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Points: 4411 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 14 2015 at 08:47
I've been listening to "Just Testing" for whole week. Love it, especially the first side and the opener "Living Proof".

Probably less enjoyable than the predecessor, it's an attempt of updating the sound with a bit of new wave (in "Insomnia" for instance, but not much).

The album is Martin Turner's last appearance on a WA record (until the instrumental "Noveau Calls"). 
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Points: 20624 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 14 2015 at 13:52
Originally posted by SteveG SteveG wrote:

Wow. this is starting to turn into a WA appreciation thread. Who would have thought that was possible?


Let's not get carried away......

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^What me? Carried away? Wink
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Points: 8619 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 14 2015 at 16:47
I love Argus, and everything the band did up to and including Number The Brave (with John Wetton, no less)
          after that album, I kind of lost interest and enthusiasm for their releases (except for Nouveau Calls, a great album)
              Everything about Argus is just right, instrumentally, vocally, the special, inimitable "vibe" of the music, it is a unique and special record, for sure.
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Argus just gets everything so right. Many great songs and albums from this classic rock band - but they just hit perfection with this one. Putting the needle down on Side 1 as a teenager, flipping it over, restarting and taking it through to the end of Side 2 - must still be one of my great music experiences. Is it prog?....I'm not sure....but one of the greatest albums of all time from a great UK classic rock band. Wish Martin and Andy would bury the hatchet and get it all together (along with Ted), as they did when I saw them reform in the late 90's in a rainy Cleethorpes! "I thought I had a girl..............." Cool
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Points: 1781 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 22 2015 at 23:53
My second favourite album from my second favourite band.

The only track that doesn't do it for me anymore is Blowin' Free.

I wish WA were not termed prog-related on PA. Can't we just have a "Wishbone Ash" category on it's own?!
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Fantastic album. We have been together from the day it arrived to Finnish record shops and it still gets lots of playing in our house. Actually I think this album quite "similar" to Man's Be Good To Yourself At Least Once A Day, which also is a big favourite of mine.
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Points: 6253 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 23 2015 at 18:37
If I had to describe this album to anyone who don't know them I'd say they are like Focus, album Focus II also known as Moving Waves.
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Points: 1159 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 24 2015 at 07:10
I suspect you're thinking of Pilgrimage, Kati, and I can see your point about it sounding a bit like Focus.
 
I don't think Argus sounds like them, though.
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Points: 6253 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 24 2015 at 07:31
Originally posted by AlanB AlanB wrote:

I suspect you're thinking of Pilgrimage, Kati, and I can see your point about it sounding a bit like Focus.
 
I don't think Argus sounds like them, though.
Hello AlanB :) Although this was before Focus, the yoldeling and all here reminds me very much of Focus :) xxxx
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Points: 13244 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 24 2015 at 07:35
Well.... there's no organ here, but with the second guitar filling in and matching the highest vocal notes, I can see where Kati's coming from with this. Great track either way.

EDIT: Oops, breach of protocol, I forgot to include bug Hug for Kati Embarrassed


Edited by Angelo - July 24 2015 at 07:36
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Originally posted by Angelo Angelo wrote:

Well.... there's no organ here, but with the second guitar filling in and matching the highest vocal notes, I can see where Kati's coming from with this. Great track either way.
 ta ta taaa tatataaaa tatata ta ta taaaaaa..... yay!!!! pram pa pa too! Big smile
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LOL I think I got that... Hug
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Points: 4411 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 24 2015 at 08:00
eheheh

is that some kind of exhultation dance or what
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Points: 6253 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 24 2015 at 08:02
Originally posted by Andrea Cortese Andrea Cortese wrote:

eheheh

is that some kind of exhultation dance or what
LOL hahahaha ermm no I humming the tune Big smile
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Points: 4411 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 24 2015 at 08:14
ah ahhaah

ok, but it was a good idea.

Should try myself one on some WA's record! "Locked In" is their dance number from the 70s!Tongue


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Points: 11401 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 24 2015 at 08:17
Just to add some swearing in the church here - this is one of my my favorite tracks by this band. A piece many proggers wouldn't touch if they got paid for doing so ;-)
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Points: 13244 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 24 2015 at 08:26
I listened, now pay me. You know the drill, Olav.

More seriously though - it's part of the legacy, no need to skip it.
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Points: 11401 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 24 2015 at 10:27
Originally posted by Angelo Angelo wrote:

I listened, now pay me. You know the drill, Olav.

More seriously though - it's part of the legacy, no need to skip it.


I'll have to get my ass down to Holland at some point and buy you a few beers *chuckles*
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