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Rating: Quick note on this easy musico-booklet composed of three hundred and more (if you handle it with manuscript care it's better) papyrus pages, curated by the devout assembly [about twenty attendees on site] musical-journalistic of Blow Up, which in the editorial year 2003, took the burden of scientifically gathering in this tome "600 essential albums to understand the evolution and history of rock and the many contaminations from which it drew and to which it gave birth".
By admission of the same Authors and specifically Mr. Stefano Isidoro Bianchi, director in pectore of the same magazine, it is "A possible reading, certainly one of the many possible. Perhaps also an exorcism, on Ourselves and all our ghosts".
Divided into the same number of cards (in fact, reviews: four per double page) it is greedily devoured in the span of a lazy autumn afternoon by virtue of the same qualitative synthesis implemented; the chronological journey is dissected starting from the last gasps of the penultimate century of the last millennium (the elusive Erik Satie - "Piano Music 1887 1890") to finally arrive at the end of 2002 with "Knife Play" by the disjointed American Xiu Xiu.
In the eager and diversely multi-century musico-reading one may or may not agree with the choice made by the Author on the specific work in question; one case for all: personally, I would struggle to extrapolate "ONE" best record from the multi-tiered/multiform galaxy produced by the mephistophelean John Zorn in the last twenty years (specifically the unsettling "Kristallnacht" is unraveled); the sacrificial criterion adopted is to highlight only one significantly epochal record per artist: furthermore, it must be acknowledged that, out of an understandable need for synthesis, (perhaps) it could not have been done differently.
Accompanied by all the related cover images, indication of the recording label and (naturally) the year of promulgation of the work hence concluding alphabetical index of the entities examined, it stands as a richly enjoyable and confrontational, (often) educating musico-compendium.
But didn't I say "quick"?
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