IT'LL ALL WORK OUT IN BOOMLAND

Proggers love "Top" lists for their favourite music. I own over 500 prog albums and this would make any top 10 (probably quite high in the 10) I could compile. It is imaginative, clever and well played. The songs "No More White White Horses" and "Morning" are prog classics.

I can remember buying the vinyl original on its day of release and 2 of my pals also bought it. Sadly, their record label didn't back them enough so they fragmented when they could have been big prog figures of the 70s.

As a power trio they managed to make huge prog creations with just a little use of other instruments in the studio (the brass sounds on the 2 tracks I have mentioned are superb). My only negative comment is that I prefer Keith Cross's power guitar chords to his fast solos but this is not really a criticism.

The recent boxset including 2 albums' worth of additional material includes a remaster of the classic "Boomland" album which is far superior to the previous releases on CD and I am still getting more familiar with those songs on the extra material as I keep playing the "Boomland" CD.

A criminally underrated band who, with more backing, could have been BIG! with just a guitar, bass, drums lineup. Shame on their record label of 1970!