If someone should make a comment or a review about this cover version of "Partly The State" it should defenitely be us/we, the "Happy The Fans". A few years has passed since the release, but better late for some comments, right!?
I bought this CD the year it was released and had very high expectations, even though it was not the "best" HTM song to make a cover of, but indeed a very "interesting" choice, and Cliff Fortney is singing on it too.
2:05 to 2:17 includes one of my favourite HTM passages, yes really, this progs so darn much, on the original cut Kit Watkins Moog sings out in a way that only he can play the keys, and the complex melody reminds very much of the Igor Stravinsky way in structure...it lasts for twelve awesome seconds. French TV do it nicely with a violin sounding instrument. But, unfortunately, the thing with most of the material on Beginnings, this track has many very different ideas within one song, but it doesnt really work as a whole song. There are many, and too quite bits which makes the listeners attention fade, and French TV does'nt make this passages more interesting than it allready are on the original HTM track.
At 08:20 F TV includes a short passage from...eh, Machine Messiah from Yes' Drama album
...which I find kind of ingenious and unappetizing.
French TV performs Partly The State in a great way, no doubt, but they could have done it better by adding some more of their own ideas to make it more to a "personal touch" of this Happy The Man cover.
In the end French TV's cover of Partly The State works rather fine as a HTM tribute but they could have left the Machine Messiah part out.
I bought this CD the year it was released and had very high expectations, even though it was not the "best" HTM song to make a cover of, but indeed a very "interesting" choice, and Cliff Fortney is singing on it too.
2:05 to 2:17 includes one of my favourite HTM passages, yes really, this progs so darn much, on the original cut Kit Watkins Moog sings out in a way that only he can play the keys, and the complex melody reminds very much of the Igor Stravinsky way in structure...it lasts for twelve awesome seconds. French TV do it nicely with a violin sounding instrument. But, unfortunately, the thing with most of the material on Beginnings, this track has many very different ideas within one song, but it doesnt really work as a whole song. There are many, and too quite bits which makes the listeners attention fade, and French TV does'nt make this passages more interesting than it allready are on the original HTM track.
At 08:20 F TV includes a short passage from...eh, Machine Messiah from Yes' Drama album
...which I find kind of ingenious and unappetizing.French TV performs Partly The State in a great way, no doubt, but they could have done it better by adding some more of their own ideas to make it more to a "personal touch" of this Happy The Man cover.
In the end French TV's cover of Partly The State works rather fine as a HTM tribute but they could have left the Machine Messiah part out.
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