Best band Italian Rock of all time secondo DeBaser.

❝ "Dove...Quando... was a small personal mantra that I sang to myself. I felt like it was about me, even if I didn't exactly know why. Today I know. That serene princess was poetry in its first appearance. Singing it was my way of welcoming it."

❝ An album that, relying on already-tested tracks, acts as an elegant passe-partout (oooppss) towards the English and American markets with supremely competitive material, to which even Melody Maker and Billboard could do nothing but bow in front of what was and surely remains the crowning jewel of the first example of export rock Made in Italy.

❝ This characteristic, combined with an apparently inexhaustible compositional vein, leads me to think that this is their absolute masterpiece.

❝ An immortal album, considered by many to be the masterpiece of the '70s progressive scene, something no one will ever be able to match in ideas and creativity.

❝ It represents a unique sound document of great artistic value

❝ Area was a group that made music, Demetrio was also an instrument of the group besides being a singer who at that moment brought the word through the lyrics.

❝ ...lamentations of guitars, wrongly suspected, softly sighed...

❝ Why do you want to disturb me if I might be dreaming of a winged journey on a wheel-less cart pulled by mistral horses, in the mistral... flying.

❝ releases one of the most beautiful prog albums ever on the national scene.

❝ "And in James' voice, in his harsh vocal tone, resounds an ancient curse, the tearing of wounds that find no relief, comfort, or understanding from a blind and distracted city, which turns its attention to the most vulgar and banal melodicism."

❝ Napoli Centrale is one of the best groups ever seen (and heard) in Italy.

❝ Not having this album in your discography is truly a musical shame.

❝ Thus presents the album by the New Trolls: "Searching For A Land", a double album, the first in the history of Italian rock.

❝ A million copies sold and a forceful entry into the history of Italian music

❝ Because I felt they were mine!

❝ "Luna" would become a key piece in the concert setlist for years

❝ Desaparecido is an album that speaks in very current terms (of war, hatred, and injustices perpetrated for reasons of state), yet it does so in such a poetic and almost theatrical manner, which makes it a true masterpiece.

❝ “Fedeli alla linea, even when there isn't one, When the emperor is sick when he dies or is doubtful or perplexed, Fedeli alla linea the line is not there.”

❝ “Live in Moscow, live in Budapest, live in Warsaw, live in Sofia, live in Prague, live in Pankow!”

❝ “CCCP is a segment in the life of each of us, very significant, decisive, and often illuminating. We have already written somewhere that before CCCP we lived and we will live even after. It will end, of course, we neither feel nor have ever been rock'n'roll stars, nor are we interested in a musical career. On the contrary, if it were so, perhaps there would be reason to worry...”

❝ Le Orme should be considered as one of the greatest Italian rock bands of all time.

❝ Are Le Orme no longer the fantastic trio Collage–Uomo Di Pezza–Felona e Sorona? Who cares!

❝ the four present themselves as a small orchestra in Piazza San Marco

❝ A massive and explosive "alternative" Rock with proud injections of Hardcore (let's cite the Husker Du from the latter part of their career as an important reference).

❝ This was the last album with Edda as lead vocalist. After the consequent tour, he left the band to enter a limbo of mystery lasting more than ten years.

❝ "Tutti vs. tutti" is indeed a crossover album as it was done in the early '90s, directly influenced by bands like Living Colour, Faith No More, Red Hot Chili Peppers... with the added value of the unique and extraordinary voice of the singer Stefano "Edda" Rampoldi.

❝ The name of the group CCCP was due to the fact that the music they composed was, in their words, "a pro-Soviet punk."

❝ PRODUCE, CONSUME, DIE

❝ Soviets plus electricity do not make communism

❝ 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.

❝ 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 great album to discover and love.

❝ 1973 was for Osanna primarily the year of the unbeatable "Palepoli" but also the year of the economic disaster at the Be-In, a pop festival they organized in Naples.

❝ Rosso Rock, besides having the merit of being excellently played and recorded, has the quality of managing to condense in a little over forty minutes the entire sound of the group, no easy feat.

❝ Not many are aware that in 1973, a Roman Progressive Rock Group made a Rock adaptation of Dante’s “Inferno”; this group is called Metamorfosi, centered around the two musicians Davide “Jimmy” Spitalieri (Composer, Voice, and Flute) and Enrico Olivieri (Composer and Keyboards).

❝ Inferno is their second album and was released in 1973 by the record label Vedette.

❝ Inferno, released the following year, is among the great classics of that distant era and should be in the discography of any enthusiast.

❝ 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.

❝ This is a great album every Italian in their forties should own.

❝ What TV says is now law for everyone. Behold the product; you won’t regret it.

❝ The album rocks, great guitars, with plenty of glam ghosts and new wave shadows: in short, it’s a masterpiece of spaghetti rock... and more.

❝ 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.

❝ The record is shrouded in mystery because it is said to have been recorded in 1969, even though it gains a tiny slice of notoriety in 1975 following the group's only TV appearance on the program "Adesso Musica".

❝ “Viaggio senza Vento” undoubtedly represents the pinnacle of the career of the Brescians Timoria (Diego Galeri on drums, Enrico Ghedi on keyboards, Illorca on bass, Omar Pedrini on guitars and occasionally vocals, Francesco Renga on vocals).

❝ “Our planet has become so ugly that all we can do is escape,” said Pedrini when presenting this album.

❝ Ladies and gentlemen, here is one of the best albums of Italian rock from the ’90s (and beyond).

❝ A small treasure never found at the bottom of the sea, a drop in an ocean, a piece in a puzzle.

❝ A masterpiece to own.

❝ And from this situation comes "Atlantide," The Trip's most famous album, the one they are remembered for (even more than "Caronte" from the previous year).

❝ Understanding, knowing, and appreciating this album is like getting to know a person: you cannot skip the steps, you need time, to wait for things to settle, silence.

❝ Several friends, to whom I played this album, said to me, "Beautiful, but take it off because it gives me anxiety!"

❝ "Massimo Volume" represented in the '90s, along with other groups such as Afterhours, C.S.I., Marlene Kuntz, the new Italian rock, strongly characterizing and influencing our local music scene.

❝ Listen. Stop.

❝ a perfect example of "high chart-high quality"

❝ Splendid. Monumental. Minimalist. Epic. As moving as few works can be.

❝ "Un Biglietto del Tram" is one of the highest examples of "political rock" ever produced in Italy.

❝ A great album that resembles nothing else published in our country. A masterpiece to be rediscovered.

❝ I didn't find this album either rhetorical or dated, it is true that many lyrics today appear a bit nostalgic [...] but alive, because they are historical, testifying to years of war and therefore of resistance.

❝ An excellent debut for one of the most original formations in the Italian scene.

❝ "Abbiamo Tutti un Blues da Piangere" ("We All Have a Blues to Cry") is a pivotal moment for the group, for jazz-rock, and for Italian music as a whole.

❝ The title track, on the other hand, is introduced by a mysterious and spectral musical theme that suits the cover well and is a masterpiece that fully immerses you in the atmosphere of this work.

❝ 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.

❝ "All that will remain of us is just a great bonfire..."

❝ The Genoese band Delirium is one of the historic names of the glorious Italian prog scene.

❝ A welcome, indeed, a very welcome return.

❝ This, along with very few others, is one of those I consider the TRUE masterpieces of Italian progressive rock.

❝ In "Sirio 2222", Beat, Hard Rock, Psychedelia, Experimentation, and some shades of Symphonic Rock blend together.

❝ The wait has been long (let's hope we won't have to wait another 51 years!), but the final product has not disappointed expectations.

❝ Chi mi ama, non mi vuole correggere

❝ E' praticamente ovvio che esistano altre forme di vita

❝ ...imagination saves man...

❝ A brilliant, dynamic, essential group, majestic, terrifying: a group always underestimated, always mistreated, always relegated to the fringes of the music scene.

❝ they were Dario Argento and Goblin: never was a collaboration more fitting than this, never had a film been so frightening, and most importantly, never had a soundtrack like this been heard (and of course, that of Deep Red).

❝ The 1975 soundtrack album, "Profondo Rosso", launched the Goblin (a young Roman band previously known as Oliver that had narrowly missed releasing an album under the guidance, no less, of Eddie Offord) to the top of the Italian charts with that uniquely particular, enigmatic, and fascinating single.

❝ After a suffocating intro, the last track opens with blunt words: “Around your body there’s a halo of death.”

❝ “Listen to me, father, and tell me if this, you call sin or a noble act, I took money from a rich gentleman to feed a dying man... what do you say brother you have killed, in the fifth remember you have been forbidden, I cannot save you from eternal fire, you only have a TICKET TO HELL”.

❝ The Biglietto Per L'Inferno was born in Lecco in 1972 from the fusion of two groups (Mako Sharks and The Gee).

❝ Mass-Media Stars is the second and final album by Acqua Fragile, released in 1974, a year before their disbandment.

❝ Acqua Fragile is a progressive band formed in 1971, consisting of Bernardo Lanzetti (vocals, guitar), Gino Campanini (guitar), Maurizio Mori (keyboards), Franz Dondi (bass) and Pier Emilio Canavera (drums, acoustic guitar).

❝ A CD to definitely purchase for those who wish to enjoy music to think besides listening and for brief moments even dreaming!

❝ Largo all'avanguardia, siete un pubblico di merda, applaudite per inerzia

❝ "make way for the avant-garde, you're a shit audience,"

❝ The Skiantos formed in 1977 in Bologna under the spiritual guidance of Roberto "Freak" Antoni.

❝ An enormous Shakespearean doubt has always tormented me: who are the singers mentioned in the song "Li Immortacci" by Elio e Le Storie Tese, featured in their 1996 album "Eat The Phikis", where the entertaining and very amused participations of Giorgia and Edoardo Vianello stand out?

❝ There is genuine genius in the words.

❝ It’s a sort of mantra but also an admission of guilt.

❝ Four tracks, a short half-hour (the shortest playing time in prog history), and a concept about Hegel.

❝ Whoever approaches this album with patience and a bit of optimism will discover a Masterpiece with a capital M.

❝ Recorded entirely live, it was made completely without keyboards, a typical prog element, to make room for a mad guitar reflecting the examples of UK-made blues and hard rock.

❝ The album, very enjoyable, wisely arranged, rich not only in guitar riffs but also in brass that make it fuller and more complete, puts Gaetano Curreri's powerful voice to the test, probably at its best period.

❝ "La Faccia Delle Donne" certainly represents the highest point of Stadio's career, even though it doesn't mean they haven't made other great albums ("Canzoni Alla Radio", "Siamo Tutti Elefanti Inventati", "Stabiliamo Un Contatto").

❝ The set list, then, is absolutely commendable.

❝ An obese album is never beautiful.

❝ A fucking bomb!!! This album is a bomb... truly beautiful.

❝ Capovilla was born in 1968 and debuted with Teatro in 2007;

❝ this band did not intend to celebrate the fascist era; they simply emerged on the music scene as anti-CCCP, mocking their philo-Soviet punk style and lyrics.

❝ A world described through rock, industrial, and a hint of electronics (with some possible nods to the early Nine Inch Nails), with the powerful singing of Cristiano Santini, the angry voice of Valeria Cevolani, the furious guitar riffs of Dario Parisini, the dirty, gritty, hard, raw beat of Daniele Albertazzi, the synthetic effects of Roberta Vicinelli, and the choruses of Dalia Zipoli.

❝ Alberto's psalmody unfolds with disconnected phrases because not even words can give us easy comfort.

❝ They are here because it’s a generational event, like coming home after seven years of wanderings.

❝ This album contains a lot of mellotron, which I, as a progster, adore.

❝ As a souvenir I took thirty packages of Tatranky wafers, packs like Loacker but much better. Only after a few days did I notice a slightly hidden brand: Danone. They really took everything from us. They really took everything

❝ Pubblicità Progresso: listen to them.

❝ Offlaga Disco Pax NEO-SENSIBILIST COLLECTIVE OPPOSED TO DEMOCRACY IN FEELINGS.

❝ “We are a bit like storytellers, our task is to tell stories, always hoping someone wants to listen to them”

❝ “Against those who speak of brotherhood, love, and freedom, and then finance wars and atrocities.”

❝ “This is not a live performance, this is a rock opera.”

❝ “The Quintorigo represented, towards the end of the ’90s, the most interesting and innovative musical ensemble on the Italian scene, a striking case of a liberating explosion of creativity.”

❝ “Everything is incredibly Real.”

❝ “One of the defining traits of this quintet is the distinctive voice of John De Leo, a nervous, sharp, and vibrant voice that often rises in prolonged falsetto.”

❝ Because, for a moment, however brief, Bologna seems like New York.

❝ The Gaznevada were the spark of Italian punk. Quoting Ruggeri, "Punk before you". And it's absolutely true.

❝ It is "I.C. Love Affair" that leads Gaznevada to navigate on lighter shores.