Best artist Singer-Songwriters of all time secondo DeBaser.

❝ "... And God was left riding the donkey, the devil is in heaven and made a nest there..."

❝ I believe this is, hands down, De André's most beautiful work and one of the highest in the Italian (and global, since it was also appreciated by a certain David Byrne) songwriting landscape.

❝ The killer inside is like an injection, you can’t stop it and it spares no one, no one escapes the deadline.

❝ If I were God... and I could very well be, otherwise I don’t see who!

❝ Gaber, who was a Communist, recalls what Communism was, admitting, even with obedient and humble mea culpas and with his incomparable irony, what the former wanted to be and what 'communism' has transformed into error. Or horror.

❝ Well, yes. Once again, the old bastard has fooled us all.

❝ What's this shit?

❝ "On the Beach" is Neil Young's masterpiece: the work in which the threads of his aesthetics magically converge, through an astonishing sonic alchemy.

❝ Le Noise should be listened to at night when darkness takes over your sight and you remain solitary with your doubts and thoughts.

❝ An epochal record, essential for every rock music enthusiast who doesn't already have the dozen-plus albums on their shelf from which these songs are taken.

❝ Life is strange.

❝ And that "Pink Moon" is a masterpiece, an absolute masterpiece.

❝ Bryter Layter is a very beautiful record. Perfect. The best I have ever listened to.

❝ 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.

❝ “A legendary voice, which has indelibly marked rock music. His records are the object of a cult, also due to his tragic ending at only 28 years old, on June 29, 1975.”

❝ “No one has ever managed to create the void around the voice like Tim Buckley did”

❝ “Starsailor is the unattainable, and the way to get there, Starsailor is not a difficult or easy album, it is not rock, it is not jazz, it is not even music.”

❝ Coming to "Paris Milonga," the title would be enough.

❝ And where there is a piano around there is always a crowd making noise, there are eyes looking for each other, there are lips watching each other.

❝ Impossible to make a mistake.

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

❝ GOOD EVENING

❝ And now all of you go to hell.

❝ "'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..."

❝ An entire world encapsulated in just three songs.

❝ What is the epic sound?

❝ If your name is Nick Cave, you can also delve into cinema and bring to the big screen sinister sounds of dark beauty.

❝ there is a crack in everything and that's where the light gets in.

❝ Like a bird on the wire, like a drunk in a midnight choir, I have tried in my way to be free.

❝ I grew up on bread and Guccini, and Guccini has always been there for me (when the aforementioned girl dumped me, when my grandmother died, and so on).

❝ It’s truly a shame, in a time like this of great cultural poverty, more than economic, that a Singer-Songwriter like Francesco Guccini decides to leave the stage, to self-scrap.

❝ 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...

❝ This was the best-selling album in Italy in 1980 (then one might say...)

❝ “thought is like the ocean, you can’t block it, you can’t enclose it”

❝ “Enough blood now, can’t you see, we’re not even standing anymore, a bit of mercy”

❝ 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"

❝ Rino Gaetano stands apart from the typical ’70s singer-songwriters due to his particular style of writing simple and amusing lyrics (almost like nursery rhymes), yet at the same time biting and satirical, siding with the exploited and describing the many contradictions present in late ’70s Italy, which unfortunately still exist (and may have even increased).

❝ Yes, because whether you like it or not, his songs are as relevant today as they were back then.

❝ He wrote songs with such catchy tunes that those who hummed them, and still hum them today (perhaps in the shower, while shopping, or walking the dog), didn't understand all the anger, indignation, disgust hidden in those lyrics.

❝ Giuseppe Povia has made a life choice, The Choice: to go against the System and throw away his previous career in the name of artistic and existential coherence.

❝ Imperfetto alludes to the quality of the recording, all done in the basement and entirely self-played.

❝ We were all moved by listening to "I bambini fanno ooh," an absolute masterpiece of the last twenty years of Italian music,

❝ 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.

❝ It can be trivially called a "Pearl among swine."

❝ Old petty bourgeoisie
old people of my home
however small you may be
the wind will one day sweep you away.

❝ The reality is that regardless of his reputation, he continues after 40 years to sing, write books, collaborate, promote socio-cultural initiatives, heightening it all with performances and appearances on stage, often for charity.

❝ “If you’re one of those people who say they love Pink Floyd, but can’t stand Waters’ political positions, you’d better fuck off and head to the bar immediately”

❝ “The Dark Side Of The Moon Redux, ultimately, is a superfluous revision.”

❝ “An excellent album. Those expecting something new may end up disappointed: here you’ll find, neither more nor less, the Roger Waters we all know, who has returned in great style after such a long silence.”

❝ Here, it’s life itself expressing, and it’s a profound joy to live that shines in luminous and melodic acoustic ballads, alternating with more energetic and lively tracks.

❝ “You shouldn’t be ashamed of the simplicity of your songs...” once said director Hal Ashby to our friend the cat.

❝ This too gives an idea of the concentration of melody present in this album, a true acoustic masterpiece.

❝ “The album that made a generation of record sellers happy” (Paolo Madeddu)

❝ an atypical, crazy, delirious, sarcastic, mocking, insane, startling, adrenaline-fueled, nervous, angry, in some ways genius album

❝ Sometimes, a song's verse is enough to express what a thousand words of any speech wouldn't be able to.

❝ 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.

❝ Songs are like tattoos

❝ With skins decorated with pearls I tied myself with colorful feathers And beat the war drum... Beat the war drum

❝ this record remains a precious testament to the last months of the great Charlie's life

❝ Vedrai vedrai was written by Luigi Tenco in 1965 and is dedicated to his mother.

❝ The album opens and closes with two songs that alone would secure a ticket to eternity, "Lontano lontano" and "Vedrai vedrai", two titles that are more than just a simple repeated word and risk truly remaining among the most beautiful episodes of our song.

❝ Un Giorno Dopo L'altro, with its inspired theme and remarkable instrumentation for the era, has the power to evoke French colors and suggestions, to the point that it was used as the theme song for the historic Commissario Maigret series.

❝ If this is "made in Italy", it's better to buy in China.

❝ Those who love real Music will reserve a place for D'Alessio and his album where it belongs, in the trash.

❝ When My Life Will Change, well what can I say: a masterpiece!!!

❝ Conclusion: for the undersigned, one of the greatest songs ever, both for the lyrics and the music, not only of Venditti but of all Italian music,

❝ Now, Modena represents for me his best piece, and it is the one I would include in a top 10 of the greatest Italian songs of all time.

❝ Lilly ultimately marks the dawn of a great musical season

❝ “Brel”, later renamed as “Les Marquises”, represents the musical testament of the great Belgian songwriter.

❝ I confess wholeheartedly, trusting in the mercy of the Court just convened, that until a few weeks ago, of the good Sixto, besides Diaz (also known simply as) Rodriguez and His quietly unpredictable debut album now obscured by the inexorably enveloping dust of space-time dating back nearly four decades ago, I knew absolutely nothing at all.

❝ I had always imagined it so desperate.

❝ This album is an enormous joke.

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

❝ I’m going out as the sun is setting.

❝ Samarcanda is a jewel of Italian music, a beautiful and well-crafted text.

❝ Eh, no, dear professor, this time we missed the mark.

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"Nero a Metà" remains a masterpiece from the first to the last note.

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"Bella 'Mbriana" is the evolution of the raw cry for help in "Terra Mia".

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Even in Bastogne, a Neapolitan remains always a Neapolitan.

❝ “Like an underwater song sung by dolphins beneath the ocean surface.”

❝ “I am madly in love with pop music. Many great composers are inspired by folk, I am inspired by pop. I'm not saying I'm a great composer nor that pop is a form of folk. But for sure, pop has generated a never-ending flow. You can also build your little pond, but if the pond is not connected to the river, which in turn flows into the ocean, sooner or later it will dry up. It will become little more than a piss. And I have lived too long to be happy with a puddle” Robert Wyatt.

❝ “I was deeply struck by something I had read about the organogenic marine mud on the ocean floors: in the abysses there are things just as strange and bizarre as those we imagine on Mars” (Robert Wyatt)

❝ “To end with just a few, simple words: one of the highest points of Italian songwriting.”

❝ “The usual dish, but never, really never, cooked so well.”

❝ “This is the album that definitively establishes Ivano Fossati as a first-rate musician.”

❝ For one who returns, and brings you a rose, a thousand have forgotten you.

❝ There is his voice to cradle you, there is Sergio Endrigo.

❝ Born in Pola in 1933, Sergio Endrigo began to play in the difficult 1950s in some of the most famous and renowned nightclubs in Northern Italy.

❝ What you hear on this album - and perhaps this is the most important thing, the first thing to say - is a performer with no more limits, a singer with a stratospheric command of his technical means.

❝ And I hate you Romans, I hate you all, a nasty gang of sycophants and intriguers, poorly or well disguised, as intellectuals and saints, I hate you Romans all of you.

❝ "Dedicated to John Lennon, sung in room 2 of Abbey Road Studios in London, the favorite room of The Beatles, with the valve microphone used for Strawberry Field. In the string quartet of Fragole infinite, summoned by Sir George Martin, the viola and first violin played in Sgt. Pepper... For me, these are great satisfactions"

❝ 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...

❝ "Well, many of the songs, they aren't sad, they're hopeless"

❝ Sorrow and solitude these are the precious things and the only words that are worth rememberin'

❝ “Townes Van Zandt is the best songwriter in the world; I would say it in front of Dylan with my boots on his table”

❝ 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

❝ The songs of this album are populated by animals, starting with the nursery rhyme - inspired by a Jewish Passover song - that gives the album its title: "Alla fiera dell'est, per due soldi un topolino mio padre comprò".

❝ Angelo Branduardi gifts us this medieval dance of great charm at the start of what is, in my opinion, his best work: released in nineteen seventy-seven by Polydor in its bare cover, “La pulce d’acqua” contained within itself nine sketches, nine glimpses of as many tales.

❝ Concerto represents Angelo Branduardi at his highest power, in a state of grace, and in full musical maturation.

❝ “But I will not stop. Never. A real guitarist dies. He must die on stage”.

❝ “Italy has forgotten Ivan Graziani as it has many other writers and singers who have given much to the musical landscape of this bittersweetly contrasting country.”

❝ “A guitarist must die on stage, in front of his people.”

❝ "What are you waiting for to roll me up and put me away? You're no longer a kid, and by now, you've realized that I can't mean that much to you... Come on, make up your mind, don't be overcome by memories, be strong at least this time, show me the man you've become."

❝ There is no hint of sound softening: everything you hear comes from his hands.

❝ A pillar of his time.

❝ One World is a truly unique album.

❝ If you good folks like coming to the theater, I'll keep making songs: I don't need anything else; if you don't like them, I'll put them in the drawer and return to the hammock to enjoy my nice little dreams.

❝ Great Nanni Svampa, capable of making us smile by putting our little weaknesses into poetry and irony, a Trilussa of the North who wrote them but then also sang them.

❝ With Randy Newman, the Woody Allen of songwriters, you either appreciate him or get bored. He's not for every day, but he's a great talent.

❝ Randy Newman is undoubtedly a songwriter who breaks out of the mold: he has always had a musical education decidedly superior to the average of his singer-songwriter colleagues.

❝ Not many artists can make me cry with a song: Randy Newman is one of them.

❝ “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”

❝ "when a musician laughs, he puts down his instrument and laughs, and he doesn't look around and doesn't fear, he isn't afraid of his simplicity"

❝ "This man should have been frozen to be gifted to future generations"

❝ "Strange life, but it's as if life were a way of dying…"

❝ Akuadulza, in my opinion, is his masterpiece.

❝ "Pica" is an album to absolutely have, to make one's own to approach things with a courageous gaze.

❝ 49 songs, taken from his vast repertoire, in a period ranging from 1999 (that is, from the start of his solo career, after the choral experience of Van De Sfroos) until 2015.

❝ Every now and then, a miracle happens.

❝ Fred Neil is undoubtedly among the most fascinating figures that American popular music has gifted us with during the Twentieth Century.

❝ 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

❝ “Mark Lanegan has a frayed voice and the words fall from his throat.”

❝ “I’ll get to the point; there is no trace of self-pity, only disarming sincerity.”

❝ “Certain albums you listen to at the wrong moment. Or at the right moment.”

❝ More than just a simple collection of songs or a generational manifesto: a lesson in life.

❝ An eternal, timeless creation. Most likely not just for me.

❝ Works like this are priceless in today’s world.

❝ Amedeo Minghi,the most romantic of Italian singer-songwriters, retraces 30 years of his life and career in this collection.

❝ And you who are sitting there snickering conceitedly, know that you can also have the entire discography on vinyl of De André bought with L'Espresso, but if you don't then include Vattene Amore among the most beautiful Italian songs ever, you really have a little spool instead of a soul.

❝ According to "All Music Italia" this will be the best Italian album of 2014.

❝ 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.

❝ 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.

❝ “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”

❝ “I went in for the heart, and look what they found.”

❝ Produced by Jackson Browne, this album is one of the masterpieces of American songwriting of all time

❝ Everything else is masturbation.

❝ I wrote these twelve songs for a woman I loved and lost. These twelve memories are the Bastille of my heart. For my woman, I did things far greater than these songs, but those things are now lost. Now only twelve songs remain

❝ All the things you don’t have, you’ll find them next to me. The world of illusions... you go on confidently because I am always here, here...

❝ Figli, vi porterei a cena....tra le stelle, ma non ci siete, ma non ci siete

❝ 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.

❝ “there is no answer. Each of us is everyone and no one. Love remains, perhaps, to tell us who we are”

❝ “the roads are right, even the wrong ones, just never be certain. I have no certainties but only doubts”

❝ “those who believe they can save themselves never save themselves alone, if you have no companions your road has no outlets to the sun”

❝ 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.

❝ In conclusion, “Odelay” is a fundamental album for rock music in the ’90s and, in general, a model to follow when it comes to the ability to reinvent musical genres, blending them together in a unique and unrepeatable way.

❝ A melancholic cloud hangs over Sea Change.

❝ If one thing is certain, it's that the blond sprite from LA is not in a creativity crisis.

❝ A 72-year-old singer who performed for over 3 hours without ever holding back.

❝ At the beginning of 1977, Claudio Baglioni releases his sixth album, "Solo".

❝ “Assolo” is an excellent live album, comparable to certain performances by Billy Joel or the best Elton John (thinking of 17-11-70, of course).

❝ Lostboy = Lost Boy?

❝ “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”

❝ All my life I've had bad dreams

❝ If shit were music, you'd be a brass band

❝ I'm the only one left alive

❝ Unknown to the general public, Lisa Germano is perhaps the best songwriter of the ’90s.

❝ Slide is a record where suffering becomes singable, it clings to you, gets under your skin, becomes part of you, you can't do without it.

❝ Lisa still has stories to tell, even though she has been over fifty for a while and is still trying to 'live on music alone' (quote), even if this album has been less appreciated than the previous ones.

❝ Carmen Consoli is the greatest Italian singer, the quintessential Cantantessa, there is no doubt about it.

❝ Hi Cammela, but why did you do it? Can’t you see it’s not worth it …

❝ Chi non dovevi, uccidesti; e ora, quello che non dovresti patire, patisci [...] Io non ho altro premio di questa vittoria che una triste sozzura

❝ I wanted to write about, and understand, and share the part of me that has always been able to be vulnerable.

❝ Every now and then, cyclically, tied to some unknown event (seasonal, spontaneous, mental), Nico returns to my life.

❝ Nico's music is timeless, and it's just a trivial detail that "The Marble Index" ("Chelsea Girl," I don't even consider it) was released in '68, because it could have come out yesterday or a hundred years from now.

❝ Nico was one of the most mysterious and fascinating figures in the history of rock.

❝ 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.

❝ “Don't open the window, I don't want to hear what they have to say. Don't send me down with them, no!”

❝ “When night falls
and your dreams become heavy
rich, poor politicians
you are children of shit
we dig into the darkness
vomit blood on your truths!
Welcome to the waste
we won't drive you away!”

❝ “It doesn't matter who was the province and who the empire: the point was the fire”

❝ In conclusion, can a pessimistic album aware of the period we are living through succeed in being a form of encouragement not to give up on what we all call life? It seems absurd, but yes; and Samuele Bersani’s Cinema Samuele, with its lucid and not banal realism, succeeds in an extraordinary way.

❝ SamueleBersani, with his conclusive "ciao" in ChiccoeSpillo to emphasize a dramatic finale, doesn’t kid around.

❝ One cannot deny that even in this "Manifesto Abusivo" there are real flashes of greatness and pure beauty.

❝ “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.”

❝ You fucked up my whole summer, you lucky fuckin' bastards!

❝ So, Fish has a great and disturbing voice, quickly shedding the obvious echoes of Peter Gabriel to rise to an autonomous excellence.

❝ A Peter Gabriel with more power in his voice.

❝ Garbo is a character who attempted to blend good Italian music with the less commercial phenomena of the time, with a good eye, especially on new wave and the more experimental David Bowie, the one from "Low", "Heroes", and "Scary Monsters", and with excellent results...

❝ The concluding note is for all those (media in general, journalists, radio stations, record labels...) who have unjustly ignored the talent of an artist, without whom much of the local pop most loved by young people (randomly citing Subsonica, Marlene Kuntz, Velvet, Il Nucleo, Bluvertigo, La Sintesi, Delta V...) would never have reached its widespread acclaim.

❝ Truly Garbo is a character who still deserves admiration, respect, and the rediscovery of which he is now the protagonist.

❝ Although the propeller of a remote-controlled airplane had nearly severed his hand, he still managed to become “the Orson Welles of rock”, as his friend Jackson Browne later described him.

❝ Ah Jane, what an artist my Jane is, always full of surprises, always elusive, in constant evolution and experimentation, for better or worse.

❝ Jane Siberry creates great pop melodies and then deconstructs them, dilates them, enriches them, making each of her songs a theatrical spectacle.

❝ Enchanter, captivate us, delve into fantasy, but don’t forget the essentials. And ignite, ignite the soul with true things, which are few and always the same.

❝ ...Everyone has their own prisons, everyone lives with them...but when the walls start to close in, when the mirror begins to call you ’tu’... when the sidewalks provoke you and the street seems like your red carpet, gather your luggage, fill it with memories, hopes, emotions, music and arguments, with period illusions...find a friend and start sharing, go at random...leave the tears on the pillow, meet life, clash with pain, steal love, have not one goal but a hundred; try to return because it’s the return that gives meaning to the journey, go around the world, do not go with it; free yourself from yourself and from waiting, to love life you must betray expectations, look around and beware of those who profess to be free, the taste of freedom and fear, only those who fear freedom have the courage to pursue it...

❝ A masterpiece.

❝ Let me say that Califano was a poet. Yes, he was.

❝ Califano is, in truth, "the" singer of Summer:

❝ "Tutto il resto è noia" describes the fatal drift of sentimental fervor into daily routine with marvelous verses "invent parties and invite people over/so you don't think at least you do something/yes, alright, but then...;"

❝ Legend, myth, extraordinary guitarist endowed with an exquisite voice, and finally, icon of a group that has made rock music history.

❝ The verdict on the record is clear and beyond dispute: an indescribable mess.

❝ This is the masterpiece of this album; just this track would be worth the price of the entire album.

❝ "It was more like a dream than reality" (With Tomorrow)

❝ It is (rightly) a common opinion that Gene Clark wrote only beautiful songs.

❝ “Roadmaster”, the album intended for Europe alone which Clark opposed, unsuccessfully.

❝ "The guy is fake!"

❝ "I'm not a preacher but just a singer, boy, and I still see a lot of work to be done."

❝ "When I made this record, the record label didn't like it. They wanted a follow-up to Lonesome Jubilee, they wanted a chart-topping single. But Big Daddy wasn't built that way".

❝ Spirito DiVino is not the best album by Zucchero Sugar Fornaciari, but according to me, it is.

❝ You come to the doctor when you're already on your deathbed, we'll see what can be done.

❝ Adelmo has come a long way, the farmer from Emilia.

❝ “Rispetto” comes out, the third album of our artist, still under the name Zucchero Fornaciari, and this is where the real compositional turning point of his career occurs.

❝ A superb album that knows how to blend the sacred and the profane, with mystical tracks that exalt pure love, even to an Overdose.

❝ Also notable is the presence of an Avicii cover, Ten more days.

❝ Herbert Pagani, a versatile and cosmopolitan artist, who grew up in Italy, received the greatest recognition as a singer-songwriter in France in the early '70s, thanks to a very original form of theater-song that combined music with painting and cinema;

❝ Singing in front of one spectator is like singing for a hundred thousand people. There’s no such thing as the audience. There is only each individual person.

❝ I must admit that he has an incredibly impressive voice.

❝ it is the album as a whole that feels compact, solid, inspired.

❝ Sergio Caputo is one of the most underrated Italian artists ever

❝ Pop from a lounge bar, there you go.

❝ This is Sergio Caputo, an enticing mix of talent and fun. Try it to believe it.

❝ This is truly difficult. Just as it is difficult to talk about Love, Death, Beauty.

❝ Hardin was 25 years old when he recorded this debut.

❝ “I have nothing but my name... I am nothing but my name,”

❝ “The Idiot” is an absolute, epochal album.

❝ “I composed some pieces for a contemporary dance work, worked on the script for a new film, participated in a couple of feature films, and found time, between commitments, to design a new line of condoms... and I had a lot of fun.”.

❝ I find it disgraceful that there is no trace of this album around here...

❝ These were the songs my grandfather loved, songs that go back to a time when young people, like many of you, were fighting in impossible conditions in a war that was hardly understood and whose reasons no one fully grasped.

❝ Musically impeccable, "Segreti Trasparenti" in my view goes too far, never easing up, ultimately giving the impression of taking itself too seriously.

❝ Cocciante? Progressive? Resign yourself, but in this case, it's the reality.

❝ You might then love or not this artist, like all Italian pop music (ahem...), but - personal opinion - this record contains at least two/three memorable tracks.

❝ It's 1975, and after the success of 'Bella senz'anima,' Cocciante turns to the wizard of electronics, Vangelis, not yet the legend he would become later but already an established musician, in an attempt to Europeanize and modernize his sound.

❝ It is incredible how Shawn Phillips has remained an enigmatic figure compared to the importance he had in the music scene of the '70s.

❝ One can't close without a mention of the splendid cover, with Magritte-like play of light, an additional touch of class for a splendid album, very relaxing yet never boring.

❝ "Late for the Sky" is not a "depressive" work.

❝ Magnificent album with a unique sound!