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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Back in the days when you could trade in vinyl and get new stuff, I traded in my Nice albums for this recording. Boy was I dissappointed. So much orchestra and not much Nice. The frst track starts off with orchestra and I was worried that it wouldnt contain any Nice at all. The version of Country Pie is good and the 5 Bridges suite grows on you. There is a vicious version of Karelia suite but the orchestra doesnt really gel with them.
Big Gripe. I know that the remasterers wouldnt want to change the running order, but the encore comes after the studio track One Of Those People. I know cds can be programmed, but I would have prefered the concert to run as it did on the night ( and one of those people is not that great anyway).
The remastered cd sounds really good as with all the other 2009 remasters ( when will the get the master tapes to Nice and Thoughts of Emerliststavjack? )
So if you like your Nice with a heavy dose of orchestra, go get this. Yes it is a bit clunky, but no more so than many of the other Rock/classical get togethers and much, much better than the Deep Purple group/orchestra album
Big Gripe. I know that the remasterers wouldnt want to change the running order, but the encore comes after the studio track One Of Those People. I know cds can be programmed, but I would have prefered the concert to run as it did on the night ( and one of those people is not that great anyway).
The remastered cd sounds really good as with all the other 2009 remasters ( when will the get the master tapes to Nice and Thoughts of Emerliststavjack? )
So if you like your Nice with a heavy dose of orchestra, go get this. Yes it is a bit clunky, but no more so than many of the other Rock/classical get togethers and much, much better than the Deep Purple group/orchestra album
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
I first heard this album when a girlfriends brother played it to me in 1970 (on vinyl of course). At the time I was just getting into Prog Rock and had been introduced to Beggars Opera, ELP and Yes by the same guy and at first listen found this very similar. Further listening however revealed that this was indeed different. This was a band playing with a real orchestra and not just mellotrons ( I hadn't heard Deep Purples' concerto or Atom Heart Mother by Pink Floyd yet) Up till now I had heard the Moody Blues and their orchestral effort Days of Future Passed but had also read that they and the orchestra did not play together that the orchestral parts were indeed Mike Pinder on Mellotron when the Moodies were playing and the orchestra alone when they were playing.
I found Five Bridges easy to listen to (no I don't mean easy listening!)
compared to some stuff I had been introduced to and the themes of the Bridges sweet soon embedded themselves in my head.
I don't intend to give a track by track review but simply feel that the album should be listened to in three parts:
1 The 5 Bridges Suite.
2 The next four tracks (the original "B" side of the album
3 Finally the bonus material
The reason I recommend this is that the original album (minus bonus cuts) was made to be listened to this way and maybe I just got used to it. 39 years later this album still sounds very fresh (o.k. some of the bonus stuff has aged...who hasn't?) If you are at all interested in Prog or indeed orchestrated rock ( Love , Forever Change springs to mind) give this a try, then if you haven't heard them move on to Atom Heart Mother, Deep Purple's Concerto,Uriah Heep. Salisbury, title track give them a whirl as well. Who knows you may well be pleasantly surprised.
Happy listening.
I found Five Bridges easy to listen to (no I don't mean easy listening!)
compared to some stuff I had been introduced to and the themes of the Bridges sweet soon embedded themselves in my head.
I don't intend to give a track by track review but simply feel that the album should be listened to in three parts:
1 The 5 Bridges Suite.
2 The next four tracks (the original "B" side of the album
3 Finally the bonus material
The reason I recommend this is that the original album (minus bonus cuts) was made to be listened to this way and maybe I just got used to it. 39 years later this album still sounds very fresh (o.k. some of the bonus stuff has aged...who hasn't?) If you are at all interested in Prog or indeed orchestrated rock ( Love , Forever Change springs to mind) give this a try, then if you haven't heard them move on to Atom Heart Mother, Deep Purple's Concerto,Uriah Heep. Salisbury, title track give them a whirl as well. Who knows you may well be pleasantly surprised.
Happy listening.
9 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
And nothing wrong with that!
You need to belong to a certain generation I suspect to get a great deal of pleasure from this - but, as I DO belong to that generation, I was not disappointed.
This always was experimental music and a consequence of that is mixed success. What still stands the test of time is the 'second side' of the album - the reworking of classical tracks to include the bass, drums and keyboard - something that gave me a nodding head and bright smile back in my youth - and which had a similar result today.
The added material was not essential - although America is a bonus.
Of its time, yes, and for people of its time who are still not quite moribund.
You need to belong to a certain generation I suspect to get a great deal of pleasure from this - but, as I DO belong to that generation, I was not disappointed.
This always was experimental music and a consequence of that is mixed success. What still stands the test of time is the 'second side' of the album - the reworking of classical tracks to include the bass, drums and keyboard - something that gave me a nodding head and bright smile back in my youth - and which had a similar result today.
The added material was not essential - although America is a bonus.
Of its time, yes, and for people of its time who are still not quite moribund.
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Nice Album
I have not heard Five Bridges for many years and I have to say that I really enjoyed it - Typical Keith Emerson, the orchestra added an extra element. Read more
Published 6 months ago by Bushy
A true original
I can echo one of the earlier reviewers - if you belong to a certain generation, then this music is just a part of you. Read more
Published 10 months ago by IceBear
I need the bridges to make the music work....
............. i really enjoy this album, i bought it from my local record shop ( not around any more, it,s all large companies and "shop assistants" )I remember this being the... Read more
Published 20 months ago by Beancooper
Five Bridges very "Nicw"
This is an album I bought when it first appeared many decades ago. It was my first intro to anything classical and it broadened my musical taste. Read more
Published on 15 Sep 2009 by A. James
Early attempt to fuse orchestra and pop
An odd mix of orchestra and pop that never quite works, but is worth listening to nevertheless. Orchestral flourishes give way to Emerson's frantic keyboard playing backed by the... Read more
Published on 24 Aug 2009 by The Soft Machine Operator
the fog on the Tyne is all mine all mine
I finally got this album following a bout of nostalgia for my native land and in particular for an area of the country where I frequented my youth. Read more
Published on 23 Aug 2006 by Junglies
Nostalgia - is better than it used to be!
I was 18 when I first heard this album. That was 33 years ago!
I never bought it - I was too broke! Read more
I never bought it - I was too broke! Read more
Published on 22 Jan 2005 by "healthcare-managers"
Hmmmm....Nice....
There aren't many albums where I can say "I was there", but this was one of them (no, it isn't me coughing in the quiet bits). Read more
Published on 14 Jun 2003 by A.lan Stevens
An interesting experiment that doesnt feel complete
Keith Emerson tried the symphony - rock group merge before others (Deep Purple etc), it is not easy to get a piece of music feeling complete with that setting. Read more
Published on 24 Oct 2001 by drgonzo3@hotmail.com
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