THE MADCAP LAUGHS

I will not make this a long review because I will probably hurt a lot of people's feelings with this and also because there is not too much to say about it, at least if you leave historical aspects aside. When I bought it I only did that because it was for sale and I would never have payed the full price because I already had the feeling this was what it appeared to be. And I mean by that that I did not expect a very symphonical progressive effort but I did not know it would be like this.

The only positive thing I have to say about it is that it's always a special achievement if someone does the musical thing on his own, it's acoustic without other instrument than the acoustic guitar. But let's be honest, the songs and the vocals are below par. This album is a curiosity more than an album full of great music. And this fact added to the fact we are talking about the Crazy Diamond here causes the 4 and 5 star ratings in my opinion. And that's ok, we all have different approaches to progressive music and mine is that I judge the music I hear and for that this scores 1,5 star for me. I round it up because of the man's status (yes, even I do that) and out of respect for that. But really, I can't go further than two stars.