TotW 11/14/2022 - 11/20/2022: RAY WILSON - Makes Me Think Of Home

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    RAY WILSON - Makes Me Think Of Home
    Year: 2016
    Album: Makes Me Think Of Home
    Working title: ?
    Credits: Wilson/Hoff
    Lyrics: Yes
    Length: 7:56
    Musicians: Ray Wilson, Nir Z., Uwe Metzler, Lawrie Macmillan, Ali Ferguson, Kool Lyczek
    Played Live: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022
    Cover versions: unknown

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    Notes: Our current TotW is the title track of Ray Wilson's 2016 album of the same name. As is well known, what was originally planned as a double album with the working title Backseat Driver ultimately became two separate albums: Song For A Friend and Makes Me Think Of Home. Both were released in the same year. Even if it was actually one and the same project that produced this output, this creative power is quite remarkable - at least superficially viewed quantitatively. This week, you are to judge the qualitative assessment by the example of the title track of the "Plugged" album from this "double pack". Our review even suspects a "rare excursion into progressive structures" in this piece. Can you share this assessment? Or is the playing time the only proggy element?
  • I have some of his solo albums - this one has its moments and this track is probably one of his best. It's quite proggy. It sometimes leaves me thinking he could have done this track a bit better (i.e. an intersection in a different speed or something like that), but overall it's a great track - 12 points from me.

    ... make tomorrow today!

  • I enjoyed this whole album *so* much more than its "companion", Song For A Friend, released just a few months beforehand. I'm still not sure why that should be so. I guess it's akin to when Hackett has released albums the same year, or in quick succession.

  • I enjoyed this whole album *so* much more than its "companion", Song For A Friend, released just a few months beforehand. I'm still not sure why that should be so. I guess it's akin to when Hackett has released albums the same year, or in quick succession.

    I heard the two RW albums were conceived as one double album but because he thought they were too different, he decided they needed separate releases. Having all the material ready he decided not to wait long to put the later one out.

    Abandon all reason

  • it's an ok track, not great not terrible. I would say it's prog but even in 2016 it was hard for new prog material to gain traction. The 1970s was the prog decade and, like punk, it's very hard to resurrect the genre without it sounding like pastiche. Ray's voice sounds a bit like Fish to me (fellow Scots), and with a bit more urgency could be mistaken for Marillion.

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    It actually one of the longest tracks Ray has ever released. I quite like it, but it's also one of those tracks where you think "that could've been better, I just don't know what's missing"


    Here is a live version from Unna 2019


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