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Just a thought...
It's just so refreshing to hear people defend an album they like in spite of critics/wannabe professional blowhards... this is an exceptional album, and even though every 'professional' audiophile is enamored with it and a few of the 'permanently pissed' don't care for it shouldn't dissuade people from getting it. If it wasn't for the necessity of balance within the right of free speech, sometimes I'd just like to remove the bad reviews altogether. Of course, that would mean every album was great, and that's obviously not the case. <
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Magical mystery tour
Like the highly acclaimed previous Shaker offering "K", this album is a mystical romp through psychedelia marked by an intoxicating afterglow for the listener. The production value on this record is superior to "K". A riff on one of the songs was given to Mills by George Harrison who was close chums with the Shakers as was David Gilmour of Pink Floyd (the album was recorded on his houseboat/studio). For those unfamiliar with the Shakers think Beatles meets Grateful Dead meets Pink Floyd meets Jimi Hendrix meets the Moody Blues meets Ravi Shankar forming an indescribable heady brew sure to leave you floating. <
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>This record has been trashed in some quarters by people who hate the indian influence and the mystical assuredness of the Shaker sound. They find it pretentious. Too bad, different strokes for different blokes I say. Like one or more reviewers mentioned here there is a mistaken idea that Crispian Mills is some kind of pretentious jerk. This false meme was created by some U.K reviewers who write for big publications in the U.K and who simply hate the way the Shakers songs are so in your face "I have the answers to the mysteries of the ages". That's why they came down so heavily on Mills, not because of Mills personality it's because of his so called arrogant lyrics and musical style, he is in fact a charming very funny bloke. Also the haters came down heavily on Mills when in an interview he mentioned that the swastika is a mystical yantra from India signifying good fortune that was stolen from Hinduism by the nasties and that he wanted to reclaim it, he then joked about wanting to do a concert with swastikas on fire surrounding the stage. This blew the mind of some U.K scribblers who then labled Mills a nasty, go figure.

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A Rousing, Anthemic Festival
Some albums are sneaky-dangerous: you're afraid to play them too much because they're so good and you don't want burnout, you want a friend for life; if you're able to set them aside from regular rotation, then every time you hear them you'll want to play them twice. This is one such record. I'm glad to see it's still a respectable ranking on Amazon. Why in Shiva's name did they break up?