Re: The album running-commentary and general listening discussion thread. Part 2!

[Nightjar]

Synth pipe organ again.

[The Call of the Wendigo]

This bit is like 10cc minus the catchiness and sense of humour.

I feel this is what 10CC would have sounded like if they hadn't known what they were doing.

[Guest]

It's gone all 5/4, possibly.

Is that that complicated rhythm pattern Nick Mason couldn't play on The Final Cut so they had to get Andy Newmark to do it?

No that was 4/4 then a bar of 2/4 2 of 3/4 and back to 4/4 I think for memory, I sure he could have played it, but I think he's lost interest by then

[The Call of the Wendigo]

It's gone a bit Folky.

And a bit Reggae.

[Nightjar]

12 string guitar!

12 string guitar.

[The Call of the Wendigo]

Prog Folk Reggae, why did it never catch on?

[The Call of the Wendigo]

Rick's back.

[Guest]

Never went out of fashion in my house.

[Nightjar]

This is so so so so dreadful.

What an horrible, shrill preamble to what I can only hope is the pompous Wakeman coda.

[Guest]

Although Ricks all over this, he only gets a writing credit on the final track, That church organ stuff was written by the guitarist

[The Call of the Wendigo]

You know when John Lennon said that one side of Abbey Road should just be Paul's songs and the other should just be John's? I have the same feeling with this album, that one side should just be Jon Andvangelis's bits and the other side should just be Rick Wakeman's.

[The Call of the Wendigo]

12 string guitar!

12 string guitar.

[The Call of the Wendigo]

Track 3 - Siberian Khatu.

[Nightjar]

No, it's not.

Jon Thingy is doing his weak, strained reedy voice thing again.



...oh, no it is over.

[The Call of the Wendigo]

Rick's back.

[Guest]

Now it's Siberian Khatru


What's Khatru?

[Nightjar]

Oh. God.

Funk.

[The Call of the Wendigo]

They've gone all funky.

[Nightjar]

Now it's Siberian Khatru


What's Khatru?

It's another name for a bathroom pedestal mat.

[Guest]

Prog funk!

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