Remember the Future [Import]

remember the future [import]

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Product Description
The prog act's legendary 1973 album for Bellaphon. Features two tracks, the two parts to 'Remember The Future'. All music & lyrics are written by Nektar. Standard jewel case.

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Remember the Future [Import]

Average customer rating:

Muy poco para recordar
They practically ruined a great album...
Rock and Roll from its finest hour
remaster on the way
Irresponsible mastering

Remember the Future
Nektar
Manufacturer: Import [Generic]
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000005RKF
Release Date: 1999-01-05

Tracks:

Remember The Future Part 1
Remember The Future Part 2

Album Description

The prog act's legendary 1973 album for Bellaphon. Features two tracks, the two parts to 'Remember The Future'. All music & lyrics are written by Nektar. Standard jewel case.

Album Details

The 1974 Breakthru Album from the English Progressive Rockers that Actually Met in Germany at the Famed Star Club (Same as the Beatles). Divided Into Two Parts from the Original Two Sides of the Original Album Issue, the Music is Intense, Playful, Grandiose...everything A Prog Rocker Could Want. Generally Acknowledged to Be their Best Recorded Moment.

Customer Reviews:

Muy poco para recordar.......2004-03-17

¿Que es lo que hace a muchos no tolerar el rock progresivo? Larguísimas canciones que parecen no terminar nunca, poca variedad, supuesto virtuosismo que no va a ningún lado. Todo lo anterior combinado es signo claro de algo preocupante: incapacidad para hacer buena música. Por supuesto no todo el rock progresivo cae en la misma clasificación; ni siquiera toda la discografía de Nektar (por suerte) es igual a Remember the Future.

El disco consta de un solo largo tema dividido en dos partes llamado...Remember The Future. La primera parte es ligeramente superior, con algunos pasajes interesantes, sobre todo hacia el final cuando entra la guitarra y el ritmo se acelera, pero en general son casi 17 minutos progresivos sin mucha invención, con una instrumentación convencional y muy poco brillo.

La segunda y más extensa parte tiene un par de minutos vibrantes hacia la mitad, pero el resto es francamente para el olvido, sobre todo el final, en el que el grupo ataca con ritmos funk absolutamente fuera de contexto. Está bien no repetirse e intentar hacer algo diferente, pero ese no era el camino.

Respecto a la supuesta y legendariamente nefasta mezcla del disco, no puedo decir mucho, ya que no sé como suena en su versión original de vinilo, y a lo mejor perjudica bastante el sonido. Pero esto no es magia, y por mucha intervención negativa que se haya hecho, Remember seguirá siendo lo que es en cien años, con todas las remasterizaciones y mejoras por inventar.

They practically ruined a great album..........2003-07-27

Should've never bought this very substandard re-mix of what was
originally a very fine work. I'll let it be known that whoever
did this crappy remastering job turned down the guitar so far
that you can't even hear it when the rest of the band is playing,
and barely can hear it when it's the only instrument.
The keyboards and vocals are all I can hear for about all of it.
I just wish I'd have read the other reviews before I got all
enthusiastic and bought the damn thing. It's really disappointing
to want to hear a record like this (a really good one),
and then when you play it - it's been drastically altered,
for the worse.

Rock and Roll from its finest hour.......2002-08-29

I would like to buy this album on CD but from reading the reviews I feel I am better off not getting it due to poor remastering. I have the vinyl, it is practically new. I originally bought this on 8 track tape, got listened out on it, but still bought the album later on after 8 track was a thing of the past. The song "Confusion" is what I would call one of the first "spacy" songs I've heard. This album has a sound of its own and fits with much of the other progressive rock coming out at the same time.

remaster on the way.......2002-05-22

The original CD is flawed version of a great album and was apparently taken from the wrong tape. If you've heard the LP, you'll be greatly disappointed. The good news is a remastered CD, said to be faithful to the original record, is due for release by the band in June, 2002. My advice: wait for the reissue.

Irresponsible mastering.......2002-04-15

The mastering to CD was done using the quadrophonic mix. (For those of you under the age of 40, quad was a brief fling with 4-speaker-surround-sound.) The engineer failed to realize this and only used two of the four channels. So huge swaths of Roye Albrighton's remarkable guitaristry sound like they are occuring in a room down the hall. Particularly tragic because this album has the most magical guitar arpeggios I've ever heard in rock music. Unbelievable that the engineer didn't even notice; unbelievable that this has been common knowledge for over half a decade and the label still hasn't been shamed into correcting it.

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