Are You Sitting Comfortably?

Are You Sitting Comfortably? Artist: IQ
Label: Inside Out Germany
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1
EAN: 5026297010138
ASIN: B00000713D


Release Date: 1998-06-30

Are You Sitting Comfortably?


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Tracks:

  1. War Heroes - IQ
  2. Drive On - IQ
  3. Nostalgia - IQ, IQ
  4. Falling Apart at the Seams - IQ, IQ
  5. Sold on You - IQ
  6. Through My Fingers - IQ
  7. Wurensh - IQ
  8. Nothing at All - IQ, IQ
  9. Nothing at All [Live][*] - IQ

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Album Description

1989 album by one of Britain's foremost prog rock groups since the '80s. Nine tracks including 'Nothing At All' (Live) added as a bonus track.

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Very good, though not their best.......2004-02-23

IQ has been an interesting band for the longest time. They date back from the early eighties, at a time when other "similar" prog-rock bands like Marillion were beginning to shape their music. I was introduced to them by a hardcore fan of Rush, which should give you an idea of their approximate composition, however this album (as some other reviewer has mentioned) does have some pop accents in it.

In the very aptly titled 'Are You Sitting Comfortably?' (don't miss out the cover work) IQ does quite an attempt at balancing a somewhat dark and obscure prog sound with moments of light (or lightness, should I say?), and the results can get to be quite brilliant, such as the case with 9+ minute-long piece "Wurensh" that brought them to the front of my prog-rock-centered attention back in 1989 when this album first came out. Besides this work, I'd also recommend a couple of their other albums, 'Nomzamo' and 1994's 'Ever' which is the best album I've heard by them, hands down.

4 out of 5 stars 4 stars to the production, something less to the composition.......2003-03-08

This album is equal to their previous issue "Nomzamo", from the point of view of its production,instead the compositions are more solid and some tracks such as "Nostalgia" and "Falling apart at the seams", have been included into a lot of official live recordings (with and without the singer Paul Menel)for some years consecutively (1989-1994).Besides the track "Wurensh" resembles a bit the 70's progressive era, even though with a modern touch and a quite simple music structure too: here the strong rhytmical section introduces the vocals,just followed by the keyboards overlap and the following aggressive guitar solo by M.Holmes;afterwards Menel starts to sing and honestly his vocal section here is a bit tepid in comparison to his best intepretations of the past(listen for example to "Common Ground" from "Nomzamo" and you understand the reason of such gap),but for sure the focus is more on the instrumental passages and the output is anyway convincing ...instead the presence of the same song, re-proposed both from studio and in the live format as well,"Nothing at all", in my opinion is not very useful, but it doesn't affect the final result of this very good album. If you appreciated their previous issue, a well produced modern new-prog with poppy elements, this one is an important step closer a definitive improvement of such modern style... you can choose this issue or refuse it if you are strictly a 70's prog fan, neverthless to me this lp is worth checking out (otherwise the song "Wurensh", the solid track within the present album, was chosen for their best collection of the decade, entitled "J'ai Pollette D'arnu", and this means a lot to their fans!!)...well actually the other songs are quite tepid and less convincing-except on the already mentioned tracks "Nostalgia"and "Falling apart...": for this reason the right rate should be 3 stars and 1/2;however the production is excellent once again and it cuts a fine figure among the best and must-have new prog albums (honestly a very few ones!!)

5 out of 5 stars Progressive Rock With A Dose Of Pop.......2001-12-23

On IQ's second release with vocalist Paul Menel, the blend of pop with their standard progressive rock is obvious. For some fans of the band, the change probably wasn't welcome, but the music and lyrics make this one of IQ's best releases. Standout tracks include War Heroes, Wurensh, and two songs that actually make you want to sing along, Drive On and Sold On You. If you're a progressive rock fan that doesn't mind a little pop influence, this is the CD for you.

5 out of 5 stars

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