If you've only heard the first three tracks and Exogenesis I can understand how you'd get that impression. Other than that, the album ranges from bad to mediocre.
Fail. The only bad song is Guiding Light. Everything else is excellent.
ANYWAY UPDATE AS PROMISED.
14. King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King [1969]This is one of the most important albums in the history of progressive rock, and can be seen as one of the albums (among others) that really started it off. It was innovative and new and, frankly, so far ahead of its time. But while that’s all well and good, it would be meaningless to me as someone who wasn’t born until the 80s if the music didn’t hold up well now, but thankfully it really really does! Moonchild is the only song that isn’t incredible, and even that is good, it’s real flaw being that it goes on a bit too long. But the other 4 songs are simply amazing – great melodies, fantastic infusion of jazzy styles at times, and all round interesting and engaging experimentation. I can’t even imagine how many bands and artists will have been inspired by this album, but I know it’ll be a hell of a lot.
13. Tower of Power – Soul Vaccination: Live [1999]So, I will admit that it is slightly unusual that the only funk/soul album in my top 50, and indeed the only live album, is quite so high up. But it is here because it is just the most enjoyable album I have ever heard. The band has released plenty of top-notch studio albums, but none of them really strike me as being what I would call amazing. They’re really fun and groovy, but they don’t really grab me. Whereas this live recording is outright brilliance – the songs have so much more energy and the band are phenomenally tight. And to cap it off, the setlist they played was brilliant, most of their best songs and no boring ones. It is the quintessential funk/soul album, and it gets me wanting to dance every time I listen to it!
12. Dream Theater – Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence [2002]Here it is then, my favourite DT album. As much as I love Images & Words for its atmosphere, this is and probably will always be the album that has everything I love about DT. The heavy songs are pretty damn heavy, the slow stuff is crushingly depressing, there’s a good but still accessible level of experimentation, and there’s still a bit of that classic DT self-indulgence that I love thrown in for good measure, particularly in the title track. It’s probably a controversial point, but I also find it to be one of DT’s strongest albums lyrically (second only to Awake, mainly because of “I’m just a poor girl, afraid of this cruel world”
). There is just so much I love in this album, and the first disc is pretty much perfection. The title track is maybe slightly bloated, but it’s still an excellent song and really makes the album complete. I got into DT when this album first came out, and although it wasn’t actually my favourite at the time, it found that spot quickly and will forever be
my DT album.
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