EW's GRADE
B-

Details Release Date: Aug 20, 1996; Lead Performance: Various Artists; Genres: Reissues, Rock

While prog produced its share of pretentious piffle, it wasn't all bad, as the five-CD retrospective Supernatural Fairy Tales proves. The usual suspects (Yes, ELP, Genesis) are here, but it's obscure acts like Atomic Rooster and Savage Rose that provide the most ear-catching moments, melding rock, classical, folk, and jazz in jarring, uncategorizable symphonies of blood and thunder. Punk junkies, steer clear. B-

Originally posted Dec 20, 1996 Published in issue #358 Dec 20, 1996 Order article reprints

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