The Price of Progression (The Toll album)

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The Price of Progression
TollPoP.jpg
Studio album by
Released1988
RecordedBearsville Studios, Bearsville, NY
Genre Rock
Length58:16
Label Geffen
Producer Steve Thompson, Michael Barbiero
The Toll chronology
The Price of Progression
(1988)
Sticks and Stones and Broken Bones
(1991)

The Price of Progression is an album by the Columbus, Ohio, rock band the Toll, released in 1988. [1] [2] The first single was "Jonathan Toledo". [3] It was produced by Steve Thompson and Michael Barbiero. [4]

Contents

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
The Philadelphia Inquirer Star full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [5]

The Philadelphia Inquirer wrote: "So unremittingly annoying, so ostentatiously pretentious, so utterly lacking in anything approaching a sense of humor, this album exerts a certain fascination." [5] The Washington Post called the album "heavy-handed, uneven, feverishly melodramatic and occasionally overwrought." [6]

Track listing

  1. "Jazz Clone Clown" – 4:00
  2. "Jonathan Toledo" – 10:00
  3. "Smoke Another Cigarette" – 4:19
  4. "Soldier's Room" – 3:34
  5. "Word of Honor" – 4:11
  6. "Anna-41-Box" – 10:33
  7. "Tamara Told Me" – 4:32
  8. "Living in the Valley of Pain" – 11:19
  9. "Stand in Winter" – 5:32

All songs written by Brad Circone/Rick Silk/Brett Mayo/Greg Bartram

Personnel

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