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| ARTIST: | Pfm |
| CATEGORY: | Music |
| MANUFACTURER: | Bmg |
| FEATURES: | Import |
| MEDIA: | Audio CD |
| TRACKS: | From Under, Harlequin, Chocolate Kings, Out On The Roundabout, Paper Charms |
| UPC: | 035627178122 |
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Customer Reviews of Chocolate Kings
Best PFM Album! I first heard this in 1977 in my teenage years (at Karma Records in Evansville, IN). It struck me as in the same league as ELP, Genesis, King Crimson, and Tull- GREAT PROG! I bought the LP and wasn't sorry! I still own that piece of vinyl and just found this for sale at Tower Records on the web. The music still holds up. Granted, the vocals and words are clumsy (and almost unintelligible-wish they'd included a lyric sheet!), but the music rocks! It is by far the most "rock" that PFM ever sounded. And it flows better than their second best (in my opinion) LP "Per un Amico". Great keyboards, guitiar, etc. Definitely the best crossover (i.e. American-British sounding) Prog LP recorded by an Italian band.
best of pfm
this is definitive ther best one, aggresive, very well structured, just awesome.
Classic Italian Prog
This is a great album. Of the PFM albums I have, it is in the top tier, but I would rank it as second best, hence I gave it only 4 instead of 5 stars.
To place it: The earlier PFM album that I have heard sounded a bit too pretentious, the later PFM was not particularly Prog, more like Folk. The two great PFM albums that I have heard are Chocolate Kings (this one) and Jet Lag. Of these two I would say that Chocolate kings falls more on the Rock side of Prog Rock and Jet Lag lands more on the Prog side.
Because it is a little less experimental, I would say that it would apeal to people who like Hard Rock and AOR, as well as the diehard Prog fans.
As a historical note: this album was somewhat controversial at the time of its release. The original cover (a chocolate bar wrapped in an american flag) actually made the political reference much clearer. PFM have stated that they felt that they were unwelcome in the American market after making an album which made critical remarks about America's involvement in Europe after WWII. (GIs would hand out chocolate to the kids, presumably to make them like America, but I believe this is not the actual source of the critique, just an allegory for the way US aid in general was put to political purpose. In Italy this was particularly bad because the party with US backing, the right-wing Christian Democrats, held power for about 50 years, until it finally fell in a corruption scandal, in the '80s IIRC).