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Manfred Mann '06 2006

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great mann with original material; driving bass..... most enjoyable and 'quit all you are doing while getting into this music'

I liked Manfred Mann in the seventies, but I love them now.
This album smokes. Everything about it shows maturity. The musicians are scary good, the composition extremely original, the lyrics excellent.
I like "plains " the album from 1991 even more, which is tribal music revisited with GREAT talent. This one is good funk by times, good rock the rest. It includes a superb remake of Tchaikovsky's first concerto ( oh, so classic) into an hymn for the liberated woman. The melody is presented without the fire of the concerto, it's one of the best classical melodies I think. I was glad to rediscover it this way, it shows its beauty well.

..and here I want to assure all fans, that this CD will not disappoint.
It is very "manfred-ish" though not as progressive as for example "Solar Fire". Songs are shorter but melodic and performed with perfect elegance characteristic to this band. Get it.