Prog Album of the Week - Week 60 (11/09/2014): Focus - Focus 3

As always, we encourage participation from everyone - if you've never heard the album, there's a YouTube link provided! Go check it out and report back!

Welcome to the sixtieth week of r/progrockmusic's Album of the Week! Last week we discussed Haken's Aquarius and that was lovely.

If you'd like to peruse previous weeks' discussions, please visit the archive.

Focus 3! ...err, Focus III! ...3? Whatever the album title, it's Focus' third effort, and maybe/possibly/probably their best.

http://i.imgur.com/9Y2RgMC.jpg

###Focus - Focus 3 (1972)

Track Listing:

Track listing: 1) Round Goes the Gossip; 2) Love Remembered; 3) Sylvia; 4) Carnival Fugue; 5) Focus III; 6) Answers? Questions! Questions? Answers!; 7) Anonymous II; 8) Elspeth of Nottingham.

• The album on Wikipedia
• The album on YouTube
• Progarchives review (3.73)

####Potential Discussion Questions:

• Focus always flies under the radar... while they were relatively critically and commercially successful, they never saw the commercial success of the Yeses or Jethro Tulls: why do you think that is?

• How would you personally rate the album?

• Are there any moments on the album you consider particularly strong or particularly weak (i.e., favourite/least favourite moments)?

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