Tony Kaye End Of Innocence is significantly better album

In fact surprisingly I kinda Iike it. At least Hex 8 maybe a Hex 9

It’s virtually an instrumental keyboard album (apart from the weakest track Sweetest Dreams where it’s a slocky pop ballad by a female vocalist and a short snippet of twinkle twinkle little star at the beginning)

It’s basically a tone down, less flashy/extravagant version of Rick Wakeman 70’s album crossed with late period Hackett (the pseudo middle eastern influence and usage of strings accompaniment). More focus on atmosphere than virtuosity. Surprisingly the keyboard tones are tasteful (I’m annoyed with Yes quest) and it’s work as reasonable background music and doesn’t sound embarrassing to listen to

The 9-11 explicit reference is basically from sampling a few phone calls during the event for dramatic effect in a single track and perhaps a jazzy piano section representing NYC prior to the event.

However for the most part it doesn’t really matter and he used the emotional feelings created from the event to inspire the music rather than creating music to explicitly describe the event.

The fact that it’s instrumental music and the abstract nature of that genre prevented any sort of bad taste coverage of the event and in fact you can project whatever meaning you want over the work.