Moss

Album title: Timeless
Artiste: The Watch
Year: 2011

Familiarity: Never heard of them, wish I never had.
Favourite track(s): The best of the worst? Maybe "Let us now make love?"
Why?: The ridiculous name of the song kicks it a notch above the others.
Least favourite track(s): All of them, seriously. But if I have to choose I'll go with "soaring On".
Why? Sounds like some horrible ELP/Genesis mash up. Horrible harpsichord sounding guitar or keyboard or whatever it was. 0 melody
Any preconceptions prior to listening, whether good or bad? No preconceptions at all other than I thought the album cover looked kind of promising.
End impression: Awful
Comments: I actually didn't even hear the last 3 songs as I could not find them on Youtube but I was ok with that. I think I got enough of a feel for the album. I really disliked the vocals. Seems like they took the worst parts of Peter Gabriel and Phil Collins and combined them somehow. Too much cliche acoustic guitar arpeggios with flute on top. I hate to be too harsh about any band but this is just something I will never revisit and I hope there are no more of their albums on the list. Loved Gentle Giant and this was a disappointing plummet for me. They sound like they are probably decent on their instruments (wanted to end on a positive).

Rating: 2.0 and I'm being generous. Trollheart, you were not overly harsh and I'm surprised you gave it a 2nd spin.
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Trollheart

Thanks Moss. It really is a terrible rip-off effort, isn't it? Timeless? More like clueless!!

Ant, US, where are you guys? Today is the last day for your reviews and I'm putting up the new album later today. Can you let me know if there's a reason you won't be able to do your slot this week, if not can you please post them before the end of today?

Thanks
TH

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Unknown Soldier

Been very busy but will put up tonight, so don't put new album up till tomorrow

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Trollheart

Okey dokey, will give you a one-day extension. Mind you, you'll only need five minutes to realise how crappy this album is...

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Unknown Soldier

Album title: Timeless
Artiste: The Watch
Nationality: Italian
Year: 1970, I mean 2011!
Subgenre: RPI, but more like Genesis clones
Player(s): Simone Rossetti (vocals, flute), Marco Fabbri (Drums), Giorgio Gabriel (No, I'm serious!) (Guitars), Valerio De Vittorio (Keyboards), Stefano Castrucci (Bass, Guitars)
Familiarity: Had never heard of them.
Favourite track(s): “One Day”
Why? "One Day" as quite simply the song resonated quite well with me, but even then I'd hardly call it great.
Least favourite track(s): "Thunder Has Spoken"
Why? From the word go the song sounded like a watered down version of Genesis in every aspect and pretty much disliked most of the rest as well.
Any preconceptions prior to listening, whether good or bad? Said they were Genesis aficionados and with a sound like Genesis in 2011, so I wasn't impressed.
Factoids you'd like to share? None
End impression: I came to this album thinking that Trollheart hasn't given it enough of a chance and I'd find something good on it despite everybody claiming how they were a Genesis rip-off, but how wrong I was and how right they all were.
Comments: By the time of the fourth track "In the Wilderness" I was totally cheesed off listening to this album, as quite simply this track probably rates as the most flagrant Genesis rip-off of them all and that is really saying something as well! By the time of "Let Us Now Make Love" I just wanted to pull the plug on the album but realised that there wasn't too much left so ploughed on and it was painful. It's obvious that this album was selected by the original list creator as he can't get enough of classic Genesis, even if it's like a fizzy drink gone flat! Italian prog bands really are a mixed bad but this is probably the worst I've come across but the band are decent musicians and the singer can muster his voice like Peter Gabriel a bit so it's not complete crap, other than this I've nothing more to add to what has already been said and easily the worst album so far on here.

Rating: 2.0

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Thanks guys. This is going to be some feat, as its overall score is going to bump poor old Ian Anderson up the ladder! Yes it's easily the worst we'e heard here, in fact I'd go so far as to say perhaps the worst prog album I've ever heard, though not the worst album (19ADD's "Dead river" --- well named! --- takes that dubious honour) and I definitely never want to hear anything more from them.

Ant, I didn't realise you had such loathing for Gabriel-era Genesis. My god! Still, I guess you feel about them as I do about 70s Yes, though I'm prepared at some point to listen to some of that as I have not really given them much of a chance.

One more point: US, though they do rip off Genesis to an alarming and embarrassing degree, "In the wilderness" is actually a cover of a Genesis song off their debut, so loath as I am to defend them, it's not fair to call THAT one a Genesis rip off: it's a Genesis song.

I'll get tomorrow's choice up soon, let's hope it's better than this. What am I saying? How could it be worse?

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Anteater

I definitely don't loathe Genesis, but they are my least favorite of the "original" prog bands. They're a mixed bag: Trespass is a stone cold classic and I like parts of everything they've done with Gabriel and Collins, but The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway has never really clicked with me as a concept record and I'm not crazy about Selling England By The Pound either. Hell, I'll probably be thrown into the fire later for saying this, but I'd put Calling All Stations (the full album with B-sides included) in my top three records by the band just for the fact that it tried to stretch a bit beyond the styles of the band's previous frontmen.

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Well I thought I'd heard that song before and it was so lifelike

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