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Soundtracks of Our Lives week ending 27 January 2013 CE
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Re: Soundtracks of Our Lives week ending 27 January 2013 CE
Jan 29, 2013, 18:35
Hunter T Wolfe wrote:


Colin Blunstone- One Year.
What an overlooked gem! First post-Zombies solo LP from '71, with Argent, Chris White, Jim Rockford and Russ Ballard all on board, plus Tony Visconti and Chris Gunning's jagged, Bartok-like string arrangements circling Blunstone's helium-gossamer vocals, both soaring and melancholy. It evokes both childhood memories of listening to Radio 2 in the mornings before school, and a neverwhere Nick Drake pastoral bedsit nostalgia, and the classic soft-pop of Blunstone's 'Caroline Goodbye' and Denny Laine's 'Say You Don't Mind.'



Yes - that's a great record. Almost feels like the real follow-up to "Odessey and Oracle" in a sense - at least more so than anything by the more overtly proggy Argent. I also have his third album "Journey", which continues in a similar vein with most of the same musicians involved, but with less compelling songs and more excessive arrangements (including, on two songs, the King's Singers).
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