Best artist Musical of the eighties secondo DeBaser.

❝ "\u201COrchestrion\u201D is Pat Metheny’s latest madness."

❝ "undoubtedly delivers one of the masterpieces of his decades-long career."

❝ "... a new milestone in electric guitar music... searing, soaring, twisted chords of action guitar/thought process. An incendiary work by an unpredictable master, a challenge to the challengers..."

❝ Fast, violent, and direct.

❝ It's the only single by the band to reach number one. (...and I could already put an end to my writing today).

❝ discovering the Clash at 16 is like... discovering the Clash at 16, period.

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

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

❝ “Beware of imitations.”

❝ The new X album is out.

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

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

❝ 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.

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

❝ "Unknown Pleasures" scares me.

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

❝ "Black & White Minstrels 75-79" is the archaeological relic of the Monochrome Set's prehistory.

❝ Founded by Bid, the Monochrome are one of the best New Wave bands, reminiscent of the musicals of the '70s with a distinct taste for psychedelia.

❝ To wash your hands of the conflict, between the powerful and the powerless, means you are taking sides with the oppressors

❝ Capitalism is the most barbaric of all religions

❝ Sole definition: Milestone.

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

❝ Never!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

❝ The Shadow is Cast

❝ When Jim entered the basketball court he was twelve years old and alone.

❝ It goes without saying that it is a desert island record and a must-have at all costs.

❝ The sound is the rhythm, and the rhythm is the sound.

❝ Laughing to avoid crying, this is "Fear Of Music."

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

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

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

❝ Well you can lead a horse to water
But you're never gonna make him drink
And you can lead a man to slaughter
But you're never gonna make him think

❝ the merry consumer who ends up being the food at a bigger feast

❝ And that voice, damn what a voice! Everything is perfect, a sonic paradise.

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

❝ “Hello sunshine, won’t you stay?”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

❝ 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.

❝ In the history of rock, the Residents from San Francisco have perhaps been the most "independent" group ever.

❝ The Residents are the greatest interpreters of the theory of obscurity, formulated by the infamous Nicolas Senada, and as such, they have always rejected the mainstream and visibility to the point of never having shown their own faces

❝ The Residents decide to release five experimental pieces from four years earlier, collected in "Not Available", where the late sixties' instrumental avant-garde meets electronic music and the synthesizer.

❝ Is it mere nostalgia, or objectivity, when things are viewed from afar?

❝ Kilimanjaro (1980) is an album that captivates at the first listen, engaging the emotional sphere and enchanting it to such an extent that any attempt at auditory detox becomes futile.

❝ "13.13" is a TERRIFYING Album in the highest sense of the term.

❝ As you might have guessed, we are in front of one of those "cult" albums in the history of rock.

❝ In "Blessing of Tears," Robert Fripp shows remarkable sensitivity, a clear, emotional message that is also aesthetically consonant from the listener's perspective (something found in very few romantic tracks of his production).

❝ A precious document. Fragmented notes, experiments, songs built on ideas kept in the archive for years.

❝ It is impossible to achieve an aim without suffering

❝ 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.

❝ The rating? We don’t rate the dream, we live it.

❝ the great, unique, legendary, indestructible, and inimitable Fleshtones

❝ these Fleshtones are stage animals

❝ This “My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts” defies any attempt at control and categorization.

❝ Such variety in a single album: doing so many things and doing them well is not for everyone.

❝ Rickie Lee Jones is a class act artist, a model for a generation of singer-songwriters who, in the years when this work was published, surfaced in great numbers on the scene.

❝ The voice, as always "ungraceful" yet precise, capable of touching the depths of Tom Waits (with whom she was romantically involved) and the Minnie Riperton-like high notes.

❝ My relationship with "Starless And Bible Black" is instead on another level of values, being the album that has most contributed to developing my way of perceiving music over the last twenty years.

❝ Asia Minor is a French band formed in the mid-70s, and their name is inspired by the origins of their founding members and multi-instrumentalists Setrak Bakirel and Eril Tekeli.

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

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

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

❝ "Don't tell me I can't lose what I don't have, because I can lose everything I want".

❝ Kip Hanrahan is a legend in all of Afro-American music, a great percussionist, an excellent composer but above all a brilliant conductor, in the sense of having that ability to blend many musicians with the most diverse backgrounds.

❝ Wandering through jazz and its immediate surroundings, it’s practically impossible not to encounter Armando Anthony Corea, known as “Chick”.

❝ Unmissable; especially now that it has thirteen tracks. Mandatory. Absolutely.

❝ They make a winning, perfect pair.

❝ Rip Rig + Panic were: Sean Oliver, bass, Mark Springer, keyboards, Gareth Sager sax and guitars, Bruce Smith, drums. And his sixteen-year-old little wife, that Neneh Cherry, who lent her delightfully raw and bold voice.

❝ Ah yes, recommended for those who say the '80s were all shit.

❝ The album is magnetic, much harder and more electronic than its predecessors, and a journey into the recesses of the human psyche, in the murky waters of a disturbed consciousness.

❝ Adi Newton works on every single sound with the precision of a miniaturist, the result is a transparent, glassy, precious electro jewel

❝ “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.

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

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

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

❝ “Cry Mercy Judge” opens offbeat and hits you sideways, a pulsating New Wave thrill strikes you like an explosion tearing a building in half as soon as the needle finds some notes.

❝ “Words From The Front” is indeed an inspired album.

❝ “darling, mysteries come and go but love remains the best kept secret in town”

❝ One after the other, not a single one goes wrong, a perfect assembly of chosen pieces.

❝ Snakefinger died on July 1, 1987, from a heart attack.

❝ Absolutely unmissable.

❝ The Lounge Lizards are an American experimental-jazz group, founded in 1978.

❝ For twenty-five years, people have been trying to label this band into a genre, obviously with little success.

❝ The lead instrument was John Lurie’s saxophone, neurotic and playful, fun and unpredictable, flitting through all the compositions.

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

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

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

❝ Subversive synth-pop. Minimal melodies. Galloping guitars. Deadly riffs. Punk urgency.

❝ Wall Of Voodoo are the Depeche Mode catapulted into a Sergio Leone film, with a Morricone soundtrack, of course.

❝ The Ugly Americans in Australia is therefore a pulsating and vital live album, at times even overwhelming.

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

❝ Holy words, dear Steve, holy words.

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

❝ Do Not Open Until Doomsday.

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

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

❝ ZOO-MUSIC GIRL.

❝ The sound of The Fall is dark, skewed, aggressive, syncopated, hallucinatory, schizophrenic.

❝ The Fall's tracks are the same from beginning to end: as they begin, they continue and end. They could go on indefinitely: they are the image of a state of affairs impossible to change.

❝ This means that from that moment on, anyone retracing those paths would draw from the production of these incredible formations;

❝ Masterpiece, as was said.

❝ I dream of ending these dreams of mine.

❝ Their story begins in 1978.

❝ Mesh And Lace, although less famous than some of its more illustrious contemporaries, represents one of the most unsettling works of the genre, constantly traversed by a thin thread of nervous tension on the brink of collapse.

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

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

❝ Mother Juno is a great album.

❝ All of this makes Fagen’s first solo album a milestone not only of ’80s pop but probably in the entire history of popular music.

❝ The great and total novelty of “The Nightfly” is that it is the first album recorded entirely in digital, with a sound perhaps somewhat plastic, fake but extremely clean and pleasant.

❝ A work that, as Fagen himself stated, represents the third panel of a triptych, youth - “Nightfly”, maturity - “Kamakiriad”, the unavoidable confrontation with “the fella in the brite nitegown” ...

❝ “We are young but getting old before our time

We'll leave the tv and the radio behind

Don't you wonder what we'll find steppin' out tonight”

❝ “Music videos kill music”

❝ “When I realized I would be recording at the end of July and mixing the tracks around my birthday, which is in August, I was amazed that this had happened before, but only once. And it was when I worked on my first album, forty years ago. There are a lot of songs I wrote, some even halfway, and that didn't make it. Only eight survived, and I think they are enough. .... Usually, when I start writing songs, I don't have a specific theme in mind, but sometimes it can come about spontaneously. In this case, I speak of comedy and tragedy, and the way in which they intertwine in our lives. These songs deal with fear and anger, alienation and loss, but also everything that's really worth living for: friendship, laughter, music, and art itself. I couldn't have written about all this in 1979 because I hadn't lived enough.”

❝ Everything perfect. From the clever cover to the music, not a wrong note, not a graceless passage, not an inferior melody.

❝ Coincidence or not, "Oops! Wrong Planet" is the first non (and not even partially) progressive album in Utopia's history.

❝ Utopia does not present prog or arena, concepts, or other visionary and/or pretentious projects, but instead, they offer fifteen pop and powerpop songs, only one of which exceeds four minutes in length.

❝ Drip drip drip drip drip... [cit.]

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

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

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

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

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

❝ Phil Manzanera was, in all likelihood, the most creative, talented, and intelligent guitarist of the 70s English scene.

❝ Simplifying the matter, this record is splendid.

❝ perhaps something like a dream of past psychedelia and future sounds that slowly fades with the onslaught of the first morning rays and the violence of the 6 pm rains...

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

❝ GOOD EVENING

❝ And now all of you go to hell.

❝ Hassell's omniscient trumpet slithers thick and discreet, muttering and muffled.

❝ According to Jon Hassell, it is possible to unite these two worlds with a total immersion, an “intoxication” in search of a perfect musical form that is not a hybrid but a total symbiosis between the two parts, a calligraphy in the air.

❝ The term he coined “primal future” probably explains this better than a thousand biographies,

❝ As Paul Simon recounts:
"Graceland was the result of an extraordinary ability to understand one another among people who had just met".

❝ "These wonderful songs refuse to despair, despite the evidence all around us. "So Beautiful Or So What" rejects the allure of fashionable darkness and the hypnosis of ignorance - better to contemplate and celebrate the endurance of the spirit and the persistence of love"

❝ "I don't know a dream that's not been shattered or driven to its knees"

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

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

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

❝ An album among the most influential of the last thirty years.

❝ No rating, no judgment. Pure Sensation.

❝ Perfect music did not exist. Someone had to make it. Here it is. Incredible. Perfect.

❝ Daydream Nation is a masterpiece. Without a doubt.

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

❝ Youth against time!

❝ Cow(boy)punk is a genre that in English, as often happens, sounds much better than its translation in Italian.

❝ If there weren’t music like this, life would be much, much harder...

❝ In 1983 they released their debut album, the splendid mini-album produced by Earle Mankey “10-5-60”.

❝ Music from the depths of the heart. Music in resonance with the strings of the soul. Music that, while wounding, soothes.

❝ Right band at the wrong time.

❝ Urgent, honest, fresh, and light, American to the core, "Gravity Talks" is an album to whistle and smile at the sun, the journey of four boys from the Arizona desert to the Los Angeles coast, clear minds, no clouds in sight, and just a real desire to play, because tomorrow is another day.

❝ The cornerstone of the album is therefore rhythm, there's no doubt about it.

❝ And Anton Fier does what, he changes everything and invites some very respectable people to join the new The Golden Palominos and births a terrible album of not too bizarre pop rock.

❝ Industrial waste playing romance.

❝ Wind in perpetual motion.

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

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

❝ U2 have aged poorly.

❝ Like an electric shock.

❝ Arto Lindsay undeniably represents one of the key figures of the 80s.

❝ To define the work in question simply as “Post-Punk”, as it has also been done, is not only reductive, it is above all offensive;

❝ It’s the farthest place I’ve ever been, it’s a new frontier for me

❝ Another world just made for two I’ll swim the seas inside with you And like the waves without a sound I’ll never let you down

❝ Nonsense.

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

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

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

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

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

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

❝ Their entire sound was indeed based on percussion, mostly of oriental origin.

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

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

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

❝ "Punk is whatever we make it to be"

❝ Minutemen = modest, minute men.

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

❝ Blood, sweat, and tears was SRV's motto regarding his way of playing, as well as a perfect description of the kind of timbre he sought.

❝ "Sometimes what appear as failures, are really successes in disguise"

❝ Thus, our cowboy starts from Austin, Texas, and travels across the entire star-spangled nation, shooting guitar solos and blues songs.

❝

Nothing better after a hectic day than coming home and refreshing one's ears and spirit with music possessing opposite characteristics: gentle, sensitive, and respectful of good taste.

❝ it oozes sweat, energy that rivals a nuclear power plant, and passion, the kind that flows only from blind and unconditional love.

❝ The live energy they radiated was and still is of devastating power.

❝ The LP closes with a splendid cover of the Calico Wall, "I'm A Living Sickness", tormented by the inhuman screams of Rudi, almost emphasizing that there, among the gravediggers, there is no one wilder than him.

❝ Univers Zero has maintained a unique style for 34 years with exemplary consistency, always producing works of high quality, regardless of trends and years.

❝ I like 1313 as it sounds, it could belong to any musical era and come out unscathed.

❝ The instrumentation is decidedly more "rock" compared to "Ceux De Dehors."

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

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

❝ It's the album for the disillusioned.

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

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

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

❝ 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

❝ 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.

❝ “Temple of Love”, their ultimate hit, as well as one of the most powerful and compelling tracks that, in my humble opinion, has ever been written in pop music.

❝ “First & Last & Always,” is also the truest and most essential, a quick journey into darkness.

❝ What can I say in conclusion, except that it would be a crime not to listen to this “Floodland” which constitutes, in my opinion, the highest point of the band's discography and, perhaps, of all dark rock.

❝ The writing of Natalie Merchant is unmistakable.

❝ Born in Jamestown in 1981, the 10,000 Maniacs have written important chapters in the realm of the so-called "college rock" of the eighties American scene.

❝ The album isn't musically watered down.

❝ 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 am lost, I am silenced, I am blind - I am drunk with sadness, drowned by madness - the wave engulfs me, the mirror repels me - the echo of your laughter crosses the mirror - and I am alone - no friendship, no comfort, no future, no home - the past freezes inside me.

❝ Over is the ultimate expression of the Manchester artist, Over is a record that has always existed (how many works exist on the theme?) that was just waiting to find the right artist to crystallize it in the best form in which it could be conceived, and that is Peter Hammill, as few are skilled with human torment and feelings

❝ Peter Hammill – PH7 – 1979

❝ I named my band after one of the worst films in the history of cinema, but precisely for this reason, one of the most fascinating.

❝ There is the Neanderthal garage, ugly, dirty, and nasty, in which Gravedigger V and Morlocks excel.

❝ My wife is sitting there, and I'm making coffee for two...
...but I come back inside bringing coffee for three.
COFFEE FOR THREE...???

❝ Complex and multifaceted, not the best but almost.

❝ What a shame, Naked Prey!

❝ Stan Ridgway is the Ray Bradbury of American song.

❝ If you haven't done so, give it a listen; you may not like it, but it's a work of great originality, as well as of excellent craftsmanship.

❝ How about a "Springsteen on steroids"? Does that sound good?

❝ Elusive as the unconscious, indefinable as a free-associating stream of thoughts.

❝ I think that listening to ‘Brown Eyed Girl’ makes life better.

❝ But at 80, his distinctive voice remains as powerful and remarkably emotional as ever.

❝ 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.

❝ Bring the Family: a tribute to love.

❝ It is a great London performance from October 30, 1993 released in 2006 for the "Performance Classics" series from Hip-O Select, featuring John Hiatt in top form and accompanied by a very solid rock band.

❝ Consistent, dry, direct songs without unnecessary frills, this is American Rock that the great John (class of '52) has always created.

❝ What a great band, guys, what a great band!

❝ Those who loved the Radio Birdmen and the Saints will definitely find a lot to enjoy with fast and corrosive tracks like the opening “Jesus On T.V.,” the powerful “I Still See You,” the instrumental ride “Frank Hyde (Slight Return),” and the long and dark “Ocean Shore.”

❝ I would pronounce: CELIBATE RIFLES!!!

❝ Kendra Smith and David Roback, leading figures of the 1980s Paisley Underground scene, knew what they were doing when they chose the name Opal for their creation.

❝ "Early Recordings," as the name suggests, is a collection of the early recordings by Opal, sourced from the two EPs "Fell From The Sun" and "Northern Line".

❝ 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.