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let.me.go

This is a great album, and even if there are some bad songs, there are more good songs.....

"Cirkus" sounds very good as an opener, and, like all of the first three songs, it has a weird-sounding instrumental.

The next one is the weakest song. "Indoor Games" sounds jazzy, and Gordon Haskell sings very strange on this and on "Happy Family", a bit metallic. The intro is pretty good.

"Happy Family" is the weirdest song on the album, but I like it, because it tells the story of the Beatles' end in a funny way, and I also like the end; it ends very fast, and you think "What? Is it over?"

"Lady Of The Dancing Water" is a mellower track, the best on side 1. Mel's flute sounds wonderful, and it gives the song a magical atmosphere, this sounds Middle-Ages-like.

The Lizard suite, divided into four parts, is the best "song" in here, but it sounds like six different songs, not like one piece that lasts over twenty minutes. "Prince Rupert Awakes" is the best song on the whole album, featuring Jon Anderson on vocals. He sings very quiet, and when he breaks into "Wake your reasons' hollow vote...", you think that he sings loud, but in fact he sings in a normal volume.

"Bolero" is the "new version" of Ravel's Bolero, and it's a good track, but the next one is better....!

It's "The Battle Of Glass Tears"; the reeds give you this battle feeling, like when the saxes are fighting! But it lasts nearly 11 minutes, and it could be a little shorter, for example in "Last Skirmish", which is a bit too long.

"Big Top" reprises the main theme "Cirkus", the same thing that Genesis did in many of their albums ("Selling England By The Pound", "A Trick Of The Tail", "Wind & Wuthering"). It's a good closer, even if the real "Big Top" is the previous one, "The Battle".

I would give it 5 stars if they didn't include the pointless "Indoor Games".

Track ratings: Cirkus ****, Indoor Games **, Happy Family ***, Lady Of The Dancing Water *****, Prince Rupert Awakes *****, Bolero - The Peacock's Tale ****, The Battle Of Glass Tears ****, Big Top ****.

the Sorcerer

| 4/5 | 2005-6-27

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