Best album Author's Song of all time secondo DeBaser.

"It's all light music, but as you can see, we have to learn it..." more

An album worth listening to, an album made from the heart of someone facing death but doing so by dedicating it to those who loved him, a masterpiece album. Capolys

"'Agnese dolce Agnese' is still today a raft that safely floats in the sea of musical mediocrity in our country." fabriziozizzi

"With 'Aguaplano' (1988) for the first time we are faced with a Paolo Conte who thinks big." Grasshopper

Bad remains a milestone in musical history and Michael Jackson’s discography. jif09

"Musically mediocre, he wrote lyrics that seemed carefree but were anything but." Lazzaroblu

Put this record on and people go silent, listen as if they are weighing the words that De Gregori sings. alessioIRIDE

Here is the magical and enchanting world of Angelo Branduardi, a unique musical case in Italy. giovanniA

John Lennon’s singing seems to come from another dimension, the dimension where Marco passed through. Tucidide

"Long live sex and to hell with politically correct!" withor

"De Gregori scores a great hit, as an absolute champion, an album that moves and makes you reflect, the best in the last twenty years." cacchione

"Sulphur Dioxide, a harmful substitute for breathable air, is the premise and conclusion of the physical and metaphorical fogging of today’s individual." Eneathedevil

Because with this album Lucio Battisti decides to make a decisive change in his way of composing music. valeriozappa

The «anime salve» that Faber talks about are all the souls of men because the soul is a «beautiful deception», i.e., it doesn’t exist, it’s an illusion. joe strummer

A poetic and thought-provoking album with lyrical depth. JpLoyRow

A standout Italian album blending poetic lyrics and memorable melodies. JpLoyRow

Bella 'Mbriana is an open window into the soul of a Neapolitan musician at his technical-compositional peak. Karimbambeta

Extraterrestre is a science fiction parable about the selfish attempt to create a better existential condition, leading to repentance and awareness of solitude. Dragonstar

It is beautiful to see poetry and music emerge together, already perfectly fused, yet it is also a very rare phenomenon. Grasshopper

'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. withor

A timeless classic that blends storytelling and rock with lasting impact. JpLoyRow2

"True peace is found only in the continuous and essential search for oneself." Saltuario

Maybe you don’t know, but this too is love. withor

"Canzoni di rabbia is born bored and dies furious." VoodooChild

‘Ci vuole orecchio’ finally sees him at his highest levels. Very high. JpLoyRow

"A fair look at Dalla's artistry and the album's emotional weight." JpLoyRow2

What emerges is a sort of concept album about bucolic life, a marvelous watercolor painted with the vibrant colors of the famous anthem 'Margherita.' VIOLATOR 88

CSAR is an album that is stratospheric, spatial, universal, metaphorical, Felliniesque, erotic, sensational. Battisti

"It really seems to me that this is the world dreamed of by De André, not perfect and even smelly... as the world should be and not as they show you on TV." Dislocation

"But time, time, who gives it back to me? who gives me back those seasons of glass and sand..." Grasshopper

'Cara' is the most beautiful of the album, where Dalla's poetry becomes the promoter of an unexpected idea of a high poetic theme adapted to a hit parade song context. JpLoyRow

Once upon a time, there was a precious artist who sang of images and places of the mind. Eneathedevil

"Diesel is the propulsion, almost an initiator of the transformation serving as a model for the album's lyrics." Bromike

It is a Fossati in a state of grace who offers us this other essay of creativity in 1990. Grasshopper

"‘Il maiale’ already sums up the situation: it talks about Jannacci’s father, who died in October 1982." Martello

Disoccupate... is a jewel of ‘77, a historical document and a poetization of events, protagonists, and dreams now falling apart. Mr.Black

Don Giovanni ... is probably one of the best tracks in Italian music. Battisti

The Crotone singer-songwriter proves to be almost restless and introverted. telespallabob

Everything becomes warmer, and the torpor consoles you. A sort of temporary kintsugi that manages to connect sky and earth for 20-30 minutes. MarkRChandar

Lucio Battisti, after his debut album 'Luci Battisti,' introduces Italy to sounds never heard before. mirocotti

"In current society, man is forced to wear a mask of perpetual satisfaction, to always pretend in relationships with others." blu

The journey begins with a heartbeat, a delicate guitar arpeggio, and Battiato’s voice introducing the world of Fetus. Naif_90

"For the first time, delicate and profound topics such as the search for the Sacred are tackled by Battiato without hesitation, with complex simplicity and poetry." tom traubert

Memorable songs that, once again, when listened to now, do not lose a milligram of their strength and (sad) relevance. cece65

"Francesco takes us to a world all his own, made of dreams, hopes, loves, and poetry." SydBarrett96

Gommalacca is a unique album in Battiato’s production, with excellent arrangements and superhuman lyrics. Martello

"'Hegel' is the simple combination of the monstrosity of words borne aloft without rest but with enormous grace by Pasquale Panella and Battisti’s appropriate melodies, never so appropriate indeed." Abraham

Lolli is a militant singer-songwriter, able to put into verse and music with effective measure, strength, love, and sincerity what the seventies were politically, socially, culturally, sentimentally. pier_paolo_farina

The essence of the album is precisely reclaiming one’s things, starting to see reality for what it is, not for the scenic fiction that we (would have) liked so much. Carlo V.

"Despite all the problems Naples may have, in the end, 'it’s better here: here, at least, for better or worse, there’s still a bit of humanity.'" withor

"A real guitarist dies. He must die on stage." Lewis Tollani

"...they defeated time with love," so romantic it would give Guccini shivers. Carlo V.

"Il Giorno Aveva Cinque Teste is a record rich in themes, lexical levels, and interpretations." Eneathedevil

"Il mio canto libero" is a milestone in Battisti's production and a turning point in modern Italian song. Eneathedevil

I called myself a fool because underestimating something like this is foolish. JpLoyRow

"How is it possible that this first work went unnoticed, and no one, neither the public nor the critics, noticed this great songwriter?" denis1982

The title track is a sort of resentment towards the 'insiders' who had rejected his subway project, interpreted in a sarcastic and allegorical way. withor

"The owls you carry on your shoulder eat your eyes and you can't send them away." iside

Piero Ciampi does not adorn his words with images. His is a bare and colloquial speech. 123asterisco

"Oh, it is so magical. The harmonies are mainly all Lucio's. He demoed the songs with a very simple keyboard with his voice." ygmarchi2

Battiato gifts us seven pearls of ancestral wisdom in a melodic pop key. Nite92

"His style has represented me for a lifetime, and I can’t help but love songs like 'Quelli che,' 'Saltimbanchi,' and the too underrated 'Obbligatorio.'" Martello

Little did I know I was listening to a singer-songwriter whom I would come to love in the years to come, simply a poet (because Faber was a poet) who set his beautiful poems to music. donnie darko

underrated, for me a wonderful album. The title track, "il mare di jan", "l'ingresso della fabbrica" and "l'uomo di pane" stand out above all. It would be 5 stars, not completely full, but who cares. more

The Unfound Island is the symbol of the truth that eludes us, the continuous effort to reach it, naturally destined to remain in vain, but at the same time a reason for living. Grasshopper

Purged of arrogance, the word penetrates and warms within. asterics

If you LIVE these words, you risk feeling the sweetness of the pain they convey. Shine

A balanced review of Francesco De Gregori’s La donna cannone. JpLoyRow

"I am Death and wear a crown, I am the mistress and lady of you all." withor

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

A brilliant mix of pop, electronic, and symphonic music. voiceface

"Franz shouts with his shrill voice - 'I sell freedom.'" Pibroch

The life of an Ivano Fossati enthusiast is not the simplest... but the rewards outweigh the annoyances. Grasshopper

"Le cose della vita fanno piangere i poeti, ma se non le fermi subito diventano segreti." rafssru

Lilly represents the most intense, painful, wrenching Italian song ever written on drugs, recounting with meticulousness and an emotion never rhetorical, the most intimate devastation of addiction. MarkRChandar

"Le nuvole is the highest example of how two worlds, music and poetry, can be reconciled." JpLoyRow

Lindbergh - Lettere da sopra la pioggia is further proof of Fossati in his best creative season. Grasshopper

"Time is a nasty beast... deep down we all just want to think about the future." zaireeka

"We were like two big donkeys pulling in opposite directions," reflects Fossati on his collaboration with De Andrè. Shine

Rino Gaetano stands apart from the typical '70s singer-songwriters due to his particular style of writing simple and amusing lyrics, yet biting and satirical. stargazer

The classic Neapolitan melody hovers over all the tracks of this splendid album. misterNo

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

Authors like these cross our lives and must be savored over an entire existence. joe strummer

Jannacci masterfully balances laughter and reflection in this album. JpLoyRow

This album is something like that. Like a scream. Like a liberation. Kyrielison

It is an anthem to strength, not letting go, not dropping one’s arms, never... to run fast, as fast as you can... there’s nothing else to do but listen to it. Joe Perrillo

“Patriots is a high-level synth-pop condensate, with paradoxically the less famous tracks being the most captivating.” JpLoyRow

He scrapes away the crust of our insensitivity and strips our souls bare, forcefully awakening the human in us. Caspasian

Ivan Graziani was the only singer-songwriter who managed to create poetry with a thirty-second solo. pigro1997

"Pollution is indeed a 'liquid' as well as visionary album, filled with damp and slippery impressions." Eneathedevil

"It was not a break from the past, but rather a fusion between the classic, melancholic, melodic Neapolitan tradition and Anglo-American rock-blues-jazz-soul." Ing.Maramaldos

"He was a scourger of consciences, a Pasolini-esque voice of an unresolved private matter that was taking over." pigro1997