The rest of the track makes me.cringe with embarrassment, to quote the great man.Īs to what could have replaced this Magnum Harem? Well, for starters, how about In the Wee Small Hours of Sixpence, the flip side of Quite Rightly So and a great track, particularly in stereo. Of the 17:31 of this pastiche of spoken word passages, incongruous 1940s film music, melodramatic television music and the like, I find pleasure only in the last verse, Look To Your Soul, which I find curiously, among the most moving and beautiful in Procol's catalog. If that word offends you, how about largely unlistenable? Side two of SOB is my least played in the Procol catalog, even though I think the first side is terrific. His line is "Even though the words which I use are pretentious and make you cringe with embarrassment." Pretty much sums it up for me. You see, I didn't get the the word from a "critic in a pop rock music rag." That "cliched, critic's word" pretentious is recited by Gary Brooker in one of the two (count 'em) spoken word passages of the snappily titled first section of In Held entitled "Glimpses of Nirvana." That's where I got it.
Judgmental little nipper, aren't you? The word didn't cost me 100 dollars, just the four I paid for my copy of Shine on Brightly the day of its release in 1968.
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