mj64

great album, perhaps the right mix in their poppization from ultra prog beginnings. however, I don't agree with everything you're saying: listen to the first two, largely unknown albums. especially the first one, so different from the well-known supertramp but beautiful, is truly a must-have album. as for the post breakfast era, I personally love brother where you bound, all at good levels with the monumental title track giving chills for 16 minutes, and a certain david gilmour on guitar. anyway, for twenty years a top-notch band.

four stars only for the Wilson sisters who were quite valuable back then, for the rest very negligible

I don't know this delicacy, but the thought of "whip it," "girl u want," and other gems of de-evolution makes me cringe instantly. I might listen, I might not, but the present devoir-de-rece is quite pleasing to me. Let’s not forget that these "guys" from Akron accused the Rolling Stones of plagiarizing their (i can't get no) satisfaction, which actually came out 15 years later or so (and in my opinion, is much better than the original). If these aren't geniuses, then I don't know who are.

trash draped in learned pills of wisdom, that’s what you write. There’s some truth here and there, and there’s also knowledge (but it’s sectorial and distorted), yet you fall into ridicule with certain exaggerations: the idea that Vasco and Zappa could be on the same level is an even worse vulgarity than “And only Queen could dare that.” I loved Queen, a long time ago; I particularly loved Somebody to Love and Bohemian Rhapsody, but the notion that Roger Taylor's technical mediocrity could suddenly transform into a gift is a blasphemous statement. I’ll avoid insults, but it’s best you return to your sick world.

I mostly agree, although I think that after Eldorado, Jeff Lynne and his companions didn't just produce lightweight and silly stuff, but rather high-quality pop.

Apart from the magnificent trilogy (but the first two are good too, despite being rough and produced poorly), I personally prefer "Tormato" and "Drama" (despite a rather shabby Trevor Horn at the vocals) to "Tales" and "Going for the One," etc. From the post-90125 era, I salvage quite a few things here and there.

I have doubts that it surpasses "Fragile" and "Close to the Edge" (especially the former, in my personal taste), but some considerations are understandable, especially regarding the "reservations" towards Wakeman. Anyway, it's a great work, more or less on the level of the next two. They then alternated pearls with rather heavy and pompous moments.

Anyway, the review is not bad at all. I don't know the work but I perfectly understand your doubts. Certainly, a soldier of fortune (who wakes me up every morning from my phone) sounds great in a super acoustic version (and with David's voice definitely better, for example, than the horrendous version by Richie with wife Night), but an album of just voice-guitar on the beach doesn't seem like an exciting project to me. To give an example, although I don't adore the unplugged genre, anyone who is not allergic to Marillion should listen to Less Is More, where the whole band plays an outrageous number of instruments and reinterprets old songs sometimes completely deconstructed and recreated. But that's another story. Hats off to Dave, anyway, one of the most beautiful voices in rock (clearly, I am a convinced advocate of Deep Purple Mark 3 and 4).

I agree on one thing, "Shangri-La" is definitely a great song and it closes the album beautifully. Not about the rest of the critiques, honestly I love this album a lot, from the more commercial songs like "Livin' Thing" and "Telephone Line" (absolute pop, but the melody is of such sweetness and total beauty) to the rock tunes like "Rockaria" and "Do Ya." In my opinion, Jeff Lynne was one of the greatest geniuses of 70s-80s pop rock, and this album confirms that as well.

fabulous, perhaps my favorite after Life of Brian. unfortunately, I only saw it in Italian (I don't think with the Bagaglino dub, which seems quite recent, but with the previous dubbing that was still terrible), I guess I'll shell out the 30 euros for the circus, and then I'll watch it in the original language with subtitles. absolute geniuses and great review.