rossana roma
rossana roma
5 oct 20

DeRank™: 8,09  BarNecchi

angelo infanti a stracult - parte 1 as Verdone rightly said, character actors have been extremely important for Italian cinema.
 
rossana roma
rossana roma
5 oct 20

DeRank™: 8,25

Robyn Hitchcock - Heaven - (Gotta Let This Hen Out, 1985)
hallelujah! here it is, the reminder from Mr. Robyn Hitchcock (maybe)
 
Alemarcon
Alemarcon
5 oct 20

DeRank™: 12,47

Picking up the brilliant idea of @[Martello], I dare to pay a sort of "tribute" to a great artist such as Ivano Fossati, which is a ranking of his albums (from 1981 to 2003) from the least beautiful to the best...

No. 10: "Panama E Dintorni" (1981)
We are in the early '80s, and Ivano, after five albums that were not great in every aspect, is beginning to show what he's made of. In terms of arrangements, he continues the path laid down by the previous ones (rock sounds), but it is the depth of the individual tracks that begins to change. We are still quite far from the Ivano of the absolute masterpieces of the late '80s and '90s, but also from the less convincing albums of the '70s (except for La Mia Banda Suona Il Rock, which is still nothing extraordinary).
Overall rating 7

The masterpiece of the album: La costruzione di un amore
 
ALFAMA
ALFAMA
5 oct 20

DeRank™: 1,28

#new
Bright Eyes " Dance and Sing "
 
rossana roma
rossana roma
5 oct 20

DeRank™: 9,68

Easy ... Just a reminder.. :-) Thanks Robyn
 
sfascia carrozze
sfascia carrozze
5 oct 20

DeRank™: 8,84

BLACKLISTERS - "Sports Drinks"

Only for minds corrupted by the Amphetamine Reptile and for followers of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
As a young person.
 
ALFAMA
ALFAMA
5 oct 20

DeRank™: 1,28

#beyondthespiegel
- PING PONG - ABOUT TIME - ( - 1971 - Emiliana Records LP5022 - ) - FULL ALBUM
I’m completely out of the loop with Italian prog and Italian music in general. I hope I’ve found a noteworthy piece. After lunch, I’ll listen to it carefully hoping that I’ve struck gold.
 
ALFAMA
ALFAMA
5 oct 20

DeRank™: 1,28

#new
great embrace between Redd and electronique
Studio Electrophonique - Buxton Palace Hotel
 
Stanlio
Stanlio
5 oct 20

DeRank™: 7,27

You're No Good (Mono)

I was about 3 years, 3 months, 3 days, 3 hours, 3 minutes, and 3 seconds old when our guy released his 1st album, recorded in just 3 afternoons, and he was 20 and nothing, actually no, and the rest is History...
 
Martello
Martello
5 oct 20

DeRank™: 13,37

2nd: AGNESE SWEET AGNESE
In 1979, Ivan is at the peak of his artistic inspiration, and just the year before he had released an album that would turn out to be one of the most inspired moments of his work, achieving significant commercial success. After such an event, Ivan attempted to take another step forward, producing ten tracks for one of the masterpieces of Italian music: Agnese dolce Agnese. The beginning sets the tone right away: a legendary acoustic guitar riff and penetrating percussion, these are the predominant elements in Taglia la testa al gallo, an invitation to challenge something or someone that annoys you. As we flip the record, we encounter Agnese, a slow and dreamy piece that recounts moments spent with a girl who now only lives in the protagonist's memory; a true amarcord that grips the protagonist’s mind as he regrets never having confessed his feelings to her. These two tracks represent the two sides of the album, which skillfully blends rock and ballads with Ivan Graziani's lyrics that are sometimes furious, sometimes realistic, and sometimes fairy-tale-like. There are moments of pure autobiography like Fame, a tale of how hunger (a classy lady) can drive one to do things they absolutely loathe, and there are absurd and dark provincial stories like Veleno all'autogrill and Canzone per Susy, where in the first we find a boy stealing salmon from an autogrill to a blues/rock base, while in the second we have the story of Susy, the girl of a bassist who is already in a relationship; it all ends with the bassist's other girl cutting Susy's hair. Among the tracks, there are also moments dedicated to religion and everything that revolves around it: Il piede di San Raffaele, ironic in addressing the superstitions of those who go to kiss the relics of saints for good luck, and Il prete di Anghiari where more than a priest, one feels they are facing a mythological figure. Inside the album, there is also a song that is one of the most beloved by Ivan's audience and the author himself: Fuoco sulla collina is a manifesto of youthful illusion, that which drives young people to undertake long, stormy journeys for something that ultimately turns out to be just a handful of flies; this is the meaning of the piece from today's perspective, but considering it is a piece from 1979 intended to depict the youth uprisings caused by '68, one realizes that the piece has not aged a bit and over time has taken on multiple meanings. In conclusion to this small analysis, Agnese dolce Agnese is an album that perfectly summarizes the many facets of Ivan, managing to unite his more extreme and rock-oriented side with his more delicate and dreamlike one.

The gem: Fuoco sulla collina
 
IlConte
IlConte
5 oct 20

DeRank™: 22,88

I must unfortunately inform you of a rather distressing fact: I have just been alerted by the sprightly yet senile eighty-eight-year-old (a contemporary of our beloved @[odradek]), the keeper of the Noble Manor where @[De...Marga...] has slept, regarding The Most Noble Rooster, who, at precisely 4:08 every morning, is ordered to start "singing" the classic medley MyGeneration- WholeLottaLove-Paranoid-HighwayStar (+ a couple of bonus tracks at his discretion) to the exhaustion of himself and the residents... this morning he was found sprawled on the ground, delirious and shouting like a drunken bear rolling in velvet water. It is said that DeMarga got up and put headphones on the Noble Rooster with something brutal-death blasting. Now the Beast with the Most Noble Red Crest will never recover... These are truly dreadful things... @[sfascia carrozze] I demand a retroactive ban, savansadir.
 
zappp
zappp
5 oct 20

DeRank™: 5,30

Louie Bellson Big Band - Explosion 1979

Louis Bellson - from "Dynamite!"
1980 (Concord Jazz)

#jazzlegends