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    Posted: June 02 2016 at 23:39
Just listened to the whole thing today. It's not exactly intense prog, but it is prog related. 8 of the 11 songs on this album are just named as one noun. I think it's a really cool album, I especially love Cities, Heaven, Animals, Memories Can't Wait, and Air!
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It's an excellent record, the apex of their early songwriting styles as well as in parts a taste of Remain In Light. I get the feeling that some people think it simply transitional towards its follow-up, but even the polyrhythms of "I Zimbra" and the lyrical styles of "Life During Wartime", "Air", and "Animals"'s outro are their own beasts as part of this album. There's something about this last gasp of Bryne's direct, lucid lyricism that's killer, and they never made another track like the phenomenal "Drugs".

The only track I'm not entirely in love with is "Paper". I think both this album and RIL are the Heads' magnum opuses; FACT Magazine went so far as to put it on their '70's list when RIL didn't make their '80's list.
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With Sir Robert Fripp on board, I Zimbra was a glimpse of what was to come with Crimso's Discipline.
"It just has none of the qualities of your work that I find interesting. Abandon [?] it." - Eno
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Points: 17422 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 03 2016 at 17:05
i'm checking 'em out...i'm checking 'em out.....

Great stuff....and in almost all cases the live Heads were even better
...that moment you realize you like "Mob Rules" better than "Heaven and Hell"
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