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Posted: November 21 2014 at 01:56
Kati wrote:
Tom Ozric wrote:
^ You *really* love Eruption ....... [<:o)] (Daww, my emoticon won't work :-(.......
hahaha Tom yes indeedy Eruption is one of my most favorite prolific euphoric gasmic orgasmic eargasmic thrilling songs ever written to date :) hihihi big hug to you and more
Katy !! Please tell me you love The Final Cut........ ........please.........
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Posted: November 21 2014 at 03:55
OK let's dissect these.
Eruption - I first bought Moving Waves in 1973 - It simply is an astonishing work. Akkerman's guitar playing was in my opinion at it's peak. Tommy (in Eruption) is about the best guitar solo in the history of contemporary music. Incredible for it's time i.e. 1971.
Anonymus II - The first 2/3s of the vinyl side makes my hair stand on end. Probably the best orchestrated jam session ever....it feels that it was put to tape without any overdubs....just a band displaying it's mindboggling musicianship without the need of recording gimmickry. When Akkerman start's his electric guitar bit followed by van der Linden's extended (read boring) drum solo it loses me. Yes, it all went far too long but van Leer's manic flute work and organ flowing into Bert Ruiter's bass bit in the first section is etched in prog folklore (if there is one i.e. a prog folklore!)
Hamburger Concerto - great throughout - yes, yes, yes simply magnificent....but it's not quite as exciting as Eruption IMHO.
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Posted: November 21 2014 at 18:51
Tom Ozric wrote:
Kati wrote:
Tom Ozric wrote:
^ You *really* love Eruption ....... [<:o)] (Daww, my emoticon won't work :-(.......
hahaha Tom yes indeedy Eruption is one of my most favorite prolific euphoric gasmic orgasmic eargasmic thrilling songs ever written to date :) hihihi big hug to you and more
Katy !! Please tell me you love The Final Cut........ ........please.........
Oh God, I adore that album, Tom! Last album written and performed by Roger Waters, I think he sang on all songs besides one, he wrote all the tracks on this album. I love Roger Waters, I feel him this is for you, Tom xxxxx
P.S. I klove that guitar solo starting from 3.23 xxxx
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Posted: November 21 2014 at 19:13
Kati wrote:
Tom Ozric wrote:
Kati wrote:
Tom Ozric wrote:
^ You *really* love Eruption ....... [<:o)] (Daww, my emoticon won't work :-(.......
hahaha Tom yes indeedy Eruption is one of my most favorite prolific euphoric gasmic orgasmic eargasmic thrilling songs ever written to date :) hihihi big hug to you and more
Katy !! Please tell me you love The Final Cut........ ........please.........
Oh God, I adore that album, Tom! Last album written and performed by Roger Waters, I think he sang on all songs besides one, he wrote all the tracks on this album. I love Roger Waters, I feel him this is for you, Tom xxxxx
P.S. I klove that guitar solo starting from 3.23 xxxx
Gilmour shines on this album and you're awesome !! Thanx for posting
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Posted: November 21 2014 at 20:11
Just in case for those who have not voted yet as they might be unsure which to vote (all great), listen this this :) maybe I can sway a vote Eruption buy Focus starts a beautiful orchestral bit turning a fabulous slow melodic tune a bit like perisienne walkways by Gary Moore, thereafter with a great drum into turning into a fantastic clever avant garde jazz master extraordinaire piece but instead of the sax or trumpet it's the guitar doing the prolipupupupu's lilipupupu's :) and thereafter hahaha it gets better Van Leer on the most explosive eargasmic mellotron coupled with Akkerman on guitars, all perfect insync, keeping building steps going higher and higher and higher to explosive nonstop brilliance!
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Posted: November 21 2014 at 20:20
^ A true lilipilipupupu MASTERPIECE. Gosh, I must've bought Moving Waves 20-odd years ago - and never get tired of it (unlike the usual CTTE, DSOTM etc.). And never wear out WYWH - always bliss, every time.....
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Posted: November 21 2014 at 20:24
Tom Ozric wrote:
^ A true lilipilipupupu MASTERPIECE. Gosh, I must've bought Moving Waves 20-odd years ago - and never get tired of it (unlike the usual CTTE, DSOTM etc.). And never wear out WYWH - always bliss, every time.....
Hahaha indeed Tom, Akkerman on guitars, Thijs van Leer on mellotron and the flute! ha! Incredible! Magnificent! Really!
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Posted: November 21 2014 at 20:44
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Le Clochard is an exquisite piece, and way too short...... Also Cathedral de Strasbourg is beautiful.
Those two both great too! I cannot fault them, except one is typical Andalucían acoustic guitar tune (Le Clochard) and Cathedral de Strasbourg is very organ or rather mellotron (church orchestration classic moozik) orientated.
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Posted: November 22 2014 at 21:07
Eruption is, too me, a masterful composition that could have been rehearsed, performed and recorded better. The problem with Focus is that you had all these emotional virtuosi who had great trouble playing second fiddle (or got bored when they had to). Each one is just waiting, waiting, WAITING for their chance to shine for their solo.
While I appreciate the minds and talented musicians working on Anonymous II, it is too cold and emotionless to me.
Hamburger Concerto is the most polished, the tightest, yet it is also the most subdued and, at times, soporific.
My favorite Focus "epic" is "Answers? Questions! Questions? Answers!"--though it is not included here due to its clocking in at 'only' 14 minutes. It is raw, it is energetic, it is frenetic, it is emotional, it is sloppy, it is virtuosic, it is funny, it is breathtaking, it is beautiful! What more could a music lover ask for?
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Posted: November 24 2014 at 14:43
Kati wrote:
Tom Ozric wrote:
^ You *really* love Eruption ....... [<:o)] (Daww, my emoticon won't work :-(.......
hahaha Tom yes indeedy Eruption is one of my most favorite prolific euphoric gasmic orgasmic eargasmic thrilling songs ever written to date :) hihihi big hug to you and more
Agreed!
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this is for you, Tom 
Eruption buy Focus starts a beautiful orchestral bit turning a fabulous slow melodic tune a bit like perisienne walkways by Gary Moore, thereafter with a great drum into turning into a fantastic clever avant garde jazz master extraordinaire piece but instead of the sax or trumpet it's the guitar doing the prolipupupupu's lilipupupu's :) and thereafter hahaha it gets better Van Leer on the most explosive eargasmic mellotron coupled with Akkerman on guitars, all perfect insync, keeping building steps going higher and higher and higher to explosive nonstop brilliance! 
