Moonbabies

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Customer reviews

review by: date: 2005-12-14 rating:
Incredible
Why even bother reading. Buy this album and your life will improve!

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review by: Ruthenphelphs date: 2004-07-22 rating:
The best music I have ever heard.
This is the the best album ever made in my opinon. It is the best possible combination of 1980s japanese cartoon influences, incredible musicianship, and genius creativity. This is surely going to stand as one of the best few albums of the 2000's. For anyone with 80s nostalgia, this is tapping from all of the same archetypes, though there is so much innovation here that it is a vast improvement on those influences. Derek Sherinian is a genius for organising this band, and shows himself to clearly be a musical genius in this album, and Tony Macalpine is the originator of the style from the 80s that the three are working with, so he is the No. 1 musician in the world to have on this album. I also believe Tony Macalpine to be on a par as a musician with Chopin and J.S.Bach, and to be the best musician in modern times. Also, I think that the evidence on the Planet X albums shows that Macalpine's ability on the guitar is greater than any other guitarst to have lived. Even Michael Angelo, (although Angelo is still technically more dazzling in some respects; incidentally Angelo is perhaps the only other musician to have successfully explored the style that Planet X are unfolding in his solo albums and particularly Planet Gemini). I have no doubt that Macalpine is the greatest guitarist ever to have lived, (perhaps even the greatest musician in general). Virgil Donati is quickly becoming notorious for his unusually high skills as a drummer, and is starting to be marked down by authorities as one of the greatest drummers ever. Take these three geniuses and we are onto something the likes of which has never been seen. I said in another review, (before I heard this album; a review of their live album), that Planet X are surely the greatest band ever, but having heard this new album I'm totally in awe that a band that I thought of as the best ever would release something ten times better than anything they had previously done after I had already decided they were the best ever. That means that to me they are the best band ever by at least ten fold. Enjoy the best music you or anyone else will ever hear until further into the future.


review by: helloblablabla date: 2003-02-22 rating:
Some great songs, not as good as the debut
Planet X's second studio release (they released a live album after their first one!) sees them carry on with their same "mission" and style. This is to push the boundaries of progressive metal (maybe music in general?) with ridiculous displays of sheer technical instrumental skill! OK, most prog metal bands try this, but listen to Dream Theater after these guys and you will feel relieved. Indeed, Derek Sherinian is openly quoted on his website saying "with Planet X I wanted to create the sickest instrumetal band there is". And he means it. Every time signature seems to be something unplayable like 13/16, the harmonies are complex, original and totally free of cliches, the guitar, keyboard, drum AND bass (!) solos are mental.pTheir actual sound is generally wonderfully atmospheric, spacey, heavy, and certainly extremely "proggy"! There is also a definite hint of fusion here. All those fourth chords on the synth! The production is generally absolutely beautiful, I feel that what was already great in the sound of Universe has been refined on this album, so full marks for the polish on that front.pAs arrogant as Planet X's attitude to technically outplay absolutely every rock band on the planet may seem, you do have to admire them for (probably) pulling it off, and STILL producing genuinely inspired musical output that you can enjoy listening to as well as gaping incredulously to. Well, many people would argue with me here, and indeed, I feel that there are moments (especially in this album) where the case is of simply fast, erratic rhythms and random notes without any musical meaning or point. This is the reason I wouldn't give this album a full five stars.pThat said, there are plenty of good ideas everywhere too, and this is surely an album worth buying and listening to a lot! The strongest tracks I would say are Ataraxia, 70 Vir, Ground Zero and Midnight Bell (nice intro, you try and tap back that rhythm!).pAn essential album if progressive fusion metal is what floats your boat ;)

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