Venice Rocks
67 subscribers
3.49K photos
258 videos
1 file
2.12K links
Welcome, I'm your Rock Host & Guide!
This Channel is about History, Art, Rarities, Dates and Places: in Venice, in Dolomites, in Italy and in Rock Music.
Join and if you enjoy, bring your friends... because here is where your Rock Trip to Italy starts!
Download Telegram
🤘📀 Celebrating 30 years of 👉 Motley Crue - Motley Crue in #VeniceRocksRoom.

#15March 1994
👍1
📌#29March 1994, 30 years for

👉 The Crow
📀 Soundtrack
❤‍🔥1🥰1
Forwarded from Albums Released Today
📀 Album of the Week
     @Venice_Rocks

📌13 May 1994

Marlene Kuntz
📀 Catartica
#AlternativeRock #PostGrunge #NoiseRock

30 years ago Marlene Kuntz from Cuneo, #Piedmont, #Italy released their debut studio album.

Catartica was the first album released through the legendary Italian alternative label Consorzio Produttori Indipendenti (#CPI).
As far as I remember it's also the first album I bought in CD (still today in #VeniceRocksRoom☝️), a format I've never liked that much.

Fantastic album from start to finish, not a weak track in this one, and #MarleneKuntz one of my favorite Italian bands ever ❤️‍🔥

In this album:
#CristianoGodano – vocals, guitar
#GianlucaViano – bass
#LucaBergia – drums
#RiccardoTesio – guitar
#13May

🎧Listen to Catartica 👉 here
👍2🔥1
Forwarded from Albums Released Today
📀 Album of the Week
     @Venice_Rocks

📌20 June 1989

Faith No More
📀 The Real Thing
#AlternativeRock #AlternativeMetal #RapMetal #FunkMetal

35 years ago Faith No More from San Francisco, #USA released their 3rd studio album.

The Real Thing is their first album with new vocalist Mike Patton, who joined #FaithNoMore when the album was musically almost completed and contributed writing the lyrics.
The album marked the band's international breakthrough thanks to a fantastic mix of Heavy Metal, Alternative Rock, Rap, Funk, perfectly shaped by Patton's amazing and eclectic vocals.

In the cassette version (here's my consumed copy in #VeniceRocksRoom☝️) 2 bonus tracks were included: the funky ballad "Edge Of The World" and a cover of the Heavy Metal milestone "War Pig" by #BlackSabbath.

Still one of my all time favorite🤘

In this album:
#MikeBordin – drums
#RoddyBottum – keyboards
#BillyGould – bass
#JimMartin – guitars
#MikePatton – vocals
#20June

🎧Listen to The Real Thing
👉 here
👍1
Forwarded from Albums Released Today
📀 Album of the Week
     @Venice_Rocks

📌20 September 1994

Grant Lee Buffalo
📀 Mighty Joe Moon
#Rock #AlternativeRock #FolkRock #Americana

30 years ago Grant Lee Buffalo from Los Angeles, #USA released their 2nd studio album.

Mighty Joe Moon contains the 2 most known songs by #GrantLeeBuffalo, the titletrack and "Mocking Birds".

Like their 👉 debut album of the previous year, Mighty Joe Moon was critically acclaimed, had poor commercial success and it's an absolute gem of that decade!

In this album:
#GrantLeePhillips – vocals, acoustic and electric guitar, banjo, dobro, mandolin, harmonica
#PaulKimble – bass, piano, pump organ, electric organ, vocals
#JoeyPeters – drum set, tumbuk, tambourine, tablas, maracas, marimba, shakers, acquired hunks of metal

Additional musicians
#GregAdamson – cello
#GregLeisz – pedal steel guitar
#20September

🎧Listen to Mighty Joe Moon
👉 here
👍1
🤘📀 Celebrating 30 years of
👉 Nirvana - MTV Unplugged in #VeniceRocksRoom.

#1November 1994
❤1👍1
Forwarded from Albums Released Today
📀 Italian Album Of The Year
     @Venice_Rocks

📌Late 1994

Karma
📀 Karma
#Grunge #HardRock #AlternativeRock

30 years ago Karma, short-lived band (recently reformed) from #Milan, #Italy released their self-titled debut album.

Recorded in Autumn 1994 at Jungle Sound Studios (my cassette in #VeniceRocksRoom☝️), #Karma is considered the most vivid example of Grunge genre in Italy.

Along with 👉 Ritmo Tribale and 👉 Marlene Kuntz, my favorite Italian album (and band) at the time 🤘❤️‍🔥

In this album:
#DavidMoretti – vocals, guitars, sitar
#AndreaBacchini – guitars
#AndreaViti – bass
#DiegoBesozzi – drums

Guest musicians
#Pacho – percussions
#AndreaScaglia – vocals on "Una Stella Che Cade"
#ManuelAgnelli – vocals on "Nascondimi"

🎧Listen to Karma 👉 here
❤1👍1
Forwarded from Albums Released Today
📀 Album of the Week
     @Venice_Rocks

📌13 March 1995

Faith No More
📀 King for a Day... Fool for a Lifetime
#AlternativeMetal #AvantGardeMetal #FunkMetal #PostHardcore #ExperimentalRock #AlternativeRock #ArtRock

30 years ago Faith No More from San Francisco, #USA released their 5th studio album.

King for a Day was the band's first album without longtime guitarist Jim Martin (who left after recording the previous
👉 Angel Dust), here replaced by Trey Spruance brought in from Mr. Bungle.

In this album #FaithNoMore showcased a variety of musical genres, some say too many and consider the album too confusing, some, like me, consider it a masterpiece🤘

Eargasm ❤️‍🔥

In this album:
#MikePatton – vocals
#TreySpruance – guitars
#BillyGould – bass, guitars
#RoddyBottum – keyboards, guitars
#MikeBordin – drums
#13March

🎧Listen to King for a Day...
👉 here
❤2👍1
Forwarded from Albums Released Today
📀 Album of the Week
     @Venice_Rocks

📌28 March 1995

Timoria
📀 2020 Speedball
#AlternativeRock #HardRock #AlternativeMetal

30 years ago Timoria from #Brescia, #Italy released their 5th studio album.

2020 Speedball has heavier riffs and sound compared to #Timoria previous works, it's the band's best selling and highest charting album.

Like their fantastic 👉 Viaggio Senza Vento, 2020 Speedball is a concept on the impact of technology on human behaviour and an encouragement to go back to the basics.

The album had a revival of interest in year 2020... take a look at the title and the front cover and think of what happened with coronavirus, vaccines etc 😱

In this album:
#FrancescoRenga – vocals
#OmarPedrini – guitar, vocals, backing vocals
#EnricoGhedi – keyboards, backing vocals
#Illorca – bass, backing vocals
#DiegoGaleri – drums, backing vocals

Guests
#MarcoTiberti – sax
#DebiPrasaGosh – sarod
#BeppeCafazzo, #AngeloCarrara – voices
#FedericoSanesi – percussion
#28March

🎧Listen to 2020 Speedball
👉 here
🔥2❤‍🔥1👍1
Forwarded from Albums Released Today
📀 Album of the Week
     @Venice_Rocks

📌11 September 1995

Blur
📀 The Great Escape
#BritPop #AlternativeRock

30 years ago Blur from Essex, #UK released their 4th studio album.

The Great Escape is the band's best-selling album and spawned #Blur most succesful singles, "Country Life", "Stereotypes", "Charmless Man".

It is considered the final album of the so called Blur Britpop era, started with their 1993
👉 Modern Life Is Rubbish and followed by their 1994
👉 Parklife.
If you listen to songs like "Globe Alone" or "The Universal" you can understand why Blur was not just Britpop.

With this "album of the week" I intend to celebrate this amazing trilogy: great band, probably more appreciated in retrospect than in those days🤘

In this album:
#DamonAlbarn – vocals, piano, keyboards, organ, synthesiser
#GrahamCoxon – guitars, banjo, saxophone, backing vocals
#AlexJames – bass, backing vocals
#DaveRowntree – drums, percussion, backing vocals
#11September

🎧Listen to The Great Escape
👉 here
👍1
🎼🎤 #GwenStefani (#NoDoubt) on a Gondola ride in Venice, June 2024.

👉 No Doubt - Tragic Kingdom
30 years ago, October 1995.
👍1
Forwarded from Albums Released Today
📀 Album of the Week
     @Venice_Rocks

📌18 October 1985

The Cult
📀 Love
#HardRock #GothicRock #AlternativeRock

40 years ago The Cult from Bradford, #UK released their 2nd studio album.

Love marked the band's commercial breakthrough, also thanks to their signature singles "Rain" and "She Sells Sanctuary".

Every song in here is a gem, my favorite #TheCult along with
👉 Sonic Temple ❤️‍🔥

In this album:
#IanAstbury – vocals
#BillyDuffy – guitars, backing vocals
#JamieStewart – bass, keyboards, strings, backing vocals
#NigelPreston – drums

Additional personnel
#MarkBrzezicki – drums
#SimonKliney – synthesizers
The Soultanas (#MaeMcKenna, #LorenzaJohnson, #JackieChallenor) – backing vocals
#18October

🎧Listen to Love 👉 here
🔥2❤1👍1
Forwarded from Albums Released Today
📀 Album of the Week
     @Venice_Rocks

📌23 October 1995

The Smashing Pumpkins
📀 Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
#AlternativeRock #AlternativeMetal  #Grunge #HeavyMetal #ArtRock #ArtPop

30 years ago The Smashing Pumpkins from Chicago, #USA, released their 3rd studio album.

Issued as a triple LP and double CD with a total 2-hour length, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness is unanimously considered The #SmashingPumpkins masterpiece.
It debuted at n.1 in US charts and sold some 10million copies worldwide.

If I had to choose an album that best represents the sound of those years, I'd probably go for this one!

Monumental ❤️‍🔥

In this album:
#BillyCorgan – vocals, lead and rhythm guitar, piano, keyboards, autoharp, production, string arrangement
#JimmyChamberlin – drums, vocals
#JamesIha – rhythm and lead guitar, vocals
#DarcyWretzky – bass, vocals

Additional musicians
#GregLeisz – pedal and lap steel guitar
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
#23October

🎧Listen to Mellon Collie...
👉 here
👍1
Forwarded from Albums Released Today
📀 Album of the Week
     @Venice_Rocks

📌1985

CCCP - Fedeli Alla Linea
📀 Ortodossia II
📀 Compagni, Cittadini, Fratelli, Partigiani
#PunkRock #PostPunk #ArtPunk #AlternativeRock

40 years ago in undocumented dates, CCCP from #ReggioEmilia, #Italy, released their their debut studio albums, 2 EPs.

Both were published through the indipendent label Attack Punk Records from Bologna and became soon sought after rarities, until Virgin Records re-printed and published them as a Compilation in 1988.

Since their beginnings, the band opted for a drum machine instead of a real drummer.
Danilo Fatur and Annarella are credited as they are in fact the band's theatrical performers.
All songs in here became #CCCP signatures and live standards, some were re-recorded and included in their 1986 debut full-length.

Crazy, Seminal ❤️‍🔥

In these albums:
#GiovanniLindoFerretti - vocals
#MassimoZamboni - guitar
#UmbertoNegri - bass
#DaniloFatur - "Artista del popolo"
#Annarella - "Benemerita Soubrette"

🎧 Listen to both EPs 👉 here
👍2
⚡️#TheMondayRecharger
#Ash from 👉 their debut album 30 years ago, May 1996👇
👍1
Forwarded from Albums Released Today
📀 Album of the Week
     @Venice_Rocks

📌21 May 1996

Soundgarden
📀 Down On The Upside
#AlternativeRock #HardRock #Grunge

30 years ago Soundgarden from Seattle, #USA released their 5th studio album.

Down On The Upside is the last Soundgarden album before breaking up.
The band in fact split in 1997 after completing the world tour to reunite only in 2010.

This album is generally regarded as a low point in #Soundgarden discography, too long and "experimental" as compared to their previous works.

I've always considered this album at the same level of
👉 Superunknown instead, totally love it ❤️‍🔥

In this album:
#ChrisCornell – vocals, rhythm guitar, mandolin, mandola, Rhodes piano
#KimThayil – guitar
#BenShepherd – bass, mandolin, mandola
#MattCameron – drums, percussion, Moog synthesizer

Additional musician
#AdamKasper – piano
#21May

🎧Listen to Down On The Upside 👉 here
👍1
Forwarded from Albums Released Today
📀 Album of the Week
     @Venice_Rocks

📌16 June 1986

The Smiths
📀 The Queen Is Dead
#AlternativeRock #IndieRock #PostPunk #JanglePop

40 years ago The Smiths from Manchester, #UK, released their 3rd studio album.

The Queen Is Dead is unanimously considered #TheSmiths best album and one of the greatest and most influential records in British music.

I remember totally hating this band and this sound at the time, as much as I love them today!

In this album:
#Morrissey – vocals
#JohnnyMarr – guitars, sampler, marimba, orchestration
#AndyRourke – bass
#MikeJoyce – drums
#16June

🎧Listen to The Queen Is Dead 👉 here
👍1
Forwarded from Albums Released Today
📀 Album of the Week
     @Venice_Rocks

📌28 July 1986

R.E.M.
📀 Lifes Rich Pageant
#AlternativeRock #JanglePop #HeartlandRock

40 years ago R.E.M. from Athens, Georgia, #USA released their 4th studio album.

Lifes Rich Pageant is widely considered a landmark album in #REM career: the band finally delievered their typical and unmistakable sound, also thanks to the producer Don Gehman who moved them towards a more accessible style.

Though lacking of significant hits, the album sold well (at the time R.E.M. best seller) and paved the way to their enormous success and recognition as one of the most influential Alternative Rock bands.

Possibly my favorite R.E.M.❤️‍🔥

In this album:
#BillBerry – drums, backing vocals
#PeterBuck – guitar
#MikeMills – bass, backing vocals
#MichaelStipe – vocals
#28July

🎧Listen to Lifes Rich Pageant 👉 here
👍1
Forwarded from Albums Released Today
📀 Album of the Week
     @Venice_Rocks

📌1 September 1986

New Model Army
📀 The Ghost of Cain
#Rock #AlternativeRock #PostPunk

40 years ago New Model Army from Bradford, England, #UK released their 3rd studio album.

The Ghost of Cain propelled the band to the forefront of the Alternative Rock scene, also thanks to the acclaimed underground hit song "51st State".

Along with the following Thunder And Consolation my favorite #NewModelArmy ❤️‍🔥

In this album:
#JustinSullivan – vocals, guitar
#RobHeaton – drums
#JasonHarris "Moose"– bass
#MarkFeltham – harmonica
#1September

🎧Listen to The Ghost of Cain 👉 here
👍1
Forwarded from Albums Released Today
📀 Album of the Week
     @Venice_Rocks

📌9 September 1996

R.E.M.
📀 New Adventures in Hi-Fi
#AlternativeRock #FolkRock #IndieRock #JanglePop #Americana

30 years ago R.E.M. from Athens, #USA released their 10th studio album.

This is #REM final album with drummer and founding member Bill Berry who left in 1997.

Many of the tracks were recorded live during their 1995 American tour.
R.E.M. have always considered this album as the peak of their career... and probably it is!

Amazing from start to finish ❤️‍🔥

In this album:
#BillBerry – drums, percussion, bass, backing vocals, acoustic guitar, synthesizers
#PeterBuck – guitars, mandolin, bass, banjo, E-Bow, sitar
#MikeMills – bass, guitar, piano, keyboards, backing vocals, fuzz bass, synthesizers, organ, mellotron, Moog
#MichaelStipe – vocals

Additional musicians
#NathanDecember – guitar, slide guitar, tambourine
#PattiSmith – vocals on "E-Bow the Letter"
#ScottMcCaughey – ARP, autoharp, piano, organ
#AndyCarlson – violin
#9September

🎧Listen to New... 👉 here
👍1