The Prog Rock Album Club

Unknown Soldier · 04-06-2014, 04:28 PM

Album title: Timeless
Artiste: The Watch
Nationality: Italian
Year: 1970, I mean 2011!
Subgenre: RPI, but more like Genesis clones
Player(s): Simone Rossetti (vocals, flute), Marco Fabbri (Drums), Giorgio Gabriel (No, I'm serious!) (Guitars), Valerio De Vittorio (Keyboards), Stefano Castrucci (Bass, Guitars)
Familiarity: Had never heard of them.
Favourite track(s): “One Day”
Why? "One Day" as quite simply the song resonated quite well with me, but even then I'd hardly call it great.
Least favourite track(s): "Thunder Has Spoken"
Why? From the word go the song sounded like a watered down version of Genesis in every aspect and pretty much disliked most of the rest as well.
Any preconceptions prior to listening, whether good or bad? Said they were Genesis aficionados and with a sound like Genesis in 2011, so I wasn't impressed.
Factoids you'd like to share? None
End impression: I came to this album thinking that Trollheart hasn't given it enough of a chance and I'd find something good on it despite everybody claiming how they were a Genesis rip-off, but how wrong I was and how right they all were.
Comments: By the time of the fourth track "In the Wilderness" I was totally cheesed off listening to this album, as quite simply this track probably rates as the most flagrant Genesis rip-off of them all and that is really saying something as well! By the time of "Let Us Now Make Love" I just wanted to pull the plug on the album but realised that there wasn't too much left so ploughed on and it was painful. It's obvious that this album was selected by the original list creator as he can't get enough of classic Genesis, even if it's like a fizzy drink gone flat! Italian prog bands really are a mixed bad but this is probably the worst I've come across but the band are decent musicians and the singer can muster his voice like Peter Gabriel a bit so it's not complete crap, other than this I've nothing more to add to what has already been said and easily the worst album so far on here.

Rating: 2.0