MARBURG

"Marburg" by PELL MELL was one of the first Progressive Rock albums I've ever heard and back in those days (I was only sixteen years old) it completely blew my mind out; I've never listen to anything similar to this album before (now I could mention a dozen of similar bands) but not then, this was a great discover to me. The hard rock combined with symphonic almost classical music is a factor that several bands (especially in ENGLAND, GERMANY and FRANCE) did in the early seventies and this album has lots of that stuff.

Even when I liked this album a lot when I first heard it, now (ten years later) I can see this guys were not as unique as I thought: I don't like the word plagiarism because I believe that in music there are some songs that are similar to others and that shouldn't necessarily suggest it was an intentioned copy; I recognized the unmistakable BLACK SABBATH's riff in "Alone" since I first listen to the album and certainly it has also a lot of similarity with PINK FLOYD's "A saucerful of secrets" but I always thought it was just a coincidence or the influence of those bands and not a shameless plagiarism, but a year ago I discovered the German Progressive Rock band IKARUS and now I can hear a lot of their only album released in 1971 in "Marburg" too. Again: I'm not saying it's plagiarism but I keep finding more and more REALLY similar sounds to contemporary bands.

All of those suspicious similarities to other bands made me take a star off to the rate I was originally going to assign to this album.

Great stuff though!

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