Homer - Grown In USA

Homer - Grown In USA

If Zeppelin is the only band left over from 70's that you listen to, well YOU NEED TONS MORE. Homer is a hard rock band with a psychedelic tone, so ahead of their time. This is a great album to have, every song is worth a listen. "Circles In The North" and "Dandelion Wine" are two GREAT songs. Oh, and I hate Zeppelin's fame, being the only band people know of.

Album information:

(01) Circles In The North

(02) Taking Me Home

(03) Dawson Creek

(04) Survivor

(05) In The Beginning

(06) Love's Coming

(07) Four Days And Nights 'Without You'

(08) Cyrano In The Park

(09) Lovely Woman

(10) Sunrise (Bonus)

(11) Dandelion Wine (Bonus)

Band information:

Although Homer's sole and rare album is full of ideas and busy late-psychedelic/early-progressive rock instrumentation, it's a bunch of notions in search of a road map, and ultimately doesn't say much. Sometimes there's similarity to early-'70s British progressive rock in the occasional Mellotron, the multi-sectioned song structures, and the dynamic instrumentation. There are country and folkier touches (including steel guitar), though, which were rare in such British music, sometimes leaving a slight odd feeling of hearing Neil Young (an influence especially audible on "Dawson Creek") intersect with Yesand the Moody Blues. The lyrics sometimes have a verge-on-the-better-world hippie outlook that, while laudable on paper, comes across as kind of sappy. The hard-to-get-a-handle-on eclecticism isn't the problem so much as far more common shortcomings in these kind of psychedelic-era obscurities: a lack of strong songs or gripping originality, despite the undoubted competence of the playing and vocals. The 2002 CD reissue on Akarma adds two tracks from a non-LP 1970 single that are actually the best things on the disc. They have more of an early psychedelic feel than the LP and a tighter focus to the songs, which sound a bit like the kind of guitar-heavy, phased psychedelic pop the Amboy Dukes did on "Journey to the Center of the Mind," or early Spirit.

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