Customer Reviews

Remember The Future

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I bought this album fairly recently[second handLP] simply because the cover and inside photo of the band looked Okay. Also because in the credits they thank the Man band for coming to Germany. I love Man, and was expecting something good. What I got was something that sounded like Crosby Stills Nash and Young's more mediocre songs gone wrong. There are a few bits where they do a Man impersonation, although not that well. Incidentally, there is a Man record entitled "Back into the future" which is real good.
Right, that was Side one, now to Side two..... coupla decent riffs, nice bit of vocal stuff for a few sec's towards the middle, wow that sounds familar. Another Man harmony.
I may sound a bit harsh about this album,it could have been a lot better with a bit less soft rock sound a là West Coast.
Also production sounds crap on the vinyl.
Hello- bit of Pink Floyd guitar towards the end, pretty good impersonation. Yeh, this album definitely goes on for a bit long in places, bit of a remix,make it a twenty minute song.
I've heard "A Tab in the Ocean"is the one to get.

After hearing the LP in 1974 (a friend and I swiped his older sister's copy for a listen...) I knew these guys were special. Being only 12 yrs at the time - it took me 2 weeks to save enough $ to get my own copy! Back in the day when kids actually mowed lawns to get money...now I'm rambling. Anyhow I don't need to go into detail about my disappointment having bought a pre 2002 CD - it sucked!!! I browsed Amazon last week and noticed the re-issue (yeah!) Bought it and loving it... I've been listening to an mp3 version ripped from vinyl. I had to make do. It's now cost me over $60.00 to get the proper recording (2 Cd's) - That's a lot of lawns. Bellaphon should remove the improper recording that is still available for sale at Amazon and other retailers... That would be the proper thing to do!

I fell in love with this album, and Nektar's Recycled back in the 70's. It is prog at it's absolute best. Check this out, I have read that this album will soon be coming out in SACD format!!! I haven't yet invested in SACD, but if and when that happens, I'll be one of the first in line to get it. It seems to me that DVD-Audio (which I did invest in) is dying a slow death; at least based on what's been released in that format so far, and what is planned for the future... My mistake...

I don't know how this album ever ended up with the label "progressive". It probably has to do with the length of the two tracks on the album, which is just about the only progressive quality one can attribute to this dull and clumsy recording.

By the time I got to the middle of track one, I realized that there is something really wrong here. I haven't yet heard anything that stands out since the album started playing, just a succession of totally forgettable post-60's power-rock songs (not entirely unlike Grand Funk Railroad or Rare Earth), badly written and poorly stiched together into a "suite". Don't look for an impressive solo, an intelligent chord progression, a heart-stoping key change or clever development. These guys just latch onto a riff, and don't let go of it until they fall into a stupor, and then on to the next riff. Get the idea?

Side one makes some weak attempts at intrumental interludes, though so repetitive and unimaginative that I had to stop myself from pressing the FF button a couple of times. Side two is no better, with hardly any intrumental breaks at all and songs getting more and more annoyingly whiny.

This goes to show that some of these obscure prog bands well deserve their obscurity, and if you are hungry for obscure but genuine progressive rock, try Gryphon, Greenslade, Triumvirate or U.K. and - what the heck - Brand X. Meanwhile, you'd be better off by getting some Grand Funk Railroad, who make no pretentions to prog-dom.