Progarchives, the progressive rock ultimate discography
Mostly Autumn - Pink Floyd Revisited CD (album) cover

PINK FLOYD REVISITED

Mostly Autumn

 

Prog Folk

2.85 | 45 ratings

From Progarchives.com, the ultimate progressive rock music website

octopus-4
Special Collaborator
RIO/Avant/Zeuhl,Neo & Post/Math Teams
2 stars Singing "Run Like Hell" is not a job for Bryan Josh. This is the first thing that comes to my mind when I think to this DVD. On that song he's well backed by Heather and Angela who try to hide his difficulties in getting the higher notes, but unfortunately they don't succeed.

From a musical point of view it's not played badly, but making Pink Floyd's covers is always a problem for everybody attempts to do it as there are only two possibilities:

1) Play the songs exactly as they are in the studio version taking very few "licenses" as the Australian Pink Floyd are used to do.

2) Rearrange them drastically like the nice reggae version of Dark Side of The Moon that I heard from a radio years ago but I don't know who the artists were.

Mostly Autumn try to stick with the original sounds, and Bryan Josh is used to play like Gilmour for his own admission, but even if Roger Waters is not in the world's ranking as singer, Bryan is even worse.

There are a cople of highlights: "Julia Dream" with Heather singing is excellent. Also Echoes is not bad, but when they move to "The Wall" they fail.

Also "Pigs On The Wings", that's one of the easiest song to play with the acoustic guitar is not perfect.

The result is just another Pink Floyd tribute. If you are aiming to have all the versions of Comfortably Numb ever published by anyone or if you want to hear how Julia Dream sounds with a female singer this is not really bad, but it doesn't add anything to the Floyd's or to the Mostly Autumn's history.

octopus-4 | 2/5 |

MEMBERS LOGIN ZONE

As a registered member (register here if not), you can post rating/reviews (& edit later), comments reviews and submit new albums.

You are not logged, please complete authentication before continuing (use forum credentials).

Forum user
Forum password

Share this MOSTLY AUTUMN review

Social review comments () BETA







Review related links

Copyright Prog Archives, All rights reserved. | Legal Notice | Privacy Policy | Advertise | RSS + syndications

Other sites in the MAC network: JazzMusicArchives.com — jazz music reviews and archives | MetalMusicArchives.com — metal music reviews and archives

Donate monthly and keep PA fast-loading and ad-free forever.