HOPELESS
HOPELESS
15 feb 21

DeRank™: 31,22

SONIC YOUTH | The Sprawl
COME ON DOWN TO THE STORE.
 
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Kism
Kism
15 feb 21

DeRank™: 5,70

Henry
 
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Martello
Martello
15 feb 21

DeRank™: 28,75

4. Not for Money, Not for Love, Nor for Heaven
De André has been periodically releasing an album a year for the past 5 years, steadily growing in a dizzying manner. Not for Money certainly represents another gesture of his cultivated maturity. It revisits Spoon River and adapts some characters to a modern context, like a perfectly preserved mummy. And what characters: the madman who, to astonish his fellow citizens, memorizes a dictionary only to be committed, a short man who rises to the high office of judge, the blasphemer who is beaten to death for his ideas, the doctor who, in doing good, ends up conning everyone, the chemist who recognizes only the alchemy between elements and not between people, the heart patient who lives in dull emotions until his first kiss, so intense that it kills him, the optician who tries new lenses to show ordinary people different layers of reality. And in the end, there's him, the musician Jones, who forsakes his lands to play the flute (in Spoon River, he plays the violin) until the day of his departure; music is his calling throughout his life, preserving many memories within himself but leaving no room for a single regret. It’s so beautiful to see how all these characters speak of their own death as if it were simply falling to the ground, perhaps with a scrape, but as if it were nothing. As if their lives don’t really matter in the end, given that sooner or later they will all find themselves there, on the hill, with different destinies, different souls united by a single destination. It’s impossible to capture all the possible meanings this album holds in just one listen, and even today it’s still impressive to see how Not for Money raises many questions about one’s existence and its emptiness, about the fact that it must end sooner or later, and how it may appear like many others but is, in itself, unique.
Meticulous rating: 10 with honors (allowing myself to be swept away by emotions)
The gem among gems: Il suonatore Jones
 
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zappp
zappp
15 feb 21

DeRank™: 20,06

Frank Zappa - My Guitar Wants to Kill Your Mama [Live]

Frank Zappa (96 out of 100)
"My Guitar Wants To Kill Your Mama" - from "Cheap Thrills"
(1998)

#tengonaminchiatan ta
 
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zappp
zappp
15 feb 21

DeRank™: 7,95

Fearless (1993) - Plane Crash scene [1080]

Peter Weir (2 of 3)
"Fearless" - (1993)

#35mm
 
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musicanidi
musicanidi
15 feb 21

DeRank™: 11,95

Vasco Rossi - Fegato, Fegato Spappolato - Inedito 1978 ...today I listened to at least 100 songs (Brescia-Cesena-Poggio Rusco-Brescia)...this is the one that brought more than one smile to my face...brilliant the Vasco destroyed on a Sunday morning going for a stroll in the Emilia of the late seventies...
 
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hjhhjij
hjhhjij
15 feb 21

DeRank™: 13,15

Niccolò Fabi - Ecco Very beautiful album (I had never gotten to Fabi's albums from the 2010s), I want to revisit the earlier ones but off the top of my head this is one of the most inspired.
 
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IlConte
IlConte
15 feb 21

DeRank™: 7,30

The Milkshakes - Red Monkey

Garage/R&R/PunkRockBlues/Lofi (74)

#incrediblejourneyswithBilly
 
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MarkRChandar
MarkRChandar
15 feb 21

DeRank™: 7,31

Intervista a Francesco De Gregori e Antonello Venditti - Lui è peggio di me - 11/02/2021

De Gregori that crushes Venditti post-80s almost without mincing words, a bit pretentious and haughty but he can afford it all. He also somewhat subtly admits that at the beginning Venditti was superior.
 
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Almotasim
Almotasim
15 feb 21

DeRank™: 8,88

#CatPower A top twenty: N° 11
Cat Power - Names
 
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Battlegods
Battlegods
15 feb 21

DeRank™: 20,74  Isola

U2 - A Day Without Me (Remastered 2008)
Wrong link, I'll fix it right away. Another time another place along with Shadows and tall trees are the tracks I like the least from Boy, here’s instead the dedication to Ian Curtis...
 
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