Hetzer

Here... Here’s an example of chaotic and pointless music.

In fact, I was very shortsighted.. As always, I'm happy to pique the interest of attentive people like you and also to revive this somewhat underrated group.. By the way, I should add that the CD can be found in stores for just over ten euros and includes new tracks and three excellent live pieces, including the duo "Preparation\Dunkirk".. Not to be missed..

A matter of perspective.. many groups have aged in much less time..

The goose is a bit overrated, perhaps because it was their best-selling album.. In my opinion, Mirage, Moonmadness, and even Rain Dances are much better, especially for that slightly melancholic atmosphere.. Just out of curiosity, do you know the rest of their discography?

I really like their style; I'm not bothered by the lack of a singer, and I find them instrumentally perfect. Of course, it's a matter of taste, and there's nothing you can do about it. And anyway, like you, I'm not so sure that Snow Goose is their masterpiece.

But what does it mean? No one says they are the gods of progressive rock.. they are among the most valid bands though, and anyway personally they are among my favorites..

That's what I'm saying... Unfortunately, mainstream music is largely garbage, and you have to search for the good stuff... I believe that in the Seventies, the good things were in the right place... that's what I miss.

I never said that there haven't been masterpieces after '77.. I just think they are much more diluted..

Don't believe it, sanmayan, I've been searching for years.. I've always thought I grew up in musically unhappy years, ones that just didn't inspire me, so I turned back.. Perhaps my discourse is flawed from the start by personal considerations..

Why does an opinion like this bother you so much? Of course, it's a matter of taste, and no sophistry can prove otherwise. I mean (perhaps improperly, but I prefer to simplify) music as what the general public chooses to listen to: in this sense, I think that by the end of the '70s it gradually lost quality, in some areas more than others, with very few exceptions, few in comparison to the mass of productions. Personally, I find what people have come to love after the '70s to be quite subpar, during which success was mostly achieved by (but here too there are exceptions) groups of outstanding musicians who brought rock closer to a new form of art. That’s all there is to it. It’s clear that among the crowd you can find excellent, epoch-making works, but I think that after the stable years of progressive rock, after the punk craze, new wave, new romantic, and so on, "music" has declined, becoming an increasingly less artistic phenomenon dominated not by what we like, but by what bodies like MTV tell us is better to listen to, by what is more "cool." Perhaps I have used inappropriate and superficial words, and if so, I apologize. I do not shy away from comparisons as long as they are conducted seriously and without insults. By the way, my appreciation for U2 is rooted in a childlike part of me, and thus hard to forget: it’s a bit like saying that first love is never forgotten. Moreover, for careful readers of my (only) review of U2, it will be clear how much this band has disappointed me over the years.