Favorite Track: PFM - Per Un Amico (1972)
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Topic: Favorite Track: PFM - Per Un Amico (1972)
Posted By: Frenetic Zetetic
Subject: Favorite Track: PFM - Per Un Amico (1972)
Date Posted: March 20 2018 at 17:25
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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! ------------- "I am so prog, I listen to concept albums on shuffle." -KMac2021 |
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Posted By: micky
Date Posted: March 20 2018 at 17:45
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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. ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: The.Crimson.King
Date Posted: March 20 2018 at 18:29
Geranio. I consider everything they did up to Jet Lag to be just about perfect  ------------- https://wytchcrypt.wixsite.com/mutiny-in-jonestown" rel="nofollow - Mutiny in Jonestown : Progressive Rock Since 1987 |
Posted By: Larkstongue41
Date Posted: March 20 2018 at 18:36
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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. ------------- "Larks' tongues. Wrens' livers. Chaffinch brains. Jaguars' earlobes. Wolf nipple chips. Get 'em while they're hot. They're lovely. Dromedary pretzels, only half a denar." |
Posted By: Magnum Vaeltaja
Date 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". ------------- when i was a kid a doller was worth ten dollers - now a doller couldnt even buy you fifty cents |
Posted By: Manuel
Date Posted: March 20 2018 at 22:01
| 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. |
Posted By: iluvmarillion
Date Posted: March 20 2018 at 22:26
| Their best album featuring their best song ever, Il Banchetto. |
Posted By: Walkscore
Date Posted: March 20 2018 at 23:05
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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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Posted By: Frenetic Zetetic
Date Posted: March 21 2018 at 01:48
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. ------------- "I am so prog, I listen to concept albums on shuffle." -KMac2021 |
Magnum Vaeltaja wrote:Posted By: Logan
Date 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. ------------- Just a fanboy passin' through. |
Posted By: Barbu
Date Posted: March 21 2018 at 19:44
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Track 1 ------------- |
Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: March 22 2018 at 15:05
pretty much my feelings. ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: Tom Ozric
Date Posted: March 22 2018 at 15:18
| Flawless album for me. I guess it’s out of the first track or Il Banchetto. Top-tier RPI album (there are many). |
Posted By: maryes
Date Posted: March 22 2018 at 18:18
| Il Banchetto |
Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date 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. ------------- ...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology... |