I'll be interested after exams.

I don't have much of either genre... But I'm in!

How many people do we need to "be in" to get this thing going?

I think we have numbers enough now :D Don't forget you can make suggestions for albums if you want!

Okay, great!

As I mentioned I will probably only be able to hand my homework in at the end of the month :/

Alright, this has been off to a really slow start - much slower than I expected. The only album so far suggested is Return to Forever's Romantic Warrior and so my suggestion is that unless someone can come up with some other suggestions to vote for within monday, it will become homework assignment for next week. If someone does come up with something else, we will poll over which album should be the homework assignment next week instead and make the winner the assignment for next week.

So, either return to forever the coming week or possibly that or something else the week after :)

Personally, I'd like to see some suggestions!

Of course I want to join. I'm listening to Romantic Warrior right now and it's freaking fantastic.

But here's my vote.

https://www.insideoutshop.de/images/AndersonOlias.jpg

Olias of Sunhillow by Jon Anderson.

This album is very strange indeed. Jon plays almost all of the instruments here (guitar, harp, percussion, synthesizers, bass) and all the backing vocals. No he is not a virtuoso like his bandmates, though I'm surprised by his harp playing chops, shame he never got to use them in Yes (except Wonderous Stories if I recall).

The emphasis here is Jon's vocal harmonies, the layering of instruments and the ambient and ethereal atmosphere throughout.

This is a hard album to describe, some have called it proto new age music, I dunno about that, but there is no "rock" in here whatsoever, the emphasis is on repetition and atmosphere rather than complex rock suites and musicianship, and it sometimes has an oriental vibe to it. The lyrics are a change of pace for Jon. There's actually a story and coherent narrative here, which is inspired by the art for Fragile, about an an alien civilization who make a trip to a new world.

And that's pretty much the best possible metaphor I can make for the music itself. Certainly not for all tastes. But I really love it.

I think people forget that Jon really is a great songwriter and his contributions to Yes are really underestimated.

^Brilliant Boo, that one's been in my collection for a long time and while I've given it a spin, I should definetly check it out again :) Excellent suggestion!

I've constructed a poll now so that people can vote over which album should be next week's homework!

• PFAC Homework for Week 24 Poll

Feel free to suggest albums for homework and subsequent discussion week 25 :)

ooo nice thread.