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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Dave Stewart, where are you? There was a brief slice of history when young, good humoured, educated, musically trained Rock musicians stole the Hammond organ from their parents and redefined this as the instrument of choice for a certain type of progressive rock. Instead of 4/4 marches and the like, however, these boys used the thing differently, strange time signatures with crisp drumming and lyrical, mournful solos. It became metallic, not as in "metal" but as in liquid mercury coarsing the tubes, the sound of late night city streets, the gleaming future...
These groups included Caravan, Rare Bird and others, but king of the heap were Egg.
And this, truly, was their masterpiece.
For beginners, though, Polite Force is the wrong choice, instead better listen to their first album on Spotify, acclimatising to the genre, but if that takes your fancy there is no finer song anywhere of this type of thing than "A vsit to Newport Hospital, a track that begins (and ends) inauspiciously with a driving heavy riff, but sandwiched between is 5 minutes of the most transcending music you could ever hope to hear from a slightly jazzy, politely english but musically adventurous bass/drum/organ trio.
The rest is ok, mostly instrumental, side two has some rare moments, but really, it's Newport Hospital that makes this album very very special indeed.
These groups included Caravan, Rare Bird and others, but king of the heap were Egg.
And this, truly, was their masterpiece.
For beginners, though, Polite Force is the wrong choice, instead better listen to their first album on Spotify, acclimatising to the genre, but if that takes your fancy there is no finer song anywhere of this type of thing than "A vsit to Newport Hospital, a track that begins (and ends) inauspiciously with a driving heavy riff, but sandwiched between is 5 minutes of the most transcending music you could ever hope to hear from a slightly jazzy, politely english but musically adventurous bass/drum/organ trio.
The rest is ok, mostly instrumental, side two has some rare moments, but really, it's Newport Hospital that makes this album very very special indeed.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
What wonderful and wildly eclectic maestros The Egg were. This album is a masterpiece of progressive rock and should be more widely known. Having said that though, you're in an exclusive club if you 'get' this music and I can still freak people out with it's sonic strangeness along with the likes of Can, Hatfield and The North, Faust and such like. Always a fun thing to do at social gatherings when the conversation lapses.
14 of 16 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
This is a brilliant, underated album. Sounds surprisingly fresh after all this time. Fantastic playing, interesting arrangements. A marvelous accompaniment for bong smoking whilst reading H.P Lovecraft. Goes even further out than some of the wierder excesses of The Soft Machine and the Floyd. Similar(ish) to the canterbury bands : Caravan, Softs and Hatfield and the North but with a slightly different angle. At times it's almost like Add n to x or Squarepusher and seems quite modern in that respect. Also a good mix of tuneful songcraft and avante-garde, spaced-out looning. What a belter! Smoke a fat one and crank it up. Mint!
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