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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 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 Hawkwind's Space Ritual
Released 1973"It's no social integrator. It's a one man isolator. It's a back brain stimulator. It's a cerebral vibrator.Those energy stimulator's. Turn your eyeballs into craters. But an Orgone AccumulatorIs a superman creator".I really don't feel q...
Review of Robert Wyatt's Rock Bottom
Released 1974" Seaweed tangled in our home from home reminds me of your rocky bottom. Please don't wait for the paperweight, err on the good side.Touch us when we collapse. Into the water we'll go head over heel.We'll not grow fat inside the mammary ...
Review of Asia
Released 1982"And now you find yourself in '82. The disco hot spots hold no charm for you. You can concern yourself with bigger things. You catch a pearl and ride the dragon's wings"When I picked up my second hand copy of Asia's eponymous first album...
Review of The Moody Blues' In Search Of The Lost Chord
Released 1968"Timothy Leary's dead. No, no, no, no, He's outside looking in. Timothy Leary's dead. No, no, no, no, He's outside looking in. He'll fly his astral plane, Takes you trips around the bay, Brings you back the same day, Timothy Leary...
Review of Spirit's First Album
Released 1968"Look beneath your lid some morning, See those things you didn't quite consume— The world's a can for Your fresh garbage . . . Look beneath your lid some morning, See those things you didn't quite consume— ...
Review of King Crimson's In The Court Of The Crimson King
Released 1969"The rusted chains of prison moonsAre shattered by the sun.I walk a road, horizons changeThe tournament's begun.The purple piper plays his tune,The choir softly sing;Three lullabies in an ancient tongue,For the court of the crimson king"...
Review of The Beatles' Abbey Road
Released 1969"He roller coaster, He got early warning, He got Muddy Water, He one Mojo filter, He say one and one and one is three. Got to be good looking, 'Cause he so hard to see"Having groaned and grimaced my way through the review of 90125, I ...
Review of Genesis' The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway
Released 1974"The porcelain mannekin with shattered skin fears attack. The eager pack lift up their pitchers- the carry all they lack. The liquid has congealed, which has seeped out through the crack, And the tickler takes his stickleback. The ca...
Review of Led Zeppelin IV
Released 1971"All last night sat on the levee and moaned, All last night sat on the levee and moaned, Thinkin' 'bout me baby and my happy home. Going, go'n' to Chicago, Go'n' to Chicago, Sorry but I can't take you. Going down, going down now, g...
Review of Marillion's Misplaced Childhood
Released 1985"And a ring of violet bruises, they were pinned upon her arm. Two hundred francs for sanctuary and she led me by the hand to a room of dancing shadows where all the heartache disappears And from glowing tongues of candles, I heard h...
Review of Genesis' Foxtrot
Released 1972"MARK HALL OF STYX ENTERPRISES (OTHERWISE KNOWN AS 'THE WINKLER') "I represent a firm of gentlemen who recently purchased this house and all the others in the road. In the interest of humanity we've found a better place for you to go, ...
Review of Santana's Abraxas
Released1970"Is that you, your eyes slowly fading? Is that you, your mind full of tears? Is that you, searching for a good time? Is that you, waitin' for all these years?"One of the real pleasures in undertaking this blog is that when I sit dow...
Review of The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Released 1967"When you've seen beyond yourself, then you may find, peace of mind is waiting there.And the time will come when you will see we're all one, and life flows on within you and without you".I have a very strange relationship with this album...
Review of Barclay James Harvest's Octoberon
Released 1976"I stepped out on the guard rail, saw the crowds slowly part Heard a voice shouting 'don't jump, please for god's sake let me move my car!'Felt a hand on my shoulder, heard a voice cry 'just in time!'Felt the quick push, felt the air ru...
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 Focus' Moving Waves
Released 1971"Moving waves, the wind has left you and you're still in commotion. Moving waves, the wind has left you and you're still in commotion"The Old Grey Whistle Test introduced me to several bands, including Lynyrd Skynyrd, The Sensational Ale...
Review of Rainbow's Rising
Released 1976"Hot wind, moving fast across the desert.We feel that our time has arrived.The world spins while we put his dream together. A tower of stone to take him straight to the sky. Oh I see his face!"Categorising Rainbow Rising as a prog album ...
Review of Yes' Close To The Edge
Released 1972"The time between the notes relates the color to the scenes. A constant vogue of triumphs dislocate man, it seems. And space between the focus shape ascend knowledge of love. As song and chance develop time, lost social temperance rules ...
Review of Van Der Graaf Generator's Godbluff
Released 1975"Here at the glass - all the usual problems, all the habitual farce. You ask, in uncertain voice, what you should do as if there were a choice".I doubt that anyone's first encounter with Van Der Graaf Generator is a pleasant or even a co...
Review of Marillion's Fugazi
Released 1984"The thief of baghdad hides in islingtown now, prayingdeportation for his sacred cow. A legacy of romance from a twilight world. The dowry of a relative mystery girl."Having spent many hours rooting around in second hand record shops for...
Review of Queen's A Night At The Opera
Released 1975"I watched as fear took the old men's gaze Hopes of the young in troubled graves. I see no day, I heard him say So grey is the face of every mortal".A Night At The Opera was actually the first album I ever bought, four or five years befo...
Review of The Nice's The Thoughts of Emerlist Davjack
Released 1967"I'm going back, going back to be young again, to find the time to develop my mind and be kind".This was very much an impulse purchase. I say that not by way of apology, or to intimate that I'm embarrassed to own an album adorned by four...
Review of Barclay James Harvest's Everyone is Everybody Else
Released 1974"I didn't ask to be born and I don't ask to die I'm an endless dream, a gene machine That cannot reason why".I didn't actually purchase a copy of this album until a couple of years ago, but I have known every nuance of it for over twenty...
Review of Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of The Moon
Released 1973"Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way The time is gone, the song is over, Thought I'd something more to say".My first prog rock purchase was The Dark Side of The Moon by Pink Floyd.My love of music came from an early immers...
