The Power and the Glory (1974)

About this title: The group's first U.S. release in two years featured ornate playing from Kerry Minnear on keyboards and Gary Green's loudest guitar work up to that time. Power and the Glory is also a fairly dissonant album, yet it made the charts, albeit pretty low. There seems to be a unifying theme having to do with one's place in the social order, but it's very vague in contrast to Pink Floyd's re-creations of the post-'60s drug experience, Yes' sweeping album-length suites, and ELP's sci-fi epics. "No God's a Man" is an infinitely more challenging piece of music than anything on Jethro Tull's Aqualung, ... read more

Tracks:

1. Proclamation [Shulman/Shulman/Min]
2. So Sincere [Shulman/Shulman/Min]
3. Aspirations [Shulman/Shulman/Min]
4. Playing the Game [Shulman/Shulman/Min]
5. Cogs in Cogs [Shulman/Shulman/Min]
6. No Gods a Man [Shulman/Shulman/Min]
7. The Face [Shulman/Shulman/Min]
8. Valedictory [Shulman/Shulman/Min]

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.