There is also Theme of Secrets which is quite decent.Originally Posted by dropforge
There is also Theme of Secrets which is quite decent.
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"Theme Of Secrets" is a very good, more ambient flavored electronic album. However, it is worlds away from what I heard from him before. The reason being that the band member listing for the album is as follows:
Eddie Jobson – synthesizer, synclavier
THe-THe-THe ... That's all folks.
I like that a lot, but it's not a rock/band album. That was one of Private Music's earliest releases. The sequencer prelude on The Green Album is what motivated (ex-Tangerine Dream'er) Peter Baumann to start Private Music. He wanted to create an outlet for engaging new instrumental music that wasn't about spacing out with crystals and incense.
Sadly, Jobson shelved the follow-up to ToS — simply titled Darkness — because either he and/or the label felt it didn't fit the mold, or something like that. I'd love to hear it.
A bit like what happened to the follow-up to The Green Album? The Pink Album...
And of course the 3rd UK-album that wasn't released, but from which some fragments appear on Voices Of Life.
Indeed, probably THE unreleased album I would love to see released some day, although The Pink Album rates nearly as high on the list. It´s not fully clear to me how close The Pink Album ever came to recorded completion though...
What is interesting about the album is that each song mentions the track title in the lyrics. This trope isn't as widely used as you might think. And here, it creates a unique kind of consistency.
Listening right now, and I just remembered the Swiss band Flame Dream, who straight up plagiarized “The Only Thing She Needs”:
Confirmed Bachelors: the dramedy hit of 1883...
What do you mean? I looked for the words DANGER MONEY in all the words of the rest of the album but didn't find anything...
Not sure if you're kidding, but in case you're not, what he means is that the title of each song is the chorus of that particular song. Well, I would say "Carrying No Cross" is sung in the lyrics but doesn't really constitute a chorus as it's only sung that one time. On the other hand, "Caesar's Palace Blues", "Time To Kill", "Nothing To Lose"... are indeed Asia prototypes of some kind in that respect, although with UK it's more than made up by the instrumental progginess around those chorusses.
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Rendezvous 6.02 is still my fave. Does anyone know the story behind the lyrics? It sounds like a ghost story or an impending apocalypse.
I'm spinning DM right now, so I was reading the reviews on ProgArchives, and saw this in Sean Trane's review:
"Coming with an horrible and laughable artwork supposed to illustrate the album's title, this album has not aged well at all..."
I don't think I've seen criticism of the cover before, and it surprised me. While I'll be the first to agree that Hipgnosis' covers were not all winners, I never had any problem with this one. No, it's not beautiful, but it got across effectively the idea of a "person with ill-gotten gains" in a hotel or restaurant bathroom. Also, it's not like they had that high a bar to surpass - the debut's cover was boring.
It's an excellent cover: visually striking, makes a statement, is relevant to the title and lyrical content.
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Sean Trane doesn't like the CD and also detests UK as a band; so that sums it up from his perspective. His prerogative.
The cover is clever and pertinent to the album title, and the CD is very good to excellent, musically. Their debut was outstanding, so not too shabby to follow it up with this Danger Money release, in my view.
^ Agree. I've never really understood those who enjoy the first album, but don't like the 2nd. The first is a near masterpiece, the 2nd is not on that level, but is still excellent.
As for Trane, our tastes are so radically different, that his views on UK are not at all surprising. If he recommends something, I always figure that I won't like it, and mostly I don't. He does surprise me once in a while, though.
Sometimes it seems that Trane has some kind of vendetta against Eddie Jobson...
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Love this album, just as good as the first.
All of the above is true, except I prefer DM to the debut.
Danger Money turned 45 years old! I don't know the exact date, but apparently in March (?). I've always been very fond of the album. After the debut, it's heading towards more conventional prog, but that doesn't matter at all as the material is of such high quality and the playing is so skilful.
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^^ I bought it March 24th right after it was available. The other album I bought that day was Japan's debut Adolescent Sex. Who would have thought that 15 years later the drummer of the one group would form a band with the bassist of the other and David Torn....
Thanks for the clarification on the date!
(Polytown is cool album.)
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I bought this on its release, as well. I really dug Bozzio, having seen him with FZ a few years earlier. I was disappointed that Holdsworth wasn’t there, though Jobson’s playing sometimes mimicked Allan’s phrasing.
Caesar’s Palace Blues & Carrying No Cross are blistering tracks. Prog excellence displayed with panache!
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Danger Money is in my Top 10 of all time favorite albums (as is the afore mentioned Green Album!). I was too young to have caught them live when the album was released, but seeing one of the UK reunion shows (Wetton/Jobson/Macachek/Mangini) where I got to hear "Carrying No Cross" was a goosebumps moment for me. The whole set /show was amazing, but "Carrying No Cross" really stood out.
Carrying No Cross has always been a slow burner for me, something of an overlooked classic. It really has to be listened to closely to really appreciate it which I think I'm going to do right now.
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