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Selling England by the Pound is an album about as strong and as British as a stab from a mortuary blade.

Like many albums, it opens with its strongest track: Dancing with the Moonlit Knight. It begins like a folk song but relatively quickly becomes this gigantic rock piece.

I Know What I Like is the most fun track, reasonable length, good rhythm and memorable lyrics.

Firth of Fifth is amazing, maybe even better than the first track. This is something I say a lot, and it is one of my favorite ... read more

Fragile's an amazing album though it is sadly not perfect.

Negatives out of the way first: Cans and Brahms is a cute little cover but has nothing to do with the rest of the album. Five Per Cent for Nothing is one of the strangest songs ever in my opinion because not only is it probably one of the earliest examples of math rock, it is also some kind of diss track. Something about royalties to someone Bruford thought did absolutely nothing. Feels like it should've been an interlude in ... read more

This is easily the greatest album of all time in my opinion. If it isn't perfect, then it is easily the closest thing to perfection.

Whatever flaw there is, I don't hear it. I'm deaf and blind to that issue.

The opening track... when I heard it for the first time, and I was mesmerized as well as horrified by everything from the sheer scale of it (eighteen (18) minutes long, four (4) unique movements) to the sound (begins as ambient audio, before turning into what felt at first ... read more

Alright, the first ever proper review that I’m posting online. Trying to explore Progressive Rock from the beginning, starting with what is (as far as I am aware) the earliest example of Proto-Prog, The Crazy World of Arthur Brown.

Now, I’ve listened to this three times, and if I had to describe it the way I saw it, it sounds like the product of Arthur Brown smoking pot, going nuts, grabbing his copy of The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, sucking the ... read more