As noted recently, I need to do some blog maintenance. I threw many items into roundups earlier this year just to ensure I got some notes down before I forgot them. The roundups are for albums I don't keep (or notification of recent purchases and/or revisits of albums already blogged). I'll be starting from the beginning of January and move forward from there.
I bought Perfect Symmetry on LP new real time and it didn't have the same impact as its predecessors. Even No Exit didn't have the same impact on me as did Awaken the Guardian and The Spectre Within. They were beginning to perfect their prog metal formula at this stage. Not as messy as their prior albums, to its detriment. But some of these progressions are awesome - and memorable.
Ownership: LP: 1989 Enigma. Single sleeve with lyric inner bag. Acquired from Sound Warehouse in Dallas (on Lemmon Ave. - long closed) in 1989. I can remember even buying it. Funny how memories work sometimes. I also had the commodity CD, but unlike their second and third albums, the music isn't rated high enough for me to keep.
1989; 2014; 1/29/23 (LP 4.1); 3/26/23 (new entry)
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