Fruupp Music

Excellent , a gret disc of progressive music a real Art Rock

An irish group, that you should listen to, and then go and buy all the other 3 albums.
You may consider buying the anthology that has all 4 albums together.
Very unique band, they can rock and they can have their silent moments.
It's difficult to compare them to any other group, maybe horslips, and sometimes a bit of the cantertbury feel.
There are some moments that you really must move your feet - try listen to "Decision" and to "song for a thought".
THis is really a progressive rock at it's best.

VDGG and GG are two of my favorite bands; one is even still functional. I had heard Masquerading with Dawn many years ago and thought it reasonably pleasant. Unfortunately, it doesn't wear well, and tracks from this album are the best on this anthology. The singing is awful - it was on MwD too but I tried to look past that before. 27 tracks is too much to bear. The music - mindless noodling sums it up. My recommendation - save your money. According to Amazon, customers who bought this album also bought Gryphon, Greenslade, or Porcupine Tree. All are better choices.

Fruupp is a bit hard to describe,but folk prog though more smooth prog.
As it says in the booklet.'Some may find it dated though,I prefer it as the feel of a warm blanket on a cold winters night'.PERFECT.
You get the bands 4 albums -1 track from each album due to space restrictions,but I can live with that.
If you like unique music like Van Der Graaf Generator,Caravan or Gentle Giant,you might like this.Maybe a cross between Caravan's In the land of grey and pink,and GG's Aquiring the taste,is not that far off.Lovely stuff.
Somebody out there is probably better at describing the music than I am,but,,,my 3 cents worth here.I love it.

The fruupp is an Irish prog band.Thay may be considered a symphonic folk prog band. Thay use a lot of mellotron and thare are moments that they sound like cressida, or genesis, but thay also has a unique sound not like any other band.
They released 4 albums, all are in this excellent compilation.
the 4 albums are :
Future legends which is really great,rocky and very progy.
Seven secrets, The prince of heaven's eye and Modern Masquerades.
I recommend on buying this CD .Don't stop hearing it over and over again.

This is quite an interesting perspective of Allen Ginsberg the man rather than the impact he had on wider society.

It is rather a pedestrian production in that the subject of the documentary cut a very unconventional figure, charismatic and radical whilst the film is straighforward in a temporal way and very focussed in straight terms.

Some of the highlights for me are the newsreel footage of major Beat figures who had such a huge influence on American literature specifically and on American society in general.

All in all it does display an interesting perspective on Ginsberg the man rather than Ginsberg the social actor but it is a worthwhile effort nevertheless.

So stated Roger Kimball in his immaculate book, The Long March, concerning the subject of this documentary. From everything I've ever read about Allen Ginsberg, the one enduring fact of his life is that he always manifested a genius for self-promotion. The likes of Kerouac and Cassidy detrained into the swamp yet he managed to redefine himself and become one with whatever movement or era would have otherwise passed him by. He was a natural magnet for attention and made full use of whatever talents he had. Indeed, the man surpassed every expectation based on his potential. I thought this was a solid documentary and found the footage of his father to be quite interesting. Ginsberg once boasted that he'd get us through our children, and, based on the cultural devastation that is 2008, events proved him correct. Never underestimate the power of destruction and only fools underestimated Allen Ginsberg.

The extraordinary life and times of Allen Ginsberg are profiled in this straightforward tribute documentary. I can't recall gaining any new insights or knowledge of Ginsberg, *but* I had already done my homework on the Beats and all that when, like so many others, I was a fascinated teenager. What I did experience was again being made aware of how much Ginsgerg's life connected with and that it was better through his having been a part of it. Not only was he a Beat poet but a great muse to many, many artists. I dare say I find that aspect of his life the most interesting. America is better because Ginsberg lived. He was a peacemaker, an activist, and a really nice and lovable guy. This film serves as a solid introduction to the famous countercultural icon's story as it is told with ample footage and through many interviews with his many famous friends and admirers: Beck, Bono, Paul McCartney, Yoko Ono, Johnny Depp, Hunter S. Thompson, Andy Warhol, Patti Smith, Joan Baez, Michael McClure, Norman Mailer, Amiri Baraka, Ken Kesey, William S. Burroughs, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Anne Waldman and Timothy Leary... Excerpts of discussions with William Buckley and Dick Cavett are also included. The DVD set includes over 6 hours of extras. Must have for fans.

There are two features of Ginsberg's personality that come through over and over in this intriguing documentary: he was a deeply wounded man, and he was a deeply lovable one. The two were obviously connected: Ginsberg's wounds made him both vulnerable and compassionate. They could also make him rage against a world that condoned war and injustice, and all of these sides of him come through in his poetry.

Ginsberg's ur-wound was the tragedy of his mother, a remarkable woman who sadly suffered from paranoid schizophrenia, was in and out of institutions during Ginsberg's youth, and finally died in one. As a boy, Ginsberg was frequently charged with her care. As his stepmother says in the film, he was exposed to way too much for a young boy to take in. His feelings of helplessness, frustration, impatience, love, guilt, and fear in the face of his mom's illness and increasingly bizarre behavior marked him for life. Thankfully, his relationship with his father Louis, a lyric poet, was one of tenderness, mutual respect, and deep love.

Ginsberg's unhappy relationship with his mother, as well as his genesis from beat poet to cosmic poet to Buddhist poet to grand old man of American poetry is tracked in the film. Especially welcome are the long and marvelous clips of Ginsberg reading his poetry: long sections of "Howl," all of "Kaddish," and others, sometimes put in music. There's also a clip from Ginsberg's appearance on Buckley's "Firing Line," in which the two men stood one another down. Lots of vintage still photography and cinema featuring the beat poets round out the documentary.

The one thing missing in the film was more than a brief mention of Ginsberg's lifelong relationship with Peter Orlovsky. Ginsberg does say at one point, quite touchingly, that he and Peter made life vows to one another, and a rather vague reference to Orlovsky's later mental and alcohol troubles is made. But the relationship is for the most part passed over in silence.

A good film, both for fans of Ginsberg's poetry and those who know it only by hearsay. A fitting Kaddish for a man who's heart and imagination stretched cosmically.

No study of the 1950's and 1960's cultural revolution in the USA would be complete without the poetry and bohemian life-look at poet Allen Ginsberg and those of "The Beat Generation." The 1960's just didn't happen; the groundwork was laid in the 1950's with the writers and the poets and the musicians who began to eschew The Establishment, embrace peace, do drugs, sexually experiment, and put it all down into their art. This film is currently showing on ON DEMAND and I was fortunate enough to see all 480 minutes of it. Being born in 1955, I learned a lot, frankly way more, than I myself ever knew about the times. I have yet to see a more complete and absorbing film chronicalling the soul and heart of the Era. Highly recommended.
A nice complimentary film to this one would be Across the Universe (Two-Disc Special Edition), but simply as an aid with some music.

fruupp - it's one rareness....unique...to the sound of "God's nektar".

Very good, more theses others titles are betters

Excellent , a gret disc of progressive music a real Art Rock

An irish group, that you should listen to, and then go and buy all the other 3 albums.
You may consider buying the anthology that has all 4 albums together.
Very unique band, they can rock and they can have their silent moments.
It's difficult to compare them to any other group, maybe horslips, and sometimes a bit of the cantertbury feel.
There are some moments that you really must move your feet - try listen to "Decision" and to "song for a thought".
THis is really a progressive rock at it's best.

Although groups like Fruupp tend to give progressive rock a bad reputation, there's something loveable about this wacky band. Bad vocals, weak instrumental playing and an impossible-to-pronounce band name aside, they sallied forth into the realm of cosmic concept albums and classical leanings to produce four albums in the '70s. These two titles were probably the most cohesive of the bunch, with Prince of Heaven's Eyes regarded as the band's "classic." However, be forewarned. The label issuing this two-on-one CD decided to leave tracks off of each album in order to squeeze both onto one CD. So, you're not getting the complete albums here. And the cut missing from Modern Masquerades just happens to be the best song from that album. Brilliant decision, guys.

I consider o better of work of Fruupp, great !!!