Tarkus

Snubben har precis fått ett keyboard med effekter på. Mestadels weird o bara mass ljud. Glimtar av okej låtar ibland

Not a fan

trash useless my god make it s t o p

0.5⭐ when the first song is 20 minutes long, with a 3 minute intro before the lyrics start, I'm not enduring the entire album. Sound like a drug era Beatles trying to produce a cinematic opera like the Who or something! Not good

Nothing to see here.

I'm not averse to a bit of prog, but this is pretty fucking dreadful.

*didn’t have time to listen*

Nope.

Not into it. Finished the 20 min track and turned it off. Gamecube sounding music fr

If I wanted to hear three dudes jacking each other off, I'd have gone to pornhub.

Not for me.

For those who might have stumbled upon it on this app, remember that tale I told you about a style named Prog Rock, and how she got murdered by the Rush ruffians? Whether you've read my little story taking place in the lands of music or not (and whether you remember it or not), towards the start of the tale, I pointed out that even though her heart was in the right place, Prog Rock took herself a little too seriously once in a while. This is one of those cases. The main issue I have with ELP is with their pretensions--and all that technical virtuosity leading to pompous meIodical verbiage, rococo flourishes and overaffected twists and turns. Because those misplaced ambitions can't ironically warrant such seriousness in the first place, given that the end result of ELP's *many* efforts is just dreadful. I thus fully agree with that reviewer incidentally noting how Can's *Tago Mago*, released the same year, still sounds fresh today, and how ELP's Tarkus does not. Let me take this idea a notch further now. Here is a list of LPs released in 1971 that are way better or at least far more memorable than this overblown mess of an album: Led Zeppelin - IV  David Bowie - Hunky Dory The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers Joni Mitchell - Blue Can - Tago Mago Pink Floyd - Meddle Leonard Cohen - Songs Of Love And Hate Marvin Gaye - What's Going On Sly And The Family Stone - There's A Riot Going On The Who - Who's Next Black Sabbath - Masters Of Reality T Rex - Electric Warrior John Lennon - Imagine Yes - Fragile David Crosby - If Only I Could Remember My Name Carole King - Tapestry Janis Joplin - Pearl Yes - The Yes Album The Beach Boys - Surf's Up Mahavishnu Orchestra - the Inner Mounting Flame The Allman Brothers Band - At Fillmore East Jethro Tull - Aqualung Flamin' Groovies - Teenage Head Serge Gainsbourg - Histoire De Melody Nelson Harry Nilsson - Nilsson Schmilsson Graham Nash - Songs For Beginners The Doors - L.A. Woman Gil Scott Heron - Pieces Of A Man Funkadelic - Maggot Brain Gong - Camembert Electrique Nick Drake - Bryter Later Rodriguez - Coming From Reality Ten Years After - A Space In Time Procol Harum - Broken Barricades Genesis - Nursery Crymes Elton John - Madman Across The Water Alice Cooper - Killer Faust - Faust Traffic - The High Spark Of High-Heeled Boys Kingdom Come - Galactic Zoo Dossier I'm afraid that giant armoured armadillo or not, there's no room left for *Tarkus* here. And if there was, I'm not even sure I would consider it a good thing. 1/5 for the purposes of this list, which translates to a 6/10 grade for more general purposes (5 for the vistuosistic musicianship + 1 for the artistry). Number of albums left to review: 449 Number of albums from the list I find relevant enough to be mandatory listens: 256 Albums from the list I *might* include in mine later on: 132 Albums from the list I will certainly *not* include in mine (many others are more essential to me): 166 (including this one)

Really not interested

The only song I enjoyed was the last one; the rest of the album is a mess that can probably only be enjoyed under the influence of drugs.

I don't know what to do with this album. It was not any good. It is totally unremarkable. Random noise and what lyrics there were nothing there. It is better than a one but not close to a 2. There are definitely worse albums on this list

A very ugly sounding progrock album in every aspect. Hopefully there will be some early Marillion albums or so in the list as well. To compensate.

I couldn’t make it all the way through

I had to skip the first 5-6 tracks and then just gave up.

Somewhere out there, in a lonely one bedroom apartment, a 65 year old man is making the argument (to himself) that this was the last real record ever produced as he vigorously masturbates in the corner. I saw another review on here that just read, "budget Pink Floyd". I think even that's overselling this one.

Yeah, hoo-boy did I dislike this. Never really cared for these guys, and this solidified that position. They have nothing to say and spend a long time saying it.

I can’t believe anyone actually likes this crap! The production is just weird so that you can hear every little extra note different every little thing. They or actually one of them did the production. They can’t seem to sign. Are they a classical music outfit a Joseph it flirting with rock ‘n’ roll it just doesn’t make any sense. There are too many notes. There’s no space in the music. I looked it up. I can’t even believe it is sold half a million copies of the United States. These guys are performers that are not good songwriters and they just like showing off I can’t in 1 million years. Imagine that anyone put this album on and it takes them away to another place. It’s just annoying and I didn’t anticipate it being this bad.

Meh

One of the worst

Good prog is enjoyable. Bad prog is not.

Fuck prog.

I'm sorry. I just couldn't. When the first track is 20 minutes long and you don't like it after 2? I tapped out.

This is a load of crap and I stopped listening partway through because it was so bad that I didn't want Spotify to think I somehow liked it and alter my listening algorithms too much. I will never voluntarily listen to this again.

No bueno

Texted my dad first thing, "Oh boy..." with a picture of this album cover. He replied, "You won't like it" and I said I'd keep an open mind. First song is 20 minutes long! Quite zany and frantic. "Lady Madonna" vibes on the song Jeremy Bender. Very diverse album, but a definite acquired taste.

shite

A 38 minute album that feels like 3 hours. Ugh

Very unmelodic - just noise to me

While I enjoy some of their contemporaries like Genesis, Yes and Rush, I find it really hard to enjoy ELP. Someone on this site called it prog-for-prog sake and I totally agree with that assessment. Yes, they're amazing musicians, but a 20 minute song without start, finish or recurring theme to keep you hooked is just a miss. And side two of the LP didn't get better.

Prog ehh not for me

that first long song was fever dreamish. Not a huge fan of this type of music

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I am not listening to a 20-minute prog rock track on the best of days. And after that, Jeremy Bender just left a terrible taste in the mouth. There's no coming back from that. Bitches Crystal is apparently the most liked track on this album and it did nothing for me. Fuck you, prog rock. Stop making the '70s look bad.

This isn’t my jam.

I like the album cover, but that's the only positive thing I could say about this record. Reminiscent of Ross Gellar's music. Self indulgent and not very good. I still don't get this at all. Rating: 1/5 Playlist track: Jeremy Bender Date listened: 29/06/22

Man, early 70s prog rock can lick my butthole.

No, thanks. I had a big lunch.

My ears couldn’t take a lot of this…

Nope

I lacked motivation to preserve with this after a 15 minute opener…

Zelfkastijding is mensen die deze hele plaat afluisteren niet vreemd!

Serieus? Dit is iets? Hier luisteren mensen met plezier naar? Wat zijn dat voor mensen? Heel veel vragen!

That escalated quickly.

I hate prog

Self indulgent rubbish.

Too prog and obtuse, frenetic keyboard noodling.

Shite!

I did not jive with this

i really couldn't be arsed with this shit. absolute tosh.

1.5 | Primero... No tengo nada contra el progresivo, creo la mayoría de los aquí presentes lo saben. Me gusta mucho Yes, Rush y tantos otros grupos del género incluyendo incluso a King Crimson. Recuerdo haber mencionado que no me gustaban los "super grupos" y aquí tenemos un perfecto ejemplo de por qué no me agradaban en general. Tiene que estar entre los discos más pretenciosos, exagerados y finalmente sin contenido que conozco. Leí que muchos lo consideran el primer disco de progresivo y si es así entonces es el primer disco que engloba todos los puntos malos del género. La canción central nos muestra que son músicos virtuosos. También nos muestra que 20 minutos de presumir lo virtuoso que eres sin llegar a nada es muy muy aburrido. Nos muestra unos de los peores sonidos que se le puede sacar a un sintetizador y lo repite ad nauseam. El concepto del album no es mucho mejor... eso del tanque armadillo... yo se que el progresivo no se conoce por lo profundo de sus letras pero aquí llegan al punto de estupidez plena. Se siente como el tipo de canción y disco que habrá quien te quiere convencer que "es que no lo entiendes" que quiera hablar de lo complejo que es... pero solo es un monton de ser barroco por ser barroco y miren que chingón soy. La segunda mitad con canciones un poco más "estándar" pero que se quedan igual, vamos a presumir por presumir y si el disco no tiene coherencia y si las canciones suenan mal y sin sentido qué más da. Me gusta la música que se aleja de lo convencional, me agrada y defiendo mucha música que suena extraña y sin sentido pero esto simplemente es aburrido e innecesario. Les daría la media estrella extra solo por el punto de ser técnicamente buenos; triste que no hagan nada que valga la pena con eso en este disco.

Crees que te gusta un poco el progresivo porque escuchas el Metropolis Pt. 2 de Dream y entonces te llega un disco acerca de un armadillo biónico que lucha contra una mantícora. Estaba debatido entre 1 o 2 estrellas, pero la neta es que la rola que rescato del disco es la que viene “de broma” al final del disco y que ellos mismos reconocieron que era un jam no más por festejar que acabaron. No dejo de reconocerte sus habilidades interpretativas, pero muy enfocadas en esa onda de “toca más rápido y más complejo” aunque lo que se transmita sea nada. A ver si nos toca su otro disco famoso y ahí se reivindican.

Self indulgent organ wank

I’m sure it’s an important album but I didn’t get it. Parts were cool but others seemed drawn out and aimless.

After this album, I'm pretty disappointed that something like this made it in while my favorite prog artists aren't on this list of 1001 albums. Avant garde to my taste, seemed mostly like someone wandering around on a keyboard paired with obtuse lyrics.

lol no

Awful - pretentious and not enjoyable.

Of its time: Too hard to listen to, overwrought and, for me, trying to hard to be “prog”. Maybe I don’t get what they were trying to do. Ended up skipping through the tracks, but nothing caught my imagination.

Irrer Start eines durchdrehenden Gürteltieres, bei dem der Opener die erste Hälfte der gesamten Laufzeit mich aber bei aller Liebe zu ProgRock nicht mal zur Hälfte bannt. Überhaupt nerven mich die Jungs da, wo mich Yes völlig verzauberten. Einzig das jazzige „Infinite Space (Conclusion)“ kriegt den überzeugenden Punkt. Vertrackte 1.3

Kennt ihr noch diese ZDF-Sendereihe aus den 80er Jahren, "Der phantastische Film"? Kam irgendwann spätabends, viel zu spät für mich. Aber vor Beginn des eigentlichen Films lief immer dieser Reihen-Vorspann, mit psychedelischen Animationen und - und das ist der Punkt - für mich beängstigender, etwas atonaler Musik. FURCHT-BAR war das für mich! Bin mir gar nicht mehr so sicher ob die so klang wie jetzt die Tarkus - aber die evozierten Bilder und Gefühle sind sehr ähnlich, vermutlich auch wegen diesem Gürteltierpanzer vor surrealistisch blauem Himmel und so. Also für mich ist das nix, da können die Herren noch so virtuos in Komposition und Ausführung sein. Für diese möchte ich auch durchaus Anerkennung zollen - erinnere mich dann aber, wogegen genau Punk ja ursprünglich angetreten war: gegen genau das! Daher heute mal konsequent sein und so bewerten, wie es ist: nichts für mich.

Not my style

made me feel anxious

I greatly disiked this album and it made me anxious.