THE LOST EARS

By the time this album was released, rock music had taken its steady shape already where many pioneers had created their masterpiece - like Genesis with "Foxtrot" and "Lamb Lies", Yes with "Close To The Edge" and "Relayer", Pink Floyd with "Dark Side of The Moon" and "Wish You Were Here", King Crimson with "In The Court of Crimson King" and "Red", Camel with "Mirage", Arthur Brown's Kingdom Come tried to penetrate the rock music market with another style. Even though they are unique but it's hard to deny that the band was somewhat influenced by Frank Zappa and Jimi Hemdrix. But that's okay. If you were there in the seventies, you would definitely agree with me that "Sunrise" was one of the songs that colored the seventies. Look at the style! It starts with an ambient soft vocal in punctuated style which grows slowly into high points with sort of soaring (softly) hammond organ sound. Yes, this song rules! Not just it's different but it demonstrates a great combination of energetic and powerful voice line by Arthur Brown augmented with soft soaring organ work with blues-based guitar work. The guitar playing style is truly killing me! It reminds me to the glory days of rock music (to be precise: classic rock music) in the seventies. No one would argue on the powerful composition of this track; and in fact this track helped shape rock music standing in the seventies.

Throughout this double LP album Arthur Brown delivers his vocal energetically combined with accentuated rhythm section. Some tracks are exproratory in nature like "Triangles", "Mental Monster". "Space Plucks (including Dem Bones)" is another track worthy enjoying.

The music in this album is really diverse. There is no such instrument that truly dominates the music - each song features different kind of solo or rhythm section. Guitar is probably the instrument that you might need to observe as the style is very seventies with heavy influence from blues. Another instrument to observe is of course keyboards / organ. It's a very good album and memorable for me personally. Keep on proggin' ..!

Peace on earth and mercy mild - GW

I listened to this music every night from the age of 15. It is beautifull - nothing can touch the Hymn as a pure object of peace and harmony in this world. If anyone has the Lost Ears digitized I'm up for buying it (in a non capitalist non conformist arena of course) [email protected] - I have the original album but can't get it onto my Ipod in any way tht does it justice - I rtuly miss this music and have invested in a deck, amp and new computer - but it sounds [&*!#] - some one help me be fore I go MAD!

I have been a loyal fan of Arthur's for over thirty year's, and have met him on two occasions, both whilst living in Cardiff. On our first meeting back in 1987, he gladly autographed every single album and cd, that up until then had been released, and thankfully i had my camera with me to record the event.

I now own 49 separate cds that he has released over the year's, including his incredibly rare Legboot cd, which was released in very limited numbers, and only during two concerts.

My original "Lost Ears" album is also a very rare article, being a special promotional copy, without any of the original artwork, but for some reason includes the very scarce poster, an item that came with very few of the original 1976 releases.

Out of all the albums that Arthur has ever released, this 1976 Gull double album, is the final work to be released onto cd.

Much of the music, is similar in style to his final Kingdom Come album "Journey", there is not much of the insane Zoo Dossier to be found here.

One almost feels that the twin album was released just to cash in on his recent success, and seems out of place in the rest of the Kingdom Come releases.

The Lost Ears is not even recognised as a definite Kingdom Come album, much of it's composition is a rehash of various tunes taken from a number of his works, and the fact that it's taken just over forty year's to finally reach the cd format, indicates it's a forgotten piece of work.

Well it's finally available, but be quick, i can see availability being limited, as few music lovers will remember the album ever existed.