Comments on: An appeal to Italy

By: Rose

Rose — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 08:31:51 +0000

ciao
Iam responding to the query about lyrics to songs eg Cugini di Campagna, all their lyrics can be found on http://www.lyricsmania some of the translation is dubious but worth a try also some of the groups have their own sites. You probably know all this but it is a genuine response to your request
Kind Regards
Rose

By: owen gardner

owen gardner — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 19:43:52 +0000

Continuing with your logic, I would say there wasn’t any good music in the US, UK, France or Germany either but we all know that it isn’t true. There’s a fucking ton of great Italian music, though quality dropped off in the 80s and it’s terrible now, as is the case throughout the first world. Here’s a short list of favorites:
Franco Battiato
Roberto Cacciapaglia
Pierrot Lunaire
Roberto de Simone
Ivan Cattaneo
Goblin
Rafaella Carra
Italy’s also produced some monstrous (non-opera) classical composers since the war; Giacinto Scelsi and Luciano Berio will give you more than enough to think about.

By: Marty aka Marty McFly

Marty aka Marty McFly — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 17:30:12 +0000

Italian Pop music is horrible, no doubt about it.

But we have some great Jazz and some amazing Library music

On the Jazz side, start from Massimo Urbani and keep dig in his direction. You will be surprised.

Take care

By: Justin

Justin — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 18:22:16 +0000

Matt, check out the Dining Rooms… http://www.thediningrooms.org/

They produce really good organic, jazzy lo-fi, house and nu-jazz type stuff and have collab’ed with Cinematic Orchestra. I think of them as Italy’s answer to St-Germain.

I also once bought a really good compilation called Beretta 70 (http://www.amazon.com/Beretta-70-Roaring-Thrilling-Italian/dp/B00000BIK5) which is a compilation featuring lotsa funky tunes from Italian police movies of the 70s.

Other than that I probably agree with your sentiments on Italian music… but hey, no country is perfect and I think we’ll just have to accept that Italy’s flaw seems to be it’s music…

By: Charlie

Charlie — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 21:21:03 +0000

I am sure there is some good Italian region folk music to explore surely?
If we can include Sardinia there is the Tenores music that has some amazing harmonies. Tenores di Bitti being just one example. There is some bagpipe music in the north I think. Italy was only unified in the nineteenth century, so its has a very diverse regional culture.
Bet you can dig out some gems!

By: fritzthecat

fritzthecat — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 14:36:18 +0000

No, no, no, NOT Vasco Rossi, a washed up Lou Reed copycat.
Uno scoppiatione che fa cagare.

By: Pacze Moj

Pacze Moj — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 05:15:25 +0000

Pieranunzi, Magris… and those are just jazz pianists!

By: yobbo

yobbo — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 20:26:20 +0000

le luci della centrale elettrica! GRANDE VASCO!

By: Dress

Dress — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 07:20:08 +0000

Dont sleep on Italian library records. Here’s a good selection from a soulstrut regular:

http://www.soulstrut.com/ubbthreads/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=1199100&an=0&page=2#Post1199100

Peace,

Dress

By: fritzthecat

fritzthecat — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 12:06:04 +0000

Forgot to say – if you want really bad stuff, you should try the Neapolitans, they regularly burst out crying in the middle of songs. Just type ‘Mario Merola’ into youtube, and get some tissue handy to wipe the tears off