Rating: 5/5
Review:
A terrific compilation
This is a terrific compilation. There's a mixture of fairly well-known bands
and (to me, anyway) very obscure stuff, and it gives a really good picture of
the prog scene as the 60s moved into the 70s.
I turned 16 in 1970, so this is pretty much the sound of my
adolescence. I knew some of this music
at the time, largely through listening to people like John Peel on Top Gear
(later excitingly retitled Sounds Of The Seventies), but some of it was
entirely new to me. As with any compilation,
I like some more than others, but it's a very intelligent and lovingly compiled
selection, much of which is surprisingly melodious with some very lovely
harmonic work, too. Prog could be a
pretty hard slog sometimes, but I found little of that here and most of it is
very listenable without ever being facile.
(I'd forgotten quite how many flutes there were at the time – and not a
Jethro Tull track in sight on this album, either.) It's both musically intelligent and an
enjoyable listen.
If you have any interest in the prog/underground music of
the late 607s and early 70s, I can warmly recommend this disc.
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