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Frenetic Zetetic 
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Posted: March 20 2018 at 17:25 |
Exactly what it sounds like. Top-tier Italian progressive rock from 1972. What's your personal favorite track?
If I had to pick just one, it would be the title track. This album is just so damn good, though! Discuss!
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Posted: March 20 2018 at 17:45 |
hmmm... not my favorite album of theirs. Oh it is great... but a bit too lame and tame for my tastes. PFM had some balls..oh yes... and they often showed it.. but they left them at home here on this album.
Geranio is the one I liked most from the album I suppose.. but I haven't heard it... or the album in years. I go with other albums when I get the PFM itch.
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The.Crimson.King
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Posted: March 20 2018 at 18:29 |
Geranio. I consider everything they did up to Jet Lag to be just about perfect 
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Posted: March 20 2018 at 18:36 |
Great album. I used to prefer it over the debut but the roles have now been reversed.
"Il Banchetto" would have to be my pick here. It has just about everything I love about prog. That build-up in the middle is gorgeous.
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Posted: March 20 2018 at 19:38 |
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Can't go wrong with any of these tracks, but it has to be Appena Un Po for me; one of the pieces of music that I would genuinely describe with the all-too-superfluously-used "transcendental".
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Posted: March 20 2018 at 22:01 |
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I love that little album. At only 31 minutes, is a collection of great songs, all excellent and well written. I cannot decide which one I like most.
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Posted: March 20 2018 at 22:26 |
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Their best album featuring their best song ever, Il Banchetto.
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Posted: March 20 2018 at 23:05 |
I like the first track (Appena un Po) best.
But to be honest, I think their first album (Storia di un Minuto) is their true masterpiece, and I prefer it to Per Un Amico. Every song on it is at the same level as Appena
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Frenetic Zetetic
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Posted: March 21 2018 at 01:48 |
 Magnum Vaeltaja wrote:
Can't go wrong with any of these tracks, but it has to be Appena Un Po for me; one of the pieces of music that I would genuinely describe with the all-too-superfluously-used "transcendental". |
Well said, and that opening track definitely qualifies for that title! I catch myself humming what I perceive to be the words they're using, lol.
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Logan
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Posted: March 21 2018 at 18:10 |
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I haven't listened to PFM much for many years, but it was a band I was quite obsessed with around the time I joined this site. While Per un Amico was my first PFM album and I once loved it, I do prefer both Storia di un Minuto and L'Isola di Niente to it. Anyway, my particular favourite was "Il Banchetto". I suppose that "Geranio" would be my second choice and "Per un Amico" my third. I made the mistake of voting before posting, and I should have revisited the album first, now I prefer "Geranio". Good album, but like Micky, I find it a bit too tame.
Edited by Logan - March 21 2018 at 18:27
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Posted: March 21 2018 at 19:44 |
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Posted: March 22 2018 at 15:05 |
Magnum Vaeltaja wrote:
Can't go wrong with any of these tracks, but it has to be Appena Un Po for me;. |
pretty much my feelings.
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Posted: March 22 2018 at 15:18 |
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Flawless album for me. I guess it’s out of the first track or Il Banchetto. Top-tier RPI album (there are many).
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Posted: March 22 2018 at 18:18 |
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Il Banchetto
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Posted: March 22 2018 at 18:39 |
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Surprised I'm the first to pick Generale. Sort of Yes meets Jean Luc Ponty.
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Favorite Track: PFM - Per Un Amico (1972)