Very much of its time, but an iconic opening piano solo that keeps this 1973 debut album in our minds to this day.
Stand-Out Track: Tubular Bells (Intro)
Very much of its time, but an iconic opening piano solo that keeps this 1973 debut album in our minds to this day.
Stand-Out Track: Tubular Bells (Intro)
One of prog-rock’s milestone albums, IMO. This is an album which is so much more than the sum of its parts. Musically intricate, lyrically dexterous, (listen out for the supermarket puns in Aisle of Plenty) and wonderfully varied in style. From the simple ‘More Fool Me’ (Phil Collins on lead vocals) through the bizarre sing-along ‘I Know What I Like (In My Wardrobe)’ to the pinnacle which is …
Stand-Out Track: Firth Of Fifth
One of the true song-writing greats. With this album, Wonder tackled all sorts of issues in a little over 40 minutes, from drug abuse to some damning criticism of Richard Nixon. Whatever the topic, it was conveyed with the creative flair that is his trademark.
Stand-Out Track: Too High
‘That was an unaccompanied bass pedal solo from Michael Rutherford’
So goes Peter Gabriel’s intro to ‘The Musical Box’ taken from recordings in Leicester and Manchester in 1973. This is true prog rock. Just one quick glance at Gabriel’s costumes of the time leave you in no doubt of that. As a cheap follow up in 1983 to the recently-purchased ‘Genesis’ album (see 2 days ago) I was rather taken aback initally by what I found here. Yes, it is very much of its time, but for me the standard of musicianship required to perform music of this level of complexity live makes this worthy of your time (if not necessarily your life-long allegiance)
Stand-Out Track: The Musical Box
Hard to believe that Waters, Gilmour et al must have sat down with a blank piece of paper in a world where DSOTM did not exist. Can you conceive of a place? I can’t.
Stand-Out Track: Time