Everyone rising to defend the honor of GuP. I guess I’ll just say the fault must be mine, but I’m unrepentant.
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Everyone rising to defend the honor of GuP. I guess I’ll just say the fault must be mine, but I’m unrepentant.
I missed this! Scrambling for credit card now…
Asylum — Supertramp
All this love has got me listening to PW, first time in a long while. It is much better than I remembered — I had mentally lumped it in with the lastingly lame GuP.
Thanks for lending your...
Give It Away — Hackett
Disclaimer aside, this is a very nice list of partly-familiar stuff. Between that and the copious love for CmfA, enough for a days-long binge!
I guess HYF is the apotheosis of this synth-heavy phase. I don’t mind it, though the only real standout track is “Time Stand Still” which is basically a guitar-driven power-pop song, just made...
More awesomeness from Rael! (I love this one, even above aTotT.)
Somewhere around the middle of their output, after Signals, Rush… kind of lost me. I think I mostly get Hold Your Fire, and I enjoy Roll the Bones, but beyond that I’m scratching my head and hovering...
What a year this one was! For both old bands and new.
It’s worth going through this thread just to watch Nogbad keep having to add more favorites…
Really enjoying the Motorpsycho and...
I hope the last couple years have been kinder to Nad. On Hackett’s 2019 tour he looked aged and unwell.
Distance Over Time — Dream Theater
In the Countryside — Moon Safari
Wow, you really like the “travelogue” songs. I was just bemused that there are one or two on every album.
Huh, I can see Fear Of Music as a kind of prototype or ancestor, but that’s as far as I’d go. The repetition on Discipline is sinuous and variable; on Remain in Light it’s gloriously hypnotic; on...
Just listened to the Bandcamp sample. Marotta still sounds great, and the interplay of acoustic and feedback is interesting.
In the end, though, it’s sad dad music with a world veneer.
I have also come to despise Waters, but this paints with too broad a brush. The Wall and even The Final Cut were much more personal than political. Any judgement that disparages “Mother”, “Hey You”...
God’s Monkey — Fripp and Sylvian
Makes sense, thanks.
What is the division of labor in Haken? Henshall solo is worth an occasional listen; I haven’t heard Jennings alone.
Well said, you made me want to like it; but then I listened again and I just can’t.
I thought their appeal is letting you fool yourself and think, yeah, my musical taste is so great, it is just blowing these noobs away! Take that noobs!
That’s weird. That show came to Chicago in October 2019. I have a review somewhere.
I do love some Percy Jones… For non-completists (also non-NYers), where would you start?
:up: :up:
Bumping The Art of Bleeding, there’s now a Progatron review.
https://www.progressiveears.org/forum/showthread.php/27323-The-Watch-New-Album-The-Art-of-Bleeding
Listen to “Live To Tell” or even “Crazy for You”, and you’ll hear exactly what I mean.
Compare with “Glow of the Night” or “Take Take Me Home”.
Calling All Stations
Ooo, instant credibility for picking “Duchess”.
“You Might Recall” is quite nice. Not special to me, but has a fresh sound from before Collins, Banks and Madonna invented the “serious/mysterious”...
What a weird way to do “Jigsaw” (which is to my mind the one first-rate song on the album).
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Not that that’s a bad thing!
This is sensible, but I want to offer a defense of The Wall. Progress is more valuable when it leads to something worth building on; consolidation of earlier gains, if you will. The Wall is less...
This.
Also agree with enjoying “We Do What We’re Told” (even though it turns out the Milgram “experiment” was a sham).
“Mercy Street” is beautiful, would be awesome except for the irritation...
Oh, the Grim was just getting started…
I guess I mostly like Judas for the lyrics. Which, on listening again, I think are my biggest problem with Seen Better Days: “yes, I am another BBT song about our Tolkienesque decline from the...
“Seen Better Days” in particular? I never thought of that as a standout track, compared to Judas/Rebreather/Butterflies.
Curious which songs you think the current incarnation has improved. “Pictures of a City” I think Toronto live surpasses the studio version. But I’m not sure what else I’d put on that list.
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Well said. There's nothing like the harsh grandeur of early Djam Karet to draw out anger, like draining venom.
I took "comfort" to mean, when I lack the energy to put on anything unfamiliar or...
It seems like everybody (except Garden Dreamer!) only has room in their heart for one or two IQ albums. Mine is Dark Matter. Yes, "Harvest of Souls" is essentially derivative, but its execution is...
It took me a while to see what you meant, then I heard the end of "Hypnotique". It's so much a Crimson pastiche, it almost has to be deliberate. Nicely done though.
This, though my enjoyment of the first side is kind of lukewarm. It's pop, but not excellent pop, and the sound isn't great. Despite the production, the second side is sheer excellence; I guess...
This is indeed great stuff -- thanks for pointing it out!
I had not even known this existed, thanks! Listening to some on YouTube now; it is, erm, hairy. (If you're looking for sweet melodic guitars, look elsewhere.) But enjoyable.
Because we Yan!
So clearly true, and yet so hard to pin down precisely. Take the end of the long instrumental middle of "An Island in the Darkness" (11:53), which is a very nice moment. I think early Genesis would...
Nicely produced too, with that open clean sound. The instruments are somewhat muted to let the voice take center stage, but for "The Birds" it's done subtly and meshes really well.
It wasn't meant as satire, but it might have been the product of a confused brain. Now you've got me listening to this stuff again, trying to decide. Some is better than I remembered (Chrome Black...
Nice Googling :up
Though you're right, the compositions are imaginative and obviously skillful. I just take exception to the twee, folksier-than-thou vocals which undermine the whole experience.
:lol Made my day, thanks!
Cheers to Nogbad for stepping up. "You can't fight something with nothing," and while Hand.Cannot.Erase. and The Mountain are known quantities, they're certainly not nothing.
It seems to me,...
Well, that was the whole collaborative thing (e.g., the Crimsons with Bruford). Zappa didn't really do collaboration.
And did you know you once had a sister?
Strictly speaking, it's two words.
Fairly or not, this is what defined Zappa in the wider culture. Bad-tempered and vulgar semi-comedic commentary laced with highly eclectic music. If, like me, you were too young to remember Hot...
Some fraction of the crowd (10%?) are people who think they like Genesis because they fondly remember Invisible Touch. Just think, they are helping keep the Hackett tour solvent.
I'd always choose Duke over Three, mostly because the latter is lacking organic development or flow. It's like the keyboards have serious anger management issues (which might actually have been...
Can you compare it with his earlier stuff? I loved Foucault's Pendulum, and read Eco faithfully for a while, but gave up after 3-4 disappointments.
Yes, that was a surprise. Once you've been told, you can kind of play it back mentally, but I would never have figured it out.
Now that's dedication. I also saw this last fall when it came through. Some scattered observations:
-- near the start, they did 3 cuts off Edge of Light. Hackett introduced these by saying he...