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SLOW MOTIONManPsychedelic/Space Rock3.20 | 68 ratings |
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Not my favorite from Man, in fact it's my least favorite. I don't know what happened, but this came
out just six months after Rhinos, Whinos and Lunatic, and that was a rather good album, so I really
felt Slow Motion was a letdown. I dig the Mad Magazine spoof (you can see a bit of Alfred E.
Neuman's face on the upper left hand corner). Seems that Rick Griffin did the artwork, same guy
responsible for the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane and Quicksilver Messenger Service at the
Fillmore West posters, and naturally, the Dead's Aoxomoxoa. He also designed the Neutrons band logo
(as they were a Man spinoff), and even the Man logo for Maximum Darkness. I really found much of the
material on Slow Motion didn't do much for me. The psychedelic and prog elements seemed to have
evaporated, and same for any decent jams, so what on earth went wrong? Not one song left an
impression on me, unlike the much superior Rhinos album. Call me strange, but I found their next
studio album (and their last for some time), The Welsh Connection a much more enjoyable album, even
if it has a reputation as being one of their worst 1970s albums (which I can't agree on). The
following album to Slow Motion, Maximum Darkness was also a giant improvement, but to be fair it was
live, which had them performing previously released material, plus a cover of a Buffy Ste. Marie
song. To me, I give Slow Motion a pass. Love the Mad Magazine spoof, that's about it
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