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Title: Historical Value Outweighs Listening Value
Review: Perhaps this would be easier to listen to if subsequent casts and the film version hadn't improved on it so significantly, but the 1973 London Cast recording is one of the worst renditions of the Rocky Horror material I've ever heard. Theres just no SPARK to it all! The performances jump back and forth between overdone (belting out lines way too hard and long), to ultra-flat and lifeless. Theres no in-between. Even Tim Curry's musical numbers lack punch, especially up against his magnificant later versions when the show hit American stage and finally, celluloid. In the end, this CD will be of interest to obsessed Rocky fans, but should be one of the last entries into any collection.
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