Reviews by Time Bomb

In the MTV documentary " Miley : the movement" , there is a moment when Miley Cyrus and Britney Spears come together to record a duet that will later end in " Bangerz ." The difference between the two , as they speak during a break from recording , is abysmal . The first bursts of energy, describes with enthusiasm the ideas for the album, the performances , costumes and video , and the second nods, smiles and looks around like a lady disoriented for a moment that came out of the house to do the shopping and found herself having to sing in a studio full of strange gadgets . The feeling is that it was not an isolated case and that Britney is continually dragged here and there for a job that does not interest nor the energy to do more .
The eighth album, " Britney Jean" , was announced as his work " more personal ." The executive producer will.i.am stated in interviews the intention of affecting something that better reflect the age and personality of a pop star who now rightly spends more time caring for children than to lash out at the disco. There are those who said it was her "Ray of Light" , the spiritual turning point of the Madonna that much pleased the public , the critics and his accountant.
All these beautiful premises proved to be ridiculous from the first , cafonissimo single " Work bitch " (failed) attempt to replicate the success of "Scream & Shout " . But there remained the hope that the rest of the album could still offer some trace more intimate and sophisticated , and that the heavy hand of will.i.am felt a bit ' less. Empirical evidence shows that at least four out of ten songs meet expectations - assuming that by " personal " we pretend to be understood as " love ballads written and produced by a dozen different authors ." " Alien," in which he worked William Orbit , Britney sees floating in space in solitude ; "Passenger " produced by Diplo and an unrecognizable written , among others, by Katy Perry and Sia , is a pleasant pop-rock power ballad in which the singer chooses to no longer be the one behind the wheel in a relationship , " Do not Cry " is about a love gone wrong as " Perfume" , where the argument is , however, treated with more venom (Britney hopes that the other woman feel her scent on man contended ) . ( Product placement : Britney puts on the market a different scent every year for ten years. ) However , there is a lack of depth in the sound and the voice hyper- correct dall'autotune that makes all these songs really not credible . They seem demo sung casually waiting for a real pop star get to her and make her put us transport that would require .
It is still worse, much worse , in moments dance . In " It Should Be Easy" and "Body ache ," Guetta and will.i.am are competing to see who can bring home the homework eurotrash more annoying , " Tik tik boom" is rendered even more useless by the collaboration of TI ( mica do not want to put a rapper ? ) and " Chillin ' with you" saw an inexplicable comparsata Jamie Lynn Spears, which certainly does not have the makings of his sister when he was her age.
Britney does not need other successes to maintain its status , but here it fails on both the commercial and on that creative , once again giving the impression that they happened to be there or have too nodded in a series of co-workers even less interested in her to put together a good collection . From the eighth album by the iconic pop star so you would expect a more serious attempt to get back in the game because , otherwise , we might as well simply selling perfumes.

TRACKLIST :

Alien
Work bitch
Perfume
It Should Be Easy (feat. will.i.am )
Tik tik Boom (feat. T.I. )
body ache
Til it's gone
Passenger
Chillin ' With You (feat. Jamie Lynn Spears)
Do not cry

The sale is not always the ultimate goal of a disk. Sometimes the product record made ​​by an artist or a band is simply a medium that aims to communicate a particular message to the public , perhaps linked to a change in lifestyle or a cleaned image . Now then that discs are sold less and less, such operations are much more frequent.
This " Foreverly " looks like a candid image of the cleaning operation for Billy Joe Armstrong , lead singer of Green Day , which this year has seen his name mentioned in the news several times for outbursts on stage, suspended tours and admissions to detox clinics .
" Foreverly " is a collection of twelve songs inspired by "Songs our daddy taught us ," an album of traditional American songs in 1958 were reinterpreted by the Everly Brothers , the duo of Don and Phil Everly , profoundly influencing the country , but also American pop rock for years to come .
Country music , with its conservative values ​​made ​​out of respect for the traditions of the community, acceptance of life's difficulties and feelings of personal pride , lends itself perfectly to such operations . Just also take a look at Nashville TV series (aired in recent weeks in Italy on Fox Life) to better understand what is still today the country , in all the subgenres of which it is composed , from the roots to the ultra -pop USA in the music biz .
To do this, the good Bily Joe (or whoever) has chosen the perfect partner , that Norah Jones from the clean, clean-cut , smooth pop weblog Match by Blue Note and which over the years has shifted more towards the indie rock and even the country with his side project the Little Willies . In addition, Jones is experienced and credible figure in collaborative projects : it has collected so many (from Foo Fighters to Outkast via Ray Charles and Ryan Adams ) to the point that in 2010 it has collected all published on the album " ... Featuring " .
So , summarizing, it is a disc of covers of traditional American songs already carried out in the late '50s by a duo very popular , here sung by an unlikely pair formed by the leader of a successful band , ex - junkie in search of rehab , and a good craftsman of the pop charts . So, to make the usual play and transferring everything within our borders , it is a bit ' ( roughly and with some differences ) as if Morgan did a record with Giorgia (or Elisa ) to cover the pieces of Vianella or Quartet Cetra .
Ok , but the disc is?
Well , it is a kind of stuff that does not move anything. For lovers of country- pop love listen more traditional pieces like " Barbara Allen ," " Long Time Gone " and the touching " I'm out here to get my baby out of jail" here diligently performed by talented musicians , the beautiful voice of Jones and the more monotone Armstrong . Those who never liked the origins of the genre that is now called Americana certainly will not change opinion after listening to this disc .





The only thing you can really say is that the production and crystal clear lacquer lose too much of the charm of these songs originriamente born into poverty and degradation . And then , to cap it all , it's quite a smile listen viziatello Californian pop -punk singer who sings verses such as " Kentucky I miss your laurels and your red bud trees" harmonizing their voice with the daughter of Ravi Shankar .

TRACKLIST :

Roving gambler
Long time gone
Lightning Express
That silver haired daddy of mine
Down in the willow harden
Who's gonna shoe your pretty little feet
Oh so many years
Barbara allen
Rockin ' alone ( in an old rockin ' chair )
I'm here to get my baby out of jail
Kentucky
Put my little shoes away

The anticipation and curiosity for this film from fans of Apple was equal only to that felt just moments before the presentation of a new product. Talking about the character that has made the history of computing in recent decades is always difficult, because you are likely to forget something or someone upset , that's why first of all you have to admire the courage of the director Joshua Michael Stern struggling with his first real film , however this does not justify having transformed a film from the tremendous potential in a simple for-TV movie .

The scene opens with a young Steve Jobs, masterfully played by Ashton Kutcher , struggling with a university system too far below his expectations within which fails to express his creative genius . This continues his desire for knowledge led him also to make use of hallucinogenic substances together with the partners of the moment and to his friend as a way to find that "something more " . The only course that can stimulate his imagination is that of calligraphy , a discipline that will help him develop a passion for beauty combined usefulness and fine attention to detail graphic and beyond. The University was standing too close and decided to leave because they believed that the springboard for his life . And he was right .

The film delves once in his career information at a glance telling his past initial Atari , where he managed to develop a video game using his friendship with Steve Wozniak , and manages to be hunting for this difference of opinion with the then president. This brief experience led him to stay in close contact with Wozniak and in this period he was fascinated by his friend who is developing , in his spare time , a graphics card capable of communicating with the TV screen .

Thus begins the true story of Apple , where the young Steve Jobs, thanks to its charm and its entrepreneurial skills , is able to transform a small startup founded in a garage in a multinational publicly traded with revenues mind-boggling. At this stage we are witnessing the transformation of the character as a young dreamer to entrepreneur with no time for friends, almost immediately relegated to minor roles and arrogance for the family.

At this stage of the film you feel the lack of precision of the director, relegating to the background the figure of Steve Wozniak, when in fact it has been for years the link between the demands imaginative and creative Jobs and practicality of selling a car perfectly working from the technical point of view . Other aspects that should be explored are definitely better : the trip to India , from which Steve came back changed , the non- paternity against his daughter Lisa , the controversy with Microsoft's Bill Gates in the film relegated to a single phone call and finally the period when, out of the Apple family , he founded NeXT and bought Pixar . Not certain episodes of little consequence. The time film are important, but we felt it was the least strange little attention in the telling of these episodes.

The film ends with a Jobs more mature , thoughtful and capable of distinguishing the real priorities of life, reconnecting with his family and with his beloved creature Apple. Very little was enough to make this film memorable , the premises were there , a perfect replica of Steve Jobs (Ashton Kutcher ) and a good story to tell, unfortunately, the expectations have been disregarded making it just a simple movie , ghost of what could become ...

The age of 30 is hard to overcome for people. Imagine for a band . Yet the Melvins - although few would have bet there - they got there : and with this nineteenth studio album becomes almost obligatory celebration ... which is made special with the return of the first lineup drummer , Mike Dillard - originally appeared only in demo recordings and in some bootleg.
The result is, as it was probably in intent , a sort of revival protogrunge - metalloid - hard rock : heavy stuff like an anvil , intoxicated by pills cheap and dozens of joint , a bit ' rough and raw as just a bunch of twenties bored to death , of Montesano (Washington), can regurgitate in the early eighties .
Nine out of 12 songs have already been engraved and published by the group from 1983 to today , so what we have in " Tres cabrones " is a kind of re-reading of "what if" in search of sonic developments that would have occurred if it were Dillard remained in the band and the remaining three pieces are traditional cover - "99 Bottles of beer ", " You're in the Army now" and "Tie my pecker to a tree ." In short, the real surprises , at least in terms of composition , there are none .
It is therefore the case to store the whole thing as yet another divertissement Buzzo & co. , In the face of those who will buy the disc just to brand loyalty Melvins ? The answer is " ni" .
"No" because Buzz Osbourne, despite his 50 years long career and , still seem to have perfectly clear the mechanism that leads to design and play the riff- riffoni the contrary , the ones you create tsunamis in the soul and titillate your alter ego rocker tireless . Do not you just have to deal with tracks that are not entirely new to dampen this talent ... and in this regard I challenge you to emerge unscathed from one -two " Dr. Mule "and" City Dump " .
"Yes," because , objectively , the Melvins have churned out so many records really special - in all honesty - it is difficult to think of this " Tres cabrones " as a serious work and advise even to those unfamiliar with the band ... has the flavor , rather than the prank and the hard fact to have fun, the face of the music biz and who hangs sacredly from the lips of the guru, magazines, trendmaker and hype detector.
In short , it is clear that if this had been released 20 years ago probably would now be in the elite connected to the discography of grunge and alternative rock . In 2013 , with all the water that has passed under the bridge , it's just a good album for nostalgic people who have lived (but really , not just hearsay) the rock epic saga that the Melvins and a few others have started .

TRACKLIST :

Dr. mule
City dump
American cow
Tie my pecker to a tree ( traditional)
Dogs and cattle prods
Psycho - delic haze
99 bottles of beer (traditional)
I told you I was crazy
Stump farmer
You're in the army now ( traditional)
Walter 's lips (cover The Lewd )
Stick 'em up bitch

And even she had to get the disc simply titled with his name. So , two years away from " Goodbye Lullaby ," here " Avril Lavigne " , the fifth chapter of the Canadian singer record .
The album started to come to life shortly after the release of the previous work schedule and the thirteen songs present here have been selected from the large amount of pieces written by Avril , who has advocated the output short of another disk with the been excluded from the opera songs .
" Avril Lavigne " is an album uptempo and positive when the Canadian rock star sings once again with issues close to the world ' teen ' in spite of his 29 years:
to report the collaboration of husband and lead singer of Nickelback Chad Kroeger ( duet "Let me go" and co- author of " Here's to never growing up " ), the participation of Marilyn Manson, who duets with Lavigne in " Bad girl" , and a song dedicated to the Japanese Hello Kitty character .
In an interview with Avril , born in 1984 , said that his two favorite songs of the album are " Hush hush " and "Give you what you like ."

A tre anni di distanza dal primo disco omonimo, esce su etichetta Seahorse il secondo lavoro degli Arancioni Meccanici, intitolato Nero.

Nelle 11 tracce che lo compongono viene disegnato l'ipotetico viaggio tra le pieghe della realtà intorno, a tratti visionaria, a tratti cruda.



Con anni di concerti alla spalle e quindi una padronanza degli strumenti, il terzetto riesce a proporre in maniera personale una sua versione di rock italiano, con testi mai scontati e un caleidoscopio di suoni molto vario.

Da segnalare una riuscitissima cover di Slave To Love, ovvero uno dei singoli più famosi del dandy per eccellenza: Bryan Ferry.

I start with the repeat for the umpteenth time as that of Georgia is one of the most beautiful voices in the national scene . And to know how to use in an almost perfect . But add to that the problem that is often found in the course of eight albums of the singer, if anything, was to find authors - and as a result , songs - at the height of his vocal abilities .

In the 14 tracks on Fearless, the second album with producer Michele Canova , the gap immediately jumps to the eyes. When Giorgia relies on the right collaborators there is no history : the opening track do not love me , and also the first single When a star dies stand out and enhance the skills of the singer , which in turn makes them live thanks to the great interpretive skills . But the highest peaks in touch with the duets with foreign guests : in I Will Pray with Alicia Keys ( another beautiful voice is not always rewarded by the right compositions ) comes out with all the intensity of the best ballad , while Did I Lose You , with promising young English Olly Murs, is a fresh pop song with an international flavor , which shows how Giorgia know to be credible even when he sings in English.

Meanwhile we encounter Perfect and My room that reproduce , accentuating , those sounds dance- crafty often rewarded by the radio, and it is disorienting to arrive soon after Today I sell everything, touching song written by an author as giant Ivano Fossati. Giorgia unable to give a personal and even here the results are good ( and feel ) . A couple of well-aimed as a ballad Love You will see how you learn and would be sufficient to close the disc or almost , because unfortunately not all are up to five additional songs : sound a bit ' too as fillers . Too bad, because the disc probably would benefit from a reduced tracklist and less distracting.

I state that I should not even review it , this album , because, according to Lady Gaga, the only persons authorized to make judgments about his music are fans and scholars . (There are little monsters or music scholars in the house? Anyone? So you have to read my opinion on ARTPOP . Take a little ' with a grain of salt. )
It is this kind of statements to make Lady Gaga an unusual character : a pop star of his greatness that claims to be able to control what is said of his music and his choices while making a living not just by Kate Bush. Gaga wants the spotlight on her, but she also wants to maneuver them to his liking in a delirium of omnipotence. It is intoxicated with the blind faith of his supporters , although these are often better at food instead of annihilating the volume of criticism from detractors.
Rather than give instructions on who should listen to and even how ( announced on Twitter the prohibition of the use of computer speakers ) , the plebiscite could get much more easily making music for the masses and accessible songs , but no longer allowed : it is locked in a product that does not entitle it to ever be less exaggerated. Yet , to date, from the musical point of view , was almost unassailable precisely for this reason : even in its weakest songs or videos you always felt an extraordinary creative impulse , even when the lens is not centered , the result was at least interesting or innovative .




In ARTPOP , unfortunately, is missing this aspect Redeemer : where there was innovation , now it just feels the weight of responsibility to be Lady Gaga , where there might be a song, an experiment is an end in itself . It is an album fragmentary and confused as its cover , and the melodic lines , which were once his greatest strength , are embedded in productions clumsy . Take "Aura" , four minutes in which live , jostling , many songs sketchy : between Spaghetti Western guitars and EDM supermarket , there is an item that uses all styles and filters at its disposal . When the chaos clears, toward the beautiful central Gaga asks: " Do you want to see the girl who lives behind the aura behind the curtain , behind the burqa ? " , But then goes back into hiding , along with the melody , in the circus tent it is built around .
The same thing happens in the sequence from track 9 to 12 (which should be cut into block ), where the ghost of electroclash hovers over a parade of zombies of various kinds ( Donatella Versace, will.i.am , David Guetta ), and does not even seem have fun too . In "Jewels n ' drugs ," Gaga becomes almost the guest at the service of three rappers B-series experiment in a very bad hip hop, while in " Venus " , Madeon can not find the freshness of the house and his French co- produces a single memorable little more than that little radio .




However, in closing , the question asked in "Aura" is answered with three songs in which , finally , Gaga tells something of himself . He does not use the words that have made important universal " Born this way " and it is unlikely that listeners are able to recognize the worries of a global pop star , but you feel a warmth entirely absent in the previous twelve tracks . In " Dope " , Gaga sat at the piano for a heartfelt (or well-acted ) letter to the fans , with the euphoric "Gypsy ," examines a life spent in the tour bus and the result is close to one of his best songs ("The edge of glory " ), in the first single" Applause , "which closes the album , returns to analyze the contribution with the reputation by claiming his right ovation of the audience. It is the consensus that now is not the failure , but the power of the fans, as we can guess from the results obtained with this promotional campaign , it is not enough for her either . Lady Gaga will soon have to deal with other listeners - the random ones , the ones distracted , those who do not experience the method Abramovic - or receive the applause that will be increasingly similar to those recorded that inserts herself in his tracks .

TRACKLIST :

Aura
Venus
G.U.Y.
Sexxx dreams
Jewels n ' drugs
manicure
Do what U want
Artpop
Swine
Donatella
Fashion !
dope
Gypsy
Applause

In a historical moment in which the disks no longer have the value they had in the past and have become technically commodities , simple business cards for artists who monetize on the other , an Eminem record is always a unique event. Not only because the sales spurt at the top ( at this time in the Top Ten of iTunes USA there are four singles from the Detroit rapper - at # 1 , # 3, # 4 and # 10 - including a few that do not even have benefited a radio promotion ) , but mostly because Eminem is one of the few contemporary artists who put a piece of his life in any disk, use the recording studio as the psychoanalyst's couch , rap as a stream of consciousness and rhymes as a territory to out his demons and alter-ego .
After the rather dark and heavy " Recovery" of 2010, Eminem returns to the stage in great shape and with the desire to take risks, to the point of naming the album "The Marshall Mathers Lp 2" , followed by the one recorded in 2000, which is in many his most successful record .
But we can not consider it a true sequel. TMMLP2 is a portrait of a middle-aged man (Eminem has just turned 41 years old) who has no idea of how to grow and that perhaps has not even want .
On this record back his taste for black comedy mixed with despair with his side homophobic and sexist . We find deep thoughts ( "Stronger than I was" ) , desperate rage ( " Evil Twin "), and totally self-referential with resolutions of ancient flaws with his mother ( " Headlights " ) .
But above all there are the songs. After the long and bipolar " Bad guy" (which contains a sample of Gian Piero Reverberi, pre- Rondo Veneziano ), here you feel the hand of the old Rick Rubin (co -producer with Dr. Dre on the disc) fished in " Rhyme or reason " the beautiful " Time of the season " Zombies completely overturning the message ( " There's no rhyme or reason for anything "), while in" Berzerk " recovers Billy Squier and the Beastie Boys. And then there's "Monsters" a piece chain hip- pop that is likely to become a blockbuster like " Stan " with Rihanna to take the place of Dido .
Lovers of rhymes will then be fun. This is one of those albums that must be listened to with Rap Genius (the famous site that does the prose of rap lyrics ) on the PC screen to enjoy the hundreds of one- line ( " I'm a prime example of the power of rhyme falling into the wrong hands " ) and the usual taken for a ride to the scene half- female pop (Britney remains his favorite target ) . As in the battles of " 8mile " , our attempt to prove to be the fastest of all , the resounding " Rap God" - at some point comes to rap six words per second - performed live during the YouTube Music Awards or " Love Game " where it involves the serious Kendrick " Prezzemolina " Lamar based on " the Game of Love" by Wayne Fontana & The Mindbenders in the part of a wedding singer , and contains a series of puns from the anthology .
Forget the experiments of Kanye West or calculations by business man Jay- Z . This is a hard rap deeply vintage and traditional , where the vinyls are still scratchati , the guitars are in the foreground and the hooks do their dirty work.
It's called hip- hop, and this forty year old white -faced insufferable brat still knows his stuff.

TRACKLIST ;
" Bad guy"
"Parking lot (skit ) "
" Rhyme or reason"
"So much better"
"Survival"
"Legacy"
" Asshole "
feat. Skylar Grey " Berzerk "
" Rap God"
" Brainless "
"Stronger than I was"
"Monster " feat . Rihanna
"So far ... "
" Love Game" feat. Kendrick Lamar
" Headlights " feat . Nate Ruess
" Evil twin

The first thing you think about while you are preparing to hear the new album by Arcade Fire, one of the most anticipated of this work , 2013, is that it would be nice to have something more than a tracklist and awareness of the presence of James Murphy (LCD Soundsystem ) and Markus Dravs , already at work on Neon Bible and The Suburbs , as producers. To tell you the truth David Bowie has confirmed , via Facebook, that he had lent his beautiful voice to the individual who gives the title to the entire album, an incredible piece that he had made up immediately the fever of fans. As always, though , it's up to settle (so to speak ...) of the two disks - CD also will be a double , not so much for the length , but for the desire to create two different plays , like a vinyl - and crush play to understand to what extent it is the parable of the Canadian band .

Reflektor of the piece , you'll know everything now , by the participation of Bowie, the amazing video of Anton Corbijn with cameo by Bono and Ben Stiller, to the production of sparkling disk Murphy, who seems to have dragged on the ground dear to Canadians its LCD Soundsystem. The difficult , at this point , you do not get caught by the enthusiasm but, as often happens , we think the same Arcade Fire to dampen the enthusiasm with which We Exist on a bass line to Billie Jean , attempts to replicate the atmosphere the previous song, but failed to capture the excitement of a dance floor. The same thing happened the next Flashbulb Eyes and begins to make his way the belief that the constant references to certain eighties - those undeniable Talking Heads Remain In Light of more world and the masterpiece My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts of the couple Byrne / Eno - are one of the elements on which will rest Reflektor . The easy prophecy is confirmed by the excellent Normal Person , finally lived up to expectations , which comes after a classic to AF as Here Comes The Night Time , more connected to the atmosphere that we have known in Neon Bible and The Funeral . The excitement of the turning Eighties and rhythmic continues with You Already Know , almost swinging, with a refrain that is printed immediately to mind , and with Joan Of Arc , which starts almost punk and then develops as a nice mid-tempo indie rock , with a song in French .

Time to change CD (or turn the vinyl, you see ... ) and Here Come The Night Time II introduces us in a soft - and even a little ' useless , to be honest - in a series of songs very articulate , almost all of the six minutes in duration , with the band still hang out in a clear manner with the Talking Heads, as in the case of the excellent Afterlife and is influenced by the brilliant ideas of Murphy in it's Never over ( Oh Orpheus ) , the high point of the second disk . The rest flows through the final impalpable Supersymmetry , in the odor of U2 , the possible single Porno , electronic and engaging, and Awful Sound (Oh, Eurydice ) , yet a remnant of the past. Graduate? Of course, and even with good grades. Masterpiece ? Not yet, unfortunately ...