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And when they dropped "Give it Back", that's where "Funny Ways" went.

Probably. I don't go for box sets, so I'm not certain. But I know it's on the Live At The Bicentennial CD- the USA '76 show at the Calderone Concert Hall.

Well, again, they didn't change setlists over the tour, with the one exception of dropping "Give it Back" and replacing it with "Funny Ways" (though actually, "Give it Back" was done on the U.S. tour...

This tour was too early for Missing Piece material. The songs they played during this tour which were left off of Fool were "Interview", "Give it Back" & "Timing". Timing included a long...

The explanation I've heard is that the room with the monitors had exaggerated the bass response. So the engineer compensated for that, possibly unwitttingly. And the result is a sound which was fine...

FWIW, Yamaha has just re-introduced a 5 CD carousel player, model #CD-C603. Their previous one (CD-C600) had been discontinued and unavailable for awhile. But they saw fit to make one available...

Thanks. I had scanned that Wikipedia page, but I didn't catch the relevant text. I probably should have read the page more closely, but there you go. And if my friend or I were familiar with Oscar...

A friend and I were talking earlier today about Yes' "It Can Happen" and he asked me if I knew what the voice was saying in the two samples buried in the song. I didn't, and he was also wondering...

Yes, it's probably true that I got spoiled by being exposed to the early albums as they were released. I started with No More Heroes, so the debut was the only one I had to backtrack on.


Ah yes,...

No, the last one that I remember spot checking (via Youtube) was Giants from 2012, and nothing persuaded me to give it a closer listen. I also remember very much disliking the modern production...

I see this post was from two weeks ago, so maybe you have these by now. But I wanted to jump in and repeat something I said long ago on the thread: I feel these are two of their three peak albums,...

Agreed that it's repetitive, but I think it's repetitive in the best way, like with Gentle Giant's "Three Friends". It builds tension as it repeats, unlike let's say, a straight playing of a tape...

Yes, both plants used the same manufacturing process gone wrong during the same time period, as OPTI.ME.S. was a PDO UK affiliate. Just like PDO UK's later CDs were no longer prone to bronzing due to...

Not Rick's fault. It's the fault of the manufacturer of those two CDs. And from your description of what happened, I'd bet money it was UK PDO, which had a well documented problem with CDs bronzing...

Consider Sheshet thirded.

The RGOF CD sounds fine; its only flaw is that "Heroes" was sourced from a cassette because that's all they had at the time. The master tape for the song was later found and used on the One Way CD...

This is my favorite Focus album. You've got to be a fan of jamming to truly appreciate it, but I'm such a fan. The unaccompanied bass and drum solos in Anonymus II prove to be too much for some, but...

Haha, no, you're not crazy. Seriously, it's a great sounding recording and both the RGOF & One Way discs sound fine. But "Heroes" on RGOF (and the reissue on Terrapin) really did sound inferior.

Yes, the CD reissue on One Way had "Heroes No More" sourced from the newly found master tape, and it sounds as good as the rest of the album.

I don't think Bruford's appearance is any recommendation here. He was simply a session drummer on this album rather than a creative contributor. To be honest, he sounds rather bored, and I bet he...

The reason *I* don't like Apocalypse isn't because there's an orchestra. It's because IMO, the orchestra doesn't integrate well with the rest of the music. To my ears, it's an oil and water mix. Some...

Ys was the one which opened my personal door to Italian Prog. I was so amazed when I heard it that I just HAD to check out others, and on and on it went. It's still a favorite.

And, yes, many...

I'm not sure it's only the U.S. LP which had that error, although that's possible. I had just gotten the impression, from reading others' experiences with this title over the years, that many people...

But that fault is on most LP copies to begin with. I *think* original U.K. Vertigo LP pressings are the only ones without this issue. My U.S. Vertigo LP certainly had it. For ages, I thought it was...

The Lines sound nice, but the debut needs to be avoided. They royally screwed up the transition from "Nothing at All" into "Why Not". Here's what happens:

1) The long final organ chord of "Nothing...

Oh, I think Ship of Memories is a fine release. To me, the only throwaway piece is the title track, which at only just under two minutes, sounds more like an outro than a song. Yes, the album sounds...

All I remember is that I hated their cover of "Eleanor Rigby". IMO it was overdone and even sounded self-conscious to my ears. Other than that, I liked this album as well as Danse Macabre for a...

Sean, thanks for including my question about the Power and the Glory single. But I'm kicking myself because halfway through the video I realized I had an even bigger question: what's the story with...

I've got one which just hit me:

What was the story was with the song "The Power and the Glory"? I've read that it was recorded under duress because the label wanted a single, and that it was then...

I'm going to join the fray and say that I also think Indelibly Stamped is a good album. However, just as the debut is unique in their discography, so is Indelibly Stamped. But it's unique for a...

I love the first album. It has a pleasant, breezy proggy feeling about it. And I've always believed that "Nothing to Show" had the potential to be a hit single, with some judicious editing and of...

I'd be very surprised if the jazz division had anything to do with it, as I'm sure Gong was considered a rock band, not a jazz band. But to debate which division of the label handled the album is...

True, but it was still released on Arista, as per the discussion. That's why I mentioned it.

Another Arista goodie: Gong's Expresso II.

I've read that Stapleton was always a voracious record collector, scouring the used bins for anything which looked like the music would be unusual, strange or inscrutable. He'd buy things he'd never...

Sounds to me like maybe that entire pressing was defective. A similar case I know of is a promo sampler of The Beatles "At the BBC" which was pressed up by EMI Uden in the Netherlands. Most copies...

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Well, sorry to inform him that my current Yamaha (different model, of course), plays that Coltrane CD just fine.

Very strange indeed. But I can't help feeling that, while unexplainable, what happened with your CD was something other than pinholes. Because of the very nature of what pinholes are and why they...

Pinholes are just tiny specks where aluminum didn't properly adhere to the substrate, and they're fixed into place by the disc's coating. Kind of like a fossil into amber. They generally don't...

A few hopefully helpful notes, from my personal experience. Some were already covered, which I want to corroborate, and some were not:


BRONZING:

The two plants which cranked out...

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Meh, I don't think that one's so great.

This one, on the other hand.......



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Thanks for this post.

I'll be passing on the trilogy, though. I've heard samples of the other two discs, and I have to say they struck me as more of the same. I mean, for me, Kyema is absolutely...

You're welcome! I don't remember where I originally read this, but I just found this recent article/tribute to the album. I didn't read the whole thing yet (it's long), but I skimmed it enough to...

I find too much silliness scattered around NWW's albums, often along with various sounds which just annoy me for some reason. However there are three which I enjoy and would recommend:


The...

Il Paese Dei Balocchi! YES! YES!

A simply beautiful album, with a real haunting feeling through it all. I don't mean haunting as in "spooky"; it's more of an atmospheric moodiness. I've always...

Yes, I think Attahk has been unfairly attahked over the years. I think it's just as good as anything that came earlier although it's certainly different. I wouldn't go so far, though, as to call it...

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I mean.... Seconded.

Thanks. :)

Love them, although they're a little inconsistent. Popular Soviet Songs, for example, I found underwhelming. Too sparse and bitty as I recall. And Garista is too silly. Juvenile, even.


BUT - on...

I could be wrong, but I was under the impression that the later Warner/Fonit pressings of the Italian prog CDs used the same masterings as the original Fonit CDs. So the Warner reissue might also...

On the original Atlantic CD, I thought it sounded like it was taken from an ever so slightly off center record. But it was slight enough that I wasn't certain I was hearing it. Sometimes I sensed it,...

My problem with "Beethoven's Revenge" isn't really the length. I just don't feel it's as musically interesting as the rest of the album. And because of that, well, no, its length doesn't help either....

It's not really a Focus album, despite being included in the Focus box. Even though some other musicians contribute, it's not a band project - it's an Akkerman/van Leer collaboration. The production,...

Yes, and although I can't remember where, I read that it was also supposed to be a sly comment on the commercialization of their music - that it was being turned into a corporate product. That means,...

How about the Tubes' The Completion Backward Principle?

BILL SPOONER - Analysis, Guitar, Vocals
VINCE WELNICK - Accounts, Keyboards, Vocals
MICHAEL COTTEN - Trend, Synthesizers
FEE WAYBILL -...

IV is also a good album... well, I mean, all of those AR & Machine albums are good... but for me, Echo rises above them all. It feels the most special.

I think Echo is his best album. It doesn't remind me of Ash Ra or Amon Duul (I or II) in the slightest. Maybe hints of Faust in parts, but this is still in its own world IMO. An astounding work.

I...

Yes, that first track on Inner Conflicts is pretty remarkable; I think you could even say it veers toward Heldon territory. It's like nothing else Cobham has ever done to my knowledge, not even on...