Best singer 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.

❝ 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.

❝ 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.

❝ 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...

❝ "'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..."

❝ 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...

❝ 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.

❝ 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”

❝ 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.

❝ 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.

❝ 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

❝ Before starting with the actual review, a small premise is necessary: I consider X-Factor, Amici, and, generally, all talent shows to be a sort of malaise, not only television-wise but also musically.

❝ A Nordic and delicate voice.

❝ 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).

❝ “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”

❝ 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.

❝ “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.”

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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.

❝ “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.”

❝ It’s a truly interesting album, a hidden gem of Italian music that was forgotten too soon.

❝ What remains is a voice like few that the Italian panorama can boast.

❝ “Creatura Nuda” is a sweet and profound journey into Celtic and medieval music with French, Galician, and Irish bagpipes, but combined with modern and electronic sounds with keyboards, guitars, and drums,

❝ “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.

❝ Twenty-five songs, for about two hours of music, deliver us an interpreter worthy of being counted among the best currently circulating in the peninsula.

❝ The umpteenth choice in the name of poor taste that characterizes this latest descending trail of a pseudo-artist adrift.

❝ The red-haired Fiorella does not succeed in her attempt to create a Brazilian album, even with the help of big names like Caetano Veloso.

❝ “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 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.

❝ 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.

❝ 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.

❝ The Subsonica have become rockstars.

❝ The album, as the title suggests, is an emotional microchip, where technology and feelings are equally blurred, music and lyrics, the most alternative and intimate spirit.

❝ There's no doubt about it, Subsonica is the best Italian band out there!.

❝ 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.

❝ 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.

❝ L'Aura returns with a wonderful album that restores the dreamlike dimension, the childlike digressions, and experimentation in the alternative rock field of her debut, amplifying its impact with resounding results.

❝ This album is not the usual product crafted at the office that record companies try to sell us as the new revelation of Italian pop.

❝ Those who do not love are the only ones who take

❝ 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."

❝ “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...”

❝ You had the misfortune of sharing the stage with people who shouted louder.

❝ Damned Rosso, cursed be your songs! Couldn't you just stay home and feed the cat???

❝ 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.

❝ 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.

❝ Remember to not forget.

❝ Riportando tutto a casa is the first official work of what has now become a rather well-known group throughout Italy and beyond, the Modena City Ramblers.

❝ Predictable melodies. A banal concept.

❝ 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.

❝ “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.”

❝ 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.

❝ 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

❝ "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.

❝ 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.

❝ 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.

❝ the singer with the sandpaper voice

❝ the volcanic and cursed Fred Buscaglione.

❝ Gino D'Eliso, a Trieste by adoption, loves this city viscerally, a city that has always been on the edge between the East and the West.

❝ Ridatemi i congiuntivi/Le doppie, l’educazione/Ridatemi a viva forza/La pulizia, la pulizia dal cerone

❝ Gino D'Eliso, a rocker to be fully discovered!

❝ 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

❝ Heartfelt advice: go see Daniele live, you’ll fall in love.

❝ “Unò-Duè” is the brightest and richest-sounding album in Silvestri’s entire career, a joy for the ears, for a good mood etc... etc...

❝ This is an album to have and to preserve well.

❝ "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.

❝ "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…"

❝ 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.

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

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

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

❝ This is a beautiful album.

❝ On the fringes of the spotlight, not entirely supported by adequate critical recognition, the Monza-born singer-songwriter Giancarlo Onorato has long carved out an autonomous space for himself,

❝ 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.

❝ "De André canta De André" is a live album recorded during the 2009 tour in which Cristiano returned to sing the songs of the immense Faber after more than ten years.

❝ First and foremost, an unparalleled instrumentalist, the excellent Cristiano stands out, displaying a confidence with five or six instruments more than enough to make anyone who’s ever tried their hand at the noble art want to quit.

❝ In short: we are faced with a truly remarkable work where seemingly untouchable scores have been touched with love, tact, and skill.

❝ Lies... Lies... She won't come back... She won't come back.

❝ With a bit of presumption, we could say that it's others who are out of tune with us.

❝ "In the East, the moon shines!" like your parabola... always.

❝ "I believe in the miracles that people can do".

❝ “And fly over endless fields heading south/then touch your wings with mine without going down./You must believe that there is nothing impossible in the world./If you land in the shadow, remember the light even if it is hidden.”

❝ With her usual "confident humility", she became an integral part of a series of arrangements in which one can only get lost...

❝ “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.”

❝ Chiara Civello will become the jazz star of the future.

❝ “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.”

❝ "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.

❝ From a musical standpoint, the album is superb.

❝ I must say that this album is a gem, or rather a star, to stay on theme, and it shines brightly.

❝ An excellent work by Dolcenera, certainly more mature and confident in herself, assisted by Roberto Vernetti and precious collaborations such as Piero Pelù, Saverio Lanza, and Francesco Sighieri.

❝ The driving piece was "Mare mare," followed by the famous "Ci vuole un fisico bestiale."

❝ Here, though, in this album with the incredible (and at the time true) title, everything spins perfectly.

❝ there are indeed many silent people, they are shy presences hidden among the crowd

❝ 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

❝ 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"

❝ Go see it, if you get the chance, and even if you come from very different musical paths (like me), you can’t help but be fascinated, in a sense “consoled” by the show, the sounds, the atmospheres.

❝ “Garofano d’ammore” represents the first stone laid by Bennato in his journey towards the rediscovery of the musical origins of the south.

❝ Overall, the piece is truly captivating because it enjoys sought-after sound and aesthetic contaminations.

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Giorgio remained in the tavern, and did not stray far from Italy.

❝ 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.

❝ There is nothing to understand about Baccini Francesco, and that's the beauty of it.

❝ That Espressione Musica was none other than Francesco Baccini.

❝ In third place, I would put him, Francesco Baccini.

❝ “Deserti” is an honest and fearless album.

❝ Piero Pelù is like good wine, the more time passes, the better it gets.

❝ This album sucks!

❝ 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 a record from 1996. Ron, the mysterious songwriter, is at one of his thousand comebacks.

❝ Ron is an artist who appears at just the right moment.