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A series of progressive rock album reviews delivered in the order I first encountered them.
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Review of Pink Floyd\'s The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn
Released 1967 "Across the stream with wooden shoes With bells to tell the king the news A thousand misty riders climb up Higher once upon a time." After being desparately disappointed with Ummagumma, I spent a long time neglecting the pre The D...
Review of The Beatles 'The White Album'
Released 1968"You'd say I'm putting you on But it's no joke, it's doing me harm. You know i can't sleep, I can't stop my brain You know it's three weeks, I'm going insane You know I'd give you everything I've got For a little peace of mind".Of all th...
Review of Pink Floyd's Ummagumma
Released 1969"Lime and limpid green, a second scene A fight between the blue you once knew. Floating down, the sound resounds Around the icy waters underground. Jupiter and Saturn, Oberon, Miranda and Titania. Neptune, Titan, Stars can frighten".Umma...
Review of Gong's Camembert Electrique
Released 1971" Well help me help me sing this song, I wanna stay living for much too long. Now I wanna ride this big brass gong. Where am I babe? You don't know!"I can't help but smile when I think of this album. Not only is there is a great deal of ...
Review of Pink Floyd's Atom Heart Mother
Released 1970"And if you sit don't make a sound Pick your feet up off the ground And if you hear as the warm night falls The silver sound from a time so strange Sing to me, sing to me"That this is my forty fourth review and my seventh Pink Floyd albu...
Review of Pink Floyd's Animals
Released 1977"Deaf, dumb, and blind, you just keep on pretendingThat everyone's expendable and no-one had a real friendAnd it seems to you the thing to do would be to isolate the winnerAnd you believe at heart, everyone's a killer."Animals was a requ...
Review of Pink Floyd's The Wall
Released1979"Alright, I'll take care of them part of the time, but there's somebody else that needs taking care of in Washington""Who's that?""Rose Pilchitt!""Rose Pilchitt? Who's that?"[Kid screams in background. Foreground: "Shut Up!"]"36-24-36 [la...
Review of Roger Waters' The Pros and Cons Of Hitch Hiking
Released 1984"I nailed ducks to the wall; kept my heart in dark ruins. I built bungalows all over the hills. Dunroamin, duncarin, dunlivin Took my girl to the country, to sleep out under the moon Next thing she's going crazy".I had owned The Final Cu...
Review of Tangerine Dream's Phaedra
Released 1974To the budding prog rock fan, eager to be submerged further into the myriad mysteries of the genre, discovering that there was a band with the splendid name of Tangerine Dream was only going to excite, entice and encourage said fan to se...
Review of Pink Floyd's The Final Cut
Released 1983"Through the fish-eyed lens of tear stained eyes I can barely define the shape of this moment in time And far from flying high in clear blue skies I'm spiraling down to the hole in the ground where I hide."Before I finally out grew Ke...
