Best singer Singer-Songwriters of all time secondo DeBaser.

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

❝ What's this shit?

❝ "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…"

❝ 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.

❝ 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.

❝ 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.

❝ "... 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.

❝ “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.”

❝ Only Avitabile could create it.

❝ Neapolitan Eschatology.

❝ 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

❝ 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.

❝ 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.

❝ 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.

❝ 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.

❝ 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.

❝ “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.”

❝ 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...

❝ "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.

❝ “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.”

❝ 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.

❝ 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”

❝ “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.”

❝ "'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..."

❝ 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

❝ 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.

❝ “And I don’t know if I’ll have friends to chorus with me or if I’ll only have unfamiliar faces I’ll sing my songs to all of them and at the end of the road I can say that I lived my days.”

❝ “gli amici sai gli amici tante volte mi dicono che sono un piantagrane, che parlo senza un poco di rispetto, che amo più gli oppressi o le puttane”

❝ "The sound of your footsteps is music from the sky, all of a sudden I realize how heavy the waiting is, then I hold you in my arms and look at the world in your eyes and the silent rain that kisses your hair"

❝ "The River In Reverse" is a well-conceived, classy, elegant album, looking back at the glorious past of the music born in this land.

❝ "My vocation in life is to be irritating! Not something actively destructive, just something that irritates, that disorients".

❝ Published in 1989, "Spike" symbolically marks the beginning of a new era in Elvis Costello's career.

❝ 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

❝ “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.”

❝ 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.

❝ 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.

❝ “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”

❝ 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.

❝ “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.

❝ 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.