Diamonds In My Crown - Chapter 2. "On The Rocks"

There are some songs in your life that can be described in a way of no more, no less but defining what you love in experiencing the music. What really makes them stand out from all the others is significant: you'd probably listened to them for umpteenth thousands of times, one after another and YET when the next time comes - it's the same as the previous one: IT EXCITES YOU TO THE LEVEL OF CHILLS AND SHIVERS, PULLS THE TEARS OUT OF YOUR EYES. No matter if it's take 1 or take 1 000 000 +. Always the same. Heaven is within the reach of your hand. You don't need a casino bust or drug to revv you up. These songs get you safely high into outer space and then land you back to the real world. This is one of those, for me. 

The mastery of Colin Town's orchestral introduction is already a sonic orgy and an assault for the senses with the combinbation of cathedral organ and drilling yet gentle synth. And, like in a Hitchcock's classic horror, still THE HELL BREAKS LOOSE @2:14. No hostages are being taken throughout. I sometimes regret that Bernie Torme did not step up his game for the solo a bit more but still the main reward is in the end. @5:48 the final run with the multilayering and blooming keyboard layers over the thumping band is just like nuclear bomb implosion thwarted into 6 minutes of sounds. This is heaven and hell being synced into homogenous ONE.