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Fantastic. Thanks for making this happen.

Good attitude at least. This was on the heels of a disappointing gig cancellation in Birmingham.

<3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 forever for the exquisite, powerful and dangerous In Extremis. This album bundles up everything I love about music into a neat package with a bow on top.

I'm in the RIO crowd, but I really like a lot of neo-prog. Not a big Hogarth fan. I can't count how many times I've tried to like Brave and utterly failed. Marbles isn't a keystone album for me, but...

I never listened to this album until last year. I was really shocked at how much I liked it, since none of the Hogarth era had appealed to me very much. Marbles is mellow and nocturnal, but not...

Harry, You're a Beast - The Mothers of Invention

VOCAL - 2112. Priests is super-human. Really, the breadth of approaches he takes in all ranges of his voice on the first side is huge. This album is also the last time he drew on traditional...

Don't Want to Wait Anymore - The Tubes

I guess I need more 15s. It's so personal.

Enid Six Pieces Eng 1979
Genesis Nursery Cryme Eng 1971
Gentle Giant The Power and the Glory Eng 1974
Happy the Man Happy the Man USA 1977 ...

Just heard Vaisseau Monde for the first time this week. Outrageously great.

A hearty salute to you, John. Your contribution to the continuing vitality and legacy of my favorite music does not go unnoticed. Prog fans are largely introverted, fastidous and suspicious. They'll...

Thank you!!! Sus was probably my favorite 2019 album. Impressive on first listen and my appreciation and love for it just kept growing.

Don't miss the RIO Fest videos they posted too....

I know what you mean. One thing to note - make sure you're not listening to the horrid 90s remix, which is almost impossible to escape as the original mix hasn't been available for some time. In...

This album is a progressive rock atom bomb and sends me into torrents of hyperbole. Gustavson is totally magisterial as composer, vocalist and keyboardist. Like Holdsworth later, Gustavson invents an...

But there really is a younger group of fans. They are TOTALLY tuned into everything Steven Wilson, Opeth, Anathema and King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard have done just like the old guys really liked...

I like the couplet pattern, especially when you consider how much Peart's lyrics obsess with dualities. But I see the first two eras in 4's, marked off by All the Worlds a Stage and Exit Stage Left...

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If Gnosis was the only game in town, I would say it's a problem, but I've come to a place where I'm pretty glad Gnosis has taken the form it has. If you're looking for a larger sample set of...

I've made an attempt before up to about half way through the first verse. I was never satisfied I was getting it right with the chord voicings and what I was coming up with was really awkward to play...

Thanks. I'll give it a try.

Right. I tried in vain to find the ones from those years.

Anybody have Tom's Gagliarchives Top 100 charts from past years?

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The Spirit of Eden is the only perfect rock album. A soul of unique depth and vision.

Lots in The Enid. Try Humouresque from Touch Me.

Yes, and nothing called "rock" has started to approach that kind of application.

Would "arithmetic rock" be a better name for what's under discussion here?

As much as that's meant to be a joke, it really is amusing how awestruck people get at the "mathematical complexity" of music. Adding, subtracting, multiplication and division are generally all...

It's interesting what he says about four sections.

At the time, didn't Brett or somebody actually provide a "map" with titles and time marks for the different sections of mei?

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Well, those are my personal two biggest fascinations. At one time I might have said I had an understanding of them, but I don't make such claims these days.

I don't have any problem with Weston...

Great, thoughtful comments on this thread. I agree that mei deserves a place among the key progressive rock concept albums. But there are a couple of things that keep it from being desert island...

Don’t get him started on William Schuman. :p

Never heard of Picking Bones. Sounds interesting.

I agree that Tom Hyatt's bass playing adds a lot to the band's music. It's a shame he's not on mei.

I'm also a fan of early Paul Ramsey. Up through As the World his playing is so inventive. He...

Any fans of the Still/Always Almost era?

"While I Was Away" is one of my favorite Echolyn-related songs. I've still never heard the Still album.

Despite being presented as a quantitative comparison of music genres, I found the article very to be a very vague and confusing what's-hot-what's-not piece. Treating rock and metal as segregated...

A band's ability to convey optimism without making me puke is rare and prized. That's what early Echolyn has for me that I can find almost nowhere else.

Post-As the World, there's a constant...

Zappa made the same kind of comments about working with orchestras, even getting frustrated with the ultra-meticulous Boulez for not being as precise and (IIRC) grooving with his tuplets as he would...

In prog, the structure of a song is at least equal in importance to the melody, rhythm etc. Jazz doesn't tend to explore macrostructure in the same way as prog.

While you'll find jazz artists...

I think too many people dismiss the first album because of unpolished production and some naive material. But I never tire of the optimistic vibe and I think Kull's guitar tones on some of the songs...

I think because there's such astonishing film-making virtuosity at play, there are those who kneejerk to discounting 2001's content on that basis. A little like when virtuosity and instrumental...

A few months ago, I watched 2001 for the first time in years. I can't critique this film objectively from a distance. From the beginning up to the pod/Hal sequences is a perfectly paced ratcheting of...

Yep. That was me too. The only way they ever would have made it to Tulsa, OK.

I think it's significant that Bernstein's spirit was there at the very beginning of progressive rock, inspiring two of prog's most distinctive cover versions - The Nice's "America" (1968) and Yes'...

Just stumbled across this and just skimmed through it. A little tinny sounding but amazing musicianship. A little wackiness and a couple covers as well.

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I too think Wetton has a hard time on this album. His singing is strained, flat in places (last verse of 30 Years) and he doesn't quite grasp the rhythmic flow at the beginning of Mental Medication...

I think of UK as transitional. Particularly Jobson's big poly-synth chords, which (I think) directly influenced the approach of Mark Kelly, Martin Orford, Rik Carter et al. Remember Marillion's first...

The oboe synth/mellotron strings interlude in the middle of both verses is to me the most magical thing he ever did.

Fugazi's my favorite Marillion album, and I was a Marillion fanatic after getting addicted to Script. But Fugazi was such a huge leap forward musically. The lyrics are remorselessly dark. The synth...

Serious question. Is that line actually a direct reference to cricket lingo?

I've seen somebody state the release date March 25, 1978. Can anybody substantiate this?

Anyhow, happy birthday to the capstone (headstone?) of 70s British prog.

My first choice out of the whole list would be "No One at the Bridge." What a beautiful song. It should have been a major Rush live anthem.

Which is really the quintessential proto-Djent song, right?

I'm honored my band got to be on the Progday stage the year Happy the Man played. This track is transcendental and inspiring. Thanks so much for the love and work you've put into it Frank Wyatt.

I've listened to it quite a bit.

My favorite tune is "Forks." Really a blissful listening experience that shows what they're best at.

The most proggy tune to me isn't "Remind me" but the...

I listened through the EP for the first time last night. Very cool chord changes and arrangements. No need for a lyric sheet. He has to be the most clearly enunciating singer ever.

Wow, to me the 1980 Musica/Lyceum video Phil is about the most powerful rock singing there is. Dance on a Volcano is so good during that era that I'm always a little disappointed when I put on Trick...

The end of Supper's Ready was lowered during the Selling England tour, and maybe for part of the Foxtrot tour.

I believe it's the same way with Karn Evil 9 First Impression on Welcome Back My...

You know what I'd like to see? David Longdon, Nick d'Virgilio, Steve Hackett, Tony Banks and Mike Rutherford. Those guys could put on a good Genesis show with all stops pulled. Longdon and d'Virgilio...

That's hilarious because, no kidding, good Stilton may be my favorite food period. I always ask for some for Christmas and thankfully my in-laws never fail to comply.