An unsurpassed masterpiece

"Music, When combined with at intriguing idea, is poetry", recites Orson Welles in the middle of the CD. That's the idea of ​​the concept album, which was a long time so fashionable: a LP / CD with a universal idea or story. Some have tried it, many have failed, because a rock or pop CD is precisely neither a musical nor a film music. The "Tales" are now as it were the masterpiece of concept albums, their beginning and at the same time its completion, and still - to join the most successful attempt, literature and pop music - 30 years after its creation.
The experienced listener recognizes even Wagnerian leitmotifs, the Poe fan feels the set to music fantasy realm of Short Stories of the great master of the horror story. And the music lovers, the both concept and literature do not care? Who enjoys a good hour perfectly-arranged and composed music. But the real fascination unfolds in the final analysis the friend of Edgar Allan Poe's "Tales". You can hear the telltale heart in the bass drum beat, you can feel the raven sitting behind him, one sees Fortunato helpless behind the growing stone wall squat, and finally one experiences the downfall of the House of Usher in huge sound sequences with before the lovely setting of the poem "To One In Paradise" calmed and reconciled from the magical world of these compositions the handset releases.
Who has not heard the "Tales", has failed a milestone. A place among the 10 best CDs of all time - in addition to the Beatles and Pink Floyd for example - is appropriate this work.