Sir Mustapha
Group: Musicians
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Posted: Mar. 16 2008, 12:08 |
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Quote (raven4x4x @ Mar. 16 2008, 07:57) | The thing that really does it for me is the guitar duet between Mike and Adrian Belew. Such love, and longing. For me, it's one of the greatest moments in Mike's music. |
I wouldn't go that far, but yes, that's one of the highlights in the album - especially how they have such different styles of playing, Oldfield with the melodically rich phrases and Belew achieving the same effect with just two or three different notes. That is brilliant. And yes, I'm one who things the album would be far better if Belew had sung in other songs, instead of that Max Bacon "yell until my lungs explode" guy.
My reaction was rather iconic - upon listening to Holy, I thought "wow, maybe this album isn't so bad after all!", but when I listened to Hostage... "ouch, okay, it probably is". Memory fails me, but I don't recall any album that features such a wild contrast in quality on the two first tracks.
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