this RULES!!! and it just keeps going. really great stuff. cannot believe a 19 year old made this. no clue what's going on in part two tho. howling and demonic chanting i guess? very rock-opera esque. the 'prog' is really coming thru here. "Angered by Branson's suggestion, Oldfield returned to the Manor where he drank half a bottle of Jameson's whiskey from the studio's cellar and demanded that the engineer take him to the studio where, intoxicated, he "screamed his brains out for 10 minutes" into a microphone. The incident left Oldfield so hoarse that he was unable to speak for two weeks. The engineer ran the tape at a higher speed during the recording, so that upon playback the tape ran at normal speed, thus dropping the pitch of the voice track and producing the "Piltdown Man" vocals listed on the credits." (via wikipedia)

not my kinda thing but i wouldn't be mad if someone put it on

actual instrumentation is good but the lyrics/vocals don't do much for me. probably would have been better if neil young had actually produced it lol! i think the sound is just a little too much of a beatles knockoff for me, which i knew a lot of other british groups at the time were doing too. but still.

the sound itself is great, but the album is sooo all over the place that it's not as enjoyable to listen to as it would be otherwise. also just not crazy about the guy's voice in general

besides the few hits on this record, my gosh this is repetitive, annoying, and full of unrelenting misogyny....no thank you i'll go listen to the later stones records

yeah this one rules