The Mellotron Group

On 26/01/2011 22:15, tronbros wrote:
> I don't love any albums because they are mellotronic.  I love albums 
> because of the music therein whether it has 'tron or not.  I don't 
> seek out mellotronic albums although I did in the early 1970s and 
> bought a lot of indifferent and weak music.  A mellotron can be the 
> perfect adjunct but it's level of involvement does not dictate the 
> ensuing quality.  The much revered Czar album remains musically 
> impoverished despite being smothered in tape replayness!  I am slowly 
> despatching mellotronic progrock to the recycling bin.


I absolutely concur, me old fruitbat. The notion of 'prog rock' makes me 
run to the toilet, mostly. In most cases you may find that the 
instrument was used to make a 'big statement' or fill in gaps a rock 
band with higher aspirations couldn't pull off themselves. The problem 
is that 99% of what they did was so ham-fisted it reeked of schoolboy 
levels of musical enthusiasm mixed with absolutely no sense of taste or 
restraint.

I hardly play 'Mellotronic Music' any more because (1) I have one and a 
load of tapes and never really have to play something else to be able to 
hear it, and (2) most of it is dreadful. If it's not /musically /bad 
(ie, if it is 'educated') then usually it means it's moronic.

Czar. Wow. Maybe one of the worst albums ever.