Post by LambliesEveryone is entitled to their own opinion, you are not doing Unifaun any
favours keeping up this childish nonsense, Unifaun should have perhaps put
the better tracks from the album up for download instead of the mediocre
ones then if you are right.
It's just a pity that someone will crtique something so harshly in public
without really giving it a chance, such as when someone reviews a film and
doesn't really see the whole thing, or a Broadway play. How many records
have you bought that it took a few listens to get it? In this case, we're
talking about a prog rock band and a labor of love. We should cheer from the
sidelines rather than smack it down unjustifiably. The more prog out there
the merrier, right? You see, I only mentioned them here because I know folks
here will like them. I've already heard from a handful of people saying
thanks for the tip. All it took was one to say something negative, just
because he apparently didn't like it. I figure Mark didn't give it that much
of a chance because there's only a couple of ways to hear the pre-release
tracks. You can only listen to a few songs from MySpace, but you don't get
the incredible 15 minute track due to MySpace time limitations, and you can
only listen to five of the eleven tracks the've completed. Purchaseable
downloads are available from a web site. Again, not all of the tracks are
there only because they've only recently completed the final tracks, the
downloads were uploaded months ago. The newer tracks are amazing. It's
important to hear an album in context, especially prog rock, rather than
skipping around and checking a bit here and a bit there. It's good to be in
the right place at the right time. Listening to samples online isn't a good
source for getting the best impression of prog rock tunes. I prefer to take
an album in and giving it my attention and play it on my home system,
hopefully with a glass of fine wine. I may have set up critisism for Unifaun
by Mark because I spoke so highly of them. That's asking for trouble perhaps
because instantly someone could be defensive and choose to be negative and
critical, just because.
I challenge Mark to buy the album when it comes out at the very end of June.
If he concludes he still doesn't like it then I will buy the album from him.
No risk! I have one friend that got the tracks offline and he said it took
him a couple of listens before he really got into it, and now compares some
of the tracks to "Battle of Epping Forest", "Carpet Crawlers" and even
"Supper's Ready".
I can't apologize for being over the moon for an album that has impressed me
more than ANY prog rock album since Yes' Relayer or Genesis' W&W, and I
can't apologize for hoping that some here will give it a chance and like it.
But I can apologize if my defense of this music has bothered anyone.
NC
Post by LambliesAs for Trisector I think it is actually very good for a now admittedly
aging band & shows welcomed originality geared to today as well as traces
of their original roots....beautiful singing was never really the aim of
VDGG in the past so why should it be today?.....there was though always an
emotion in the lyrics that still exists to this day that suits the
dramatic music perfectly.
Having almost all the VDGG albums over the years I have to say that like
Gentle Giant they changed with the times often but still maintained their
unique trademark sound. They are gaining an ever growing fanbase as more &
more people discover what was missed or overlooked by a surprising large
amount of people over the years.
Lamblies~
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