Best artist Pop Rock of all time secondo DeBaser.

❝ Rock is necessary in life, no kidding, tell my father, tell him.

❝ This album should be reviewing me rather than the other way around...

❝ Calling it a "group" would actually be incorrect, for the Alan Parsons Project was already bizarre in itself, breaking the standard of a group, the "bass - drums - guitar" triangle:

❝ For a good five years, Supertramp didn't miss a beat and were the Lords of Pop. Maximum respect.

❝ A decisive push in this direction came from an album in the latter half of the decade, which represents, along with Michael Jackson's "Thriller", the aforementioned "Dark Side", and a few others, the perfect blend between commercially and artistically valid: "Breakfast in America" by Supertramp.

❝ Who knows why certain bands, although deserving from an artistic point of view, after years no one pays attention to them anymore. They simply disappear.

❝ “Spirit Of Eden” is a rarefied poetry of the soul....

❝ The Talk Talk are one of the mysteries of the 80s.

❝ A masterpiece built through the dripping and polychrome layering of sound bands, an uncircumscribable radical jazz-rock work, with vocal melodies no longer tangible, yet so intimate and intertwined with the human soul.

❝ “7800° Fahrenheit is an utterly monotonous and dull album, one of those made “because it has to be done”.”

❝ “In conclusion, if it still wasn’t clear from the review, we are in front of a perfect album that has superlatively withstood the test of time and that, even if entirely a child of its time, if released today would still deserve the label of masterpiece.”

❝ “This “Lost Highway” instead I find a very anonymous album; even the first rather distracted listen left me with nothing, and subsequent listens added very little”

❝ Coldplay continue to garner antipathies and criticisms, but they forge ahead on their path and release another album in which they prove to be a moderately more valid and refined pop band than much of the rubbish circulating.

❝ The abyss into which Coldplay is descending seems to have no end.

❝ I have always considered Coldplay as the only true successors to the Beatles.

❝ 1987. Kick is released, an album that definitively consecrates INXS into the Olympus of the best rock bands of the ’80s.

❝ The truth is, X did not become what Kick still is today, but it was still a great album that I would describe as their second best.

❝ The premature death of singer Michael Hutchence in 1997 undoubtedly engraved the word 'end' on the group's tombstone, but this work remains one of the best pieces they have produced.

❝ If a bunch of music critics got together, watched, selected, evaluated, left the room, and said, "Ladies and gentlemen, this is the best rock music performance of all time," then there is clearly a reason.

❝ Your life is your own You're in charge of yourself Master of your home In the end In the end You have to face it alone

❝ "A night at the Opera" is Queen's masterpiece.

❝ Choosing a Yo La Tengo album is not easy. One of the very few bands, alongside Fugazi and even more than Sonic Youth, to have maintained a huge qualitative standard throughout their career, adhering to a simple precept: expressive freedom. Nothing more, nothing less.

❝ Fade puts you in front of yourself, it forces you to question your entire existence.

❝ Yo La Tengo are aliens.

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

❝ What's this shit?

❝ In summary, I would say that Keane hits the mark with their debut, offering something original without wanting to disrupt the rules of music.

❝ A cozy and reassuring return for Keane, who, at least for now, avoid taking risks and decide to start again from what they do best.

❝ As unpleasant and perhaps hasty as it may seem to make such drastic judgments, "Under The Iron Sea" does not seem to go beyond a skimpy pass.

❝ Have you done more than seven thousand reviews and embarrassingly overlooked "Thriller"?

❝ Thriller is still the best-selling album of all time, with approximately 110 million copies sold, and the number increases every year.

❝ The brand "Michael Jackson" has unfortunately become synonymous with "pedophilia," "bleached skin," "psychopath."

❝ This masterpiece by the Steve Miller Band should absolutely not be missing from the records of those who love '60s rock.

❝ "Main Course" is an album that satisfies everyone, fans of the Bee Gees from the late '60s as well as admirers of the disco period, and it is simply one of the most important and influential albums in pop history: incontrovertible, impossible to deny.

❝ Even while continuing to produce excellent albums in the following years, the Gibb brothers would never again reach such heights: this album imbued with style, inspiration, elegance, and creativity will remain the most precious gem of their career, as well as one of the greatest masterpieces of pop music, even ahead of the Beatles' "Abbey Road" and the Kinks' "Village Green Preservation Society".

❝ My first memories, instead, are of that open hi-hat on the upbeat, and the guitar riff of Stayin' Alive.

❝ Fast, violent, and direct.

❝ It's the only single by the band to reach number one. (...and I could already put an end to my writing today).

❝ discovering the Clash at 16 is like... discovering the Clash at 16, period.

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

❝ GOOD EVENING

❝ And now all of you go to hell.

❝ The best remedy against Hegelianism? The Pixies.

❝ The line between genius and madness is very thin.

❝ WHERE IS MY MIND?

❝ The Big Star are an archetype in the history of rock.

❝ The most refined pop record of all time was written in 1974 but only released in 1978, marking the end of Alex Chilton's Big Star adventure.

❝ Big Star and this pair of albums became cult classics almost immediately after being largely ignored commercially, a kind of 1970s Velvet Underground.

❝ “Treasure” is recognized as one of the fundamental albums of the New Wave.

❝ “Treasure” is a timeless album in essence, to be discovered with each listen.

❝ For Treasure, 4AD called on the famous Brian Eno for production, who had dealt with a similarly expansive and layered approach to the genre.

❝ 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.

❝ “The first non-metal masterpiece in history”

❝ “This is Popular Art.”

❝ “The misery of artists is to be remembered only for beautiful melodies.”

❝ "eh, but they haven't changed at all, they're just like twenty years ago."

❝ "What you hear on \"Loveless\" really exists. And it's not a wall of sound, it's a vortex, something in front, behind, above, and below you, something you feel in your belly, under your tongue, something that suffuses you."

❝ "Squeeze" is the apocryphal album of the Velvet Underground.

❝ This album is stunning, chiaroscuro and sadistic like few others.

❝ This double live album, recorded between Dallas and San Francisco, is a confession.

❝ The essence of New Order is here, along with the origins of much of the music produced in recent years.

❝ Fuck U2, this is New Order!

❝ Dance, dance, otherwise we are lost!

❝ There are few albums I have heard that, like this one, have the intensity and the effect of the despairing abandonment with which one takes the last alcoholic sip before collapsing prey to the ghosts of the mind.

❝ "Unknown Pleasures" scares me.

❝ It all begins with a faint screech, an undertone, which broadens and strengthens until the drums enter with force, and that screeching sound becomes a note, taking the form of a guitar.

❝ "Signals, Calls And Marches" (Ace Of Hearts, 1981) is a seminal EP, which potentially contains all the characteristic aspects of indie rock bands of the '80s and '90s of the caliber of Sonic Youth (first and foremost), Nirvana, R.E.M., Pixies, Fugazi.

❝ However, gentlemen, Burma's music is not just this: it is also research, contamination, experimentation, in a word, avant-garde.

❝ On its own, Donna Sumeria is worth all the new bands put together.

❝ In short, it is not music, but a true musical anabasis.

❝ I LOVE YOU.

❝ In my opinion, a clear 2-0, and we’ll see each other again in a couple of seasons.

❝ Claustrophobia.

❝ Portishead's "Third" disconcerts, and immerses the beloved and iconographic sound of the Bristol trio in dark/industrial waters.

❝ It's like being in Chicago in the '30s, with too much LSD in your system.

❝ My relationship with "Starless And Bible Black" is instead on another level of values, being the album that has most contributed to developing my way of perceiving music over the last twenty years.

❝ Drip drip drip drip drip... [cit.]

❝ We are facing The Cure’s darkest work since “Disintegration,” an album seemingly designed to echo its glacial rhythm and introspective nature, yet it is not a self-inflicted effort by a declining band repeating its greatest hits.

❝ "And the girl with red hair and the summer nights and Three imaginary boys..."

❝ “Summerteeth is the sound of quiet desperation.”

❝ “The first great masterpiece of the millennium.”

❝ “Attending a Wilco live is like participating in a sacred performance.”

❝ 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.

❝ 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.

❝ Approaching a Laura Nyro album is always very difficult: a disarming sensitivity, a crystal-clear talent, and a horrific and premature death cannot leave the listener indifferent.

❝ In "More Than A New Discovery" you can already perceive her immense talent, her compositional and stylistic versatility, her profound love for blues, jazz, and soul.

❝ Spread Your Wings And Fly is an unmissable live of Laura Nyro, stripped either of the Broadway big band arrangements of "Eli And The Thirteenth Confession" or of the dark, yet beautiful melancholy of "New York Tendaberry," in a state of absorbed grace at the peak of her career.

❝ "The Parable of Arable Land" is one of the most shocking albums ever.

❝ Mayo Thompson made history with experimental rock.

❝ Their second album, with a vaguely mystical title, "God Bless the Red Krayola & All Who Sail With It," is, in my opinion, the highest point reached by the group; it is a genuine gem of experimental rock, psychedelic blues, and crooked acid-folk ballads, worthy of the best Syd Barrett.

❝ A collection of enchanting songs from far-off 1970: produced by Joe Boyd and arranged by Robert Kirby, the team that during that time was also working with Nick Drake.

❝ Care is the magic word

❝ Guitar and vocal enchantment.

❝ The sound of The Fall is dark, skewed, aggressive, syncopated, hallucinatory, schizophrenic.

❝ The Fall's tracks are the same from beginning to end: as they begin, they continue and end. They could go on indefinitely: they are the image of a state of affairs impossible to change.

❝ This means that from that moment on, anyone retracing those paths would draw from the production of these incredible formations;

❝ I ain't got no idols/ I ain't got much taste/ I'm shiftless when I'm idle/ And I got time to waste

❝ Stayin' out late tonight
Won't be gettin' any sleep
Givin' out their word
Cuz that's all that they won't keep

❝ Bring your own lampshade, somewhere there's a party/Here it's never endin', can't remember when it started

❝ “Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart” is a sacred circle drawn in a profane world: intimacy, escapes, rituals, healings, earth, rain, and warmth.

❝ The amalgam, the glue was the formula: “Surrealistic absurdist folk,” a kind of sparkling good energy, a quirk that guaranteed the unexpected.

❝ The Camper Van Beethoven represents roots rock better than anyone else in the context of the eighties, the decade that served as the backdrop for the explosion of punk and world music.

❝ The wah-wah of Kaukonen in "Good Shepherd" pushes you to movement, to action, towards where? Forward, towards the future, start moving.

❝ This monument or testament, if you prefer, consecrates the Jefferson Airplane into the Olympus of all rock.

❝ In short, an absolutely must-have album, which paved the way for other masterpieces by the American band, like "After Bathing At Baxter's" and their probable career pinnacle, "Volunteers".

❝ The Kinks have given us many little pop gems and Ray Davies was a genius. Period.

❝ It's time to rediscover them, isn't it?

❝ Known mostly thanks to the seminal riff of "You Really Got Me", the Kinks have gone even further, releasing throughout their career several examples of undisputed compositional talent, with an energetic and peculiar sound, that today serve as a true "beacon" for many bands.

❝ "Punk is whatever we make it to be"

❝ Minutemen = modest, minute men.

❝ And indeed it is a masterpiece of rock music composed of a whopping 45 intensely crafted songs made by perhaps the most creative trio in rock, none of which reach three minutes and rarely exceed two, but the surprising fact is that one is more beautiful than the other.

❝ It goes without saying that it is a desert island record and a must-have at all costs.

❝ The sound is the rhythm, and the rhythm is the sound.

❝ Laughing to avoid crying, this is "Fear Of Music."

❝ Second only to James Brown in importance, Sly And The Family Stone were a connecting and evolving figure in Black Music, having united what had remained separate until then: Soul and Rock.

❝ Feel so good inside myself don't wanna move feel so good inside myself don't need to move

❝ staaand!!

❝ Slackers have always been underrated. But they’ve taught a lesson.

❝ De-base, de-construct, de-regulate rock.

❝ Just to be clear, Pavement are not John Cage.

❝ The result was "Sweetheart of the Rodeo," probably the most important country-rock album of all time, as well as the swan song of the Byrds themselves.

❝ Wittingly defined by Lester Bangs as the "Revolver of American pop-rock," this work best synthesizes the band's multifaceted nuances, while serving as a fundamental archetype for entire successive rock generations (from R.E.M. to Pavement passing through the Smiths).

❝ The single was released on April 12, 1965, immediately reaching number one on both the American and British sales charts

❝ Overwhelming, carefree, irreverent, politically incorrect, boisterous, and alcoholic folk-punk, played by the most raucous, defiant, and moving crew of the '80s.

❝ Pogue Mahone, literally kiss my ass.

❝ Bearers of a folk that mixes poetry and pub brawls, the Pogues were one of the most beautiful realities of the '80s (a decade that many would like to discard but which actually contributed much more than is commonly thought).

❝ «His music is a shield erected against human pettiness»

❝ more than with the guitar, he killed fascists with words.

❝ It takes courage to interpret punk by throwing the band overboard and presenting oneself alone with an electric guitar.

❝ Like a formidable Prophet, raising the index finger, Dulli then seemed truly an envoy of some Superior Entity, commissioned by it to admonish rock saying: "Remember you were born black and black you must return".

❝ The music is the kind that gets under the skin immediately, visceral, able to wander inside the host organism to shake it mercilessly or to caress it gently.

❝ "So understand
Now that I come to you
To understand my little self
To understand my little self
And baby you be sweet..."

❝ "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.

❝ "It's Alive", the double album that captures the concert held by the Ramones at the Rainbow Theatre in London on December 31, 1977, is the greatest live album in the history of rock’n’roll.

❝ The Ramones: 2263 concerts in over 22 years of career that established them as the greatest punk band of all time.

❝ 2,263 concerts in 8,165 days, one concert every four days.

❝ The news that hasn’t yet reached the Olympus where I hope never to enter is that the Beatles knew how to play, and how.

❝ In short, the general impression here is that you are not just watching a documentary about the Beatles: you are actually reliving those years with them.

❝ Who would have ever thought that the Legend, perhaps the greatest in the History of Music, would have begun with a very simple, very banal, very inexpensive: ONE, TWO, THREE, FAH!

❝ An Alt-Country and Alternative Pop/Rock album. A small masterpiece.

❝ Case's writing finally emerges as sinister, as much as wandering and visionary.

❝ The voice is tremendously clear and powerful.

❝ Everything is pervaded by a romanticism that is naive and mature at the same time, made of odd tempos, gospel organs, cabaret, vintage video game sounds, calypso, jazz, 60s pop, Dylan-esque songwriting.

❝ An album hard to listen to, difficult to comprehend. Irrational, polyhedral sound collages, hyperboles, landscapes visible only in glimpses.

❝ Thirteen songs for 76 minutes, each track contains at least three others, mood changes that are a pleasure...

❝ After the record is finished it will not seem like waking up disappointed for having forgotten a magnificent dream, made during rest, but rather we would be pleased by memories that perhaps we have forgotten over time.

❝ The thing that has always fascinated me about Song To The Siren is the fact that it unsettles me considerably.

❝ First downside: the original tracks on this album are few and, sad but true, they are vaguely ambient sound interludes.

❝ 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.

❝ In the history of rock, the Residents from San Francisco have perhaps been the most "independent" group ever.

❝ The Residents are the greatest interpreters of the theory of obscurity, formulated by the infamous Nicolas Senada, and as such, they have always rejected the mainstream and visibility to the point of never having shown their own faces

❝ The Residents decide to release five experimental pieces from four years earlier, collected in "Not Available", where the late sixties' instrumental avant-garde meets electronic music and the synthesizer.

❝ 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.

❝ An unusual combination of beats, samples, voice, and creativity.

❝ A must-have record for its beauty and historical importance even before it makes history, and a clear example of how music hasn't said it all yet: there is no limit to creativity, as long as you have it.

❝ Pick Up nonchalantly mixes syncopated and deliberately offbeat rhythms with Andean flutes (?) recorded here and there, proto-punk experiments with a sort of klezmer-calypso, country-blues guitars with '30s brass sections, creating a sort of patchanka fused with the most skewed electronics.

❝ “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)

❝ The only advice I leave you then is: don’t think too much, listen to it and let yourself go.

❝ Some episodes might even bore, but they will hardly sound false.

❝ An album like that is definitely an experience.

❝ there is a sensation of walking on tiptoes while being possessed by waves of vertigo.

❝ Devastating piece. Among the most unforgettable I have ever listened to.

❝ "Like blood, but even deeper and darker".

❝ Here is one of the best-selling albums of all time, a true classic of American music.

❝ June 18, 1971, Carole King's very first concert, essential and simple like her music made of many notes on the piano, few other instruments.

❝ Carole King began her career as a composer at 20, spending the '60s in an artistic and marital partnership with lyricist Gerry Goffin, with whom she wrote a slew of hits for other artists.

❝ Oh, I forgot: nazi punks fuck off!!!!

❝ It's Time to Put Democracy to Bed

❝ This is not a hardcore album. This is an album that, together with a few others, has defined what hardcore is.

❝ “The case of Devo is singular.”

❝ “Shout”, released at the end of 1984, marks the true beginning of the end for Devo.

❝ “You might say: Oh, no! It's Muzak!”

❝ The Fugs, in their own way, were revolutionary, as counterculture activists and as pioneers of Underground music.

❝ “First Album”, the first album of the Fugs, is one of the pillars of the American underground of the Sixties.

❝ To conclude: the album cover is designed by a chimpanzee named Jezebel who dabbled in surrealist painting at the Portland zoo.

❝ “There was a time when Hüsker Dü was the fastest band on Planet Earth.”

❝ “Zen Arcade is innovative not only for American hardcore but for punk as a whole.”

❝ “A milestone for all underground rock to come.”

❝ Mark Linkous, voice and guitar:
“I see songs as little planets, they don't have to be in alignment, if they orbit they become boring”.

❝ “Sometimes days go by fast, sometimes this seems to have to be the last.

It's a sad and beautiful world. It's a sad and beautiful world...”

❝ “You are worth thousands of sparrows..”

❝ In the beginning was, and still is, the voice of Stuart Murdoch.

❝ This album, completely self-produced, would remain hidden for years (in Italy it would be released only in 1999 - three years after its release in the UK - following the surprising success of "The Boy With The Arab Strap") but contains some of the greatest classics of this group whose name is a tribute to the famous novel by Cecilie D'Aubry.

❝ In short, never has beauty been more found in simplicity. Belle&Sebastian are exactly what was needed!

❝ “Nobody knows / if it really happened.”

❝ “Are we supposed to be or not to be..”

❝ “Going places, smashing faces / What else could we do?”

❝ Nervous pace, broken rhythms, relentless minimalism, controlled fury, and those guitars not even Television could match.

❝ One cannot avoid using the adjective "seminal" when talking about "Crazy Rhythms" (but the Feelies themselves also moved along already mapped coordinates), just listen to R.E.M. of "Murmur," for example.

❝ The Grateful Dead's live performances are the real trademark of the band.

❝ Finally, the most requested show in Grateful Dead history.

❝ the pinnacle of their production is the amazing double Live/Dead, a cornerstone of the genre and music as a whole, which contains, among other things, Dark Star, THE symbol of psychedelia, one of those tracks capable of wiping out entire discographies.

❝ For Lambchop, the reverse would apply: never have so many people managed to create so little noise.

❝ If there's one thing Kurt Wagner absolutely doesn't need, it's a flood of auto-tune on his voice.

❝ Kurt Wagner's voice, warmer and more enveloping than ever, is that of a soul crooner who, more than singing, recites his stories, and perfectly matches the country, soul, and jazz elements of the band's sound.

❝ Such variety in a single album: doing so many things and doing them well is not for everyone.

❝ Rickie Lee Jones is a class act artist, a model for a generation of singer-songwriters who, in the years when this work was published, surfaced in great numbers on the scene.

❝ The voice, as always "ungraceful" yet precise, capable of touching the depths of Tom Waits (with whom she was romantically involved) and the Minnie Riperton-like high notes.

❝ I love Pere Ubu! I think everyone should love Pere Ubu as much as I do!

❝ How to slap technology without experiencing a deep sense of bewilderment and fear.

❝ The modern dance of Pere Ubu takes on obscene and dark connotations, its sole purpose is to delve into the human soul to bring to the surface its fears, its delusions, and its perversions:

❝ Intelligence disguised as idiocy is perhaps the best quality of the Giants, unrecognized giants of pop music as well as its negation, jesters of an all-encompassing musical cauldron, devoured by decades of record production and media serializations.

❝ Heirs of Zappa’s parody style, at least in their early works, and the pastiches of the Residents, but as much as they were devoted to avant-garde, TMBG are children of the most commercial and consumable Pop.

❝ A Sonic Abstraction that fascinates despite its (apparent) simplicity and an experience to savor after consulting the lyrics so as not to miss the “Elegant Sarcasm” of the two.

❝ 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.

❝ “We are happy because it’s been ten years since we last came to Italy.”

❝ The Femmes' 3rd album has never received the attention it deserves compared to the first two albums, both masterpieces.

❝ “I hope you know that this will go down on your permanent record”

❝ 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

❝ Is it possible to listen to “My Generation” without screaming and shaking?!

❝ Less than forty minutes, but an actual punch in the stomach, a pure distillation of that thing that someone called Rock and which instead I like to call Rock.

❝ LOVE REIGNS ON ME.

❝ This piece is the best according to John Peel. Peel is right.

❝ In that episode, for the first time, a song is played twice in a row...

❝ The real gem of the album, however, is “Teenage kicks”, which can surely be considered a generational anthem and counted among the symbols of the British punk movement and beyond.

❝ “The music of the Meat Puppets is like an idiotic laugh right in the middle of a funeral ceremony.”

❝ “In two words: PURE GENIUS”

❝ “The Meat Puppets are one of those bands for whom superlatives never suffice.”

❝ Who are nothing other than XTC on vacation.

❝ This is truly an indispensable gem!!!

❝ A bit of a trick, a bit of a tribute to the music loved by the authors, this record is a hidden gem; not an absolute masterpiece, but a work that is enjoyable to listen to, also to uncover all the references to a mythical era for Rock music.

❝ And there's much to love in the songs of the Dexys.

❝ For God’s sake, burn it down!

❝ The Waterboys are a British folk rock group. They were founded by Mike Scott in 1983.

❝ Two masterpieces like “This is the Sea” and “Fisherman Blues”; what else is there to do, today?

❝ Mike Scott, it is reiterated, the mind-soul-heart-guitar-voice-leader of the Waterboys, a project rather than a band, is someone who naturally “interiorizes geography,” one would say...

❝ "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.

❝ It is incredibly painful to talk about this album with the awareness that we are facing the last work in the thirty-year career of this formidable group; it is incredibly painful to do so at such a short distance from the death of Mimi Parker, the heart and soul of the group along with her partner Alan Sparhawk.

❝ Double Negative is one of those albums that provoke a sense of alienation after the first listen, greater awareness after the second, and a sudden and irreversible love from the third onwards;

❝ buy this album and don't listen to it. Put it on the shelf and forget about it.

❝ A transparency of being, here and now.

❝ The intimacy of the album's 14 tracks is undeniably adorable, and the accompaniment is as sparse as it is fascinating.

❝ Jimmy Page called them “My favorite band of all time, my ideal band.”

❝ “A young and eclectic band, moreover capable of writing excellent original material... it's no small feat”

❝ The Kaleidoscope is a small, colorful, and crazy orchestra, and the list of instruments played by the 5 on the record is a brilliant testimony:

❝ But this remains a loony and ramshackle record that seeks to establish a complicity more than a simple listening: a lone man and a few instruments to wallpaper our hearts with yellowed leaves.

❝ I think it's time to stop associating him with a minor-key Barrett. Our Robyn is greater than a Barrett.

❝ This is not the Soft Boys and not the quirky minstrel of Eye, this is the mature Hitchcock.

❝ “Delay” is the great lost album of Can.

❝ “Packaged at the Inner Space facilities in Cologne (Germany) in 1972.”

❝ The perfect album.

❝ Noise, melody, repetition.

❝ A record of rare completeness, probably their masterpiece.

❝ Ping Pong is everything music should be: pop, fast, hypnotic, essential.

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"This Is The End" had already been announced years earlier by James Douglas Morrison.

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"This is the end, beautiful friend. This is the end my only friend..."

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"Break On Through (To The Other Side)"

❝ Let's begin by clearing up any doubts: this is a classic among classics.

❝ The Creedence Clearwater Revival are a band, in the true sense of the word: the undisputed leader is John C. Fogerty.

❝ The latest studio effort from the American band, an intentionally driven musical suicide at the height of their fame.

❝ In fact, more underground than this you die.

❝ The first time I listened to "The Jeweller," I was stunned; the second time, I felt like a child; and the third time, I sang while butchering the words, partly because I didn't know the lyrics and partly because it felt like a magical spell.

❝ Rapp himself described his music as “constructive melancholy,”

❝ it was a band, did you know?

❝ I love you.

❝ A perfect, enchanting album. Ten beautiful pieces and only 29 minutes: the first side delineates an aesthetic canon, the second broadens and blurs it, fading out of perspective in the finale, with a surprise twist.