Best artist Italian Song 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.

❝ 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...

❝ 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.

❝ 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.

❝ 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...

❝ "'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..."

❝ 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.

❝ Short answer: manc po cazz

❝ Written, directed, performed, scored, and edited by the most eccentric of Italian showbiz personalities.

❝ Born in Milan in 1938, the "Molleggiato" Adriano Celentano is still considered the most beloved singer by the Italian population.

❝ 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”

❝ “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.

❝ “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.”

❝ “the ace in the hole, the one that will go down in history, is “Albachiara”, the mother of all Italian ballads,”

❝ “what will objectively become the biggest icon of national pop/rock music of the last 35 years”

❝ “It’s the closest thing to an American rocker ever seen in Italy.”

❝ 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.

❝ “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"

❝ "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…"

❝ “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.”

❝ 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.

❝ I consider the artist in question to be the greatest Italian singer, obviously after the sacred trinity of De Andrè-Battisti-Battiato.

❝ The final feeling is that Ruggeri wants to pay tribute to himself, almost a tribute: I'd like to remind that of many songs he is only the lyricist, do we know what the composer thinks?

❝ Sooner or later, all killers return to the scene of the crime.

❝ 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.

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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.

❝ “Se telefonando” is undoubtedly an absolute masterpiece of universal value not only for its musical part but also for its lyrics

❝ “Mina quasi Jannacci” is the testimony of perhaps the most mature and intense period of Ms. Mazzini’s long career;

❝ ‘Cremona’, an album of striking crystalline brilliance produced in 1996 and in my opinion, the most beautiful album of the decade for this ALL-ROUND SINGER.

❝ 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’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.

❝ 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.

❝ "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.

❝ "We start with this concept: that we know very little, almost nothing, about the voice... and the first track on the first side of a record that was released today, called "Singing the Voice," is called "Dipophonies, Tripophonies, Investigations" and... it's about using the ear like a microscope to extract scraps of sound or even divide scraps of sound to try to break the sound, enter into the sound, break it into two and three parts. How it works, in my opinion: the voice uh... here works as a vehicle that occasionally glances right and left, in... small chambers, and... these glances bounce like ping pong balls. These ping pong balls, which bounce with sympathy, can be controlled."

❝ THIS is the album that must be passed down to posterity, to let them know who the man who consecrated the voice as a "musical instrument" is.

❝ A revolutionary man in every sense, a bit cursed and a bit saintly, but always a legend.

❝ 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.

❝ 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.

❝ 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.

❝ 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

❝ Chick Corea Elektric Band, or jazz for everyone.

❝ Highly recommended for those wishing to discover the meaning of the word Fusion.

❝ The Chick Corea Elektric Band is an album that made the history of modern fusion, whose foundations have been revisited and reprised by modern fusion groups and which cannot be missing from a genre enthusiast’s archive.

❝ However, from 1988 to about 1993, he made his mark, and he did it with two albums: this one, from 1989, and "Sogni... è tutto quello che c'è" from 1991.

❝ Raf is one of those singers capable of surprising, of changing genre when least expected (or at least he was, if only for this album)

❝ I will never be able to say enough about this (masterpiece of) album.

❝ “The world is a beautiful place and worth fighting for. I agree with the second part...”

❝ “Ernest Hemingway once wrote: 'The world is a fine place and worth fighting for.' I agree with the second part.”

❝ “You are not your job, you're not how much money you have in the bank, you're not the car you drive, you're not the contents of your wallet, you're not your fucking khakis, you're the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world!” - Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt)

❝ 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.

❝ Finding the solution to everything in the final line
"It's like telling the truth about oneself without feeling lost."

❝ "I saw the end of rock'n'roll the other night at the Piper, crumbled among the synths, murdered by computers, skinned by Faust'o and the others.
If there was ever rock'n'roll in Italy, it lived until yesterday, today it no longer exists"

❝ "When it rains people change.....And the leaves fall, fall."

❝ 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.

❝ Jovanotti made his debut in 1988 with “Jovanotti For President”.

❝ Naturally, the audience reaches a frenzy with the rousing “L’ombelico del mondo,” which envelops everyone with a truly remarkable rhythm and freshness.

❝ I find it a pure, sincere CD, and much less “commercialized.”

❝ “Ideogrammi is not a record”, it's a miracle...

❝ No matter how hard I tried, I couldn’t find the black-and-white video of the TV broadcast where, in the autumn of 1973, Patty Pravo sang “Pazza Idea,” the summer hit of that year.

❝ But now Bowie is dead, and Pravo seems made of wax.

❝ “Our life is not construction, jazz”

❝ 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.

❝ Stuff like this is only composed by Morricone, “the genius who lives like a clerk,”

❝ “In music, nothing is invented, everything that could be created and conceived has already been done by Bach.”(E. Morricone).

❝ “Music is intangible, it has no form, it is like a dream: it exists only if it is performed, it takes shape in the mind of the listener. It is not like poetry, which does not require interpretation because the words have their own meaning. Music can be interpreted in various ways. A composition for a war scene can also be understood as a piece that accompanies a frenzied dance.”

❝ The Italian revelation album of the year was released in 1996.

❝ A wonderful recklessness.

❝ Gianluca Grignani represents the most controversial Italian artist of the last 20 years.

❝ "Le dimensioni del mio caos, on the other hand, is a really great work."

❝ "Live, he is phenomenal."

❝ I believe he is truly an artist of great distinction for our Italian scene.

❝ Listen. Stop.

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

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

❝ Call me Mimì for my black eyes and hair, and my dark thoughts

❝ Mimì was an enigma, an exception, a voice out of the chorus in every sense,

❝ Mia Martini thus left us her masterpiece.

❝ 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.

❝ 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

❝ this album by Giuni Russo is an inexhaustible cornucopia of it.

❝ Giuni, with her vocal gifts, manages to make this album unique, refined, modern, and impactful, brimming with a classical character and rhythmic structures that stand out along with splendid melodies.

❝ “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.”

❝ 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.

❝ “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...”

❝ The bait, Fiumani.

❝ but one is really left to say that the only memorable moment of the album is the final 40 seconds of "L'ora più bella"...

❝ Dressing like hobos does not mean you can claim to play Rock.

❝ Le Vibrazioni: one of the few Italian mainstream entities that deserve success.

❝ Now these are good vibrations… forget Lunapop!

❝ GO TO HELL

❝ Non-review not recommended for epileptics, astigmatics, and for those who believe that a Non-review can be considered an offense to human intelligence.

❝ Nobody cared about my song. They just wanted to know if I was gay

❝ I am different because I live in fairy tales
and I set the shape of clouds to music

What's wrong with that? They are my evenings!

❝ I listen again to this album by Umberto Bindi, I get moved and saddened by the fact that such an artist was not rightfully recognized for his talent but only harassed for his homosexuality.

❝ «I love doing radio. It’s perhaps the mass communication medium I prefer, it’s intimate and sensual, and allows direct emotional contact, without filters. [...] Sometimes, while the record is playing, I leave the microphone open so that my breath is felt subliminally. And then there are the calls that allow me to give a voice to all those I talk to, and you can imagine yourself in their homes, in their lives… Doing radio this way, sometimes, becomes art.»

❝ One of the album’s high points is finally the concluding "Scimmia", one of the most dramatic pieces about drugs composed in Italy.

❝ Good music still exists. Morgan is the proof.

❝ Writings on the toilet seat.

❝ Morgan is not for everyone. Just look at the Italian charts.

❝ “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”

❝ Are you kidding?

❝ 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.

❝ "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.

❝ 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...;"

❝ “A movie of a non-stop day, like a series of emotional flashes alternating in everyday life”

❝ “Fotoromanza? With producer Conny Plank we spent a week in a cottage to find the right rhythm. We moved like baby elephants, sort of similarly, the whole body together” (Gianna Nannini)

❝ “Despite commercial missteps and inspirational ups and downs, Gianna Nannini has managed to build quite an appreciable career (considering the popular and successful Italian panorama), establishing herself as the Italian prototype of female rocker (even if there's very little rock), thanks mainly to her screaming raspy voice.”

❝ 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 year was 1992 when this debut album by the Lombard duo Pezzali-Repetto burst noisily across Italy, becoming one of the best-selling debut albums of all time in our country.

❝ The most beautiful pop-rock album in the history of Italian music is dated 1992, and it's the debut of "883"... who aren't actually 883, but just the two of them.

❝ There are bands that are snubbed by many yet adored by many. Bands that in the end have marked everyone, at least those from a certain era: punk, metalheads, those who eventually stopped listening to music, skinheads, alt's... Well, 883 is one of those.

❝ ...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.

❝ If I could compare Syria to a month of the year, I would definitely compare her to April, clear and serene, with her voice that timidly hints at her stories, all of this evokes sweetness.

❝ Massimo Priviero has never compromised.

❝ 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.

❝ “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).

❝ In my opinion, the PNT are one of the best realities in the Italian scene.

❝ Because at 24, these Penguins are perfectly at ease telling others' stories as if they had collected their own for a century.

❝ Meanwhile, I've skipped dinner and moreover heard that ***** song by Pinguini Tattici (YUK!) too many times.

❝ The eponymous album by the Turin singer-songwriter, written in collaboration with Giancarlo Bigazzi, was released in 1980 under the CGD label.

❝ With "Gli altri siamo noi" Giancarlo Bigazzi crafted another great piece, which still holds its validity today...

❝ In short, the TOZZI STYLE that we all know and love is back!

❝ “Sometimes all it takes is a song. A song convinces, seduces, attracts; it is a siren that with its song draws you towards it and never lets you go.”

❝ “I consider Gazzè one of the most interesting Italian singer-songwriters of the last ten years”

❝ “Highly recommended.”

❝ 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.

❝ "Primo Piano: Gianni Morandi" from 1998 is a splendid example of a collection published without any logical criteria: it is so approximative and senseless that it becomes captivating in its ugliness.

❝ "Uno Su Mille" is known by everyone, also because sooner or later many find themselves humming it when times are tough, and you need an extra pinch of strength.

❝ What to say, a false step in the successful career of one of our most famous compatriots.

❝ Nada Malanima is rock!

❝ By chance, I watch the video of “Una chitarra e un’armonica” and I get hit by the classic punch of the nostalgic fool.

❝ Having said that, it is no longer difficult to believe that this album is a masterpiece. And it truly is.

❝ If you liked the story, tell your friends and also tell them that THE GANG IS NOT FOR SALE!

❝ Consistency, social commitment, and freedom have always been exemplary traits of the Gang: a proud pride.

❝ Long live the Gang.

❝ In other words, an adult album.

❝ I have nothing against Cremonini (I grew up with “Squérez”, 1999, and for me it’s still his best album, even if it was under the name Lunapop), but solo Cremonini is a bit “heavy” for me.

❝ Logico indeed seems to continue the devolution of the Bologna-born singer-songwriter, who hadn't fully convinced with his recent works.

❝ 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).

❝ Listening to Moltheni is usually not a cause for cheer.

❝ Moltheni has given me 43 minutes of quiet and extreme beauty...

❝ Where money sings, music falls silent

❝ 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.

❝ Eros, however, knows nothing of this. He hosts evil without knowing it and is the eternal fool, that is, the one who believes he is doing the opposite of what he actually does.

❝ You, dear Debaserians, are looking at a courageous man—actually, no, a reviewer with no fear of danger, a man who could throw himself off the roof of Niagara Falls and still find it less thrilling than what he is about to do.

❝ This is the album that probably more than any other is tied to my childhood, with the van trips in the Dolomites and the tape that played on repeat.

❝ "to offer a drink to those who are truly thirsty!"

❝ And while everything burns, there is a flower that never dies.

❝ Life is tragic, life is stupid, yet it is beautiful, because it is useless.

❝ Love in violence a year ago, violence in love today.

❝ Holy moly, what a striking album!!!

❝ A song that is a punch in the face towards the cages of passion and general bigotry, where the blonde tuft untangles itself masterfully, assuming the role of a liberating prophet.

❝ It's one of the facets of Alessandro Ducoli, this versatile musician who is sometimes a jazzman, sometimes a rock'n'roller, sometimes an Italian songwriter.

❝ Alessandro Ducoli, a semi-unknown artist from Val Camonica, released in 2006 what I believe is the best Italian album of the 2000s.

❝ Strange creature, this Ducoli.

❝ And the most pop form of life that has ever existed in Italy is Enzo Carella.

❝ Panella manages to make his songs immortal!

❝ we understand that Carella here sang the crazy Panellian firstfruits never appeared in the grooves, a decade before Don Giovanni!

❝ Bruno Lauzi is a great songwriter and a wonderful performer.

❝ Unusual because there is no trace of a press release on compact disc nor on the snubbed cassettes in vogue in the eighties and nineties.

❝ Here I am, the SexyAjax, finding myself at home after an hour and a half of May study, putting on a CD that for a long time has lost meaning for me, "Siamo nati liberi" by Massimo Di Cataldo.

❝ Massimo Di Cataldo is always the same Massimo Di Cataldo!

❝ Anyone who was a child in the '90s cannot help but love Max Pezzali.

❝ Seeing it "from above", trying to detach ourselves from annoying clichés and stereotypes, the product is more than satisfactory.

❝ More than ten years have passed since such trifles, and the sly fox, albeit not very sharp and quite vain, Max has produced nothing better, now neither north nor south nor west nor east can he, like a typical water diviner, turn, from whichever point you look at it there's no inspiration left, indeed, time out.

❝ Their music is a blend of Mediterranean/Oriental sounds that traverse cultures and traditions from around the world, intertwining languages (Italian, French, Arabic...) and melodies that embrace the human being with tolerance and compassion, no matter their thoughts, color, or substance.

❝ Simurgh has been found.

❝ Radiodervish is a beautiful reality.

❝ “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.

❝ “Love love love, Daughter don't go with the songwriters. Love love love, because then you end up in the songs.”

❝ “Flavio Giurato, with his Basaglia Law face, his eternal silences, and his heavy words, is the greatest mystery of Italian songwriting.”

❝ “A true cult object, Flavio Giurato appears to us today as an 'unidentified singing subject'.”