Tracks:
1. Europe Endless
2. The Hall Of Mirrors
3. Showroom Dummies
4. Trans-Europe Express
5. Metal On Metal
6. Franz Schubert
7. Endless Endless
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One of the reasons I like this album so much is the juxtaposition of different themes. Songs like "The Hall of Mirrors" and "Showroom Dummies" provide great social commentary, but the rest of the songs are not. Rather, they are a celebration of beautiful things that the group appreciated - Europe and transportation, particularly. It seems most albums with "interesting" lyrics focus on being pessimistic or clever, anything but expressing joy for what the world is.
The music is great, too, of course. Whether the celebratory nature of songs like "Europe Endless", or the cool, slick sounds of "Trans-Europe Express", the songs take you somewhere else completely, and let you stay there comfortably in for sometime while gently moving you along through the environment created by the songs, much like the transportation they so admire.
I'd argue that this is the best continental album of all time.
One of the reasons I like this album so much is the juxtaposition of different themes. Songs like "The Hall of Mirrors" and "Showroom Dummies" provide great social commentary, but the rest of the songs are not. Rather, they are a celebration of beautiful things that the group appreciated - Europe and transportation, particularly. It seems most albums with "interesting" lyrics focus on being pessimistic or clever, anything but expressing joy for what the world is.
The music is great, too, of course. Whether the celebratory nature of songs like "Europe Endless", or the cool, slick sounds of "Trans-Europe Express", the songs take you somewhere else completely, and let you stay there comfortably in for sometime while gently moving you along through the environment created by the songs, much like the transportation they so admire.
I'd argue that this is the best continental album of all time.
I always thought the lyrics on stuff like "Europe Endless" were meant to be a bit sarcastic or tongue-in-cheek rather than strait up optimism. As if they were quietly laughing at that idealistic vision of europe/technology/the future just as much as they were blatantly expressing it.
Either way its a great album. I think the quality does drop off slightly by the time we get to the last few tracks (Metal on Metal, Franz Schubert, Endless).
Either way its a great album. I think the quality does drop off slightly by the time we get to the last few tracks (Metal on Metal, Franz Schubert, Endless).
This. I'd love if they ordered it so TEE-MTM-Abzug ended the album. _________________
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