Music

Eventually I began my translation work. It's still incomplete, but I'm working on it.
Hope my English will be at least understandable... and I'll be very grateful to those kind peoples who'll help me correcting errors.

There is little agreement on what does progressive rock mean. On the net I found the Gibraltar Encyclopedia: it contains lots of informations and gives a (too much) exhaustive description of this genre.
To be true, I prefer a more concise (maybe reductive) definition: in my opinion, Progressive Rock is a symphonic kind of Rock, whose operas are built as long sessions with a main instrumental part, eventually inspired to some classical piece of music, and usually they are works in which their composers took care of all the smallest musical details, showing a perfectionism very peculiar in some kind of artists.
Obviously, that is the peculiarity which I prefer the most in Progressive Rock: the ambitiousness that leads musicians, belonging to a somewhat easy music genre, to elevate themselves and look for new expression means, keeping at the same time their native musical language.

Emerson,Lake & Palmer
YES
Genesis
King Crimson
Goblin

In 1985 one of the alternative tendencies was New Wave, and I keep on being tied to that music which was my favourite at that times. Even if now I prefer a completely different kind of listening, sometimes I don't dislike to revive that old adolescential myths.

Why should an eighteen-years-old-boy listen to New Wave music? Well, first of all for it is alternative. In each period there is a prevailing fashion and another set of tendency fashions. This way, who's anti-conformist can escape the great flock of the most commercial fashion and become a part of a smaller party, feeling a little Bohemien too.
Moreover, this way, all the industrialists can have their business, either addressing who follows the biggest flock or those who refuse the prevailing fashion, joining as a matter of fact another smaller flock.

What did associate those musicians, which have been catalogued under the same "New Wave" label, even if they didn't really share a common root, neither ideological nor artistical?
Well, maybe the fact that after a decade characterized by social disorders and cultural revolutions, the time had come (the Eighties) to forget for a while those matters and enjoy the conquests reached, delighting in their own hedonism?
Or a remarkable intimistical feeling, opposed to the communitarism of the Seventies? Or maybe a full aesthetism, which filled every aspect of their show, so that they took care of the sharpest details in their dressing, their make-up (men too), even the way they moved on stage?

Ultravox
Simple Minds
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
Cocteau twins
Siouxsie And The Banshees
Depeche Mode
Tears for Fears
the Cure
the Sound
Sisters Of Mercy
Bauhaus
Dead Can Dance
Xymox
Christian Death
Litfiba
Fuzztones

Dear old Rock! From Rock-and-roll in the 50s to the rockabilly in the 60s, to pychedelic Rock in the 70s, to electronic (and a little dance) Rock in the '80s, to the grunge Rock in the '90s... every generation has got its own Rock followers. And Rock, like all living things, change its shape and adapts itself to the times and to the environment where it has to live in.
Even if I have never been a staunch follower of Rock in itself, I've got amongst my favourites a little cluster of Rock groups, giants of all-times Rock music.

Pink Floyd
Dire Straits
Police
The Doors
David Bowie
SANTANA

Childhood memories! Well, more or less.
I never disown anything about my past. I listened to Duran Duran and I did like them.
And, though many people mourn the shortage of ideas in pop music, I keep on maintaining that does exist well-done pop music, easy and catchy and yet professedly made up, and worthy of being listened to.

Matt bianco
Sergio Caputo
Duran Duran
Alphaville
Elio e le storie tese

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