A PASSION PLAY

After many years I wanted to give another chance to this JT epic. How is it possible that I didn't like it while a lot of reviewers here think it's a masterpiece? On the "meh" side I've seen it compared to Tales Of Topographic Oceans, which I really like, instead. So, were I wrong? Is there something that I haven't got at the first listens?

Sadly I have to say that I'm still on the "meh" side. In the first side of the album it seems to me that they were trying to make a Genesis album. As Ian Anderson said, this started as a collection of short songs later tied together into an epic, but while other bands did the same successfully, like Caravan with Nine Feet Underground and even Beatles with Abbey Road, it hasn't been the same with A Passion Play. The various parts are so distant that even the trasitions don't work well.

Surely they show their musical skills, the lyrics are interesting, but it's a patchwork of different things, some of them quite good, others not more than fillers. This is an album that was getting powder in my closet and I'm afraid it will continue doing it.

Why wasting time on A Passion Play when I have Aqualung and TAAB close to it?