Why is anybody talking about R.W's Red Planet?

The Red Planet is Wakey's best effort since Criminal Record.

My CD arrived this morning, not had time to listen to it yet but it is a nice package. To be honest the squiggle on the front could be anyone's signature, but it is the first CD I've ever bought with a pop-up centre piece and the booklet has some nice photos and facts about Mars.

Pretty uninspired but exceptionally well produced. Out There was a much better album but of course that one had vocals. As a purely instrumental effort it does have some appeal , the bass player is great and Rick is okay but it's nothing to get excited about. I've only played it once though although not in any great hurry to play it again. 

richardh wrote: Pretty uninspired but exceptionally well produced. Out There was a much better album but of course that one had vocals. As a purely instrumental effort it does have some appeal , the bass player is great and Rick is okay but it's nothing to get excited about. I've only played it once though although not in any great hurry to play it again.  It reminds me a bit of Oldfeld's 'Return To Ommadawn' which was also an average uninspired album. Inspiration has long gone. The seventies has long gone but respect to one of the great legends of prog.

SouthSideoftheSky wrote: richardh wrote: Pretty uninspired but exceptionally well produced. Out There was a much better album but of course that one had vocals. As a purely instrumental effort it does have some appeal , the bass player is great and Rick is okay but it's nothing to get excited about. I've only played it once though although not in any great hurry to play it again.  It reminds me a bit of Oldfeld's 'Return To Ommadawn' which was also an average uninspired album. Inspiration has long gone. The seventies has long gone but respect to one of the great legends of prog. With all due respect, after just one listen it is way to soon to have an opinion about an album. I listened to it every day for two weeks before I wrote my review of it, and that for me is less time than I usually give.

richardh wrote: SouthSideoftheSky wrote: richardh wrote: Pretty uninspired but exceptionally well produced. Out There was a much better album but of course that one had vocals. As a purely instrumental effort it does have some appeal , the bass player is great and Rick is okay but it's nothing to get excited about. I've only played it once though although not in any great hurry to play it again.  It reminds me a bit of Oldfeld's 'Return To Ommadawn' which was also an average uninspired album. Inspiration has long gone. The seventies has long gone but respect to one of the great legends of prog. With all due respect, after just one listen it is way to soon to have an opinion about an album. I listened to it every day for two weeks before I wrote my review of it, and that for me is less time than I usually give. Christ I would never force myself to listen to anything that much if I wasn't convinced. Nearly everything I've bought this year is clearly better. I have a lot of time for Rick and he is a great personality but this is not getting anywhere near the best thing's he's done.

I haven't been able to get The Red Planet yet, however, I did love Oldfield's Return to Ommadawn, and I thought it came back to Oldfield's 70's sound very nicely and with a convincing quality... so I guess I still have hope for Wakeman's latest.

People are talking about it because it's the best thing Rick's done since Return to the Centre of the Earth.

For a brief moment there, I thought Roger Waters had a new album out, when I saw the initials in the thread title.

Hi,

Zeph wrote: Red Planet has a lot of great music, but I miss vocals and more variation in the songs. I know it's an RW album, but it's too much keys. :P

The keys are the key to what makes his new album so wonderful 😎😎😎