Imaginos remakes and outtakes

[Alexandre GARCIA]

>         Probably would have liked it.  As a youngster in BOC fandom terms
> I heard the _Imaginos_ version first, and thought it was cool.  Then
> when I heard the original, I thought it was cool as well.
>        It is often so that when people have gotten used to hearing
> something a certain way, they balk at changes.  The "classicness" syndrome
> strikes again ;)  (Obviously this doesn't cover all the cases, though).

    How very right. Exactly my opinion. I heard the IMAGINOS version first too
and maybe that's why I like it so much... But I liked the original one too when
I first heard it. So, good point Carl...

>> would you believe that the song I
>> hear named most often as the song wich really 'makes the album' is...
>> "Magna of Illusion" ?  It seems to be a great fan favorite (even
>> though I think most people would agree that it's probably not well
>> suited to have been a single).  :-)
>
>        Bizarre.  It took me a long while to warm to "Magna".  It
>took me nearly as long to warm to "BOC" and I have yet to warm to
>the chorus of "Imaginos" ;)
>        What I instantly liked on the album, apart from "I Am the One"
>and the MHA (most holy "Astronomy" ;) was "Siege and Investiture ...".

    While I liked "Magna of Illusion" at the first hearing, the song I liked
most - and still do - ALSO is "The siege and investiture..." But then,
IMAGINOS probably is my favorite BOC album anyway, so that should
figure...

    Now that I think of it, there is one song which took me some
time to get used to (and I still feel divided about it), that's "Del Rio's
song"...

Alex.