genres.”

❝ “Ulver is a schizophrenic band.”

❝ “Wolves evolves once again”.

❝ 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.

❝ "The Trend Is Dead!!!"

❝ "Far Beyond Driven" is perhaps their masterpiece, their peak of success.

❝ "...Society is looking at this and saying, 'This is heavy metal.' That's not heavy metal, that's an insane act.."

❝ 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.

❝ The Fat of the Land by Prodigy falls into this second category.

❝ Because... without 'Music For The Jilted Generation', we wouldn't have listened to any of what we hear today.

❝ The song is a swarm of shards to the face, with that violent and deep beat accompanied by the Rave sound that must be blasted, which finds repose in the traditional Indian singing of Shahin Badar's angelic voice.

❝ THEY ARE BACK!

❝ Black Metal is not a genre like the others, it is truth.

❝ All smoke and no fire.

❝ “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”

❝ Pain deserves infinite respect, precise timing, and music to accompany it

❝ “Disappointing self-titled return” will shoot the specialized magazines.

❝ Cut the crap, if you like Indie Rock and don’t know this album, then you don’t like Indie Rock.

❝ “If hatred could be perfectly put into music, that music would belong to Unsane.”

❝ “Unsane: the perfect band to play at your 5-year-old child's birthday party.”

❝ “They are three, but they make noise for thirty.”

❝ The absolute masterpiece of Marlene Kuntz.

❝ these guys, with 22 albums and countless concerts under their belt, still play with the same grit they did thirty years ago.

❝ A beautiful album “Catartica”, no doubt about it.

❝ 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.

❝ The most suitable label to describe them is perhaps "out-of-control music."

❝ Listen to die.

❝ This machine kills everybody.

❝ Witch is a wonderful minimalist guitar sketch accompanied by a gentle and melancholic vocal line.

❝ The failure is and will remain one of the mysteries of 90s music.

❝ The Dirty Three are a band with an exceptional ability to stir emotions and evoke images in the listener, and this album, a concept-album about the sea, is probably their masterpiece

❝ A violin. A guitar. A drum. Three instruments, yet they are enough, indeed, more than enough.

❝ A dreamy violin, a strident guitar, a drum as precise as never before: this is Dirty Three, unknown ferrymen, emblem of that compelling and experimental movement we call post-rock.

❝ 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.

❝ Few bands open their hearts to serve it on a twelve-centimeter-diameter platter. 

❝ Novelty is the watchword for this group, always.

❝ The Gathering has always proven to be a chameleon-like band, emblematic in its musical directions.

❝ “Mr. E is crazy.”

❝ “For me a Masterpiece of art and life!”

❝ “The biography of Mr. E (Mark Oliver Everett, holder of the name Eels and the only actual member of the band) is a river of drama.”

❝ It's difficult to describe a masterpiece.

❝ the witches are back!

❝ 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,

❝ this is the first review we're doing on what, in my opinion, is the best Korn album, the angriest one.

❝ "There is a place in my mind that I love to hide"

❝ Having Korn perform an Unplugged concert is like putting Nutella on a nice plate of macaroni: it doesn't make any damn sense!

❝ 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.

❝ One of the few reunions that was truly needed.

❝ the psychedelic vein of Kula Shaker live is an acid sound wall that overwhelms you;

❝ An excellent debut album for a band that burned out too quickly.

❝ You see him wade through pop without ever getting his hands dirty in banality, always balancing between irony and genius.

❝ Eleven slaps in the face, beautiful beautiful, resounding, thunderous.

❝ Recommended for those who love the most extreme Zorn because his influence goes beyond simple collaboration.

❝ “The first non-metal masterpiece in history”

❝ “This is Popular Art.”

❝ “The misery of artists is to be remembered only for beautiful melodies.”

❝ Seventy minutes for twenty-three songs.

❝ I even forgive them for ten minutes of off-key footage, that's the beauty of being artist but not arty, and someone forgive those who lost them in the vast sea of those fiery and flaming years.

❝ a surprising, phenomenal record, capable of captivating indelibly on the first listen, where the influence of the Velvet Underground is unmistakably felt.

❝ Dizzy Up the Girl represents the pinnacle of the Goo Goo Dolls' musical journey, combined (let's admit it) with the desire to become known to the general public.

❝ This album is definitely a nice album. Big words to exalt its excellent qualities are unnecessary because it hasn't changed much in the history of rock music.

❝ Known to the European public mostly for the ballad "Iris," the Goo Goo Dolls have been active on the scene since as far back as 1986...

❝ “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.

❝ Physics, sex, suffering, death, suicide, God, and whores.

❝ “Do you believe in forever? I don’t even believe in tomorrow…”

❝ Take life with more irony, that’s the advice from the Brooklyn four.

❝ 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..”

❝ “Ill comunication” is certainly one of the key works of the first half of the 90s, to understand those stylistic hybridizations that have often been labeled under the name of crossover.

❝ The Beastie Boys are the transversal line that unites the most diverse musical genres, from Rap to Crossover, Funky to Blues, Punk to R'N'B.

❝ This was the first and greatest success in the Hip Hop field up to that time (4.5 million copies sold of this first LP of theirs from 1986), which brought them some trouble from the rap purists who thought they pandered too much to the charts.

❝ 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.

❝ Among the hidden gems of the great Nineties that have just passed, "China Gate" deserves to be placed with full merit, the third album by the Bostonians Cul De Sac, true gurus of the new experimental prog scene.

❝ Liga is out of ideas.

❝ Ligabue has worn out his welcome: it's very simple.

❝ And here comes the drums opening "Vivo morto o x", a biting piece, pure rock, the kind that makes you think, makes you angry, makes you sing.

❝ From now on, for a barbecue "Nude With Boots" is like charcoal: essential.

❝ few bands on this planet can boast as much influence on the entire rock scene as the Melvins.

❝ The rock historiography tells us that the Melvins chose their band name in honor of an unfortunate Christmas tree thief from Aberdeen, named Melvin.

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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"

❝ The praise of the absurd, the triumph of nonsense, twenty-five years after “Trout Mask Replica” the miracle repeats itself.

❝ The best crossover album in history, no bullshit, the rest is just imitation, this is original.

❝ Giving 5 stars to this work is an understatement.

❝ Because when someone gargles with muriatic acid, concrete nails, and the metal spheres of stainless steel bearings and then screams in your face with all the strength and wheezing desperation they possess "STACCALASPINA", for me they are the undisputed champion of the entire (un)known universe in terms of elegiac assorted poetics.

❝ In memory of Chuck "Evil" Schuldiner May 13, 1967 - December 13, 2001

❝ The best compositions, the best lyrics, the best musicians, the best mediation between classic and experimental... the best work of Death.

❝ Negrita: a name associated for a few years now with the caption: "Italian rock" and this too fits just right.

❝ "Buy the album, this is better than Sex".

❝ The genuineness is probably the greatest virtue of this 1997 album by Negrita: a handful of old-school rock songs, with prominent guitars and Pau's voice navigating through lyrics that tackle themes such as love and disillusionment, without neglecting purely light-hearted and ironic episodes.

❝ In short, it is not music, but a true musical anabasis.

❝ I LOVE YOU.

❝ In my opinion, a clear 2-0, and we’ll see each other again in a couple of seasons.

❝ "The Dirt Of Luck" ('95), the first full-length for the Boston band after the debut EP "Pirate Prude" from the previous year: a handful of uneasy lullabies, seated on a floor of slow, yet hard and pointed rhythms like stones.

❝ We are in 1994, and Helium, an American indie rock band formed two summers before, releases their first Extended Play through Matador Records.

❝ It is incredibly painful to talk about this album with the awareness that we are facing the last work in the thirty-year career of this formidable group; it is incredibly painful to do so at such a short distance from the death of Mimi Parker, the heart and soul of the group along with her partner Alan Sparhawk.

❝ Double Negative is one of those albums that provoke a sense of alienation after the first listen, greater awareness after the second, and a sudden and irreversible love from the third onwards;

❝ buy this album and don't listen to it. Put it on the shelf and forget about it.