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I discovered this album by chance: a friend of mine gave me a book about progressive music, and this was listed as one of the key albums of the era. I did some research, bought the album, and listened to it. I had to admit that it is indeed a great album. The band's style is heavily influenced by psychedelic groups while somehow climbing aboard the then-emerging progressive bandwagon. But let's analyze the album track by track:
1)You Shouldn't Do That From sounds that seem to come from a spacecraft, it fades into a single guitar chord that will sustain the song for its entire duration (15 minutes). The piece is excellent with a truly magnificent instrumental fabric on which distorted and slowed voices are grafted, proclaiming senseless phrases.
2)You Know You're Only Dreaming starts as a "canonical" rock piece, but after a few seconds, it slips into a jam session in the same vein as the previous one.
3)Master Of The Universe: undoubtedly the masterpiece of the album: a very Sabbath-like song in the riff that supports it, with the peculiarity of having unidentified electronic sounds in the instrumental part. Truly a great piece that has nothing to envy from the best pages of their peers of these young guys (who by now would be over sixty).
4)We Took The Wrong Step Years Ago: another masterpiece: this album seems to have no weak points. After solid hard-rock pieces with electronic digressions, one certainly wouldn't expect a magnificent acoustic ballad (let's not forget that the singer Dave Brock cut his teeth in folk) with a perfect melody.
5)Adjust Me : The worst track on the album is not a bad piece in itself, but it is too tied to those years and, for this reason, has aged poorly.
6) Children Of The Sun : As the album's closing, they choose an acoustic piece that serves as a perfect seal to this record.
An excellent album that I recommend you buy; I don't give it a 5 only because the sound is indeed very dated in some songs compared to many other bands that were more commercially successful.
Tracklist Lyrics and Samples
02 You Know You're Only Dreaming (06:38)
One more touch and then you'll see a world of
hidden mystery,
Visions of you know you're only dreaming
Colours change, I stand upright
Screaming souls in the night
Visions of you know you're only dreaming
Chaos all within my mind
Try to reach anI wanna be with my own kind
Visions of you know you're only dreaming.
03 Master of the Universe (06:15)
I am the centre of this universe
The wind of time is blowing through me
And it's all moving relative to me,
It's all a figment of my mind
In a world that I've designed
I'm charged with cosmic energy
Has the world gone mad or is it me?
I am the creator of this universe
And all that it was meant to be
So that we might learn to see
This foolishness that lives in us
And stupidity that we must suss
How to banish from our minds
If you call this living I must be blind.
04 We Took the Wrong Step Years Ago (04:50)
Brock - )
Think about the things that we should have done before
The way things are going the end is about to fall.
We took the wrong step years ago
We took the wrong step years ago
Take a look around and see the warnings close at hand
Already weeds are writing their scriptures in the sand
We took the wrong step years ago
We took the wrong step years ago
The morning sun is rising, casting rays out across the land,
Already nature's calling, take heed of the warning,
We took the wrong step years ago
We took the wrong step years ago
05 Adjust Me (05:45)
City black, encase the time
World full of men, who all are blind
Who walk and talk and say as one:
"Androids are we", heir to no son
Adjust me
Adjust me
Adjust me.....
06 Children of the Sun (03:13)
The golden age of the future comes
That which was dreamed of in the past
Where freedom reigns on minds of peace
Minds rich in wisdom to the last
We are the children of the sun and this is our inheritance
No longer chaos and confusion
But love and laughter
Song and dance
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