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    Ambrosia

    By Yahoo! Shopping User  Aug 23, 2001

    To this day, it amazes me how this album has somehow slipped through the cracks. Even the posers at Warner Bros. finally realized they had a good back catalogue by a band named Ambrosia. Unfortunately they forgot to release their last and probabably ...best album Road Island. Their first album is still their most creative and daring album though. Somewhere..is good but David's guitar is heard more throughout most of this album and the arrangements are more in the "standard" rock vain rather than the Zappa like arrangements of the second album. Hands down the most impressive rock debut album by any band. Even better than Freak Out! which is no small feat and about 10,000 times better than Boston's debut which I can't for the life of me understand why that album is still spinning on the radio everyday. Yes it is a classic, but sounds rather out of date compared to this album. The music still sounds fresh on this album and is a must for any American that loves Kansas and has enjoyed English bands like Camel and Parson's project over the years. I think critics shunned this band much in the same way as they have shunned Porcupine Tree, a fairly new band that has incredible elements of pop arranged in a very avande-gardish way. Progressive sounding but not very progressive, very much like Ambrosia's debut. I am still waiting for this album to make a comeback on Classic Rock radio stations. Most DJ's seem rather content that they have the "list" for every classic rock fan. Me, well I am still waiting to hear "Nice, Nice Very Nice" on the radio. Till then, this album will be forever treasured by the elite few who understand it's significance. For everyone else, they are truly missing out on a gem of an album... Read more Less

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    Excellent initial album from Ambrosia

    By Yahoo! Shopping User  Apr 4, 2000

    Produced by Alan Parsons, the eight songs on this album are emblematic of Ambrosia's style. The Grammy single, "Holdin' on to Yesterday", is perhaps the weakest song on the album, but the one closest to mainstream taste. The lyrics to "Nice, Nice, V...ery Nice" were penned by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. and appear in his novel "Cat's Cradle", as well as provding a central inspiration for the first song (and some might say the rest...) of the album. Another song "Mama Frog" contains a recital of the poem "Jabberwocky" within a musical cacophony in the middle of the tune... The group also uses a wide variety of instruments and rhythms within each song to good effect, changing tempos within most of the songs, and ignoring most of the rules of conventional pop music while creating aural sculptures that stretched the bounds of the music scene of the time. Personal faves are: "World Leave Me Alone", "Time Waits for No One", and "Lover Arrive", but each of the songs are amazingly good! A must listen to album. Read more Less

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