Best artist Musical of all time secondo DeBaser.

❝ There is always a certain reverential fear when approaching Beethoven.

❝ The purest talent in the history of music was named Ludwig Van Beethoven. He broke the strings and hammers of all the pianos he touched because he had no limits. And he broke souls.

❝ Art, just art held me back

❝ Animal Collective are constantly on the move.

❝ Animal Collective is the psychedelic group assigned to us for the new millennium. We should be grateful to them. They are unique.

❝ Compact, cohesive, at the same time cunningly pop by their standards and subtly psychedelic in the cyclical repetition of loops.

❝ Indispensable box set, contains the most moving hesitation in jazz history, the insanely delayed entry of the sax in "Lover Man." Trembling tale of a man touched by God, perhaps too abruptly. That man died at 35, but those who buried him thought he was 53

❝ Charlie Parker was the greatest musician in the history of modern jazz.

❝ In conclusion, "Bird at St. Nick's" can be defined as an album intended particularly for Charlie Parker enthusiasts.

❝ This song really seems to be made of rain.

❝ It is undoubtedly now one of my favorites because it is simply something special.

❝ The Sophtware Slump is a masterpiece; Sumday is not.

❝ Experimental Grooves by Antonello Cresti is a journey through experimental and avant-garde music that starts from the '60s and reaches our days.

❝ "Lucifer Over London", curated by Antonello Cresti, is a beautiful book on industrial music and apocalyptic folk: it is an essential text for enthusiasts of these genres and the groups that best represent them.

❝ Solchi Sperimentali Italia is a precious and comprehensive work that fills a gap and investigates a multifaceted and changing matter, discussing musicians united by courage and the absence of compromise.

❝ Do not watch it... Do not stare into its eyes... Do not dare to cast your gaze upon it... It wants to devour your soul, and it wants it now.

❝ Stop making that big face!

❝ it’s probably good (for the album), but it actually makes me think I’m pretty shit

❝ It is not essential to express a definitive judgment on this work; the five stars, as well as the review, are just a necessary act.

❝ Within me live my identical life of microorganisms that do not know they belong to my body... To which body do I belong?

❝ ...and my teacher taught me how difficult it is to find the dawn within the dusk...

❝ "The only thing to expect from John Coltrane is the unexpected" (Zita Carno)

❝ Silence. This is the silence before something unique, marvelous, and splendid that one fears just to speak of (the first example that comes to mind is Beethoven's Ninth), something known for its superhuman, celestial and infernal power at the same time, a continuous shiver, a dive into the dark depths of ecstasy breaking the heart, tearing it apart, making it believe, understand, see a tear of life above the sky amid flames, light, again flames, again light.

❝ For a journey into space, all you need is about twenty euros, even less if you find "Stellar Region" on sale.

❝ “because Mozart's Requiem is a cornerstone of my world, and what I think has not yet been said.”

❝ “Mozart, like it or not, is in our musical DNA.”

❝ “In the summer of 1788, once again in financial difficulty, he decided to surrender to a phenomenal creative raptus”

❝ Friday, July 22, 2016, the big day has arrived. The long wait is over: the fourteenth edition of «Muso – Live Music & Comics» opens its doors.

❝ Saturday, July 23, 2016, second night of «Muso 2016 – Live Music & Comics».

❝ This is where our Muso ends, and it ends in the best possible way.

❝ First, buy the record, it’s essential.

❝ Frank Zappa remains nevertheless one of the greatest Composers of the 20th century. Period.

❝ Sheik is essential; it’s true that the orchestral suites of The Grand Wazoo are a work of art, but Sheik is mandatory; it’s true that Over-nite sensation is a revolution, but Sheik is inevitable.

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

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

❝ The perfect album.

❝ the system must be destroyed,

❝ as soon as you play "Activate!" the tank moves bouncing on anachronistic and relentless drum machines, guitars demolish the synths, Nic Endo's schizoid voice pins you to the wall.

❝ 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.

❝ I devoured with utmost calm and intense pleasure, like a fine liqueur.

❝ 'We risk forgetting it, now that the new millennium travels fast among disembodied virtual sounds. But wasn't the 20th century perhaps the century of the song? If we tried to line up a few thousand songs one after the other, in chronological order, we would obtain the most exhaustive, colorful, truthful novel of the 20th century, at least the one that best recounts its sentimental education. (quote from the book)

❝ A seminal work, (such as Radiohead's "Kid A," for instance) but above all, of great quality.

❝ 1997, Warp Records: Rob Brown and Sean Booth release their absolute masterpiece, a concentrate of creativity and experimentation like never heard before within the then-hot IDM phenomenon.

❝ “There Is a Light That Never Goes Out”, and the impression is that Autechre, notwithstanding two or three tracks, have produced a good album, simple and listenable as hasn't happened for a decade.

❝ "My hero? Definitely Muddy Waters... I know his music well, it's sublime. I also know him personally, a true gentleman, quite the opposite of me..."

❝ From Mississippi to Chicago. A fateful move for the king of blues.

❝ In short, the electrifying energy that runs through it from start to finish, without any drop in tension.

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

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

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

❝ It is music that SEEMS reasoned, but always denies its expressed rationality.

❝ “La Di Da Di” is entirely instrumental.

❝ In conclusion, definitely one of the most original albums of this year. If you are among those who seek new sounds, “Mirrored” is highly recommended.

❝ Since the very beginning, the band's name was linked to an elegant and sophisticated musical genre thanks to the sinuous melodies accompanied by the wonderful voice of Sade Adu, a true icon of beauty and charisma in the '80s.

❝ 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.

❝ Boards Of Canada are a mystery.

❝ It is a nocturnal journey within oneself and simultaneously through thirty years of avant-garde electronics.

❝ The rest is almost unlistenable.

❝ “The best part of sex is walking home holding hands”.

❝ These guys are really lousy at playing! ..and listen to how off-key this is! What do they use to record?!!

❝ "'Bufalo Bill' is this cross and delight of mine: well, if I could, I would probably redo it with better attention to sounds and arrangements. I did it that way, bare and essential, to punish myself for having made 'Rimmel,' which had sold too much... crazy stuff!"

❝ "To understand De Gregori, you must not just listen to him; you have to feel him."

❝ "Captain, I did not want to tell you, but there is a white woman in the middle of the sea... so enormous, fresh and dark, that one never tires of looking at her..."

❝ the film is never boring and has a fairly fluid rhythm that allows the two-hour duration to pass quite easily.

❝ The first scene shows the actor (brilliant) arriving with determination, wearing a magnificent red sequin suit with devil wings and horns, "high" on everything and begins his "outing," turning the spotlight on his life as a drug addict and alcoholic in a rehabilitation clinic!

❝ 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 news that hasn’t yet reached the Olympus where I hope never to enter is that the Beatles knew how to play, and how.

❝ In short, the general impression here is that you are not just watching a documentary about the Beatles: you are actually reliving those years with them.

❝ Who would have ever thought that the Legend, perhaps the greatest in the History of Music, would have begun with a very simple, very banal, very inexpensive: ONE, TWO, THREE, FAH!

❝ "When Palermo Dreamed of Being Woodstock"

❝ 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.

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

❝ Autobahn is a masterpiece, pure as spring water.

❝ It's all justified because we are the injured party.

❝ In 1989, they released, under the Communion label, what remains their greatest work: "Umber", one of the highest points of late Eighties post-hardcore.

❝ Better yet: this album is beautiful.

❝ “One thing I’ve learned about Johnny Cash is that you don’t tell him what to sing.”

❝ “Hello, I’m Johnny Cash,”

❝ “I shot a man in Reno, just to watch him die”

❝ Here I have in my hands a booklet of "only" 1329 pages. It's an encyclopedia of music. But beware.

❝ 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?!"

❝ 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!

❝ I have here in my hands a tiny little book, just 150 pages, that makes you laugh out loud.

❝ 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.

❝ His albums shouldn’t be reviewed, they should just be listened to.

❝ it has the quality of being listened to and re-listened to (which is what matters), until in the end, you really convince yourself that you’re in front of something extraordinary.

❝ It’s his Apocalypse. But also his rebirth. More personal than this is impossible.

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

❝ Black Sabbath practically invented heavy metal out of nothing.

❝ We were not hippies, and we hated the hippies

❝ I recommend this text both to those who hate the Beatles and to those who think they know everything about the Beatles.

❝ “I have a very strong wife, who often kicks me out of the house.”

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

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

❝ Modern sonic contamination? Brian Eno and David Byrne!

❝ For the person writing to you, the best band of the last 25 years.

❝ Go without bread, for once, but by divine goodness, not without a work like this one.

❝ These gentlemen are extraordinary, no doubt about it: enjoy listening and welcome back to Isis.

❝

"This Is The End" had already been announced years earlier by James Douglas Morrison.

❝

"This is the end, beautiful friend. This is the end my only friend..."

❝

"Break On Through (To The Other Side)"

❝ "Lots of choc'lates for me to eat, Lots of coal makin' lots of 'eat. Warm face, warm 'ands, warm feet, Aow, wouldn't it be loverly?"

❝ “The case of Devo is singular.”

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

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

❝ 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.

❝ Go and get it immediately, even though I envy those who have never listened to it because discovering it has a different taste than having it in the player for many years, although sometimes I still find something new and it continues to move me. Anesthetizing.

❝ I'm not afraid of the dark, yet every time I listen to this album, I get fierce shivers that leave me no escape nor breath.

❝ Have you ever found yourself locked inside the cold chamber of a morgue with a toe tag between your toes?

❝ A book halfway between reportage and cemetery.

❝ reading a book like "Please kill me" is disheartening...I can only tell you that you reach the end exhausted...

❝ 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..”

❝ The idea of writing a book of commentary and/or interpretation on PF’s lyrics must also foreground the analysis of the musical content.

❝ Thank you, because it is wonderful to have a little light that glows so much, even from afar..

❝ An album by the Black Heart Procession, specifically this "Three" (published by Touch and Go in 2000), in its repetition, in the cyclical expression of its concept, is a religious experience.

❝ This album sounds dark as a starless night, ominous like a warm wind bringing dark omens, heavy like a cart full of the diseased advancing slowly and relentlessly, indifferent to everything.

❝ It is difficult to attempt to classify or even describe in broad terms the sonic chaos that comprises "Trout Mask Replica"

❝ Because I didn't understand a damn thing.

❝ Critics have slaughtered it, purists hate it, it seems even Captain Beefheart disowned it... yet "Unconditionally Guaranteed" is perfect.

❝ I had always imagined it so desperate.

❝ This album is an enormous joke.

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

❝ Daydream Nation is a masterpiece. Without a doubt.

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

❝ Youth against time!

❝ The best instrumental noise band in the world.

❝ Don Caballero 2 is pure (rock) catharsis. Let it completely overwhelm you.

❝ Simply elegant, refined, visionary. Simply IMMENSE.

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

❝ Audience: "MTV SUUUUCKS!"

❝ Few words for this album destined to change the course of extreme music history.

❝ Evolution. What a spectacle. And what a strangeness.

❝ My verdict on the new Carcass album is totally, absolutely negative.

❝ In essence, it is a surface-level work.

❝ 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

❝ 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.

❝ Unlikely is indeed the right adjective.

❝ The best remedy against Hegelianism? The Pixies.

❝ The line between genius and madness is very thin.

❝ WHERE IS MY MIND?

❝ Bandoneon, old lion, bite it!

❝ This latest work by the man who reinvented modern tango, breathing new life and expressiveness into it, begins amid market noises and "healthy vitality."

❝ The "cultured composer" Piazzolla emerges in all his extraordinary sweetness and creativity (just listen to "Oblivion"), but always without foregoing his extreme and passionate vitality.

❝ “"Jane Doe" is universally (and rightfully) considered the masterpiece of the Boston band; the compositional skills of Bannon-Ballou & Co. unarguably reach their peak here.”

❝ “Because I've always considered Converge a band of madmen, lunatics, mentally ill...”

❝ “Here’s the thing I love about Converge: they don't have a low-gear speed.”

❝ What Ekeroth perfectly achieves, however, is recreating the atmosphere of an era, namely, from the mid-Eighties to the early Nineties, transforming the vicissitudes of sixteen-year-olds into an engaging collective novel, thus narrating what was his and many of his peers' adolescence.

❝ 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.

❝ Books, like records, need to be lived.

❝ “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.

❝ 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.

❝ 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.

❝ “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.

❝ BEFORE READING THE BOOK IT'S BETTER TO LISTEN TO THE MUSIC

❝ 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.

❝ Break down all the mental cages that confine your ideas, thoughts, and opinions.

❝ "Nine is not a remake of 8 ½ because you cannot remake a masterpiece. Fellini’s work is untouchable; this is just the film adaptation of Nine, the Broadway musical itself loosely inspired by the famous film."

❝ “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.”

❝ I do not love Roberto Cotroneo. Not him. I read his book "Presto con Fuoco" aided by a fierce fever and driven solely by a promise made to the one who lent it to me. I despised it.

❝ 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).

❝ 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.

❝ Their music is instrumental: rarefied, enveloping, penetrating deep within you.

❝ You will love this album and you will love the “Friends Of Dean Martinez”.

❝ “Lost Horizon” is not a mass-produced product, it does not come out just to ensure the fulfillment of the contract, it is a further step on the ladder of increasing quality, moving towards a mature, outgoing, vibrant, experimental, and courageous sound,

❝ Funk is a mindset.

❝ RETURN OF THE BASTARDS...

❝ Primus sucks!!

❝ Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to complete madness!

❝ 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.

❝ 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?”

❝ If the first album was the revenge, then this represents the rebirth of tango, which the "Gotan Project" decides to accompany into the future.

❝ A must-have album, now become a cult object, to the point that concerts around Italy (not surprisingly, the Tenax in Florence did not let them slip away...) have all sold out.

❝ If you love the Gotan Project, don't miss it. If you don't know them, don't miss it and you'll love them.

❝ A wonderful piece of work, overflowing with insights.

❝ The 34-year-old Briton is a genius now mature, a sensational figure in the dance world (his selections "At The Controls" and "Dj-Kicks" are remarkable), he is one of the few who can afford to do whatever the hell he wants.

❝ The preface is by Carlo Verdone, and on this I believe there’s not much to elaborate.

❝ When the alien DavidBowie, restless astronaut of the deepest spaces of the human soul, encounters the musical architect of perfect cosmic spaces BrianEno, an extraordinary album emerges.

❝ HE'S OUTRAGEOUS, HE SCREAMS AND HE BAWLS

❝ We know, David Bowie is not a man of this planet, not in a strict sense, at least.

❝ 53 minutes of real delight, of pure art exposed by those who know how to do art well.

❝ Beautiful cover by Hipgnosis studio.

❝ It’s difficult if not impossible to find a weak spot: the Genesis funeral is postponed indefinitely.

❝ Tsunami publishes an interesting book dedicated to Italian progressive rock of the 70s, where the best albums of the period are examined.

❝ “Streetcleaner” is not just a masterpiece of industrial metal, one of the most influential chapters in extreme music ever, the perfect vade mecum of how this music should be conceived, composed, and executed.

❝ It's my album of 2023.

❝ Provocative, irritating, hateful, useless.