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I quote, if I can, me too. The pile is growing.

@Terry: yes, I believe it's just the right time to give it a listen. The Plant here (and also his band) is really something special... The review, as can be understood from Darko's style, is written more with passion and heart (and sufficient musical skill, of course) than with grammar in hand. But in my opinion, we can overlook the form here and stop pointing fingers at the syntax. What matters, perhaps, is that Darko is "genuine" and that his recommendations are well-considered. If he wants to, he could do better in terms of reviewing (and that would be desirable); "perlintanto" (.....) for shining a light on this beautiful work, some appreciation is certainly in order, I think.

Finished?

Thank you.

A well-informed, thorough, and... intriguing report. "little medal" for the reviewer.

I share, once again, Eliodoro's point of view. @47: look, I think it's pretty pointless to insist. I frankly find it not easy to interpret what you write, but that doesn't matter. Do whatever you like. I agree, if you want, about the overestimation of Palmer. Instead, I invite those who want to deepen their Emersonian knowledge to listen to the newly released work by the keyboardist with Marc Bonilla and Gregg Bissonette. It’s a way to vigorously and convincingly rework, from my perspective, the possibility of a rock recalling the “classical” approach. And I am convinced that at 64, Emerson gives (once more) a convincing demonstration of his enormous talent.

........I believe that once again these last comments aim to rebalance judgments that may be a bit too "extreme" or poorly justified. In any case, nothing serious. The world of music is TRULY vast. It’s just a matter of making choices that align with our tastes, trying, whenever possible, to respect those of others. I don't think it costs us anything, after all. PS: Opel's observation about Beggar's Opera is appropriate and relevant. I fully agree.

I would like to add something. It’s not that attempting to merge rock with jazz should inherently strip either “genre” of its characteristics in the resulting hybrid. And even in this case, the judgment of “kitsch” (as the classical-rock hybrid has been labeled) is absolutely and definitively subjective and sensitive to legitimate dissent. “Piano Concerto No. 1,” for example, is an excellent instance of a beautiful blend of classical structure with rock. And I believe Pibroch would agree. But it is precisely in the hybrid that new forms of expression can emerge, where the “purity” of the single stylistic origin is naturally contaminated and “fused.” If Miles Davis hadn’t attempted to combine multiple languages, for instance, contemporary electric jazz might have never come to be; similarly, if the classical-rock experiment hadn’t occurred... the advent of punk might never have manifested, sweeping away the “exaggerations” and, more radically, that excessively grandiloquent and aestheticizing way of conceiving things. In any case, a little listen to the Nice wouldn’t hurt... If they don’t like it, well... it's no big deal...

@47: I may be mistaken, but I suspect that part of the comments following yours refer not only to the review but also to the way you've positioned yourself in general towards this artistic expression and, specifically, regarding things that, as I understand it, you don't even attempt to listen to based on beliefs of presumed uselessness. Frankly, it is regrettable to criticize heavily a group that, in my opinion, you don't really know well and then start judging things that you haven't even listened to. I don’t want to engage in a pointless and sterile debate, but perhaps it would have been simpler, as I mentioned, to state plainly that this group and the kind of things they do do not interest you at all. This is perfectly legitimate, valid from your point of view, and absolutely respectable. However, based on how you presented it, I imagine that more than one person (perhaps some who experienced the "phenomenon" in real time during the 70s) might have felt a bit "irritated." :)

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