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Tread Softly On My Dreams 6:44 ░▐ ▌░ 02. Cecelia 8:21 ░▐ ▌░ 03. Follow Me 3:26 ░▐ ▌░ 04. Dawning Of A New Day 6:15 ░▐ ▌░ 05. Beyond The Moon 3:51 ░▐ ▌░ 06. Today 3:30 ░▐ ▌░ 07. A Day In September 8:05 ░▐ ▌░ 08. Ritual Fire Dance (LP Out-Take) 7:41 ░▐ ▌░ 09. Oh Lord I'm Getting Heavy (45 A-Side) 4:05 ░▐ ▌░ 10. Why Don't We Be A Rock And Roll Band? (45 3:40 ░▐ ▌░ B-Side) ░▐ ▌░ 11. (She's A) Lady Of Love (Demo) 3:23 ░▐ ▌░ 12. I'll Try Hard (Demo) 4:17 ░▐ ▌░ 13. Good Morning Sunshine (Demo) 2:58 ░▐ ▌░ 14. Oh Darlin' (Demo) 2:43 ░▐ ▌░ 15. I Laid It On The Line (Demo) 3:28 ░▐ ▌░ ░▐ ▌░ ░▐ ▌░ ▄▄▄┌─────────────┐▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄ ░▐ ▌░ ▒▒▒│ rip notes │▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ ░▐ ▌░ └─────────────┘ ░▐ ▌░ ░▐ ▌░ In kind of the same way some Nektar tracks can't fail to ░▐ ▌░ bring a smile to your face in their close-but-no-cigar ░▐ ▌░ similarity to Pink Floyd, Czar's sole and obscure album ░▐ ▌░ sometimes sounds like an earnest if inferior emulation of ░▐ ▌░ King Crimson's first album. Nowhere is that more apparent ░▐ ▌░ than the opening track, "Tread Softly on My Dreams," which ░▐ ▌░ comes off a bit like King Crimson's "21st Century Schizoid ░▐ ▌░ Man" and "In the Court of the Crimson King" with perhaps a ░▐ ▌░ dash of "Epitaph" thrown into a blender. It may be derivative ░▐ ▌░ (and Czar guitarist Mick Ware does acknowledge King Crimson ░▐ ▌░ having had a huge impact on the band in the liner notes to ░▐ ▌░ the 2007 expanded-CD edition), but that doesn't mean it's not ░▐ ▌░ enjoyable for those with a yen for early keyboard-heavy ░▐ ▌░ British prog rock. ░▐ ▌░ ░▐ ▌░ Certainly few other tracks by anyone came as close to ░▐ ▌░ re-creating King Crimson's ominous Mellotron sound as "Tread ░▐ ▌░ Softly on My Dreams." And while the King Crimson influence ░▐ ▌░ (especially via that Mellotron, though also with foreboding ░▐ ▌░ crunching guitar riffs) is heard on the rest of the album as ░▐ ▌░ well, it's not as blatant on the other tracks. Czar has a ░▐ ▌░ greater tendency toward songs with a West Coast psychedelic ░▐ ▌░ influence, and a greater willingness to use vocal harmonies ░▐ ▌░ and organ that echo Keith Emerson as well as King Crimson. It ░▐ ▌░ is, however, those passages that stress the creepiest aspects ░▐ ▌░ of Bob Hodges' accomplished keyboards (whether Mellotron or ░▐ ▌░ other instruments) that are most impressive, if not among the ░▐ ▌░ more original such things to be heard in British prog rock. ░▐ ▌░ ░▐ ▌░ A nifty curiosity on its own terms, its length is doubled by ░▐ ▌░ the expanded edition, which adds eight bonus tracks. One, the ░▐ ▌░ heavily classical-influenced (but rocking) outtake, "Ritual ░▐ ▌░ Fire Dance," would and should have fit in fine on the LP; the ░▐ ▌░ non-LP 45, "Oh Lord I'm Getting Heavy"/"Why Don't We Be a ░▐ ▌░ Rock and Roll Band?," in contrast, is far more straight-ahead ░▐ ▌░ rock than the material on the album, and far less ░▐ ▌░ distinguished. 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