Best artist Pop of all time secondo DeBaser.

❝ "Brief compendium in 13 lessons of predominantly black-origin musical genres, curated and played by strictly white British musicians".

❝ It manages to hold together something that may escape those who do not know English or do not have the lyrics at hand: catchy melodies, never taken for granted, sophisticated in some cases, which, however, have come to terms with the punk tabula rasa, and committed lyrics, explicit, strongly political, in the best sense of the word.

❝ An overtly political album, decidedly correct. Still today, Our Favourite Album by the Style Council.

❝ The 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!

❝ 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).

❝ Ben Watt and Tracey Thorn are Everything But The Girl.

❝ This album represents to date the swan song of one of the most influential international pop groups: Ben Watt plus Lady Voice Tracey Thorn.

❝ For all those who loved the elegant atmospheres of the so-called English sophisti-pop, Everything But The Girl was an essential name, and this The Language of Life from 1990 sits at the pinnacle of their “new cool” period (there would later be a “dance” turn, but that’s another story).

❝ An absolutely perfect song.

❝ Absolute perfection. Both in form and content.

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

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

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

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

❝ And Abba know how to compose a chorus. These guys know what they’re doing. They know how to build a song.

❝ it is an album that essentially celebrates the era of discos, warm and carefree nights.

❝ Listening, savoring every single note of this record has the same rejuvenating effect as a cool shower after a hot, sticky day

❝ Have you done more than seven thousand reviews and embarrassingly overlooked "Thriller"?

❝ Thriller is still the best-selling album of all time, with approximately 110 million copies sold, and the number increases every year.

❝ The brand "Michael Jackson" has unfortunately become synonymous with "pedophilia," "bleached skin," "psychopath."

❝ the famous Here Comes The Rain Again, one of the trademarks of Eurythmics, is a genuine jewel of midtempo synth-ambient of effervescent avant-garde introspection,

❝ This album has everything and more of the best '80s radio rock and, at first listen, it almost seems like the small ensemble is having fun (and joking) as they delve into a musical genre already tried in all its sauces (and the grunge myth was yet to explode...)

❝ "Julia" is a small masterpiece, poignant and refined, almost in contrast to the other tracks.

❝ 1987. Kick is released, an album that definitively consecrates INXS into the Olympus of the best rock bands of the ’80s.

❝ The truth is, X did not become what Kick still is today, but it was still a great album that I would describe as their second best.

❝ The premature death of singer Michael Hutchence in 1997 undoubtedly engraved the word 'end' on the group's tombstone, but this work remains one of the best pieces they have produced.

❝ Simply, Madonna’s best album.

❝ "Bitch out of order - Bat out of hell - Fish out of water - I’m scared, can’t you tell - Bang Bang, shot you dead - Bang Bang, shot you dead [...] Now drive bitch - I said drive bitch - And while you’re at it, die bitch - That’s right drive bitch." Madonna, Gang Bang

❝ The young Elton is dynamite, a blossomed flower, indeed a wide-open powder keg, supporting this primordial trio formation perfectly,

❝ I place “Ticking” among the top ten Elton songs of my absolute liking,

❝ Often dismissed as a sentimental queen with a hair and glasses obsession, Elton John is actually one of the greatest artists to appear in the charts over the last 35 years.

❝ “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”

❝ The Kinks have given us many little pop gems and Ray Davies was a genius. Period.

❝ It's time to rediscover them, isn't it?

❝ Known mostly thanks to the seminal riff of "You Really Got Me", the Kinks have gone even further, releasing throughout their career several examples of undisputed compositional talent, with an energetic and peculiar sound, that today serve as a true "beacon" for many bands.

❝ For those who love pure and honest rock 'n' roll, and for '80s nostalgics, this album is an absolute must-have.

❝ I honestly consider this album a masterpiece, full of emotions and incredible feelings.

❝ We wander 'round in the darkness but every now and then a little light shines through.

❝ “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.

❝ "Main Course" is an album that satisfies everyone, fans of the Bee Gees from the late '60s as well as admirers of the disco period, and it is simply one of the most important and influential albums in pop history: incontrovertible, impossible to deny.

❝ Even while continuing to produce excellent albums in the following years, the Gibb brothers would never again reach such heights: this album imbued with style, inspiration, elegance, and creativity will remain the most precious gem of their career, as well as one of the greatest masterpieces of pop music, even ahead of the Beatles' "Abbey Road" and the Kinks' "Village Green Preservation Society".

❝ My first memories, instead, are of that open hi-hat on the upbeat, and the guitar riff of Stayin' Alive.

❝ “Robbie Williams is an artist.”

❝ “With these premises, I consider "Swing When You're Winning" from 2001 the pinnacle of Robbie's career, at least from a purely interpretative point of view.”

❝ “Great CD because it's the only Live from this artist and it's a picture, a snapshot of that moment, 2003, when he truly was the king of the Pop world.”

❝ “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.

❝ Ennio Morricone goes surfing...

❝ In 1985, the young MTV audience discovers for the first time the power and charisma of a little British guy who has long since earned his place in rock history.

❝ You can start with the last track, the very unique “The Silver Gun”, where Palmer sings in Urdu, an Indo-European language, over a very sophisticated and ethereal electronic melody which is enhanced by a precious sitar contribution.

❝ Speaking of the line of men behind her, this work contains the famous " You're So Vain ", one of those more-than-perfect pop songs, the lyrics of which blissfully mock a couple of her flings with incredibly vain young men, specifically Warren Beatty and Mick Jagger.

❝ Close is the sixth studio album by the British singer Kim Wilde, released in 1988.

❝ The return to the scene of Kim Wilde definitely deserves consideration.

❝ Love Moves is the seventh studio album by the British singer Kim Wilde, released in 1990.

❝ For a good five years, Supertramp didn't miss a beat and were the Lords of Pop. Maximum respect.

❝ A decisive push in this direction came from an album in the latter half of the decade, which represents, along with Michael Jackson's "Thriller", the aforementioned "Dark Side", and a few others, the perfect blend between commercially and artistically valid: "Breakfast in America" by Supertramp.

❝ Who knows why certain bands, although deserving from an artistic point of view, after years no one pays attention to them anymore. They simply disappear.

❝ Sia's career is one of the most paradoxical in recent pop history: a successful songwriter for artists like Rihanna and Katy Perry, when she works for herself, she doesn't achieve the same accolades.

❝ Trip The Light Fantastic, dated 2007, is probably the pinnacle of this unmissable “quest for heterogeneity” by the lovely Sophie

❝ Shoot From The Hip is a transitional album, a work that neither denies the recent brilliance of the debut nor replicates it crudely.

❝ Sophie Ellis-Bextor, one of the world's best exponents of quality pop music (because “pop” means “popular,” not “populated”).

❝ I will no longer speak because an artist must only communicate through his work. The artist does not exist. His art exists

❝ There’s nothing else to notice but harmony and melody.

❝ I wonder if it’s rock or not...

❝ Take care of works like this, they are rare.

❝ In conclusion, "Innervisions" is and will remain one of the most beautiful albums not only in Stevie Wonder's discography but in the entire history of music, and its importance transcends the album itself because it will be the final phase of the path undertaken by the artist in the seventies, which will then have its greatest splendor in "Songs In The Key Of Life."

❝ This is the album that most characterizes this artist, unanimously considered his most important work, a true milestone not only of 'Soul' but more broadly of all modern music.

❝ “Kick Me Under the Table All You Want / I Won’t Shut Up”

❝ “This world is bullshit, and you shouldn’t model your life on what we think is cool, and what we’re wearing and what we’re saying”

❝ “If I’m butter, If I’m butter// If I’m butter, then he’s a hot knife”

❝ 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.

❝ when it comes to an artist of the caliber of Lisa Stansfield, my little brain goes to fry itself and I accept everything, even a greatest hits: and that's precisely about "Biography", a collection of the greatest hits of our great performer, that I will talk to you.

❝ Ultimately, I feel compelled to recommend this album to all lovers of classy pop and those who enjoy listening to singers with excellent vocal skills, and Mrs. Stansfield certainly has quite the voice.

❝ Backstory: if I'm asked to give voice to what I consider the perfect pop, or better yet, to give voice to the sheer essence of pop, I say Tears For Fears.

❝ I don't have any problems calling them “the best pop group ever”; I really think they are an example of how pop should be done.

❝ Advice For The Young At Heart: I doubt it can fail to be one of the most blazing, exciting, inspired pop song essays of the last twenty years, with exhausting lyrics and melting melody, the most complete and exemplary page of a mature and unbreakable album.

❝ Imagine words that are important to you, imagine them suspended in mid-air.

❝ "And the course of life walks slowly, the message is in silence, in sobriety"

❝ Park Hotel, released in 1986, is one of Alice’s most beautiful and successful works

❝ “Anyone who has intelligence

May interpret the number of the beast.

It is a man’s number.

This number is 666”

❝ A Greek band, Aphrodite's Child, which boasted the fantastic and poetic voice of Artemios Ventouris Roussos (Demis), the great drumming of Lucas Sideras, and the lucid madness of that genius Evangelos Odyssey Papathanassiou (that is, the great Vangelis).

❝ “If I could find a white man who had the Negro sound and the Negro feel, I could make a billion dollars.”

❝ “This is Rock 'n Roll baby!”

❝ “One cannot seriously talk about rock without knowing at least thirty songs by Elvis Presley.”

❝ 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.

❝ If a bunch of music critics got together, watched, selected, evaluated, left the room, and said, "Ladies and gentlemen, this is the best rock music performance of all time," then there is clearly a reason.

❝ Your life is your own You're in charge of yourself Master of your home In the end In the end You have to face it alone

❝ "A night at the Opera" is Queen's masterpiece.

❝ Ladies and Gentlemen …Simon …..and…..Garfunkel

❝ They were the soundtrack of a generation, in life and in cinema.

❝ “My life seems unreal, my crime an illusion, a scene badly written in which I must play…”.

❝ Do you BELIEVE in Magic? I do.

❝ 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.

❝ If God had recorded an album, it would have been Pet Sounds.

❝ Smiley Smile is precisely the collection of the few published fragments of Smile.

❝ Published in 1971, "Surf's Up" is the last decent work of a group now divided by internal dissensions and the slow, inexorable mental deterioration of Brian Wilson.

❝ But the masterpiece of “Behavior” is certainly the poignant “Being Boring”, in our view one of the peaks of pop of all time, also thanks to a video clip that made history.

❝ “B-sides allow you to be creative. No rules to follow, no need to sound radio-friendly, the possibility to experiment and broaden the catalog.”

❝ “We wanted twelve potential singles”, Neil declared in 2001.

❝ Take the Oasis, tell them you love them they'll write you love songs send them roses, poems give them even juice from the heart; always make them feel important, buy all the CDs originals, always be present at the concerts, watch even the DVDs.

❝ It’s one hell of an album!

❝ At first listen, it is amazing, engaging, powerful.

❝ There are no words to describe what I believe is and will remain the best album of the year.

❝ Magnificent.

❝ “Un-thinkable” featuring Drake is the only gem of the album, especially for the arrangement and the warm voice with which Alicia always does her best; but this is the only moment in which the singer indulges in the sentimentality of the past.

❝ There is something magical about Alicia Keys, something that few others have today: talent.

❝ "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.

❝ If you too want to enter the wonderful world made of orderly anarchy, saudade, and at the same time joy, follow my advice, listen to this album.

❝ He is Paul McCartney, the greatest thing popular music has ever known, he is still alive, plays live, and so why not go see him and hear certain classics directly from the mouth of the one who created them after years of listening to them again and again on CDs, YouTube, vinyl, cover bands, and DVDs?

❝ The album is special to me, I don't deny it's embarrassing, possibly the worst of the Albion Paul, but it contains magic that only a fab four could secrete:

❝ Paul is a train that passes only once in a lifetime.

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

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

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

❝ A succulent album, for those who want to taste a very modern, R&B, soul, black, electronic, and elegant sound.

❝ An unrepeatable work will emerge, a great masterpiece that has been able to disrupt and unsettle any austere and severe music critic.

❝ The album "janet." from 1993 represents the peak of Jackson's popularity, where she delves into and takes to the extreme the analysis of themes like sex, sexuality, racism, a profound analysis of herself, of her own intimacy.

❝ Not many remember the Dutch Shocking Blue, most likely because they released only one globally successful single and then couldn't produce any others as famous.

❝ Famous mostly for their superhit "Venus" from 1969, with the famous guitar riff borrowed from "Pinball Wizard" by the Who, these Dutch musicians did what has been defined as "psychedelic pop" supported by the wonderful voice of the half-Hungarian, half-German Mariska Veres, who reminds many of Grace Slick.

❝ “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.

❝ “The usual sick melodies aren’t missing, irreproducible combinations of beauty and brutality.”

❝ “The solo debut of Elliott Smith is the classic CD to listen to on a sleepless night, between a packet of cigarettes to empty and a glass of Johnny Walker.”

❝ “The usual Elliott Smith: perhaps no one in the ’90s represented his demons in music so touchingly and inspirationally.”

❝ Welcome to the Goldfrapp atelier!

❝ This album is exactly like that, like a calzone.

❝ We had lost her, Alison.

❝ “God is a concept by which we measure our pain”

❝ “It’s just an album. It’s rock’n’roll played at different speeds, and it doesn’t contain a particularly deep message; the only reason I make records is because I’m supposed to.”

❝ “Don’t need a sword to cut thru flowers/Don’t need a watch to waste your time/Don’t need a gun to blow your mind”

❝ 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.

❝ 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.

❝ George Michael was a lonely man. By choice, by pain, by fear.

❝ A tracklist without fillers.

❝ George Michael is a complete composer and performer, his lyrics dense and moving, his sense of melody a truly rare gift, his arrangements meticulous and never overwhelming.

❝ 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.

❝ After the darkness, suffering, pain and exile, Christina Aguilera turns her gaze to the sunlight with a solid album, simple and without too much frills, a work that maybe won’t enter the Olympus of sound art, but at least will serve as a determined redemption to a suffocating and desolate blanket of darkness, a loss too serious for a pop that struggles to reclaim the true values.

❝ In these tracks, Aguilera finally unleashes her powerful vocal cords, which remained dull and faint in the dance and electronic tracks where bass, heavy beats, and synthesizers take center stage.

❝ Then we move on to “Hurt”, the most beautiful ballad ever written by Christina.

❝ If I say Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark, most people won't recognize the name. But if I mention the guys from Enola Gay, a lot of light bulbs will go off.

❝ Today we know OMD mainly for one song, "Enola Gay", the bestselling single in 1981 and still widely played on the radio.

❝ The Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark, or simply OMD, represented something more than just the unforgettable chorus of the legendary "Enola Gay".

❝ Ah, Duran Duran. The Bible of the '80s.

❝ "I was with my wife Linda in the same studio where "Rio" was being recorded. One evening I went to visit them and they played this new song "Save a Prayer" for me. I immediately told them that with that track they had a hit on their hands that would guarantee them a career." (Paul McCartney)

❝ After exactly 40 years of career and over a hundred million albums sold, the name of the Birmingham group has become a musical genre that allows, on the eve of 2022, to listen to beautiful songs through which you can distinctly hear the sound of bass, drums, and guitar, an increasingly rare occurrence in recent times.

❝ The career and image of Maggie Reilly are those of a perfect anti-diva:

❝ The essence of New Order is here, along with the origins of much of the music produced in recent years.

❝ Fuck U2, this is New Order!

❝ Dance, dance, otherwise we are lost!

❝ In 1981, "Face Value" was released, the solo debut of Phil Collins, an album that heralded the stylistic changes of the whimsical Genesis drummer, which would bring many disappointments to 70s fans, but an enormous commercial success both for the band and for Phil.

❝ Another bestseller from the good Phil, "No Jacket Required" is a carefree, easy album that is appreciated for its pure catchiness.

❝ One last note: Collins played all the instruments.

❝ A record for true connoisseurs, for me the best.

❝ To be listened to without prejudice... to be owned without a doubt!

❝ This time I put on the album for the first time and... Bang!... Naptime.

❝ Cyntia Anne Stephanie Lauper, known as Cyndi, was the true queen of ’80s pop

❝ It might have been that critical misstep that tripped up her career.

❝ 56 years under her belt and a voice still powerful, malleable, capable of spanning across very different genres: pop, rock, blues, electronic dance, etc.

❝ Thus, the daunting task for Blondie was to open customs between pure New Wave and pop-dance "degenerations," the same customs that would be crossed in the following years by others (with different outcomes, including the Talking Heads and Patti Smith).

❝ Champions of the New Wave and great friends with the legendary CBGB scene, they were undoubtedly the ones who achieved the most mainstream success thanks to their carefree manner, being excellent songwriters, more than decent musicians, and the unforgettable image of Debbie Harry.

❝ "Autoamerican" is the most ambitious album by the New York band; it is indeed a work that lays its foundation on a very particular sound mix.

❝ Piercing is the only word that encapsulates listening.

❝ Nine tracks, each more depressing than the last, each truer than the last. True for me.

❝ ...because when you listen to the self-titled third work of MAURO PELOSI from 1977 for three days in the car, you get that urge to shout to the world that HE IS A FREAKING AMAZING ARTIST AND KICKS EVERYONE'S ASS (those who will listen, will understand).

❝ “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 Ventures! A group practically unknown to most, but which can be defined as one of the most important initiators and exponents of the so-called "surf music."

❝ 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".

❝ One-Hit Wonder? Not a chance!

❝ Simply put, you either love them or hate them.

❝ Jamiroquai is like Saab: you either love them or hate them.

❝ This is the good news: the Jamiroquai of 2010 are a band again and not "Jason Kay's band."

❝ A beautiful voice and undeniable stage presence are important, almost indispensable traits for a pop singer, but obviously, they are not enough to make a complete artist; many, far too many times, we've witnessed the rise to the celebrity Olympus of figures who didn't even possess these basic requirements, but that wasn't the case for Sandra Lauer/Cretu, internationally recognized, also rightly, as a "minor" icon of '80s pop and nothing more.

❝ 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.

❝ 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.

❝ A heart-wrenching, deep, desperate scream rises from the ominous corridors of the music-biz: Whitney Houston, not even 49 years old, vanishes in a hotel room in Beverly Hills.

❝ The dance single "how i will know" is in my opinion the best dance track of the 80s.

❝ This "I'm your baby tonight" is a TOTAL BORE!

❝ Inspired, convincing, and perfectly balanced, “Chorus” definitively consecrates Andy Bell and Vince Clarke among the greatest names in pop history, deservedly so.

❝ “Am I Right?” is their most beautiful song, in my opinion (though not just mine), also considering the “Erasure” album of ’95 in its entirety.

❝ “Cowboy” conveys enthusiasm and joy of life in every single note,

❝ It's '97, Natalie Imbruglia releases her first album, destined to bring her much luck - in every sense, considering that the round out of sales amounts to 6.5 million copies.

❝ White Lilies Island is decidedly more rock, more pop, and more electronic than its predecessor.

❝ Natalie has grown as an artist. Her confidence has increased, and this is what makes Counting Down the Days a product of mature pop.

❝ The music is reversible but time is not. Turn back. Turn back. Turn back. Turn back.

❝ When they ask you how symphonic rock and disco can blend, just let them listen to this more than memorable album, which deserves more than what it has received.

❝ Their music is an unpretentious orchestral pop made with class and enthusiasm.

❝ Can you review an album without even listening to it? When it comes to Miss Toffoli, yes.

❝ A total immersion in nature in its purest and simplest state, stripped of every redundant and superfluous sound, to create musicality in its most intimate essence.

❝ First and hopefully last album entirely sung in Italian by Elisa Toffoli.

❝ "Einzelhaft was my best album."

❝ "I never slept with a photo of the Bolland brothers under my pillow!"

❝ “Avevo ecceduto nella ricerca di un'immagine, ero riuscito troppo “stilè”. Sulla copertina di Junge Roemer ero molto elegante, ma anche troppo rigido.”

❝ In history books, in a few years, this era will be referred to as the "Berlusconi era", characterized by an overcoming of traditional political alignments and pentapartite fragmentation, by a return to political representation based on charisma, by a close relationship between consensus and tools for creating consensus as a determining factor for adopting certain decisions of collective relevance.

❝ Butterfly, in particular, is considered by the author herself as the personal “magnum opus” of her career, a genuine turning point, a bridge between the hyper-sweetened past of orchestral ballads and the mischievous future of hip hop.

❝ Wrapped in sparkly corsets and married to Photoshop, Mariah Carey returns to music with the class and genuineness of times long gone.

❝ This “Emancipation…” then continues on the path of all the other albums regarding the desire to showcase Mariah’s remarkable vocal abilities, always ready to tackle impossible vocalizations, with phrasing all “supported” by tones that are nothing short of unreachable, especially for most of today’s pseudo singers, with a continuous use of whistle tones and falsettos.

❝ "Cmon cmon cmon cmon cmon take that! And party!"

❝ "Everything changes so that nothing changes".....

❝ Who among you has never listened once in life to "Back for Good"?

❝ “...and it was so yellow…What the f*** are you talking about, Chris Martin? Is this supposed to be the best British band? It's enough to make you want to slit your wrists.”

❝ Back to Black consists of 11 tracks of simple pop that harks back to the fifties' sounds, especially the artist Billie Holiday concerning voice and some musical solutions.

❝ The songs are all predictable, devoid of any originality, heard at least a thousand times coming out of Arnold's jukebox: what is called a cliché.

❝ What can I say, a truly special and unique evening, Dannii sings live beautifully, and even though she will never be a global icon, it was nice to participate in such a beautiful event.

❝ All this was accompanied by a beautiful video in which Dannii sexily and sensually cut her long black hair with scissors, speaking the words "I begin to wonder" in a thousand different languages.

❝ Thanks to this project she solidified her work with the world's most well-known professional DJs (afterlife, power flower, soulseekers, roger sanchez, j.c.a) and continues her rise as the Queen of Clubs!

❝ We already know she can sing divinely if she wants and she has an extraordinary voice.

❝ It all concludes with the dance triumph of Run The World (Girls), a perfect and stylized metaphor of the hip-shaking, emancipated, sassy, alluding, and ascetically sensual lioness.

❝ Beyoncé, whatever can be said, is a POP artist of great respect, vocally gifted, aesthetically intoxicating, and a harbinger of refined productions, carefully detailed and consistent with the genre proposed.

❝ An ambitious album, in my opinion too ambitious for someone like Giorgia, who confirms herself as a top-tier interpreter and a much more modest author/composer.

❝ This MTV unplugged shows that Italian pop music still has something to say, that one can be influenced by many musical trends without needing to sell out their identity, and thankfully, it's not just Pausini and Ramazzotti.

❝ 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.

❝ Either the archaic, Hellenistic, vocally gravelly, owl-like Demis has pulled out of the battered hat, thanks to this twenty-year comeback, an unexpected yet now unlikely compositional jewel mostly made of Corinthian guttural-phonetic rants in a para-modernist soul-pop-rock sauce

❝ Why didn't you bring your feelings with you at the advent of your wandering?

❝ It revitalizes the dignity of a great artist, who has always put our enjoyment and his music first, sacrificing himself. Genius and fragility in one.

❝ The most fitting adjective for this album cannot be other than: crap!

❝ This is why you were unique, Mr. Bad Guy.