SALMACIS

The greatness of Space Shanty lies in its ability to combine the "usual but brilliant" prog digressions with a Beatles-esque melodic sensibility and a "song" structure that saves it from formal excesses. For this reason, I consider it a masterpiece. It embodies the spirit of the early '70s in its most vibrant form.

perfect review and album. the words are pure concentration of images and ideas, even the comparison with the trimurti is spot on (especially in the substantial similarity of the people-appearance). Truly an excellent review: you've marvelously condensed the essence, saying a lot with very little and seasoning it all with tasty connections (Dragonaut gem). Really well done. For me, Spine of God is the best of M.M. NO BUTS AND NO IFs. The cover is a bit gaudy (very Motorhead-like), but the back is brilliant and damn sinister!

together with Donjunio, I expect Mannequin to intervene and tell us what basis he has for the qualification of "ugly" given to 24 hours... or has he already changed his mind... but then he should think a bit before making such judgments... and tackling such works.

I would really like to know why you consider 24 hours to be "really bad," when it's the beginning of the final escalation of the (s)platter... please elaborate... don't think you can get away with that... anyway, the worst review of Closer on DeBaser.

Well, I admit it... it's my favorite by Fairport, even compared to the more fortunate successor... and the reasons have been exemplarily illustrated by bubu7 in a truly magical review. The sense of dreamy hope, of openness to the future, of welcoming new impulses from India to California, that atmosphere of "flower children in the making," is palpable like in few other occasions in the grooves of this time-honored vinyl. (I can't conceive it on CD). Autopsy is absolutely my favorite song by Fairport; it transmits a wistful sadness that every time I just think of it mentally, it melts me inside.

It would be interesting to conduct a survey like "How many of those who became addicted to heroin listened to this record before or at the beginning of their toxic 'honeymoon'?" Forget about joints; this record is the real rite of passage. Or "What is the ideal soundtrack for a pear?" I bet no one can beat the triad Wild Horses-I've got a Blues-Sister Morphine. The quintessential heroin-soaked album, almost worthy of being banned, but also the best from the Stones in my view, which is (no longer) that of a heroin addict... exceptional Sway that rightly highlights... consider that perhaps the worst is Brown Sugar... says it all... by

Ah, I almost forgot... among the omissions of the good Alan Clark is also the stunning Red Shift, enhanced by the psychedelic guitar of Randy California, mastermind of the Spirit, which transports a bit of the lysergic warmth of Frisco from those years to cold Albion.

The best of Hammill, even superior to the stratospheric In Camera that follows closely behind. Good review but neglects to highlight the greatness of Modern (for me the best piece along with the final suite), of a disarming modernity in the sound that inaugurates the distortions that will prevail in the proto-punk of Nadir's big chance.

This album is the test of maturity for every true blackster: the ultimate anti-melodic album. The production is exceptional, stripped down and "corrupted" artfully. It strongly reminds me of De Mysteriis; Nocturno Culto does incredible things on the bass, perfectly audible, rubbery, and pulsing. It’s Zephyrous's album, and his Euronimusian aesthetic, before the fateful "deal" with Count Grishnack, which inherited the second part of Transilvanian Hunger and a sound aiming for dramatic and circular solutions, legitimizing melody. The songs are excellent, with the peaks of Nastassja, To Walk Infernal Fields, and "Inn I De Dype Skogers Favn," the highest compositional contribution from Zaphyrous (alongside the "hymn" unholy black metal). But all the titles are outstanding: I recommend listening with headphones to savor the particular production of the platter.

OK, OK sorry, but frankly from how you expressed it, the reference to punk didn’t seem to me like a provocation or irony... it really did seem like you were asking what it had to do with Yes.....after all, if you read the comments, even dreamwarrior had been misled....ok long live prog