Your Worst Purchase

 

I bought this album without hearing anything off it first. (Bad mistake, I know, but I have got away with it in the past, numerous times - this time I was caught!)

The blurb I read about it described it as - sounding something like Pendragon and later Pink Floyd, but with enough individuality to make it different, this is a superb album! God, was that statement wrong! I love both of the above bands, so thought this would be interesting and right up my street. In fact, it didn't even reach my country, never mind find my street! The music started off a little like Pendragon, true, like a very inferior rip off from the start of 'The Window Of Life', but it didn't sound promising, in fact it sounded quite amateurish, but then, oh god, then, in came the vocals! I am sorry, and I don't wish to offend anyone from the band, or their friends and relatives, but let's just say the singer sounded like he should be down the pub on a karaoke machine, trying to sing a straight rock song. His voice just didn't fit the music at all. And, on the third track I think it was, he was hopelessly out of tune throughout the chorus, trying to reach too high and falling on his face. Not one song inspired me, even though I kept thinking, 'well, the next track might be better'. I have played the cd a few times since, just to make sure it isn't a 'grower', and sadly, it isn't. I will keep it, though,  as it makes all the other cd's I am not too fond of sound much better than they are!

Sorry, but that is the skeleton in my cupboard, where prog is concerned, anyway!