Post by Chippa on Jun 30, 2022 15:00:53 GMT
Turn To Stone won a nail-biter in match one of the Fantastic Four, so it will meet the winner of this match in the grand finale!
Tightrope
"Strange, that Tightrope, the jump start for the new age, with its crashing synths, gongs (á la Bohemian Rhapsody), the lengthy neo-classical introduction, should recall nothing so much as On The Third Day. This not to the band's early 'progressive' days aside, the track quickly turns its attention to the more important business of becoming a classic big production number, based around a rock solid rhythm section overlaid with lush vocals, and propped up by a drum sound Bonham would have killed for. The song ends on an unmistakable positive note ('somebody had thrown me down a line, stopped me drowning'), with a lovely electric piano outro strongly reminiscent of its immediate ancestor, Nightrider."
Andrew Whiteside (1989 - Face The Music fanzine #6)
Twilight
"One of the band's finest ever moments, [Twilight] is a classic Jeff three-minute pop thrill, but its keyboards rather than strings provide the excitement. The 'twilight' of the title is the mysterious means by which our sleeping hero is transported to the future (to the year 2095, as it turns out) although quite how this is done is never explained. The final drum burst fades straight into a beautiful refrain that appears to be sung backwards by Jeff, whilst walking down a long corridor (shades of Fire On High)! He was obviously rather pleased with this clever little link, because he used it again to divide up 21st Century Man and Hold On Tight-- either that, or he felt the album needed some continuity (again, this mirrored Face The Music which also had links at similar points in its running order)! [...] What many considered the most obvious single from Time, namely Twilight was released in October of that year. It was backed with another previously unreleased cut, the 60's-influenced Julie Don't Live Here (which blatantly stole the hook from Then I Kissed Her). and also had a picture sleeve, a still from the video of Hold On Tight, with an advert for the parent LP on the back. Label design was yellow Jet, with the band logo hollowed out. The A-side had a fade-in intro, which made it an uncomfortable single for DJ's much as Turn To Stone had been. This probably contributed to it stalling at No. 30, their worst chart placing since Strange Magic in 1976. Its chart run was 7 weeks, and it's worth £3.50 today."
Andrew Whiteside (1992 - Face The Music fanzine #13)
(taken from Robert Porter's jefflynnesongs.com)
Tightrope
"Strange, that Tightrope, the jump start for the new age, with its crashing synths, gongs (á la Bohemian Rhapsody), the lengthy neo-classical introduction, should recall nothing so much as On The Third Day. This not to the band's early 'progressive' days aside, the track quickly turns its attention to the more important business of becoming a classic big production number, based around a rock solid rhythm section overlaid with lush vocals, and propped up by a drum sound Bonham would have killed for. The song ends on an unmistakable positive note ('somebody had thrown me down a line, stopped me drowning'), with a lovely electric piano outro strongly reminiscent of its immediate ancestor, Nightrider."
Andrew Whiteside (1989 - Face The Music fanzine #6)
Twilight
"One of the band's finest ever moments, [Twilight] is a classic Jeff three-minute pop thrill, but its keyboards rather than strings provide the excitement. The 'twilight' of the title is the mysterious means by which our sleeping hero is transported to the future (to the year 2095, as it turns out) although quite how this is done is never explained. The final drum burst fades straight into a beautiful refrain that appears to be sung backwards by Jeff, whilst walking down a long corridor (shades of Fire On High)! He was obviously rather pleased with this clever little link, because he used it again to divide up 21st Century Man and Hold On Tight-- either that, or he felt the album needed some continuity (again, this mirrored Face The Music which also had links at similar points in its running order)! [...] What many considered the most obvious single from Time, namely Twilight was released in October of that year. It was backed with another previously unreleased cut, the 60's-influenced Julie Don't Live Here (which blatantly stole the hook from Then I Kissed Her). and also had a picture sleeve, a still from the video of Hold On Tight, with an advert for the parent LP on the back. Label design was yellow Jet, with the band logo hollowed out. The A-side had a fade-in intro, which made it an uncomfortable single for DJ's much as Turn To Stone had been. This probably contributed to it stalling at No. 30, their worst chart placing since Strange Magic in 1976. Its chart run was 7 weeks, and it's worth £3.50 today."
Andrew Whiteside (1992 - Face The Music fanzine #13)
(taken from Robert Porter's jefflynnesongs.com)