PFM - L'Isola Di Niente (1974) - Progressive Rock Music Forum

Frenetic Zetetic wrote:

richardh wrote:

the title track is an absolute monster. Just listening at the moment on headphones!

The guitar riff happening once the bass kicks in, with the vocals, is at least 20 years ahead of its time.

It reminds me of Cynic "Focus", which came out in 1993, lol.

Now on the last track and getting serious goose bumps from Via Lumiere. Possibly the best ending ever to an album. Sublime.

the title track is an absolute monster. Just listening at the moment on headphones!

Mellotron Storm wrote:

miamiscot wrote:

Love the album but that English song is pretty awful.

This was the very first non-english album I had ever heard, and I wasn't looking forward to it as a friend lent it to me. I thought I better spin it at least once but of course ended up falling for it hard.

That song is solid, it's when they started doing entire albums in English the dropped several points for me, lol.

The first 3 PFM are all you need IMHO.

"I am so prog, I listen to concept albums on shuffle." -KMac2021

'Is My Face On Straight' is by far the most appealing and interesting to me, with all those (good) rhythm changes. Maybe I specially like the way it begins, with that quiet, unusual and beautiful guitar arpeggio and voice... the atmosphere.. and a bit later when the drums enter.

I've never paid much attention to the lyrics.

Title track for me.

miamiscot wrote:

Love the album but that English song is pretty awful.

This was the very first non-english album I had ever heard, and I wasn't looking forward to it as a friend lent it to me. I thought I better spin it at least once but of course ended up falling for it hard.

"The wind is slowly tearing her apart"

"Sad Rain" ANEKDOTEN

Love the album but that English song is pretty awful.

The Prog Corner

Great to see so many replies in this thread!

This album is worth all the praise, I've been listening a little under a week almost exclusively in the car. The first track clicked immediately; it's magic and has that PFM "How have I not heard this before?!" flair like all of their stuff does for me. Very Genesis-ian parts throughout; I hear minimal ELP and more Yes influence if anything here.

The bass and the down beat rhythm of the title track is precision prog rock exemplified, my friends. That's the bread and butter of the prog cake I think we all yearn for when we opine for the golden days, such as when this record manifested before humanity.

"As long as you're not sick or poor; or a negro or a queer" will never, never not perk my ear up LOL. It comes out of nowhere every time for me still. I probably look manic in traffic laughing at myself for missing it "coming up" each time. Those clean verses are hilarious LOL

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Track 4, despite its popularity here, is the hardest for me to get into admittedly. Track 5 kills it, very proggy and busy and has all the ROI elements I get off on LOL.

Golden era RPI to the max! Thank you for introducing me to this band and album, PA! Eternal gratitude!

"I am so prog, I listen to concept albums on shuffle." -KMac2021

This and Stori di un Minuto are my favourite albums by PFM. L'isola di niente has one of my very favourite closers period with "Via Lumiere" (my favourite PF track along with "Dove... quando... (parte II)". I love jazzy PFM. And what a brilliant opener. Come to think of it, this is my favourite PFM album. Hadn't listened to it all for quite some years, and it's hitting me hard again.

The first track for me. Summarizes everything great about prog. High watermark for PFM. Don't think they achieved anything higher after that.

Poll Question: Favorite Track from PFM L'Isola di Niente?
Poll Choice	Votes	Poll Statistics
L'Isola di Niente	12	[37.50%]
Is My Face On Straight	3	[9.38%]
La Luna Nuova	6	[18.75%]
Dolcissima Maria	7	[21.88%]
Via Lumiere	4	[12.50%]
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