High Tide - High Tide (1970 Hard Rock Bonused)

Review from RYM
I have to say I like their second release a bit more than their highly acclaimed (well I guess by Metal- and not by Prog fans) debut.
The opener is starting quite fine in fact and of course the electric violin is great. Neverthess the song doesn't offer too much variation later on for its length and starts becoming a bit boring, but still a fairly good hardrock song. Second track "The
Joke" is done very much better starting with a bit odd classical intro and offering much more variation with some more heavy sections and as well some more in a folk-ish vein with very nice violin. Highlight of the very short album is of course the over 14 minutes long "Saneonimous". It starts with great guitar lines, violin playing a second different voice and very good rhythm section. Then there is a second part starting acoustically with guitar and some piano until violin and vocals are entering. Really excellent! Then a short guitar solo and things are becoming more heavy again for quite a while with fantastic guitar riffing and violin playing. Finally there is again a more quiet part similar to the middle one.This album is unfortunately a bit too short with just a bit more than half an hour and only 2 tracks of the 3 are really excellent. But combined together with Sea Shanties one gets an album which is worth 4 1/2 stars.

1	Blankman Cries Again	8:28
2	The Joke	9:27
3	Saneonymous	14:26
4	The Great Universal Protection Racket	15:45
5	The Joke	7:44
6	Blankman Cries Again	8:25
7	Ice Age	3:25

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