IlConte
IlConte
14 oct 20

DeRank™: 12,11

The Pandoras - Going His Way
Bombastic always and forever... rip Paulina
 
Alemarcon
Alemarcon
14 oct 20

DeRank™: 6,15

Picking up the brilliant idea of @[Martello], I would like to pay a sort of "tribute" to a great artist like Antonello Venditti, that is a ranking of his albums (stopping at Cuore from 1984 and including Theorius Campus with De Gregori) from the least beautiful to the best...

No. 1: "Le Cose Della Vita" (1973)
And here we are, reaching the highest step of the podium, with this record released just a few months after the previous "L'Orso Bruno". Gone is the pathos and verbosity of the previous album; this time it's all recorded with a piano and an organ. A bare, raw, and "strange" album as much as it is hard and intense, which could, in some respects, be defined as "experimental". Notable highlights include the moving title track, the very tough Mio Padre Ha Un Buco In Gola, the splendid Le Tue Mani Su Di Me (especially in the live version from 1985), and then Brucia Roma, which acts as a negative of Roma Capoccia.
Overall rating 10 (with honors)

The masterpiece of the album: Mio Padre Ha Un Buco In Gola (1s Take 2)
 
Battlegods
Battlegods
14 oct 20

DeRank™: 9,02

Killing Joke - Adorations
Listening carefully to Brighter than a thousand suns, I find the tracks too diluted compared to Night time. Just a simple nod to the Chameleons and genre clichés. The Cure's Disintegration will do it much better. Perhaps the production made the tracks a bit too similar to each other. The exception is the sublime hypnosis of Adorations and Sanity, two gems that close (in my opinion) the band's golden phase (since the subsequent Outside the gate, although it marks a return to harder sounds, feels too predictable now).
 
Mojoman
Mojoman
14 oct 20

DeRank™: 8,26

Watch "Ten Years After - Positive Vibrations" on YouTube
Ten Years After - Positive Vibrations
Have you ever held an olive shaker in your hand for eight hours?? Give it a try... you'll definitely feel the vibrations, but I can't guarantee the positivity.
 
Lao Tze
Lao Tze
14 oct 20

DeRank™: 6,99  Capish

El General - Te Ves Buena

Just as Bush senior was commanding the deposition of Pineapple Face-Noriega, Edgardo Armando Franco, better known as El General, was taking his first (dance) steps in Panama.
The decorated Panamanian, who had nothing to do with Noriega and had studied management in the USA, began in the early '90s to experiment with his personal fusion of Spanish reggae, dancehall, and hip hop.
Something for which there was still no name, since hardly anyone was talking about reggaeton yet. And certainly not far from San Juan.
But the General arrives on his own, seemingly without predecessors and without ties to the Puerto Rican scene. Except, of course, for those Spanish reggae singers who had been crossing through the isthmus since the '70s.
The rhythm is what we all know by now, but imagine how something like this might have sounded (between '90 and '91 or so). Three minutes of pure tunz-ta-tunz to sing to a "mami" shaped like a Coca-Cola bottle.
Cola included (for the cocaine, one only had to look around).
Overwhelming success and a cascade of platinum records, until his sudden and irreversible retirement to become a Jehovah's Witness.
From which comes the saying, famous in Panama: "if a Jehovah's Witness knocks at your door, be careful, because it could be the inventor of reggaeton."

But don’t tell Puerto Rico.
 
Ditta
Ditta
14 oct 20

DeRank™: 7,96

Alex L'ariete - Ooooooo !
#absolute masterpiece
 
Alemarcon
Alemarcon
14 oct 20

DeRank™: 7,38

Taking inspiration from the brilliant idea of @[Martello], I would like to pay a sort of "tribute" to a great artist like Antonello Venditti, with a ranking of his albums (stopping at Cuore from 1984 and also including Theorius Campus with De Gregori) from the least beautiful to the best...

N°2: "Lilly" (1975)
And the silver medal goes to Antonello's first big commercial success. It was 1975, the album had just been released, and here it was soaring to the top position in Lelio Luttazzi's chart, "Lilly." This was something that almost never happened to singer-songwriters, which is why Antonello, for a while (13 years), didn't perform the song live anymore. In terms of arrangements, it follows the path set by Quando Verrà Natale, but this time with more "homogeneity," so to speak. It is considered by many to be his greatest masterpiece, but in my opinion, it lacks that "spark" to reach the magnificence of the only missing album...
Overall rating 10

The masterpiece of the album: Lo Stambecco Ferito
 
Ermes
Ermes
14 oct 20

DeRank™: 7,12

Fosse anche il demonio può scappare se non ha violato la legge
«ROPER: You would grant even the Devil the protection of the law!
MORE: Certainly. What would you do? Would you pave a broad road through the forest of the law to pursue the Devil?
ROPER: Of course, I would demolish every law in England to do so!
MORE: Really? And when the last law has been brought down, and the Devil turns and begins to chase you, where will you hide once all the laws lie severed on the ground?»
 
dsalva
dsalva
14 oct 20

DeRank™: 12,70

Il Buffone
#radius
I apologize, but I accidentally deleted like 200 notifications, .....always consider them beautiful and if I needed to respond, feel free to ask again.
 
iside
iside
14 oct 20

DeRank™: 22,48

David Bowie - Five Years just 5 more years and everything will be over.
 
IlConte
IlConte
14 oct 20

DeRank™: 8,47

THE PANDORAS - Hot generation

For all #nobiligaragistiedintorni, a cult album with a noble bow since forever...
 
dsalva
dsalva
14 oct 20

DeRank™: 8,26

Angelina
#dedicatedto
 
Battlegods
Battlegods
14 oct 20

DeRank™: 10,44

Killing Joke - Butcher (2005 Digital Remaster)
The explosive impact I would have wanted in the next album (Fire dances...an album I save thanks to the great single Let's all go)
 
Alemarcon
Alemarcon
14 oct 20

DeRank™: 9,15

Picking up the brilliant idea of @[Martello], I would like to pay a sort of "tribute" to a great artist like Antonello Venditti, specifically a ranking of his albums (stopping at Cuore from 1984 and including Theorius Campus with De Gregori) from the least beautiful to the best...

No. 3: "Ullalla" (1976)
A year after his first major success "Lilly," Antonello tries again with this new album. It's a more political and less poetic album than the previous ones, but no less intense for that. The arrangements, until then, had mostly been based on piano and voice: this time, the piano is set aside in favor of the guitars of Ivan Graziani (who recorded "Bufalo Bill" for De Gregori in the same year), the bass of Hugh Bullen, and the "hits" from Walter Calloni. This is perhaps – along with L'Orso Bruno – the most unjustly underrated album in the entire discography, especially by the same author who has never proposed any tracks live.
Overall rating: 10

The masterpiece of the album: Jodi E La Scimmietta