SPINAL TAP!

milla wrote: Don't forget their as yet unreleased concept album based on the life of Jack The Ripper! Definately a prog masterpiece, if it ever gets released. Saucy Jack, you're a naughty one Saucy Jack, you're a haughty one

I have been waiting for years for that.Let's hope the band pulls it together and records this conceptual masterpiece

Surely Smell the Glove is just as innovative Shark Sandwich, Intra-Venus De Milo, etc. I mean, never has a cover been so black. I defy you to give me a cover that could be none more black than this. Besides, you could see yourself in both sides. Now tell me its not an innovative album.

Trouserpress wrote: Drachen Theaker wrote: Trouserpress wrote: Does anyone else agree with me that <span style="font-style: italic;">Shark Sandwich </span>is really underrated? Too bad they sold out on <span style="font-style: italic;">Smell the Glove</span>. We disagree again TP. Smell the Glove is in fact a deeply sensitive and personal statement - it's not 'sexist' it's 'sexy' (there's such a fine line). Ah but come off it! Musically it's just a pop rock album. Where are the epic songs like Stonehenge?

Whilst I admit it does not match the transcendant
heights of Intra-Venus de Milo there is still much for
the average prog fan to enjoy.

Trouserpress wrote: Does anyone else agree with me that <span style="font-style: italic;">Shark Sandwich </span>is really underrated? Too bad they sold out on <span style="font-style: italic;">Smell the Glove</span>.

We disagree again TP. Smell the Glove is in fact a
deeply sensitive and personal statement - it's not
'sexist' it's 'sexy' (there's such a fine line).

Trouserpress wrote: Does anyone else agree with me that Shark Sandwich is really underrated? Too bad they sold out on Smell the Glove.

..speaking of underrated...what about "The Gospel According to Spinal Tap"?

Drachen Theaker wrote: Losendos wrote:   I see their inclusion as being as controversial as Queen's Surely the Wakemanesque keyboards on Stonehenge alone are enough to guarantee The Tap entry into the archives.

They even have a "Queen-like" song....Big Bottoms,sort of like Queen's "Fat Bottom Girls"

Big Bottoms

Big Bottoms

Talk about bum cakes

My girls got em

 

   I think they had their prog moments but to classify their vast catalogue as prog would be misleading. Their main prog effort released in 1975 ( no doubt inspred by Yes' "Tales" and Genesis' "The Lamb" was the concept album ( double?) The Sun never sweats ( which seems awfully close to Nous Sommes Du Soleil) .The Sun never sweats bombed badly and the band were less adventurous after that. I've never been able to get a copy of the Sun never sweats so maybe someone who has could let me know if it was indeed a double album

 

 I see their inclusion as being as controversial as Queen's

MikeEnRegalia wrote: Unfortunately we can't add, as our rating system only goes to 5. We would at least have to introduce an additional half-star for Spinal Tap.

We'd have to give them 6 stars so they could get that push over the cliff.

Unfortunately we can't add, as our rating system only goes to 5. We would at least have to introduce an additional half-star for Spinal Tap.

Let us not forget Intre(sp?)-Venus de Milo.