Nude is quite mediocre. In fact I prefer poppier Stationary Traveller which is really fun album to listen. Cheesy but fun!
Nude is quite mediocre. In fact I prefer poppier Stationary Traveller which is really fun album to listen. Cheesy but fun!
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That's the main issus with SEBTP. Epping and More fool me. The rest is magnificent...
In any case it's a top album from a top band, close to A Trick of the tail or Duke or Foxtrot.
With Epping there is certainly too much crammed in but also, the chorus seems a bit plodding after the wonderfully nimble, ducking and diving verses.
MFM is just a very weak song but easily lopped off, like an offending growth.
Five perfect prog albums for me:
Mike Oldfield: Ommadawn
Yes: Close To The Edge
King Crimson: Larks' Tongues In Aspic
Henry Cow: Unrest
Robert Wyatt: Rock Bottom
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Gordon Haskell - "You've got to keep the groove in your head and play a load of bollocks instead"
I blame Wynton, what was the question?
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Count me in as someone who never really cared for Camel either. I was bored by The Snow Goose when it came out, but years later I found it much more appealing when heard as individual tracks rather than taking in the whole thing at once. Thinking this album was a one-off, I gave Moonmadness a listen (in a used CD store) and that didn't grab me either. The only Camel that I ever liked is that live "God of Light Revisited" track on the Greasy Truckers LP.
What we feel we have to solve is why the dregs have not dissolved.
I was just about to post my list and it's very similar to yours, particularly #s 2, 3 and 5. I agree that Unrest is HC's finest but it does take a while to get into; I would recommend Leg End for anyone who wishes to discover them.
Curious as to why you rate Ommadawn higher than TB or HR, btw. (All good IMHO - but avoid TB2 like the plague.)
And I'd probably add DSoTM.
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I must be a total sap, because “More Fool Me” can totally make me cry sometimes. I think it’s fucking beautiful, and absolutely one of Phil’s best vocals.
People who hate it: what’s really wrong with it? I see a lot of hatred for it but not much to back up the hatred.
I’m totally an “Epping” guy too, but no surprise there, as it’s probably the most Zappaesque Genesis tune (Phil and Chester doing the double-drum lick from “Roxy & Elsewhere” on Seconds Out doesn’t really count).
Mainly, it doesn't belong there (IMHO), completely out of the rest of the album's frame and doesn't fit the sonic world installed with the rest of the tracks.
It's a bit of a punch in the face. Luckily, it was at the end of side-A, so it could be anticipated and easily skipped - which I did almost every time (unless not paying attention enough).
Then again, I tend to call MFM a "song", whereas, I'd tend the other compositions on the album "tracks"
As such, it's definitely not that bad a "song" (YOSW on W&W is much worse, IMHO)....
FTM, it's probably an OK PC song, but that would be better placed on one of his solo albums.
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For me, the song just doesn't begin anywhere or go anywhere. It's like some attempt at 70s singer-songwriter dreck - just not a particularly good one. It's boring. When it comes to short Genesis songs of the era, give me "For Absent Friends" - that's a good one that serves as a nice interlude.
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Not a bad track but doesn’t excite me much lol
"Have A Cigar" is excellent.
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Have a Cigar is great I think. Roy Harper manages to sound even more cynical and world weary than Waters, which is no mean feat, and Gilmour is in sparkling form as usual.
The weaker track (not by much) on WYWH withnthe title track, but both are excellent, but neither really fits musically (their lyrics are right up the alley, though) the' shine On and MLachine soundscape, IMHO
mmmhhh!!!... I think I'd have prefered ol'Rog to sing his own song and slow its pace down, to fit the sad mood of the concept album and change the anger tone from loud to "broodier". I'm quite glad they left Grapelli's violin out, though
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