Fruupp albums, initial opinion thus far

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Well, I posted the other day about my Fruupp purchase and how the "It's all up now"  compilation album was misreprensented on cduniverse.   

Since the 4 Fruupp albums are hard to find and quite expensive, I decided to keep this compilation album since it's missing just one song from each of the 4 albums.  Other than that it runs about 159 minutes across 2 cd's.   

My initial impression is that it's kind of disappointing but then again, how many times has prog albums grown on you?  :-)     Surprisingly, I'd have to say I did not care as much for the "Future Legends" tracks and found myself liking the "lowest rated" "Seven Secrets" album tracks the best.     

I'll give Fruupp credit.  The music is a bit unique and not a clone of any other band at the time.   They have enough string sections, oboes and such to give them a baroque/folky feeling but then they can rock with the best.   The bass player stands out for me (probobly because I have been playing bass) as he has enough melodic and rhythmic content to keep some of the passages flowing.

"White Eyes" is probobly my favorite track on the album.   Another interesting thing about Fruupp is that they don't overuse the keyboards/mellotron and tend to keep themselves locked in with the piano much of the time.   The keys/mellotron tends to compliment what's going on with the piano/bass.   Interesting since many other bands tend to highlight keys before the actual el-piano.   Just an observation.   Maybe I'm wrong though.

Initial listens though:  None of the songs and tracks really stand out as classics but there's potential for most of the music to grow over repeated listens.

Another other thoughts from people about Fruupp?