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Subject: Re: Curved Air - Phantasmagoria Fri Feb 14, 2020 9:39 pm
I liked it.
It was real now!
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Subject: Re: Curved Air - Phantasmagoria Fri Feb 14, 2020 9:39 pm
It is over.
To be honest, I have no desire to ever hear it again, it was too all-over the place for my tidy little mind to accept but, they seem to have influenced a lot of people so I can respect them for that.
Now to look back at the thread and see what everyone else made of it.
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Subject: Re: Curved Air - Phantasmagoria Fri Feb 14, 2020 9:47 pm
Weirdly, I felt the opposite, that it was strangely consistent - a largely unremarkable set of songs/compositions, but with a relative sense of cohesion and collective musical identity.
It wasn't a really great record, but I feel happy to let it exist in its own historical, cultural space as a coalescence of genres and ideas and technology and fashions...
I do not begrudge it.
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Subject: Re: Curved Air - Phantasmagoria Fri Feb 14, 2020 9:50 pm
I've given it ★★★, but feel that, in truth, it deserves and extra 1/2 a ★ as it was a confident and quaintly dated slice of '70s-ness, which I could never, ever say was a bad thing.
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Subject: Re: Curved Air - Phantasmagoria Fri Feb 14, 2020 9:51 pm
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Subject: Re: Curved Air - Phantasmagoria Fri Feb 14, 2020 9:54 pm
Oh, I saw that but didn't know that it'd've opened up another whole wormhole of options.
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Subject: Re: Curved Air - Phantasmagoria Fri Feb 14, 2020 10:01 pm
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Subject: Re: Curved Air - Phantasmagoria Fri Feb 14, 2020 10:06 pm
The Call of the Wendigo wrote:
Nightjar wrote:
The Call of the Wendigo wrote:
One of the members of Curved Air played organ on Kate Bush's 2nd album.
Francis Monkman?
Francis Monkman also did the soundtrack to The Long Good Friday and ergo helped to make one of the greatest endings to a film ever.
It's a great tune in its own right, but in concert with final scene and subsequent credits it's absolute dymanite!
If you haven't seen it and don't want the end of that venerable film ruined don't watch this version (very young Pierce Brosnan appearance alert! )...
Watch/listen to this instead...
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