THE GRASS IS GREENER

The US-only anomaly in Colosseum's catalogue. The US version of their debut album is less interesting by comparison - sure, the track listing is different and the Valentyne Suite has a different third movement, but ultimately it's still a compilation of tracks from their first two albums. This one, however, is a bit different - cooked up as a means of debuting new singer-guitarist Dave Clempson (who, admittedly, has quite a pair of lungs on him), this mixed up original tracks with the remaining leftovers from Valentyne Suite, with most of those having Clemson overdubbing James Litherland's takes on the songs in question - all but for Elegy, which is left in its original Valentyne Suite configuration. (...Why? What's the point of not finishing the job, if you're going to scrub Litherland?)

The end result hangs together better than expected, mostly because Clempson's vocals and guitar work add enough to proceedings to make the alternate versions worth bothering with and because the new material is pretty decent. Not on the level of Valentyne Suite, but pretty good.

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