The Album Review Club - Week #145 - (page 1923) - Tellin' Stories - The Charlatans

[OB1]

Those 3 put on the best “yes” show I’ve seen in a long long time.

They did.

 

[Protein Junkie]

Just loving reading other people’s opinions of my favourite ever band.
Anyone who is a Manchester City and Yes fan has the finest taste :-)

 

[Two Gun Bob]

4

Good grief but I understand that it's all subjective.

 

[unexpected item]

Do you want to add to the list of scores by rating out of 10?

7 I think, but would have been higher if you'd asked me in '72.

 

[Onholiday(somemightsay)]

7 I think, but would have been higher if you'd asked me in '72.

It does feel like a missed opportunity, we could have been conducting these reviews as pen pals............

 

[BlueHammer85]

a flower ?!

Early Genesis are a great band for sure - so much talent and musicianship for such a young group as shown here on foxtrot.

once again a pick dominated by its side 2 epic - this one being ‘Supper’s ready’ there’s simply no way you can listen to this once and give a review, each listen brings so many new elements- but who has the time to listen to a 23 min song over and over! Well fortunately I’ve heard it about 6 times - which grew on me more and more - some real beautiful moments throughout and some eerie haunting moments aswell , some parts I could easily skip.

lyrically and I think the same for most with Prog rock - I don’t find much connection - some of it might aswell be quotes from Lord of the rings as I haven’t a scooby what the plot is about unless I do some intellectual research where everyone has different fantasy version

I would urge everyone unfamiliar with early Genesis and ‘Supper’s ready’ to watch the live show they did in the 70’s - it’s outstanding - Peter Gabriel is mesmerising as a front man, love his voice.

rest of the album is just ‘ok’ for me, ‘watcher of the skies’ has a awesome intro but then I got a bit bored. ‘Timetable’ and ‘Horizons’ are nice songs - the rest I found pretty tedious and just waited in anticipation for ‘supper’s ready’ which overshadows the rest.

anyway, great pick, enjoyed a lot.

6/10

 

[Saddleworth2]

a flower ?!

Early Genesis are a great band for sure - so much talent and musicianship for such a young group as shown here on foxtrot.

once again a pick dominated by its side 2 epic - this one being ‘Supper’s ready’ there’s simply no way you can listen to this once and give a review, each listen brings so many new elements- but who has the time to listen to a 23 min song over and over! Well fortunately I’ve heard it about 6 times - which grew on me more and more - some real beautiful moments throughout and some eerie haunting moments aswell , some parts I could easily skip.

lyrically and I think the same for most with Prog rock - I don’t find much connection - some of it might aswell be quotes from Lord of the rings as I haven’t a scooby what the plot is about unless I do some intellectual research where everyone has different fantasy version

I would urge everyone unfamiliar with early Genesis and ‘Supper’s ready’ to watch the live show they did in the 70’s - it’s outstanding - Peter Gabriel is mesmerising as a front man, love his voice.

rest of the album is just ‘ok’ for me, ‘watcher of the skies’ has a awesome intro but then I got a bit bored. ‘Timetable’ and ‘Horizons’ are nice songs - the rest I found pretty tedious and just waited in anticipation for ‘supper’s ready’ which overshadowes the rest.

anyway, great pick, enjoyed a lot.

6/10

You feeling any better mate?

 

[BlueHammer85]

You feeling any better mate?

yes loads better than last week, thanks mate.
still heavy cold and ache/tiredness but at the tail end hopefully

 

[BlueHammer85]

is this in the top 1000 ?

 

[Onholiday(somemightsay)]

is this in the top 1000 ?

Just a quick flick, bizarrely I don't think it is - but I definitely scrolled past Joe Johnson again............