Best artist Unclassifiable of all time secondo DeBaser.

❝ 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.

❝ I will have no other Floyds besides Syd!

❝ Goodbye Cruel World (of Business).

❝ The Dark Side Of The Moon is not only the compositional and musical climax of the post-Barrett group's experience

❝ "Ravnodenstvie" is nonetheless an enjoyable album, prog or not.

❝ 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.

❝ Ashanti presents this 2003 'Chapter II' aimed at reaffirming the success of her debut, a success that calls into question her good vocal skills, although incapable of transcending the genre, perhaps not even intended for that purpose.

❝ “Sometimes They Come Back”

❝ Her tormented tone and her ability on the piano led her to her thirteenth album at only 30 years old.

❝ After a first track of vocals alone that flows majestically like a mass, here's the masterpiece, the song that made me dance and sweat with passion: "Four Women," simply a precious little lace made with love between the thighs of a Mississippi peasant woman.

❝ The voice and the piano as the only ingredients for a work that documents a traumatic period in the life of the 'High Priestess of Soul'.

❝ A shocking listen, an innovative and extremely bold album, another reason to accept Gabriel's long-past and completed defection from the Book of Genesis.

❝ what emerged is the absolute masterpiece of Peter Gabriel, a work that goes far beyond its original function as a soundtrack, assuming a deeper meaning, that of authentic sacred music, a term usually understood in a classical sense, associated with solemn organs, majestic chorales, and heavenly solos.

❝ What's wrong if a record sells a lot? Nothing, it would seem.

❝ He can't play, he can't compose, he makes up absurd stories, and his concerts are a tour de force of laughter, yet he is a real character.

❝ Imagine a place where you can unleash your most delirious craziness: well! that place is a Richard Benson concert!

❝ 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.

❝ There is a dark jewel, emitting reflections of a spectral light, embedded in the discography of John Cale.

❝ After all, we're talking about John Cale, master of eccentric pop and all sorts of other things, eccentric as well.

❝ I didn't want to write this review. The artist is too overwhelming for a music layman like me.

❝ "...dad, you’re still here, come on, I don’t have time, they’re waiting for me"

❝ Music to listen to by dim light, maybe from a lit fireplace. It warms the heart.

❝ In the sales charts, Ancora reached the 5th position in March 1981!

❝ He still has his usual great voice, and it's a pleasure to listen to him on the CD player (or mp3, your choice).

❝ “I have nothing but my name... I am nothing but my name,”

❝ “The Idiot” is an absolute, epochal album.

❝ “I composed some pieces for a contemporary dance work, worked on the script for a new film, participated in a couple of feature films, and found time, between commitments, to design a new line of condoms... and I had a lot of fun.”.

❝ “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)

❝ If only one adjective could be used for B.O.C.'s music, I would undoubtedly use: VISIONARY.

❝ Secret Treaties will make Blue Öyster Cult appreciated even by critics.

❝ "It's the nexus of the crisis / and the origin of storms."

❝ 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 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."

❝ I am surprised to find that there is no review of this album on the site, the debut from 1974 by Toni Esposito, one of the most important Italian percussionists of all time.

❝ Tony Esposito, perhaps you remember him for that Austro-Napolitan look and for Kalimba de luna. Some know that he was and is an incredibly skilled percussionist.

❝ Esposito, having paid the inevitable tribute of Kalimba de Luna, provided Laccone’s concert with that quid that expanded the sound spectrum, offering moments of wonder with each new sound...

❝ Ian Anderson and the others have not yet stopped delighting the ears of connoisseurs with their very own progressive rock, based on the extraordinary versatility of an instrument more typical of classical music than rock: the flute.

❝ And in the introduction to this album, Ian Anderson states that Wight wasn't the best concert of their lives, and I sincerely remain perplexed because both in terms of sound quality andperformance, we are at absolute levels.

❝ Under Wraps is Jethro Tull's worst album: cold, too technological, not acoustic enough, not melodic enough, and especially lacking the flute that made the band famous.

❝ One of Zorn's best albums of recent times and of all time, no doubt about it.

❝ Naked City is one of those albums capable of changing the vital course of every individual's musical tastes, an unsettling album at times, soothing, almost magical at others, then from intensity it gives way to the playfulness of music only to suddenly leave it behind and embrace fiery emotions drawn from a thousand kisses deep.

❝ a "smooth and delicate", dazzling/fizzy, summery little disc to take (perhaps) with us under the shading parasols to integrate the light and caressing mistral breezes coming from the facing waters

❝ “Pieces Of Eight” is the meeting point between prog and pop.

❝ Styx, first and foremost, are an AOR band—a brilliant and solid presence in American rock, with that typical overseas flair, a band capable of crafting energetic, effective, and all-in-all catchy songs.

❝ “Paradise Theatre” (with the horrid bileteral inversion so cherished overseas) is a concept album: it echoes the thirty-year inglorious history of the cinema of the West Side of Chicago, from the pomp of its debut to the sadness that envelops its cold materials.

❝ Am I a pirate, am I a gentleman? Or am I just an old senile fool? Please, don't be mean.

❝ If human thought had a sound to represent it, perhaps it would be this.

❝ Modern sonic contamination? Brian Eno and David Byrne!

❝ 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!!

❝ “The Madcap Laughs... And what laughs! Cheerful, hysterical, desperate.”

❝ “Off-key Music for Off-key People.”

❝ “this album is an enormous piece of crap.”

❝ 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.

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the Prince of Minneapolis, the sprite of post-modern funk, the Artist who will decide one day not to have a name: ladies and gentlemen, Prince.

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Prince has now been dethroned; he has returned to being Mr. Roger Nelson. But he is among the few in the last twenty years not to be considered an usurper, to have worn those jewels with regal demeanor, of which too many of his so-called successors have a tacky abundance.

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A great album, in short, a step above “1999” and “Dirty Mind”; perhaps surpassed just by “Sign ‘O the Times”... But that’s another story...

❝ “A legendary voice, which has indelibly marked rock music. His records are the object of a cult, also due to his tragic ending at only 28 years old, on June 29, 1975.”

❝ “No one has ever managed to create the void around the voice like Tim Buckley did”

❝ “Starsailor is the unattainable, and the way to get there, Starsailor is not a difficult or easy album, it is not rock, it is not jazz, it is not even music.”

❝ "There's some really dark stuff and some psychedelic rumba. It's all that stuff I grew up with: all those bluegrass harmonies. I experimented a little with the instruments" Dan Auerbach to Billboard Magazine.

❝ “The Neu! would have changed rock 'n' roll even if they had broken up immediately after recording the first track of their first album (Hallogallo)” Julian Cope.

❝ “Neu!2”, wonderfully failed records.

❝ This is the first case of a remix in the history of music.

❝ As their leader, Daevid Allen, said,
“a band that too few people love too much”.

❝ Suppose you are a brilliant personality, unconventional, an unabashed fan of more or less heavy drugs, but above all, suppose that you have contemplated a project that no one before had ever approached: summarizing EVERYTHING in three albums.

❝ Banana Nirvana Manana!

❝ “It's like when you light the zarsa, you feel it burn a bit in your mouth but the taste is so good.”

❝ “Dan Auerbach, the redhead, and Patrick Carney, the nerd.”

❝ “There is no heart or soul; in Let's rock, there are few ideas, banal and stale riffs, no potential hits, just lots and lots and looooooots of boooooooring boredom.”

❝ have crafted another excellent example of pioneering avant-progressive pushed to the limit of experimentalism, which, just like its (although of a different genre) Crimson cousin, makes improvisation and the relative lack of melody a decisive strength and creative charge.

❝ The epilogue of Henry Cow remains the true and only example of RIO not only musically understood but, due to its strong social and political charge, also as a banner of the movement.

❝ The great step has been taken, the great gift for humanity given.

❝ If only one name from the entire history of rock remains in a hundred years, it will inevitably be Jimi Hendrix, said Pete Townshend.

❝ Here. In about two minutes, Jimi Hendrix one day decided to show us his soul and we all realized that his soul was so, so beautiful.

❝ Hendrix and the completely still and mesmerized audience in front of this being who came from who knows where to express everything he had inside with the howls he managed to produce from his guitar..

❝ What is Frank Zappa doing in a kind of Arcadia? And why is he not rasping but smiling gently?

❝ Not easy music but with magic on its wings.

❝ For lovers of the Canterbury Sound, a must.

❝ 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.

❝ When the alien DavidBowie, restless astronaut of the deepest spaces of the human soul, encounters the musical architect of perfect cosmic spaces BrianEno, an extraordinary album emerges.

❝ HE'S OUTRAGEOUS, HE SCREAMS AND HE BAWLS

❝ We know, David Bowie is not a man of this planet, not in a strict sense, at least.

❝ 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.

❝ 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.

❝ Fred Frith is probably among the greatest guitarists remembered.

❝ It is interesting to know that this was, in those years, Frith's only written music project.

❝ An album that truly borders on (if not reaches) formal and stylistic perfection.

❝ Can a voice say more than just words alone? Yes, and evidently this album is proof of that.

❝ Otis Redding, the king of soul music. A legend.

❝ Sweet Tea is nothing but an extremely gritty, raw blues record, with nothing sweet about it.

❝ Buddy Guy this time leaves the electric guitar at home and doesn’t leave it because he forgot... quite the opposite... he leaves it because this time he doesn’t need it, this time a good acoustic guitar and a good microphone are enough and more to create yet another great blues masterpiece.

❝ How many guitar styles this artist has influenced is impossible to say, but it is worth remembering how a great like Eric Clapton said that his career as a musician was strongly influenced by him.

❝ Popular wisdom says that you can only know the truth from children, the drunk, and the mad.

❝ A rock, psychedelic journey.

❝ You heard that right, these guys pick up their instruments and go at it fiercely.

❝ Massive accumulation of Acid- Psych- Hard- / -Blues -Rock -Garage revival with a Parker Griggs all-rounder, perfectly at ease between guitars, drums, fuzz, wah wah, tube amps, and all that vintage equipment dated no later than 1975 or that sounds like it.

❝ “Come and play folks, you are welcome here. Sure you can smoke!”

❝ “If it's not broken, don't replace it. Leave it alone.”

❝ “Third World Pyramid is just another record from our band: out of focus, out of time, and out of fashion.”

❝ I don't know what else to say except: MASTERPIECE!!! BUY IT!

❝ This work, predominantly built on brilliant but deliberately disordered medieval metrics, represents the possibility of dazzling any musical score that a normal staff could contain.

❝ Indisputably, Out of the Coma is a welcome and unmissable return for all the devotees of this great and influential band that resurfaces from oblivion with a renewed and mad artistic charge.

❝ "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.

❝ Three albums, a continuous escalation of quality, up to the final masterpiece.

❝ 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.

❝ "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.

❝ "Led Zeppelin? What's that?"

❝ "Best Band, Ever"

❝ An epic start like Woodpecker No.1 for an album, I've never heard in my life.

❝ Without thinking too much about it, if someone were to ask me which album might be "more listenable" by Merzbow apart from the magnificent "Merzbeat," I would answer "Amlux."

❝ Masami Akita, known to a few friends (one assumes) as Merzbow, must lead a very intense life.

❝ In the end, disparate elements and a lot of eccentricity perfectly amalgamated make this album worthy of entering the Olympus of Progressive.

❝ The East Of Eden can be considered among the pioneers of Jazz-rock fusion in its most progressive form.

❝ The best track? Definitely "Communion", a reinterpretation of Béla Bartók in ethnic sauce.

❝ “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.”

❝ “if you want to be a bird why don’t you try to have a little flight?”

❝ Unclassifiable but fundamental for all those who believe that music is the most powerful means to fly.

❝ Anyway, despite everything, a masterpiece.

❝ Kevin Ayers, in other words, a genius who pretended to be dumb to avoid going to war....

❝ Kevin Ayers is missed, and it’s absolutely worth rediscovering him.

❝ Kevin Ayers was the king of the realm of laziness.

❝ 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.

❝ “In Stormy Nights” is indeed a clear result of minds not entirely sane, not entirely bound by the rhetoric of the market. Not entirely folk, not entirely electronic, not entirely jazz.

❝ The Japanese Ghost delve into the human psyche by deconstructing music and reducing it to the very substance of air...hypnotizing the listener, who, not knowing quite what to expect, allows themselves to be carried away on this ascetic journey, this illusory voyage, this sound labyrinth.

❝ it’s a nice piece regarding Papa Emeritus III’s vocals, the lyrics are not bad until the chorus starts, the music is excellent (...) but it has several negative points, such as the chorus being too innocent and the quite unpleasant riff that precedes it.

❝ 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...

❝ You see him wade through pop without ever getting his hands dirty in banality, always balancing between irony and genius.

❝ Eleven slaps in the face, beautiful beautiful, resounding, thunderous.

❝ Recommended for those who love the most extreme Zorn because his influence goes beyond simple collaboration.

❝ They’re back. No, perhaps it’s not exactly them, but a small part of them has survived the melting under the sun of the Maudlin Of The Well and lives again in Kayo Dot.

❝ What’s new? A massive reduction in distortions (...) and the introduction of rhythm, a more delicate sound but sustained by odd times that strongly recall the ’70s King Crimson for sounds and the ’80s for tempos.

❝ the seven songs of “Blue Lambency Downward” (...) give the impression of being pretentious and loaded with presumption (...) not even as “challenging” or inspired as the aura surrounding them might lead one to think.

❝ "Knock twice before listening" … this is the warning found on the label of the vinyl for this self-titled debut by the New York-based Silver Apples.

❝ a lost diamond of inestimable value, carved in 1971 by three English guys...

❝ The debt that Corky pays to his father is a kaleidoscopic spectrum of emotions in the discovery of how the origins of traditional American music heavily influence the contemporary taste (we are here in 1969), but with hindsight, even the taste yet to come; like a sort of "nothing fundamentally ever changes", except for the technical means used in the service of expression.

❝ “Oar” is pure poetry, composed of many tiny black lights, probing deeply into the night the feeling of being alone; when everything surrounding us seems to want to be foreign, surrounded only by ourselves.

❝ You build tension but then ease it with melodies like "Little Hands", which is a folksy masterpiece to listen to sitting around the fire keeping coyotes away on a starry night.

❝ What makes “Oar” an absolute masterpiece?Spence plays all instruments;He manages to unite – in an organic freak blend – psychedelia, folk, country, funk, rock, and above all blues;It is the work of a lifetime, which condenses the deep inner turmoil of an artist, in an absolutely genuine manner.

❝ “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.

❝ Who is Lothar? The theremin!

❝ "Space Hymn" was released by Capitol in 1969 and contains, for the time, an astonishing combination of space sounds and beat tunes.

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Adorable Japanese girls, I have a weakness for Asian ladies, but that’s another story, and I should talk about music, not my taste in women.

❝ When talking about electronic music, one cannot overlook the name Holger Czukay.

❝ Holger Czukay, before forming Can, was an electronic experimenter, a student of Stockhausen, who played with samples and tried to mix "classical" avant-garde with rock sounds.

❝ The album ultimately results in a rather pleasant mix between Mike Oldfield's early works and the simpler pieces of musicians like Terry Riley and Philip Glass.

❝ More than traditional rock tools, instruments such as oboes, flutes, violins, congas, and organs dominate, alternating seamlessly in a blinding creative and executive sarabanda, studded with shamanic visions of unspeakable depth.

❝ Music without labels, without boundaries, without names.

❝ “Introspezione” is an absolute masterpiece that should not be missing from the discography of anyone who loves progressive music, but not only.

❝ Between avant-garde, classicism, progressive hints and so much imagination, as well as great class, Opus Avantra (Avan = avant-garde - tra = tradition), have delivered to Italy and the World this work, in my opinion phenomenal, which - through the winding compositions, with an eye turned towards Canterbury (too much?), but without forgetting the melodies, at times moving, always extremely refined – has proven to be beautiful and unforgettable, even for the unusual sound standards that come out of the record.

❝ The cosmos couldn't bear it… and wept its tears copiously.

❝ An interesting anecdote: in Rome, Mario meets director Marco Ferreri and poet Giuseppe Ungaretti; to the latter, already in his eighties, he offers an evening at Peyote.

❝ Born in Vomero near Naples, in terms of originality and creativity, it has few equals.

❝ The album has been defined as the first and perhaps only example of true Cosmic Folk, loved by collectors and omnivores of the unclassifiable.

❝ The piano is struck, often violated, with a physical attitude that is audible on the album, while the troubled voice vomits fears emerging from childhood.

❝ Piano and laptop immediately engage in a dialogue with an intense voice, comparable to the pathos of Nico, but with a more gentle aftertaste.

❝ Here she comes, our little sad girl.

❝ A little miracle dated 1970.

❝ La Realtà Non Esiste, a piano and vocal gem just over two minutes long: one of the most beautiful songs of the entire '70s.

❝ 18 fantastic minutes of pure psychedelic folk, fresh air that fills your lungs and also has the strength to shake your senses, striking your nerve strings like hammers striking the piano strings agitated by ebony and ivory keys that seem to yield under the frenzied blows inflicted by fingers that twirl madly in the air... in a breathtaking finale.

❝ "In my body there are sewers/everyone calls them veins/but inside there are rats running"

❝ "I am in the world but not of the world,"

❝ "we chase our illusions, roses and thorns of a reality that slips through our hands... rays of truth"

❝ "Super Record" is like oriental restaurants in movies.

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“It's as if your music is on the seventh floor, while the audience is on the ground floor... you should at least come down a few floors”:

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Avant-garde, counterculture, experimental, subversive, pseudo-intellectuals.