DUNE

Just a brief addendum to Michael Neumann's excellent review. Like him, I bought the original vinyl issue and listened to side 1 obsessively but scarcely bent an ear to side 2 after the first couple of listens. I recently picked the album up on CD and listened to the whole thing for the first time in 20 or so years and Arthur Brown's recitation of Schulze's slightly embarassing poetry only takes up a few minutes of side 2, although there is a vocoder sound running through most of the piece which may be the same vocal track heavily treated - anyway, the second half of the album was better than I remembered it, although still a disappointment after side 1. Worth picking up for the title track alone.