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Album from 1968. TEST – FIRST LISTEN
In the first five seconds of listening, I immediately think of the Beatles' Sergeant Pepper, but after that, things change. The album's personality is immediately strong, and when the fourth track, "Draft Morning," begins, it’s easy to imagine that Pink Floyd might have drawn the musical atmosphere for their "Us And Them" from The Dark Side Of The Moon from here. The sixth and ninth tracks pleasantly surprise me with their 5/4 time, in which it’s not easy to compose something captivating. The album ends before I expect it, leaving me still hungry.
I play it again from the beginning for the second time, listen to it again, replay it for the third time, and listen to it once more... These were the impressions and facts from when I heard it for the first time. Since then, the pleasure of listening to it has deepened considerably, perceiving the depth of its personality and its infinite nuances. Only later did I realize that I was probably one of the last rock music enthusiasts who had never heard it. I realized that this masterpiece had been there for more than thirty years, and I had never taken advantage of it. Now, as I listen to it again, it's like meeting an old friend, and it always feels good, it warms the heart. Well, now I understand why my friend Roberto told me I would have liked it madly, and how could I not like it? It's simply fantastic. I leave this review unfinished and open. Here I am, and here you are, we're in a pub, and we're having a beer. It's snowing outside, and the Byrds are keeping us company. Help me finish it, let's talk about it...
Tracklist Lyrics Samples and Videos
01 Artificial Energy (02:18)
Written by McGuinn, Hillman, Clarke
Sitting all alone now
I took my ticket to ride
Just a matter of time now
Til i'll be up in the sky.
Coming up on me now
I'm king for a night
What's it gonna be now?
How willful things are building insight
Do you think it's really the trip that you seek?
I've got my doubts it's happened to me.
Artificial energy
Is racing in my mind
I've got a strange feeling
I'm going to die before my time
Cause i'm coming down off amphetamines
And i'm in jail 'cause i killed the queen.
03 Natural Harmony (02:19)
Fallin' free, me and you
Happenin' so graciously
You can't hurry natural harmony
Feel so free, wider than me
Seems just like the day of birth
Our first awakening to this earth
Dancing through the streets side by side
Head thrown back, arms open wide
Going home, almost gone
Merging with a grain of sand
Try hard to catch us if you can
Dancing through the streets side by side
Head thrown back, arms open wide
04 Draft Morning (02:33)
Sun warm on my face, I hear you
Down below movin' slow
And it's morning
Take my time this morning, no hurry
To learn to kill and take the will
From unknown faces
Today was the day for action
Leave my bed to kill instead
Why should it happen?
05 Wasn't Born to Follow (02:04)
Written by Carol King and Gerry Goffin
Oh I'd rather go and journey
Where the diamond crescent's glowing and
Run across the valley
Beneath the sacred mountain
And Wander through the forest
Where the trees have leaves of prisms
And break the light in colors
That no-one knows the names of
And when it's time I'll go and wait
Beside a legendary fountain
Till I see your form reflected
In it's clear and jeweled waters
And if you think I'm ready
You may lead me to the chasm
Where the rivers of our vision
Flow into one another
I will watch her dive beneath
The white cascading waters
She may beg she may plead
She may argue with her logic
And then mention all the things I'll lose
That really have no value
In the end she will surely know
I wasn't born to follow
07 Change Is Now (03:21)
(Hillman / McGuinn)
Change is now, change is now
Things that seemed to be solid are not
All is now, all is now
The time that we have to live
Gather all that we can
Keep in harmony with love's sweet plan
Truth is real, truth is real
That which is not real does not exist
In and out roundabout
Dance to the day when fear it is gone
Gather all that we can
Keep in harmony with love's sweet plan
Change is now, change is now
Things that seemed to be solid are not
In and out roundabout
Dance to the day when fear it is gone
Fear it is gone
Fear it is gone
11 Space Odyssey (03:52)
In nineteen and ninety-six we ventured to the moon
Onto the the Sea Of Crisis like children from the womb
We journeyed cross the great wall plain beneath the mountain range
and there we saw the pyramid, it looked so very strange
This beacon had a field of force, that circled all around
And not a man could get inside, no way could be found
It was here for thousands of years before our life began
Waiting very patiently for evolving man
When the galaxy was young they looked upon the earth
and saw that its position was promising for birth
They searched for life but finding none they left a beacon bright
Its signal had not been disturbed in the eternal light
How wise they were to choose this place, they knew when we arrived
That our atomic energy, we'd harnessed and survived
I look out on the milky way for people of the dawn
I know that they will come some day but will our wait be long?
In nineteen and ninety-six we ventured to the moon
Onto the the Sea Of Crisis like children from the womb
We journeyed cross the great wall plain beneath the mountain range
and there we saw the pyramid, it looked so very strange
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