THE PRINCIPLE OF MOMENTS

Robert Plant

Crossover Prog

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Released on Plant's newly formed "Esparanza" label on 11th July 1983, "The Principle of Moments" included some surprises and varied material which moved Plant even further forward into the eighties.

With virtually the same line up from the previous album and tour and with the inclusion of Phil Collins and Barriemore Barlow from Jethro Tull drumming on two songs, Plant's ambitions went even further, the romantic ballad "Big Log" was released as a single, was his first worldwide hit and opened up Plant's music to a much wider audience than he could ever imagine.

"Plant's lyrics were often influenced by the books of J.R.R. Tolkien. Big Log is a mythical, extended metaphor for a lost love: "My love is in league with the freeway... My love is the miles and the waiting." A Big Log is common lingo of tractor trailer drivers. It is the book in which their road hours are logged, therefore the connection between the road and love and the countless hours we all log on" from Songfacts.com

The opening track, the rocker "Other Arms" compounds the new style of the songs on the previous album, and the shuffling "In The Mood", though "Messing With the Mekon" (the Mekon being the fictional adversary of Dan Dare in Eagle Comic) is a stomping stop-start affair which came over very well on the live tour using lighting to good effect on the synthesiser phrases, followed by the complicated vitriolic "Wreckless Love".

The soft romantic ballad "Through With the Two Step" showcases some sumptuous synthesizers from Jezz Woodroffe, "Horizontal Departure" contains some great drumming from Phil Collins, though "Stranger Here...Than Over There" is an even more abstract excursion into mixed time signatures.

mystic fred | 4/5 | 2010-10-17

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