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Like Niles Crane says, "Oh, my...were we ever that young?"

Erica | Washington State | 04/22/2000

(4 out of 5 stars)

"I pulled out The Nice the other day; I was in a funny mood. You know the kind. Was I treating myself or punishing myself? And there were Keith Emerson and the boys in all their pompous and overeducated glory, embarrassing and huge and all over the speakers. Ah, well. But it was fun, every bit of it..from West Side Story's "America" to the still-lovely "Cry of Eugene", with its Fripperesque mish-mashed guitar. All of it deliciously overdone. There was a time when everyone recognized this stuff. Mercifully, perhaps, that day has passed. But I still hum "Eugene" occasionally, and I doubt I'm alone."