Inappropriate reviews

  —   What a beautiful album and what a stunning story about that Japanese soldier! All songs sound very pleasant and melodic featuring some very warm vocals and inspired soli on guitar from Andy 'Mr. plastic face' Latimer. Mel Collins on saxophone and Duncan Mackay on keyboards deliver a great contribution to this album and Herbie Flowers (I have seen this funny man a few times with SKY) is on the list of guest musicians. Highlights are "Captured" and "Lies" but this whole album is serie of good songs, sometimes a bit polished but in general I like this album because of its warm atmosphere.

 

 

 

Not so much an abuse, as (I think) a simple mistake. The one star rating is not at all in agreement with the text.

  —   Well for every 5 star review I do I try to balance it with a 2 or 3 star review (let's face it, you have to look hard to find a 1 or 2 star prog album). So I am led to review the first Transatlantic album. So many stars, so much promise here, and they almost did it. The album is brilliant, inconsistent, and fulfils and disappoints at the same time. The first song is brilliant. Surprising is Pete's amazing bass playing, and Mike's ability to play symph prog. Neil's writing is up to his usual (at the time) standard, and Roine takes a low profile sideman role here, though he also sounds great. But, unfortunately it's all downhill from here. We are treated to a few throwaways (think Spock's Beard and Flower Kings weaker tunes), and a totally pointless cover. In this case it is the brilliant "In Held T'was in I" by Procal Harum, a brilliant proto-prog item, the cover of which adds nothing and if fact subtracts from the absolutely brilliant and ground-breaking (should I say genre-inventing) original. If you want to hear this song in all its glory, get the reissue of their "Shine on Brightly" and don't look back. I'll go with 3 stars here because "All of the Above" really is great.

 

  —   Well for every 5 star review I do I try to balance it with a 2 or 3 star review (let's face it, you have to look hard to find a 1 or 2 star prog album). So I am led to review the first Transatlantic album. So many stars, so much promise here, and they almost did it. The album is brilliant, inconsistent, and fulfils and disappoints at the same time. The first song is brilliant. Surprising is Pete's amazing bass playing, and Mike's ability to play symph prog. Neil's writing is up to his usual (at the time) standard, and Roine takes a low profile sideman role here, though he also sounds great. But, unfortunately it's all downhill from here. We are treated to a few throwaways (think Spock's Beard and Flower Kings weaker tunes), and a totally pointless cover. In this case it is the brilliant "In Held T'was in I" by Procal Harum, a brilliant proto-prog item, the cover of which adds nothing and if fact subtracts from the absolutely brilliant and ground-breaking (should I say genre-inventing) original. If you want to hear this song in all its glory, get the reissue of their "Shine on Brightly" and don't look back. I'll go with 3 stars here because "All of the Above" really is great.