My earlier post led me to find this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGn4jXtJP6k
Ordered this weeks ago .... still hasn't arrived.....
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I always liked this album. Sounds like a nice package coming out.
Although it does not have a big epic piece, this album flows for me better than the albums with the big epics. Earlier albums like Turn of the Cards, Ashes Are Burning and Scheherezade end up being kind of lopsided and they all have their weak tracks. Whereas later albums like Azure D'Or, Song For All Seasons and Novella don't have the epics, but the songs are more consistently good and the albums flow better as a result. I understand some folks are not fond of Only Angels Have Wings and I can see how it might put some people off. I see it as kind of a pallet cleanser and it works for me within the flow of the album.
^^ I definitely don't think of Scheherazade as having a weak track and being lopsided. That one is a 10/10 all the way through for me!
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"what's better, peanut butter or g-sharp minor?"
- Sturgeon's Lawyer, 2021
Here's what happened to the last Renaissance fan that didn't have Scheherazade:
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I can see the perspective that the songs on the other side of the Scheherezade album are decent songs. I like them enough, I guess (everbody likes "Ocean Gypsy", right?). My perspective was that, if you have a side-long epic on one side of the record, like say "Close to the Edge", then the other side of the album better have "And You and I" and "Siberian Khatru" to balance things out. In the case of Scheherezade (the album), I didn't feel like the other songs were at the same level as Scheherezade (the song). That's why the album seems unbalanced to me. Azure D'Or doesn't have the epic so it doesn't have that issue, in my opinion.
fwiw, I like Turn of the Cards even better than the most excellent Scherezade, so be sure to give that one a spin as well. Novella from 1977 is also excellent. A progressive rock fan can hardly go wrong with Renaissance in the 1970's, stretching back to their origins with Jane Relf on vocals.
Hurtleturtled Out of Heaven - an electronic music composition, on CD and vinyl
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For me too! I've always loved Azure since it was my first but Novella and A Song for All Seasons get as much airplay. Such an incredible string of albums in the 70's. Of all the albums from Annie and the band in that decade, I probably play Prologue the least and it still gets a fair amount of play.
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It was inspired by her first date with Roy Wood.
Turn of the Cards and Novella are my top 2. The former is front-to-back classics, and “Can You Hear Me” and “Touching Once” are also favorites from their catalogue. Scheherazade would be five stars if Side 2 were as strong as Side 1. But my mind starts wandering during the suite. “Trip to the Fair” is really cool in that Tout uses the entire range of acoustic keyboards: piano, harpsichord, celeste and pipe organ (I think one of those small, positive organs like the custom Mander that Rick Wakeman used on “The Remembering” and some of his solo work).
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I received an email from Cherry Red stating that the release date for this box set is pushed back to 9 December. That’s only a few extra weeks.
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