Renaissance: Turn Of The Cards

Regarded as Renaissance's first true "classic" album, Turn Of The Cards boasts three epic songs including "Mother Russia" and perhaps the group's best ballad "I Think of You" along with the dark foreboding "Black Flame", which seems to be favorite among PA members. What say you about Turn Of The Cards?

Edited by SteveG - August 29 2018 at 10:43

Early in my Renaissance exploration days, was my favourite album of theirs. But that was when I only loved Ashes, Cards and Scheherazade.  It's gone down quite a bit in my favourites but I probably still like it more than Ashes. Things I don't understand was, I guess, the last songwriting contribution of McCarty to the mkii band and one of my favourites of theirs, certainly my favourite from the album.  Yeah, Black Flame too.  Running Hard, again prefer the live versions.  Not a bad track again on this album, solid all the way through with plenty of high points as well. My one complaint would be that it's their most 'serious' and kinda dark and melancholic all the way through.  Even Novella had Midas Man.  Things I don't understand is the sunniest track on here and it's still not playful in the way Midas Man is.

Turn of the Cards...always been my favorite from them and Black Flame probably my favorite track.

Wonderful album - Not a weak track on it!

So far my favourite from them, though I still have to know more of them besides the big 3 albums (and Carnegie Hall), yet, somehow I don't think the albums I still have to get will be able to top these 3 albums.