HW:Re Croydon

Douglas Pearson ceres at SIRIUS.COM
Tue Mar 27 15:35:04 EST 2001


On Tue, 27 Mar 2001 04:07:22 EST, Al Ogilvy <Alogilvy at AOL.COM> wrote:
> ...I've just played distant horizons
>for the first time since i first brought it....I hated it in '97....
>played it once and filed it and forgot about it....I've only just
>dug it out now because of Clouded Vision ... This time
>around its much better....Clouded vision is really quite a strong
>song and hopefully the version played live at Croydon will surface
>again...Wheels also repays more listening As do the "Brock Solo "
>pieces, I especially like Taxi for Max, but IMHO the Album still
>has to be the most disjointed ragbag of bits and pieces to appear
>under the HW name OFFICIALLY and with Daves full blessing , that
>I've heard so far. Playing it now it seems more like a
>collection of Solo pieces than an album.

Second most disjointed.  'Distant Horizons' still doesn't hold a candle
to 'Out & Intake' (although at least the title of that one makes no
pretentions of being anything BUT...).

    -Doug
     ceres at sirius.com



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