The Move, in my opinion, never played a wrong note and never wrote a duff melody. The Idle Race was more of a mixed bag in terms of musical soundscape, which is no bad thing, and Jeff Lynne brought his charm, as always, in spades to this project. With psychedelic madness like The Skeleton and the Roundabout, it teetered on the edge of the late sixties psychedelic boom, and moving into the seventies, you have incredible numbers like this, "By The Sun"; the more I hear this, I can't help wondering if System of a Down might have had a listen to this one day; I can't put my finger on it but there is definitely, to my ears, something vaguely familiar between this sound and their sound. What do you reckon?
