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Title: As good as it gets
Review: This, along with yellow brick road, is certainly the best ej album. Every single song on it is a masterpiece, superb musicianship, arrangements, and singing. Admittedly, it's not extremely varied in terms of production and style, most of the songs are ballads and otherwise slow-tempo songs, quivering with strings sounding like one of Mozart's Requiems, in other words a very dark feel (like the moody blues' To Our Children's Children's Children). Along with tunes that have become standards, like "Tiny Dancer" and "Levon", there is beautiful acoustic picking (Holiday Inn), melodrama (Indian Sunset), beatlesque brilliance (Razorface, All the Nasties). If you like albums that must be enjoyed in their entirity (like dark side of the moon, wind and wuthering, crime of the century) you'll like it. If you like albums where every song is different (sheer heart attack, peter gabriel #1) you'll probably find it a bit relentlessly dreary and spooky. As 10CC said, "art for art's sake"
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