Screaming Trees - Dust
One of my all time favourite albums
RIP Mark Lanegan
Well having just come back from a Van der Graaf gig at the Bridgewater Hall, I think I can safely say I'm not sure how to describe exactly what I was listening to...but it was certainly both challenging and utterly unique 😁
Fascinating that Van der Graaf are still going in some form. I only have one of their albums, Godbluff. I also bought a Peter Hammill solo record not that long ago - can't remember what prompted me to do that. Called Over and released in 1977. Surprisingly mainstream.
Steely Dan fest at the mo. And the Sex Pistols
Quote from: Fishy on February 23, 2022, 09:05:35 AM
Steely Dan fest at the mo. And the Sex Pistols
Nice mix of styles
Caress Of Steel
Nothing. Can't be arsed. Got a big box of Wobbler sitting there too.
Quote from: Ali on February 23, 2022, 01:07:39 AM
Well having just come back from a Van der Graaf gig at the Bridgewater Hall, I think I can safely say I'm not sure how to describe exactly what I was listening to...but it was certainly both challenging and utterly unique 😁
I should have gone to see them in Brum on Monday, but I just couldn't be arsed. Been delayed so long that I didn't think it would ever happen. Suspect I missed a good night.
I've given the new Sea Power album, Everything Was Forever a spin through today. Like it a lot and the new songs I've heard work better as part of the album than they have as standalone tunes. I don't think I'm going to see it as one of their very best, though. But nothing to complain about.
Signals - Rush
Always my Rush goto album
Converge - Bloodmoon I
My main listening these days are new songs I'm learning for any one of my bands, we have various collaborative Spotify playlists on the go.
Aside from that, there have been a few CD purchases recently:
Travelling The Great Circle - Ozric Tentacles (first 5 albums remastered, + DVD and book)
Paul Draper - Cult Leader Tactics
Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Barn
Eddie Vedder - Earthling
Anathema - Weather Systems
Big Big Train - Welcome to the Planet
Marillion FRC35 London 2005
I was at this gig :)
Dio - Last in Line
Quote from: Ali on February 23, 2022, 01:07:39 AM
Well having just come back from a Van der Graaf gig at the Bridgewater Hall, I think I can safely say I'm not sure how to describe exactly what I was listening to...but it was certainly both challenging and utterly unique 😁
VDGG probably the best band in the world ever. I was at the reunion gig way back in 2005? with Jackson on sax. shame he left again. Truly brilliant band.
Quote from: Rufus_the_dawg on February 25, 2022, 03:25:33 PM
VDGG probably the best band in the world ever. I was at the reunion gig way back in 2005? with Jackson on sax. shame he left again. Truly brilliant band.
Lucky chap, it was always a big regret of mine to have missed that tour when they played the Liverpool Philharmonic
Procol Harum - Shine on Brightly
Wobbler - Hinterland (on very wobbly brown vinyl)
Mikal Lapaj - Are You There
Vandenberg: 2020
The Scorpions: Rock Believer
Mastodon - Hushed And Grim
Penelope Isles - Which Way To Happy
Santana - Caravanserai
Wobbler - Rites at Dawn
Opeth- Blackwaterpark
Still on a bit of a Wobbler session with:
Wobbler - Afterglow
Wobbler - Dwellers of the Deep
GUP - that cold war feeling is back
Scorpions-Rock Believer
Faith No More - Angel Dust
Jethro Tull - The Zealot Gene
various early Feeder singles
New Tears For Fears album
Emerson, Lake and Palmer (the alternate album, 2012 Steven Wilson stereo mix)
Kaipa - Inget Nytt Under Solen
D'Virgilio, Morse & Jennings - Troika
No-Man - Together We're Stranger
IEM - IEM Have Come for Your Children
FM - Synchronized
First time I have listened to this and surprise, surprise, it is right up my street. Production is sumptuous as I would expect. I really must try and get to see them in August.
I see they have a new album Thirteen coming out in a couple of weeks.
Chatterbix Podcast. Absolutely hilarious from the guys who did Gossipmongers (minus Poppy the postwoman)
Hawkwind sonic attack
3 snippets of the new Porcupine Tree song.
Ozric tentacles Space for The Earth
Envy of none- look inside.
Feeder - Polythene
Pendragon - The Masquerade Overture
Steven Wilson - The Future Bites
Porcupine Tree - Up the Downstair
Wooden Shjips - Back to Land
Pallas - The Wedge
Pendragon - Men Who Climb Mountains
I'm trying to buy The Wegde - very expensive waiting tfor a cheap one to come up on ebay.
Also after Demon- Heart of our time cd. I refuse to buy cds for £30
Some CD prices are plain crazy.
Quote from: Nick on March 02, 2022, 05:46:39 PMEnvy of none- look inside.
it really is music to go to sleep with.. not sure this ethereal type vocal is doing me any favours... its pretty tiresome tbh...
Quote from: Rufus_the_dawg on March 03, 2022, 02:07:37 PMI'm trying to buy The Wegde - very expensive waiting tfor a cheap one to come up on ebay.
Also after Demon- Heart of our time cd. I refuse to buy cds for £30
Some CD prices are plain crazy.
Yeah, I've just looked on ebay at the few CD sales there are for The Wedge. I normally only look at vinyl for sale and The Wedge can be had quite cheaply.
Quote from: Fishy on March 03, 2022, 02:21:34 PMQuote from: Nick on March 02, 2022, 05:46:39 PMEnvy of none- look inside.
it really is music to go to sleep with.. not sure this ethereal type vocal is doing me any favours... its pretty tiresome tbh...
Two listens > Bin
Quote from: Rufus_the_dawg on March 03, 2022, 02:07:37 PMI'm trying to buy The Wegde - very expensive waiting tfor a cheap one to come up on ebay.
Also after Demon- Heart of our time cd. I refuse to buy cds for £30
Some CD prices are plain crazy.
It's on melodishop.com at 320kbps MP3 for $0.80 -
http://melodishop.com/the-wedge-2000-remaster-pallas/release_548004.html
FLACs would be nice, but it's got to be better than putting up with vinyl.
Quote from: Nick on March 03, 2022, 07:09:22 PMQuote from: Fishy on March 03, 2022, 02:21:34 PMQuote from: Nick on March 02, 2022, 05:46:39 PMEnvy of none- look inside.
it really is music to go to sleep with.. not sure this ethereal type vocal is doing me any favours... its pretty tiresome tbh...
Two listens > Bin
Good effort .. two listens.... I barely made one...
New Marillion 8)
Quote from: pdw1 on March 03, 2022, 08:39:34 PMNew Marillion 8)
and....whats it like, bad Marillion or good Marillion?
Quote from: Slim on March 03, 2022, 07:29:51 PMQuote from: Rufus_the_dawg on March 03, 2022, 02:07:37 PMI'm trying to buy The Wegde - very expensive waiting tfor a cheap one to come up on ebay.
Also after Demon- Heart of our time cd. I refuse to buy cds for £30
Some CD prices are plain crazy.
It's on melodishop.com at 320kbps MP3 for $0.80 -
http://melodishop.com/the-wedge-2000-remaster-pallas/release_548004.html
FLACs would be nice, but it's got to be better than putting up with vinyl.
Eh, say what? You surprise me Slim. Vinyl is king :o :P
Quote from: pxr5 on March 03, 2022, 09:38:05 PMQuote from: Slim on March 03, 2022, 07:29:51 PMQuote from: Rufus_the_dawg on March 03, 2022, 02:07:37 PMI'm trying to buy The Wegde - very expensive waiting tfor a cheap one to come up on ebay.
Also after Demon- Heart of our time cd. I refuse to buy cds for £30
Some CD prices are plain crazy.
It's on melodishop.com at 320kbps MP3 for $0.80 -
http://melodishop.com/the-wedge-2000-remaster-pallas/release_548004.html
FLACs would be nice, but it's got to be better than putting up with vinyl.
Eh, say what? You surprise me Slim. Vinyl is king :o :P
I know some people like the way it sounds. It's a matter of taste I guess :)
Van der Graaf Generator - A Grounding in Numbers
IQ - Subterranea
Quote from: Slim on March 03, 2022, 07:29:51 PMQuote from: Rufus_the_dawg on March 03, 2022, 02:07:37 PMI'm trying to buy The Wegde - very expensive waiting tfor a cheap one to come up on ebay.
Also after Demon- Heart of our time cd. I refuse to buy cds for £30
Some CD prices are plain crazy.
QuoteIt's on melodishop.com at 320kbps MP3 for $0.80 -
http://melodishop.com/the-wedge-2000-remaster-pallas/release_548004.html
FLACs would be nice, but it's got to be better than putting up with vinyl.
It's on melodishop.com at 320kbps MP3 for $0.80 -
http://melodishop.com/the-wedge-2000-remaster-pallas/release_548004.html
FLACs would be nice, but it's got to be better than putting up with vinyl.
Thanks for this Slim but would need a standalone dac linked to a server? I have conventional CD amps speakers. I also like to own the hard copy.
Quote from: pxr5 on March 03, 2022, 09:38:05 PMQuote from: Slim on March 03, 2022, 07:29:51 PMQuote from: Rufus_the_dawg on March 03, 2022, 02:07:37 PMI'm trying to buy The Wegde - very expensive waiting tfor a cheap one to come up on ebay.
Also after Demon- Heart of our time cd. I refuse to buy cds for £30
Some CD prices are plain crazy.
if rice crispies are your think......hehhee
It's on melodishop.com at 320kbps MP3 for $0.80 -
http://melodishop.com/the-wedge-2000-remaster-pallas/release_548004.html
FLACs would be nice, but it's got to be better than putting up with vinyl.
Eh, say what? You surprise me Slim. Vinyl is king :o :P
Quote from: Rufus_the_dawg on March 04, 2022, 10:06:36 AMThanks for this Slim but would need a standalone dac linked to a server? I have conventional CD amps speakers. I also like to own the hard copy.
I use my PC, connected to an outboard USB DAC / amp. I have Paradigm monitor speakers connected to that, but I use Sennheiser headphones a lot as well.
I use a Linux utility called Clementine to play music. Organises everything nicely based on the tags.
I do have a standalone CD player but haven't used it for years.
Quote from: pdw1 on March 03, 2022, 09:48:35 PMQuote from: Rufus_the_dawg on March 03, 2022, 09:26:09 PMQuote from: pdw1 on March 03, 2022, 08:39:34 PMNew Marillion 8)
and....whats it like, bad Marillion or good Marillion?
just beautiful
Err...not floating my boat at all. Saw the first Hammersmith gig just before Christmas which was fantastic until they played Be Hard On Yourself, whereupon I nearly dropped off. For me it's very much a case of going through the motions and just pressing the repeat button. As that's repeating the likes of F.E.A.R. and Sounds... it ain't good for me.
Quote from: Slim on March 04, 2022, 11:12:25 AMQuote from: Rufus_the_dawg on March 04, 2022, 10:06:36 AMThanks for this Slim but would need a standalone dac linked to a server? I have conventional CD amps speakers. I also like to own the hard copy.
I use my PC, connected to an outboard USB DAC / amp. I have Paradigm monitor speakers connected to that, but I use Sennheiser headphones a lot as well.
I use a Linux utility called Clementine to play music. Organises everything nicely based on the tags.
I do have a standalone CD player but haven't used it for years.
I use standalone cd players.
XTC - Nonsuch
Big Big Train - Folklore
Having a Our Lady Peace binge this afternoon
Somethingness
Spiritual Machines
Healthy In Paranoid Times
John Mellencamp - Sad Clowns and Hillbillies
Slightly less wobbly vinyl today:
Wobbler - Afterglow
Wobbler - Rites at Dawn
Van Morrison
- Poetic champions compose
- No guru no method no teacher
UFO - Live at the Record Plant, LA, 1975
Pendragon - Love Over Fear what a great album this is.
Marillion - An Hour Before It's Dark I didn't like this at all on first listen, in fact I couldn't even make it to the end. But I persevered and it is growing on me, but I'll never really like Steve Hogarth's vocals.
Pallas - The Sentinel vinyl
Premiata Forneria Marconi - Per Un Amico
Steven Wilson - Insurgentes
Pendragon - The Jewel
Pendragon - Men Who Climb Mountains
Pendragon - Passion
Of the new day - new PT single
oooh, whats it like?
Scorpions - Rock Believer. Cheesier than raclette but some good tunes on this. Amazed they've still got it in 'em to be honest
Bastette - Exposed
The Enid - in the region of the summer stars
Eric Wagner - In The Lonely Light Of Mourning
Porcupine Tree - The Sky Moves Sideways
PT - Of The New Day, love it!
King Crimson - Lizard
Lizard yes yes yes, top KC album
I listened to The Elder by Kiss last night. I've always quite enjoyed it :o
Quote from: David L on March 10, 2022, 01:28:07 PMI listened to The Elder by Kiss last night. I've always quite enjoyed it :o
I like it. Not the worst Kiss album by a long way.
Quote from: Slim on March 10, 2022, 01:38:59 PMQuote from: David L on March 10, 2022, 01:28:07 PMI listened to The Elder by Kiss last night. I've always quite enjoyed it :o
I like it. Not the worst Kiss album by a long way.
World Without Heroes must be Gene's best vocal performance, surely?
How talented is Bruno Mars? I can't get over it
Quote from: Slim on March 10, 2022, 02:58:57 PM
How talented is Bruno Mars? I can't get over it
Talented family, his brother is a great metal guitarist
Pallas - The Wedge vinyl
Pallas - XXV vinyl
Japan - Exorcising Ghosts
back to the new Marillion
Ghost - Impera
Duke Ellington - New Orleans suite
Tori Amos- Under the pink
Pendragon - Pure
Jethro Tull - Aqualung
Joni Mitchell - Mingus
Getting in touch with my mild side:
Kraftwerk - Trans Europe Express
King Crimson - Discipline
Various - Meet on the Ledge (Am introduction to Folk Rock)
Tori Amos - From the chiro girl Hotel.
Transatlantic - SMPT:e
Big Big Train - Welcome to the Planet
Pallas - Cross and crucible.
Utopia RA
Chattabix-very funny podcast indeed
Forever Autumn came up on one of my Spotify playlists and it made me listen to War of The Worlds in its entirety. Very enjoyable. Much better than the Tom Cruise version!
From there to Porcupine Dream. On the Sunday of Life and then Stupid Dream.
(That was all yesterday btw while cutting the grass and walking the dog)
Twelfth Night - Fact and Fiction
Pendragon - Believe
Eric Wagner - In The Lonely Light Of Mourning
Trouble - The Skull
Quote from: Rufus_the_dawg on March 03, 2022, 02:07:37 PMI'm trying to buy The Wegde - very expensive waiting tfor a cheap one to come up on ebay.
Also after Demon- Heart of our time cd. I refuse to buy cds for £30
Some CD prices are plain crazy.
Just seen The Sentinel on ebay going quite cheap at the moment - I'll still keep an eye out for The Wedge.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/304397531627?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l9372
Arena - Contagion
It Bites - The Tall Ships
Strapping Young Lad - City
moon halo - Together Again (excellent prog-infused pop from York, with connections to Mostly Autumn)
Tangerine Dream - Phaedra
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Southern Accents
Last night:
David Sylvian - Brilliant Trees
Marillion - An Hour Before It's Dark
Today on vinyl:
King Crimson - USA (2LP version)
Transatlantic - SMPT:e
Limelight/Vital Signs-Live at YYZ 1981
Tori Amos -From the choir girl hotel
Duke Ellington Far eat suite
Tangerine Dream - Rubycon
IQ - Subterranea I only found out the other day that a movie based on this album came out a few years ago. I've got a copy, but quite poor ratings https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2291284/
Metal Church - The Dark
Metal Church - Blessing In Disguise
King Crimson - Glasgow 1973
From out of the Starless Box Set
Von Hertzen Brothers - Red Alert in the Blue Forest (One Red album, one Blue album)
Rikard Sjoblom's Gungfly - Friendship
(Why does so much good music come from Fenno-Scandinavia?)
The Mars Volta
De loused in the comatorium
Frances the Mute
Quote from: pxr5 on March 16, 2022, 07:30:46 PMJust seen The Sentinel on ebay going quite cheap at the moment - I'll still keep an eye out for The Wedge.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/304397531627?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l9372
Thank for this, I have the larger CD digi pack. re-release
https://www.discogs.com/release/2738939-Pallas-The-Sentinel/image/SW1hZ2U6Njk1Nzk5NA==
Pendragon - The Masquerade Overture
Lonely Robot - Feelings Are Good
REO Speedwagon - You Get What You Play For
Hath-All that was promised
Dont imagine there will be many better extreme/death metal releases than this in 2022. Very good indeed
Some new Muse tracks. Won't Stand Down, and Compliance. New album "Will Of The People" due in August.
Quote from: R6GYY on March 21, 2022, 10:02:16 AMSome new Muse tracks. Won't Stand Down, and Compliance. New album "Will Of The People" due in August.
They're okay - they don't sound as strong as anything on Simulation Theory but they might be growers; we'll see. :)
Quote from: Hugh on March 21, 2022, 09:39:08 PMQuote from: R6GYY on March 21, 2022, 10:02:16 AMSome new Muse tracks. Won't Stand Down, and Compliance. New album "Will Of The People" due in August.
I think one day I will love Muse. I'm just not quite there yet!
Yes I agree, I should also love Muse but I dont know.....
Caravan - It's None of Your Business -from last year. It's not great, so to cheer myself up I played:
Camel - Mirage -mmm, that's better.
Gentle Giant - Interview
Gentle Giant - The Missing Piece
The Mars volt - Frances the Mute
Amazing.
3 - Live in San Jose 1986
Black Sabbath
AC/Dc - Let There Be Rock Live In Paris from the Bonfire box set
christ what a band
Pallas - The Cross and the Crucible
Thank you scientist --various songs on you tube.
Asia live 1992
Prompted by discussion elsewhere, Close to the Edge.
Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast
40 years old this week
inspired this top 30
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/mar/25/iron-maiden-30-greatest-songs-ranked
Quote from: Slim on March 25, 2022, 06:57:37 PMPrompted by discussion elsewhere, Close to the Edge.
have you read Siddhartha by Herman Hesse? After this album where could Yes go? Tales is a let down, Relayer lacked melody, GftO is okayish, Awaken is a great song though. There is alot of great music on all these albums but they are not CTTE, 90125 is the next best best Yes album after CTTE for me. It wipes the slate clean and says look we are this brilliant pop band. And its better than any of the pop Genesis albums.
Rush: Hold Your Fire
Rosalie Cunningham - Two Piece Puzzle (Orange and Green Vinyl)
King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King
Yes - Close to the Edge (Steven Wilson remix)
Riverside Second Life Syndrome
Japan - Exorcising Ghosts Vinyl
Marillion - An Hour Before It's Dark This does get a lot better on repeated listens
Robin Trower - Long Misty Days
Steven Wilson - Grace for Drowning
Listening to a few tunes from HYF while I try to acclimatise to the working week and getting up an hour earlier.
Motorhead-No Sleep Til Hammersmith 40th edition. The Newcastle extra disc.
Think whoever was there that night witnessed something fairly special
I think I may well have been, will have to check.
Marillion - Marbles
Quote from: Slim on March 28, 2022, 11:05:53 AMI think I may well have been, will have to check.
I wasn't. My last Motorhead gig was at the Mayfair in Newcastle, October 1980.
Ace of Spades had just come out as a single, but the album wasn't out yet. Good night.
Marillion - An Hour Before It's Dark
Eric Wagner - In The Lonely Light Of Mourning
Neal Morse - Jesus Christ the Exorcist - a whole 1hr 50mins long :o
Amplifier - The Octopus
Airbag - Disconnected
The Jimi Hendrix Concerts
Had the vinyl since 1982, finally upgraded it to CD format.
Iron Maiden - killers
Allan Holdsworth - Secrets
The Pretty Reckless - Death By Rock And Roll
Solstice - Prophecy what a lovely, great sounding album this is. It also has 3 bonus tracks which are remixes of older songs - remixed by none other than Steven Wilson.
RHCP - Endless love.. meh
HYF rush
P(r)esto
Von Hertzen Brothers - Red Alert in the Blue Forest
Finland's Finest.
Rush - Roll the bones, took it off half way through, not very good!
King Crimson - Discipline
Neal Morse - Jesus Christ the Exorcist again
Solstice - Prophecy again
Spock's Beard - Snow
Amplifier - Trippin' with Dr Faustus
Genesis - Foxtrot
Hatfield and the North - Hatfield and the North
Jethro Tull - Heavy Horses (Steven Wilson Remix)
Hawkwind - Warrior on the Edge of Time
Riverside - Second Life Syndrome
Quote from: Fishy on April 02, 2022, 09:47:34 PMQuote from: Rufus_the_dawg on April 02, 2022, 03:25:33 PMKing Crimson - Discipline
Great album that....👍
I was listen to Presto and Roll the bones and was thinking there was something maths rock 80s KC about them so I listened to Discipline. Yes its a great album better than the Rush.
T2 - It'll All Work Out In Boomland
Anthony Phillips - The Geese and the Ghost
Amplifier - Echo Street, Matmos deserves more recognition (as do Amplifier come to that!)
Half Man Half Biscuit - The Voltarol Years,
no finer wordsmiths than the Bards of Birkenvegas 😂
Rosalie Cunningham - Two Piece Puzzle
Swans - Children of God
Cardiacs - Sing to God
Nektar - A Tab in the Ocean
Nektar - Remember the Future
T2 - It'll all Work Out in Boomland what a great find this was - from 1970 and just brilliant
Steven Wilson - 4.5
Jakszyk, Fripp and Collins - A Scarcity Of Miracles vinyl
Even In The Quietest Moments - Supertramp after Alex said it was his favourite album from 77. Its a decent enough album that ends brilliantly with , Babaji, From Now On (Rick Davies best vocal) and the epic Fool's Overture.
Vapor Trails
Quote from: David L on April 05, 2022, 11:43:28 PMVapor Trails
Is this like some sort of punishment, like when the devout catholics wear a celice (or however it is spelled)
Eloy - Dawn
Anekdoten - Until All the Ghosts are Gone
Quote from: dom on April 05, 2022, 07:03:08 PMEven In The Quietest Moments - Supertramp after Alex said it was his favourite album from 77. Its a decent enough album that ends brilliantly with , Babaji, From Now On (Rick Davies best vocal) and the epic Fool's Overture.
He must be mad so many better albums in 77 than that....
Giving Snakes and Ladders another go... it's not going well...
Never much liked Supertramp - except for Logical Song, which is a brilliant tune.
Really love their 1st album. Really disappointed when it was removed from Spotify a while back. Crime of the Century is a classic, and they were pretty strong throughout the 70s.
Their live album recorded in Paris in 79 is excellent.
Quote from: dom on April 06, 2022, 04:50:49 PMReally love their 1st album. Really disappointed when it was removed from Spotify a while back. Crime of the Century is a classic, and they were pretty strong throughout the 70s.
Their live album recorded in Paris in 79 is excellent.
If I have time tomorrow I will do a poll...best album from 1977, bet its bloody Animals.
Quote from: pxr5 on April 03, 2022, 04:12:40 PMT2 - It'll All Work Out In Boomland
Anthony Phillips - The Geese and the Ghost
What is the Antony Philips like?
Quote from: pxr5 on April 05, 2022, 06:31:41 PMSwans - Children of God
Cardiacs - Sing to God
Nektar - A Tab in the Ocean
Nektar - Remember the Future
T2 - It'll all Work Out in Boomland what a great find this was - from 1970 and just brilliant
Steven Wilson - 4.5
Jakszyk, Fripp and Collins - A Scarcity Of Miracles vinyl
What do you think of the cardiacs. which is your favourite cd 1 or 2? And what is King crimson project like, it has mixed reviews.
Quote from: David L on April 05, 2022, 11:43:28 PMVapor Trails
is it still really really awful? did it remove the wax from your ears and are your ears bleeding.
Just wondering what are your thoughts on Chemtrails?
Quote from: Rufus_the_dawg on April 06, 2022, 09:48:52 PMQuote from: David L on April 05, 2022, 11:43:28 PMVapor Trails
is it still really really awful? did it remove the wax from your ears and are your ears bleeding.
Just wondering what are your thoughts on Chemtrails?
Good record, bad sound
Quote from: David L on April 06, 2022, 09:52:03 PMQuote from: Rufus_the_dawg on April 06, 2022, 09:48:52 PMQuote from: David L on April 05, 2022, 11:43:28 PMVapor Trails
is it still really really awful? did it remove the wax from your ears and are your ears bleeding.
Just wondering what are your thoughts on Chemtrails?
Good record, bad sound
No/yes
ESL is a good record/bad sound
VT is shit, even when remixed. In fact, even more so, because now there are no excuses
Envy of None.. mmmm not sure. I don't think I like it... hats off to Lifeson for taking this direction.. if u thought Victor was a-bit left field then get a load of this...
40 odd minutes of dreamy ethereal singing except the last acoustic track I don't think is my bag...
Edit.. couple of songs are getting better after another listen. Dog's Life and Look Inside
Gossipmongers
Nearly lost a rib laughing at the Dolphin Fingerer gossip
Quote from: Rufus_the_dawg on April 06, 2022, 09:43:10 PMQuote from: pxr5 on April 03, 2022, 04:12:40 PMT2 - It'll All Work Out In Boomland
Anthony Phillips - The Geese and the Ghost
What is the Antony Philips like?
Hmm, like a watered down, mellower version of Genesis. It's OK, but drags on a bit - it's mainly guitars too and starts to get dull.
Quote from: Rufus_the_dawg on April 06, 2022, 09:45:02 PMQuote from: pxr5 on April 05, 2022, 06:31:41 PMSwans - Children of God
Cardiacs - Sing to God
Nektar - A Tab in the Ocean
Nektar - Remember the Future
T2 - It'll all Work Out in Boomland what a great find this was - from 1970 and just brilliant
Steven Wilson - 4.5
Jakszyk, Fripp and Collins - A Scarcity Of Miracles vinyl
What do you think of the cardiacs. which is your favourite cd 1 or 2? And what is King crimson project like, it has mixed reviews.
Cardiacs are brilliantly bonkers - I love them, like a punk/prog cross (Pronk?). CD1 is more frantic with lots of energy; CD2 is more accessible and a mite calmer. My favourite track is on CD2 - 'Nurses Whispering Verses'. All their studio albums are great though.
The KC Project album is like a soft jazzy album. You can hear the KC sounds but it's a different beast than say Red. An easy album to listen to, it's very accessible but with enough going on to make it interesting too.
Quote from: pxr5 on April 07, 2022, 01:33:06 PMHmm, like a watered down, mellower version of Genesis. It's OK, but drags on a bit - it's mainly guitars too and starts to get dull.
I've heard of this record, but never actually heard it. Just listened to a bit on YouTube, more than anything to me it sounds a bit rough like a home demo.
Just read a bit about it on Wikipedia; Rutherford and Phillips spent £3000 on multi-track tape recorders and a mixing desk for the album, but the tape decks went wrong and recorded unwanted clicks over the recordings before they were fixed.
DIY recording is a lot easier now.
The soft Machine vol 1 and 2
Quote from: Slim on April 07, 2022, 02:14:15 PMQuote from: pxr5 on April 07, 2022, 01:33:06 PMHmm, like a watered down, mellower version of Genesis. It's OK, but drags on a bit - it's mainly guitars too and starts to get dull.
I've heard of this record, but never actually heard it. Just listened to a bit on YouTube, more than anything to me it sounds a bit rough like a home demo.
Just read a bit about it on Wikipedia; Rutherford and Phillips spent £3000 on multi-track tape recorders and a mixing desk for the album, but the tape decks went wrong and recorded unwanted clicks over the recordings before they were fixed.
DIY recording is a lot easier now.
I bought that album back in the day. The only song I remember is God If I Saw her now, sung by Phil Collins and some woman. Nice enough song, nothing special. Can't remember anything else about it but I'll give it a listen and see what memories it brings.
Quote from: dom on April 07, 2022, 04:09:10 PMQuote from: Slim on April 07, 2022, 02:14:15 PMQuote from: pxr5 on April 07, 2022, 01:33:06 PMHmm, like a watered down, mellower version of Genesis. It's OK, but drags on a bit - it's mainly guitars too and starts to get dull.
I've heard of this record, but never actually heard it. Just listened to a bit on YouTube, more than anything to me it sounds a bit rough like a home demo.
Just read a bit about it on Wikipedia; Rutherford and Phillips spent £3000 on multi-track tape recorders and a mixing desk for the album, but the tape decks went wrong and recorded unwanted clicks over the recordings before they were fixed.
DIY recording is a lot easier now.
I bought that album back in the day. The only song I remember is God If I Saw her now, sung by Phil Collins and some woman. Nice enough song, nothing special. Can't remember anything else about it but I'll give it a listen and see what memories it brings.
Just did a little reading there and saw that "some woman" was Vivienne McAuliffe. She died in 1998 at the age of 50. Thought she deserved a little more respect than I gave her initially!
Just found this on YouTube - Vivienne's first band, Affinity. Nice!
Couldnt find a download unfortunately. There's a box set available for £20-odd quid, but I think I'll pass.
Muse - The Resistance (first listen in years, still as bombastically brilliant as I remember it 😁)
William Duvall - One Alone
Envy of None.. third time round....
Envy Of None.
I keep thinking of the time when Mike Portnoy of Dream Theater joined Avenged Sevenfold, and it just felt odd.
Porcupine Tree - Yellow Hedgerow Dreamscape (Remaster)
Porcupine Tree - Recordings
Jeff Beck Guitar shop
Quote from: Fishy on April 06, 2022, 02:28:58 PMGiving Snakes and Ladders another go... it's not going well...
At the latest count there are at least a million better albums than that ;)
Quote from: dom on April 08, 2022, 08:10:22 PMQuote from: Fishy on April 06, 2022, 02:28:58 PMGiving Snakes and Ladders another go... it's not going well...
At the latest count there are at least a million better albums than that ;)
Make it a million and one.. Envy of None pisses all over it as well😂
Envy of None
Porcupine Tree - Lightbulb Sun
IQ - Resistance
Pendragon - The Jewel
The Smile - Pana-vision (a single I heard at the end of Peaky Blinders' last ever episode and loved it - I looked it up and The Smile are Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood and Tom Skinner. A nice sound)
The Enid - Aerie Faerie Nonsense (sure is, and that's no bad thing)
Styx - Pieces of Eight
Frank Zappa - Sheik Yerbouti
Quote from: pxr5 on April 09, 2022, 06:42:04 PMIQ - Resistance
Keep meaning to buy this, how does it compare to Road of Bones?
Quote from: Rufus_the_dawg on April 10, 2022, 01:23:31 PMQuote from: pxr5 on April 09, 2022, 06:42:04 PMIQ - Resistance
Keep meaning to buy this, how does it compare to Road of Bones?
It's quite similar, but not quite as good as Road of Bones. I've got it on red vinyl too as well as CD - I've yet to open the vinyl yet lol.
A real odd mix, started with:
Hatfield and the North - The Rotters Club
then
Judas Priest - Sin After Sin early Priest (up to Killing Machine) is great. For me it all went awry with British Steel
Love that Hatfield record, especially Underdub. And completely agree about British Steel, it always seemed deliberately dumbed-down to me. Cartoon metal. I stopped buying their albums after that, although I've bought a couple of the later ones since.
Quote from: Slim on April 10, 2022, 05:13:23 PMLove that Hatfield record, especially Underdub. And completely agree about British Steel, it always seemed deliberately dumbed-down to me. Cartoon metal. I stopped buying their albums after that, although I've bought a couple of the later ones since.
Mumps is my favourite on The Rotters' Club. I totally agree with your summing up of British Steel. I did persevere with Priest after British Steel. I got Point of Entry (not good), Screaming for Vengeance (good), Defenders of the Faith (OK), Turbo (not good). Nothing since though.
Quote from: Slim on April 10, 2022, 05:13:23 PMAnd completely agree about British Steel, it always seemed deliberately dumbed-down to me. Cartoon metal. I stopped buying their albums after that, although I've bought a couple of the later ones since.
Same for me and yet I love stupid METAL, Manowar anyone?
I do regret not going to see Priest on the
British Steel tour though as it was shot at Sheffield City Hall and some of my mates made it onto the video.
Quote from: Nickslikk2112 on April 10, 2022, 09:51:05 PMI do regret not going to see Priest on the British Steel tour though as it was shot at Sheffield City Hall and some of my mates made it onto the video.
And Iron Maiden opened up for them! I was at the previous night, at Manchester. Didn't know there was a video of that tour.
Much like two years earlier for the AFTK tour, I spent a miserable cold night at a railway station waiting for the first train. Only one night this time, though.
The Allman Brothers Band - At Filmore East
Quote from: Slim on April 10, 2022, 10:12:27 PMQuote from: Nickslikk2112 on April 10, 2022, 09:51:05 PMI do regret not going to see Priest on the British Steel tour though as it was shot at Sheffield City Hall and some of my mates made it onto the video.
And Iron Maiden opened up for them! I was at the previous night, at Manchester. Didn't know there was a video of that tour.
Much like two years earlier for the AFTK tour, I spent a miserable cold night at a railway station waiting for the first train. Only one night this time, though.
The video was only the Promo for Living after Midnight.
Soft Machine - Third
Soft Machine - Bundles
Robert Wyatt - Rock Bottom
The Smile - The Smoke, You Will Never Work in Television Again, Pana-Vision
Hawkwind Light Orchestra - Stellar Variations
Tori Amos - From the choirgirl hotel. It's an astonishingly brilliant album, can not stop listening to it, its driving my wife nuts.
Buzzcocks - singles going steady
Quote from: Hugh on April 12, 2022, 01:46:29 PMLiving Colour - Time's Up
Great album still Envy of none here
Caravan - In the Land of Grey and Pink (2011 remix)
Echolyn - Cowboy Poems Free
David Sylvian - Secrets of the Beehive
Rush - Hold Your Fire
Re-Animator - Deny Reality
Racer X - Second Heat
Supertramp - Even In The Quietest Moments
Frank Marino - Full Circle
Rush - Signals
Bjorn Riis - Everything to Everyone
Still Envy of None but it's getting to new album overload now I think...
Marillion - An Hour Before Its Dark
I am really enjoying this. Up there with their best.
Just for Dom
Beach Boys -Smile
Quote from: pdw1 on April 13, 2022, 09:23:47 PMMarillion - An Hour Before Its Dark
I am really enjoying this. Up there with their best.
I've tried again, still seems incredibly Marillion by numbers to me, just doesn't seem to go anywhere? Some of the fan reaction on Social Media borders on Emperors New Clothes syndrome. Oh well, each to his own I guess :)
Magenta - Seven
David Sylvian - Gone to Earth some of Fripp's guitar playing on this is brilliant
Pendragon - The Jewel (2005 remaster)
Moon Safari - [blomljud] (CD1)
Quote from: Nickslikk2112 on April 14, 2022, 01:01:18 PMQuote from: Rufus_the_dawg on April 14, 2022, 09:39:02 AMBeach Boys -Smile
:(
The Beach Boys are shit LOL
The Beach Boys have written a lot of shit music, they have also written some amazing music. Probably about 4 cds worth.
Vinyls:
Wobbler - Rites at Dawn
Frost* - Falling Satellites
Quote from: Pudders on April 14, 2022, 10:07:11 AMQuote from: pdw1 on April 13, 2022, 09:23:47 PMMarillion - An Hour Before Its Dark
I am really enjoying this. Up there with their best.
I've tried again, still seems incredibly Marillion by numbers to me, just doesn't seem to go anywhere? Some of the fan reaction on Social Media borders on Emperors New Clothes syndrome. Oh well, each to his own I guess :)
I know what you mean about Social Media. I have to admit to being a bit of a fanboi and just really excited to hear new music.
Hawklords - 25 Years On
Envy of None - eponymous (In no hurry to revisit)
Pink Floyd - Obscured by Clouds
Motorpsycho - Behind the Sun
Rush HYF
A blast from the early seventies with a couple of brilliant heavy prog albums:
Uriah Heep - Salisbury
T2 - It'll All Work Out in Boomland - OMG I love this. It ticks all my boxes for a great album. It's a one off but so glad I discovered it all these years later
this sound interesting.
Quote from: Hugh on April 17, 2022, 04:56:15 PMQuote from: pxr5 on April 17, 2022, 02:18:41 PMA blast from the early seventies with a couple of brilliant heavy prog albums:
Uriah Heep - Salisbury
T2 - It'll All Work Out in Boomland - OMG I love this. It ticks all my boxes for a great album. It's a one off but so glad I discovered it all these years later
Thanks for this. I'd honestly never heard of T2 before. Just had a listen to the album on YT and will definitely revisit it. A lot of great comments about the band on there.
I hadn't heard of them until a couple of weeks ago either. I've played it 4 or 5 times now and I really rate it. Shame they couldn't do anything like this again. The little I know of T2 was there was only 3 of them and the guitarist was only 17 when this album was recorded. I think this is one of those little gems that crops up now and again. It really is worth a listen.
Van Der Graaf Generator - Godbluff
Uriah Heep - Look at Yourself
Haken - The Mountain
Porcupine Tree - Fear of a Blank Planet vinyl
Echolyn - mei
Echolyn - Cowboy Poems Free
Radio 5 Live..umm
Soul Asylum - The Silver Lining
Marillion - B'Sides themselves
Billy Gibbons - Perfectamundo
Rush - Live in YYZ 1981
Quote from: David L on April 19, 2022, 08:26:25 PMRush - Live in YYZ 1981
Moi aussi....that's ESL binned then👍
Quote from: Fishy on April 20, 2022, 02:08:41 PMQuote from: David L on April 19, 2022, 08:26:25 PMRush - Live in YYZ 1981
Moi aussi....that's ESL binned then👍
I still like the cover art though (for ESL)
Mike Oldfield - Ommadawn
Envy of None - Envy of None
Quote from: Jonners on April 20, 2022, 05:01:36 PMQuote from: Fishy on April 20, 2022, 02:08:41 PMQuote from: David L on April 19, 2022, 08:26:25 PMRush - Live in YYZ 1981
Moi aussi....that's ESL binned then👍
I still like the cover art though (for ESL)
Yes it's nice ..still getting binned... a bit like Live in Rio totally unlistenable....
Devin Townsend - Infinity
Breathing Space - Below the Radar Live
BBC Radio 4.
Pendragon - The World
Devin Townsend - Physicist
Joe Satriani - The Elephants Of Mars
Van der Graaf Generator - H To He, Who Am The Only One
Camel - Mirage
Ian McNabb - Utopia
Paul Personne - Lost In Paris Blues Band
Billy Gibbons - The Big Bad Blues. Looking forward to the ZZ Top "Raw" release later in July.
To The Bone - Steven Wilson
Devin Townsend - Terria
Marillion - An Hour Before Its Dark
Live - The Distance To Here
Record Store Day :D Managed to get my no.1 releas this year: Charles Mingus The Lost Album from Ronnie Scott's. So that's on the turntable right now.
Von Hertzen Brothers - Red Alert in the Blue Forest
Montrose - Paper Money
Pink Floyd - Soundtrack from the film More
Sea Power - Everything Was Forever
John Scofield - Blue Matter
Talking Heads - Remain In Light
Talking Heads - Fear Of Music
Gentle Giant - Acquiring the Taste
Japan - Tin Drum
A Silver Mt. Zion
BORN INTO TROUBLE AS THE SPARKS FLY UPWARDS
Izzy Stradlin And The Ju Ju Hounds
why do rhythm guitarists make the best solo albums?
Cardiacs - Sing to God
Gary Moore - After The War
Spiritualized - everything was beautiful
One of the record store day pick ups: Rory Gallagher Live in San Diego '74. There seems an unendless supply of fantastic Gallagher stuff about. Loving this, as expected.
Demians - Building An Empire
a lost prog masterpiece
Kenn Nardi - Trauma
Gleb Kolyadin - water movements
Gentle Giant - Three Friends
Gentle Giant - Octopus
King L ...A great day for gravity
Quote from: pdw1 on April 24, 2022, 08:19:06 PMGary Moore - After The War
I remember having a GM LP, bloody brilliant, I have tried and tried to find out what album it was. It was a wonderful heavy rock album I think it had a yellow cover. Heavy rock. I spent a good 4 hours searching and listening to different albums but non of them sounded right. They all sounded cheesy.
Do make say thing- &yet&yet
Stunning post rock
Pink Floyd - Meddle
Yes - Tales From Topographic Oceans
Do make say think - Winter hymn country hymn secret hymn
Live in YYZ 👌
Porcupine Tree - Coma Divine
Todd Rundgren - Todd
Quote from: Slim on April 27, 2022, 01:15:42 PMTodd Rundgren - Todd
What dy think of that album??
Quote from: Fishy on April 27, 2022, 04:45:37 PMQuote from: Slim on April 27, 2022, 01:15:42 PMTodd Rundgren - Todd
What dy think of that album??
I think it's brilliant in parts but like a lot of his earlier stuff, a bit self-indulgent and unfocussed. Overlong. Have to be in the right mood for it. I never listen to the whole thing all at once, I must admit.
Quote from: Slim on April 27, 2022, 05:46:09 PMQuote from: Fishy on April 27, 2022, 04:45:37 PMQuote from: Slim on April 27, 2022, 01:15:42 PMTodd Rundgren - Todd
What dy think of that album??
I think it's brilliant in parts but like a lot of his earlier stuff, a bit self-indulgent and unfocussed. Overlong. Have to be in the right mood for it. I never listen to the whole thing all at once, I must admit.
Always found it interesting that he released this as a double album and then the next album (Initiation) which clocked in around the same 66 odd mins was released as a single album and side 2 was indulgent to the max..( but still very good imho)
It's unfortunate that such a brilliant writer and performer spent so much time fannying around with the studio technology. Best tune on that album of course, I assume most people would agree, is
A Dream Goes On Forever - my favourite version is here on the BBC special from forty years ago.
.. about 31 mins in.
I did record it to VHS all those years ago but my idiot brother either lost it or recorded over it. You can get it on DVD but last time I checked, it was extortionate.
Ah well, at least it's on YouTube.
Porcupine Tree - Arriving Somewhere
Quote from: Slim on April 27, 2022, 10:10:16 PMIt's unfortunate that such a brilliant writer and performer spent so much time fannying around with the studio technology. Best tune on that album of course, I assume most people would agree, is A Dream Goes On Forever - my favourite version is here on the BBC special from forty years ago.
.. about 31 mins in.
I did record it to VHS all those years ago but my idiot brother either lost it or recorded over it. You can get it on DVD but last time I checked, it was extortionate.
Ah well, at least it's on YouTube.
Ah yes the OGWT introduced by Anne Nightingale..I remember being super excited to watch having seeing Todd@ Playhouse in Edinburgh in May of that year... good times... A Man on his Todd tour I think it was...
On You tube watching, listing to a Reaction of Cardiacs- Sing to God- part 4
Steve Hackett - Surrender of Silence latest album, pretty good
The Emerald Dawn - To Touch the Sky
T2 - It'll All Work Out in Boomland vinyl
Echolyn - mei
tool - Fear Inoculum
Jeff Beck - Loud Hailer
Alice in Chains - The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here
Johnny Marr - Fever Dreams Pts 1 - 4
Alter Bridge - One Day Remains
Pink Floyd - Piper at the Gates of Dawn
Porcupine Tree - Anesthetize
Haken, The Mountain. Too jazzy for my tastes, gave up at about halfway.
Moved onto Riverside, Rapid Eye Movement. Much better, on my home ground there
Tori Amos - the Beekeeper
Ghost Imperia
A couple of Porcupine Tree EPs:
Futile
Nil Recurring
Pere ubu - worlds in collision
Finally got round to listening to Live in YYZ
Good isnt it.
Quote from: pdw1 on May 02, 2022, 06:52:03 PMFinally got round to listening to Live in YYZ
Good isnt it.
I played this last night. Bloody hell, it is brilliant. I think I'll have to get the 5LP version.
Also today:
Echolyn - I Heard You Listening
Echolyn - Echolyn (2012)
Yes - 90125 and Big Generator
Led Zep - Houses of the Holy
Airbag - Disconnected
Wishbone Ash - New England
British Sea Power - Do You Like Rock Music?
Iron Maiden-BBC Archives (Live)
Couple of great sets from Reading, one with Paul, one with Bruce.
Love them or loathe them now, back in the day they were on fire!
Wobbler - Afterglow
Wobbler - Rites at Dawn
Cinderella - Long Cold Winter
Sleep Token - This Place Will Become Your Tomb
in the car on the way home from a mighty Tool show
Quote from: dom on May 03, 2022, 01:26:55 PMYes - 90125 and Big Generator
Thoughts on BG? I love 90125
Quote from: Rufus_the_dawg on May 05, 2022, 01:36:26 AMQuote from: dom on May 03, 2022, 01:26:55 PMYes - 90125 and Big Generator
Thoughts on BG? I love 90125
Not quite as good as 90125 but still the 2nd best Yes album.
Quote from: pdw1 on May 05, 2022, 08:42:06 AMQuote from: Rufus_the_dawg on May 05, 2022, 01:36:26 AMQuote from: dom on May 03, 2022, 01:26:55 PMYes - 90125 and Big Generator
Thoughts on BG? I love 90125
Have you heard Talk, its wonderful.
Not quite as good as 90125 but still the 2nd best Yes album.
Opeth - Damnation
The Emerald Dawn - Nocturne
Tool - 10,000 Days
Wo Fat - Singularity, new record. What an album, wow!
Quote from: Rufus_the_dawg on May 05, 2022, 01:36:26 AMQuote from: dom on May 03, 2022, 01:26:55 PMYes - 90125 and Big Generator
Thoughts on BG? I love 90125
Even though all the elements that made 90125 so brilliant are there it doesn't quite gel for me. Not quite sure why? Perhaps it was down to the song writing
Primus - Live in Houston TX 2021.09.07
a bit of primus, a farewell to kings and an encore to finish
not the best of recordings but fun
Scorpions - Fly To The Rainbow
Envy Of None - S/T
Quote from: pdw1 on May 05, 2022, 09:14:54 PMPrimus - Live in Houston TX 2021.09.07
a bit of primus, a farewell to kings and an encore to finish
not the best of recordings but fun
Seeing them in October I belive. Also: they have a new EP out: Conspiranoia
PFM - Storia Di Un Minuto
PFM - Per Un Amico
PRR - Above Cirrus
Wachenfeldt-Faustian Reawakening
Extreme metal does not get any better than this
Absolutely magnificent
Flock Of Seagulls: The Best Of
Camel - Mirage
Steve Vai - Passion And Warfare
Von Hertzen Brothers - Stars Aligned
Steven Wilson - Grace For Drowning
Arcade Fire - WE
Been listening to vinyl and watching birds fly by the window:
Armored Saint - March of the Saint
Hallas - Isle of Wisdom
Von Hertzen Brothers - New Day Rising
Hugh Cornwell..Guilty
Transatlantic - Bridge Across Forever
Pallas - The Sentinel
Pallas - The Wedge
Pure Reason Revolution - Above Cirrus
John Sykes ..Bad boy live
Spiritualized - Everything Was Beautiful
Pure Reason Revolution - Eupnea
Von Hertzen Brothers - Red Alert in the Blue Forest wow, this is a great album
Great news too.
black midi have announced a new album - Hellfire 15 July 22 along with a new single out yesterday which I've played many times - great it is too
https://www.nme.com/news/music/black-midi-share-new-song-welcome-to-hell-and-unveil-details-of-new-album-3221468
Mike Campbell & the dirty knobs - External Combustion
In the Car today:
Von Hertzen Brothers - Nine Lives
Von Hertzen Brothers - Red Alert in the Blue Forest (Started but not finished)
Revision for when I see them on Thursday :)
Von Hertzen Brothers - Love Remains the Same
and the new single by black midi a few more times
Muse - Black Holes And Revelations
Muse - Drones
brilliant concert last night :D
and now The Resistance
No-Man - Wild Opera
No-Man - Flowermouth
An now on Vinyl:
Porcupine Tree - Up the Downstair
Porcupine Tree- Signify
Wll be ginving the album by The Smile a listen today: 'new' band with Thom Yorke & Johnny Greendwood, there's lots of Radiohead vibes here. Singles were great.
https://thesmile.bandcamp.com/album/a-light-for-attracting-attention
Arch Enemy - Stigmata
Arch Enemy - Khaos Legions
Quote from: Thenop on May 13, 2022, 05:55:23 AMWll be ginving the album by The Smile a listen today: 'new' band with Thom Yorke & Johnny Greendwood, there's lots of Radiohead vibes here. Singles were great.
https://thesmile.bandcamp.com/album/a-light-for-attracting-attention
Yes, I enjoyed the singles too - I'll try to get a copy of the album.
Now playing:
Gentle Giant - The Power and The Glory
Quote from: Thenop on May 13, 2022, 05:55:23 AMWll be ginving the album by The Smile a listen today: 'new' band with Thom Yorke & Johnny Greendwood, there's lots of Radiohead vibes here. Singles were great.
https://thesmile.bandcamp.com/album/a-light-for-attracting-attention
That's great, will download it later.
The Smile
New Black Keys
Autechre - Incunabula
On some disturbing coloured Vinyl:
Piledriver - Metal Inquistion
Wobbler - Afterglow
Moon Tooth-Pototroph
Reckon a few on here will like this
https://www.angrymetalguy.com/moon-tooth-phototroph-review/
Anacrusis - Screams And Whispers
No-man - Flowermouth
Pure Reason Revolution - Above Cirrus
B. B. King - His Definitive Greatest Hits
Jeff Healey - Live 1988.11.15 Toronto
Cutting Crew - Broadcast
UFO - The Wild, The Willing and the Innocent
Thunder - Dopamine
Yazz Ahmed's La Saboteuse whilst sitting outside enjoying the lush weather here while on vacation for a week.
Things could be worse.
Von Hertzen Brothers - Red Alert in the Blue Forest gets better with each play - my top album by them.
Pure Reason Revolution - Eupnea -
Quote from: pxr5 on May 18, 2022, 03:38:56 PMVon Hertzen Brothers - Red Alert in the Blue Forest gets better with each play - my top album by them.
Love Remains the Same is still my favourite, but Red Alert is certainly a grower. Why they're playing clubs and not Arenas I don't know, but it means I can still get up close and personal - but not as close as Mrs S - for £16 :)
They'd probably win Eurovision too if they entered.
Tool - Fear Inoculum
A Hue and Cry best of. They certainly did write and perform beautifully.
Quote from: Slim on May 19, 2022, 12:36:37 AMA Hue and Cry best of. They certainly did write and perform beautifully.
Saw them back in the day at The Oxford New Theatre at the behest of my then girlfriend. Never got to know which was which though
No-man - Returning Jesus
Von Hertzen Brothers - War is Over
Marillion - An Hour Before Its Dark
New Kendrick Lamar
I don't get it. But then I am nearly 50...
Quote from: Slim on May 19, 2022, 12:36:37 AMA Hue and Cry best of. They certainly did write and perform beautifully.
Hue and Cry were at their peak when my wife and I first going out and they had some good, well-played tunes back in the day. If I remember correctly Kane is a big supporter of Scottish independence, even married to an MSP at one time.
Porcupine Tree - Herd culling
Riverside - Out of Myself
Steven Wilson - To the Bone
Quote from: Nick on May 20, 2022, 09:17:01 AMPorcupine Tree - Herd culling
I'm really tempted to play this, but I'm going to be disciplined and wait for the album to come out (next month). It's also a single edit, so the album version will be different.
Vangelis Soil Festivities/Spiral
Victor
Trifecta
Steve Hillage Rainbow Dome Music
Envy of None
Pure Reason Revolution - Above Cirrus
Envy Of None - Envy Of None
Voivod - Synchro Anarchy
and to follow
Taj Mahal & Ry Cooder - Get On Board
brand new collaboration
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/apr/25/the-past-is-immaterial-ry-cooder-and-taj-mahal-reunited-after-56-years
just 56 years after
Taj Mahal & Ry Cooder - Rising Sons
FM - Thirteen
Rush - Signals
Live in YYZ 1981
Birth - 3 song demo pending a full album release. Prog as god (who does not exist) intended it to be. Don't believe me? Check it out for yourself, it is a name your price download:
https://birthprog.bandcamp.com/
Astra - The Weirding, in a way a predecessor to Birth. Again, very proggy and 'shroomy' if you know what I am getting at. Currently on a 15 and a half minute trip that is the title track.
Quote from: Thenop on May 21, 2022, 06:31:28 PMAstra - The Weirding, in a way a predecessor to Birth. Again, very proggy and 'shroomy' if you know what I am getting at. Currently on a 15 and a half minute trip that is the title track.
I've never 'Shroomed' but when I saw Astra they sent me tripping my tits off :)
Anyhoo, Rock's not dead, it just whiffs a bit; here's today reasonably up to date vinyl goodies:
Rosalie Cunningham - Two Piece Puzzle
Lunatic Soul - Through Shaded Woods
Wobbler - Rites at Dawn
AC/DC - TNT
Echo and the Bunnymen - Live in Liverpool
Envy Of None
Rush - Signals
Steven Wilson - Insurgentes
Steven Wilson - The Future Bites I haven't played this much, but hearing it now, it's actually pretty good. I wish it were longer with a bit more depth, but all in all an OK album.
Victor
Various Ozric tentacles
Trifecta
Emily Remler & Larry Coryell - Together
Assorted Police. Christ, they were great. The perfect band, the perfect career arc.
A right mish mash:
Frank Zappa - The Grand Wazoo
Moving Gelatine Plates - The World of Genius Hans
Riverside - Second Life Syndrome
iamthemorning - Ocean Sounds
Voivod - Synchro Anarchy
Candlemass - Green Valley Live
Ian McNabb - Utopia
Envy Of None - Envy of None
Storm Corrosion - Storm Corrosion
Moving Gelatine Plates - The World of Genius Hans again (brilliant album)
Supersister - To The Highest Bidder
Blackfield - Open Mind
Iron Maiden - Somewhere In Time
Rush - Signals
A quiet day in the office
Taj Mahal & Ry Cooder - Get On Board
Pure Reason Revolution - Above Cirrus
King's X - Out Of The Silent Planet
King's X - Gretchen Goes To Nebraska
Keb' Mo' - Bluesamericana
and this evening
Rush - Hemispheres
and onto Grace Under Pressure Tour
Kula Shaker - K
Gary Numan - Telekon
Post ride relaxation vinyl:
Audrey Horne - Devil's Bell
Yes - Relayer (Steven Wilson remix)
Osanna - Palepoli
I had a listen to Relayer last night as well, not all of it. I must admit I was taken with it at one point but now I have to say it's mostly wank. Especially Sound Chaser.
You just have to accept it as Yes's Jazz Odyssey, makes more sense then :)
The Gathering - Nightime Birds
The Gathering - Mandylion
IQ - Frequency
Rush-Soundboard from Counterparts tour
Amazing how vanilla the setlists were in that period, but still a really nice show and recording, and I love the version of Cold Fire, a vastly underrated song (IMHO)
Comedian Ed Byrne introducing the new Country and Western song
https://youtu.be/NlOnX5Xhi4Y
It's decent formula AOR.
Quote from: Slim on May 31, 2022, 12:12:15 PMIt's decent formula AOR.
Aye, it's no Virtuality.... ;)
Gnidrolog - Lady Lake
Änglagård - Hybris
T2 - It'll All Work Out In Boomland
And now:
All Traps on Earth - A Drop of Light
The Icicle Works - If You Want To Defeat Your Enemy Sing His Song
Dead Blonde Stars = Resolution
Coney Hatch - Outa Hand
Vardis - 100mph. As Slim stated, not like Motörhead at all really. Essentially a boogie outfit. Loud and raw. Had associations with Lemmy and co back in the day and often accompanied by the legendary 'Motorcycle Irene'
Edison's Children - The Disturbance Fields
Thelonious Monk - Les Liaisons Dangereux on LP, absolutely breathtaking quality this.
Greg Howe - Wheelhouse
Motörhead - No sleep 'til Hammersmith
Motorpsycho - Kingdom of Oblivion
Quote from: pxr5 on June 02, 2022, 01:03:15 PMMotorpsycho - Kingdom of Oblivion
Compliments on your exquisite taste
Michael Akerfeldt - Clark (Soundtrack from the Netflix series)
Sounds like a TV series soundtrack done by Michael Akerfeldt.
Best thing about the series (Not that I have, or will watch it) is that it's directed by former Batlord drummer Vans McBurger :)
Venus Principle - Stand in Your Light.
Nice album, advertised as mid year Anathema and Crippled Black Phoenix. Sounds like Pure Reason Revolution to me. Typical KScope band.
Mariusz Duda - Lockdown Spaces
A bit of colourfulish vinyl:
Ihsahn - Telemark (Half black/half clear)
Sheavy - The Electric Sheep (Translucent Blue)
Regal Worm - The Hideous Goblink (Yellow)
King Crimson - The ReconstruKction of Light
King Crimson - The Power to Believe
UFO strangers in the night and Headstone
IQ - Frequency
Listened to it for the first time. Really enjoyed it too
Liked IQ when they started a out but thought that Nomzamo was a disaster and left well alone. Great to have new material to discover.
Quote from: dom on June 06, 2022, 08:46:44 PMLiked IQ when they started a out but thought that Nomzamo was a disaster and left well alone. Great to have new material to discover.
I have Nomzamo and Are You Sitting Confortably? (the latter produced by one Terry Brown); it seems purists dislike them because they "went commercial", but that's exactly why they're right up my street. :)
Commerciality doesn't bother me. Just thought the songs were lightweight, without substance
The Mars Volta - De-Loused in the Comatorium
Gentle Giant - In a Glass House
Van Der Graaf Generator - The Least We Can Do Is Wave To Each Other
Genesis - Trespass
Pink Floyd - The Division Bell
Porcupine Tree - In Absentia whilst travelling into work this week.
M83 hurry up were dreaming
Saga - silent knight
Rush hyf
Runrig heartland
Air moon safari
Capercaillie
Pere ubu
Jean Michel jarre oxegene
Tangerine dream Phaedra
Tom Baxter skybound
Iron Maiden - Senjutsu
Envy of None
Konom - Konom
Perfect Storm - No Air
Chatterbix podcast.
Steven Wilson - The Raven That Refused to Sing (And Other Stories) vinyl
Transatlantic - The Absolute Universe (Extended Version) CD1
Pink Floyd - Meddle
Live After Death
scream for me long beach
Berlin - Count Three & Pray
Rush - Grace Under Pressure
whilst doing household chores this morning
Sparsely populated office so those of us here are enjoying The Greatest Showman soundtrack at "Friday afternoon" volume... :)
Tiger Moth Tales - Cocoon A one man band this and impressive he is too. Peter Jones who lost his sight at 15 months old and is now a member of Camel. An excellent, nostalgic sounding album with some really great tunes.
Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
Cinderella - Long Cold Winter
Nils Lofgren - Code Of The Road
Freddie Hubbard - Breaking Point
Mariusz Duda - Claustrophobic Universe
If you've only got time for one vinyl, make it a double, make it a good 'un:
Motorpsycho - The Tower
Rip rig and panic attitude
Capercaillie the blood is strong
Dave Brubeck music from west side story
Maiden, lots of Iron Maiden
Jan Garbarek 12 Moons
King Crimson - Lizard
REM - Document on the way into work tonight
Iron Maiden - Live At Donington
Quote from: pdw1 on June 13, 2022, 09:07:51 PMIron Maiden - Live At Donington
Oh, the imfamous case of the great missing concert video. They were absolutely on fire that night
The Tangent - The Music That Died Alone
Quote from: Jonners on June 14, 2022, 09:55:01 AMQuote from: pdw1 on June 13, 2022, 09:07:51 PMIron Maiden - Live At Donington
Oh, the imfamous case of the great missing concert video. They were absolutely on fire that night
Not bad on Saturday too
Good, nice to hear that. I think this would be the Tour to finish on as a more casual fan, as its Senjutsu "lite" and then a really nice Best of set
I reckon there is going to be a mini tour where they play the whole thing, which I reckon will be one for thr purists
The Tangent - Auto Reconnaissance
Crimson - Music Is Our Friend
King's X - Ear Candy
King's X - Tapehead
Poundhound - Massive Grooves
I sense a theme here
BB King - Live Chicago 1978
PT up the downstairs
The Big F - The Big F
Mariusz Duda - Interior Drawings
Pearl Jam - Live on two legs
Steve Hillage - L
Queen - Queen
Wobbler - Hinterland
I'm on a bit of a roll with the excellent The Tangent these last few days - today's delight is Proxy
Methyl Ethel - Everything Is Forgotten on the way into work this morning.
Elton John - Madman Across The Water
New 2cd set, not had the chance to crank it up yet (3 month old Granddaughter currently resident!) but, the early, live version of 'Indian Sunset' is just superb. I still have this album on original LP but nothing decent to play it on so pleased to pick this up though may now have to re-investigate the early catalogue!
Allman Brothers Band - Eat a Peach
Camel - Mirage vinyl
Caravan - In the Land of Grey and Pink vinyl
Porcupine Tree - Deadwing vinyl
Marillion - An Hour Before It's Dark
Porcupine Tree - Closure/Continuation
Asia - Astra
Porcupine Tree - Closure/Continuation
The Tangent - The World That We Drive Through
The Tangent - Songs From the Hard Shoulder
Vinyl this afternoon:
T2 - It'll All Work Out in Boomland
Blackfield - Open Mind
Peter Gabriel - Melt
Porcupine Tree C/C
Mariusz Duda - Let's Meet Outside
Von Hertzen Brothers - Red Alert in the Blue Forest
Black Keys - El Camino
Coheed & Cambria - Vaxis II: A Window Of The Waking Mind
Something old, something older and something not quite as old:
Steve Hillage - Fish Rising
Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
ZZ Top - El Loco
Quote from: pdw1 on June 25, 2022, 08:11:42 PMCoheed & Cambria - Vaxis II: A Window Of The Waking Mind
What do you think? I'm going to give it a play soon.
Quote from: pxr5 on June 25, 2022, 10:04:35 PMQuote from: pdw1 on June 25, 2022, 08:11:42 PMCoheed & Cambria - Vaxis II: A Window Of The Waking Mind
What do you think? I'm going to give it a play soon.
After 2 runs through, a bit less metal but very good
Quote from: pdw1 on June 26, 2022, 01:32:36 AMQuote from: pxr5 on June 25, 2022, 10:04:35 PMQuote from: pdw1 on June 25, 2022, 08:11:42 PMCoheed & Cambria - Vaxis II: A Window Of The Waking Mind
What do you think? I'm going to give it a play soon.
After 2 runs through, a bit less metal but very good
Thank you :)
The Cure - Disintegration
Alice Cooper - Muscle Of Love
Alice Cooper - From The Inside
New Porcupine Tree.
Its growing on me now
Sigur Ros - Agaetis Byrjun
Von Hertzen Brothers - Red Alert in the Blue Forest
The Tangent - A Spark In The Aether - The Music That Died Alone, Volume Two
Think Im done with the PT album now, 3 r 4 listens. Good enough in parts, but no longevity
Everyone in the office enjoying Nile Rodgers & Chic (and related) songs this afternoon.
Still buzzing from last weekend's gig!
The Quest - Yes
PT - C/C bonus disc
One from a few years ago , Hugh Cornwell, Guilty ..Still sounds great
Quote from: pdw1 on June 29, 2022, 05:34:59 PMPT - C/C bonus disc
Population 3 is very Rush, the bass sounds like Presto bass.
is there any bass on Presto? assumed it had just ben recorded in treble, through a megaphone
The Tangent - The World That We Drive Through
Yesterdays - Yes
Muse: Drones
Inglorious: Ride To Nowhere
The office is very sparsely populated today so I've been granted permission to assume DJ duties - my reputation precedes me. ::)
So I'm playing it safe with lots of 70s disco stuff.
Quote from: Matt2112 on July 01, 2022, 01:16:16 PMThe office is very sparsely populated today so I've been granted permission to assume DJ duties - my reputation precedes me. ::)
So I'm playing it safe with lots of 70s disco stuff.
And this afternoon I've moved us inevitably in the 80s, but with a twist: on You Tube I found an advert-free, 80s megamix sort of reimagined with a relentless Deep House groove - talk about the best of both worlds!
Top DJ, me - the two significantly younger colleagues of mine that haven't finished early for the weekend are loving it, I'm sure.
Quote from: Matt2112 on July 01, 2022, 04:34:04 PMTop DJ, me - the two significantly younger colleagues of mine that haven't finished early for the weekend are loving it, I'm sure.
They're just being kind ;)
Space: 1999 Breakaway
https://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/space-1999-breakaway-2127 (https://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/space-1999-breakaway-2127)
Which was very good indeed.
New Paolo Nutini
Holy shit. I love this.
Jeff Beck - Blow By Blow
Frank Marino - Juggernaut
Quote from: Nick on June 29, 2022, 08:24:09 PMQuote from: pdw1 on June 29, 2022, 05:34:59 PMPT - C/C bonus disc
Population 3 is very Rush, the bass sounds like Presto bass.
Actually the track I get the Presto bass vibes from is the last track, Love in the past tense.
Now listening to new Mars Volta
Since playing PT's new album a couple of times I don't really feel the need for repeat listens. Weird as I love PT/SW stuff normally.
Anyway I'm still plundering the back catalogue of the excellent The Tangent with:
A Place in the Queue
Blue Öyster Cult - Tyranny and Mutation
Frost* - Day and Age vinyl
The Tangent - Auto Reconnaissance vinyl
Big Big Train - English Electric Part 1
Some modern stuff:
black midi - Cavalcade
Squid - Bright Green Field
Black Country, New Road - For the First Time
This is interesting if you like Anathema. A Natural Disaster by Weather Systems
https://soundcloud.com/user-107730380/a-natural-disaster-featuring?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing
Mars Volta..Graveyard love
Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced
Another Side of Bob Dylan
Big Big Train - The Underfall Yard
Elder - Reflections of a Floating World
XTC Nonsuch
The Tangent - The Slow Rust Of Forgotten Machinery
Radiohead - Kid A
king x faith hope love
Flaming lips Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
Wasp.. best of playlist
Pallbearer - Heartless
Suede - Coming Up on the way into work tonight.
Gary Clark jnr -this Land
The Mars Volta - Blacklight Shine and Graveyard Love (new singles). Sounds quite different but decent.
Wah! - Nah=Poo - The Art of Bluff A blast from the past, this was one of the first albums I owned as a teen
The Emerald Dawn - Nocturne
REM - Green on the way into work nightshift.
black midi - Hellfire 3 times so far lol - brilliant
Lee Morgan - the Cooker
Tinariwen - various, always sounds good in the heat.
Hedwig Mollestad Trio - Enfant Terrible
Il Balletto di Bronzo - Ys
Can - Ege Bamyasi
Henry Cow - Western Culture
Quote from: captainkurtz on July 01, 2022, 10:18:21 PMNew Paolo Nutini
Holy shit. I love this.
Gave it a spin and agree with you.
Birth - Born, proper 70's prog made in 2022.
https://birthprog.bandcamp.com/album/born
Well worth your time
Wobbler - Dwellers of the Deep
Squid - Bright Green Field
black midi - Hellfire
Squid singles - Sludge, Broadcast and Padding
Pink Floyd - A Momentary Lapse of Reason
Comus - First Utterance
Quote from: pxr5 on July 18, 2022, 01:35:58 PMSquid singles - Sludge, Broadcast and Padding
Pink Floyd - A Momentary Lapse of Reason
Comus - First Utterance
As much as a Momentary Lapse of Reason is put down: I really like that album.
Midnight Oil - Resist.
Listened a few times before but really connected with this tonight. A superb album released back in February. Has everything the Oils are known for. I'd far rather lend my ear to Peter Garrett than Greta Thunberg, that's for sure ;D
Journey - Freedom
Can it really be 11 years since their last, Eclipse? That one was a bit of a Schon 'wail'-fest but this is perhaps too much the other way - a bit of a 'slush'-fest. And way too long, (edit it, boys!). Not sure where their heads were with the production either.
It's a bit 'meh' for me, I'm afraid
Quote from: Thenop on July 17, 2022, 01:19:26 PMBirth - Born, proper 70's prog made in 2022.
https://birthprog.bandcamp.com/album/born
Well worth your time
Nice King Crimson vibe there.
Quote from: Thenop on July 17, 2022, 01:19:26 PMBirth - Born, proper 70's prog made in 2022.
https://birthprog.bandcamp.com/album/born
Well worth your time
Strong Astra vibe there ;)
Echolyn - I Heard You Listening
Echolyn - Echolyn
Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs
KC - Islands
Gerald Garcia - Latin American guitar festival
Quote from: Slim on July 19, 2022, 02:04:43 PMPigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs
Rock On Tommy!
Quote from: Nickslikk2112 on July 19, 2022, 10:46:45 AMQuote from: Thenop on July 17, 2022, 01:19:26 PMBirth - Born, proper 70's prog made in 2022.
https://birthprog.bandcamp.com/album/born
Well worth your time
Strong Astra vibe there ;)
I see what you did there ;D
Loads of DLR era Van Halen.
Quote from: Thenop on July 17, 2022, 01:19:26 PMBirth - Born, proper 70's prog made in 2022.
https://birthprog.bandcamp.com/album/born
Well worth your time
I played it last night - I love it, that great 70s sound always sucks me in. I'll recommend
T2 - It'll all Work Out in Boomland if you like that sort of raw 70s feeling (though that was actually released in 1970 lol). T2 would have been massive if they hadn't been screwed over by their record company.
Also last night:
Big Big Train - Grand Tour
black midi - Schlagenheim
Rage against the machine - s/t
PRR - Above Cirrus
Mahogany Rush - IV
The Tangent - The Music That Died Alone
Gentle Giant - Three Friends
Tales from the lush attic - IQ
Astra - The Weirding (Blue Vinyl)
For fans of Birth.
For fans of Hard Rocking Trippy Psych. Like if Crimson, Floyd and Sabbath got together and took shedloads of psychedelics.
If you've not got it, GET IT!!!!!
Marillion - The Thieving Magpie (found a good quality vinyl copy yesterday for £6 👍)
Gong - Radio Gnome Invisible Vol. 3 - You
black midi - Hellfire I can't help but keep playing this, it's so good.
Porcupine Tree - Closure / Continuation
The Tangent - Le Sacre Du Travail
Jimmy Barnes - Barnestorming Live
Bad Company - Run With The Pack
Alice Cooper - Muscle Of Love
Chumbawamba - Swinging with Raymond
Chumbawamba - Anarchy
Kardashev-Liminal Rite
Wonderful new release, for those who like things heavy and brutal but with a hint of emo and shoegaze
Quote from: Jonners on July 27, 2022, 01:00:37 PMKardashev-Liminal Rite
Wonderful new release, for those who like things heavy and brutal but with a hint of emo and shoegaze
"emo and shoegaze" ;D
The Final Cut - Pink Floyd
Quote from: Jonners on July 27, 2022, 01:00:37 PMKardashev-Liminal Rite
Wonderful new release, for those who like things heavy and brutal but with a hint of emo and shoegaze
Have the LP, quite good indeed.
Birth - Born
VOLA - Inmazes
Twelfth Night - Fact and Fiction
Pendragon - The Jewel
Midnight Oil - Resist
Astra - The Weirding
The Tangent - COMM
King's X (S/T)
William Duvall - 11.12.21 Live-in-Studio Nashville
Arrived in today's post, recorded live direct-to-disc
Bleedin excellent 👏
Car cleaning today and listening to:
Bubblemath - Turf Ascension
Yes - Yes
Wobbler - From Silence to Somewhere
Transatlantic - SMPT:e
Porcupine Tree - Voyage 34 on the way into work nightshift.
Aztec Camera - Knife
Jack White - entering heaven alive.
Very enjoyable. 2 excellent records this year from the maestro.
Steel Pulse - Handsworth Revolution
Brushing up on my Michel Thomas Method Greek... ;)
Birth - Born (Blue splatter vinyl)
Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Flying Microtonal Banana
Bubblemath - Turf Ascension
black midi - Hellfire
Sammy Hagar - Loud & Clear
The Pineapple Thief - Dissolution
Prefab Sprout - From Langley Park To Memphis
I happened across this photo taken in my bedroom in 1988, and I noticed that it was playing on my HiFi while I took the pic. So I gave it a nostalgic spin. First time I'd listened the whole way through for years.
(https://i.ibb.co/T0vHVXM/hpool-room.jpg)
I still have that guitar, I bought it in September 1982.
^Wow look at that PC - my toothbrush probably has more computing power than that ;)
Black Country, New Road - Ants From Up There
Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden
Squid - Bright Green Field
Gavin Harrison - Cheating the Polygraph
The Alan Parsons Project - Tales of Mystery and Imagination
Big Big Train - Common Ground
Big Big Train - Welcome to the Planet
Kraftwerk - Autobahn on the way into work this morning.
Airbag - All Rights Removed
-Black Noodle Project - Divided We Fall
Pike vs. The Automaton
King Crimson, something out of the Road to Red box set
Mikael Akerfeldt - Clark, soundtrack to the Netflix series.
Sounds like a soundtrack written by Mikael Akerfeldt...
Ulrich Schnauss - Far Away Trains Passing By on the way into work this morning.
Quote from: Red Lenses on August 08, 2022, 11:23:48 AMUlrich Schnauss - Far Away Trains Passing By on the way into work this morning.
Is that the follow up to Far Away Trains Passing By? ;)
Echolyn - Echolyn (1991)
XTC - English Settlement
Mahogany Rush - IV
Steven Wilson - Insurgentes
Echolyn - Suffocating the Bloom
The Tangent - Proxy
Gong - Camembert Electrique
Weserbergland - Am Ende Der Welt I admit I couldn't get through this. Not bad, just I wasn't in the mood for this type of music
Amon Düül II - Tanz Der Lemminge
The Tangent - The World That We Drive Through
Marillion - An Hour Before Its Dark
Steven Wilson - To the Bone
Steven Wilson - Hand. Cannot. Erase
The Tangent - The Music That Died Alone vinyl
black midi - Hellfire vinyl
Pendragon - The Jewel
Anthrax - Sound of White Noise
The Haunted - The Haunted
Voivod - Nothingface
Rush - A Show of Hands
Gentle Giant - Interview
The Tangent - The Slow Rust Of Forgotten Machinery vinyl
Arch Enemy - Wages Of Sin
New Sumerlands album coming in month 'Dreamkiler'. This band released my album of the year in 2016 with the self titled 'Sumerlands'. This is pure '80 bliss to me, big riffs, fantastic melodies. A real 80's Ozzy Diary of a Madman vibe, slightly more doomy perhaps.
While you're there, make sure to check out the brilliant Fleetwood Mac cover they released some months ago of 'I'm So Afraid'.
https://sumerlands.bandcamp.com/album/dreamkiller
Coheed And Cumbria - A Window Of The waking Mind
probably my album of the year so far
Dark Angel - Time Does Not Heal
Birth - Born
T2 - T2 (aka 1970: Fantasy)
Dream Theater - Distance Over Time
The Bible - Eureka vinyl
The Tangent - A Spark In The Aether - The Music That Died Alone, Volume Two vinyl
black midi - Schlangenheim
King Crimson - The Great Deceiver - CD1
IQ - Road of Bones
Quote from: dom on August 13, 2022, 12:11:04 AMIQ - Road of Bones
Along with Ever, probably my favourite IQ album.
Devin Townsend - Order Of Magnitude
I was there back in 2019 - great gig and this captures the sheer madness brilliantly
Hällas - Isle of Wisdom
Armored Saint - March of the Saint
Guns N Roses - Use Your Illusions I & II
haven't listened to these in years. It is completely OTT but there are plenty of great tracks. Could anyone have forced them to release one great double album? I doubt it.
Quote from: pxr5 on August 13, 2022, 01:36:23 PMQuote from: dom on August 13, 2022, 12:11:04 AMIQ - Road of Bones
Along with Ever, probably my favourite IQ album.
Had a listen to Ever. First impressions were good, will give it another go. Love their first couple of albums. Spotify put up a couple of songs from Road of Bones and I got back into them
Deep Purple - Come Taste The Band
Marillion - An Hour Before it's Dark
Marillion - Seasons End
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven
Black Country, New Road - For the First Time
Black Country, New Road - Ants From Up There
New Motorpsycho album arrived today. First spin: very impressive again
Cheap Trick - Dream Police
ELP - Trilogy
Eskaton - 4 Visions
Maxophone - Maxophone Italian version
Gorguts - Obscura I couldn't get through this. The music and style is phenomenal, but I'll never get to grips with constant growling.
Quote from: David L on August 18, 2022, 12:21:42 AMCheap Trick - Dream Police
Just discovered today that the U.K. tour in September is cancelled... :( :(
Motorpsycho - Ancient Astronauts
In Judas Priest style they just keep delivering the Goods :)
Black Country, New Road - Ants From Up There
Quote from: captainkurtz on August 20, 2022, 01:44:06 PMQuote from: David L on August 18, 2022, 12:21:42 AMCheap Trick - Dream Police
Just discovered today that the U.K. tour in September is cancelled... :( :(
I'm so glad I finally got to see them a few years ago. It was a superb gig. No Bun E Carlos though 😌
Quote from: David L on August 21, 2022, 08:36:41 AMQuote from: captainkurtz on August 20, 2022, 01:44:06 PMQuote from: David L on August 18, 2022, 12:21:42 AMCheap Trick - Dream Police
Just discovered today that the U.K. tour in September is cancelled... :( :(
That's a shame - ticket sales?
I'm so glad I finally got to see them a few years ago. It was a superb gig. No Bun E Carlos though 😌
Metallica - S & M Live, kept me awake on the way into work this morning.
Quote from: David L on August 21, 2022, 08:37:16 AMQuote from: David L on August 21, 2022, 08:36:41 AMQuote from: captainkurtz on August 20, 2022, 01:44:06 PMQuote from: David L on August 18, 2022, 12:21:42 AMCheap Trick - Dream Police
Just discovered today that the U.K. tour in September is cancelled... :( :(
That's a shame - ticket sales?
I'm so glad I finally got to see them a few years ago. It was a superb gig. No Bun E Carlos though 😌
Not sure...I was planning to go but, knowing Newcastle was unlikely to sell out, hadn't the bought a ticket yet. Was just checking ticketmaster and noticed all of the shows were cancelled...didn't see any news on their FB page.
Website says they'll be back next year..
Squid - Bright Green Field
Big Big Train - The Underfall Yard
Pendragon - The World
Mr Mister - Welcome To The Real World
Univers Zero - Uzed
Porcupine Tree - Coma: Coda
Ratt - Invasion Of Your Privacy
Die Krupps - Tribute To Metallica
Die Krupps - II
been watching the making of Hushed and Grim, the latest Mastodon album, on YouTube. Prompted me to listen to it again, what a great album it is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Rgi5C0JbRs&t=4297s
Steelheart - Tangled In Reins
All alone in the office and I'm making the most of it...wow, after a good few weeks of either listening to various genres of dance music or CDs of Greek lessons on repeat, it feels thrilling to be listening to some Rock again, and loud too.
Steelheart were like Motley Crue but faster, harder and with superior chops. Great stuff.
Ronnie Romero: Raised On Radio
The Tangent - A Place in the Queue
Dream Theater - Distance Over Time vinyl
black midi - Hellfire vinyl
Dream Theater - Awake
Public Service Broadcasting - Inform-Educate-Entertain
Wilderun - Epigone
Birth - Born
Various Ozric Tentacles
Specifically now Ozric Tentacles..Waterfall Cities
Talk Talk : Laughing Stock
The Pineapple Thief - Your Wilderness
Van Der Graaf Generator - The Least We Can Do Is Wave To Each Other (from The Charisma Years Boxset)
Van Der Graaf Generator - The Aerosol Grey Machine (2019 50th Anniversary Edition)
Quote from: Slim on August 29, 2022, 11:47:46 AMTalk Talk : Laughing Stock
One of my very favourite bands outside of the 'rock / metal' realm. Alongside David Sylvian that is.
Quote from: Thenop on August 29, 2022, 05:49:43 PMQuote from: Slim on August 29, 2022, 11:47:46 AMTalk Talk : Laughing Stock
One of my very favourite bands outside of the 'rock / metal' realm. Alongside David Sylvian that is.
Big fan of David Sylvian myself, as well. And Japan.
Quote from: Thenop on August 29, 2022, 05:49:43 PMQuote from: Slim on August 29, 2022, 11:47:46 AMTalk Talk : Laughing Stock
One of my very favourite bands outside of the 'rock / metal' realm. Alongside David Sylvian that is.
Geddy was a fan too.
Quote from: Slim on August 29, 2022, 05:53:02 PMQuote from: Thenop on August 29, 2022, 05:49:43 PMQuote from: Slim on August 29, 2022, 11:47:46 AMTalk Talk : Laughing Stock
One of my very favourite bands outside of the 'rock / metal' realm. Alongside David Sylvian that is.
Big fan of David Sylvian myself, as well. And Japan.
Same here, I love the final 3 Talk Talk albums. And also a big fan of Japan and David Sylvian. Which reminds me to dig out some of his vinyl that I bought on release: Brilliant Trees, Gone To Earth and Secrets of the Beehive - all mint too and probably his best 3 albums. Another band I really like are The Blue Nile, and on vinyl I have Hats and A Walk Across The Rooftops, both original and on the Linn record label (worth a bit now too, not that I'd ever sell them).
Ozric Tentacles Curious Corn
Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden
Camel - Camel
The Tangent - Songs From the Hard Shoulder
Gazpacho - Night. Dictionary definition of ethereal including the sublimely beautiful "Upside Down"
Dream Theater - Images and Words
Motorpsycho - Ancient Astronauts
Quote from: pxr5 on August 31, 2022, 03:48:18 PMDream Theater - Images and Words
Motorpsycho - Ancient Astronauts
Can I give half a thumbs up ;)
Very nice Hawkwind interpretations by artists form the Neurot label on Bandcamp. If I am not mistaken, it is 'pay whay you can' this week. Try it, if you like Hawkwind that is.
https://neurotrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/hawkwind-triad
Muse - Will Of The People
Quote from: Matt2112 on August 31, 2022, 07:34:51 PMMuse - Will Of The People
Ooh - will check that out soon.
The aural accompaniment to today's decorating session has been:
Rainbow: Rising
Vandenberg: 2020
Scorpions: various selections
Quote from: Matt2112 on September 01, 2022, 10:16:48 AMQuote from: R6GYY on August 31, 2022, 09:03:33 PMQuote from: Matt2112 on August 31, 2022, 07:34:51 PMMuse - Will Of The People
Ooh - will check that out soon.
First partial listen - WOW!!! :o
I stopped halfway track 1 which sounds like a cross between Marilyn Manson and Eddie Cochran. I will skip this one.
Osiris - Osiris early 80s Bahraini prog. Sounds a bit like Camel, which is nice
Dream Theater - Falling Into Infinity
Irist - Order Of The Mind
Whitespade, album by Midnight (the band) in honour of Motorhead. They did an Overtribute sounds like, an entire album of original material that sounds like Motorhead heyday material. Fantastic.
https://midnight-ohio.bandcamp.com/album/whitespade
Part of the Bandcamp Friday campaign, where all of the proceeds go to the artist and the platform waives it's share. Only today (and next month again of course and the month after etc.).
Frank Marino & Mahogany Rush - What's Next?
Frank Marino & Mahogany Rush - Tales Of The Unexpected
Aerosmith - Live! Bootleg
Muse: Will Of The People
In general, after 3 listens on an Echo Dot (so not the greatest of fidelity) during more painting sessions, I'm with Matt on this.
The opening salvo of Will Of The People followed by Compliance is quite a bold introduction, and later on, Verona followed by Euphoria is another quite sublime pairing (Verona is an early favourite).
I need to have a proper listen on headphones at some point as I think this will bring out some serious awesomeness but so far, I am very pleased. Thanks again Muse.
Wobbler - Rites at Dawn
Piledriver - Metal Inquisition
Quote from: R6GYY on September 03, 2022, 04:45:35 PMMuse: Will Of The People
In general, after 3 listens on an Echo Dot (so not the greatest of fidelity) during more painting sessions, I'm with Matt on this.
The opening salvo of Will Of The People followed by Compliance is quite a bold introduction, and later on, Verona followed by Euphoria is another quite sublime pairing (Verona is an early favourite).
I need to have a proper listen on headphones at some point as I think this will bring out some serious awesomeness but so far, I am very pleased. Thanks again Muse.
I love how all the tracks are short, all told, but pack
so much in.
There's the (usual) mash-up of the bombasticness of Queen, the analogue 80s synths (but this time seemingly brazenly referencing Stranger Things), the continuing obsession with Rachmaninov, the downtuned riffs which seem to get a semitone heavier with every passing album...
It's theatrical, it's audacious and it's brilliant.
Ghosts in particular is raw, candid and heartbreaking.
Compliance is pure, brilliant Muse.
I could go on but...what a band. Steven Wilson must have wet dreams about possessing the creativity and talent of Matt Bellamy.
Santana - Abraxus
Joe Walsh - There Goes The Neighborhood
A few blasts from the past courtesy of Greenslade and Colosseum II
Santana - Abraxus
Rush - Hold Your Fire
Robin Trower - Long Misty Days
Miles Davis. Big Fun
King's X - Three Sides Of One
Slayer - Seasons in the Abyss
Slayer - reign in Blood
Queen - Queen II
In memory of Her Maj
Beatles - Revolver
King's X - Burning Down Boston, Live 1991
Pendragon - Pure
Pendragon - The Masquerade Overture
Pallas - Wearewhoweare a bit of a Muse vibe, which is nice
Rush - Caress of Steel
Taj Mahal & Ry Cooder - Get On Board
King's X - Gretchen Goes To Nebraska
Black Sabbath - Master of Reality
BOC - Fire of unknown origin.
Plus watching Porcupine Tree - Trains form last night in Toronto
Yes - The Yes Album
Yes - Fragile
Rush - Grace Under Pressure
Ed Wynne ...Tumbling Through the Floativerse
Dream Theater - A View From the Top of the World
The Rolling Stones: Sticky Fingers
Tangerine Dream - Phaedra
Pallas - Beat the Drum
Muse - Will of the People I managed to get through it but I didn't like it - not for me.
Just had a listen to the new Megadeth, sounds like Megadave found his chops & balls again. This is how they are supposed to sound. Great album.
Billy Gibbons - The Big Bad Blues
Rush - Grace Under Pressure Soundtrack
Marillion - Marbles
Cinderella - Heartbreak Station
Branford Marsalis - I Heard You Twice The First Time
Peter Hammill - Fireships
Black Country, New Road - For the First Time vinyl
Yes - Close to the Edge vinyl
YYNOT - Light and Shade
And now:
Rush - Grace Under Pressure vinyl
Going through the Porcupine Tree back catalogue. Just finished Fear of a Blank Planet. Very enjoyable
The new Suede record. God, their debut record is 30 years old next year. Sheesh.
Pink Floyd - Animals 5.1 mix
Squid - Bright Green Field vinyl. One of the nicest sounding records I've heard for a while. Crystal clear.
black midi - Hellfire vinyl
Jethro Tull - Stand Up (Steven Wilson remix)
Motorhead - No Sleep 'til Hammersmith (40th Anniversary thank feck Steven Wilson hasn't been anywhere near this remix)
Deep Purple - Machine Head
A NWOBHM compilation CD
Monster Magnet - Monolithic Baby, reissue at 45RPM 2LP. Sounds great.
Rush: Presto
In particular - Available Light which has been an earworm for a couple of days, so I thought I would get it out of my system!
Todd Rundgren No World Order
Sanguine Hum - A Trace of Memory
Marillion - Brave
Iron Maiden - Senjutsu
Quote from: Nickslikk2112 on September 19, 2022, 03:24:47 PMA NWOBHM compilation CD
Metal for Muthas I/II? I've got the first one on vinyl.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal_for_Muthas (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal_for_Muthas)
Quote from: pxr5 on September 20, 2022, 09:45:27 PMQuote from: Nickslikk2112 on September 19, 2022, 03:24:47 PMA NWOBHM compilation CD
Metal for Muthas I/II? I've got the first one on vinyl.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal_for_Muthas (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal_for_Muthas)
No, some random thing I picked up for a Fiver on Amazon.
King's X - Three Sides Of One
Iron Maiden - Senjutsu
Pendragon - The Window of Life
Pearl Jam - Hyde Park 9/7/22
Erratic on record. Always brilliant live.
Marillion - F.E.A.R
Rick Wakeman: The Six Wives Of Henry VIII
Quote from: pxr5 on September 23, 2022, 12:53:06 PMMarillion - F.E.A.R
I really do like that one. The New Kings resonates.
Genesis - Foxtrot
Alice in Chains - Dirt
Quote from: pxr5 on September 23, 2022, 12:53:06 PMMarillion - F.E.A.R
They were great tonight in Aylesbury.
Road trip listening
Muse - Will Of The People
Billy Gibbons - The Big Bad Blues
Marillion - An Hour Before Its Dark
Marillion - Holidays in Eden (2022 Remix)
Marillion live in Aylesbury
Quote from: pdw1 on September 25, 2022, 12:36:36 AMRoad trip listening
Muse - Will Of The People
Billy Gibbons - The Big Bad Blues
Marillion - An Hour Before Its Dark
Marillion - Holidays in Eden (2022 Remix)
Marillion live in Aylesbury
someone went & saw Marillion...
The Mars Volta - The Mars volta
Airbag - All Rights Removed
Jethro Tull - Live Bursting Out
All vinyl today:
Marillion - An Hour Before it's Dark
Black Country, New Road - Ants From Up There
The Tangent - Proxy
The Tangent - The World That We Drive Through
Pink Floyd - Animals (2018 remix 5.1)
Quote from: Nickslikk2112 on September 26, 2022, 02:20:50 PMPink Floyd - Animals (2018 remix 5.1)
Verdict? To me the stereo lp mix sounds more powerful without becoming obnoxious loud which would ruin it for me. It sounds punchier.
In short: I like it.
Quote from: Thenop on September 26, 2022, 08:34:26 PMQuote from: Nickslikk2112 on September 26, 2022, 02:20:50 PMPink Floyd - Animals (2018 remix 5.1)
Verdict? To me the stereo lp mix sounds more powerful without becoming obnoxious loud which would ruin it for me. It sounds punchier.
In short: I like it.
I like the 5.1, not yet listened to the stereo version.
More vinyl today:
Transatlantic - The Absolute Universe - Forevermore (Extended Version)
Wobbler - Afterglow
Wobbler - Hinterland
The Blue Nile - A Walk Across the Rooftops
King Crimson - Music is Your Friend
FM - Thirteen
This one on 3LP:
https://gloryordeathrecords.bandcamp.com/album/friends-family-compilation-volume-one
Great label, Glory or Death
Pallas - Beat the Drum
Pallas - The Dreams of Men
The Blue Nile - Hats
Santana - Abraxus
Talk Talk - Laughing Stock
Talk Talk - The Colour Of Spring
Talk Talk - Spirit Of Eden
Riverside - Wasteland
Anathema - We're Here Because We're Here
Steve Hackett - Voyage of the Acolyte (Bit of revision for tonight)
Riverside - Second Life Syndrome
Van Halen - Best Of (Volume 1)
Steve Hackett - Genesis Revisited II
Jon Anderson - Olias of Sunhillow
45 rpm vinyl albums today:
It Bites - The Tall Ships
Porcupine Tree - Closure / Continuation
Steven Wilson - To the Bone
and on ordinary vinyl:
Porcupine Tree - Coma Coda
Quote from: Nickslikk2112 on October 01, 2022, 08:48:04 PMJon Anderson - Olias of Sunhillow
I was thinking of giving that another listen after watching this this morning. I bought it in 1978 or 1979 but never got into it. Do you like it?
Quote from: Slim on October 03, 2022, 02:46:08 PMQuote from: Nickslikk2112 on October 01, 2022, 08:48:04 PMJon Anderson - Olias of Sunhillow
I was thinking of giving that another listen after watching this this morning. I bought it in 1978 or 1979 but never got into it. Do you like it?
It's OK for an occasional listen.
I was on Bandcamp yesterday eve and got lost in a new Blut Aus Nord release. Still not returned to earth I think.
For those of you unaware (their own blurb):
BLUT AUS NORD are creators of a hallucinogenic universe, erasing all preconceived ideas of Black Metal - and extreme music in general.
Everything it states here is true, I have several of their LPs and they are all quite a trip.
The latest effort is something that was...well hwatever, read it for yourself, bu mostly listen if you up to it. It is certainly not like anything you heard beofre, unless you are a Oranssi Pazuzu fan (like I am).
I for one am completely sucked in once I start playing this:
https://blutausnord.bandcamp.com/album/lovecraftian-echoes
Marillion - Afraid of Sunlight
Robert Fripp - Exposure
And on vinyl:
Robert Wyatt - Rock Bottom
Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden
Camel - Music inspired by The Snow Goose
Caravan - It's None of Your Business
Transatlantic - The Whirlwind
Junior Senior - Move Your Feet
Like to listen to this occasionally as Junior's voice in the chorus reminds me of a young Geddy. There's a kind of rasp in his attack which always triggers that connection for me.
Dream Theater - A View From the Top of the World
Marillion - Brave
both on vinyl
Simple Minds - New Gold Dream, whilst driving into work this morning.
Wobbler- Hinterland (Shitty brown vinyl)
Arch Enemy - Deceivers
Machine Head - Catharis
Todd Rundgren's Utopia - Todd Rundgren's Utopia twice haha
Steve Howe - Beginnings
Ian McNabb - Nabby Road
Sel Balamir - Swell
Quote from: Ali on October 06, 2022, 08:50:16 PMSel Balamir - Swell
I like this - very different to the day job.
New Amplifier album in production :)
The new McNabb is good on first listen.
Jonny Lang - Wander This World
First track very appropriate- Still Rainin'
Can't believe he recorded this at just 17. What a talent.
Tiger Moth Tales - Cocoon amazing debut album by one-man band Peter Jones (and he's blind too) Link (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Jones_(British_musician))
Riverside - Wasteland vinyl
Genesis - Trespass
Richard Marx - Songwriter
A new album of 20 songs divided in to 4 genres: Pop, Rock, Country and Ballads.
Marx is more than adept at them all, of course, and after the first spin it's clear he's generally on top form on every count.
The "Country" songs I like far more than expected, though of course that's a pretty loose definition, as to my ears over the five songs this section starts off Country-esque, morphs to Country-ish, and eventually becomes hardly-Country-at-all.
But no matter - the Country section actually sounds the strongest on a very strong sounding album indeed; I forsee an extended residence in my car's CD player.
Opeth - Orchid (Nice pinky/purply orchid colour vinyl)
Riverside - Out of Myself
Anthrax - State Of Euphoria
Anthrax - Spreading The Disease
Exodus - Persona No Grata
on the drive to and from London for the Anthrax gig
vinyl:
Vola - Witness
Vola - Applause of a Distant Crowd
Wobbler - Dwellers of the Deep
IQ - Resistance
IQ - Frequency
Robert Glasper Experience - ArtScience
Some more vinyl earlier today:
Marillion - Brave
The Tangent - The Slow Rust of Forgotten Machinery
also not on vinyl:
Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway
Quote from: pxr5 on October 11, 2022, 06:24:06 PMSome more vinyl earlier today:
Marillion - Brave
The Tangent - The Slow Rust of Forgotten Machinery
also not on vinyl:
Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway
Yes well, still looking for a nice, clean and affordable Lamb copy on vinyl.
The Cure - Disintegration
Too - Fear Inoculum
The Tangent - A Place in the Queue
Fates Warning - Long Day Good Night
Von Hertzen Brothers - Red Alert in the Blue Forest
Van der Graaf Generator - World Record
Van der Graaf Generator - Still Life
Van der Graaf Generator - The Quiet Zone/The Pleasure Dome
Uriah Heep - Salisbury
Lazuli - Saison 8
Ian McNabb - Nabby Road
really liking this
Quote from: Ali on October 12, 2022, 09:29:27 PMLazuli - Saison 8
Cool. This reminded me of an album I keep meaning to play, so I caught up today with:
Lazuli - Le Fantastique Envol de Dieter Böhm
then:
Genesis - Nursery Cryme
Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick
Van der Graaf Generator - Pawn hearts vinyl
Porcupine Tree - The Sky Moves Sideways vinyl
Squid - Bright Green Field vinyl
Dream Theater - When Dream And Day Unite
Dream Theater - Images and Words
Transatlantic - Bridge Across Forever vinyl
Marillion - Misplaced Childhood
Solitude Aeturnus - Through the darkest Hour (Blue Vinyl on 3 sides only, would you want an extra side of misery?)
Caravan - In the Land of Grey and Pink
Gryphon - Red Queen to Gryphon Three
Comus - First Utterance [2006 Reissue] what a brilliantly mad album this is; great stuff.
New Alter Bridge album. After a few lesser attempts, I like this one a lot better. It is grittier, more direct, 10 tracks only 2 slightly 'happy' sounding, no ballads. Great, finally a successor to ABIII, which is my favourite to date. (Yeah I know...But Blackbird!!)
Kino - Radio Voltaire
Marillion - An Hour Before it's Dark
Dream Theater - A View From The Top Of The World
Killing Joke - The Singles Collection 1979-2012 (LP1 and LP2)
Beck sea change
Damn, what a gorgeous record. Appreciate it more now than I did 20 years ago. 20 years. Jeez.
Coheed and Cambria - A Window Of The Waking Mind
great album. Off to see them on Wednesday :)
Dream Theater - Octavarium
Marillion - Afraid of Sunlight
Some Vinyls:
Anathema - Internal Landscapes
Frost* - Milliontown
black midi - Schlagenheim
then
Genesis - Foxtrot
Amplifier - Eternity EP
Frank Marino - From The Hip
Lunatic Soul II
The Dust Coda:
The Dust Coda
Mojo Skyline
On my journey to and from Nottingham to see Coheed & Cambria
King's X - Three Sides Of One
Muse - Will Of The People
Sleep Token - This Place Will Become Your Tomb
and of course
Vaxis II: A Window Of The Waking Mind
Jean Michel Jarre - Oxygene
I've spent a lot of time listening to Frank Marino & Mahogany Rush the last couple of days. This evening, via You Tube videos. I stumbled across this one. It's from his Live from the Agora Theater DVD. This was released in 2019 and features an incredible 6 hour live performance (for fans only ;D )! A labour of love, it took years to be released, partly due to a technical issue whereby the drum track was unusable. Frank started his musical career as a drummer and he painstakingly worked on restoring the drums which had to be synched to the performance. Unfortunately he paid a heavy price and was diagnosed with capsulitis of the shoulder (frozen shoulder) a couple of years back forcing him to retire from performing. He's lost 50% movement in the affected shoulder but worse, is in constant pain 24/7.
This is wonderful. From the 1976 album, Mahogany Rush IV, 'It's Begun To Rain'
Thanks for the music, Frank
Oceans of Slumber - Oceans of Slumber (Purple Vinyl)
Riverside - Shrine of New Generation Slaves (Purple Vinyl)
Quote from: David L on October 21, 2022, 01:13:34 AMI've spent a lot of time listening to Frank Marino & Mahogany Rush the last couple of days. This evening, via You Tube videos. I stumbled across this one. It's from his Live from the Agora Theater DVD. This was released in 2019 and features an incredible 6 hour live performance (for fans only ;D )! A labour of love, it took years to be released, partly due to a technical issue whereby the drum track was unusable. Frank started his musical career as a drummer and he painstakingly worked on restoring the drums which had to be synched to the performance. Unfortunately he paid a heavy price and was diagnosed with capsulitis of the shoulder (frozen shoulder) a couple of years back forcing him to retire from performing. He's lost 50% movement in the affected shoulder but worse, is in constant pain 24/7.
This is wonderful. From the 1976 album, Mahogany Rush IV, 'It's Begun To Rain'
Thanks for the music, Frank
If you had to recommend one Frank Marino record? I should investigate
Richard Marx - Songwriter
Todd Rundgren Space Force
New Vinyl:
Marillion - Misplaced Childhood
Pendragon - Love over Fear
Scorpions - Lovedrive
Pendragob - Not of this World
Quote from: pxr5 on October 24, 2022, 04:04:59 PMNew Vinyl:
Marillion - Misplaced Childhood
Pendragon - Love over Fear
Scorpions - Lovedrive
Pendragob - Not of this World
Pendragob? Is that a mouthy Pendragon offshoot?
The KLF - Chill Out
Quote from: captainkurtz on October 23, 2022, 01:16:44 AMQuote from: David L on October 21, 2022, 01:13:34 AMI've spent a lot of time listening to Frank Marino & Mahogany Rush the last couple of days. This evening, via You Tube videos. I stumbled across this one. It's from his Live from the Agora Theater DVD. This was released in 2019 and features an incredible 6 hour live performance (for fans only ;D )! A labour of love, it took years to be released, partly due to a technical issue whereby the drum track was unusable. Frank started his musical career as a drummer and he painstakingly worked on restoring the drums which had to be synched to the performance. Unfortunately he paid a heavy price and was diagnosed with capsulitis of the shoulder (frozen shoulder) a couple of years back forcing him to retire from performing. He's lost 50% movement in the affected shoulder but worse, is in constant pain 24/7.
This is wonderful. From the 1976 album, Mahogany Rush IV, 'It's Begun To Rain'
Thanks for the music, Frank
If you had to recommend one Frank Marino record? I should investigate
I'd say Mahogany Rush IV - I absolutely loved that album back in the day.
Pendragon - Believe
Pendragon - Pure
Quote from: captainkurtz on October 23, 2022, 01:16:44 AMIf you had to recommend one Frank Marino record? I should investigate
Virtually impossible to recommend one!
For earlier stuff, I'd agree with Slim and say Mahogany Rush IV...... or World Anthem. Later stuff, I'd go with Juggernaut and/or Double Live, which gives a good career retrospective (and is brilliant!)
If you like what you hear, you're in for a treat because there is a lot of stuff in the catalogue
AC/DC - Highway to Hell
Vinyl again:
Marillion - F.E.A.R.
Dream Theater - Octavarium
Bauhaus - Burning from the Inside
Orbital - Orbital 2
New Katatonia single, I love this band. Can't wait for the album to be released in January.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BB24-hVZ88k
The Pineapple Thief - Dissolution
Pendragon - Passion
Accept - Balls to the Wall
Quote from: Nickslikk2112 on October 27, 2022, 02:14:15 PMAccept - Balls to the Wall
Maybe one of the best opening riffs ever on the title track. And as far as I remember, it's not even repeated. Ballsy move.
Marillion - Afraid of Sunlight
Star One - Revel in Time
Frank Zappa - The Grand Wazoo
Black Country, New Road - Ants From Up There
Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell - Don't Hear It... Fear It!
Aerosmith - Permanent Vacation
Opeth - Morningrise (White vinyl)
Riverside - Love, Fear and the Time Machine
Deep Purple - Made In Europe
Ayreon - 01011001, bought tickets for next years' show where Lucassen & frineds will play this album in its entirety.
Rush - 2112 (5.1 version from the Deluxe Edition) whist doing household chores this morning.
Blind Illusion - Wrath of the Gods. Great thrash album, not modern sounding at all, sounds like it ran away from the 80's. Fantastic, what a relief in comparison to all that computer polished metal cr@p I hear floating by.
Rainbow - On Stage
Big Big Train - Common Ground
Big Big Train - Welcome to the Planet
Vinyl:
Pendragon - The Jewel
King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King
King Crimson - In The Wake Of Poseidon
King Crimson - Lizard
Queens of the Stone Age - S/T. I love the riff in If Only, I may even prefer the version on the Kyuss/QOTSA split.
Eagles - On The Border
Judie Tzuke - Welcome To The Cruise
Santana - Caravanserai
Steely Dan - Can't Buy A Thrill
Quote from: David L on October 30, 2022, 11:38:53 PMRainbow - On Stage
Loved that at the time (some of it anyway), I seem to remember it's rather short though, isn't it?
It never really entered that pantheon of great hard rock live albums despite their popularity at the time, and despite coming after their most acclaimed record (
Rising).
Leon Russell - Carney
Lonely Robot - A Model Life
Eloy - Ocean
Quote from: Slim on November 01, 2022, 10:34:38 AMQuote from: David L on October 30, 2022, 11:38:53 PMRainbow - On Stage
Loved that at the time (some of it anyway), I seem to remember it's rather short though, isn't it?
It never really entered that pantheon of great hard rock live albums despite their popularity at the time, and despite coming after their most acclaimed record (Rising).
Yes, it is short, only 64 minutes. Probably because both Mistreated and Catch The Rainbow each have a whole side reserved for them. When you think what other material could have been included, it's a shame (Tarot Woman and Stargazer, for instance)
Quote from: David L on November 01, 2022, 11:05:15 AMQuote from: Slim on November 01, 2022, 10:34:38 AMQuote from: David L on October 30, 2022, 11:38:53 PMRainbow - On Stage
Loved that at the time (some of it anyway), I seem to remember it's rather short though, isn't it?
It never really entered that pantheon of great hard rock live albums despite their popularity at the time, and despite coming after their most acclaimed record (Rising).
Yes, it is short, only 64 minutes. Probably because both Mistreated and Catch The Rainbow are reserved a whole side each. When you think what other material could have been included, it's a shame (Tarot Woman and Stargazer, for instance)
It was very expensive when it first came out too. Often, when browsing through LPs in record stores, it always struck me how dear it was compared to other LPs of a similar ilk. I don't remember the exact price but 2112 was £3.99 when I bought it new. I think On Stage must have been 3 times the price of that at least.
Vinyl:
Pendragon - Not of this World
Frost* - Falling satellites
Marillion - Brave
Wobbler - From Silence to Somewhere
Not vinyl:
Big Big Train - English Electric - Pt2
Dream Theater - Awake
Gentle Giant Sight and Sound In Concert 1977
Quote from: David L on November 01, 2022, 12:02:38 AMEagles - On The Border
Judie Tzuke - Welcome To The Cruise
Santana - Caravanserai
Steely Dan - Can't Buy A Thrill
That Judie Tzuke is a cracking debut LP :)
The Tangent - The Slow Rust Of Forgotten Machinery
Quote from: Fishy on November 01, 2022, 07:35:30 PMGentle Giant Sight and Sound In Concert 1977
There was some great stuff on that programme, all those years ago. One that I remember especially well was the Collosseum II broadcast with Gary Moore.
Might start a Gary Moore thread, he was an underrated player in some respects.
Quote from: Slim on November 02, 2022, 12:04:31 PMQuote from: Fishy on November 01, 2022, 07:35:30 PMGentle Giant Sight and Sound In Concert 1977
There was some great stuff on that programme, all those years ago. One that I remember especially well was the Collosseum II broadcast with Gary Moore.
Might start a Gary Moore thread, he was an underrated player in some respects.
Indeed there was.. forgotten about them.. pretty sure Supertramp were on it as well as Steve Hillage
Interestingly Gentle Giant were on the week after Colosseum II.. late Jan 1978
The Tangent - Down and Out in Paris and London
Gentle Giant The Power and the Glory
Playing The Fool
Pink Floyd - The Wall
Amplifier - Eternity
Änglagård - Hybris
Ahab - The Call of the Wretched Sea
A true Nautik Funeral Doom Klassik :)
Riverside - Wasteland Tour 2018-2020
Various Gentle Giant
Revolver
XTC Apple Venus vol 1
Devin Townsend - Lightwork (Not so HevyDevy, he needs an AMPLIFIER)
Opeth - My Arms, your Hearse (clear vinyl)
Opeth - Still Life
Sabs - Mob Rules
Porcupine Tree - Signify
King Crimson - Larks' Tongues in Aspic
Steven Wilson - Grace for Drowning
Porcupine Tree - Up the Downstair
Not surprisingly: Closure Continuation
Records today:
Amplifier - Trippin' With Dr Faustus
Transatlantic - Kaleidoscope
Steven Wilson - Hand.Cannot.Erase
Transatlantic - SMPTe
The Tangent - The Music That Died Alone
Twelfth Night - Fact and Fiction
Gentle Giant Octopus
Gentle Giant - Gentle Giant
Gentle Giant - Acquiring the Taste
Quote from: pxr5 on November 10, 2022, 01:40:36 PMGentle Giant - Gentle Giant
Gentle Giant - Acquiring the Taste
Oh yeah👍
One last go-around on
Richard Marx - Songwriter
20 tracks spanning 4 genres - so effectively a collection of four 5-track EPs - and sublime from start to finish.
Alcest - Les Voyages de l'Ame
Gentle Giant Interview
PT - In Absentia (European Special Edition 2nd disc)
BOC - 45th Anniversary Live in London
Kansas - Song for America
Alice in Chains - Facelift
Gentle Giant Civilian.. it's pretty shit tbh
Univers Zero - Uzed
Gentle Giant - Three Friends
Will be playing some Hawkwind later in honor of Nik Turner who passed away today.
Quote from: Thenop on November 11, 2022, 04:50:38 PMWill be playing some Hawkwind later in honor of Nik Turner who passed away today.
Oh man, bummer.
Had to spark up Space Ritual.
Quote from: Thenop on November 11, 2022, 04:50:38 PMWill be playing some Hawkwind later in honor of Nik Turner who passed away today.
Shit, that's a shame :( . I'll be spinning some of their albums too.
Hawkwind - Astounding Sounds, Amazing Music
PT - Deadwing
Brutus - Unison Life. Oh my, this is quite good.
Plenty'o'Vinyl
Opeth - In Cauda Venenum (Yellow, Swedish version)
Voivod - Rrröööaaarrr
Opeth - Pale Communion
Piledriver - Metal Inquisition (Puke coloured and RIP Gord)
Hawkwind - Astounding Sounds, Amazing Music
Focus - Focus II / Moving Waves
Galahad - Empires Never Last (Deluxe Edition)
The Tangent - Songs From the Hard Shoulder
Ork - Screamnasium, excellent this 😎
Alice in Chains - Jar of Flies/Sap
LPs this afternoon:
Transatlantic - The Absolute Universe (Extended Version)
Steven Wilson - The Future Bites
Steven Wilson - The Raven That Refused to Sing (And Other Stories)
Brave Rival - Life's Machine. Ahead of their (much anticipated by me) support slot tomorrow night for Corky Laing.
Corky Laing - Finnish Sessions. See above...
Mountain - Nantucket Sleighride. Again, see above!
The Bug Club - Green Dream in F#
Wovenhand - Silver Sash
Pallas - The Cross and the Crucible
far too much Porcupine Tree
Deadwing
Fear Of a Blank Planet
nil recurring
Recordings
Irving Texas September 2022
Marillion - F.E.A.R
Alice in Chains - MTV Unplugged
Vinyl today:
Pendragon - The Jewel
Transatlantic - Bridge Across Forever
Porcupine Tree - Closure / Continuation 45rpm clear vinyl
Marillion - An Hour Before it's Dark orange vinyl
Squid - Bright Green Field
Aphrodite's Child - 666
Ayreon - Universal Migrator remix/master. Awaiting the vinyl which has been postponed a few weeks so have a digital copy on headphones now.
Porcupine Tree - Deadwing
Kira Mac - Chaos Is Calling
Debut album out today and, next up at The Bullingdon so a bit of research...
Listening (and watching) the PT Octane Twisted dvd
Wishbone Ash - Live Dates
Kansas - Song for America
Mahogany Rush - Live
ELO - A New World Record
Rush - Live In YYZ 1981
Porcupine Tree - Deadwing
It Bites - Eat Me in St Louis
Vinyl today:
Pendragon - Not of this World
Pink Floyd - A Momentary Lapse of Reason 45rpm half speed remaster
The Tangent - Auto Reconnaissance orange vinyl
The Tangent - The Music That Died Alone blue silver marble vinyl
Elder - Innate Passage. Stickman send me the LP early. Great effort again, love this band.
Spock's Beard - Brief Nocturnes and Dreamless Sleep
Then some records:
Dream Theater - Octavarium
Porcupine Tree - In Absentia
King Crimson - Discipline
The Flower Kings - Flower Power CD1
LPs:
Pallas - XXV
Porcupine Tree - Lightbulb Sun clear vinyl]
Alice in Chains - Black Gives way to Blue
Quote from: Nickslikk2112 on November 23, 2022, 02:30:34 PMAlice in Chains - Black Gives way to Blue
Actually a real good comeback album. I love the buzzsaw opening riff of Check my Brain
Aerosmith - Draw The Line
Eagles - Hotel California
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Pronounced
Spock's Beard - V
Alice in Chains - The Devil put Dinosaurs Here
Quote from: Nickslikk2112 on November 24, 2022, 04:46:06 PMAlice in Chains - The Devil put Dinosaurs Here
I wish they did a normal vinyl version of this, there's only a pciture disc, don't like picture discs.
Great album though - again.
Masters Of Reality - Live 1989 New Haven CT
Quote from: pdw1 on November 24, 2022, 06:01:30 PMMasters Of Reality - Live 1989 New Haven CT
Love MoR, Chris Goss though has gone completely off the deep end...
Neal Morse - Testimony 2
Prefab Sprout - SWOON
Favourite album ever.
First bit of vinyl in ages:
Iron Maiden - Number of the Beast/Beast over Hammersmith
Been playing High Command - Eclipse of the Dual Moons. Fantastic thrash album, bit Slayer-y in riffing, very smooth on the ears.
Find them on Bandcamp.
Anekdoten - Until All the Ghosts are Gone
Beardfish - +4626-Comfortzone
Wishbone Ash - Argus
Another run out for:
Muse - Will Of The People
Absolutely pristine production on this, which they do themselves nowadays; they just get classier with age, these guys.
Styx - Caught In The Act
Allman Brothers Band - Live at Fillmore East
LPs:
Transatlantic - SMPTe
Bauhaus - Crackle pink/ruby vinyl
Porcupine Tree - On the Sunday of Life blue vinyl
Quote from: Nickslikk2112 on November 28, 2022, 02:41:51 PMAllman Brothers Band - Live at Fillmore East
I heard this in all its incarnations, full uncut shows et al. Less is more for this one, I love the Allmans, but the fantastic editing of this (collection of) shows is what makes it legendary.
Had some Black Keys on in the car today, Delta Kream, great collection of songs that. Now playing something called Warlung - Vulture's Paradise. Nice Southern feel meets doomy sound album. Good vocalist as well. Find them on Bandcamp.
Budgie: Budgie
The Allman Brothers Band - Brothers and Sisters
Records today:
Transatlantic - Bridge Across Forever
Transatlantic - The Whirlwind
Pendragon - The World
Amon Amarth - Twilight of the Thunder God
Ayreon - Into the Electric Castle
Rainbow - Long Live Rock And Roll
Quote from: pdw1 on November 30, 2022, 06:08:06 PMRainbow - Long Live Rock And Roll
followed by Rising of course
Marillion - Afraid of Sunlight
Cardiacs - Sing to God
Quote from: pxr5 on December 01, 2022, 01:08:53 PMMarillion - Afraid of Sunlight
probably my favourite Marillion album after years of just not getting it.
Tori Amos - From the Choirgirl Hotel
National Health - Of Queues and Cures
Flying Colors - Second Nature
Amplifier - The Octopus
Marillion - Afraid Of Sunlight [2019 Remix]
Anathema - A Natural Disaster
And now, some vinyl:
Candlemass - Sweet Evil Sun
Jethro Tull - Stormwatch (Steven Wilson Remix)
Birth - Born
Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
As a teenager, browsing through the record racks in Hartlepool town centre on a Saturday, I was always really impressed by the cover artwork. I wasn't a Genesis fan and I didn't get round to buying it for another 25 years or so.
Every now and then (about once every seven or eight years) I listen to it all the way through - out of a sense of duty really, because it's one of the classic prog records. But I've never really found it very convincing.
Yezda Urfa - Boris
Galahad - Empires Never Last (Deluxe Edition)
Vinyls today:
Transatlantic - Kaleidoscope
Transatlantic - The Absolute Universe Forevermore (Extended Version x3LP)
Anathema - Untouchable
CD (first CD I've played in ages):
Porcupine Tree - Stars Die: The Delerium Years 1991-1997 CD1
Then again:
Yezda Urfa - Boris what a brilliant album this is. If you're fond of Yes or Gentle Giant you'll love it - but it's unique too.
Marillion - Afraid Of Sunlight
Devin Townsend - Infinity
Anekdoten - Chapters
Temple Fang - one of the live thingies. Great band, Dutch spacey long winded rock. Love it. Find them on Bandcamp.
Yezda Urfa - Sacred Baboon
Then some vinyl:
Marillion - Marbles
black midi - Hellfire red vinyl
Rush - Grace Under Pressure
The Tangent - Proxy
Swans - Children Of God
Haze - Back To The Bones
Galahad - The Last Great Adventurer
Kevin Ayers - Joy of a Toy
Rush - Vapor Trails
Took a great photo of a high fly jet yesterday. The late afternoon sun changed the climate destroying evidence to a wondrous orange pink ribbon. This and the extremely cold weather inspired the need for a Secret Touch meltdown. Surely the most underrated Rush / Metal / Prog song ever.
Quote from: Slim on December 04, 2022, 12:02:34 PMGenesis - The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
As a teenager, browsing through the record racks in Hartlepool town centre on a Saturday, I was always really impressed by the cover artwork. I wasn't a Genesis fan and I didn't get round to buying it for another 25 years or so.
Every now and then (about once every seven or eight years) I listen to it all the way through - out of a sense of duty really, because it's one of the classic prog records. But I've never really found it very convincing.
I'm unashamedly a massive (early) Genesis fan but struggle with The Lamb. The first album is pretty good in fairness but after that it wanders of into some weird alternative universe, for me!
New Hammers of Misfortune album - Overtaker. Bit of a challenging listen. Love it.
Quote from: Pudders on December 07, 2022, 05:55:27 PMQuote from: Slim on December 04, 2022, 12:02:34 PMGenesis - The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
As a teenager, browsing through the record racks in Hartlepool town centre on a Saturday, I was always really impressed by the cover artwork. I wasn't a Genesis fan and I didn't get round to buying it for another 25 years or so.
Every now and then (about once every seven or eight years) I listen to it all the way through - out of a sense of duty really, because it's one of the classic prog records. But I've never really found it very convincing.
I'm unashamedly a massive (early) Genesis fan but struggle with The Lamb. The first album is pretty good in fairness but after that it wanders of into some weird alternative universe, for me!
It has some great songs, particularly the title track, In The Cage, Carpet Crawlers, Back In NYC, Counting Out Time, but there's an awful lot of filler to tell a not particularly interesting story
Quote from: dom on December 07, 2022, 07:10:39 PMQuote from: Pudders on December 07, 2022, 05:55:27 PMQuote from: Slim on December 04, 2022, 12:02:34 PMGenesis - The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
As a teenager, browsing through the record racks in Hartlepool town centre on a Saturday, I was always really impressed by the cover artwork. I wasn't a Genesis fan and I didn't get round to buying it for another 25 years or so.
Every now and then (about once every seven or eight years) I listen to it all the way through - out of a sense of duty really, because it's one of the classic prog records. But I've never really found it very convincing.
I'm unashamedly a massive (early) Genesis fan but struggle with The Lamb. The first album is pretty good in fairness but after that it wanders of into some weird alternative universe, for me!
It has some great songs, particularly the title track, In The Cage, Carpet Crawlers, Back In NYC, Counting Out Time, but there's an awful lot of filler to tell a not particularly interesting story
Yes first couple of sides are great .. sides 3 4 get pretty ropey... I never understood the story at all and Tony Banks never liked it.. (the story )
Quote from: The Picnic Wasp on December 07, 2022, 05:32:56 PMRush - Vapor Trails
Took a great photo of a high fly jet yesterday. The late afternoon sun changed the climate destroying evidence to a wondrous orange pink ribbon. This and the extremely cold weather inspired the need for a Secret Touch meltdown. Surely the most underrated Rush / Metal / Prog song ever.
Agreed. I love Secret Touch, in my top 10 of Rush songs ever, possibly top 5.
Fleetwood Mac - the alternative Tusk
Marillion - Clutching at Straws
Marillion - Script For A Jester's Tear
Angelwitch - Angelwitch
Giving Pantera a listen "This is Pantera" on Spotify - enjoying it!
This evening's LPs:
Porcupine Tree - Fear of a Blank Planet blue vinyl
Marillion - Afraid of Sunlight (a really great sounding vinyl this one; a shame they're all not as good as this is.)
Quote from: dom on December 08, 2022, 03:37:52 PMGiving Pantera a listen "This is Pantera" on Spotify - enjoying it!
Really no little of them, I understand the guitar player was reveared but from what I have heard they leave me cold.
Voivod - Synchro Anarchy
Needlepoint - Aimless Mary
Echolyn- mei
then on Vinyl:
Pendragon - Love Over Fear
then on CD:
Echolyn - Suffocating the Bloom
After the Pantera onslaught moved onto the gentler, more uplifting sounds of Airbag.
Identity and A Day at the Beach
The Stranglers - The Raven (R.I.P Jet Black)
Rush - Clockwork Angels
After the Precision of JJB's punchlines and exact timing I needed a fix of Geddy's flair and imagination on the Jazz. The Anarchist!!! Wow! That'll do. What a bass player. Charles Berthoud might be the best on the planet right now but he doesn't have that feel or that passionate right note at just the right time that makes Geddy otherworldly.
Quote from: The Picnic Wasp on December 09, 2022, 04:30:18 PMThe Stranglers - The Raven (R.I.P Jet Black)
Rush - Clockwork Angels
After the Precision of JJB's punchlines and exact timing I needed a fix of Geddy's flair and imagination on the Jazz. The Anarchist!!! Wow! That'll do. What a bass player. Charles Berthoud might be the best on the planet right now but he doesn't have that feel or that passionate right note at just the right time that makes Geddy otherworldly.
I listened to the side of the vinyl version that includes The Anarchist on a good system through a pair of Yamaha NS1000Ms (large, very good studio monitors) the other week - what a bloody racket!
No space around the instruments, compressed, poor dynamics etrc. Why they ever stuck with that Nick...what'shisname I'll never know. Terrible recording
Quote from: The Picnic Wasp on December 09, 2022, 04:30:18 PMRush - Clockwork Angels
After the Precision of JJB's punchlines and exact timing I needed a fix of Geddy's flair and imagination on the Jazz. The Anarchist!!! Wow! That'll do. What a bass player. Charles Berthoud might be the best on the planet right now but he doesn't have that feel or that passionate right note at just the right time that makes Geddy otherworldly.
That is 100% nail on the head. Watch Berthoud for the circus tricks; stick with Geddy et al for stuff you feel in your bones.
Quote from: David L on December 09, 2022, 04:39:11 PMI listened to the side of the vinyl version that includes The Anarchist on a good system through a pair of Yamaha NS1000Ms (large, very good studio monitors) the other week - what a bloody racket!
No space around the instruments, compressed, poor dynamics etrc. Why they ever stuck with that Nick...what'shisname I'll never know. Terrible recording
Studio monitors? Surely those are designed to produce a very unforgiving, neutral sound as would be required for the purposes of 'recording' as opposed to purely 'listening'...?
That's not to say I don't use my own studio monitors for both purposes for convenience! :)
Quote from: Thenop on November 23, 2022, 05:53:47 PMQuote from: Nickslikk2112 on November 23, 2022, 02:30:34 PMAlice in Chains - Black Gives way to Blue
Actually a real good comeback album. I love the buzzsaw opening riff of Check my Brain
Agreed, even has Elton playing on the title track 😉
I still reckon Jerry Cantrell's second solo album Degradation Trip may be the best thing he's ever released...and I'm a huge AiC fan
Thin Lizzy - The Very Best Of
Nil Kershaw - The Best Of
A couple of bargain basement offers from Fopp (probably) back in the day. NK is an underrated guitarist. I still find his melodic chord structures fascinating. Very well stitched together by a background of nicely fuzzy lead lines.
Eddie Brickell & New Bohemians- Shooting Rubber Bands At The Stars
A young Edie saved my night from being a total washout after paying good money to witness a dire Bob Dylan at the SECC Glasgow. I wouldn't open the curtains to watch him in my garden after that travesty. Spent most of the night with his back to the audience as far as I can remember. I don't think he spoke to his fans once between songs.
Quote from: Matt2112 on December 09, 2022, 04:48:05 PMStudio monitors? Surely those are designed to produce a very unforgiving, neutral sound as would be required for the purposes of 'recording' as opposed to purely 'listening'...?
Yes, they reveal exactly what has been recorded which, in this case, is exposed as being pretty poor
Quote from: David L on December 10, 2022, 01:46:18 AMQuote from: Matt2112 on December 09, 2022, 04:48:05 PMStudio monitors? Surely those are designed to produce a very unforgiving, neutral sound as would be required for the purposes of 'recording' as opposed to purely 'listening'...?
Yes, they reveal exactly what has been recorded which, in this case, is exposed as being pretty poor
'Fancy' speakers would improve the experience, though? Not that I have any. 😄
Exodus - Persona Non Grata
Quote from: Matt2112 on December 10, 2022, 01:32:28 PMQuote from: David L on December 10, 2022, 01:46:18 AMQuote from: Matt2112 on December 09, 2022, 04:48:05 PMStudio monitors? Surely those are designed to produce a very unforgiving, neutral sound as would be required for the purposes of 'recording' as opposed to purely 'listening'...?
Yes, they reveal exactly what has been recorded which, in this case, is exposed as being pretty poor
'Fancy' speakers would improve the experience, though? Not that I have any. 😄
They should employ Steven Wilson to remix all the later years stuff.
On various weight and colour vinyl:
King Crimson - Earthbound
Motorpsycho - Ancient Astronauts
Von Hertzen Brothers - Red Alert in the Blue Forest
Taj Mahal & Ry Cooder - Get On Board
what a beautiful album
Haken - The Mountain
Dream Unending - Song of Salvation
Anglagard - Epilog
Haken - The Mountain again; a brilliant album this one. Like a mix of PT, DT, Frost*, Gentle Giant, VOLA.
vinyl:
Pendragon - The Jewel Their first and now my favourite Pendragon album.
black midi - Cavalcade
Camel - Mirage
Can - Ege Bamyasi
Quote from: pxr5 on December 12, 2022, 02:33:41 PMHaken - The Mountain again; a brilliant album this one. Like a mix of PT, DT, Frost*, Gentle Giant, VOLA.
vinyl:
Pendragon - The Jewel Their first and now my favourite Pendragon album.
black midi - Cavalcade
Camel - Mirage
Can - Ege Bamyasi
I love those early Camel albums.
Orbital - In Sides
iNFiNiEN - Beyond the Veil
Haken - Aquarius
Änglagård - Viljans Öga
vinyl:
Porcupine Tree - Voyage 34
Jeff Wayne's - The War of the Worlds
Wobbler - Dwellers of the Deep green/black marbled vinyl
Gazpacho - Fireworker
The Answer - Rise
Quote from: Nickslikk2112 on December 14, 2022, 02:51:35 PMThe Answer - Rise
Great band, never got what they deserved. New album on the way though!
Motorpsycho - Phanerothyme, new LP pressing. Nice 8)
Haken - Affinity
Galahad - The Last Great Adventurer
Apocalyptica plays the music of Metallica on four cellos
Hats Off Gentlemen It's Adequate - The Confidence Trick
Haken - Visions
Haken - Aquarius
Astra - The Weirding
Misþyrming - Með hamri (the new album). Due to unfortunate circumstances (a lazy postman that decided not to deliver 1 out of 3 packages for some reason) I am listening to this digitally.
Together with White Ward and Blut Aus Nord on of three best Black metal albums of this year. Icelandic band, this is album number 3. Absolute belter this one.
Roger Waters - Comfortably Numb, new version, sounds excellent to my ears.
Kansas - Leftoverture
Audrey Horne - Devil's Bell
Diagonal - 4
Riverside - Lost'n'Found, Live in Tilburg (Pink Vinyl)
Quote from: pxr5 on December 17, 2022, 07:53:12 PMKansas - Leftoverture
The absolute pinnacle of US 70s prog ;)
Astra - The Black Chord
Haken - Vector
Parallel Or 90 Degrees - More Exotic Ways to Die
Ruby the Hatchet - Fear is A Cruel Master
Mystery - One Among the Living
Rush - 2112 (got to be done ;D )
Hall & Oates - Abandoned Luncheonette
Architects - The Classic Symptoms Of A Broken Spirit
Armored Saint - Symbol Of Salvation Live
Gary Moore - New Old Ballads Blues
& Live 2001 @ Swiss blues festival
Chris Squire - Fish out of Water
A radio show - Soul Music on R4. I Believe in Father Christmas is the song being covered. Featuring the co writer Peter Sinfield, Bob Harris and others whose lives were touched by the song. Really nice listen for Christmas Eve
iamthemorning - Counting the Ghosts
Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water
Ephemera- Afghan Whigs
Ghost - Impera
Carols from Kings
Chris Squire - Fish out of Water (Vinyl)
Chris Squire & Alan White - Run with the Fox (7")
Rosalie Cunningham - Two Piece Puzzle
Devin Townsend - Ligntwork
Bowie - Lodger
Rick Wakeman - Christmas Portraits
Andrew Hill - Smokestack
Various selections from Wolfmother
Gentle Giant Octopus
Astrohenge - Astrohenge II
last vinyl sesh of 2022:
Led Zeppelin - Presence
Camel - Moonmadness
Ring van Mobius - The 3rd Majesty
Miles Davis - E.S.P.
Rick Wakeman - Christmas Portraits
On to: Earth - Even Hell Has Its Heroes (Music from the motion picture)
Pink Floyd - The Wall vinyl
Yezda Urfa - Boris
Todd Rundgren Initiation
Bad Company - Straight Shooter
Amplifier doing old song sessions, fantastic!
https://amplifier.bandcamp.com/album/old-forge-sessions-november-2022
watch the whole thing here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWfFPaNfbdI
Angel - On Earth As It Is In Heaven
Starcastle - S/T
Wishbone Ash - Argus
Listening to various versions of the old Jazz standard On Green Dolphin Street.
Van der Graaf Generator - The Least We Can Do Is Wave To Each Other vinyl
Haken - The Mountain
Haken - Aquarius
Todd Rundgren Healing
Yes - Yessongs
Badlands - Badlands
Haken - Visions I'm a bit hooked on Haken at the moment after only discovering them quite recently. I prefer their first 3 albums (mainly The Mountain) to the latter 3, but a new album is out soon called Fauna which is supposed to be a return to earlier efforts (the 2 new singles released recently don't give me much hope though).
The Who - Who's Next
Quote from: David L on January 07, 2023, 01:14:57 AMThe Who - Who's Next
I love opening drumbreak in Bargain, but like all of Moon's breaks: like he slips, trips and nearly falls but somehow manages to stay on his feet and walk on. Everything he does feels so intuitive, raising the drums to a lead instrument. A true star he was.
Quote from: Thenop on January 07, 2023, 06:14:24 AMQuote from: David L on January 07, 2023, 01:14:57 AMThe Who - Who's Next
I love opening drumbreak in Bargain, but like all of Moon's breaks: like he slips, trips and nearly falls but somehow manages to stay on his feet and walk on. Everything he does feels so intuitive, raising the drums to a lead instrument. A true star he was.
Yes, very much like he makes everything up when the tape starts rolling. No one else like him.
Panopticom - new Peter Gabriel track. Nice.
Galahad - The Last Great Adventurer
Quote from: Nick on January 07, 2023, 11:00:21 AMPanopticon - new Peter Gabriel track. Nice.
I want to like it but it's not grabbing me so far...
First vinyl sesh of 2023!
Scorpions - Tokyp Tapes
In the Court of the Crimson King an Observation by King Crimson (Alternate album)
Helloween - Walls of Jericho
Quote from: Nickslikk2112 on January 07, 2023, 08:45:32 PMFirst vinyl sesh of 2023!
Scorpions - Tokyp Tapes
In the Court of the Crimson King an Observation by King Crimson (Alternate album)
Helloween - Walls of Jericho
Ride the Sky! Ride the Sky!
Give Me Wings to Fly!
Ride the Sky!
Black Oak Arkansa - Raunch & Roll: Live
Boston - Third Stage
Mahavishnu Orhcestra - The Inner Mounting Flame
Marillion - Clutching at Straws vinyl
Haken - Virus
Pendragon - Not of this World vinyl
Banco del Mutuo Soccorso - Darwin!
Pendragon - The World
Transatlantic - SMPT:e
vinyl both
all vinyl:
Robert Fripp - Exposure
Van der Graaf Generator - Pawn Hearts
Van der Graaf Generator - Godbluff
Dream Theater - Octavarium
Syd Barrett - Barrett
Bit of a Todd fest today
Healing
Initiation
Back to the Bars
Beardfish - The Void
Amplifier - The Astronaut Dismantles Hal
Amplifier - Amplifier
Metallica - Florida 6th November 2022 Jon & Marsha Zazula Tribute Show.
https://youtu.be/Q6GIjHnzsgE
all old school classics. Just fantastic
Jeff Beck - Truth
Had the new Misthyrming on in the car today. Intense album. Something in that Icelandic water makes those bands stand out. Remarkable how much great music is made on that island.
Jeff Beck - Jeff Beck's Guitar Shop
Jeff Beck - Wired
Jeff Beck - Flash
Beck, Bogert, Appice - BBA
Pendragon - Men Who Climb Mountains
Haken - The Mountain vinyl
A bit of Friday vinyl, now I've reinstalled the spare bedroom system:
Sword - Metalized
Hawkwind - Greasy Truckers Party
Utopia - Adventures In Utopia
Jeff Beck - Performing This Week Live At Ronnie Scott's
Gaupa - Myriad
Miles Cyrus and Metallica - Nothing Else Matters
Quote from: The Picnic Wasp on January 14, 2023, 11:43:56 AMMiles Cyrus and Metallica - Nothing Else Matters
The Blacklist Album makes an interesting listen. They should have perhaps mixed it up a bit rather than 8 versions of Nothing Matters in a row.
Jeff Beck - You Had It Coming
Grace Potter and Joe Satriani - Cortez The Killer
Jeff Beck - Loud Hailer
Jeff Beck - Truth
Jeff Beck Blow by Blow
Wired
The lazy fade out on a lot of tracks is pretty annoying.. the music is great tho...
Pendragon - The Masquerade Overture
Bauhaus - Mask yellow vinyl
A couple of Camel vinyls: The Snow Goose then Moonmadness.
Stravinsky The Rite of Spring
Pink Floyd - Delicate Sound of Thunder
Sleep Token - This Place Will Become Your Tomb
Jeff Beck Live at Ronnie Scotts
Pat Travers - Radioactive
Genesis - ....And Then There Were Three
Testing out some new speakers:
Pink Floyd - DSotM
King Crimson - ITCOTCK
Opeth - Blackwater Park
What'd you get?
Quote from: Nickslikk2112 on January 18, 2023, 05:03:50 PMTesting out some new speakers:
Pink Floyd - DSotM
King Crimson - ITCOTCK
Opeth - Blackwater Park
What'd you get?
Quote from: Thenop on January 18, 2023, 06:21:27 PMWhat'd you get?Quote from: Nickslikk2112 on January 18, 2023, 05:03:50 PMTesting out some new speakers:
Pink Floyd - DSotM
King Crimson - ITCOTCK
Opeth - Blackwater Park
What'd you get?
headache?
Quote from: Thenop on January 18, 2023, 06:21:27 PMWhat'd you get?Quote from: Nickslikk2112 on January 18, 2023, 05:03:50 PMTesting out some new speakers:
Pink Floyd - DSotM
King Crimson - ITCOTCK
Opeth - Blackwater Park
What'd you get?
Got a pair of KEF R3's, £600 off :)
Screaming Trees - Dust
RIP Van Connor
Crosby, Stills, Nash, Young, Gifted & Black - Déja Vu
RIP Cros, voice of an angel* face of a walrus**
* Not too sure about that
** Nailed on
ID.entity Riverside
Quote from: dom on January 20, 2023, 07:03:01 PMID.entity Riverside
I'll give it a like, not got round to listening to it yet. Need to get the other inhabitants out of the house.
Is it any good?
Had it on while working and only the already released stuff is sticking out. Will need another listen or 2
New Metallica single
https://youtu.be/ZDyDpdFZHBo
not bad
Flotsam & Jetsam - Blood In The Water
Quote from: pdw1 on January 20, 2023, 07:58:45 PMNew Metallica single
https://youtu.be/ZDyDpdFZHBo
not bad
Not a fan of them, but I like that.
Robert Plant - Manic Nirvana
Haken - Restoration (EP)
Lizzy - Live and Dangerous super deluxe
What a band...can't get enough.
Steel Pulse - Handsworth Revolution
Mahogany Rush - Strange Universe
Jeff Beck - Wired
Quote from: captainkurtz on January 20, 2023, 11:04:03 PMLizzy - Live and Dangerous super deluxe
What a band...can't get enough.
Listened to that on my walk last night, hope nobody saw me pulling rock shapes
Robert Plant - Now & Zen
Hawkwind - Space Ritual. Such a trip. Fantastic.
Finally got round to some vinyl time:
Riverside - ID.Entity (White Vinyl)
Pink Floyd - Piper at the Gates of Dawn (Mono)
Be Bop Deluxe - Axe Victim
Miles Davis - Jack Johnson
Riverside - ID.Entity I've played it twice now. An interesting direction to take and it's good they are mixing things up. I'm liking it so far, but it's not blowing me away yet. Still pondering whether to bother getting it on vinyl.
vinyl:
Bauhaus - Press the Eject and Give Me the Tape white vinyl
Riverside - Wasteland
Haken - The Mountain
The 3 new Haken singles from their upcoming album Fauna:
The Alphabet of Me, Taurus and Nightingale
Be Bop Deluxe - Futurama
Quote from: pxr5 on January 24, 2023, 10:53:43 AMRiverside - ID.Entity I've played it twice now. An interesting direction to take and it's good they are mixing things up. I'm liking it so far, but it's not blowing me away yet. Still pondering whether to bother getting it on vinyl.
Trying to get into it myself. However for now the new Katatonia wins it for me this month. Which is, now playing as well.
Robert Plant - Mighty Rearranger
Dead Blonde Stars - Metamorphosis
Be Bop Deluxe - Sunburst Finish
Jeff Beck and The Big Town Playboys - Live Paris 1993
Riverside - ID.Entity it's growing a bit more me, vinyl ordered lol.
Yezda Urfa - Boris now I'd love this on vinyl, but not for the £4000 one is going for on ebay.
Be Bop Deluxe - Modern Music
Jeff Beck - London 2014
Be Bop Deluxe - Drastic Plastic
Von Hertzen Brothers - Red Alert in the Blue Forest
A large junk of teenage nostalgia
Tears For Fears - Songs From The Big Chair
Tears For Fears - The Hurting
Quote from: pdw1 on January 28, 2023, 04:41:05 PMA large junk of teenage nostalgia
Tears For Fears - Songs From The Big Chair
Tears For Fears - The Hurting
Both excellent albums!
Love The Hurting
Black Sabbath - Never say Die
Gaupa - Myriad
Von Hertzen Brothers - New Day Rising
Von Hertzen Brothers - Nine Lives
Yezda Urfa - Sacred Baboon
Riverside - Love, Fear and the Time Machine
vinyl:
Porcupine Tree - The Incident
IQ - Tales From the Lush Attic
Riverside - ID.Entity orange vinyl
IQ - The Wake
Quote from: pxr5 on January 30, 2023, 03:02:02 PMRiverside - ID.Entity orange vinyl
Ordered a boxset with the fanclub...still waiting for it.
NP: Mahavishnu Orchestra - Apocalypse
King's X - Ogre Tones
Von Hertzen Brothers - Love Remains the Same
A bit of a mixed bag of vinyl today:
Gentle Giant - Gentle Giant
The Tangent - Pyramids, Stars & Other Stories: The Tangent Live Recordings 2004-2017
Tubeway Army - Replicas
Gary Numan - The Pleasure Principle
ZZ Top - Afterburner
Von Hertzen Brothers - Stars Aligned
Frank Marino & Mahogany Rush - What's Next?
Queen - A Night At The Opera
Queen - A Day At The Races
A couple of
Haken EPs:
- Restoration
- Enter The 5th Dimension
Can: Ege Bamyasi
Grace Jones - Island Life
Derek and Clive Come Again
Crown Lands - Starlifter: Fearless Pt II
On YouTube. This is magnificent. Roll on the release of their album Fearless in March.
Asia - Anthologia
Marillion - F.E.A.R
Haken - Virus
UFO - No Heavy Petting (Clear vinyl)
Damanek - Making Shore (twice) A stunning new album from Guy Manning and co.
Zopp - Dominion Another new album, the 2nd from Zopp. It's modern day Canterbury Scene style, but feels like it came from the 70s. Brilliant
vinyl:
Riverside - Love, Fear and the Time Machine
Riverside - ID.Entity
Pendragon - Men Who Climb Mountains
Beck - Odelay
With a rather late lunch >:(
Quote from: Nickslikk2112 on February 04, 2023, 08:46:18 PMUFO - No Heavy Petting (Clear vinyl)
That was one of those records that I listened to a lot, but only for about a year. Shame as there are some banging tunes on there,
Natural Thing and
Reasons Love especially.
Anyway Faust - Faust
Lifesigns - Lifesigns
vinyl:
Van der Graaf Generator - Godbluff
Dream Theater - Distance Over Time
Dream Theater - A View From the Top of the World
Marillion - Clutching at Straws
Bend Sinister - Animals
Another late lunch...
Big Elf - Closer to Doom
Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden
Arena - The Visitor
Gryphon - Red Queen to Gryphon Three
Last night:
Black Sabbath - S/T
Whitesnake - Lovehunter. What a voice he had back then!
Black Bonzo - Sound of the Apocalypse
Led Zeppelin - S/T
Black Country Communion -Black Country Communion
Supertramp - Brother Where You Bound & Free as a Bird
Dire Straits - Communique
Rain Dogs
UFO - Live at the Roundhouse (Clear vinyl)
Rick Wakeman - Six Wives of Henry VIII (Oxfam Vinyl)
Haken - Vector
Haken - Virus
vinyl:
The Tangent - A Place in the Queue
The Tangent - The Slow Rust of Forgotten Machinery
vinyl:
Haken - The Mountain
The Tangent - Auto Reconnaissance
Riverside - ID.Entity
not vinyl:
Ross Jennings - A Shadow of My Future Self
The Tangent - Down And Out in Paris and London
Black Country Communion - BCC2
Diesel - Hepfidelity
Devin Townsend - Terria
The Black Crowes - The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion
Johnny Diesel & The Injectors
King's X - Ear Candy
Motorpsycho & Ståle Storløkken - The Death Defying Unicorn
Steven Wilson Presents Intrigue - Progressive Sounds In UK Alternative Music 1979–89 CD1
The Death Defying Unicorn is a challenging but rewarding listen. Maybe once a year though...it's a bit much to take in.
Quote from: pdw1 on February 15, 2023, 06:31:31 PMKing's X - Ear Candy
I moved on to Gretchen after that. It would be rude not to.
Now
Devin Townsend - Terria
The Neal Morse Band - Innocence and Danger
Frost* - Milliontown
^ Brilliant album that one Slim - I've got it on vinyl too :)
Quote from: pxr5 on February 18, 2023, 01:39:45 PM^ Brilliant album that one Slim - I've got it on vinyl too :)
I listened to it a lot when it came out, then seemed to forget about it. Nice to reacquaint myself last night.
Quote from: Slim on February 18, 2023, 02:32:07 PMQuote from: pxr5 on February 18, 2023, 01:39:45 PM^ Brilliant album that one Slim - I've got it on vinyl too :)
I listened to it a lot when it came out, then seemed to forget about it. Nice to reacquaint myself last night.
Have you heard their other albums: Experiments In Mass Appeal, Falling Satellites, Day and Age? All excellent IMO.
O.R.K. - Screamnasium
Rick Wakeman - The Myths and Legends of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table (Oxfam Vinyl)
Quote from: pxr5 on February 18, 2023, 06:08:04 PMQuote from: Slim on February 18, 2023, 02:32:07 PMQuote from: pxr5 on February 18, 2023, 01:39:45 PM^ Brilliant album that one Slim - I've got it on vinyl too :)
I listened to it a lot when it came out, then seemed to forget about it. Nice to reacquaint myself last night.
Have you heard their other albums: Experiments In Mass Appeal, Falling Satellites, Day and Age? All excellent IMO.
I have the first two - must have a listen to that last one.
Pendragon - Fly High Fall Far (EP)
Be-Bop Deluxe - Sunburst Finish
The very last Clash album - Cut the Crap
The first Rolling Stones album - The Rolling Stones
Both of them defeated my expectations. The Clash album is quite imaginative and energetic, and the first Stones album is really sharp, spiky R&B.
DeWolff - Love, Death & In Between
Acid Mothers Temple - IAO Chant from the Cosmic Inferno
Basically an hour riffing on the Master Builder/Glorious Om Riff. Nice.
The Black Keys - El Camino
Ed Motta - AOR
Jazzy AOR cheese, in a very good way
Comus - Out of the Coma
Wishbone Ash - Argus
Comus - First Utterance
vinyl:
Pendragon - Fallen Dreams & Angels & All The Loose Ends
Haken - L+1VE
Rick Wakeman - The Six Wives of Henry VIII
Steve Hillage - Fish Rising
Devin Townsend - Terria
vinyl:
The Neal Morse Band - Innocence and Danger
Marillion - Afraid of Sunlight
Black Mountain - In the Future
B.B. King - Live 1993 Texas
Riverside - Second Life Syndrome
King's X - Live 1992 Cleveland
The Smile - A Light For Attracting Attention
Gorguts - Obscura
Porcupine Tree - Live 2005 Cambridge
I was there :)
REM - Green on the way into work tonight.
Brecker Brothers - Detente
(https://media.tenor.com/qIysa0QcgesAAAAC/welcome-to-jazz-club-fast-show.gif)
Eskaton - 4 Visions a Zeuhl classic that isn't Magma (maybe better).
Arena - Pepper's Ghost
Black Mountain - Wilderness Heart
The Charlatans - Some Friendly on the way into work tonight.
Gong - Angel's Egg
Yes - Yessongs
Black Pyramid - Black Pyramid II
Sea Power - Everything Was Forever
Yesterday, The Rolling Stones No. 2
Steve Hillage - Fish Rising
vinyl:
Pendragon - Passion
Comus - Out of the Coma
The Tangent - Songs From the Hard Shoulder
The Mahavishnu Orchestra - The Inner Mounting Flame. Billy Cobham is a revelation on this one.
Simon Phillips Protocol V
Iron Maiden - Best Of The B-Sides
A real slob around day today doing sod all except playing tunes:
iNFiNiEN - Beyond the Veil
Parallel or 90 Degrees - More Exotic Ways to Die
Haken - Aquarius
Haze - Back To The Bones
vinyl:
Frost* - Day and Age
Frost* - Milliontown clear red vinyl
Frost* - Experiments in Mass Appeal clear blue vinyl
King Crimson - Beat
Pallas - The Wedge
Pendragon - Believe
Pendragon - Pure
Rick Wakeman And The English Rock Ensemble: A Gallery Of The Imagination
Black Pyramid - Black Pyramid
Black Sabbath - Vol 4
Porcupine Tree - Live 2007 Cambridge
I was standing next to the person who recorded this :)
I am on a real PT bender at the moment
Live 2006 Munich - The pre Fear Of A Blank Planet Tour
To-Mera - Delusions
Bon Jovi - Slippery When Wet
What a classic.
Porcupine Tree - Lightbulb Sun
Quote from: pdw1 on March 03, 2023, 07:51:51 PMPorcupine Tree - Lightbulb Sun
Russia on Ice is such a great song.
Quote from: Nick on March 03, 2023, 07:53:16 PMQuote from: pdw1 on March 03, 2023, 07:51:51 PMPorcupine Tree - Lightbulb Sun
Russia on Ice is such a great song.
Yes the whole album is great perhaps my favourite:
4 Chords, Last Chance, The Rest Will Flow, Hate Song and the utterly brilliant Shesmovedon
Superb solo on Shesmovedon
Some proper music from the 60s/70s - on vinyl, nacth,
The Who - The Who Sell Out
Hawkwind - Quark Strangeness and Charm
Pink Floyd - Ummagumma
Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon
Porcupine Tree - Voyage 34
Symphony X - V The New Mythology Suite
Temple Fang - Fang Temple
Magnum - Storytellers night.
Quote from: Nick on March 05, 2023, 08:29:27 PMMagnum - Storytellers night.
nice, I always liked How Far Jerusalem. And the cover of course...makes for endless hours of staring.
Tyketto: Don't Come Easy
Quote from: R6GYY on March 06, 2023, 03:11:37 PMTyketto: Don't Come Easy
Melodic rock perfection. 👍🏻
Haken - Fauna magenta vinyl
Haken - Virus lilac Vinyl
Porcupine Tree - On the Sunday of Life blue vinyl
Porcupine Tree - Up the Downstair purple vinyl
Mark Hollis - S/T - little over 4 years gone already...
Last night:
Fates Warning - A Pleasant Shade of Gray
Pain of Salvation - Remedy Lane
Pendragon - Fallen Dreams and Angels and All The Loose Ends maroon Vinyl
Haken - Fauna magenta vinyl
Porcupine Tree - The Sky Moves Sideways red Vinyl
black midi - Hellfire
Audioslave - Out of Exile
Gong - Flying Teapot [Radio Gnome Invisible Pt1]
Gong - Angel's Egg [Radio Gnome Invisible Pt2]
Amplifier - The Octopus
Collage - Over and Out
Quote from: pxr5 on March 09, 2023, 12:25:39 PMAmplifier - The Octopus
fantastic over indulgent masterpiece
New album is out next month
Quote from: pdw1 on March 09, 2023, 01:59:03 PMQuote from: pxr5 on March 09, 2023, 12:25:39 PMAmplifier - The Octopus
fantastic over indulgent masterpiece
New album is out next month
I think it's out already - Hologram 5/3/23
https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=78226
https://www.rockosmos.com/product-page/amplifier-hologram-2023-digipak
Quote from: pxr5 on March 09, 2023, 07:02:21 PMQuote from: pdw1 on March 09, 2023, 01:59:03 PMQuote from: pxr5 on March 09, 2023, 12:25:39 PMAmplifier - The Octopus
fantastic over indulgent masterpiece
New album is out next month
I think it's out already - Hologram 5/3/23
https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=78226
https://www.rockosmos.com/product-page/amplifier-hologram-2023-digipak
I've now had an email from Burning Shed which gives the release date as 14 April 23 - odd.
Quote from: pxr5 on March 10, 2023, 02:32:01 PMQuote from: pxr5 on March 09, 2023, 07:02:21 PMQuote from: pdw1 on March 09, 2023, 01:59:03 PMQuote from: pxr5 on March 09, 2023, 12:25:39 PMAmplifier - The Octopus
fantastic over indulgent masterpiece
New album is out next month
I think it's out already - Hologram 5/3/23
https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=78226
https://www.rockosmos.com/product-page/amplifier-hologram-2023-digipak
I've now had an email from Burning Shed which gives the release date as 14 April 23 - odd.
They have done a staged release:
Feb for their Patreon members, March for people (like me) on the mailing list etc, then general release in April.
PT - Deadwing (deluxe)
Quote from: Ali on March 10, 2023, 10:18:28 PMPT - Deadwing (deluxe)
What do you think, is it worth buying?
On now: The Tangent - Comm
Quote from: pxr5 on March 11, 2023, 12:10:13 PMQuote from: Ali on March 10, 2023, 10:18:28 PMPT - Deadwing (deluxe)
What do you think, is it worth buying?
Absolutely,just the B-sides and Outtakes justify it,the book is top quality and I haven't even tried the blu-ray yet
The whole package is almost identical in format to the IA deluxe, which I thought was superb
Hoping FOABP gets the same treatment in the near future 🤞🏻
Plenty of nice vinyl:
Horisont - About Time
Riverside - Out of Myself
Lynyrd Skynyrd - One More from the Road
DeWolff - Love, Death and in Between. So far the album of the year for me. The vbe on this thing is fantastic, the music has to be to your liking of course but there is no denying this is a magnificent sounding recording. This on vinyl is so sweet.
I have known the band for years, they started as teenagers and grown into one of the, if not the best live band in Holland at the moment and they are only in their mid twenties.
There is a little documentary up on YT on the making of the album, it is worth a watch if you have 45 mins at some point.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1puxP68_V88
Beardfish - +4626-Comfortzone
Mastodon - Crack the Skye
Beardfish - Destined Solitaire
vinyl:
King Crimson - Red
Porcupine Tree - Signify
Beardfish - Sleeping in Traffic Part One
vinyl:
Porcupine Tree - Stupid Dream
Haken - Affinity
Phideaux - Snowtorch
Chris Squire - Fish Out of Water
Blue Oyster Cult - Secret Treaties
Quote from: David L on March 16, 2023, 01:19:21 PMGreat album!
There's something delightfully dissonant about a boogie tune concerning the Wehrmacht's first operational jet combat aircraft.
(https://i.ibb.co/jT2yR2t/boc-weird.jpg)
BÖC truly are weird (Weather Report?) having, as they do, numerous songs whose subject matter has never been expressed in songs, before or since, by any other bands.
Mind you, there are a number of songs that even the band themselves have not the faintest idea of what they're about, the lyrics having been written by others and adhering to a style best described as mostly incomprehensible ;D
Last night:
Invisible - El Jardín De Los Presentes
Leprous - Tall Poppy Syndrome
Today whilst running in some brand new speakers:
Beardfish - +4626-Comfortzone
Porcupine Tree - Lightbulb Sun
Riverside - ID.Entity
Quote from: pxr5 on March 17, 2023, 03:23:03 PMToday whilst running in some brand new speakers
And they are?
QuoteBeardfish - +4626-Comfortzone
Riverside - ID.Entity
I'll give a like for those.
Quote from: Nickslikk2112 on March 17, 2023, 06:47:21 PMQuote from: pxr5 on March 17, 2023, 03:23:03 PMToday whilst running in some brand new speakers
And they are?
QuoteBeardfish - +4626-Comfortzone
Riverside - ID.Entity
I'll give a like for those.
Indeed, spill! We need to know!
NP: Kamelot - The Awakening. Very boombastic. Jeebus.
Kenn Nardi - Trauma
Gojira - Fortitude
Dead Blonde Stars - Metamorphosis
Quote from: Thenop on March 17, 2023, 07:00:49 PMQuote from: Nickslikk2112 on March 17, 2023, 06:47:21 PMQuote from: pxr5 on March 17, 2023, 03:23:03 PMToday whilst running in some brand new speakers
And they are?
QuoteBeardfish - +4626-Comfortzone
Riverside - ID.Entity
I'll give a like for those.
Indeed, spill! We need to know!
NP: Kamelot - The Awakening. Very boombastic. Jeebus.
Dali Oberon 5s :)
Not a PT fan then Nick?
QuoteDali Oberon 5s :)
Not a PT fan then Nick?
Old PT good, new PT bad
Quote from: pdw1 on March 17, 2023, 08:08:50 PMQuoteDali Oberon 5s :)
Not a PT fan then Nick?
Old PT good, new PT bad
All PT meh!
Quote from: pxr5 on March 17, 2023, 07:37:15 PMDali Oberon 5s :)
Nice. Was looking at the Oberon 3s when I bought new speakers this year - Mrs S would kill me if I bought owt bigger than bookshelf speakers - until I saw a good deal on Kef R3s (thanks to a new model coming out)
Quote from: pxr5 on March 17, 2023, 07:37:15 PMQuote from: Thenop on March 17, 2023, 07:00:49 PMQuote from: Nickslikk2112 on March 17, 2023, 06:47:21 PMQuote from: pxr5 on March 17, 2023, 03:23:03 PMToday whilst running in some brand new speakers
And they are?
QuoteBeardfish - +4626-Comfortzone
Riverside - ID.Entity
I'll give a like for those.
Indeed, spill! We need to know!
NP: Kamelot - The Awakening. Very boombastic. Jeebus.
Dali Oberon 5s :)
Not a PT fan then Nick?
Very nice, have the Oberon 7 myself. Good choice!
Quote from: Nickslikk2112 on March 17, 2023, 09:15:49 PMQuote from: pxr5 on March 17, 2023, 07:37:15 PMDali Oberon 5s :)
Nice. Was looking at the Oberon 3s when I bought new speakers this year - Mrs S would kill me if I bought owt bigger than bookshelf speakers - until I saw a good deal on Kef R3s (thanks to a new model coming out)
These Dali Oberon 5s are quite small, especially compared to my last floorstanders. So my wife is pleased at that.
Pink Floyd - The Division Bell
(On Spotify because despite pulling the house apart I can't find my CD copy. Annoying as it's my favourite PF album).
On the glass platter tonight:
Riverside - Rapid Eye Movement
Rikard Sjoblom's Gungfly - On Her Journey to the Sun
Quote from: pdw1 on March 17, 2023, 08:08:50 PMQuoteDali Oberon 5s :)
Not a PT fan then Nick?
Old PT good, new PT bad
When do you think PT went bad? I admit I'm not really keen on their latest - Closure/Continuation. But I pretty much like everything before that, even The Incident has its good parts.
Quote from: pxr5 on March 18, 2023, 10:26:08 PMQuote from: pdw1 on March 17, 2023, 08:08:50 PMQuoteDali Oberon 5s :)
Not a PT fan then Nick?
Old PT good, new PT bad
When do you think PT went bad? I admit I'm not really keen on their latest - Closure/Continuation. But I pretty much like everything before that, even The Incident has its good parts.
me, I am a big fan of almost everything SW has done. I was just (mis)quoting Nick's signature phrase.
REM - Eponymous
REM - Document
Voice Of The Beehive - Let It Bee
Spiritualized - Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space
whilst driving in and out of work over the weekend
Black Sabbath - Mob Rules
Santana - Moonflower
Haken - Vector
Mastodon - Crack the Skye
Marillion - An Hour Before it's Dark
Camel - A Live Record the 2002 remaster with additional tracks
Herbie Hancock - Empyrean Isles. New Blue Note classic pressing.
Styx - Crystal Ball
AC/DC - Powerage
Birth - Born
Riverside - Anno Domini High Definition
Premiata Forneria Marconi - Per un Amico
Leprous - Tall Poppy Syndrome
vinyl:
Transatlantic - Kaleidoscope
Japan - Exorcising Ghosts
Quote from: pxr5 on March 21, 2023, 04:43:55 PMBirth - Born
Riverside - Anno Domini High Definition
Premiata Forneria Marconi - Per un Amico
Leprous - Tall Poppy Syndrome
vinyl:
Transatlantic - Kaleidoscope
Japan - Exorcising Ghosts
I have that Japan one, still need to give it a listen.
Been listening to various live versions of Tommy by The Who
Asia - Aura
Asia - Arena
Asia - Aria
Quote from: Thenop on March 21, 2023, 05:55:03 PMQuote from: pxr5 on March 21, 2023, 04:43:55 PMBirth - Born
Riverside - Anno Domini High Definition
Premiata Forneria Marconi - Per un Amico
Leprous - Tall Poppy Syndrome
vinyl:
Transatlantic - Kaleidoscope
Japan - Exorcising Ghosts
I have that Japan one, still need to give it a listen.
It's a compilation album and very good it is too.
Yes - Yesshows
Neal Morse - Sola Scriptura
Quote from: pxr5 on March 23, 2023, 01:27:00 PMNeal Morse - Sola Scriptura
Used to listen to him a lot. Nowadays not so much. I do think I like this one best out of all his huge output. This and One. Everyone raves about Testimony but it never stuck for me.
Quote from: Thenop on March 23, 2023, 04:47:52 PMQuote from: pxr5 on March 23, 2023, 01:27:00 PMNeal Morse - Sola Scriptura
Used to listen to him a lot. Nowadays not so much. I do think I like this one best out of all his huge output. This and One. Everyone raves about Testimony but it never stuck for me.
Yeah, it's a bit hit and miss with NM. Personally, I think his best output was with Spock's Beard, but moreso Transatlantic.
Acid King - Beyond Vision
The Skull - For Those Which Are Asleep
The Skull - The Endless Road Turns Black
Rush - Signals
Magnificent!
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven
Nektar - Journey to the Centre of the Eye
Quote from: pxr5 on March 24, 2023, 02:05:16 PMGodspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven
Nektar - Journey to the Centre of the Eye
I love Godspeed. Have all of their output, real fanboy here. Lift your Skinny Fists is one of their best.
Slow Riot for New Zero Kanada is also a great EP. They can do no wrong for me but it is an acquired taste for sure.
Rush - A Show Of Hands, extended version that is the audio rip of the concert video.
Porcupine Tree - In Absentia
Porcupine Tree - Fear of a Blank Planet
The Answer - Sundowners
Some post gravel vinyl:
Metallica - Ride the Lightning
Riverside - Anno Domini High Definition
King Crimson - Lark's Tongues in Aspic
Yes - 9012 Live, extended version of show made up of the audio from the Video and 9012Live: The Solos.
Just records today:
Pendragon - Passion
Porcupine Tree - The Incident
Porcupine Tree - Deadwing clear vinyl
Liturgy - 93696. This is not an easy album but it has so much going for it. Again: an acquired taste for sure and progressive in the truest sense of the word. And I don't mean 1970's mellotron prog. Metal is the foundation, but everything you can imagine is on here, and then some.
So, last warning: not for the faint of heart, or hearing:
https://liturgy.bandcamp.com/album/93696
Burning Tree
Candlemass - Dactylis Glomerata
The Pineapple Thief - Dissolution
Mostly Autumn - Graveyard Star
Moon Safari - Blomljud
Vinyl:
Porcupine Tree - Closure / Continuation 45rpm clear vinyl
Steven Wilson - Insurgentes
AIC - Dirt
Led Zeppelin - Remasters (4 CD Box Set)
Therion - Theli
Mostly Autumn - White Rainbow
Love - Forever Changes
Quote from: pxr5 on March 28, 2023, 02:28:40 PMThe Pineapple Thief - Dissolution
Mostly Autumn - Graveyard Star
Moon Safari - Blomljud
Vinyl:
Porcupine Tree - Closure / Continuation 45rpm clear vinyl
Steven Wilson - Insurgentes
Brilliant album by MA that,a superb band who I've seen live well more than anyone else (over 50 times)
Did you manage to get hold of the 2 disc special edition? 👌🏻
Quote from: Ali on March 30, 2023, 11:46:44 AMQuote from: pxr5 on March 28, 2023, 02:28:40 PMThe Pineapple Thief - Dissolution
Mostly Autumn - Graveyard Star
Moon Safari - Blomljud
Vinyl:
Porcupine Tree - Closure / Continuation 45rpm clear vinyl
Steven Wilson - Insurgentes
Brilliant album by MA that,a superb band who I've seen live well more than anyone else (over 50 times)
Did you manage to get hold of the 2 disc special edition? 👌🏻
Yes it is a really lovely album for sure. I only have the standard edition, but you've piqued my interest and I'll keep a look out for the bonus version.
Riverside - Shrine of New Generation Slaves
Riverside - Second Life Syndrome
Steven Wilson - Grace for Drowning
Quote from: Ali on March 30, 2023, 11:46:44 AMQuote from: pxr5 on March 28, 2023, 02:28:40 PMThe Pineapple Thief - Dissolution
Mostly Autumn - Graveyard Star
Moon Safari - Blomljud
Vinyl:
Porcupine Tree - Closure / Continuation 45rpm clear vinyl
Steven Wilson - Insurgentes
Brilliant album by MA that,a superb band who I've seen live well more than anyone else (over 50 times)
Did you manage to get hold of the 2 disc special edition? 👌🏻
I'd never heard of MA until these posts. Had a quick listen on YouTube just now. Wow! Superb band. Grateful for the pointer.
Hawklords - 25 Years On (Steven Wilson remix)
Quote from: Nickslikk2112 on March 30, 2023, 02:48:55 PMHawklords - 25 Years On (Steven Wilson remix)
Nice, are you going to get the new boxset? I'm tempted but like all these things there will be bits I want and stuff I'm not bothered about.
Quote from: pxr5 on March 30, 2023, 07:06:24 PMQuote from: Nickslikk2112 on March 30, 2023, 02:48:55 PMHawklords - 25 Years On (Steven Wilson remix)
Nice, are you going to get the new boxset? I'm tempted but like all these things there will be bits I want and stuff I'm not bothered about.
It's from the boxset. It's (old) Hawkwind/Lords what's not to like :)
Quote from: Nickslikk2112 on March 30, 2023, 07:10:38 PMQuote from: pxr5 on March 30, 2023, 07:06:24 PMQuote from: Nickslikk2112 on March 30, 2023, 02:48:55 PMHawklords - 25 Years On (Steven Wilson remix)
Nice, are you going to get the new boxset? I'm tempted but like all these things there will be bits I want and stuff I'm not bothered about.
It's from the boxset. It's (old) Hawkwind/Lords what's not to like :)
Ah, OK - I didn't realised it was out yet, thought you might have streamed it. Anyway it's inspired me to play:
Hawkwind - Astounding Sounds, Amazing Music
Hawklords - 25 Years On
Hawkwind - PXR5 (Steven Wilson remix)
Just heard Red by King Crimson for the 1st time. Think Radiohead took a bit of inspiration from it!
Quote from: dom on March 31, 2023, 04:20:58 PMJust heard Red by King Crimson for the 1st time. Think Radiohead took a bit of inspiration from it!
Ah! A first timer. Happy trails.
HSAS - Into The Fire
Alan Parsons Project - Turn Of A Friendly Card
Hawkwind - Quark, Strangeness and Charm (Steven Wilson 5.1 remix)
More than just a nod to Rush... have a listen although I'd almost post this in the Rush topic.
https://crownlandsmusic.bandcamp.com/album/fearless
Quote from: Thenop on April 01, 2023, 06:33:07 PMMore than just a nod to Rush... have a listen although I'd almost post this in the Rush topic.
https://crownlandsmusic.bandcamp.com/album/fearless
Love this band (if two people can be a band).
Quote from: The Picnic Wasp on April 01, 2023, 06:57:31 PMQuote from: Thenop on April 01, 2023, 06:33:07 PMMore than just a nod to Rush... have a listen although I'd almost post this in the Rush topic.
https://crownlandsmusic.bandcamp.com/album/fearless
Love this band (if two people can be a band).
Black Keys
White Stripes
Royal Blood
Yes 2 people can be a band.
Quote from: Thenop on April 01, 2023, 07:02:32 PMQuote from: The Picnic Wasp on April 01, 2023, 06:57:31 PMQuote from: Thenop on April 01, 2023, 06:33:07 PMMore than just a nod to Rush... have a listen although I'd almost post this in the Rush topic.
https://crownlandsmusic.bandcamp.com/album/fearless
Love this band (if two people can be a band).
Black Keys
White Stripes
Royal Blood
Yes 2 people can be a band.
I know. But in the words of Sheldon Cooper, "It's not enough"! 😁
Quote from: The Picnic Wasp on April 01, 2023, 07:25:15 PMQuote from: Thenop on April 01, 2023, 07:02:32 PMQuote from: The Picnic Wasp on April 01, 2023, 06:57:31 PMQuote from: Thenop on April 01, 2023, 06:33:07 PMMore than just a nod to Rush... have a listen although I'd almost post this in the Rush topic.
https://crownlandsmusic.bandcamp.com/album/fearless
Love this band (if two people can be a band).
Black Keys
White Stripes
Royal Blood
Yes 2 people can be a band.
I know. But in the words of Sheldon Cooper, "It's not enough"! 😁
Or...maybe it is, as Cody Bowles uses the pronouns (they/them).
Quote from: The Picnic Wasp on April 01, 2023, 07:32:05 PMQuote from: The Picnic Wasp on April 01, 2023, 07:25:15 PMQuote from: Thenop on April 01, 2023, 07:02:32 PMQuote from: The Picnic Wasp on April 01, 2023, 06:57:31 PMQuote from: Thenop on April 01, 2023, 06:33:07 PMMore than just a nod to Rush... have a listen although I'd almost post this in the Rush topic.
https://crownlandsmusic.bandcamp.com/album/fearless
Love this band (if two people can be a band).
Black Keys
White Stripes
Royal Blood
Yes 2 people can be a band.
I know. But in the words of Sheldon Cooper, "It's not enough"! 😁
Or...maybe it is, as Cody Bowles uses the pronouns (they/them).
True, multi anything. Fine by me.
And if the music is like this, you won't hear me complaining.
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon, Live at Wembley (Is indeed an excellent pressing)
Hawkwind - Sonic Attack (Blue vinyl, superior pressing)
Riverside - Shrine of New Generation Slaves (Purple vinyl, occasional crackle and pop)
Judas Priest - Sin After Sin I so wish they had carried on with albums like this instead of the 'Metal Gods' nonsense.
Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden Second best IM album after Killers. I'll always prefer Paul Di'Anno over Bruce Dickinson.
AC/DC - Flick Of The Switch
Supertramp - Breakfast In America
I'll be listening to various Gentle Giant today I think...
Trying to find Crown Lands Fearless on CD. Can only see it listed as Pre-order on WOW HD. I've never used them. Are they ok? I notice on the band's website that all the signed vinyl is now sold. Looks like they must be shifting a few copies of this.
Quote from: The Picnic Wasp on April 03, 2023, 10:27:01 AMTrying to find Crown Lands Fearless on CD. Can only see it listed as Pre-order on WOW HD. I've never used them. Are they ok? I notice on the band's website that all the signed vinyl is now sold. Looks like they must be shifting a few copies of this.
They ship from a local UK shop as well
https://crownlands.tmstor.es/?cur=GBP
Quote from: Thenop on April 03, 2023, 10:59:36 AMQuote from: The Picnic Wasp on April 03, 2023, 10:27:01 AMTrying to find Crown Lands Fearless on CD. Can only see it listed as Pre-order on WOW HD. I've never used them. Are they ok? I notice on the band's website that all the signed vinyl is now sold. Looks like they must be shifting a few copies of this.
They ship from a local UK shop as well
https://crownlands.tmstor.es/?cur=GBP
Thank you. CD doesn't seem to be up there yet but I'll look in later.
yeah just noticing that. Bit weird. Just stock all the stuff.
Hawkwind - Live at Fairfield Hall Croydon/Ipswich Gaumont
Gentle Giant Playing the Fool
Crown Lands - Fearless (on Spotify)
Really enjoying this, but scanning the lyrics I'm worried that this might soon become Rush parody. Still, superb musicianship and castrato Ozzy, so what's not to like? Did I mention the synths? Wonderful.
Hawkwind - Quark, Strangeness and Charm – The Steven Wilson remix
Haken - Vector
Vinyl:
Porcupine Tree - Nil Recurring clear vinyl
Porcupine Tree - Recordings
Gentle Giant - Three Piece Suite (Steven Wilson Mix)
Haken - Affinity
Black Country, New Road - Live at Bush Hall a live album, but all new material; and they've recovered well from the loss of their front man. Superb.
Hawkwind - Live at Leicester de Montfort Hall
Quote from: Nickslikk2112 on April 04, 2023, 03:16:55 PMHawkwind - Live at Leicester de Montfort Hall
Going through that box at fast pace I see ;D
I installed a new subwoofer today to replace my old Yamaha one and running it through its paces and playing:
Steven Wilson - The Raven That Refused to Sing (And Other Stories)
Steven Wilson - Hand.Cannot.Erase
Steven Wilson - To the Bone
Steven Wilson - The Future Bites
I did quite a bit of research on what sub to get. The main thing I picked up on was that speaker manufacturers are not necessarily the best for subwoofers and to get one from a company that only makes subs. So straight away I narrowed it down to 3 makers: Rel, SVS and BK Electronics. I eventually settled on BK Electronics for a few reasons - great reviews, good value for money, designed and made in the UK and they take both an LFe and a high level input. My amp has a sub out so for now it's connected to the LFe, but I'll tinker with the high level connection in the future. This is the XLS300-FF I bought, in black ash and front firing: http://www.bkelec.com/HiFi/Sub_Woofers/XLS200.htm
Frank Marino - The Power Of Rock 'n' Roll
Neal Morse - Question Mark
Collage - Over and Out
Beardfish - Destined Solitaire
Pink Floyd - Animals
Porcupine Tree - The Incident
Amplifier - Hologram
on the way to the Devin Townsend gig
Beardfish - Sleeping In Traffic Part One
Beardfish - The Sane Day
Sonic Assassins - Live at Queensway Hall Barnstaple
Another day, another disc. Had the day off yesterday for Scheldeprijs Vrouwen en Mannen
Devin Townsend - Epicloud
Devin Townsend - Addicted
Devin Townsend - Transcendence
Hawklords - Live at Brunel University 24th November 1978
Don't think I've ever listened to five albums back-to-back before, but today I did. While riding a bike.
Very handy to have your entire record collection with you whenever you have your phone on you.
Talc: Licenced Premises Lifestyle
Earth, Wind & Fire: The Best Of, Vol 1
Judas Priest: Stained Class
Style Council: Confessions Of A Pop Group
The Beatles: Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Messa - live at Roadburn. Intriguing. All the live at Roadburns sound fantastic and this is no exception. This is a live representation of one of my favourite albums of last year, Messa's Closer. The use of instruments not often heard in 'rock' (although I use the term lightly, it is really not anywhere near the rock idiom), it makes for a fascinating listen.
Find it on Bandcamp:
https://messaproject.bandcamp.com/album/live-at-roadburn
Listening and watching:
Rival Sons - Pressure & Time Redux
followed by:
Porcupine Tree - Rockpalast 2005 (from the new Deadwing boxset)
A car cleaning day today and listening to:
Beardfish - Sleeping In Traffic Part One
Beardfish - Mammoth
Beardfish - Sleeping In Traffic Part Two
Amplifier- Hologram
Riverside - Love, Fear and the Time Machine
UFO - Lights Out
Rush - Live In YYZ (1981)
On my way in the car to the horses, playing Bobby Hutchersons San Francisco
Porcupine Tree - Lightbulb Sun
Sisters Of Mercy - Floodland on the way into work tonight.
Quote from: Red Lenses on April 10, 2023, 04:27:32 AMSisters Of Mercy - Floodland on the way into work tonight.
Great album - I still have the original vinyl I bought in 1987.
Peter Gabriel II. Never grows old.
White Shadow with Fripp on guitar is wonderful and the lyrics to Home Sweet Home are brilliant
Hawkwind - The Rockfield Sessions 1977
Rush - Counterparts
Rush - Snakes And Arrows
The Cure - Disintegration on the way into work tonight.
LPs today:
Transatlantic - SMPTe
Riverside - ID.Entity orange vinyl
Wobbler - Dwellers of the Deep green/black marbling vinyl
King Crimson - Larks' Tongues in Aspic
Haken - L+1ve
Genesis - BBC Broadcasts
Crown Lands - Fearless
It's like sitting an exam to pick out all of the musical influences in this recording. It's a bit of a kitchen sink of different skills. Track one is 2112, Hemispheres and Tubular Bells with a bit of The Cult, Led Zep and Ozzy as seasoning.
Iron Maiden - The Final Frontier
Amplifier - Trippin' With Dr Faustus
Thin Lizzy - Black Rose
Scorpions - Tokyo Tapes
Kansas - Song for America
Rush - Grace Under Pressure
Beardfish - The Void
Marillion - Brave
Hatfield And The North - The Rotter's Club
Erykha Badu - Baduizm
John McLaughlin - Belo Horizonte
Riverside - ID.Entity (White winyl - revision for next week)
Jethro Tull - Stormwatch
New Metallica:
Bookmarked between 2 fantastic songs (72 Seasons and Inamorata) is a collection of songs Lars Ulrich decribes as 'the most friction free recording' he ever did with the band. And it sounds like that. Never do I get the feeling there was a statement by any of the members on a song, nor do I hear any real gems, apart from the 2 already mentioned tracks. Midway through the record the first single Lux Aeterna is a nice break from what is otherwise just, well, Metallica. This band of course has never been the same after ...And Justice (yes I know some will say Kill 'em All was never bettered). The self titled "Black" album that propelled them into stardom also made them somewhat lazy but Death Magnetic and Hardwired cannot be called bad albums by any means. Mediocre, perhaps, but somehow the band always manages to create a set of earwurms that need not listened to more than 2 or 3 times before they never leave me.
Aside from the three tracks mentioned I don't see a point in lifting out singular tracks - they sound similar in intent. Some will be more popular than others, some might even be heard on a stage at some point.
One thing though is for sure: this LP is overlong. Clocking in a 77 minutes is an audacious thing to do, even when your name is Metallica but modesty has never been their strong suit. Nor has the "Kill Your Darlings" principle. They best learn that. Or not. They don't care. And why should they? After all, this will sell a million or more even in this day and age.
The tour is already lined up, it is where they excel anyway.
Haken - Aquarius CD
Haken - Visions CD
Beardfish - The Sane Day
Beardfish - Mammoth
Jason Bieler and the Baron Von Bielski Orchestra - Postcards from the Asylum.
I was completely unaware Bieler was still making music to this extent. He was the man behind Saigon Kick, they produced one of my favourite 90's albums: The Lizard. An album released in the midst of the melodic turning grunge era with one major hit: 'Love is on the Way', an acoustic ballad that was just very good. What drew me most to that album was its' eclectisism (is that a word?). It had so many styles and all of it was fantastic. Like a ADD trip in a good way.
Fast forward 30 years and Bieler is still at it! In fact, he never stopped and his latest 2 installments under this new name are brilliant. Devin Townsend guested on his last effort prompting some reviewers to make a comparison between the two. Now, I have never really listened to Townsend, just a little maybe when he first started with Steve Vai, but somehow he never stuck with me.
Bieler did, and I am happy for that.
So what's the music like? Well, metal-ish proggy, but with very layered vocals and all sorts of quirks, unexpected turns and twists but above all, it is all so very melodic that I can't resist it.
I'd almost say King's X fans would probably enjoy it, it is
that kind of prog-ish. It might not be for all but I still highly recommend it.
And while you're at it: he has a list as long as my arm of releases on his Bandcamp page just waiting to be checked out.
https://jasonbieler.bandcamp.com/album/postcards-from-the-asylum
Lovely man too on his 'discovery' of the prog community:
RanestRane - Apocalypse Now Superb, modern Italian prog
Genesis - Foxtrot
Yes - Close to the Edge (Steven Wilson Remix)
Vinyl:
Pendragon - Fallen Dreams and Angels and All the Loose Ends maroon vinyl
The Tangent - Pyramids, Stars & Other Stories The Tangent Live Recordings 2004-2017
Yes - Big Generator
Rush - Different Stages (Discs 1 & 2)
Karfagen - Echoes From Within Dragon Island
Jethro Tull - A Passion Play
Pat Travers - Putting it Straight
UFO - No Heavy Petting
Eagles - Hotel California
Hall & Oates - Abandoned Luncheonette
Hall & Oates Rock 'N Soul Part 1
BÖC - Imaginos
Supertramp - Crime of the Century
The Emerald Dawn - Nocturne
LITE - Phantasia
Fates Warning - A Pleasant Shade of Gray
Queensrÿche - Operation Mindcrime
Iron Maiden - Piece of Mind
Beardfish - Från En Plats Du Ej Kan Se
Beardfish - The Sane Day
vinyl:
Pendragon - Believe
Frost* - Day and Age
Jethro Tull - Aqualung (Steven Wilson Remix)
Mahogany Rush - Maxoom
Gamma - Gamma 2
Beck, Bogert, Appice - S/T
Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run
Stephan Eicher - Engelberg 91
Stephan Eicher - Carcassonne
Stephan Eicher - Engelberg
Ultravox - The Collection
A Flock of Seagulls - The Best of a Flock of Seagulls
Gungfly - On Her Journey to the Sun
Beardfish - Mammoth
vinyl:
Judas Priest - Killing Machine clear red vinyl (the first record I ever bought, still sounds great)
Rush - A Farewell to Kings (the third record I ever bought)
Frank Zappa - Hot Rats
black midi - Hellfire clear red vinyl
Wishbone Ash - Argus
Wishbone Ash - Argus
Wishbone Ash - Argus Live (Yellow Vinyl)
Wishbone Ash - No Easy Road (7" red vinyl)
Paul Personne - Funambule
Metallica - 72 Seasons
Erykah Badu - But You Caint Use My Phone
Sikth - The Trees Are Dead & Dried Out Wait For Something Wild
Andy Williams - Greatest Hits Vol 2
Haken - L-1ve CD
Beardfish - +4626 Comfortzone vinyl
Hawkwind - PXR5 (Steven Wilson 5.1 remix)
Was pointed towards this on youtube: Steven Wilson Live in LA 2015
Hand Cannot Erase tour
Wishbone Ash - Live in Memphis 1972
The Pineapple Thief - Dissolution
Gungfly - Alone Together
The Devil's Blood - the Time of No Time Evermore. So good, such a shame.
Wishbone Ash - Live at Alexandra Palace 1973
Big Big Train - The Underfall Yard
Marillion - Seasons End [2023 Deluxe remix]
Bowie - Outside
Jerry Paper - Free Time
Raven - Rock Until You Drop (Blue and Purple Smoke Vinyl)
Lunatic Soul - Walking on a Flashlight Beam
U2 - Songs Of Surrender
Stripped-down, re-worked, live lounge-esque versions of radio staples and deep cuts.
I bought the 16-track CD not realising it is an entry-level release and there's a 40-track version plus a plethora of deluxe packages etc.
Anyway, it's had a few spins now and unfortunately I'm getting very little from it - it all seems pointless and superfluous, merely serving as a reminder that the original versions cannot be improved upon.
I hope the promised next release of original material has a lot more fire and creativity to it; this album is bland almost to the point of being soporific.
Quote from: Matt2112 on May 07, 2023, 02:42:15 PMU2 - Songs Of Surrender
Stripped-down, re-worked, live lounge-esque versions of radio staples and deep cuts.
I bought the 16-track CD not realising it is an entry-level release and there's a 40-track version plus a plethora of deluxe packages etc.
Anyway, it's had a few spins now and unfortunately I'm getting very little from it - it all seems pointless and superfluous, merely serving as a reminder that the original versions cannot be improved upon.
I hope the promised next release of original material has a lot more fire and creativity to it; this album is bland almost to the point of being soporific.
Always seemed a complete waste of time to me and merely served to reinforce the fact that Bonio is completely 'up himself'
Quote from: David L on May 07, 2023, 07:37:09 PMAlways seemed a complete waste of time to me and merely served to reinforce the fact that Bonio is completely 'up himself'
In fairness (with my U2 fanboi hat on here) the main instigator of this project seems to The Edge (or 'Dave', if you prefer :) ).
Got to say Bono's (or 'Paul's' if you prefer) vocal performance is actually very good - he's looked after himself in that regard.
It's just a very "meh" record overall though.
https://youtu.be/PFx_cXkQ8yw
best U2 ever..lol
I pretty much stopped listening to U2 after October. That and Boy are tremendous albums. War never struck with me and I gave up after that.
Today I'm mostly playing:
Gungfly - On Her Journey to the Sun
Gungfly - Alone Together
vinyl:
Beardfish - The Void
Genesis - Invisible Touch, easily 20 years since I played the whole CD.
Cutting Crew - Broadcast, one of my favorite 80s CDs (1 of the 1st CDs I ever bought).
vinyl:
Marillion - F.E.A.R.
T.Rex - The Slider
Rush - Live In YYZ (1981)
Various versions of Be Still, My Soul on Spotify. If a prog band wrote a hymn.......
Steven Wilson - Home Invasion: In Concert at the Royal Albert Hall
Rush - Signals (mainly The Weapon on repeat)
Mountain - Climbing.. newly reissued on vinyl. Nice.
Yes - Tales From Topographic Oceans
Beardfish - Sleeping in Traffic Part 1
Beardfish - Sleeping in Traffic Part 2
Iron Maiden - A Real Live Dead One
Converge - Bloodmoon
Healthyliving - Songs of Abundance, Psalms of Grief
Scottish band (from what I can see), bit of post metal, female vocal. Fantastic. But don't take my word for it, listen for yourself:
https://healthylivingband.bandcamp.com/album/songs-of-abundance-psalms-of-grief
Come to think of it, this reminds me a bit of Brutus, who did a brilliant album last year, probably why I like this so much.
To try and ward off the all pervading stench of Eurovision:
Blood Ceremony - The Old Ways Remain
Lunatic Soul - Fractured (Red Vinyl)
Quote from: Nickslikk2112 on May 13, 2023, 08:45:57 PMTo try and ward off the all pervading stench of Eurovision:
Blood Ceremony - The Old Ways Remain
Lunatic Soul - Fractured (Red Vinyl)
Its so camp its briiliant
Quote from: pdw1 on May 13, 2023, 10:36:10 PMQuote from: Nickslikk2112 on May 13, 2023, 08:45:57 PMTo try and ward off the all pervading stench of Eurovision:
Blood Ceremony - The Old Ways Remain
Lunatic Soul - Fractured (Red Vinyl)
Its so camp its briiliant
It's so camp it's a Toilet Tent.
Desert Storm - Omens
Steve Morse - Prime Cuts
John Paul Jones - The Thunderthief
My only visit to the US was a business trip a few years back. Talking to an owner in Tennessee he asked if I liked music. I told him my taste was mainly for heavier rock and I played a bit of bass. He responded "Oh, you should have been here the other day, my friend John Paul Jones came in for a chat".🤬😢
Alex Lifeson - Victor
Lunatic Soul - Lunatic Soul II
Various bits of Dare, FM and Tyketto. Getting in the mood for Thursday night 8)
Porcupine Tree - Deadwing, on the way into work this morning.
Quote from: Red Lenses on May 17, 2023, 03:28:18 PMPorcupine Tree - Deadwing, on the way into work this morning.
I love Deadwing. From the Belew solo in the title track that had everone and their dog standing on their hind legs, to the swooping chorus of Open Car, the glorious ballad that Lazarus is, the centre piece Arriving Somewhere even if it is overlong and the 9/8 wizardry of Harrison on The Start of Something Beautiful, I hold it all very dear.
It sounds like the drums were recorded elsewhere, sounding deviant form the rest of the PT Harrison era albums. And it's a sound I really enjoy listening to.
I never liked Deadwing. In Absentia was great though.
Gamma - S/T
Tragically Hip - Fully Completely on the way into work this morning.
Ronnie Montrose - The Speed of Sound
Midnight Oil - Diesel and Dust
Quote from: David L on May 20, 2023, 12:50:48 PMRonnie Montrose - The Speed of Sound
Midnight Oil - Diesel and Dust
That Montrose album is fantastic.
Lunatic Soul - Impressions
Devin Townsend Project - Transcendence
Gungfly - Friendship
Gungfly - Lamentations
Gungfly - Please Be Quiet
Riverside - ID.Entitty
Robert Fripp - Exposure
Robert Calvert - Lucky Leif and the Longships
Arjen Lucassen's Supersonic Revolution. From the Ayreon mastermind a fun album fully dedicated to his favourite period in music: the 70's. It sounds fantastic, lots of organ, flashy guitar solo's and (for a change) a fantastic Dutch singer.
Recommended if you like Lucassens signature sound and classic rock.
King Crimson - Red
The new Mystery album Redemption - quite good, like a mix of Yes, IQ and Pendragon. Then:
Yezda Urfa - Boris
The Mothers of Invention - Weasels Ripped My Flesh
IQ - The Seventh House
Storm Corrosion - Storm Corrosion
Ronnie Wood - I've Got My Own Album To Do
BadBadNotGood - III
Boz Scaggs - Silk Degrees
The Tubes What do you want from live
The Tubes Love Bomb
U2 - The Unforgettable Fire and Big Country - The Seer whilst weeding in the garden & enjoying the sun.
Cyndi Lauper - Twelve Deadly Cyns on the way into work tonight.
Sabbat - His Infernal Majesty's Voice [the 1987 Friday Rock show session]
Depeche Mode - Violator
Free - Free. Timeless, what an immense voice Rodgers has.
Quote from: Thenop on May 27, 2023, 01:03:40 PMFree - Free. Timeless, what an immense voice Rodgers has.
I need to get a good copy of that one
Quote from: David L on May 27, 2023, 04:15:40 PMQuote from: Thenop on May 27, 2023, 01:03:40 PMFree - Free. Timeless, what an immense voice Rodgers has.
I need to get a good copy of that one
I was surprised to find the 2017 re-issue sounds fantastic. Should be avalable at a normal price. Clear and warm sound, good stereo image, great mastering job.
After wasting a day watching the Giro, just time for one vinyl tonight:
Be Bop Deluxe - Sunburst Finish
Quote from: Red Lenses on May 27, 2023, 03:32:31 AMDepeche Mode - Violator
Seeing them next week in Barcelona. Looking forward to that..
Quote from: Thenop on May 27, 2023, 05:55:08 PMQuote from: David L on May 27, 2023, 04:15:40 PMQuote from: Thenop on May 27, 2023, 01:03:40 PMFree - Free. Timeless, what an immense voice Rodgers has.
I need to get a good copy of that one
I was surprised to find the 2017 re-issue sounds fantastic. Should be avalable at a normal price. Clear and warm sound, good stereo image, great mastering job.
I bought the 2016 Vinyl Box Set. Bloody Fantastic.
Amplifier - Hologram
Quote from: Nickslikk2112 on May 27, 2023, 09:24:42 PMQuote from: Thenop on May 27, 2023, 05:55:08 PMQuote from: David L on May 27, 2023, 04:15:40 PMQuote from: Thenop on May 27, 2023, 01:03:40 PMFree - Free. Timeless, what an immense voice Rodgers has.
I need to get a good copy of that one
I was surprised to find the 2017 re-issue sounds fantastic. Should be avalable at a normal price. Clear and warm sound, good stereo image, great mastering job.
I bought the 2016 Vinyl Box Set. Bloody Fantastic.
Wish I did, now trying to track down the individual releases from that set.
Shameless plug for my cousin's band's new single.
https://youtu.be/H895ilHSykc
Steven Wilson - Home Invasion
The Pearlfishers - Za Za's Garden
Bloodbath - The Wacken Carnage
Haze - Back to the Bones
Blue Oyster Cult - Workshop of the Telescopes
The Devin Townsend Project - Ki
Ross Jennings - A Shadow of My Future Self
Gungfly - Please be Quiet
Mr Mister - Welcome To The Real World
Blues Pills - Blues Pills
Possessed - Seven Churches
and in complete contrast
Sting - Dream Of The Blue Turtles
Maxoom - Mahogany Rush
Jimmy Barnes - Barnestorming Live
Quote from: pdw1 on June 02, 2023, 10:00:02 PMPossessed - Seven Churches
and in complete contrast
Sting - Dream Of The Blue Turtles
Sold my radiographic controlled Porsche to get funds to buy Seven Churches. I was 14 and loved it.
Joe Bonamassa - So It's Like That
Relaxation time:
Lunatic Soul - Under a Fragmented Sky (Clear vinyl)
White Willow - Future Hopes
The night flight orchestra- A Spotify find, loving the AOR 80's sentiment. Album is called Aeromantic II , perfect for summer days, Swedish as well.
Quote from: Nick on June 04, 2023, 08:56:51 AMThe night flight orchestra- A Spotify find, loving the AOR 80's sentiment. Album is called Aeromantic II , perfect for summer days, Swedish as well.
Try their earlier albums, Journey fan boys 100%. Then find the singers day job band ;D
Geddy Lee - My Favorite Headache
B. B. King - Live 1984 Long Beach CA
Aisles - Beyond Drama a new album from Chilean neo-prog band Aisles and very good it is too.
Quote from: pxr5 on June 04, 2023, 03:31:00 PMAisles - Beyond Drama a new album from Chilean neo-prog band Aisles and very good it is too.
I'd never heard of them so listened to a bit on YouTube. Sounds really good.
New Noel G album Council Skies
I gave Signals a spin last night
David Sylvian - Secrets of the Beehive. If I'd ever do a top 10 of favourite albums this will be in it. Pure perfection.
Joe Bonamassa - Blues Deluxe
The Who - The Ultimate Collection
Marillion - Script for a Jester's Tear
Charlie Griffiths - Tiktaalika
Platybus - When Pus Comes To Shove
On holiday, morning walks, afternoon reading and listening to music. This afternoon:
The Cure - Disintegration
David Eugene Edwards and Alexander Hacke - Risha
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - G_d's Pee at States End
Paul Gilbert - The Dio Album
Joe Bonamassa - You and Me
New Foos
Quite good, but, ugh, sounds like mud.
New Noel Gallagher
Largely very lively.
New Rival Sons
Good on first listen.
Mystery - The World is a Game
Quote from: captainkurtz on June 07, 2023, 05:32:51 PMNew Foos
Quite good, but, ugh, sounds like mud.
Is it produced by Nick Ras..., Razk...., Raks......that bloke that made a mess of the last two Rush albums?
Quote from: David L on June 07, 2023, 08:00:18 PMQuote from: captainkurtz on June 07, 2023, 05:32:51 PMNew Foos
Quite good, but, ugh, sounds like mud.
Is it produced by Nick Ras..., Razk...., Raks......that bloke that made a mess of the last two Rush albums?
No, it's Gregg kursten, I think. Quite a fashionable producer, I think..
Quote from: captainkurtz on June 07, 2023, 09:18:55 PMQuote from: David L on June 07, 2023, 08:00:18 PMQuote from: captainkurtz on June 07, 2023, 05:32:51 PMNew Foos
Quite good, but, ugh, sounds like mud.
Is it produced by Nick Ras..., Razk...., Raks......that bloke that made a mess of the last two Rush albums?
No, it's Gregg kursten, I think. Quite a fashionable producer, I think..
Probably sounds awesome..........on a mobile phone!
The Foos are just too shouty...
Mystery - The World is a Game 3rd play of this great album from Canadian band Mystery and it certainly has some Rush vibes going on. The lead singer sounds a lot like Geddy too - which is nice. They are quite new to me, so lot's more to explore.
Ross Jennings - A Shadow of My Future Self vinyl
Saga - Generation 13
Joe Bonamassa - Sloe Gin
Quote from: Nickslikk2112 on June 08, 2023, 02:46:34 PMJoe Bonamassa - Sloe Gin
So when does old Joe end and new Joe start?
Quote from: pdw1 on June 08, 2023, 05:46:23 PMQuote from: Nickslikk2112 on June 08, 2023, 02:46:34 PMJoe Bonamassa - Sloe Gin
So when does old Joe end and new Joe start?
Next Studio album I play, whatever that is...
Pendragon - North Star new EP
Mystery - One Among the Living
Lars Fredrik Frøislie - Fire Fortellinger solo album from Wobbler's keyboard player Lars Fredrik Frøislie who plays all instruments bar bass guitar.
So far
Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden
The Venus Principle - Stand in Your Light
Behold! the Monolith - From the Fathomless Deep
Marillion - An Hour Before it's Dark
Opeth - In Cauda Venenum
It's a good day for listening and reading
King's X - Live Minneapolis 1998
Ian Dury - The Very Best Of
Used to listen to Billericay Dickie with an old flame called Janet. Always good for a laugh.
Rush - Signals
For an album where the guitar is so held back, it has sublime solos, and most especially The Weapon.
Haken - Fauna purple vinyl
The Tangent - The Music That Died Alone blue vinyl
The Tangent - The World That We Drive Through green vinyl
Berlin - Count Three & Pray
I needed some sort of post-cycling relaxation:
Lunatic Soul - Through Shaded Woods
Telepath - Mental Mutations
Eloy - Dawn
Mystery - One Among the Living
Mystery - Lies and Butterflies
Mystery - The World is a Game
Squid - O Monolith Squid's new album and it's a challenging listen. I've played it 3 times now and it's crazy, chaotic and so beautiful in parts. In the main I do like it and it's a serious progression from their first album - Bright Green Field. But there are a couple of low points for me, but maybe repeated listens will bring those forward too. Whatever though it's great to see experimental music like this still being made by young bands. I just need to get the vinyl now.
The Pale Fountains - ... From Across The Kitchen Table Vinyl. This is a stupidly good album from these scouse popsters from 1985. They only made 2 albums: this and 1984's Pacific Street (both I had on cassette) and remains some of my favourite music from the 80s. And newly re-released on vinyl this year.
Joe Bonamassa - Live from Nowhere in Particular
Death Angel - Act III
Quote from: pdw1 on June 12, 2023, 06:39:09 PMDeath Angel - Act III
In recall the Ultra-Violence being released and it was the biggest thing. A 15 year old drummer doing that?
Still a great band, with a fantastic singer.
Quote from: Thenop on June 12, 2023, 07:07:56 PMQuote from: pdw1 on June 12, 2023, 06:39:09 PMDeath Angel - Act III
In recall the Ultra-Violence being released and it was the biggest thing. A 15 year old drummer doing that?
Still a great band, with a fantastic singer.
the Ultra-Violence is still one of my go to thrash albums
Armored Saint - Punching The Sky
black midi - Hellfire
The Neal Morse Band - Innocence & Danger vinyl
Mystery - Delusion Rain
Joe Bonamassa - The Ballad of John Henry
Peter Gabriel's 4th album. For me that was the last of his great albums. Old PG good, new PG not as good
Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
Blimey, they used to be great. But back then, when this was released in 1993, absolutely everyone was releasing blind records that were instant classics and that have only grown in stature.
Music is shite now.
Gillan - Glory Road
John Cougar - American Fool
Dream Theater - The Astonishing
Comedy of Errors - Fanfare & Fantasy
New Queens of the Stone Age. Better than Villains, has some stop start riffs that sound like they came of Era Vulgaris.
Overall a very nice addition to the catalogue.
Recommended.
Quote from: Thenop on June 15, 2023, 03:24:13 PMNew Queens of the Stone Age. Better than Villains, has some stop start riffs that sound like they came of Era Vulgaris.
Overall a very nice addition to the catalogue.
Recommended.
I hope Josh makes a full recovery.
Envy Of None - That Was Then, This Is Now
if you didn't like the album you wont like this. Remixed and very trippy
Quote from: Thenop on June 15, 2023, 03:24:13 PMNew Queens of the Stone Age. Better than Villains, has some stop start riffs that sound like they came of Era Vulgaris.
Overall a very nice addition to the catalogue.
Recommended.
Got a standing ticket to see them about 50 mins from me at a 3k capacity theatre. Similar to the last tour here in the U.K. where they played a small hall in Edinburgh that I attended...not sure I'd bother in an arena but count me in for the smaller shows...
Coheed and Cambria - Good Apollo I'm Burning Star IV, Vol 2 No World For Tomorrow
Mystery - Redemption
Mystery - The World is a Game this album in particular really sounds like Rush if they'd gone neo-prog. There are some moments where I think how closely to Geddy the lead singer sounds.
Gentle Giant - The Power and the Glory an incredible album and band
Coheed and Cambria - Good Apollo I'm Burning Star IV, Vol 1: From Fear Through The Eyes of Madness
Rush - Grace Under Pressure
Lars Fredrik Frøislie - Fire Fortellinger (Blue Vinyl)
Alex Lifeson - Victor getting a spin these past few days in the car CD player.
Comedy of Errors - Threnody for a Dead Queen
Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers
I'm listening to all the Stones' studio albums in order this year and I think this one is peak Stones. I do find Jagger's excessive cultural appropriation quite annoying, though.
Quote from: Slim on June 18, 2023, 09:22:36 PMRolling Stones - Sticky Fingers
I'm listening to all the Stones' studio albums in order this year and I think this one is peak Stones. I do find Jagger's excessive cultural appropriation quite annoying, though.
Nice idea. I think I would say Exile On Main Street is peak Stones
Joe Bonamassa - Dust Bowl
Quite hooked on Mystery still and playing One Among the Living
The Emerald Dawn - To Touch the Sky new album due out soon from The Emerald Dawn called In Time (Sep 23)
Tangerine Dream - Force Majeure
Joe Bonamassa - Black Rock
Gov't Mule - Peace...Like a River. Lovely new album from Warren & co recorded at the same as the Heavy Load Blues album. Great stuff, feels so comfortable.
Ry Cooder - Chavez Ravine. Recently acquired this on vinyl and it is every bit the experience I wanted it to be. Fascinating story surrounding this long lost LA neighbourhood that had to gove way for a football stadium. Ugh. Lovely photobook in the middle of the LP as well. Highly recommended listen, latin infused but, like with all things Cooder, it is quality.
Even though a tragic story, he means to tell a 'could have been' tale on how the life was in Chavez Ravine.
"Living in a Poor Man's Shangri-La" - brilliant.
Joe Bonamassa - Driving Towards the Daylight
Quote from: Nickslikk2112 on June 21, 2023, 03:26:28 PMJoe Bonamassa - Driving Towards the Daylight
JoeBo has a way of making those title tracks sound so good.
Seven Impale - Summit
Gentle Giant - Octopus
Muse - The 2nd Law
Muse - Drones
looking forward to Sunday
Bong Cauldron - Bong Cauldron
The Pineapple Thief - Dissolution
Threshold - Dividing Lines
Bongripper - Miserable
Cheered me up no end has that :)
Rikard Sjöblom - Cyklonmannen
Rikard Sjöblom - The Unbendable Sleep
Glasto on the telly.
Not the biggest fan of mash ups, but I was blown away by this one.
Peter Gabriel - Passion
An artist I am in awe of.
It's Saturday post-cycle vinyl time again!
Trace - Trace
Rosalie Cunningham - Rosalie Cunningham
The Bestiality of the Bonzo Dog Doodah band
Squid - O Monolith
I.E.M. - I.E.M.
Boston - Boston
The Pearlfishers - Up With The Larks
David Scott, not a household name in this country. Why?
Seven Impale - Summit
Styx - Pieces of Eight
Gungfly - On Her Journey to the Sun vinyl
Haken - Virus lilac vinyl
No-man - Flowermouth
Also started the new Swans album - The Beggar - but struggled with the first track. I'll have to put aside some time to give this album some attention - but it runs at just over 2 hours with one track alone 44 minutes :o
David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
Whitespade - Whitespade - the black and white split vinyl.
A fantastic tribute to Motorhead, worth a listen!
https://midnight-ohio.bandcamp.com/album/whitespade
Quote from: Thenop on June 28, 2023, 05:50:14 PMWhitespade - Whitespade - the black and white split vinyl.
A fantastic tribute to Motorhead, worth a listen!
https://midnight-ohio.bandcamp.com/album/whitespade
Really like that, they should have put an AI Lemmy vocal on.
Oli Brown - Open Road
Spock's Beard - The Oblivion Particle
Spock's Beard - Brief Nocturnes and Dreamless Sleep
Iron maiden - Somewhere In Time
Rolling Stones - Exile on Main Street.
This is famously one of the great Stones albums, except that I don't really think that it is. I bought the remastered rerelease when it came out a couple of years ago and listened to it once. Then I forgot about it.
There's a lot of creditable, authentic (but somehow perfunctory) Blues on here and the usual rootsy countrified Americana. A bit of rock'n'roll. One bona-fide classic in the wonderful Tumbling Dice. That's it.
I don't think this album is a patch on Sticky Fingers, and definitely not the superb Goat's Head Soup (next up), which I've owned since I was a teenager and have listened to dozens of times.
PINK FLOYD - p.u.l.s.e. (Discs 1 and 4 only)
Quote from: Nickslikk2112 on July 01, 2023, 08:46:29 PMPINK FLOYD - p.u.l.s.e. (Discs 1 and 4 only)
I remember being disappointed when my copy stopped blinking.
Quote from: The Picnic Wasp on July 02, 2023, 12:12:48 AMQuote from: Nickslikk2112 on July 01, 2023, 08:46:29 PMPINK FLOYD - p.u.l.s.e. (Discs 1 and 4 only)
I remember being disappointed when my copy stopped blinking.
The vinyl reissue never did.
Quote from: Nickslikk2112 on July 02, 2023, 11:03:01 AMQuote from: The Picnic Wasp on July 02, 2023, 12:12:48 AMQuote from: Nickslikk2112 on July 01, 2023, 08:46:29 PMPINK FLOYD - p.u.l.s.e. (Discs 1 and 4 only)
I remember being disappointed when my copy stopped blinking.
The vinyl reissue never did.
Bought it in the '90s without the blinking thingy, for just a few guilders because of the missing outer case. Figured I'd store it somewhere anyway. Which reminds me: I must have it somewhere :-)
The Anchoret - It All Began with Lonileness
Prog metal, debut album, very good. FFO: (latter day) Opeth, Fates Warning, maybe a bit heavier at times and perhaps even more eclectic.
But don't take my word for it, listen yourself:
https://theanchoretofficial.bandcamp.com/album/it-all-began-with-loneliness
Playing some recently purchased records today:
Spock's Beard - The Oblivion Particle
Rush - Caress of Steel
Rush - Signals
Those 2 Rush albums looked pristine but they play perfectly as well (not a blip or scratch anywhere) - I'm certain they've never been played since original purchase.
Quote from: pxr5 on July 03, 2023, 02:35:45 PMPlaying some recently purchased records today:
Spock's Beard - The Oblivion Particle
Rush - Caress of Steel
Rush - Signals
Those 2 Rush albums looked pristine but they play perfectly as well (not a blip or scratch anywhere) - I'm certain they've never been played since original purchase.
2 fantastic albums, still sound fresh to me.
Spock's Beard, haven't listened to them in ages.
Big Big Train - The Underfall Yard
More recently purchased records played today:
The Pale Fountains - Pacific Street
Rush - Power Windows
Rush - Hold Your Fire
Rush - Rush Through Time
The Flower Kings - Stardust We Are
The Flower Kings - Unfold the Future
Blackbraid II. Does wha it says on the tin: American black metal, twist: it is done by a native American, so there's water running and campfires sparkling in the background. Quite good.,
Next up: Rory Gallagher's All Around Man live 1990 newly released. Oh no wait...DHL didn't show up >:(
Church of Misery - Born under a Mad Sign
Motorpsycho? - Yay! (Transparent Turquoise vinyl)
Pj Harvey
I inside the old year dying
I cannot think of another artist who's managed a career of 32 years who has been so singularly and consistently brilliant.
Quote from: captainkurtz on July 08, 2023, 09:51:21 PMPj Harvey
I inside the old year dying
I cannot think of another artist who's managed a career of 32 years who has been so singularly and consistently brilliant.
Todd Rundgren mate👍
Quote from: Fishy on July 08, 2023, 10:05:09 PMQuote from: captainkurtz on July 08, 2023, 09:51:21 PMPj Harvey
I inside the old year dying
I cannot think of another artist who's managed a career of 32 years who has been so singularly and consistently brilliant.
Todd Rundgren mate👍
Can you recommend a record, I'll give it a listen. Saw him once when he toured with Joe Jackson....remember it not really being my cup of tea...
Lars Fredrik Froislie - Fire Fortellinger. Debut from the Wobbler keyboard player.
Sound as exactly as you would think it sounds.
Quote from: captainkurtz on July 08, 2023, 10:54:30 PMQuote from: Fishy on July 08, 2023, 10:05:09 PMQuote from: captainkurtz on July 08, 2023, 09:51:21 PMPj Harvey
I inside the old year dying
I cannot think of another artist who's managed a career of 32 years who has been so singularly and consistently brilliant.
Todd Rundgren mate👍
Can you recommend a record, I'll give it a listen. Saw him once when he toured with Joe Jackson....remember it not really being my cup of tea...
Yes was an odd show that..
Anyway loads of stuff to choose from
Back to bars.. live album which gives u a pretty idea of his 70s material ...
Studio stuff..
Hermit of Mink Hollow
And of course A Wizard a True Star
From the 80s Healing is a wonderful album
Also Nearly Human from 89 is a live in the studio job.. really good
From the 90s if ur looking for something different try No World Order.. it's splits option but I love it
From the 00s Liars and Arena are great
And of course you still have Utopia albums 👍😀
On a bit of a run with
The Flower Kings at the moment. Today:
- Stardust We Are
- Back In The World Of Adventures
- Retropolis
Big Big Train - The Underfall Yard vinyl
The Flower Kings - By Royal Decree
Pendragon - North Star EP
Over the weekend
Iron Maiden - Senjutsu
Louis Bertignac - Dans Le Film De Ma Vie
Tool - Lateralus resequenced. I came across this again, years ago a group of 'fans' (aka nuts) figured it should be rearranged according the Fibonacci sequence and actually thought the band 'intended' it this way (calling it The Holy Gift - there's plenty of reading material on it online if interested). Of course the band (Keenan) was clever enough to feed the mystery by stating he liked fans re interpreting their work.
Admittedly, it does add up in a weird way, but so does the original track listing.
Oh well, it's always treat to hear the album, regardless of sequencing order.
Always wondered who or what the intended target of the Ticks & Leeches lyrics was, and being grateful it is not me. Probably an industry person or persons, Keenan has never been one to hold back:
Suck and suck. Suckin up all you can suckin up all you can suck.
Workin up under my patience like a little tick.
Fat little parasite. Suck me dry.
My blood is bruised and borrowed. You thieving bastards.
You have turned my blood cold and bitter,
beat my compassion black and blue.
Hope this is what you wanted.
Hope this is what you had in mind.
Cuz this is what you're getting.
I hope you're choking. I hope you choke on this.
I hope you're choking. I hope you choke on this.
Taken all I can taken all I can, we can take. Taken all you can taken you can,
we can take.
Got nothing left to give to you.
Blood suckin parasitic little blood suckin parasitic little
blood suckin parasitic little tick
Take what you want and then go.
Suck me dry.
Is this what you wanted?
Is this what you had in mind?
Is this what you wanted?
Cuz this this is what you're getting.
I hope, I hope, I hope you choke.
Status Quo Just Supposin ok not the greatest but amazing how music can take you back in time!
Especially when you have hardly heard it since then!
Quote from: dom on July 12, 2023, 08:26:43 PMStatus Quo Just Supposin ok not the greatest but amazing how music can take you back in time!
Especially when you have hardly heard it since then!
They were well on that slippery slope by then IMHO
Nita Strauss - The Call Of The Void
the girl can certainly play
The Flower Kings - Flower Power Nearly 2hr30mins - some of which is brilliant; alas much is filler.
Beardfish - Sleeping in Traffic Part 1
Beardfish - Sleeping in Traffic Part 2
Brian May & Friends - Starfleet Project
Yes - Live at Knoxville Civic Auditorium November 15th, 1973
In the car today:
Sleep Token - Take Me Back To Eden
Desert Storm - Omens
Nita Strauss - The Call Of The Void
Badu - World Wide Underground
Earl Klugh - Handpicked
Faith No More - Sol Invictus
Francis Dunnery - Tall Blonde Helicopter
Roland Orzabal
Tomcats Screaming Outside
The Flower Kings - Space Revolver
Rush - A Farewell to Kings vinyl - it's, and will always be, my favourite Rush album
The Flower Kings - By Royal Decree vinyl
Rikard Sjöblom's Gungfly – Rumbling Box CD5 - Att För Barn Som Tror På Sagor Läsa Högt När Kvällen Kommer
Rikard Sjöblom's Gungfly – Rumbling Box CD4 - The Unbendable Sleep
Spock's Beard - V (2000) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=1276)
Original Modern Prog Retro Rock
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Porcupine Tree - Up The Downstair (1993) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=1459)
Instrumental Modern Prog Space Rock
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Dream Theater - Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence (2002) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=1623)
Technical Modern Prog Metal/Rock
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Steven Wilson - Hand. Cannot. Erase. (2015) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=47434)
Lush Modern Art Rock/Pop
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Spock's Beard - Snow (2002) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=1636)
Symph Modern Art Rock
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I had people tell me I needed to listen to Voyager, they did the ESF apparently and they had a great album out! so people said. I tried and am now not sure what to think of those people.
Sleep Token on the other hand does live up to the hype. So I'll just play that.
Yesterday I listened to "This is Flying Dutchman 1969-175", and it is brilliant. All music that lives on the cutting edge of jazz, funk, soul and early tries of hiphop (Gil Scott-Heron). I love it!
Quote from: pxr5 on July 19, 2023, 06:28:50 PMSpock's Beard - Snow (2002) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=1636)
Symph Modern Art Rock
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I have got the original deluxe version of that. never clicked with me, all tech and no soul.
Quote from: Thenop on July 19, 2023, 06:36:52 PMI had people tell me I needed to listen to Voyager, they did the ESF apparently and they had a great album out! so people said. I tried and am now not sure what to think of those people.
Sleep Token on the other hand does live up to the hype. So I'll just play that.
Yesterday I listened to "This is Flying Dutchman 1969-175", and it is brilliant. All music that lives on the cutting edge of jazz, funk, soul and early tries of hiphop (Gil Scott-Heron). I love it!
On the other hand Sleep Token are great. Great to be down with the kids ;D
Quote from: pdw1 on July 19, 2023, 06:45:00 PMQuote from: Thenop on July 19, 2023, 06:36:52 PMI had people tell me I needed to listen to Voyager, they did the ESF apparently and they had a great album out! so people said. I tried and am now not sure what to think of those people.
Sleep Token on the other hand does live up to the hype. So I'll just play that.
Yesterday I listened to "This is Flying Dutchman 1969-175", and it is brilliant. All music that lives on the cutting edge of jazz, funk, soul and early tries of hiphop (Gil Scott-Heron). I love it!
On the other hand Sleep Token are great. Great to be down with the kids ;D
I wear my cap inside out these days.
Collage - Over and Out
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Quote from: Thenop on July 19, 2023, 06:36:52 PMYesterday I listened to "This is Flying Dutchman 1969-175", and it is brilliant. All music that lives on the cutting edge of jazz, funk, soul and early tries of hiphop (Gil Scott-Heron). I love it!
Ohh nice I'll have a listen.
Porcupine Tree - In Absentia Deluxe Edition Bonus Disk
Porcupine Tree - Deadwing Deluxe Edition Bonus Disk
Aisles - Beyond Drama (2023) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=77928)
Heavy Neo Art Metal/Rock
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Haze - Back to the Bones (2020) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=69712)
Neo Prog Rock
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Our Lady Peace - Somethingness
Our Lady Peace - Clumsy
Ring Van Möbius – Commissioned Works Pt II: Six Drops Of Poison
Groundhogs = Split (Red, presumably cherry, vinyl)
Lars Fredrik Frøislie - Fire Fortellinger (Swirly blue vinyl)
Nospūn - Opus (2023, not on PA) (https://tagyourmusic.org/releases/64077)
Eclectic Prog Metal
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Some strong Haken vibes from this US band. Not bad at all.
Collage - Moonshine (1994) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=227)
Neo Prog Rock
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Haken - The Mountain (2013) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=42074) Vinyl
Epic Prog Avant Rock/Metal
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Frost* - Island Live (2023) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=81288) CD
Neo Prog Rock
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Squid - O Monolith (2023) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=80639)
Dense Exp Prog-Adj Avant Krautrock/Independent
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Black Country, New Road - Live at Bush Hall (2023, not on PA) (https://tagyourmusic.org/releases/63066)
Lush Art Rock/Pop
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Jadis - More Than Meets the Eye (1992) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=663)
Melodic Neo Prog Rock
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Leprous - Malina (2017) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=54826)
Epic Extreme Prog Metal/Rock
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Gentle Giant - Interview (Steven Wilson 5.1 DTS-HD mix)
I like these new posts presenting the covers.
Anthrax - Sound of White Noise
Anthrax - Stomp 442
Motorpsycho - Roadworks Vol. 1 - Heavy Metall Is a Poze, Hardt Rock Iz a Laifschteil | Live in Europe 1998
Still one of my favourite live albums. As in: LIVE, no meddling afterward. Fantastic, what a trip.
Budgie - The Best of Budgie
Peter Hammill - Past Go
Leprous - Tall Poppy Syndrome (2009) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=24809)
Epic Extreme Prog Avant Metal/Rock
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Listened to the Stones' It's Only Rock'n'Roll while on a bike yesterday. Then most of Amy Winehouse's brilliant Frank which when it came out was easily the best record I'd heard for years, Radiohead apart.
It's Only Rock'n'Roll is an interesting one. It's not edgy, for want of a better word, like some of their earlier stuff. They aren't attempting to be spokesmen for a generation here and that's reflected in the title. It's more good time, uptempo rock music. Party music even.
Everyone knows the title track of course but there's one brilliant tune on here - Fingerprint File. There's a brilliant phased rhythm guitar part, supposedly played by Jagger. It's like a soul / funk tune. It has a synth part. And as soon as I heard the bass, I said to myself - that's not Bill Wyman and it isn't, it was played by Mick Taylor.
It even has a rap section, or something akin to one. Pretty rad for 1974.
By the way Jagger turned 80 today.
As most of you know I am an avid bandcamp fan, I have discovered many bands and artists there I would have not known if not for this platform.
Certain labels on there I like a bit more than others, Andy's APF records is on there as well for instance, and in the same vein are labels such as Heavy Psych, Glory or Death and many others. I am the first to admit that the output these days os so overwhelming it is impossible to keep up and of course, there is much to like. But not all of it is great, not just from a quality perspective, but alsl personal taste.
One thing I do really like quite some labels do these days is the membership option. Every now and then I see what's available, previously I tried Prophecy, which is a bit more alternative and black metally, and I am currently supporting Ripple music, whuch is more Stoner, Doom, Psychedelic. What I like: it costs me 5USD/month and I get at least 2 releases a month that would otherwise cost on average 7USD each. They automatically appear in my collection and I can download them in nearly every available format. Some labels offer up other perks like discounts for phsyical purchases etc.
Why am I doing this sales pitch? I am not - I hope, it is just a very elaborate way to say I am listening to a collection of Ripple releases ;D
https://ripplemusic.bandcamp.com/
some recent recommendations:
if you like heavy: https://ripplemusic.bandcamp.com/album/from-the-fathomless-deep
If you like straight to the point: https://ripplemusic.bandcamp.com/album/rock-n-roll-homicide
If you like tucked away far in the desert: https://ripplemusic.bandcamp.com/album/return-of-the-asteroid
If you like to be send back to the 70's in a psychedelic Funky rock way: https://ripplemusic.bandcamp.com/album/return-of-the-asteroid
If you like a combination of all the above with a touch of 90s feel: https://ripplemusic.bandcamp.com/album/end-all-we-know
And my personal label favourite is a split with 2 side long tracks that perfectly complement each each other, if you listen to only of of these, let is be this one: https://ripplemusic.bandcamp.com/album/turned-to-stone-chapter-2-masamune-muramasa
The Byrds - 20 Essential Tracks From The Boxed Set: 1965-1990
Listening to various tracks by The Moon City Masters.
Another bike ride, another Stones long player. I'm up to 1976 now and Black and Blue.
This is a record once assessed by Keith Richards as "not very good" and I think he's right. In the main it feels lazy, limp even. But there's some good stuff on here - Hand of Fate has a bit of the classic Stones swagger and attitude. Fool to Cry would get onto any decent length "Best Of".
One thing you can say for this record is that they weren't resting on a formula. They had a go at reggae on Cherry Oh Baby but it's a painful listen, really flaccid and half-baked. Garbage. Hey Negrita is similar, a sort of miscarried reggae funk tune. Really grates.
Mick Taylor had left the band by this time and the band used several lead players - Harvey Mandel, Wayne Perkins and Ronnie Wood (who of course went on to sign up as a permanent member). Perkins plays a superb solo on Hand of Fate - really sharp and expressive. Beautiful phrasing.
I recognised Memory Motel when I heard it because a proto-feminist girlfriend of mine used to take massive offence at the line "she got a mind of her own and she uses it well". She must have had it on a compilation I think.
I remember seeing this album in the record racks in Hartlepool town centre back in '76, always thought it had a cool cover. Nice to listen to it finally after all these years, but I probably won't repeat the experience. Not all of it, anyway.
Listening to this record gives you a sense of why Punk had to happen. Bands like the Stones and their contemporaries like The Eagles were just putting out bland, tired easy listening snooze-ola or half-baked crap.
Quote from: Slim on July 28, 2023, 11:00:33 AMListening to this record gives you a sense of why Punk had to happen. Bands like the Stones and their contemporaries like The Eagles were just putting out bland, tired easy listening snooze-ola or half-baked crap.
Eh? That was the year the Eagles released Hotel California
Quote from: David L on July 28, 2023, 11:19:27 AMQuote from: Slim on July 28, 2023, 11:00:33 AMListening to this record gives you a sense of why Punk had to happen. Bands like the Stones and their contemporaries like The Eagles were just putting out bland, tired easy listening snooze-ola or half-baked crap.
Eh? That was the year the Eagles released Hotel California
Yes, that's what I was thinking of.
Quote from: Slim on July 28, 2023, 11:28:45 AMQuote from: David L on July 28, 2023, 11:19:27 AMQuote from: Slim on July 28, 2023, 11:00:33 AMListening to this record gives you a sense of why Punk had to happen. Bands like the Stones and their contemporaries like The Eagles were just putting out bland, tired easy listening snooze-ola or half-baked crap.
Eh? That was the year the Eagles released Hotel California
Yes, that's what I was thinking of.
Quote from: Slim on July 28, 2023, 11:28:45 AMQuote from: David L on July 28, 2023, 11:19:27 AMQuote from: Slim on July 28, 2023, 11:00:33 AMListening to this record gives you a sense of why Punk had to happen. Bands like the Stones and their contemporaries like The Eagles were just putting out bland, tired easy listening snooze-ola or half-baked crap.
Eh? That was the year the Eagles released Hotel California
Yes, that's what I was thinking of.
Can't say I wasn't expecting that
It's a nice record but it really is bland AOR - something for the 30-something adults of the late '70s to put on after the kids have gone to bed. See also: Fleetwood Mac
The Damn Truth - Now or Nowhere - my new favourite band - and they're Canadian - saw them twice last week, well worth checking out.
Also the new Saint Agnes album - Bloodsuckers - looking forward to seeing them end of October
Quote from: Slim on July 28, 2023, 02:27:10 PMIt's a nice record but it really is bland AOR - something for the 30-something adults of the late '70s to put on after the kids have gone to bed. See also: Fleetwood Mac
It's just been announced that original Eagles bassist Randy Meisner passed away last night. His vocal performance on Take It To The Limit was stupendous
Riverside - Out of Myself
Cactus - Cactology
After kicking Mrs S out of the vinyl room:
Queen - News of the World
Saxon - Strong Arm of the Law
Brian May & Friends - Star Fleet Project
Quote from: Nickslikk2112 on July 29, 2023, 08:43:59 PMAfter kicking Mrs S out of the vinyl room:
Queen - News of the World
Saxon - Strong Arm of the Law
Brian May & Friends - Star Fleet Project
My first and still my favourite Saxon album that one.
Iron Maiden - Live After Death
I've really fallen in love with IM again recently. Probably for getting me busy with six strings rather than just the four over the past few weeks.
Quote from: Thenop on July 29, 2023, 08:57:05 PMQuote from: Nickslikk2112 on July 29, 2023, 08:43:59 PMAfter kicking Mrs S out of the vinyl room:
Queen - News of the World
Saxon - Strong Arm of the Law
Brian May & Friends - Star Fleet Project
My first and still my favourite Saxon album that one.
What a great playlist. NOTW is just wonderful and gets overlooked as a Queen masterpiece. I need to play It's Late now.
Quote from: The Picnic Wasp on July 29, 2023, 10:25:41 PMQuote from: Thenop on July 29, 2023, 08:57:05 PMQuote from: Nickslikk2112 on July 29, 2023, 08:43:59 PMAfter kicking Mrs S out of the vinyl room:
Queen - News of the World
Saxon - Strong Arm of the Law
Brian May & Friends - Star Fleet Project
My first and still my favourite Saxon album that one.
What a great playlist. NOTW is just wonderful and gets overlooked as a Queen masterpiece. I need to play It's Late now.
I thought it was deifinitely "New Queen Bad" when it came out, changed my mind since, they were excellent on the NotW tour. Gave up on the albums after
Jazz
Quote from: The Picnic Wasp on July 29, 2023, 10:20:37 PMIron Maiden - Live After Death
I've really fallen in love with IM again recently. Probably for getting me busy with six strings rather than just the four over the past few weeks.
Classic. Remember listening to it for the first time in the record store. 'testing' whether I would buy it or not. Of course I would.... Ha e the original LP set with the booklet I spent countless hours going through soaking up every image and letter. The enormous number of shows in there!
Still one of my favourite live albums ;)
Robert Plant - Dreamland
Robert Plant - Now And Zen
Jason Bieler and the Baron Von Bielski Orchestra - Postcards form the Asylum
Bieler being the man behind Saigon Kick in the '90s, this sounds as an extension but more electic and less popmetally. Slightly progressive (he had Devin Townsned, Dave Ellefson, Pat Badger, Jeff Scott Soto, BUmblefoot, Todd LaTorre and others guesting on his previous 2021 outing Songs for the Apolcalypse - equally impressive).
Listening to this on vinyl but of course:
https://jasonbieler.bandcamp.com/album/postcards-from-the-asylum
And while you're there, check out his other work.
The Flower Kings - Retropolis (1996) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=365)
Instrumental Prog Retro Rock
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The Flower Kings - Stardust We Are (1997) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=368)
Instrumental Modern Prog Retro Rock
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Beardfish - Sleeping in Traffic: Part Two (2008) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=18390)
Melodic Modern Prog Retro Rock
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The Flower Kings - Flower Power (1999) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=371)
Symph Prog Retro Rock
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The Flower Kings - Space Revolver (2000) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=373)
Symph Modern Prog Retro Rock
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Transatlantic - The Final Flight: Live at l'Olympia (2023) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=77266) Vinyl
Symph Prog Rock
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The Tragically Hip - Fully Completely on the way into work this morning.
Gentle Giant - Interview (1976) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=1151) CD
Technical Classic Prog Chamber Rock/Jazz
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The Flower Kings - The Rainmaker (2001) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=375)
Symph Modern Prog Rock
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The Flower Kings - Unfold The Future (2002) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=2014)
Symph Modern Prog Retro Rock/Pop
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Beardfish - The Void (2012) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=38627)
Dense Prog Alt Rock/Metal, 4 stars
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Beast Over Hammersmith - Iron Maiden live at the iconic London venue 1982
Jeff Beck - Guitar Shop
Westing - Future. Band that fits the likes of Rival Sons, Greta van Fleet. Your cup of tea? Check them out:
https://westingband.bandcamp.com/album/future
Crown Lands - Fearless (2023) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=78309) Very, very Rush sounding
Technical Prog Space Rock
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The Flower Kings - Adam & Eve (2004) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=6157)
Symph Modern Prog Retro Rock
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The Flower Kings - Paradox Hotel (2006) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=11155)
Virtuose Modern Prog Retro Rock
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Haken - Vector (2018) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=57859) Orange Vinyl
Dense Prog Metal/Rock
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Black Country, New Road - Live At Bush Hall (2023, not on PA) (https://tagyourmusic.org/releases/63806) Vinyl
Lush Art Rock/Pop
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Gentle Giant - Interview (1976) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=1151) Blu-ray
Technical Classic Prog Chamber Rock/Jazz
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Frost* - Island Live (2023) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=81288) Blu-ray
Neo Prog Rock, 4.5 stars
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Fearless is amazing. I couldn't make up my mind at first if it was really just a Rush parody, but it's much cleverer than that. So many Rush (and other) influences blended into a seamless concoction which is much more than a prog-rock Rutles album. My first listen was constantly interrupted by mind saying silently
"Oh that's and that's" before the track darts off immediately in another completely original direction. However I think their next album would have to be entirely removed from this type of influencing, or they will lose credibility. I don't think that's likely as they are extremely talented.
It's a fine line between parody and paying tribute. And I think Crown Lands are in the latter camp, but I could hear a lot of Rush sounds from various songs and albums which to me is a good thing and never dropped into direct copying. The guys obviously have talent and I'm sure they'll find they're own way. Oddly I could hear some Black Sabbath vibes too - notably from Never Say Die.
Mystery are another band where one can hear elements of Rush as well - they're Canadian too, maybe there is something in the water up there lol.
Quote from: pxr5 on August 08, 2023, 06:16:32 PMIt's a fine line between parody and paying tribute. And I think Crown Lands are in the latter camp, but I could hear a lot of Rush sounds from various songs and albums which to me is a good thing and never dropped into direct copying. The guys obviously have talent and I'm sure they'll find they're own way. Oddly I could hear some Black Sabbath vibes too - notably from Never Say Die.
Mystery are another band where one can hear elements of Rush as well - they're Canadian too, maybe there is something in the water up there lol.
Well they do call them hosers.😁
Just listened to Vapor Trails on Spotify. Highly under-rated imo and it's better than anything they came up with subsequently.
Odd thing though Freeze, part IV of Fear didn't play. No bad thing as it is dire, but wondering why?
Quote from: dom on August 09, 2023, 09:54:56 PMJust listened to Vapor Trails on Spotify. Highly under-rated imo and it's better than anything they came up with subsequently.
Odd thing though Freeze, part IV of Fear didn't play. No bad thing as it is dire, but wondering why?
There's some good stuff on there. I'd rather listen to it than Roll the Bones
Quote from: dom on August 09, 2023, 09:54:56 PMJust listened to Vapor Trails on Spotify. Highly under-rated imo and it's better than anything they came up with subsequently.
Odd thing though Freeze, part IV of Fear didn't play. No bad thing as it is dire, but wondering why?
I couldn't wait for this album's release. Listening to snippets on a dial-up internet connection with my first computer. Remember Gateway? Secret Touch in definitely one of their greatest ever live songs.
REM - Eponymous on the way into work this evening.
Quote from: David L on August 09, 2023, 10:53:31 PMQuote from: dom on August 09, 2023, 09:54:56 PMJust listened to Vapor Trails on Spotify. Highly under-rated imo and it's better than anything they came up with subsequently.
Odd thing though Freeze, part IV of Fear didn't play. No bad thing as it is dire, but wondering why?
There's some good stuff on there. I'd rather listen to it than Roll the Bones
VT just gives me a headache.. it's far too long. If they ditched crap like Freeze Sweet Miracle the plod fest of Earthshine and a couple of others they might have a decent album
Quote from: David L on August 09, 2023, 10:53:31 PMQuote from: dom on August 09, 2023, 09:54:56 PMJust listened to Vapor Trails on Spotify. Highly under-rated imo and it's better than anything they came up with subsequently.
Odd thing though Freeze, part IV of Fear didn't play. No bad thing as it is dire, but wondering why?
There's some good stuff on there. I'd rather listen to it than Roll the Bones
I quite like the first four tracks on RtB.. the rest not so much
Quote from: Fishy on August 10, 2023, 07:14:27 AMQuote from: David L on August 09, 2023, 10:53:31 PMQuote from: dom on August 09, 2023, 09:54:56 PMJust listened to Vapor Trails on Spotify. Highly under-rated imo and it's better than anything they came up with subsequently.
Odd thing though Freeze, part IV of Fear didn't play. No bad thing as it is dire, but wondering why?
There's some good stuff on there. I'd rather listen to it than Roll the Bones
I quite like the first four tracks on RtB.. the rest not so much
That aligns pretty much with my own opinion. The latter tracks are terrible.
Should have been an EP :D
The best thing about that era is the return of long hair for Alex (as we know, that was short-lived)
;D
Yeah his hair was awesome then...
I quite like VT and agree about Secret Touch live - it's brilliant.
Anyway today:
Some Dutch prog from Finch - Beyond Expression
My journey through the Stones' studio album catalogue brought me to
Some Girls yesterday.
Interesting one. Unlike the previous couple of albums it's pretty much the five members of the band, no added keyboards or other guest musicians. It's also produced by Mick and Keith and it feels really basic - almost like a set of soundcheck recordings. Some might see a certain authenticity and charm in the stripped-down, plug in and go ethos, but to me - it just feels underproduced and lazy. Probably because it is.
There are a couple of good tunes on here - hard not to like
Miss You or
Beast of Burden but if the record purchaser of 1978 was hoping to hear something as sharp and powerful as
Gimme Shelter, Sympathy for the Devil or
Heartbreaker, they'd have been disappointed.
I did quite enjoy hearing the C&W pastiche
Far Away Eyes. It was the b side of
Miss You and used to get a run out on the jukebox in the basement bar I frequented when I was a surly teenager. I don't think I'd heard it since then.
Mystery - The World is a Game (2012) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=38496)
Melodic Neo Prog Rock
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Riverside - ID.Entity (2023) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=76976)
Heavy Neo Prog Retro Rock/Metal
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Tumbling Through the Floativerse. Ed Wynne
Gentle Giant - Acquiring The Taste (1971) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=1145)
Lush Classic Prog Avant Rock
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Bit of Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats, live album they released. Sampling to see if I like it enough to buy it. Do love the ol' Uncle & his mates.
Simon Phillips Protocol V
Camel - A Live Record (CD 1) (1978, not on PA) (https://tagyourmusic.org/releases/21333)
Symph Prog Rock
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UFO - Werewolves of London. The re-formed SITN line up ((Simon Wright on drums) after recording Walk On Water playing in Wolverhampton.
It's good, all the classics plus a couple of new tunes but I'm not convinced that Schenker was anywhere near his best. He appears to be re-imagining a lot of the solos and I think they are all poorer for it. Who knows how well he was at the time though.
More raw than the classic live record as it's straight off the soundboard. Even though it's not peak UFO, would've been a thrill to have seen them on this tour. Definitely worth a listen if you're a fan
Jethro Tull - Minstrel in the Gallery
Yes - S/T
T2 - It'll All Work Out In Boomland (1970) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=10118) Vinyl
Complex Prog Rock/Jazz
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A brilliant album. If you haven't heard this, give it a try.
Wobbler - From Silence to Somewhere (2017) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=55583) Vinyl
Epic Prog Retro Rock
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Camel - A Live Record (CD 2) (1978, not on PA) (https://tagyourmusic.org/releases/21331)
Rock
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Steven Wilson - Transcience Clear Vinyl
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Steven Wilson - The Last Day of June Blue Vinyl
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Neal Morse - Sola Scriptura (2007) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=14201)
Dynamic Modern Prog Retro Rock/Metal
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So...today was a day of extremeties.
I listened to Georges Avanitas Quintet - live in Paris 1961, Ronnell Bright Trio - S/T, Lee Morgan's the Cooker (all in mono ;D ), then for something completely different: Urfaust - Untergang, followed by Sonny Rolins' Saxophone Colossus and now Ginger Wildhearts' Love in Times of Cholera.
Peter Frampton - Breaking All The Rules
Black Sabbath - Sabotage
Porcupine Tree - In Absentia
Iron Maiden - Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son
The Flower Kings - The Sum of No Evil (2007) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=16382)
Symph Neo Prog Retro Rock
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ΦEarth - Moments (2012) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=36830)
Neo Prog Rock
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Elder - Lore (2015) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=54215)
Heavy Post Rock/Metal
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The Flower Kings - Banks Of Eden (2012) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=37641)
Melodic Prog Retro Rock
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Love that VW Camper goldfish.😀
Iron Maiden - Somewhere In Time
Comedy of Errors - Spirit (2015) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=50488)
Neo Prog Rock
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Squid - O Monolith (2023) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=80639)
Dense Exp Prog-Adj Avant Krautrock/Independent, 3.5 stars
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Ok Goodnight - The Fox And The Bird
High on Fire - the Art of Self Defense, the 25th ann. remix and it sounds fantastic. It is superheavy yet there is enough 'air' to hear and understand exactly what is going on. This is heavy as heavy should be.
All Hail the Great Shirtless one!
Emerald Dawn - Nocturne (2019) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=60801)
Neo Prog Rock
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Just had a listen to Clockwork Angels - I can honestly say that there's not a single song on there I would seek out to listen to again. Pity as it was their swansong. In an attempt to be positive It was marginally better than Snakes and Arrows, apart from Far Cry which is prob the only song I enjoy listening to from the last 2 albums and would enjoy hearing again.
The Beatles - Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. A mind-scaldingly brilliant album that's lost none of its capacity to astonish, all these years later. Actually - calling it a "brilliant album" feels wrong; it exists in a category of its own. I often imagine what it must have been like to listen to this transcendent record in the summer of 1967. I imagine that by the dying chord of Day In The Life, people must have been sitting slack-jawed with thousand yard stares; their brains dripping out of their ears.
Rush - A Farewell To Kings. The years have been unkind to it; even unkinder than the present day was in 1977. It's still a duffer, but now it's even more embarrassing. Some of the synth parts sound comical now.
Quote from: Slim on August 17, 2023, 07:57:16 PMThe Beatles - Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. A mind-scaldingly brilliant album that's lost none of its capacity to astonish, all these years later. Actually - calling it a "brilliant album" feels wrong; it exists in a category of its own. I often imagine what it must have been like to listen to this transcendent record in the summer of 1967. I imagine that by the dying chord of Day In The Life, people must have been sitting slack-jawed with thousand yard stares; their brains dripping out of their ears.
I like the way they did Day in the Life. It sounds purposely as an afterthought, which it kind of was, made up from 2 separate parts John and Paul had not been able to finish yet. It is truly amazing how that one turned out as so much more than the mere sum of its parts.
I agree it is a masterpiece, one I now only hope to find in mono, on vinyl.
White Willow - Ignis Fatuus
Quote from: Thenop on August 17, 2023, 08:32:21 PMI agree it is a masterpiece, one I now only hope to find in mono, on vinyl.
Just get the mono CD and put some cushions in front of your speakers.
White Willow - Ignis Fatuus
Babymetal - new stuff on YouTube..entrancing and fascinating, (my view, not the album name).
This covers a plethora of categories plus I love the choreography. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5jt-pLD6qJA&pp=ygUJYmFieW1ldGFs
UFO - Strangers In The Night
Peter Hammill - Room Temperature Live
Horrendous - Ontoligical Mysterium, technical death metal. The voice is an acquired taste, even though there's some clean vocals for the first time, musically it is very interesting. Between death and thrash, but a bit more melodical. Really great album for those of you into the more heavy material.
Crikey, first vinyl session in three weeks!
Renaissance - A Song for all Seasons
King Crimson - Red
The Flower Kings - Paradox Hotel (2006) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=11155)
Virtuose Modern Prog Retro Rock
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/300/1571610311417/5983.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=11155)
Squid - O Monolith (2023) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=80639) Blue Vinyl
Dense Exp Prog-Adj Avant Krautrock/Independent, 3.5 stars
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Vinyl today:
The Flower Kings - By Royal Decree (2022) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=74050)
Symph Prog Rock/Jazz, 4 stars
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/300/1656968018453/51533.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=74050)
Spock's Beard - The Oblivion Particle (2015) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=49765)
Symph Neo Prog Retro Rock
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/300/1571642744836/42678.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=49765)
Beardfish - +4626-COMFORTZONE (2015) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=47301)
Heavy Prog Rock/Blues, 5 stars
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Led Zeppelin - How The West Was Won
Camel - Camel
Yes - Tormato
Yes - Yesshows
Quote from: Red Lenses on August 24, 2023, 05:18:43 AMYes - Tormato
Yes - Yesshows
I do like Yesshows, even though it is wildly overblown. Tormato, need to try and relive that one. Maybe it's not as bad as I remember.
Quote from: Thenop on August 24, 2023, 06:09:35 AMQuote from: Red Lenses on August 24, 2023, 05:18:43 AMYes - Tormato
Yes - Yesshows
I do like Yesshows, even though it is wildly overblown. Tormato, need to try and relive that one. Maybe it's not as bad as I remember.
Tormato is pretty bad.... Release Release is great and On The Silent Wings of Freedom.. the rest is pretty dismal..
Quote from: Fishy on August 24, 2023, 10:01:20 AMQuote from: Thenop on August 24, 2023, 06:09:35 AMQuote from: Red Lenses on August 24, 2023, 05:18:43 AMYes - Tormato
Yes - Yesshows
I do like Yesshows, even though it is wildly overblown. Tormato, need to try and relive that one. Maybe it's not as bad as I remember.
Tormato is pretty bad.... Release Release is great and On The Silent Wings of Freedom.. the rest is pretty dismal..
That's 45mins of my life saved, thanks
Yesshows is fantastic, I got it for Christmas one year - probably 1980 - and spent a very happy hour-and-something immersed in it on Boxing Day evening.
Quote from: Slim on August 24, 2023, 11:49:17 PMYesshows is fantastic, I got it for Christmas one year - probably 1980 - and spent a very happy hour-and-something immersed in it on Boxing Day evening.
Always like the version of Ritual from that album..
Pity that Yes went all to shit after that..but Tormato was certainly a good marker that things were going downhill
Steven Wilson - Get all You Deserve CD
New Blut Aus Nord - Disharmonium - Nahab.
"Nahab" – the second part of the Disharmonium cycle - finds BLUT AUS NORD returning, as if by compulsion, to the Weird nightmarish otherworlds of H.P. Lovecraft to reflect them through a new mirror of terrifying Black Metal lunacy.
Indeed, it sounds nightmarish, like waking up in the middle of the night, not knowing where you are and feeling that anxiety wash over you before realising you went away for the weekend ;D
Seriously though, these Black metallers have been t it for years on end and seem to re-invent themselves every 3-4 albums. It's what keeps people like me returning to them.
File under: Dark Monster Metal
Love it! (and check out that artwork, oh my...)
https://blutausnord.bandcamp.com/album/disharmonium-nahab
Complete missed on of my favourite Dutch guitarists (Oeds Beydals) had a new outfit with which he recorded an album:
Iron Jinn.
None of this is within the realms of normal in any way. Lots of it is psychedelic and all of it is fantastic to listen to.
Love it.
https://ironjinn.bandcamp.com/album/iron-jinn
Queen - The Game
Alex Lifeson - Victor
Some LPs today:
The Flower Kings - The Sum of No Evil (2007) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=16382)
Symph Neo Prog Retro Rock
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/300/1571592393787/5973.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=16382)
King Crimson - USA (1975) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=1912)
Epic Prog Avant Rock
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/300/1657956911218/14341.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=1912)
Dream Theater - Octavarium (2005) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=7515)
Technical Modern Post Metal/Rock
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Been playing around with my setup, interchanging speakers, amps, pre amps. While doing that playing Roger Waters Amused to Death. 1 of my test records for sound. Steven Wilson's To the Bone is another.
Rush - Grace Under Pressure
Crass - Stations of the Crass
Killing Joke - Killing Joke
Surfin the Scratchness by Gracerooms
Steven Wilson - Economies of scale
Whitesnake - Trouble followed by Come an' Get It
Rush - Feedback
Quote from: The Picnic Wasp on August 31, 2023, 10:53:47 PMRush - Feedback
Never got into that, it all sounds so unnatural to me
Quote from: Thenop on September 01, 2023, 05:58:01 AMQuote from: The Picnic Wasp on August 31, 2023, 10:53:47 PMRush - Feedback
Never got into that, it all sounds so unnatural to me
I could never understand why it was so hated. I'd love to have heard them do a covers album (EP) from each decade, 70s onwards. Probably quite tricky after the 80s.
Edit: Looking forward to our teams meeting in the group stages.😁
Surfin the Scratchness by Gracerooms
Elder - Innate Passage
Kingdom Come - Hands of Time
Swing Out Sister - Kaleidoscope World
Rolling Stones - Undercover
Van der Graaf Generator - Godbluff
Ian Dury And The Blockheads - Do It Yourself
Quote from: The Picnic Wasp on September 02, 2023, 04:32:24 PMIan Dury And The Blockheads - Do It Yourself
Had a bit of a you tube run on Ian Dury last week.
Jethro Tull - The Broadsword and the Beast
Jethro Tull - Double Edged Sword
Jethro Tull - Benefit
The Beatles - Revolver
If only Dog Years could have been Yellow Submarine, things could have been so different.
Steven Wilson - Economies Of Scale
The vocal line at 1:50 reminds me of someone else and it's driving me crazy trying to think who it is.
Yob - Atma (2021 mix). I love Yob, as they say themselves "Yob is Love".
Cleaning my son's new car so I needed some long albums. So The Flower Kings it was then lol
The Flower Kings - The Rainmaker (2001) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=375)
Symph Modern Prog Rock
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/300/1571589323355/5991.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=375)
The Flower Kings - Flower Power (1999) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=371)
Symph Prog Retro Rock, 4 stars
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/300/1687206288106/5984.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=371)
The Flower Kings - Stardust We Are (1997) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=368)
Instrumental Modern Prog Space Rock, 4.5 stars
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The Beatles - Rubber Soul
The Sensational Alex Harvey Band - Next
Haze - Back to the Bones (2020) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=69712)
Neo Prog Rock, 4.5 stars
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Aisles - Beyond Drama (2023) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=77928)
Heavy Neo Art Rock/Metal, 4 stars
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/300/1679432307183/54409.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=77928)
Caravan - In The Land Of Grey And Pink (1971) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=3108)
Lush Classic Canterbury/Jazz
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/300/1657206845370/21345.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=3108)
Genesis - Trespass (1970) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=2448) SACD
Original Classic Art Rock
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/300/1657228603631/20894.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=2448)
Killing Joke - What's THIS for...! (1981, not on PA) (https://awesomeprog.com/releases/15010)
Groovy Modern Punk/Industrial
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Gave Relayer another go today - got on with it more than I ever have before but too discordant at times for my tastes. Don't think I'll ever enjoy it
Rush - Hold Your Fire
What a magnificent piece of work. I've held Time Stand Still in great esteem since day one. Such an emotional song. As the years go by the lyrics are becoming a bit difficult for me.
Killing Joke - Revelations (1982, not on PA) (https://awesomeprog.com/releases/32309)
Heavy Rock
(https://i.imgur.com/fy0rMDm.jpg)
Killing Joke - Fire Dances (1983, not on PA) (https://awesomeprog.com/releases/15012)
Dense Neo Non-Prog Post Punk/Wave
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/300/1572059516827/15012.jpg) (https://awesomeprog.com/releases/15012)
The Cult - Love (1985, not on PA) (https://awesomeprog.com/releases/5468) Vinyl
Groovy Modern Rock
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/300/1657963295196/5468.jpg) (https://awesomeprog.com/releases/5468)
Killing Joke - Pylon Vinyl
(https://i.imgur.com/FynNpkY.jpg)
Roine Stolt - The Flower King: Manifesto Of An Alchemist (2018) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=59085) Vinyl
Symph Prog Rock
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Queen - Queen
Quote from: dom on September 04, 2023, 04:19:43 PMGave Relayer another go today - got on with it more than I ever have before but too discordant at times for my tastes. Don't think I'll ever enjoy it
I used to hold it in high regard but I gave it a listen a couple of years ago and I must admit I thought a lot of it was really pretentious wank.
Quote from: Slim on September 05, 2023, 07:34:54 PMQuote from: dom on September 04, 2023, 04:19:43 PMGave Relayer another go today - got on with it more than I ever have before but too discordant at times for my tastes. Don't think I'll ever enjoy it
I used to hold it in high regard but I gave it a listen a couple of years ago and I must admit I thought a lot of it was really pretentious wank.
Yep can understand the pretentious wank.. but I still love it .. Patrick Moraz just adds a certain something that Wakeman never could...
Moraz is certainly tied for one first place in terms of solo output with Anderson when they disbanded after this album to do their own solo stuff
Rush - Permanent Waves
Killing Joke - Night Time (1985, not on PA) (https://awesomeprog.com/releases/15011)
Fast Neo Non-Prog Art Rock
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The Flower Kings - Look At You Now (2023) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=81325) Just out. As always it'll take quite a few listenings before sinking in.
Symph Prog Rock
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Jethro Tull - The Broadsword and the Beast, The Maison Rouge Sessions
Be Bop Deluxe - Sunburst Finish
Pure Reason Revolution - Above Cirrus (2022) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=74740)
Eclectic Prog Alt Rock/Metal
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/300/1656966922140/51861.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=74740)
Katatonia - Sky Void Of Stars (2023) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=77713)
Atmospheric Prog Alt Metal/Rock
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Transatlantic - The Whirlwind (2009) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=24842) Vinyl
Epic Prog Rock
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In recent days..
The Rolling Stones - Steel Wheels
Stevie Wonder - Innervisions
Nai Palm - Needle Paw
Boards of Canada - Music Has The Right To Children
Big Big Train - Ingenious Devices (2023) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=77904)
Symph Prog Rock
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/300/1674632304428/54361.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=77904)
Gungfly - Alone Together (2020) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=69519)
Eclectic Prog Rock
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Jethro Tull - The Broadsword and the Beast (Steven Wilson 5.1 remix)
Doing a strange run:
Blue oyster cult debut
The Cure seventeen seconds
BOC Tyranny and Mutation
and now the Cure Pornograpjy
Brecker Brothers - Detente
Budgie - If I Were Brittania I'd Waive The Rules
Clara Moreno - Meu Samba Torto
Earth - the bees made honey in the lion's skull. Fantastic album.
Earlier it was David Sylvians Secrets of the beehive and David Eugene Edwards / Alexander Hacke with Risha.
Gillan - Double Trouble
New Baroness album "Stone", oh my this is good.
Bad Company - Run with the Pack
Jethro Tull - A Passion Play
Rolling Stones - Bridges to Babylon
Tory Slusher - Advanced Circus Music
Sunbeam - We Want You
Wes Montgomery - Boss Guitar
This is lovely, even if it borrows heavily from Minnie Ripperton's
Black Gold Of The Sun. Heard it for the first time on Saturday. I love the London-themed video. Must go back soon.
The Flower Kings - Islands (2020) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=70250)
Symph Prog Rock/Jazz
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The Flower Kings - Waiting For Miracles (2019) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=63211)
Epic Prog Rock
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The Tangent - The World That We Drive Through (2004) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=6478) Green Vinyl
Eclectic Modern Prog Retro Rock
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/300/1657213115934/9979.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=6478)
The Flower Kings - Look At You Now (2023) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=81325) Blue Vinyl
Symph Prog Rock
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Jethro Tull - Live in Germany 1982 (Steven Wilson 4.1 mix)
Some Ayreon, of course. And this morning a lovely Wes Montgomery album. Not the biggest jazz guitar fan, but this is really nice listening.
Quote from: Nickslikk2112 on September 18, 2023, 03:13:05 PMJethro Tull - Live in Germany 1982 (Steven Wilson 4.1 mix)
4.1? One of the speakers died?
Quote from: Nickslikk2112 on September 18, 2023, 07:03:19 PMQuote from: Thenop on September 18, 2023, 04:06:28 PMQuote from: Nickslikk2112 on September 18, 2023, 03:13:05 PMJethro Tull - Live in Germany 1982 (Steven Wilson 4.1 mix)
4.1? One of the speakers died?
Quadrophonic.
Ah, old school surround.
That Wes Montgomery this morning was in 1.1: mono ;D
Killing Joke - Brighter Than a Thousand Suns (1986, not on PA) (https://awesomeprog.com/releases/32310)
Lush Modern Rock
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/300/1659044630265/32310.jpg) (https://awesomeprog.com/releases/32310)
The Cult - Electric (1987, not on PA) (https://awesomeprog.com/releases/5475) Vinyl
Dense Modern Rock
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/300/1571806841343/5475.jpg) (https://awesomeprog.com/releases/5475)
The Cult - Sonic Temple (1989, not on PA) (https://awesomeprog.com/releases/5469) Vinyl
Dense Modern Rock
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The Flower Kings - Desolation Rose (2013) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=42898)
Symph Prog Rock
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Those 2 Cult albums are excellent
Sabbat - History Of A Time To Come
Voivod - Morgoth Tales
Quote from: pdw1 on September 19, 2023, 08:59:20 PMVoivod - Morgoth Tales
Fantastic album. Have all the old stuff, they went for some deep cuts to reinterpret. Love it.
Quote from: Thenop on September 19, 2023, 09:00:43 PMQuote from: pdw1 on September 19, 2023, 08:59:20 PMVoivod - Morgoth Tales
Fantastic album. Have all the old stuff, they went for some deep cuts to reinterpret. Love it.
Yes it is great. Not sure about this deep cuts stuff; with no such thing as a single everything is an album track. This includes some of my favourites.
The Chronicles Of Father Robin - The Songs & Tales Of Airoea - Book 1 (2023) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=81264)
Symph Prog Folk Rock
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Quote from: pxr5 on September 20, 2023, 06:39:40 PMThe Chronicles Of Father Robin - The Songs & Tales Of Airoea - Book 1 (2023) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=81264)
Symph Prog Folk Rock
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Mine was supposed to arrive from Am*z*n today. Got an email this morning saying now expected 1st Nov - 24th Apr 2024 >:( Knew I should have gone more direct.
Is it any good?
Blackfoot - Marauder
Quote from: pxr5 on September 20, 2023, 06:39:40 PMThe Chronicles Of Father Robin - The Songs & Tales Of Airoea - Book 1 (2023) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=81264)
Symph Prog Folk Rock
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Forgot about this, need to order.
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Quote from: Nickslikk2112 on September 20, 2023, 09:48:21 PMQuote from: pxr5 on September 20, 2023, 06:39:40 PMThe Chronicles Of Father Robin - The Songs & Tales Of Airoea - Book 1 (2023) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=81264)
Symph Prog Folk Rock
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Mine was supposed to arrive from Am*z*n today. Got an email this morning saying now expected 1st Nov - 24th Apr 2024 >:( Knew I should have gone more direct.
Is it any good?
Yes, it's very Wobbler sounding - which is what you'd expect. Surprisingly short, but then this is only the first of three. I'll need a few more plays of course but on first listens it's very enjoyable, a strong retro 70s folk-concept vibe.
No idea on other music services, but it's available on YT Music (I have premium because my son pays for it)
Airbag - Identity
Enjoyed it so much I moved onto Disconnected by the same artist.
Then talk of Wobbler made me try out a few of their tunes on Spotify. More pastoral than I was expecting. No bad thing though
The Flower Kings - Banks Of Eden (2012) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=37641)
Melodic Prog Retro Rock
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/300/1657229447052/38590.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=37641)
Gungfly - Friendship (2018) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=58041)
Eclectic Prog Rock
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Wytch Hazel - IV:Sacrament
Slade - Alive! At Reading
The Rolling Stones - A Bigger Bang
The Beatles - Sgt Pepper
Quote from: Slim on September 23, 2023, 09:01:25 PMThe Rolling Stones - A Bigger Bang
The Beatles - Sgt Pepper
That Beatles any good?
Quote from: Thenop on September 23, 2023, 09:19:03 PMQuote from: Slim on September 23, 2023, 09:01:25 PMThe Rolling Stones - A Bigger Bang
The Beatles - Sgt Pepper
That Beatles any good?
Yes .. the 2017 remaster sounds markedly better in terms of audio reproduction - it puts you "there in the room" a bit more. There are some nerdy details like the pitch being matched to the mono version in
She's Leaving Home. But most importantly the mix just feels a bit more natural and coherent, for example in
Fixing A Hole there's something a bit tense about the placement of the drums, they sound thin and unnaturally placed. They sound so much better on the 2017 mix.
On
Lovely Rita the drums have a fullness and a punch to them that they don't have on the older versions. The bass sounds smoother and more rounded, too.
Good Morning Good Morning would be a good one to compare as well, the difference is night and day. So much more presence.
It's really good, very happy with it. A bit of a revelation.
I have heard some of it, but never sat down and really listened. I am not surprised it sounds great. In 67 the Beatles still recorded and mixed everything with mono as intended end product. The, for the time, infinite amount of layers made it near impossible with the equipment they had, to make a decent stereo mix.
I'll have a proper listen, I think I have a stereo mix a little before this one but this sounds like an upgraded one.
Pendragon - The Window of Life (1993) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=1111)
Epic Neo Prog Rock/Electronic
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Blackfoot - Strikes
Kiss - Dynasty
Big Big Train - Common Ground (2021) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=72597)
Symph Prog Rock
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/300/1656997926782/50132.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=72597)
The Flower Kings - Paradox Hotel (2006) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=11155)
Virtuose Modern Prog Retro Rock
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/300/1571610311417/5983.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=11155)
Porcupine Tree - In Absentia (2002) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=1995) White Vinyl
Prog-Adj Rock, 5 stars
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Frost* - Experiments in Mass Appeal
John McLaughlin - Time Remembered
Rolling Stones - Blue and Lonesome
Steely Dan - Aja
Blackfoot - Tomcattin'
UFO - Best Of
Picked up a used 2lp from Andrew Hill a while back. Bit rare as it appears, released by Blue Note, with 'leftover' material. That was so good I thought I'd try and find it digitally for the car as well. Turns out it is just as rare on cd but found a download of the archival clean out of his work on Mosaic records. 3 hours worth. Oh my this is good...
Piano player extraordinare Mr. Hill is.
Moon Safari - Blomljud (2008) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=18024)
Lush Prog Retro Rock/Pop
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/300/1571596835161/21565.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=18024)
Jeff Buckley - Grace (1994) (https://awesomeprog.com/releases/5820)
Eclectic Alt Rock
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/300/1571621542210/5820.jpg) (https://awesomeprog.com/releases/5820)
Gentle Giant - In a Glass House (1973) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=1147)
Melodic Classic Art Rock/Jazz
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/300/1676502942830/20168.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=1147)
Spock's Beard - The Oblivion Particle (2015) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=49765)
Symph Neo Prog Retro Rock
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/300/1571642744836/42678.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=49765)
Big Big Train - The Underfall Yard (2009) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=25416)
Melodic Modern Prog Rock, 4 stars
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/300/1676634608419/27375.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=25416)
Rush - Grace Under Pressure (1984) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=3079)
Heavy Classic Prog Rock/Pop
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Rush - Presto
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Greg Howe - Wheelhouse
Cheap Trick - Budokan (30th Anniversary)
Genesis - Wind and Wuthering
Big Big Train - Ingenious Devices (2023) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=77904)
Symph Prog Rock
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Quote from: pxr5 on September 26, 2023, 08:40:52 PMMoon Safari - Blomljud (2008) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=18024)
Lush Prog Retro Rock/Pop
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/300/1571596835161/21565.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=18024)
Jeff Buckley - Grace (1994) (https://awesomeprog.com/releases/5820)
Eclectic Alt Rock
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/300/1571621542210/5820.jpg) (https://awesomeprog.com/releases/5820)
Gentle Giant - In a Glass House (1973) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=1147)
Melodic Classic Art Rock/Jazz
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/300/1676502942830/20168.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=1147)
Spock's Beard - The Oblivion Particle (2015) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=49765)
Symph Neo Prog Retro Rock
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/300/1571642744836/42678.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=49765)
Big Big Train - The Underfall Yard (2009) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=25416)
Melodic Modern Prog Rock, 4 stars
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/300/1676634608419/27375.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=25416)
Rush - Grace Under Pressure (1984) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=3079)
Heavy Classic Prog Rock/Pop
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Love the Oblivion Particle, one of my favourite Spocks' albums 👌🏻
The Toll - The Price of Progession
Frank Sinatra - LA Is My Lady
Budgie - Never Turn Your Back on a Friend
Black Oak Arkansas - Raunch 'n' Roll Live
Gungfly - On Her Journey to the Sun (2017) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=54074)
Psychedelic Prog Rock
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Big Big Train - Welcome To The Planet (2022) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=73766)
Symph Art Rock
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Todd Rundgren
A Capella
Palms - S/T, re-issue. Stunning.
The Harmony Codex - Steven Wilson
New album - first official solo album - by David Eugene Edwards (Wovenhand / 16 Horsepower) - Hyacinth
I saw him solo earlier this year, it was overwhelming, as is this album. It's immersive, it wraps around you in its grandeur and at the turning of the seasons it feels like it belongs, right here, right now.
Over the years I have listened to a lot of his music, seen him live several times and he never fails to impress.
All vinyl today:
Big Big Train - Common Ground (2021) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=72597)
Symph Prog Rock
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/300/1656997926782/50132.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=72597)
Pendragon - The Window of Life (1993) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=1111)
Epic Neo Prog Rock/Electronic
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/300/1571592467809/8900.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=1111)
Steven Wilson - The Harmony Codex (2023) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=81910)
Eclectic Exp Prog Rock/Pop
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Dug some of my old records out and had a Gothy/Punky day today (this was the sort of stuff I was listening to back in the mid to late 80s, which is probably why Rush's output then didn't appeal to me):
Fields of the Nephilim - Moonchild (12 inch Longevity mix)
The Damned - Machine Gun Etiquette
The Mission - Children
The Mission - God's Own Medicine
The Sisters of Mercy - Floodland
The March Violets - Natural History
Bauhaus - Press the Eject and Give Me the Tape
That Steven Wilson LP sure has a sound. Wow, so much low end, impressive.
Quote from: pxr5 on October 03, 2023, 06:09:19 PMDug some of my old records out and had a Gothy/Punky day today (this was the sort of stuff I was listening to back in the mid to late 80s, which is probably why Rush's output then didn't appeal to me):
Fields of the Nephilim - Moonchild (12 inch Longevity mix)
The Damned - Machine Gun Etiquette
The Mission - Children
The Mission - God's Own Medicine
The Sisters of Mercy - Floodland
The March Violets - Natural History
Bauhaus - Press the Eject and Give Me the Tape
Machine Gun Etiquette is an absolute banger! I don't know any of the others but I had a period when I was listening to Lords Of The New Church, Johnny Thunders and Hanoi Rocks
Camel - Mirage - this is a very pretty-sounding record. But in truth a lot of it is elegantly played prog-sounding muzak.
Kiss - Kiss
Stranger to Love by Black Sabbath came up on a spotify playlist. I was convinced it was Gary Moore singing. Glenn Hughes' voice is so similar!
Well, Kiss ;D
Mystery - Lies and Butterflies (2018) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=57444)
Melodic Neo Prog Rock
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Mystery - Delusion Rain (2015) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=50400)
Melodic Neo Prog Rock
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Been listening to a fair bit of Mystery recently. Enjoyable, very accessible.
Quote from: dom on October 05, 2023, 09:15:22 PMBeen listening to a fair bit of Mystery recently. Enjoyable, very accessible.
Yes, they're a very nice sounding band. My favourites are
The World is a Game and
One Among the Living. Their latest,
Redemption is good too.
The Wildhearts - PHUQ , re-issue via Bandcamp. Sounds great.
Quote from: Thenop on October 06, 2023, 06:13:11 PMThe Wildhearts - PHUQ , re-issue via Bandcamp. Sounds great.
Got that on Cassette somewhere, probably doesn't sound that great...
Hawkwind - Space Ritual 50th Anniversary (Stephen W Tayler 5.1 mix) It's trippy maaannnnnnn
Trevor Rabin - Rio
Comes with a 5.1 Blu-ray Disc.
I am now wishing I had a 5.1 system because there's just so much going on in this album. His day job nowadays of course is composing film soundtracks and he hasn't forgotten to have this album of songs mixed accordingly...
Little Feat - Dixie Chicken
Trevor Rabin - Rio
On the rotating platter tonight:
King Crimson - Beat
Slayer - Hell Awaits
Mystery - One Among The Living
Mahogany Rush - Maxoom
UFO - The Wild, The Willing and The Innocent
Trevor Rabin - Wolf
Marvin Gaye - What's Going On
Weather Report - Heavy Weather
Mahogany Rush - Strange Universe
Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left
Doobie Brothers - What Were Once Vices Are Now Habits
Playing some of my recently purchased records today:
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here (1975) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=1441)
Original Classic Prog Space Rock/Electronic
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/300/1657204097075/21197.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=1441)
King Crimson - Larks' Tongues in Aspic (1973) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=1909) - Alternative Takes and Mixes
Virtuose Classic Prog Avant Rock/Independent
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/300/1657206693806/20908.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=1909)
Steven Wilson - The Harmony Codex (2023) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=81910)
Eclectic Exp Prog Rock/Pop
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/300/1696410422689/64581.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=81910)
Porcupine Tree - Voyage 34 (1992) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=1456)
Psychedelic Modern Prog Space Rock/Independent
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Spotify turned all black on me, normally my favourite colour, but none of the functions actually work. Not that much of an issue, after my LPs, car audio, Shanling music player and my trusted Swinsian app it is 5th in line of what to listen to devices. But still, I pay for it.
To my joy, SpotifyCare actually cares and is in full swing trying to solve the issue.
Meanwhile installed Tidal for a trial run.
Iron Maiden: Dance of Death (oddly enough I don't own the actual album)
Fooling around on Tidal (Spotify is working again BTW) I stumbled upon something I recorded - with some other people of course - many years ago. It's called Corbelijn after a character in a Dutch book. Haven't heard it in years but it's quite nice. I'm on the drums of course, not much of them either ;) Kind of different form my usual shtick.
Appears to be on Youtube as well, who knew? Someone must've uploaded it at some point.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lUOQvj8ch2Oypvl4qtdklFKOZQDjQDC5s
Brings back memories. We couldn't get the first part of "So Strange" right, so we opted to include the demo version, you can hear the splice, but it fits nicely.
Listening to it, the lyrics are fitting for the times.
Jeff Beck - Blow By Blow
Anekdoten - Vemod (1993) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=64)
Dense Modern Art Rock/Metal
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/300/1571591273796/1710.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=64)
Anekdoten - Until All the Ghost Are Gone (2015) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=48813)
Heavy Prog Rock
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/300/1571591269036/42359.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=48813)
Pink Floyd - The Wall (1979) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=1443) Vinyl
Creative Classic Art Rock
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/300/1657204135743/21177.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=1443)
Haken - Affinity (2016) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=51370) Vinyl
Epic Prog Space Rock/Metal
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/300/1571648863274/43669.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=51370)
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Dewolff - Live and Outta sight 3, 3rd installment in their live album sequence. Fatastic again, this is such a great liveband. Just do yourself a favour: they are in the UK this week and the next, if you are anywhere near any of the venues, go see them.
Meanwhile:
Mark Hollis.
Such a gorgeous record this. Makes a good companion piece to Jeff Buckley's Grace, being a near solo album and Grace being a band album. I feel the same intensity on the albums, even though Buckley was at the start and Hollis was nearing the end of his recording career.
Don't even get me started on the recording quality of this, the instrument placement, the 'realness' if you will. Absolutely amazing.
Hawkwind - Space Ritual Live in Sunderland Locarno
These tapes were supposedly unusable? Don't sound too far from the final cut.
Quote from: Nickslikk2112 on October 11, 2023, 02:41:36 PMHawkwind - Space Ritual Live in Sunderland Locarno
These tapes were supposedly unusable? Don't sound too far from the final cut.
They were in the 70s,I suppose quite some digital brushing has been done to get them up to standard.
Anekdoten - Nucleus (1995) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=65)
Dense Modern Art Rock/Electronic
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Little Feat - Dixie Chicken
The Ruts - The Crack
had a couple of vinyls turn up today, be rude not to play them:
The Chronicles Of Father Robin - The Songs & Tales Of Airoea - Book 1
Trevor Rabin - Rio
The Flower Kings - Islands (2020) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=70250)
Symph Prog Rock/Jazz
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/300/1657556477598/48767.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=70250)
All Traps On Earth - A Drop Of Light (2018) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=60628)
Complex Prog Rock
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/300/1657962989051/45998.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=60628)
Opeth - Watershed (2008) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=18183)
Poetic Modern Prog Metal/Rock
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Mystery - Beneath the Veil of Winter's Face (2007) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=14928)
Neo Prog Rock
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/300/1571600506596/4114.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=14928)
Porcupine Tree - Sky Moves Sideways (1995) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=1463) RED VINYL
Instrumental Modern Prog Space Rock/Metal
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/300/1657206451115/14147.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=1463)
Porcupine Tree - Signify (1996) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=1464) VINYL
Instrumental Modern Prog Space Rock/Metal
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/300/1657207482726/21379.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=1464)
Elder - Innate Passage (2022) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=76994)
Heavy Prog Space Rock
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Rory Gallagher - Check Shirt Wizard - Live in '77
Frank Marino & Mahogany Rush - Real Live - Vol 1
Triumph: Just A Game
The Chronicles Of Father Robin - The Songs & Tales Of Airoea - Book 1 (2023) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=81264)
Symph Prog Folk Rock/Folk
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/300/1687611418005/64307.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=81264)
Pendragon - The Window of Life (1993) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=1111) VINYL
Epic Neo Prog Rock/Electronic
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/300/1571592467809/8900.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=1111)
The Flower Kings - Look At You Now (2023) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=81325) BLUE VINYL
Symph Prog Folk Rock/Metal
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/300/1688663532461/64673.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=81325)
Transatlantic - The Final Flight: Live at l'Olympia (2023) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=77266) VINYL
Symph Prog Rock, 4 stars
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/300/1671718327866/54136.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=77266)
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Pure Reason Revolution - Above Cirrus (2022) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=74740)
Eclectic Prog Alt Rock/Metal
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Sonny Rollins - Saxophone Colossus, a Japanese mono pressing, what a fantastic album and what an impressive sound.
DSOTM - Atmos blu ray.
Cold Chisel - Best Of
AC/DC - Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
Pure Reason Revolution - Eupnea (2020) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=64838)
Epic Art Rock
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Hawkwind - Space Ritual Live in Liverpool (From the 50th Anniversary box set)
These individual concerts are great, better than the final version!
The Buggles - Age Of Plastic
Sylvan - Posthumous Silence
Just need something borrowed and something blue now!
Quote from: dom on October 19, 2023, 05:05:12 PMThe Buggles - Age Of Plastic
Sylvan - Posthumous Silence
Just need something borrowed and something blue now!
There's a Slade album that will meet all your needs ;)
Andrew Hill - Hommage. I find Hill to be a piano player that is extraordinary in his playing and chordal patterns. Unlike anyone else. The big ones are unique each in their own way of course, but just as there is no 2nd Monk, Hancock or Bill Evans, there is also no 2nd Andrew Hill or McCoy Tyner (another favourite of mine) for that matter.
Just keep on discovering more fantastic material by these players. What a wonderful world it is when there is music like this to be found.
Anekdoten - From Within (1999) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=68)
Heavy Modern Art Rock
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/300/1571591272604/1707.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=68)
Anekdoten - A Time of Day (2007) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=15102)
Heavy Modern Prog Retro Rock
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Peter Hammill - Fool's Mate
Status Quo - Mystery Song
Quote from: The Picnic Wasp on October 21, 2023, 02:42:39 PMStatus Quo - Mystery Song
I've never been a Quo fan but I heard Slow Train on Planet Rock the other day. Is that the most 'prog' track they've ever done? I had to listen to it again on Qobuz when I got home. Bonkers
David Eugene Edwards - Hyacinth
Yes - 90125
Hawkwind - Hall of the Mountain Grill
Opeth - Lamentations: Live at Shepkerd's Bush Empire
Deep Purple - Machine Head
Yes - Going For The One
The Flower Kings - Banks Of Eden (2012) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=37641)
Melodic Prog Retro Rock
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Rush - Power Windows
New vinyl today:
The Flower Kings - Back in the World of Adventures (1995) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=364)
Complex Prog Rock, 4.5 stars
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/300/1676902234679/5989.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=364)
The Flower Kings - Retropolis (1996) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=365)
Instrumental Prog Retro Rock, 4 stars
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Ozric Tentacles
Paper Monkeys
Kiss - Music From The Elder
Thin Lizzy - Fighting
Beardfish - The Sane Day (2005) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=14198)
Complex Prog Retro Rock
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/300/1687206305107/563.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=14198)
Ozric Tentacles - Lotus Unfolding (2023) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=81841)
Instrumental Prog Space Rock/Metal
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/300/1692823464390/65412.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=81841)
Galahad - The Long Goodbye (2023) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=81558)
Neo Prog Rock
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The Flower Kings - Stardust We Are (1997) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=368) VINYL
Instrumental Modern Prog Space Rock, 4.5 stars
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A new ozrics album.. blimey good news...👍. Had no idea
Quote from: Fishy on October 24, 2023, 09:19:18 PMA new ozrics album.. blimey good news...👍. Had no idea
It's a good one too ;D
Ozrics
Lotus Unfolding.. just wonderful👍
Camel - Mirage
Opeth _ Damnation
Rush - Roll The Bones. One of my least favourite Rush records. A couple of decent tracks on side one including Dreamline, Bravado and Where's My Thing. Side two has less to offer apart from (maybe) Ghost Of A Chance and The Big Wheel.
Sounds dated to me.
Quote from: David L on October 26, 2023, 12:24:54 AMRush - Roll The Bones. One of my least favourite Rush records. A couple of decent tracks on side one including Dreamline, Bravado and Where's My Thing. Side two has less to offer apart from (maybe) Ghost Of A Chance and The Big Wheel.
Sounds dated to me.
I like the cover art.
OK, I like Dreamline and Bravado as well. The biggest mystery is why they kept bringing the title track back into the live set.
Beardfish - +4626-COMFORTZONE (2015) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=47301) - CD2 - Bonus Disk - The Early Years Outtakes and Demos (2002-2008)
Heavy Prog Rock/Blues, 5 stars
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Camel - The Snow Goose
Gazpacho - Night - including the subliminal Upside Down - what a song!
Quote from: dom on October 26, 2023, 05:02:33 PMGazpacho - Night - including the subliminal Upside Down - what a song!
I like Gazpacho, only 1 album at a time though. Live they are a boring watch though. They stand there like salt pillars.
Yes I get that, I almost prefer their songs to turn up in a spotify playlist than listen to a whole album. I make an exception for Night though
This evening's cornucopia of aural delights:
Marillion - Misplaced Childhood
Steely Dan - Can't Buy A Thrill
Judie Tzuke - The Cat Is Out
Jean Michel Jarre - Oxygene
Quite a release day!
Sorcerer, the Swedish doom lords release Reign of the Reaper. An Epic, majestic album. Have the vinyl incoming later today.
Then there's Wayfarer's American Gothic, that sounds kind of like a Black Metal Western style album, fun!
Ulver has released a live album from their Assasinationof Julius Caeser's tour cycle. Such a great band.
And the Yellow Eyes, a New York based yea, what exactly. It's black metal, just listen to the fantastic Rare Field Ceiling album, but this new one (first of a set) Master's Murmur has very little to do with metal. No loud guitars, but all sorts of electrical instruments, doomy, comparisons are made to Dead Can dance and Coil even. I need to give this a few listens to really understand it, but it is certainly intriguing.
And then there's a pre-order up for Ringare, a black metal duo that is as low fi as can be. I cannot recommend this to anyone but myself to be honest, so I'll just do that then.
King Crimson - Larks Tongues in Aspic (50th Anniversary Steven Wilson Dolby Atmos mix)
Egg - The Polite Force
Opeth - Damnation
W.A.S.P. - W.A.S.P. (RIP Steve Riley, I know he wasn't on this, but it's the only W.A.S.P. I've got...)
Kiss: Crazy Nights
Caravan: The Album
Beatles: Revolver
Badu: World Wide Underground
Porcupine Tree - Nil Recurring (2007) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=16300)
Heavy Modern Prog Alt Rock/Metal
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Porcupine Tree - Staircase Infinities (1994) (https://awesomeprog.com/releases/14126)
Psychedelic Modern Prog Space Rock/Independent
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/300/1684869460639/14126.jpg) (https://awesomeprog.com/releases/14126)
Porcupine Tree - The Incident (2009) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=23718)
Heavy Prog Alt Rock/Metal
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Rush - Caress Of Steel
Steel Pulse - Handsworth Revolution
Pink Floyd - DSOTM
The Police - Zenyatta Mondatta
Sorcerer - Reign of the Reaper. I think Epic Metal would cover the sound of this band quite well.
Shadow King
Sanguine Hum - A Trace Of Memory (2020) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=70251)
Eclectic Neo Post Rock
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/300/1657728371331/49128.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=70251)
Sanguine Hum - Now We Have Light (2015) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=47789)
Atmospheric Modern Art Rock/Jazz
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Riverside - Out of Myself (2004) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=6315) VINYL
Emotional Modern Post Metal/Rock
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The Flower Kings - Flower Power (1999) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=371) VINYL
Symph Prog Retro Rock, 4 stars
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Helloween - Keeper Of The 7 Keys Part 1
seemed appropriate tonight
Completely forgot to give Hallows Eve a spin. Tales of Terror, a badly produced trash album from the 80s. I love it. The 8 minute title track is fantastic.
Opeth - Damnation (2003) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=5794)
Acoustic Modern Prog Alt Rock/Metal
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Storm Corrosion - Storm Corrosion (2012) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=38059)
Acoustic Prog Avant Rock/Independent
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Camel - Rain Dances
Rather apt.
Echolyn - I Heard You Listening (2015) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=49926)
Symph Neo Prog Rock/Independent
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Sanguine Hum - Now We Have Power (2018) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=58046)
Neo Non-Prog Post Rock
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Steve Hillage
Rainbow Dome musick
Trifecta
Envy of None
Living Colour Stain
Camel - Breathless
Thin Lizzy - Thunder and Lightning
Rush - Exit Stage Left
The Beatles - Revolver
King Crimson - Larks Tongues in Aspic (50th Anniversary Elemental mixes and selected master reels)
Rush - Caress Of Steel
Steven Wilson - The Harmony Codex
only just caught up with this. It reminds me a lot of (very) early PT. It is growing on me.
Mastadon - Live Bonner Springs KS 2018
White Willow - Ignis Fatuus (One Orange Disc, One Blue Disc)
Hällas – Isle Of Wisdom
Voivod - Morgoth Tales
Quote from: pdw1 on November 05, 2023, 10:17:06 AMVoivod - Morgoth Tales
Excellent album of re-recordings. Love it. Always liked the band but the resurgence that started with Target Earth is really special.
NP: Herbie Hancock - Fat Albert Rotunda. Might be my favourite of his. But ask again tomorrow and it's probably another one. What a catalogue!
One of the albums released last year I keep coming back to is
Unison Life by Belgian trio Brutus. It's not metal, it's not hardcore or anything like that. It's guitar, yes of course, it's heavy, but it feels like a lot more. And above all it's very honest and unique, at least to these ears.
Which is why I was triggered when I saw they did an Audiotree session. I was really impressed by them and the interview bits, well I don't tnink I have ever seen such a down to earth and to the point type of thing coming from a musician.
Don't take my word for it though, see for yourself.
Voivod - Phobes
Voivod - Negatron
Quote from: pdw1 on November 05, 2023, 08:30:58 PMVoivod - Phobes
Voivod - Negatron
As oppose to Priest and Maiden, Voivod did thrive with a different vocalist. Especially Phobos is a fantastic album.
Quote from: Thenop on November 05, 2023, 08:40:50 PMQuote from: pdw1 on November 05, 2023, 08:30:58 PMVoivod - Phobes
Voivod - Negatron
As oppose to Priest and Maiden, Voivod did thrive with a different vocalist. Especially Phobos is a fantastic album.
true
The Flower Kings - Space Revolver (2000) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=373)
Energetic Symph Modern Prog Retro Rock, 4 stars
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Transatlantic - The Absolute Universe: The Breath of Life (2021) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=71001)
Symph Prog Rock
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Can - Tago Mago
Candlemass - Epicus Doomicus Metallicus
Galahad - The Long Goodbye (2023) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=81558)
Neo Prog Rock
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Van Der Graaf Generator - Still Life (1976) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=1420)
Dark Epic Classic Prog Avant Rock
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Bubblemath - Edit Peptide (2016) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=54476)
Tech Prog Art Rock
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Steven Wilson - The Harmony Codex... really enjoying this, must be one of the best produced albums sound wise.
Marillion - An Hour Before Its Dark
King Crimson - Lark's Tongues in Aspic (Dolby Atmos version)
Sounds a lot better now I can actually play it in Dolby Atmos :)
Premiata Forneria Marconi - Storia Di Un Minuto (1972) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=1984)
Romantic Epic Classic Prog Rock
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Sanguine Hum - Now We Have Light (2015) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=47789)
Atmos Neo Prog Art Rock/Jazz
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Van Der Graaf Generator - Godbluff (1975) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=1419)
Manic Atmos Classic Prog Art Rock/Jazz
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/300/1571605552649/21202.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=1419)
Porcupine Tree - Yellow Hedgerow Dreamscape (1994) (https://awesomeprog.com/releases/14145)
Unknown Genre
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Porcupine Tree - Coma Divine (1997) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=1466)
Mellow Psych Modern Prog Space Rock
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Amplifier - Hologram (2023) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=78226)
Dreamy Psych Prog Space Rock/Metal
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Genesis - Nursery Cryme (1971) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=3)
Warm Virtuose Classic Prog Art Rock
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Gentle Giant - Three Piece Suite (5.1 mix)
On a bit of a Steely Dan kick at the moment.
Aja
The Royal Scam
King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King (2020 Dolby Atmos)
Fixation - More Subtle Than Death
Young 'metalcore' band from Norway. Saw them support Devin Townsend back in April. Not bad for a debut album.
Galactic Cowboys - Machine Fish
classic
King Crimson - Red (1974) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=1911)
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Porcupine Tree - Anesthetize (2010) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=27732)
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Porcupine Tree - Arriving Somewhere... (2006) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=38597)
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Yes - Close to the Edge (Steven Wilson 5.1 mix)
Pink Floyd - Animals (2018 5.1 mix)
King's X - Gretchen Goes To Nebraska
a work of genius
Green Lung - This Heathen Land (Green vinyl)
Trevor Rabin - Wolf (Wolfskin vinyl...)
Wishbone Ash - Argus (Black Ash vinyl)
Anekdoten - Until All the Ghost Are Gone (2015) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=48813)
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Transatlantic - The Final Flight: Live at l'Olympia (2023) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=77266) VINYL
4 stars
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The Flower Kings - Stardust We Are (1997) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=368) VINYL
4.5 stars
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Anekdoten - Vemod (1993) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=64)
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Gentle Giant - Interview (Steven Wilson Dolby Atmos mix)
Gentle Giant - Octopus (Steven Wilson 5.1 mix)
King's X - Ear Candy
Had The Smile on in the car thus morning. Great album. New one incoming January 26th
Abel Ganz - Shooting Albatross (2008) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=18238)
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Steely Dan - Aja (1977) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=19400)
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Riverside - Wasteland (2018) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=57743) VINYL
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Riverside - Love, Fear and the Time Machine (2015) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=49841) VINYL
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Candlemass - Ancient Dreams
Candlemass - Tales of Creation
Änglagård - Hybris (1992) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=69)
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Landmarq - Entertaining Angels (2012) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=36765)
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Kiss - Crazy Nights
The Elba Triangle - Chapter One
Nick Hakim - Green Twins
Larry Carlton - Larry Carlton
Jerry Cantrell - Boggy Depot
System 7
Phoenix
Jimi Hendrix - Live at the Hollywood Bowl. Perhaps nice as an historical or archival release, but buyer beware on sonic quality. And I am used to quite a lot.
All vinyl today:
Gungfly - On Her Journey to the Sun (LP, 2017) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=54074)
Bandcamp (https://metalageproductionslpcd.bandcamp.com/album/rikard-sj-bloms-gungfly-on-her-journey-to-the-sun-2cd), Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/album/5gYn79JeUKwiGN39HDqAub)
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/300/1571808068442/44784.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=54074)
Pineapple Thief - Dissolution (LP, 2018) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=57509)
Bandcamp (https://kscopemusic.bandcamp.com/album/dissolution), Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/album/5mKAoSFsmgLBjBZofrqkd3)
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/300/1571588404202/45793.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=57509)
Beardfish - The Void (LP, 2012) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=38627)
4 stars, Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/album/0qxX2FNF4sSlGemVUCmeYB)
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/300/1657308923943/38662.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=38627)
Beardfish - +4626-COMFORTZONE (LP, 2015) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=47301)
5 stars, Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/album/0vFSXPgMOrghaYx5Wvonkn)
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Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon (Dolby Atmos)
Deafheaven - Sunbather (10th ann. remix). Cleaned up nicely, lots more to hear on this somewhat controversial 2014 near album of the year. Caused a bit of a stir amongst the conservative metalheads Hipster Metal! they cried out. No boys looking that nicely can be metal some growled.
It's a really good album, near Black Metal mixed with shoegaze moments, somewhat groundbreaking, nowadays everyone does it. Saw them live - they delivered, always a tell tale sign.
Don't take my word for it though, be your own judge:
https://deafheavens.bandcamp.com/album/sunbather-10th-anniversary-remix-remaster
MYRKUR - Spine (Silver Vinyl)
Änglagård – Prog På Svenska (Signed by Johan, Anna and Tord)
ZZ Top - Tres Hombres
Quote from: Nickslikk2112 on November 18, 2023, 08:46:22 PMMYRKUR - Spine (Silver Vinyl)
Änglagård – Prog På Svenska (Signed by Johan, Anna and Tord)
ZZ Top - Tres Hombres
Tres Hombres is an absolute banger
Genesis - Seconds Out
Quote from: David L on November 19, 2023, 05:53:04 PMGenesis - Seconds Out
Lovely album, I really like the opener and the way it sets the tone for the set.
Quote from: Thenop on November 19, 2023, 05:55:46 PMQuote from: David L on November 19, 2023, 05:53:04 PMGenesis - Seconds Out
Lovely album, I really like the opener and the way it sets the tone for the set.
I remember Supper's Ready always featuring in the top ten rock tracks on The Friday Rock (radio) Show (it was somewhat of an end of year highlight for listeners). I can't make up my mind about it, having listened today whilst studying the lyrics. Prog genius....or indecipherable twaddle? I'll get back to you on that!
I'm really not well-versed in that period of Genesis and I think Seconds Out acts as quite a good 'starter kit'
Desert Storm - Death Rattle
Taylor Swift - 1989 [Taylor's Version]
Stackridge - Something For The Weekend
Joe Henderson - Inner Urge
Traffic - The Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys
Quote from: Slim on November 19, 2023, 11:52:06 PMStackridge - Something For The Weekend
Joe Henderson - Inner Urge
Traffic - The Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys
Oh that Joe Henderson in there, fantastic album.
Jerry Cantrell - Degradation Trip
Journey - Departure
Pat Metheny - Dream Box. Perfect music to accompany a visit to the spa. Not quite so good for blasting out 7.5 miles on the mag trainer ;D
Blackfield - I
good
Blackfield - II
brilliant
T.Rex - The Slider
Quote from: David L on November 19, 2023, 07:22:49 PMQuote from: Thenop on November 19, 2023, 05:55:46 PMQuote from: David L on November 19, 2023, 05:53:04 PMGenesis - Seconds Out
Lovely album, I really like the opener and the way it sets the tone for the set.
I remember Supper's Ready always featuring in the top ten rock tracks on The Friday Rock (radio) Show (it was somewhat of an end of year highlight for listeners). I can't make up my mind about it, having listened today whilst studying the lyrics. Prog genius....or indecipherable twaddle? I'll get back to you on that!
I'm really not well-versed in that period of Genesis and I think Seconds Out acts as quite a good 'starter kit'
Must give this a listen. I've always wondered about the best way in to Genesis. I never got into them when I was young , and don't really know why. I've never heard any of their material and thought that I didn't like it, so I have a bit of catching up to do, which is good.
^^ Studio wise I'd recommend trying Foxtrot and Selling England by the Pound first. Then Nursery Crime, Trespass, A Trick of the Tail, Wind and Wuthering, then finally The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway.
Today only time for one album:
Änglagård - Epilog (LP, 1994) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=70)
Bandcamp (https://anglagard.bandcamp.com/album/epilog)
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This Winter Machine - The Man Who Never Was (LP, 2016) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=53874)
Bandcamp (https://progressivegears.bandcamp.com/album/the-man-who-never-was)
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Captain Beyond - Captain Beyond
Quote from: pxr5 on November 21, 2023, 02:05:53 PMThis Winter Machine - The Man Who Never Was (LP, 2016) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=53874)
Bandcamp (https://progressivegears.bandcamp.com/album/the-man-who-never-was)
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A fox! What's not to like.
David Coverdale - Whitesnake
Little Feat - Dixie Chicken
Caravan - If I could do it all over again, I'd do it all over you.
UFO - Force It
The Cure - Faith. Because I need something to lift me up.
Riverside - Shrine Of New Generation Slaves (LP, 2013) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=39739)
Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/album/6bS5UWfIw3nnDBvvLlwTdW)
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Caravan - In the Land of Grey and Pink
Devin Townsend - Ki
Bit of MSG in prep for tomorrow
Marillion - Anoraknophobia
Riverside - Anno Domini High Definition (LP, 2009) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=22960)
Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/album/2BJkbdmzqURLLnS6xQBmlA)
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Caravan - For Girls Who Grow Plump in the Night
Quote from: pdw1 on November 23, 2023, 09:32:37 PMMarillion - Anoraknophobia
Was just listening to Anorak in the UK, yesterday.
Marillion - Somewhere Else
Marillion - Sounds That Cant Be Made
Whilst waiting for some new wheels to spin, the following vinyl was spun:
Jethro Tull - Stormwatch
Black Sabbath - Never Say Die
Renaissance - A Song for all Seasons
Quote from: Nickslikk2112 on November 25, 2023, 08:47:36 PMBlack Sabbath - Never Say Die
Not a well loved Sabbath album, but it's one of my favourites. I played it to death when it was released
Quote from: pxr5 on November 25, 2023, 10:34:58 PMQuote from: Nickslikk2112 on November 25, 2023, 08:47:36 PMBlack Sabbath - Never Say Die
Not a well loved Sabbath album, but it's one of my favourites. I played it to death when it was released
Yes, I never saw, well heard, why people had such a downer on it. Certainly better than
Technical Ecstasy and I rate it higher than
Sabbath Bloody Sabbath.
Even John Peel loved it, which might explain why others didn't...
Lots of Marillion in preparation for tonight.
Sounds That Can't Be Read
Marbles
New Order - Substance. Apart forom 2 singles I did not know the band, I was too immersed in METAL, but was given a tape of this back in '87. Never looked back. No matter how I try to listen to the original versions of the songs on here, all I can think is: this is not how these are supposed to sound.
RIP Geordie Walker. I've been a fan of Killing Joke since the very early days since a friend introduced me to their first album. Sad news indeed. RIP https://blabbermouth.net/news/killing-joke-guitarist-kevin-geordie-walker-dead-at-64
Killing Joke - What's THIS for...! (LP, 1981) (https://awesomeprog.com/releases/15010)
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XTC The Big Express
Carcass - Heartwork
This Winter Machine - Kites (LP, 2021) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=73803)
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This Winter Machine - The Clockwork Man (LP, 2023) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=81649)
Bandcamp (https://thiswintermachine.bandcamp.com/album/the-clockwork-man)
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/300/1692221493074/65230.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=81649)
Mystery - Redemption (LP, 2023) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=78261)
4.5 stars, Bandcamp (https://oskarrecords.bandcamp.com/album/redemption-2lp), Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/album/31zQPrSbeGMRc4upsBQltP)
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Marillion - Marbles
Steven Wilson - The Harmony Codex
Pat Metheny Group - Still Life(Talking)
Pat Metheny - Dream Box
Steve Perry - For The Love Of Strange Medicine
Porcupine Tree - CLOSURE / CONTINUATION (LP, 2022) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=73873) VINYL
Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/album/0w9RrU2alZeQ1BJwpvpFtP)
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Steven Wilson - The Harmony Codex (LP, 2023) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=81910) VINYL
Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/album/0qEIPJU8WQdXpr3eIc6dHK)
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Marillion - Script for a Jester's Tear (LP, 1983) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=1754)
Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/album/5mbtDQJwsioLCEGIT1cbOJ)
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/300/1657206047838/3461.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=1754)
Galahad - The Last Great Adventurer (LP, 2022) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=76500)
Bandcamp (https://galahad1.bandcamp.com/album/the-last-great-adventurer), Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/album/0ndg0X3AaPfO65lxWl8ILG)
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Carmen - Fandangos in Space/Dancing on a Cold Wind
UFO — The Wild, willing and the innocent
Trevor Rabin - Rio
Still! It's majestic.
Can - Monster Movie
Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children
Cathedral - The Garden of Unearthly Delights (Scratch and Sniff CD)
Camel - Camel (Stephen W Tayler 5.1 mix)
In depth review: The mix opens it up nicely, all starts off a bit Pearl & Dean still, the Mellotron in Never let Go is more prominent. That's as deep as it goes folks.
Galahad - Empires Never Last (LP, 2007) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=13785)
Bandcamp (https://galahad1.bandcamp.com/album/empires-never-last-the-deluxe-edition), Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/album/5ra6K8lQet1ZShX9dGVXgJ)
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Abel Ganz - The Life Of The Honey Bee And Other Moments Of Clarity (LP, 2020) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=65418)
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The Pogues Red Roses For Me
Camel - Mirage (Stephen W Tayler 5.1 mix)
Once again I can hear the Mellotron more, Hoorah!
Peter Gabriel - i/o
Mystery - Desolation Rain
Ian McNabb - Waifs and Stays
Ian McNabb - North West Coast (Live bonus disc with Merseybeast)
Mariusz Duda - AFR AI D (Translucent Purple Vinyl)[Mrs S thought it was Kraftwerk]
McDonald & Giles - McDonald & Giles
Pink Floyd - Piper at the Gates of Dawn (Mono Vinyl)
Gabriel. i/o
Camel - Music Inspired by the Snowgoose (Stephen W Tayler 5.1 mix)
Pink Floyd - Atom Heart Mother (Quadrophonic)
Peter Gabriel - i/o
Little Feat - Feats Don't Fail Me Now
John Coltrane - Blue Train
Tomita - Greatest Hits
Robert Plant - Fate Of Nations
Quote from: David L on December 04, 2023, 06:00:34 PMPeter Gabriel - i/o
Little Feat - Feats Don't Fail Me Now
John Coltrane - Blue Train
Tomita - Greatest Hits
Robert Plant - Fate Of Nations
Trane as center point here, nice...
April Wine - Harder Faster
RIP Myles Goodwyn.
Quote from: Nickslikk2112 on December 04, 2023, 09:51:19 PMApril Wine - Harder Faster
RIP Myles Goodwyn.
My word! I'd completely forgotten that I bought Harder Faster after being given a free copy of the Monsters Of Rock live at Donington LP. I must still have it somewhere in the house.
Mariusz Duda - Afr AI d
Camel - Moonmadness (Stephen W Tayler 5.1 mix)
Pink Floyd - Echoes (Quadrophonic)
This Winter Machine - A Tower of Clocks (LP, 2019) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=61896)
Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/album/6Dm1C2bvbHDFdVrf0oMRZz)
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/300/1572904505842/47246.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=61896)
Arabs in Aspic - Syndenes Magi (LP, 2017) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=55238)
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/300/1661550108532/45027.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=55238)
Haken - Fauna (LP, 2023) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=77344) VINYL
Bandcamp (https://hakenfauna.bandcamp.com/album/fauna-deluxe-edition), Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/album/62Z9kh3RuUnkXrnyhHWJPX)
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/300/1683229710799/53972.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=77344)
Porcupine Tree - Deadwing (LP, 2005) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=7289) VINYL
Bandcamp (https://kscopemusic.bandcamp.com/album/deadwing-2005-master), Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/album/2oQE67Gnc1GoMqoumvjPwN)
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Camel - Nude (Stephen W Tayler 5.1 mix)
Gabriel i/o
Quote from: Thenop on December 06, 2023, 03:26:22 PMQuote from: Nickslikk2112 on December 06, 2023, 03:06:40 PMCamel - Nude (Stephen W Tayler 5.1 mix)
Great album that.
First time I've heard it! I'd given up on Camel by then - even though I didn't start seriously listening to them until after Nude was released - and I'm pleasantly surprised :)
Aerosmith - Rocks
All The World's A Stage
Death Alley - Live at Roadburn, a live album as it was intended. 40 mins, pure listening pleasure. 2 songs not an albums, 2 songs stretched out and turned upside down. Fantastic.
Pallas - The Dreams of Men (LP, 2005) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=8973)
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Yes - The Yes Album (Dolby Atmos)
Yes - The Yes Album (5.1 mix)
The boy Wilson has knocked it well out of the cricket ground with the Atmos mix. Wish I'd got a proper Atmos system...
Oink Floyd - A Momentary Lapse Of Reason
Quote from: pdw1 on December 07, 2023, 05:41:16 PMOink Floyd - A Momentary Lapse Of Reason
Isn't that the tribute band who play Animals? 😂
Quote from: pdw1 on December 07, 2023, 05:41:16 PMOink Floyd - A Momentary Lapse Of Reason
Good name for the post Waters iteration! Although they probably never played the standout track from Animals
ELO - Eldorado
Camel - Live at the Marquee October 30th 1974
UK - UK
Blue Oyster Cult - Secret Treaties, what an album it is.
Next up: Megadeth - Peace Sells.. really one of the best trash albums out there.
Should really do an extended post on trash metal and essential albums. It's noise, yes, but beautiful noise, ok not always. I'll have a think.
Edit: should really stop calling it trash - it's thrash metal, with an "h"
Quote from: Thenop on December 08, 2023, 05:51:45 PMBlue Oyster Cult - Secret Treaties, what an album it is.
Have you seen that the first of the 50th Anniversary live album series has just been released (first three studio albums - live)?
https://www.frontiers.shop/new-releases/1638/blue-oyster-cult-50th-anniversary-live-first-night-2cd-dvd-jewelcase
Quote from: David L on December 08, 2023, 06:55:12 PMQuote from: Thenop on December 08, 2023, 05:51:45 PMBlue Oyster Cult - Secret Treaties, what an album it is.
Have you seen that the first of the live album series has just been released (first three studio albums - live)?
Shied away, the band has not been very consistent live these last years so a bit afraid of what I might run in to...any good?
Quote from: Thenop on December 08, 2023, 06:56:16 PMQuote from: David L on December 08, 2023, 06:55:12 PMQuote from: Thenop on December 08, 2023, 05:51:45 PMBlue Oyster Cult - Secret Treaties, what an album it is.
Have you seen that the first of the live album series has just been released (first three studio albums - live)?
Shied away, the band has not been very consistent live these last years so a bit afraid of what I might run in to...any good?
Not got it. Might see if I can listen on Qobuz. (I've added the link in the post above)
Landmarq - Entertaining Angels (LP, 2012) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=36765)
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I'm not really a big fan of female vocalists in bands, but Tracy Hitchings (now sadly passed) is remarkable on this album.
Quote from: Thenop on December 08, 2023, 06:51:00 PMShould really do an extended post on trash metal and essential albums. It's noise, yes, but beautiful noise, ok not always. I'll have a think.
Edit: should really stop calling it trash - it's thrash metal, with an "h"
good idea
Porcupine Tree - Closure/Continuation Live
Bruford - Feels Good to Me
BÖC - 50th Anniversary Live - First Night. This is good! I have to, rather embarrassingly, admit to not really knowing the first BÖC record. Boy, they must have been on some strong stuff judging by the lyrics! As weird as a rock band gets. The sound is good though and the second set of favourites and deep cuts is great, featuring a few good cuts from last album, The Symbol Remains.
They can still deliver
Quote from: David L on December 09, 2023, 12:24:04 AMBÖC - 50th Anniversary Live - First Night. This is good! I have to, rather embarrassingly, admit to not really knowing the first BÖC record. Boy, they must have been on some strong stuff judging by the lyrics! As weird as a rock band gets. The sound is good though and the second set of favourites and deep cuts is great, featuring a few good cuts from last album, The Symbol Remains.
They can still deliver
Tyranny and the debut go hand in hand. Superb stuff on there, nice & dark (weird!) and a blueprint still for all things occult rock.
Must check this live one out then, thanks.
In the last week I've listened to Snakes and Arrows and Clockwork Angels. The former really is poor, the latter just as good as I remembered - a fitting swansong. Shame the mix is so muddy...
Quote from: captainkurtz on December 09, 2023, 02:07:18 PMIn the last week I've listened to Snakes and Arrows and Clockwork Angels. The former really is poor, the latter just as good as I remembered - a fitting swansong. Shame the mix is so muddy...
My thoughts on both, exactly
Quote from: captainkurtz on December 09, 2023, 02:07:18 PMIn the last week I've listened to Snakes and Arrows and Clockwork Angels. The former really is poor, the latter just as good as I remembered - a fitting swansong. Shame the mix is so muddy...
It still annoys me that I attended more shows on the S&A tour than any other visits by Rush to the UK. The whole event had a bit of a grim feel which can only be down to the music. Even the meet and greet left me a bit cold.
Quote from: The Picnic Wasp on December 09, 2023, 07:15:56 PMQuote from: captainkurtz on December 09, 2023, 02:07:18 PMIn the last week I've listened to Snakes and Arrows and Clockwork Angels. The former really is poor, the latter just as good as I remembered - a fitting swansong. Shame the mix is so muddy...
It still annoys me that I attended more shows on the S&A tour than any other visits by Rush to the UK. The whole event had a bit of a grim feel which can only be down to the music. Even the meet and greet left me a bit cold.
I was disappointed at Wembley to see that the back of the arena was sectioned-off (I think it was S&As)
Quote from: The Picnic Wasp on December 09, 2023, 07:15:56 PMIt still annoys me that I attended more shows on the S&A tour than any other visits by Rush to the UK. The whole event had a bit of a grim feel which can only be down to the music.
I saw six shows that tour. At least I got to spend time in Oslo, Stockholm and Helsinki :)
My aural pleasure today has been derived from:
Megadeth - so far, so good... so what!
Yes - The Yes Album (50th anniversary remaster)
UFO - No Place to Run
I love No Place to Run
The Pat Metheny Group - The Way Up
Pallas - XXV (LP, 2010) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=32220)
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Quote from: David L on December 09, 2023, 10:13:15 PMI love No Place to Run
When I was 14 I played basketball in a local team. I didn't necessarily like it, but I needed to do 'sports'. Fortunately, the coach, who was 18 or so, liked the same music I did so we got along. At one point he asked me to drop by and handed me 4 LPs he had and wanted to get rid of. I remember it quite well, becuase for usre one of them I could understand why, an album by a band called Rox, title of the album was Violent Breed. It was horrid, the singer couldn't keep a tone and the music was as generic as you could think of. But there was light at the end of the tunnel, because there were 2 albums by UFO there as well: No Heavy Petting (fantastic!) and No Place to Run. Loved the band ever since.
(the fourth album was Hellanbach's Now Hear This!).
No Place To Run is my favourite UFO album, oddly I was just thinking about that the other day. Much as I love Schenker as a player there's a certain energy and immediacy on that album that I don't think they got on any other record.
Silverburn - Self Induced Transcendental Annihilation
Metallica - 72 Seasons
Quote from: Thenop on December 10, 2023, 06:09:58 PMI remember it quite well, becuase for usre one of them I could understand why, an album by a band called Rox, title of the album was Violent Breed. It was horrid, the singer couldn't keep a tone and the music was as generic as you could think of.
If only Rox hadn't kikked out Kick Ass Kevin Kozak, could have been so much different...
As Geoff Barton said
QuoteDespite – more likely because of – hailing from rain-sozzled Manchester, Rox lived in a fantasy world of exploding dry ice and swirling flashbombs, or vice versa (as Samson would put it). Rox had aspirations to be Britain's answer to Mötley Crüe but in reality they had more in common with Muttley from Wacky Races.
Quote from: The Picnic Wasp on December 09, 2023, 07:15:56 PMQuote from: captainkurtz on December 09, 2023, 02:07:18 PMIn the last week I've listened to Snakes and Arrows and Clockwork Angels. The former really is poor, the latter just as good as I remembered - a fitting swansong. Shame the mix is so muddy...
It still annoys me that I attended more shows on the S&A tour than any other visits by Rush to the UK. The whole event had a bit of a grim feel which can only be down to the music. Even the meet and greet left me a bit cold.
Lots of things to enjoy on that tour...but the number of songs from S&A played one after the other was a real slog. I did 6 on that tour, I think.
Camel - BBC Radio 1 in Concert/Old Grey Whistle Test
Opeth - Pale Communion (5.1)
Porcupine Tree - Closure/Continuation.Live (Video, 2023) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=82783)
Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/album/6hsnf0J4HhAGfrbcIOmGDY)
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The Tangent - Songs From The Hard Shoulder (LP, 2022) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=75009)
Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/album/0rKQjh1TrxJOaTS2gyaUpo)
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Peter Gabriel - i/o (LP, 2023) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=82519)
Bandcamp (https://petergabriel.bandcamp.com/album/i-o), Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/album/1mhuLKVEwZH4aTJXCLuhec)
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Can - Ege Bamyasi
Kiss - Revenge
Elis Regina / Tom Jobim - Elis & Tom
On BBC Sounds:
Desert Island Discs: Adrian Edmondson (https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001qlz2)
Pallas - Beat the Drum (LP, 1998) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=1718)
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Camel - Live at the Royal Albert Hall 17th October 1975 (Remastered & mixed with the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by David Bedford)
Opeth - Damnation (5.1)
Metallica - 72 Seasons
Sleep Token - Take Me Back To Eden
Camel - Live at Hammersmith Odeon: 14th April 1976
Ozrics Lotus Unfolding
Listening (and watching):
Mostly Autumn - Back In These Arms
(Live at De Boerderij-NL,4th June 2022)👌🏻
Weather Report - Black Market
Camel - BBC Sight and Sound in Concert, Golder's Green Hippodrome, 29th September 1977
Quote from: Nickslikk2112 on December 14, 2023, 03:19:28 PMCamel - BBC Sight and Sound in Concert, Golder's Green Hippodrome, 29th September 1977
You are really in knee deep in the Neverending Boxset ;D
Pendragon - The Masquerade Overture (LP, 1996) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=1114)
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The Flower Kings - Desolation Rose (LP, 2013) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=42898)
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Anekdoten - Until All the Ghost Are Gone (LP, 2015) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=48813)
Bandcamp (https://anekdoten.bandcamp.com/album/until-all-the-ghosts-are-gone-hd-24-96), Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/album/0vT5Tg2EtMcn1zR0f2R5DP)
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Anekdoten - Vemod (LP, 1993) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=64)
Bandcamp (https://anekdoten.bandcamp.com/album/vemod), Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/album/3erq7tMUJLhcO5O6AByGpN)
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Sanguine Hum - Now We Have Light (LP, 2015) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=47789)
Bandcamp (https://sanguinehum.bandcamp.com/album/now-we-have-light), Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/album/1pO40aWQg1ew5qRqT5myUX)
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Sanguine Hum - Now We Have Power (LP, 2018) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=58046)
Bandcamp (https://sanguinehum.bandcamp.com/album/now-we-have-power-2), Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/album/5VNFt01BiZWd1il0GmRoIs)
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Sanguine Hum - A Trace Of Memory (LP, 2020) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=70251)
Bandcamp (https://sanguinehum.bandcamp.com/album/a-trace-of-memory), Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/album/3WOldRZ8qZSwc5JQ8cE47L)
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Abel Ganz - Shooting Albatross (LP, 2008) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=18238)
Bandcamp (https://abelganz.bandcamp.com/album/shooting-albatross), Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/album/0JQhowFetQeMZRZm9NvVuW)
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Quote from: Thenop on December 14, 2023, 03:21:19 PMQuote from: Nickslikk2112 on December 14, 2023, 03:19:28 PMCamel - BBC Sight and Sound in Concert, Golder's Green Hippodrome, 29th September 1977
You are really in knee deep in the Neverending Boxset ;D
Not even half way through! The box that keeps on giving :)
PT-Closure/Continuation Live
Steven Wilson - December Skies
Haken - The Mountain (LP, 2013) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=42074)
5 stars, Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/album/3RBULTZJ97bvVzZLpxcB0j)
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/300/1656997951438/40051.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=42074)
Abel Ganz - The Life Of The Honey Bee And Other Moments Of Clarity (LP, 2020) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=65418)
Bandcamp (https://abelganz.bandcamp.com/album/the-life-of-the-honey-bee-and-other-moments-of-clarity), Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/album/7HF9lrQwQSSC8lAboou73W)
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/300/1701383038419/48665.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=65418)
Pendragon - The Jewel (LP, 1985) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=1107)
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/300/1571588404214/8901.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=1107)
King's X - Gretchen Goes To Nebraska (LP, 1989) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=19625)
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/300/1571666648218/8248.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=19625)
Jethro Tull - A Passion Play (LP, 1973) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=2022)
Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/album/7dYWKZPXh2M8WItGwwq7Gi)
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/300/1573638532732/20607.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=2022)
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Quote from: The Picnic Wasp on December 15, 2023, 01:32:48 PMSteven Wilson - December Skies
I can't bring myself to listen to this. It's like wtf.
Quote from: pxr5 on December 15, 2023, 02:10:38 PMQuote from: The Picnic Wasp on December 15, 2023, 01:32:48 PMSteven Wilson - December Skies
I can't bring myself to listen to this. It's like wtf.
I need to hear this. I am not instinctively oppose it, and the fact that Chatgpt is a real thing and it won't go away, and of course it is a straightforward 'confession' he makes, curiosity will get the better of me.
Wilson usually does not go overboard on the feel good stuff so I can't imagine it being terrible.
Camel - Live at Hammersmith Odeon 30th September & 1st October 1977
Still delivering, not got the hump yet :)
quite a pleasant listen. Goes a bit mid 70s Howe with the guitar. Yes he throws a lot of the Christmas Cliches at it but I enjoyed it!
At first listen this has nothing offensive whatsoever. I might grow to like this actually. Which is quite something coming from a Grinch like me.
Quote from: dom on December 15, 2023, 03:39:00 PMYes he throws a lot of the Christmas Cliches at it
HE? Has ChatGPT got a gender?
Quote from: pdw1 on December 15, 2023, 05:58:25 PMQuote from: dom on December 15, 2023, 03:39:00 PMYes he throws a lot of the Christmas Cliches at it
HE? Has ChatGPT got a gender?
Well it's not a woman is it, as it would just ignore you. ;D
Quote from: pdw1 on December 15, 2023, 05:58:25 PMQuote from: dom on December 15, 2023, 03:39:00 PMYes he throws a lot of the Christmas Cliches at it
HE? Has ChatGPT got a gender?
Was talking about Wilson. Did they write the music as well?
Marillion - I Believe In Father Christmas
Quote from: dom on December 15, 2023, 03:39:00 PMquite a pleasant listen. Goes a bit mid 70s Howe with the guitar. Yes he throws a lot of the Christmas Cliches at it but I enjoyed it!
Normally his stuff leaves me cold but he's come up with a very serviceable Christmas song, here. Really nice.
Richard Wright - Wet Dream (Dolby Atmos)
Moved from surround sofa to vinyl chair:
Green Lung - This Heathen Land
The Chronicles of father Robin - Book 1
Wytch Hazel - IV: Sacrament
Quote from: Nickslikk2112 on December 16, 2023, 08:47:02 PMMoved from surround sofa to vinyl chair:
Green Lung - This Heathen Land
The Chronicles of father Robin - Book 1
Wytch Hazel - IV: Sacrament
You have part 2 of Robin yet?
Quote from: Thenop on December 16, 2023, 08:51:27 PMQuote from: Nickslikk2112 on December 16, 2023, 08:47:02 PMMoved from surround sofa to vinyl chair:
Green Lung - This Heathen Land
The Chronicles of father Robin - Book 1
Wytch Hazel - IV: Sacrament
You have part 2 of Robin yet?
In the post now
Quote from: Nickslikk2112 on December 16, 2023, 09:30:02 PMQuote from: Thenop on December 16, 2023, 08:51:27 PMQuote from: Nickslikk2112 on December 16, 2023, 08:47:02 PMMoved from surround sofa to vinyl chair:
Green Lung - This Heathen Land
The Chronicles of father Robin - Book 1
Wytch Hazel - IV: Sacrament
You have part 2 of Robin yet?
In the post now
Arrived today - but will have to wait until Saturday...
Camel - I Can see your House from Here
Jethro Tull - Songs from the Wood (Steven Wilson 5.1 mix - couldn't resist)
Chris Squire - Fish out of Water (Jakko Jakszyk 5.1 mix)
Tin Machine. Remember buying the LP, loved it immediately. Very a-typical Bowie, which makes sense, I am not a Bowie afficionado. I see the attraction, I hear how good it is but except for Blackstar I never felt the need to further explore.
But this Tin Machine album is just fantastic, just an all around rock album with an alternative edge.
On cd BTW, someone local had a box of cds to giveaway. Was a regular 90s fest, but this was the only one I took.
Spidergawd - VII. What an album, must surely be top tier for this year.
Camel - Nude
Emerson Lake & Palmer - Tarkus (5.1 mix)
Master Of Puppets
Diamond Head - Lightning To The Nations
^^ Metallica
^ Proto Metallica
Nice.
Quote from: Thenop on December 19, 2023, 06:43:13 PM^^ Metallica
^ Proto Metallica
Nice.
July 9th 1981 Banbury Winter Gardens, supported by Silverwing
£2.25 in advance £2.50 on the door ;D
Abiding memory - bassist, Colin Kimberley, was clearly inspired by Geddy!
Anthrax - Spreading The Disease
Quote from: pdw1 on December 19, 2023, 08:41:06 PMAnthrax - Spreading The Disease
Gung Ho, all time favourite Charlie Benante drumming. That double bassddum is insane!
I have been old school tonight. To finish
Armored Saint - Delirious Nomad
what an underrated band
Camel - BBC Sight and Sound In Concert: Hammersmith Odeon 27th February 1981
Quote from: Nickslikk2112 on December 20, 2023, 03:16:51 PMCamel - BBC Sight and Sound In Concert: Hammersmith Odeon 27th February 1981
Concert with a sort of condensed version of Nude I see. Nice.
The WHO - Tommy
Camel - The Single Factor
Camel - Stationary Traveller
Going down a Radiohead rabbit hole...it's been a while, but a potent reminder that they were untouchable for a few decades...
The Bends
Ok Computer
Amnesiac
In Rainbows
Incredible body of work..
Quote from: captainkurtz on December 23, 2023, 11:43:51 AMGoing down a Radiohead rabbit hole...it's been a while, but a potent reminder that they were untouchable for a few decades...
The Bends
Ok Computer
Amnesiac
In Rainbows
Incredible body of work..
Agreed. Really like the a Moon Shaped Pool as well.
Have you listened to The Smile?
Riverside - ID.Entity (Dolby Atmos)
Then into the comfy chair:
The Chronicles of Father Robin - Book II: Ocean Traveller (Metamorphosis)
Trevor Rabin - Rio
Chris Squire and Alan White - Run with the Fox 7"
Quote from: Thenop on December 23, 2023, 12:57:18 PMQuote from: captainkurtz on December 23, 2023, 11:43:51 AMGoing down a Radiohead rabbit hole...it's been a while, but a potent reminder that they were untouchable for a few decades...
The Bends
Ok Computer
Amnesiac
In Rainbows
Incredible body of work..
Agreed. Really like the a Moon Shaped Pool as well.
Have you listened to The Smile?
Yes, mate. Really like them - and looking forward to seeing them in March in Glasgow - have 3rd row centre seats..
Today, I have mostly been listening to:
Deep Purple - In Rock
Diamond Head - Lightning To The Nations
Rush - Signals
Weather Report - Black Market
Rainbow - Rising
Halford III Winter Songs ;D
John Coltrane - Blue Train
Weather Report - Black Market
Herbie Hancock - Headhunters
Herbie Hancock - Thrust
Rosalie Cunningham - Live at Acapela
Gabriel I/o
Ozrics Lotus Unfolding
Weather Report Black Market
Inspired by the latest Pr*g Magazine:
Pallas - Arrive Alive
King Crimson - Thrak
Frank Zappa - Zoot Allures
Lars Fredrik Frøislie – Fire Fortellinger
Drifting Sun - Forsaken Innocence (LP, 2021) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=73208)
Bandcamp (https://driftingsun.bandcamp.com/album/forsaken-innocence), Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/album/2wQxcYwJwxVSbkXHrktiXt)
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/300/1701383344206/50788.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=73208)
Pallas - Wearewhoweare (LP, 2014) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=47437)
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Rush - Timeless Wavelength (FM broadcast 1980 PeW show at Kiel Auditorium)
Mastered at Abbey Road by Miles Showell on double vinyl. Geddy's playing is outrageous on this.
Dire Straits - Alchemy
got the very nice Live 1978-1992 box set for christmas
Vinyl earlier today:
Marillion - Script for a Jester's Tear (LP, 1983) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=1754)
Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/album/5mbtDQJwsioLCEGIT1cbOJ)
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/300/1657206047838/3461.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=1754)
Landmarq - Entertaining Angels (LP, 2012) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=36765)
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/300/1658927873840/41444.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=36765)
Pendragon - The Masquerade Overture (LP, 1996) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=1114)
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Back to the Big Box of Camel :)
Camel - Pressure Points
The Return Of Cody The Last Rock n Roller (local hero and friend)
Pat Metheny Group - The Way Up
John Coltrane - Blue Train
Camel - I can See Your House From Here
Kansas - Masque
A PRR day today:
Pure Reason Revolution - The Dark Third (LP, 2006) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=11810)
Bandcamp (https://purereasonrevolution.bandcamp.com/album/the-dark-third-2020-remaster), Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/album/4ijk02bZgFVyexq2bYzpL1)
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/300/1676634056999/21185.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=11810)
Pure Reason Revolution - Eupnea (LP, 2020) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=64838)
Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/album/1Hzmunb2uRfgrf0lZowr9j)
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/300/1581026494353/47788.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=64838)
Pure Reason Revolution - Above Cirrus (LP, 2022) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=74740)
Bandcamp (https://purereasonrevolution.bandcamp.com/album/above-cirrus), Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/album/18QmmOwcTZugATzOCDCmv8)
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PRR - great band who threw it all away.
The Dark Third is a brilliant debut
I'm mucking around on you tube
https://youtu.be/TikDYhkAhno?si=ECTluYQMwsjEHRvL
Rush - A Show of Hands
Metallica - Ride the Lightning
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin II
Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats - Vol. I (Cherry Red vinyl)
Quote from: Nickslikk2112 on January 06, 2024, 08:45:54 PMMetallica - Ride the Lightning
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin II
Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats - Vol. I (Cherry Red vinyl)
I love Uncle Acid, such a great take on a classic genre.
Peter Hammill - Skin
Four Pails, the scarediest song you ever heard. Even more scaredy than.......
The Weapon.
Drifting Sun - Forsaken Innocence (LP, 2021) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=73208)
Bandcamp (https://driftingsun.bandcamp.com/album/forsaken-innocence), Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/album/2wQxcYwJwxVSbkXHrktiXt)
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/300/1701383344206/50788.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=73208)
This Winter Machine - Kites (LP, 2021) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=73803)
Bandcamp (https://thiswintermachine.bandcamp.com/album/kites), Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/album/0Sz2SY1w4WwpoI1GDgcHDV)
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/300/1701123210984/56230.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=73803)
Sylvan - Posthumous Silence (LP, 2006) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=11515)
Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/album/4ljWvrC7bBhB6o6G3pYo4u)
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/300/1657208418642/1037.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=11515)
Nova Cascade - The Navigator (LP, 2023) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=81499)
Bandcamp (https://novacascade.bandcamp.com/album/the-navigator), Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/album/67SPPhVvulse3wFy1ysj3b)
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/300/1691604156437/65232.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=81499)
Nine Skies - The Lightmaker (LP, 2023) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=81323)
Bandcamp (https://nineskies.bandcamp.com/album/the-lightmaker), Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/album/4SnIrEeezHS7ym98yirsjD)
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Sonny Rollins Quartet with Don Cherry - complete at the Village Gate 1962. Bit steep for a sit through, it's nearly 7 hours in total :o
The Flower Kings - The Rainmaker (LP, 2001) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=375)
Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/album/7ag8f0XUtFYO3rzB6avEMc)
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/300/1571589323355/5991.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=375)
Henry Cow - Leg End (LP, 1973) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=3058)
Bandcamp (https://henrycow.bandcamp.com/album/leg-end), Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/album/45SGXvR7sudU0Hq2MGxnG3)
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/300/1571622680310/21134.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=3058)
I've only just started listening to this French Band: Nine Skies. Absolutely brilliant - only 4 albums released so far and one of their founders, Eric Bouillette, sadly passded away in 2022. They're still great though as can be heard in their latest album The Lightmaker. A lot of guest musicians used too.
Nine Skies - 5.20 (LP, 2021) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=72616)
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Jethro Tull - Aqualung (Steven Wilson 5.1 mix)
The Rolling Stones - Hackney Diamonds
Shocking news - this is really good
Quote from: David L on January 02, 2024, 11:56:13 PMRush - A Show of Hands
Released 35 years ago today,can you believe it? 35 years!!
Peter Gabriel first album..
Jethro Tull - Minstrel in the Gallery (Steven Wilson 5.1 remix)
Quote from: Fishy on January 10, 2024, 10:53:53 AMPeter Gabriel first album..
PG fest today....2nd and 3rd albums now
Amplifier - Trippin' With Dr Faustus (LP, 2017) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=54263)
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Candidate for world worse cover (Sel once tried to justify it to me after a gig) but wot a great album
Here
Steven Wilson - The Harmony Codex (mainly the remixes on Harmonic Distortions)
Jeff Buckley - Grace. Vinyl Me Please Analog cut LP.
Opeth - Still Life
Spock's Beard - The Light (sure this was on red vinyl, but it's black)
Quote from: Nickslikk2112 on January 13, 2024, 08:47:13 PMOpeth - Still Life
Spock's Beard - The Light (sure this was on red vinyl, but it's black)
I generally prefer black light over red light anyway...
Twelfth Night - Fact And Fiction (LP, 1982) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=1350)
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Amplifier - The old Forge Sessions Vol 3
Desert Sessions vol. 11/12
Jethro Tull - This Was (LP, 1968) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=2015)
Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/album/5IRzZUl3M29VCuNL1BHdyF)
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/300/1657275535881/20603.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=2015)
Drifting Sun - Twilight (LP, 2017) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=54869)
Bandcamp (https://driftingsun.bandcamp.com/album/twilight), Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/album/0ryjrlp1DhDsJ29waxJJuK)
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/300/1701383375766/44974.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=54869)
Drifting Sun - Planet Junkie (LP, 2019) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=63351)
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/300/1573898693708/47016.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=63351)
The Flower Kings - Unfold The Future (LP, 2002) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=2014) VINYL
Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/album/3OI17HQecAOplG0QcRJ8KA)
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/300/1657208362293/20878.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=2014)
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Magnum - On a Storyteller's Night
Shed Seven - A Matter of Time
This Winter Machine - The Clockwork Man (LP, 2023) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=81649)
Bandcamp (https://thiswintermachine.bandcamp.com/album/the-clockwork-man), Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/album/6X04VTL9kmtnQ6OODrMfVS)
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/300/1703143993926/65230.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=81649)
Nine Skies - Sweetheart Grips (LP, 2019) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=63672)
Bandcamp (https://nineskies.bandcamp.com/album/sweetheart-grips), Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/album/0Bd2mWAv5T7sGflOp6Ek26)
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/300/1682527467878/56440.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=63672)
Abel Ganz - Shooting Albatross (LP, 2008) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=18238)
Bandcamp (https://abelganz.bandcamp.com/album/shooting-albatross), Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/album/0JQhowFetQeMZRZm9NvVuW)
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Nine Skies - Return Home (LP, 2017) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=56647)
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Inspired by some one on here
MindFunk - People Who Fell From The Sky
Quote from: pdw1 on January 17, 2024, 08:38:23 PMInspired by some one on here
MindFunk - People Who Fell From The Sky
Nice 8)
Frank Marino - Stories of a Hero. Killer compilation
Rush: Grace Under Pressure.
I can't remember the last time I listened to Rush.
Advent Horizon - A Cell To Call Home (LP, 2023) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=82120)
Bandcamp (https://adventhorizon.bandcamp.com/album/a-cell-to-call-home), Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/album/6OzlQcGxx1h0CT2t0uZDHQ)
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/300/1694706174370/65841.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=82120)
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Monster Magnet - Dopes To Infinity
Girls against Boys - Venus Luxure No 1 Baby
Ovrfwrd - There Are No Ordinary Moments (LP, 2024) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=82715)
Bandcamp (https://ovrfwrd.bandcamp.com/album/there-are-no-ordinary-moments-2024-release-date-1-12-2024), Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/album/2jCllYP13glGIDhwDMa8i3)
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Ihsahn - Telemark (Half Black/Half Clear vinyl)
Spock's Beard - The Oblivion Particle
The Chronicles of Father Robin - Book II: Ocean Traveller
Kansas - Two For The Show
Pallas - The Messenger (LP, 2023) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=82690)
Bandcamp (https://pallasofficial.bandcamp.com/album/the-messenger)
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/300/1699024024070/66612.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=82690)
Abel Ganz - The Life Of The Honey Bee And Other Moments Of Clarity (LP, 2020) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=65418)
Bandcamp (https://abelganz.bandcamp.com/album/the-life-of-the-honey-bee-and-other-moments-of-clarity), Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/album/7HF9lrQwQSSC8lAboou73W)
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/300/1701383038419/48665.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=65418)
Pure Reason Revolution - The Dark Third (LP, 2006) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=11810) VINYL
Bandcamp (https://purereasonrevolution.bandcamp.com/album/the-dark-third-2020-remaster), Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/album/4ijk02bZgFVyexq2bYzpL1)
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/300/1676634056999/21185.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=11810)
The Flower Kings - Adam & Eve (LP, 2004) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=6157) VINYL
Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/album/0m2CWKO9nyrMGkCb2BYc7P)
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/300/1571709994744/5974.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=6157)
Nine Skies - The Lightmaker (LP, 2023) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=81323)
Bandcamp (https://nineskies.bandcamp.com/album/the-lightmaker), Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/album/4SnIrEeezHS7ym98yirsjD)
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/300/1688656975246/64671.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=81323)
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Steven Wilson - The Raven that refused to sing (5.1 mix)
Hawkwind - Warrior on the Edge of Tine (SW 5.1 remix)
Drifting Sun - Planet Junkie (LP, 2019) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=63351)
Bandcamp (https://driftingsun.bandcamp.com/album/planet-junkie), Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/album/252UsTNcQVjrHQHe5jtitN)
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/300/1706023315464/47016.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=63351)
Echolyn - Cowboy Poems Free (LP, 2000) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=290)
Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/album/3HNyhdZbZ9jG1DK3yUyXgw)
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/300/1657230017427/5207.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=290)
Caravan - Cunning Stunts (LP, 1975) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=3113) VINYL
Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/album/5SokYXtecgIhwPvVv4h0Pe)
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/300/1571832021584/6826.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=3113)
The Flower Kings - Paradox Hotel (LP, 2006) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=11155) VINYL
Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/album/4l6I7neGDCuym2e0Gk9Poo)
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/300/1571610311417/5983.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=11155)
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Voivod - NothingFace
Vicious Rumors - Digital Dictactor
Quote from: pdw1 on January 23, 2024, 08:35:47 PMVicious Rumors - Digital Dictactor
I played this over and over upon release. Fantastic piece of US metal!
New Dool single, forthcoming album
The Shape of Fluidity is out April 19th.
Really liking the first track hear, nice and heavy
Quote from: Thenop on January 23, 2024, 09:04:10 PMQuote from: pdw1 on January 23, 2024, 08:35:47 PMVicious Rumors - Digital Dictactor
I played this over and over upon release. Fantastic piece of US metal!
It is isnt it.
Fixation - More Subtle Than Death
Xentrix - Shattered Existence
Pain of Salvation - The Perfect Element Part 1 (LP, 2000) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=1024)
Bandcamp (https://painofsalvation.bandcamp.com/album/the-perfect-element-part-i), Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/album/59CVVonQciTIUJH5zr7hia)
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/200/1682892850819/8704.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=1024)
Abel Ganz - Abel Ganz (LP, 2014) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=45086)
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/200/1571592512215/41283.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=45086)
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Riverside - Woodstock Festival Poland 2011
Quote from: Nickslikk2112 on January 25, 2024, 02:50:58 PMRiverside - Woodstock Festival Poland 2011
LP has arrived, will give it a spin this weekend.
Talk Talk - The Colour of Spring
King Crimson
Power to Believe and Discipline
The Smile - Wall of Eyes
Early contender for record of the year?
Don Henley - The End of the Innocence
Tears For Fears - The Tipping Point
UFO - Lights Out
Quote from: captainkurtz on January 26, 2024, 10:00:44 PMThe Smile - Wall of Eyes
Early contender for record of the year?
Yes, very much so.
Riverside - Live at Woodstock Festival Poland 2011 (Glad I noticed it was 45 rpm)
Yes - Relayer (Glad I switched it back to 33 1/3 rpm)
Candlemass - Nightfall
Relayer is my my fave yes album thanks to Mr Moraz
Lots of Golden Earring. Which is funny, I had nothing but a passing interest over the years but came across a stack of used LPs and I am really enjoying those. And for once, it is easy to get the albums, GE being a Dutch band LPs are at nearly every store.
Nice.
King Crimson - Lark's Tongues in Aspic, the Complete Recording Sessions (Jan 16th 1973)
That's an hour of my life I won't get back - and there's 15 more days to go...
The Chronicles Of Father Robin - The Songs & Tales Of Airoea: Book 1 (LP, 2023) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=81264)
BC (https://fatherrobin.bandcamp.com/album/the-songs-tales-of-airoea-book-1), SPO (https://open.spotify.com/album/2qwU0I0PAWHXh0J3sTPUky)
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/200/1687611418005/64307.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=81264)
The Chronicles Of Father Robin - The Songs & Tales Of Airoea: Book 2 (LP, 2023) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=81943)
BC (https://fatherrobin.bandcamp.com/album/the-songs-tales-of-airoea-book-ii), SPO (https://open.spotify.com/album/1vG1OEfWsl3HKGYAMgN9qE)
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/200/1698694584429/65630.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=81943)
This Winter Machine - A Tower of Clocks (LP, 2019) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=61896)
SPO (https://open.spotify.com/album/6Dm1C2bvbHDFdVrf0oMRZz)
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/200/1572904505842/47246.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=61896)
Galahad - The Last Great Adventurer (LP, 2022) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=76500)
BC (https://galahad1.bandcamp.com/album/the-last-great-adventurer), SPO (https://open.spotify.com/album/0ndg0X3AaPfO65lxWl8ILG)
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/200/1686689387102/52847.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=76500)
Galahad - The Long Goodbye (LP, 2023) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=81558)
BC (https://galahad1.bandcamp.com/album/the-long-goodbye), SPO (https://open.spotify.com/album/04qrGX5HIteDnpUN2JaISK)
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/200/1692221964183/65324.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=81558)
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Lars Fredrik Frøislie - Fire Fortellinger (LP, 2023) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=81102)
BC (https://larsfredrikfroislie.bandcamp.com/album/fire-fortellinger), SPO (https://open.spotify.com/album/7kS5Tq5i2l2hRFoE66iqK4)
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/200/1687010988095/55606.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=81102)
The Flower Kings - Islands (LP, 2020) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=70250) An actual CD
SPO (https://open.spotify.com/album/3ISQ5U4NPUt2hCFRPORHDJ)
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/200/1657556477598/48767.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=70250)
Galahad - Empires Never Last (LP, 2007) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=13785)
BC (https://galahad1.bandcamp.com/album/empires-never-last-the-deluxe-edition), SPO (https://open.spotify.com/album/5ra6K8lQet1ZShX9dGVXgJ)
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/200/1571769712544/11027.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=13785)
Haken - Aquarius (LP, 2010) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=29173)
SPO (https://open.spotify.com/album/6LClzoGjQnFSvPQrZNTOAF)
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/200/1657213096358/28885.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=29173)
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Nita Strauss - Call Of The Void
UFO - Making Contact. I've always liked this one although it rarely gets a mention when discussing their fine body of work
Nuclear Assault - Handle With Care
Page Plant - No Quarter
Started the morning off driving to work listening to Coltrane's Live at the Village Vanguard.
Galahad - Battle Scars (LP, 2012) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=37578)
BC (https://galahad1.bandcamp.com/album/battle-scars), SPO (https://open.spotify.com/album/1t4A9gXSnrJEifhppisEqL)
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/200/1657562071075/38484.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=37578)
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Therapy? - Troublegum. It's been aeons since I heard this, it holds up the same way it did back then: great festivalband.
First clip for the upcoming live dvd / LP etc. from last September's Ayreon shows is up on YouTube. It really was a magnificent experience, Arjen nailed it, as usual. It's the show closer that's up now, 12 mins with everyone who's anyone in the Ayreonverse present (well almost then..)
On Planet Vinyl today, I've been cruising with Elvis in Bigfoot's favoured mode of aerial transport:
UFO - Lights Out (2024 Remaster)
UFO - Live at the Roundhouse 2nd April 1977
And a CD Blast:
MC5 - Kick out the Jams
Snarky Puppy - Culcha Vulcha
Bought the Go West! Sonny Rollins a while back, hadn't listened to it wet, but broke it out today. Of course I knew Way Out West, a fantastic album and now playing, but it'll be interesting to hear the other 2 albums.
One thing I am noticing more and more is how fantastic these albums were recorded (in 1957! no less). Everything sounds so open and clear, just fantastic. Yes I know reocring techniques have prohressed, multitracks and all, but still there's something to be said for just sticking 2 mics in a studio and play away.
Kerry King - Idle Hands
New Kerry = old Kerry just angrier
Quote from: pdw1 on February 05, 2024, 06:13:47 PMKerry King - Idle Hands
New Kerry = old Kerry just angrier
Meh, heard it and dunno. I do really like Mark Osegueda, one of the few that can actually sing. But King's riffs are just so generic. Much preferred Hanneman.
Quote from: Thenop on February 05, 2024, 06:32:45 PMMeh, heard it and dunno. I do really like Mark Osegueda, one of the few that can actually sing. But King's riffs are just so generic. Much preferred Hanneman.
Yeah know what you mean. There is a great recent interview with Steven Wilson where he talks about coming home with the new Slayer album as a teenage and realising it sounded just like te previous one and the one before that! It was the last Slayer album he bought.
Stormtroopers Of Death - Speak English Or Die
(am I allowed to admit to being a big fan?)
Zep - Houses of the Holy deluxe companion disc
No Sleep 'til Hammersmith 8)
Quote from: pdw1 on February 05, 2024, 08:41:21 PMStormtroopers Of Death - Speak English Or Die
(am I allowed to admit to being a big fan?)
Played this endlessly back in the day. No shame in admitting that!
Quote from: Thenop on February 06, 2024, 05:51:22 PMQuote from: pdw1 on February 05, 2024, 08:41:21 PMStormtroopers Of Death - Speak English Or Die
(am I allowed to admit to being a big fan?)
Played this endlessly back in the day. No shame in admitting that!
Well that will be 2 of us being cancelled. Hopefully Scott Ian will be on the desert island they banish us to.
Yes - Close to the Edge (Steven Wilson remix)
I'm really enjoying this French band, Nine Skies, at the moment. Only 4 albums released so far though but each one is brilliant. My favourite is the most recent - The Lightmaker.
Nine Skies - The Lightmaker (LP, 2023) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=81323)
BC (https://nineskies.bandcamp.com/album/the-lightmaker), SPO (https://open.spotify.com/album/4SnIrEeezHS7ym98yirsjD)
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/200/1688656975246/64671.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=81323)
Nine Skies - 5.20 (LP, 2021) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=72616)
BC (https://nineskies.bandcamp.com/album/520), SPO (https://open.spotify.com/album/75IG7P2jVihtoeFSbUpWHe)
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/200/1704896213970/50224.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=72616)
Nine Skies - Sweetheart Grips (LP, 2019) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=63672)
BC (https://nineskies.bandcamp.com/album/sweetheart-grips), SPO (https://open.spotify.com/album/0Bd2mWAv5T7sGflOp6Ek26)
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/200/1682527467878/56440.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=63672)
Nine Skies - Return Home (LP, 2017) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=56647)
BC (https://nineskies.bandcamp.com/album/return-home), SPO (https://open.spotify.com/album/27a05La8Af82PHBJ1XsKtc)
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/200/1682743924310/45247.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=56647)
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Quote from: pdw1 on February 06, 2024, 05:53:19 PMQuote from: Thenop on February 06, 2024, 05:51:22 PMQuote from: pdw1 on February 05, 2024, 08:41:21 PMStormtroopers Of Death - Speak English Or Die
(am I allowed to admit to being a big fan?)
Played this endlessly back in the day. No shame in admitting that!
Well that will be 2 of us being cancelled. Hopefully Scott Ian will be on the desert island they banish us to.
Will be a Madhouse for sure
Atom Heart Mother (original quad mix) from The Early Years - 1970 - Devi/ation bluray
Aynsley Lister - Everything I Need
Aynsley Lister - Along For The Ride
Snarky Puppy - We Like It Here
Pat Metheny Group - American Garage
Bill Evans Trio - Portrait in Jazz. Lovely.
Riverside - Love, Fear and the Time Machine
Van Halen - MCMLXXXIV
Motorpsycho - Here be Monsters
BBM - Around The Next Dream
Cathedral - The Carnival Bizarre
All Rights Removed - Airbag
Galahad - Sleepers (LP, 1995) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=412)
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/200/1682803944048/11035.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=412)
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Sylvan - Posthumous Silence
Cathedral - Supernatural Birth Machine
The Flower Kings - Waiting For Miracles (LP, 2019) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=63211) Vinyl
SPO (https://open.spotify.com/album/7iEHS0UCqvroc6dYifdJRH)
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/200/1573107621927/47028.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=63211)
Galahad - Quiet Storms (LP, 2017) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=54140)
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/200/1659750152132/44645.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=54140)
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This mix from Spotify, really relaxing
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1EVHGWrwldPRtj?si=UhG1_5j5SFy8kX_dgiho1w&pi=e-C11-LqVXSlGe
Ozrics Lotus Unfolding
Cathedral - Caravan Beyond Redemption
Quote from: Nickslikk2112 on February 14, 2024, 03:07:37 PMCathedral - Caravan Beyond Redemption
We're still waiting for Caravan to release an album called
Cathedral Beyond Redemption.
Trouble - Trouble
Trouble - Manic Frustration
Gracerooms Surfin the Scratchness
Cathedral - The Guessing Game
The Pineapple Thief - It Leads To This
British Sea Power - Let the Dancers Inherit the Party
Rush - Hemispheres
A work of art. I probably wouldn't listen to this in company these days, as I find certain passages of this album too emotional. The benchmark of everything I yearn for in music.
Decent singing, eh?
new High on Fire single, preluding the new album. Sounds like old High on Fire. They really are a heavier version of Motorhead reincarnated. Monstrous.
Love it.
https://highonfire.bandcamp.com/album/cometh-the-storm
Icicle Works - Permanent Damage
Icicle Works - Blind
Dio - Holy Diver
BOC - Imaginos
The Chronicles of Father Robin - Book III: Magical Chronicle (Ascension)
Von Hertzen Brothers - Live at Tavastia
Thin Lizzy - Live and Dangerous
Colin James - Open Road
More guitars than humanly possible
Jason Becker and friends
Von Hertzen Brothers-Live at Tavastia
Wishbone Ash - Live Dates 2
Todd Rundgren State
Pineapple Thief - It Leads To This (LP, 2024) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=83635) RED VINYL
BC (https://kscopemusic.bandcamp.com/album/it-leads-to-this), SPO (https://open.spotify.com/album/2Dv8t4eIELlC1oiuaQ5jVn)
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/300/1701295931066/67426.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=83635)
Beardfish - Mammoth (LP, 2011) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=32364) VINYL
SPO (https://open.spotify.com/album/05jG8bV17Q8PnYndmxFM96)
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/300/1682581728495/32741.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=32364)
I'm currently reading Geddy Lee's autobiography and I felt the need to play this. I really love this album:
Rush - Rush (LP, 1974) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=3067) SECTOR 1 BOXSET CD
SPO (https://open.spotify.com/album/57ystaP7WpAOxvCxKFxByS)
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/300/1571695050874/18470.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=3067)
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John Mellencamp - Orpheus Descending
Been working my way through Miles Davis' Cellar Sessions in the car, nearly done. fantastic of course, sometimes a bit much though.
Wayne Shorter - Speak No Evil
Larry Carlton - Larry Carlton
Trapeze - You Are The Music .. We're Just The Band
Comus - First Utterance (LP, 1971) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=4935)
SPO (https://open.spotify.com/album/4q1Xa0nBB10PPeadZCGvW0)
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/300/1571837050074/20746.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=4935)
Yezda Urfa - Boris (LP, 1975) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=2251)
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/300/1573983313782/17624.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=2251)
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Nothing, sitting in the couch contemplating on what the word retirement means.
https://loudwire.com/slayer-officially-reunite-announce-first-show/
Quote from: Thenop on February 21, 2024, 09:01:41 PMNothing, sitting in the couch contemplating on what the word retirement means.
https://loudwire.com/slayer-officially-reunite-announce-first-show/
guess the money was too much for Tom to turn down.
that or he was green with envy that Kerry was carrying on without him
Bruce Dickinson's Mandrake project. Found it 'somewhere'. Based on his previous solo outings and maiden output, this is exactly what you would expect it sounds like. Less Maiden, no double solos, and more instruments than just guitars. His won version of Eternity Has Failed (IM did a reworking of it, it was his song) sounds very good. Less pumped up, it flows a lot better.
I suppose the guitar tone is the biggest difference.
I like it though, his previous solo albums aren't bad either.
New Judas Priest single sounds like it's 1977 :o
I had a quick listen to the Today is Yesterday album, with Alex 'guesting' on 6 tracks (and Robbie Krieger on some as well). I struggle to label tihs 'progressive', find the music mediocre and a subpar set of vocals completes the picture. Here's how they advertise themselves:
Today Was Yesterday writes adventurous and smart pop-rock spiritually aligned with NIN, Japan and David Sylvian, Genesis and Peter Gabriel, Tears For Fears, Led Zeppelin, Steely Dan, and Rush. Its first album features intricate but catchy compositions replete with thrilling virtuosic musical passages, art-rock soundscapes, and meticulous production. Lyrically and conceptually, Today Was Yesterday specialize in the type of metaphorical and poetic lyrics favored by artists such as Genesis, Peter Gabriel, and Rush.
I am sure they aspire to all of this, but a husky voice does not make for a David Sylvian comparison alone. I happen to be quite fond of Sylvian's musical outings and fail to see any resemblence, spiritually (whatever that may mean) or otherwise.
Anyway, moving on, there's plenty of fantastic new music besides this.
Ace Frehley - 10,000 volts. Gonzoid riffs and whacked-out vocals from the spaceman. Fun!
Quote from: David L on February 25, 2024, 11:16:21 PMAce Frehley - 10,000 volts. Gonzoid riffs and whacked-out vocals from the spaceman. Fun!
It's a fun album, all of the Spaceman albums are fun. The funniest thing about this one is maybe the media campaign intended or not. We see Youtube videos of Ace buying a new printer, Ace doing grocery shopping, signing autographs. He must be aware he's being filmed,but he just doesn't seem to care.
He is showing off his new girlfriend in the Cherry Medicine video:
You make me feel better
When you're in your black leather
Cathedral - The Last Spire
Drifting Sun - Planet Junkie (LP, 2019) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=63351)
BC (https://driftingsun.bandcamp.com/album/planet-junkie), SPO (https://open.spotify.com/album/252UsTNcQVjrHQHe5jtitN)
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/300/1706023315464/47016.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=63351)
Anekdoten - Gravity (LP, 2003) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=2761) WHITE VINYL
BC (https://anekdoten.bandcamp.com/album/gravity), SPO (https://open.spotify.com/album/21xOBykUoraF3QARnWB9DZ)
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/300/1571591271448/1727.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=2761)
Drifting Sun - Forsaken Innocence (LP, 2021) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=73208)
BC (https://driftingsun.bandcamp.com/album/forsaken-innocence), SPO (https://open.spotify.com/album/2wQxcYwJwxVSbkXHrktiXt)
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/300/1701383344206/50788.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=73208)
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Drifting Sun - Twilight (LP, 2017) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=54869)
BC (https://driftingsun.bandcamp.com/album/twilight), SPO (https://open.spotify.com/album/0ryjrlp1DhDsJ29waxJJuK)
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/300/1701383375766/44974.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=54869)
It's fun playing Rush albums in order as I continue to read Geddy Lee's autobiography. As with the debut I also love these next 2 albums.
Rush - Fly By Night (LP, 1975) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=3068) SECTOR 1 BOXSET CD
SPO (https://open.spotify.com/album/3ZtICWkqezf0bBTUwY1Khe)
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/300/1571588404170/18468.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=3068)
Rush - Caress Of Steel (LP, 1975) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=3069) SECTOR 1 BOXSET CD
SPO (https://open.spotify.com/album/3U3iBmoTag1wxENqHq2ZqF)
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/300/1657206425971/21544.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=3069)
Marillion - Marbles (LP, 2004) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=5506)
SPO (https://open.spotify.com/album/6N1YMrQifhHLD4Bmqry5CT)
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/300/1676585899791/3464.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=5506)
Nine Skies - Sweetheart Grips (LP, 2019) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=63672)
BC (https://nineskies.bandcamp.com/album/sweetheart-grips), SPO (https://open.spotify.com/album/0Bd2mWAv5T7sGflOp6Ek26)
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Cheap Trick - The Collection
David Gilmour - Live in Gdansk
It's the Ozrics Lotus Unfolding again
Galahad - Year Zero (LP, 2002) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=419)
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/300/1572199930231/11026.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=419)
Mystery - Beneath the Veil of Winter's Face (LP, 2007) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=14928)
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The Icicle Works - The Small Price of a Bicycle
The Icicle Works - If You want to defeat your enemy sing his song
Sting Ten Summoners Tale
Todd Rundgren State
Alexis Korner - Musically Rich And Famous
Manuel Göttsching
E2-E4
Todd Rundgren - Back to the Bars. Bit of an opportunity missed in the era of the massive double live album, I think.
Porcupine Tree - Lightbulb Sun
probably their best album
Quote from: Slim on March 01, 2024, 02:01:12 PMTodd Rundgren - Back to the Bars. Bit of an opportunity missed in the era of the massive double live album, I think.
Lovely album that...
Church of Misery - Master of Brutality
Sass Jordan - From Dusk Til Dawn
Sass Jordan - Hot Gossip
swoon
Ihsahn - Ihsahn
White Willow - Ignis Fatuus
Rush - Clockwork Angels
Cocteau Twins - Four-Calendar Cafe
David Sylvian - Secrets of the Beehive
Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden
Collage - Over and Out (LP, 2022) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=74228)
4.5 stars, SPO (https://open.spotify.com/album/5IeR2SFqJAkFH7GEZKQcvV)
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/300/1671641351303/51403.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=74228)
Collage - Moonshine (LP, 1994) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=227)
4 stars
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/300/1571605847142/1405.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=227)
Mystery - Beneath the Veil of Winter's Face (LP, 2007) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=14928) WHITE VINYL
SPO (https://open.spotify.com/album/5NkJLlNU55KqABcXWIWIcB)
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/300/1571600506596/4114.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=14928)
Steven Wilson - The Harmony Codex (LP, 2023) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=81910) ORANGE VINYL
SPO (https://open.spotify.com/album/0qEIPJU8WQdXpr3eIc6dHK)
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Snarky Puppy - Culcha Vulcha
Rush - Hold Your Fire
OK Charles Berthoud, play Turn The Page and sing!
Thought not!
Comedy of Errors - Time Machine (LP, 2022) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=76452)
BC (https://comedyoferrors.bandcamp.com/album/time-machine), SPO (https://open.spotify.com/album/3xpYSoGhGmFoBFHJaDGJEp)
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/300/1668026692044/53033.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=76452)
Rush - 2112 (LP, 1976) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=3070) SECTOR 1 BOXSET CD
SPO (https://open.spotify.com/album/3eBrvZnagmIDbdgse7cjI6)
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/300/1701383614897/21200.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=3070)
Gungfly - Friendship (LP, 2018) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=58041) VINYL
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/300/1659464604046/45919.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=58041)
Rush - A Farewell To Kings (LP, 1977) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=3072) VINYL
SPO (https://open.spotify.com/album/18i33u5FvfvgHjZMulpyO2)
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/300/1571592420616/18486.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=3072)
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Devil Doll - The Girl who Was... Death (LP, 1989) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=259)
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Quote from: pxr5 on March 07, 2024, 04:02:16 PMDevil Doll - The Girl who Was... Death (LP, 1989) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=259)
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Title taken from an old
The Prisoner episode. There's also a Corduroy tune of the same name.
Bjorn Riis - Forever Comes To An End
Fish - Field Of Crows
Fishbone - Give A Monkey a Brain and He'll swear he's the center of The Universe
has to be one of the best (and longest) album titles ever
Quote from: pdw1 on March 07, 2024, 09:21:02 PMFishbone - Give A Monkey a Brain and He'll swear he's the center of The Universe
has to be one of the best (and longest) album titles ever
There's an entire genre (Post Rock) in which a subgroup does this: create loooong album titles, or even (with instrumental music) have long song titles interconnect from song to song to form a story. Red Sparowes is a good example, they have an album called
Every Red Heart Shines Toward the Red SunWith tracks:
1.The Great Leap Forward Poured Down Upon Us One Day Like a Mighty Storm, Suddenly and Furiously Blinding Our Senses 06:59
2. We Stood Transfixed in Blank Devotion as Our Leader Spoke to Us, Looking Down On Our Mute Faces With a Great, Raging, and Unseeing Eye 08:54
3.Like the Howling Glory of the Darkest Winds, This Voice Was Thunderous and the Words Holy, Tangling Their Way Around Our Hearts and Clutching Our Innocent Awe 10:07
4.A Message of Avarice Rained Down Upon Us and Carried Us Away Into False Dreams of Endless Riches 07:11
5.Annihilate the Sparrow, That Stealer of Seed, and Our Harvests Will Abound; We Will Watch Our Wealth Flood In 08:43
6.And by Our Own Hand Did Every Last Bird Lie Silent in Their Puddles, the Air Barren of Song as the Clouds Drifted Away... 01:42
7.Millions Starved and We Became Skinnier and Skinnier, While Our Leaders Became Fatter and Fatter 09:54
8.Finally, as That Blazing Sun Shone Down Upon Us, Did We Know That True Enemy Was the Voice of Blind Idolatry... 08:03
Three Kast Iron Klassiks of their genre:
Rainbow - Rising
Gentle Giant - Octopus
Helloween - Keeper of the Seven Keys: Part I
Oscar Peterson Trio - Con Alma, Live in Lugano 1964
Church of Misery - Houses of the Unholy
Pendragon - Fly High Fall Far (LP, 1984) (https://awesomeprog.com/releases/8894) VINYL
Magnum - Magnum II (LP, 1979) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=11455) VINYL
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/300/1573540982198/13013.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=11455)
Rush - Hemispheres (LP, 1978) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=3073) VINYL
SPO (https://open.spotify.com/album/2vrM9ltjKIvNg3nkwXoJuc)
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/300/1571589143833/18476.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=3073)
The Flower Kings - Back in the World of Adventures (LP, 1995) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=364) VINYL
4.5 stars, SPO (https://open.spotify.com/album/3jniFRM3SaMFOQ4EGbyEQT)
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Church of Misery - Thy Kingdom Scum
Rush - Permanent Waves (LP, 1980) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=3075) VINYL
SPO (https://open.spotify.com/album/3nUNxSh2szhmN7iifAKv5i)
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/300/1571599959643/21199.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=3075)
The Flower Kings - Retropolis (LP, 1996) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=365) VINYL
4 stars, SPO (https://open.spotify.com/album/2HcojZz0atBsMWrGxSSHx3)
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/300/1687206241636/5988.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=365)
Drifting Sun - Planet Junkie (LP, 2019) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=63351)
BC (https://driftingsun.bandcamp.com/album/planet-junkie), SPO (https://open.spotify.com/album/252UsTNcQVjrHQHe5jtitN)
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/300/1706023315464/47016.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=63351)
Drifting Sun - Twilight (LP, 2017) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=54869)
BC (https://driftingsun.bandcamp.com/album/twilight), SPO (https://open.spotify.com/album/0ryjrlp1DhDsJ29waxJJuK)
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/300/1701383375766/44974.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=54869)
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Another brilliant album from Drifting Sun:
Drifting Sun - On the Rebound (LP, 1998) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=48091)
BC (https://driftingsun.bandcamp.com/album/on-the-rebound), SPO (https://open.spotify.com/album/7wt6akbaRd5HHIPyMPU8uy)
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/300/1701383498010/42400.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=48091)
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E2-E4
Manuel Göttsching
Bad Season - Above
just brilliant
Quote from: pdw1 on March 14, 2024, 06:12:15 PMBad Season - Above
just brilliant
That is a brilliant typo. As is the album of course.
Jethro Tull - The Chateau d'Hérouville Sessions 1972
Devin Townsend - Lightwork
Quote from: Nickslikk2112 on March 16, 2024, 08:45:09 PMJethro Tull - The Chateau d'Hérouville Sessions 1972
Devin Townsend - Lightwork
What's that Tull like? Any good?
Stranglers. Dark Matters
Quote from: Thenop on March 17, 2024, 06:00:11 AMQuote from: Nickslikk2112 on March 16, 2024, 08:45:09 PMJethro Tull - The Chateau d'Hérouville Sessions 1972
Devin Townsend - Lightwork
What's that Tull like? Any good?
Not bad. Obviously a work in progress, but very listenable.
Cinderella - Long Cold Winter
A couple of new LPs today:
Big Big Train - The Likes of Us (LP, 2024) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=83042)
BC (https://insideoutmusic.bandcamp.com/album/the-likes-of-us), SPO (https://open.spotify.com/album/3zjmvbCAxUJ4iXKDLvp9hK)
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/300/1702682121500/67511.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=83042)
Galahad - The Long Goodbye (LP, 2023) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=81558)
4.5 stars, BC (https://galahad1.bandcamp.com/album/the-long-goodbye), SPO (https://open.spotify.com/album/04qrGX5HIteDnpUN2JaISK)
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/300/1692221964183/65324.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=81558)
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Listened to Camel's Rain Dances while out on a bike yesterday. I quite enjoyed it but I think it's the sound, and the way the mid '70s zeitgeist comes across more than anything. In truth there's not a particularly good tune on it.
Sounds quite Supertrampish in parts. Very bland. Underproduced, as well.
Quote from: Slim on March 19, 2024, 10:16:15 AMListened to Camel's Rain Dances while out on a bike yesterday. I quite enjoyed it but I think it's the sound, and the way the mid '70s zeitgeist comes across more than anything. In truth there's not a particularly good tune on it.
Sounds quite Supertrampish in parts. Very bland. Underproduced, as well.
I think that is a fair assessment. I like listening to it on the car, but not really so much at home. There are more albums like that, usually the more concept-ish ones that do that for me. This feels like a concept album, maybe that's it for me.
Drifting Sun - Drifting Sun (LP, 1996) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=48090)
SPO (https://open.spotify.com/album/7kGRvBO7du7NlB6Agnt1uE)
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/300/1683014279215/42399.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=48090)
Southern Empire - Civilisation (LP, 2018) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=57526)
BC (https://southernempire-gep.bandcamp.com/album/civilisation), SPO (https://open.spotify.com/album/0pAL8vc6E8NpJo6ACQeRa1)
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/300/1685630876806/45715.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=57526)
Beardfish - Sleeping in Traffic: Part One (LP, 2007) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=15205)
5 stars, SPO (https://open.spotify.com/album/7E037NToIhvQDGWw1bfRzq)
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/300/1571663159465/564.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=15205)
Drifting Sun - Trip the Life Fantastic (LP, 2015) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=48092)
BC (https://driftingsun.bandcamp.com/album/trip-the-life-fantastic), SPO (https://open.spotify.com/album/53HeTLCQR7JYlLCTppvjzT)
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/300/1701383467646/42401.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=48092)
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PFM Photos of Ghosts
Clearlight - Symphony
Drifting Sun - Safe Asylum (LP, 2016) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=51906)
BC (https://driftingsun.bandcamp.com/album/safe-asylum-2), SPO (https://open.spotify.com/album/4h6qS13NYVG2ZKU7ASPWEY)
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/300/1701383417602/43693.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=51906)
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Bruce Springsteen - The Ghost of Tom Joad
Genesis - Foxtrot
Genesis - Selling England by the Pound
Judas Priest - Invincible Shield
Wytch Hazel - II: Sojourn (Clear/Deep Purple splatter vinyl)
Brilliant album this - like a mad cross between Hawkwind and Killing Joke:
Slift - Ilion (LP, 2024) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=83568)
BC (https://slift.bandcamp.com/album/ilion), SPO (https://open.spotify.com/album/13eFPkUHYAhYQ7uSSm9It3)
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/300/1697535403622/66371.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=83568)
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Quote from: pxr5 on March 25, 2024, 10:01:59 AMBrilliant album this - like a mad cross between Hawkwind and Killing Joke:
Slift - Ilion (LP, 2024) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=83568)
BC (https://slift.bandcamp.com/album/ilion), SPO (https://open.spotify.com/album/13eFPkUHYAhYQ7uSSm9It3)
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/300/1697535403622/66371.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=83568)
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Agreed, Slift is a great band
Clutch - Clutch
Clutch - Earth Rocker
Quote from: Nickslikk2112 on March 26, 2024, 03:17:47 PMClutch - Clutch
Clutch - Earth Rocker
Time to get down to business type of music.
10cc - Deceptive Bends
Paul Personne - Dedicaces Vol 1
Had the decorators in today so I had to keep the hifi volume a lot lower than normal, so decided to play all the Nine Skies albums. I truly love this band - they hit my musical nerve perfectly:
Nine Skies - Return Home (LP, 2017) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=56647)
BC (https://nineskies.bandcamp.com/album/return-home), SPO (https://open.spotify.com/album/27a05La8Af82PHBJ1XsKtc)
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/200/1682743924310/45247.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=56647)
Nine Skies - Sweetheart Grips (LP, 2019) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=63672)
BC (https://nineskies.bandcamp.com/album/sweetheart-grips), SPO (https://open.spotify.com/album/0Bd2mWAv5T7sGflOp6Ek26)
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/200/1682527467878/56440.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=63672)
Nine Skies - 5.20 (LP, 2021) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=72616)
BC (https://nineskies.bandcamp.com/album/520), SPO (https://open.spotify.com/album/75IG7P2jVihtoeFSbUpWHe)
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/200/1704896213970/50224.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=72616)
Nine Skies - The Lightmaker (LP, 2023) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=81323)
5 stars, BC (https://nineskies.bandcamp.com/album/the-lightmaker), SPO (https://open.spotify.com/album/4SnIrEeezHS7ym98yirsjD)
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/200/1688656975246/64671.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=81323)
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Also their live album:
Live @ Prog En Beauce
Billy Cobham - Spectrum
And a cassette recording of Whitesnake I made at Reading in 1980
Quote from: Nickslikk2112 on March 28, 2024, 02:54:15 PMBilly Cobham - Spectrum
And a cassette recording of Whitesnake I made at Reading in 1980
Cobham great.. whitesnake not so much..
Last night I listened to Talk Talk's 'The Spirit of Eden'. For some reason I became interested in the lyrics and using Google I landed on genius.com.
This is a good site that not only provides lyrics to tracks but also provides info on the track itself including subject, inspiration,influenes etc. The site also allows for comments.
Whilst listening to the track 'I Believe In You', I dived into a bit of an interesting rabbit hole. The track is about heroin addiction, more specifically the addiction that Mark Hollis's older brother, Ed, found himself consumed by in the '80s. A link on the genius site leads to a bio of Ed who was a mover and shaker in the music industry in the late '70s early '80s. Although not a musician, he started out as manager of Eddie & The Hot Rods. Probably true to say, without Ed there would be no Talk Talk. I found his tragic story somewhat fascinating and, of course, Mark's demise was similarly tragic.
https://onlyrockandroll.london/2017/03/15/too-much-too-soon-ed-hollis-and-speedball-records/
Quote from: David L on March 28, 2024, 08:15:04 PMLast night I listened to Talk Talk's 'The Spirit of Eden'. For some reason I became interested in the lyrics and using Google I landed on genius.com.
This is a good site that not only provides lyrics to tracks but also provides info on the track itself including subject, inspiration,influenes etc. The site also allows for comments.
Whilst listening to the track 'I Believe In You', I dived into a bit of an interesting rabbit hole. The track is about heroin addiction, more specifically the addiction that Mark Hollis's older brother, Ed, found himself consumed by in the '80s. A link on the genius site leads to a bio of Ed who was a mover and shaker in the music industry in the late '70s early '80s. Although not a musician, he started out as manager of Eddie & The Hot Rods. Probably true to say, without Ed there would be no Talk Talk. I found his tragic story somewhat fascinating and, of course, Mark's demise was similarly tragic.
https://onlyrockandroll.london/2017/03/15/too-much-too-soon-ed-hollis-and-speedball-records/
I find the whole Hollis saga fascinating. I have 'a perfect silence', the biography and have read selected parts. Hollis' disappearance from the public eye, his behavior in the studio, such a complex character. But the music and recording techniques were so far advanced, really extraordinary.
Will read up on the rest and actually read the book...
Riverside - Out of Myself
Judas Priest - Sad Wings of Destiny
Wytch Hazel - IV: Sacrament
Rush - Live in YYZ 1981
Max Webster - A Million Vacations
Rick Miller - One Of The Many (LP, 2024) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=83638)
BC (https://rickmiller.bandcamp.com/album/one-of-the-many)
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/200/1706688366426/68937.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=83638)
Anekdoten - A Time of Day (LP, 2007) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=15102)
BC (https://anekdoten.bandcamp.com/album/a-time-of-day), SPO (https://open.spotify.com/album/098pib2SjV04xePXqowt0Y)
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/200/1571591275008/1702.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=15102)
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Colosseum - Valentyne Suite
Talking Heads - Remain in Light
Adrian Belew. e
Coheed and Cambria - In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3
Evership - Evership (LP, 2016) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=52988)
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/400/1657729200478/43944.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=52988)
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First of two 'Vinyl Nights' this week. We were treated to a '70s classic rock filler between two slices of hair metal.
Exreme - Pornograffitti
Deep Purple - Burn
Mr Big - Lean Into It
John Paul Jones - The Thunderthief
Rubber Tea - Infusion (LP, 2020) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=69827)
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Lynyrd Skynyrd - One More from the Road
Riverside - Second Life Syndrome
Rubber Tea - From A Fading World (LP, 2023) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=82935)
BC (https://rubbertea.bandcamp.com/album/from-a-fading-world), SPO (https://open.spotify.com/album/7fR8DQpJD32bQRI4eTISZX)
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/400/1701447001235/66588.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=82935)
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Punky Brüster - Cooked on Phonics
The Sea Within - The Sea Within (LP, 2018) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=59385)
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/400/1571737826185/45590.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=59385)
IQ - Dark Matter (LP, 2004) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=5459)
SPO (https://open.spotify.com/album/3AKi7RG8om7ma2nUO1SvSn)
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/400/1676584668544/20891.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=5459)
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Playing some new vinyl today. The 2018 remix PF press is quite spectacular:
Pure Reason Revolution - Above Cirrus (LP, 2022) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=74740)
BC (https://purereasonrevolution.bandcamp.com/album/above-cirrus), SPO (https://open.spotify.com/album/18QmmOwcTZugATzOCDCmv8)
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/400/1656966922140/51861.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=74740)
Pink Floyd - Animals (LP, 1977) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=1442)
SPO (https://open.spotify.com/album/21jUB9RqplD6OqtsTjKBnO)
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/400/1571589148525/21530.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=1442)
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Coheed and Cambria - Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness
Arena - Contagion (LP, 2003) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=2002)
SPO (https://open.spotify.com/album/72vvxbU11X5XXDgdW6pJ31)
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/400/1571700399994/9123.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=2002)
Pure Reason Revolution - The Dark Third (LP, 2006) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=11810)
BC (https://purereasonrevolution.bandcamp.com/album/the-dark-third-2020-remaster), SPO (https://open.spotify.com/album/4ijk02bZgFVyexq2bYzpL1)
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/400/1676634056999/21185.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=11810)
Big Big Train - The Likes of Us (LP, 2024) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=83042)
BC (https://insideoutmusic.bandcamp.com/album/the-likes-of-us), SPO (https://open.spotify.com/album/3zjmvbCAxUJ4iXKDLvp9hK)
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/400/1702682121500/67511.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=83042)
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Todd Rundgren
Something/Anything
Ulcerate - Stare Into Death and Be Still. A lump of technical death metal that is hard to swallow. I like it:-) All this in preparation for their newest: Cutting the Throat of God that will release in 2 months time.
Lots of Thunder..a band I missed out on, strange how good bands can go under your personal radar.
Amplifier - The Octopus (LP, 2011) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=31791)
BC (https://amplifier.bandcamp.com/album/the-octopus-2), SPO (https://open.spotify.com/album/6zXGq7CkE3fE3hBmSrXoVD)
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/400/1682585142440/32222.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=31791)
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Slift - Ilion (LP, 2024) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=83568)
BC (https://slift.bandcamp.com/album/ilion), SPO (https://open.spotify.com/album/13eFPkUHYAhYQ7uSSm9It3)
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/400/1697535403622/66371.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=83568)
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Spell - Tragic Magic
Riverside - Rapid Eye Movement
Who's next
Never ceases to amaze. For me, The Who only have 3 essential records...but they're so essential, it elevates time to one of the all time greats...
Quote from: captainkurtz on April 13, 2024, 11:04:06 PMWho's next
Never ceases to amaze. For me, The Who only have 3 essential records...but they're so essential, it elevates time to one of the all time greats...
I was going to work my way through the studio discography earlier this year but decided to do Kiss instead. I think I'll start it now. I've just bought Pete Townsend's autobiography last week so it'll tie in nicely.
Quote from: Slim on April 14, 2024, 12:29:50 PMQuote from: captainkurtz on April 13, 2024, 11:04:06 PMWho's next
Never ceases to amaze. For me, The Who only have 3 essential records...but they're so essential, it elevates time to one of the all time greats...
I was going to work my way through the studio discography earlier this year but decided to do Kiss instead. I think I'll start it now. I've just bought Pete Townsend's autobiography last week so it'll tie in nicely.
Sounds like a great plan. I always found the Who to be band that made the 60s to 70s transition the best.
Let's find out!
Quote from: Thenop on April 14, 2024, 12:38:38 PMSounds like a great plan. I always found the Who to be band that made the 60s to 70s transition the best.
Let's find out!
Yes! They'd morphed seamlessly from mods to rockers by 1968, with a cursory nod to psychedelia along the way.
Fluisteraars - De Kronieken van het verdwenen Kasteel - Nergena
Dutch Black metal, fantastic. My favourite of theirs is "Bloem" (Flower) with a cover of a poppy in bloom on the cover. They write songs about where they live (which is where we always go on holiday, so I can relate a little bit), what once was and maybe still is. Oh and everything is in Dutch :-) The one I am listening to now translates to "the Chronicles of the Lost Castles".
I suppose you have to like metal in general, and this specific niche in particular to be able to appreciate it. The good thing is: it is not Satanic in any way (which is a bit childish), there is no corpsepaint, burning candles and animal skulls. It's 2 guys making music.
Quote from: Slim on April 14, 2024, 12:29:50 PMQuote from: captainkurtz on April 13, 2024, 11:04:06 PMWho's next
Never ceases to amaze. For me, The Who only have 3 essential records...but they're so essential, it elevates time to one of the all time greats...
I was going to work my way through the studio discography earlier this year but decided to do Kiss instead. I think I'll start it now. I've just bought Pete Townsend's autobiography last week so it'll tie in nicely.
(https://i.postimg.cc/j57SqxJJ/IMG-1150.avif)
I can't resist a nice print - this arrived last week - 2 x A2 size signed prints to commemorate their recent Albert Hall Teenage Cancer Trust gigs. The quality of the printing is really quite beautiful, its almost like a proper painting, rather than something that has been knocked out from a laser printer...
All proceeds to Teenage Cancer Trust as well, which was an added incentive / bonus.
Gets the wife approval, which is nice. Getting them framed up this week...
Slift - Ummon (LP, 2020) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=83567)
BC (https://slift.bandcamp.com/album/ummon), SPO (https://open.spotify.com/album/0mDB0OdwVTHh6cb70Fcdxq)
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/400/1705101974844/47952.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=83567)
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PG plays live. Released after the 4th studio album this is Peter at his brilliant best for me. Brilliant live album not only due to the fantastic material on offer
The Who - My Generation (accompanied by Slim's insightful notes).
I've never heard it before but the last track 'The Ox' really highlights the fact that Moon's previous band was 'surf-rock' act The Beachcombers (source: Qobuz - 'artist notes')
This Winter Machine - A Tower of Clocks (LP, 2019) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=61896)
SPO (https://open.spotify.com/album/6Dm1C2bvbHDFdVrf0oMRZz)
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/400/1572904505842/47246.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=61896)
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Motorpsycho - the Tower
Have 4 lined up for tomorrow:
new Pearl Jam (low expectations)
new High on Fire (I know what I am going to get from these modern day Motorheads)
https://highonfire.bandcamp.com/album/cometh-the-storm
new Dool (which I KNOW will be awesome, 1 of the best Dutch bands around)
https://dool.bandcamp.com/album/the-shape-of-fluidity
new Dvne (high expectations) Bandcamp blurb: Dvne is a 5-piece metal band from Edinburgh, UK. Taking influences from a myriad of genres including post metal, doom, and progressive rock. Combining fierce riffs and melodic textures, Dvne travels an epic dark sci-fi universe with hints of psychedelia. Long live the Kwisatz Haderach.
https://songs-of-arrakis.bandcamp.com/album/voidkind
Marillion - All One Tonight
Riverside - Anno Domini High Definition
Boston - Don't Look Back
AC/DC - Live
Shows how essential Rudd is...the tempo on the classics is much too fast..
Rush - Clockwork Angels
Galahad - Year Zero (LP, 2002) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=419)
SPO (https://open.spotify.com/album/6MAcq6Q9J7lm5TlMApmom9)
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/400/1709241532918/11026.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=419)
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Riverside - ID.Entity (LP, 2023) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=76976)
4.5 stars, BC (https://insideoutmusic.bandcamp.com/album/id-entity-bonus-tracks-edition-24-bit-hd), SPO (https://open.spotify.com/album/5IwfPBHpdtll3jSrGG2XxC)
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/400/1666357262879/53198.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=76976)
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Todd Rundgren The Individualist
Galahad - The Last Great Adventurer (LP, 2022) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=76500)
BC (https://galahad1.bandcamp.com/album/the-last-great-adventurer), SPO (https://open.spotify.com/album/0ndg0X3AaPfO65lxWl8ILG)
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/400/1686689387102/52847.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=76500)
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Judas Priest - Sin After Sin (LP, 1977) (https://awesomeprog.com/releases/19793)
SPO (https://open.spotify.com/album/2GXeHOkRouW0LnKBMUnVtv)
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/400/1657229042950/19793.jpg) (https://awesomeprog.com/releases/19793)
Porcupine Tree - In Absentia (LP, 2002) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=1995)
Prog-Adj Rock, 5 stars, BC (https://kscopemusic.bandcamp.com/album/in-absentia-remastered), SPO (https://open.spotify.com/album/2dAYkfqPYzOTDNxDDVP2vi)
(https://srv.progfreak.com/api/album-art/400/1657206666734/21184.jpg) (https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=1995)
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The Ghosts of Pripryat - Steve Rothery
Wouldn't be into instrumental albums as a whole but absolutely love this
Per Wiberg - The Serpent's Here
Devin Townsend - Infinity (25th Anniversary)
King Crimson - Cat Food 10" EP
Dvne - Voidkind. Not a typo, it's with a V. Sort of progressive doom band with the ever so often death metal growl. Killer album.
And Inter Arma's new one: New Heaven. As expected not for the faint of heart but oh so satisfying a listen.
Was a metal night except for Sonny Rollins' live at the Village Vanguard complete sessions. Made a start, what a fantastic listen!
Blue Murder
Marillion - Marbles
released 20 years ago this week
Quote from: pdw1 on April 28, 2024, 01:13:55 PMMarillion - Marbles
released 20 years ago this week
Maybe my favourite Marillion album.
Quote from: Thenop on April 28, 2024, 01:32:05 PMQuote from: pdw1 on April 28, 2024, 01:13:55 PMMarillion - Marbles
released 20 years ago this week
Maybe my favourite Marillion album.
probably their best