Album Rating: 5.0

Thanks for your participation and tip.

This sounds like what I expect a Rick Wakeman album to sound like: few vocals and lots of keyboard noodling. I would have a hard time picking a favorite between this and 'Arthur.' It's like comparing apples and oranges. Their both good in different ways... but's only my first listen, so we'll see what happens.

I like that you described the 6 wives in the review e. It helps while I'm listening to the album, like a program.

Album Rating: 5.0

Thanks, Twig. That was my intention, help to understand individually the pieces trying to interpret the ideas and feelings of Wakeman.

But you're right. We are in presence of two distinct pieces, nevertheless with the unmistakable sound of Wakeman, on both. In one of them, we have the wizard keyboard work of him pratically as a soloist, in the other we have him and a band, where he really gives room to the other musicians. The final result is excellent in both cases, really.

Album Rating: 3.5

I have to listen to more Wakeman post-Myths and Legends. At one point, I owned "Criminal Record", but I don't remember much about it -- it didn't make much of an impression.



Say e, don't mean to ask you to give away any surprises, but are you planning on writing about Patick Moraz's solo work too?

Album Rating: 5.0

"Criminal Record", for what I can remember, is also a very good album, but "Lisztomania" is very weak.

Yes, Diva. My two next reviews about Yes are, "No Earthly Connection" of Wakeman and "Story Of I" of Moraz, to complete my journey trough the solo works of the keyboardists of Yes. Without the album of Moraz it would be incomplete, Besides, I like very much of that album.

Album Rating: 3.5

That's what I was hoping.