| 词条 | Focus X |
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| name = Focus X | type = studio | artist = Focus | cover = Focus X album cover.jpg | alt = | released = 5 November 2012 | recorded = 2012 | venue = | studio = Wedgeview Studios (Woerdense Verlaat, Netherlands) Fieldwork Studios (Schoten, Belgium) Skystudio Bassbob Studios | genre = {{hlist|Progressive rock|jazz|{{nowrap|jazz fusion}}}} | length = 49:40 | label = Eastworld Recordings | producer = Bobby Jacobs, Geert Scheijgrond | prev_title = Focus 9 / New Skin | prev_year = 2006 | next_title = Golden Oldies | next_year = 2014 }} {{Album ratings|rev1 = Allmusic |rev1score = {{Rating|3|5}}[1] |rev2 = The Bolton News |rev2score = positive |rev3 = DPRP |rev3score = {{Rating|6|10}}[2] |rev4 = Get Ready To ROCK! |rev4score = {{Rating|3.5|5}}[3] |rev5 = MoltenMetalReviews |rev5score = {{Rating|8|10}}[4] |rev6 = Liverpool Sound & Vision |rev6score = {{rating|4|5}}[5] |rev7 = Paradise Rock |rev7score = {{rating|7|10}}[6] }} Focus X (also known as X) is the tenth studio album by the Dutch progressive rock band Focus, released on 5 November 5 2012 by Eastworld Recordings. BackgroundFocus X is the group's first studio album in six years. The album features Menno Gootjes on guitar, replacing Niels van der Steenhoven, who played guitar on the ensemble's previous album Focus 9 / New Skin (2009). The Japanese edition contains two bonus tracks, "Santa Teresa", and a live version of the band's successful 1971 single, "Hocus Pocus". The album generally received positive reviews. The cover art is designed and painted by Roger Dean.[7]Track listing{{tracklist| headline = | title1 = Father Bacchus | writer1 = Menno Gootjes | length1 = 4:04 | title2 = Focus 10 | writer2 = Thijs van Leer | length2 = 5:48 | title3 = Victoria | writer3 = van Leer | length3 = 5:28 | title4 = Amok In Kindergarten | writer4 = van Leer | length4 = 5:00 | title5 = All Hens On Deck | writer5 = van Leer | length5 = 5:45 | title6 = Birds Come Fly Over (Le Tango) | writer6 = van Leer, Roselie Peters | length6 = 5:26 | title7 = Hoeratio | note7 = Words: Horatius, taken from "Ars Poetica" | writer7 = Bobby Jacobs | length7 = 5:38 | title8 = Talk Of The Clown | writer8 = van Leer | length8 = 2:59 | title9 = Message Magique | writer9 = Ben van der Linden | length9 = 3:53 | title10 = Crossroads | writer10 = van Leer, Peters | length10 = 5:39 }}{{tracklist | headline = Japanese edition bonus tracks | title11 = Santa Teresa | writer11 = van Leer | length11 = 5:59 | title12 = Hocus Pocus (live) | writer12 = van Leer, Jan Akkerman | length12 = 17:30 }} Personnel
References1. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/x-mw0002432730 |title=X - Focus : Songs, Reviews, Credits, Awards |publisher=AllMusic |date=2012-11-06 |accessdate=2013-02-06}} 2. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.dprp.net/reviews/201250.php#focus |title=Cd & Dvd Reviews |publisher=DPRP |date= |accessdate=2013-02-06}} 3. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.getreadytorock.com/reviews2012/focus4.htm |title=Get Ready to ROCK! Review of CD album called Focus X by progressive rock band Focus |publisher=Getreadytorock.com |date= |accessdate=2013-02-06}} 4. ^{{cite web|url=http://moltenmetalreviews.wordpress.com/2012/11/13/focus-x-review/ |title=Focus – X – Review « moltenmetalreviews |publisher=Moltenmetalreviews.wordpress.com |date=2012-11-13 |accessdate=2013-02-06 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130209224201/http://moltenmetalreviews.wordpress.com/2012/11/13/focus-x-review/ |archivedate=February 9, 2013 }} 5. ^http://www.liverpoolsoundandvision.co.uk/2012/10/07/focus-focus-x-album-review/ 6. ^http://www.paradiserock.co.uk/cd/focus-focus-x/ 7. ^http://www.focus10.net/ External links
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