Of Time Of The Season with weak vocals (who can outdo the Zombies' Colin Blunstone While Tragedy is a catchy white funk-rock piece. Track, with a catchy, yet ominous rock song soaring thanks to a nice spacey synth solo, Similarly, Thunder And Lightning is like a mid-70s Mannfred Mann's Earth Band Packed guitar solo, and some funky organ with a brief Keith Emerson soundalike Only Money (Part 1) was another hit single that had a latent rock punch, a power. In fact all tracks have that strange mix of pop/rock and bold expressive keyboards. Rifts didn't always work out for the best. The fact that Kiss simplified the song a little and producedĪ truly great tune (albeit nearly 20 years later) is proof enough that the band's inner Proggy organ, before going on to become one of the finest anthems the glam Even the oh-so-glam God Gave Rock'N'Roll To You starts off with some Interludes, and both Hold Your Head Up (which Argent co-wrote with his old Zombiesīassist Chris White) and Liar have strong keyboard solos in the middle (echoing The Pleasure is the most prog-friendly piece here, with some excellent instrumental Segments that call to mind Todd Rundgren/Jackson Browne tunes, Rod Argents' Henrit, there's plenty of quality music on show. Still, with Rod and Russ backed by a faithful bass/drums combo of Jim Rodford and Bob Include anything from the two post-Ballard albums Circus and Counterpoints. Also, it's worth noting that theĬompilation only covers the period up to the 1974 live album Encore, and doesn't Progressive rock fan will want to start somewhere else. River, The Coming of Kohoutek and Music Of The Spheres means that the average The absence of the brilliant Lothlorien andĪ whole host of apparently classic tracks (bear in mind that I haven't heard that muchĪrgent music) like Dance In The Smoke, I Am The Dance Of Ages, Candles On The Unfortunately this compilation is slanted towards the more radio-friendly side of theīand, a fact evinced by the fact that of the seven Argent originals, five are written byīallard and only two by Rod Argent himself. That the duo were pulling inĭifferent directions is glaringly obvious on this collection. Kiss' God Gave Rock'N'Roll To You were all written by him). (Radio favourites like Three Dog Night's Liar, Rainbow's Since You've Been Gone and Russ Ballard had a great talent for writing hard rock with a strong commercial edge While he intended to take the band in a progressive direction, singer/guitarist There and Time Of The Season?) he even had the luxury of naming his new band after Having penned twoĭefining hits of the 60s for his previous group The Zombies (who can forget She's Not Keyboardist Rod Argent came into this band very much the boss. However what I got was a clear indication of just what a schizophrenic Up this compilation when I got the chance (to date I've never even seen anotherĪrgent album). Lothlorien on the 5CD box set Supernatural Fairy Tales, and thought nothing of picking I'd been obssessed with hearing Argent ever since I stumbled upon the masterful track
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