New Trolls moved into 'pop' and were popular in Italy in the late 70s and 80s.
Although their back catalogue is a real mix of styles. I'm quite fond of their attempt to be Soft Machine (Tempi...
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New Trolls moved into 'pop' and were popular in Italy in the late 70s and 80s.
Although their back catalogue is a real mix of styles. I'm quite fond of their attempt to be Soft Machine (Tempi...
I think I bought this from a local shop a few years back, but not sure I listened to it.
Must dig it out.
Rehearsals for the tour were postponed apparently due to illness (Brock, I believe.)
No.
I was picking up vinyl before the craze got big - and it was very affordable, all those Death Waltz soundtracks (Sadly consumed by a US company and ruined) and more (Including a weird Mike Ratledge...
I've seen people post their collection of the same album in all the different colours on Facebook and appear proud of it.
I don't get it.
I find I'm buying more CDs these days. If I want the vinyl...
Nope, it came around 140 miles from Townsend... which is based in the area I grew up in (Burnley, Lancashire). Townsend also have a shop in a nice little Lancashire town called Clitheroe, complete...
Strange, I ordered the vinyl at the weekend and it came a few days later (In the UK.)
I have a fairly large collection of horror soundtracks, especially Italian ones. I grew up obsessed with Italian horror movies (Thanks to watching some video nasties when I was a kid!)
The...
I found a copy of this on vinyl a few weeks ago. It's excellent. I have quite a few of Towns' Mask Orchestra stuff and other soundtracks he did.
I though this one reminded me of Keith Emerson sound...
Jethro Tull Christmas Album for me.
I only play it in Novemeber/December.
That reminds me, I need to book tickets for their local gig.
I don't remember Est 69 being a CDR... I think I bought it from a physical shop.
I saw them in a pub in Birmingham (UK) in the 1990s! About 20 people there.
A few years later it was in a slightly larger club in Sheffield.
I'm sure The Bad Plus did an album called Prog.
I'm just glad he didn't fall off The Ladder.
I quite like the new CD, it reminds me more of very early Strawbs than the later Prog rock or pop/rock stuff. Dave Cousins augmented with other musicians and the style is a mix of gentle stuff and a...
Heard some tracks from this and had to order it! Sounds fabulous, reminds me of the so-called 'Canterbury Sound' in places.
I listened to the Craven faults vinyl last night - very good indeed. I'm looking for to the new Penguin Cafe as well.
I think I have an album of theirs somewhere.
Instrumental stuff, I seem to recall.
No Diz Minnett, no Marillion.
Post BG, and ones I listen to regularly:
Mirror to the Sky
Ladder
KTA Studio
Fly from Here
Magnification
The Quest
H&E
I saw Pinhas in Coventry (City in the midlands) recently, in a small record shop. It was incredible!
I'm just listening to this - I agree, it's compelling.
Reminds a bit of the 'Incredible String Band' or Robin Williamson's solo stuff.
Hardly.
They did 5 albums before Lambert joined, 6 before Cronk and Lambert was gone by the end of 1970s. They failed to carry on without Dave C...
This is Dave's response on his Facebook page.
CLARIFICATION OF INACCURATE MISINFORMATION
There has been many recent posts on Facebook pages relating to Strawbs that are inaccurate, ill-informed,...
I second Henry's comments. I liked The Quest, but felt after 4 tracks it just ran out of steam. I've been listening to this new one constantly since it arrived and I love it for all the reasons Henry...
Behind the 'glittering' façade of the pleasure beach and arcades, Blackpool is very deprived with a lot of social problems.
As soon as us Brits could get flights to the sun in the 1970s we fled to...
I've listened to it three or four times this morning while working. When it finishes I'm quite happy to go back to the start and listen again.
I really like it. Living out their Dream is the track I...
My Green vinyl came this morning! Just spinning it now. So far really enjoying it.
I grew up near Blackpool in the 1970s and 1980s.
I wouldn't swim there.
In fact, I wouldn't even breath the foul vomit, urine and chip fat infested air there.
Weston Super Mare doesn't even have...
I haven't seen a Wimpy in the UK for decades. Apparently there are some, but I have no idea where. Probably in grim coastal towns.
The one in my home town (A small town in Lancashire called Nelson)...
Final show... Dave Cousins has a weakened immune system and has to stay away from crowds.
He posted a message about it on Facebook recently.
This album looks interesting, but I wonder if it has...
Brilliant!
Ian should do a version of the whole back catalogue in this style.
And then re-record Under Wraps with the 1976 lineup.
I bought that box set during lockdown (I bought a lot of box sets while were confined to the house!). It's got some great stuff on it.
Well worth getting (If you can find it.)
Yes, that bit... for some reason I was thinking of 'Assassing' when I heard it, and then the guitar picking afterwards is very Marillion.
I don't mind the song overall, like the opening.
Sounds OK, but reminds me a lot of Marillion.
I was a similar age when Union came out and had just discovered Yes and listened to CttE and Fragile all day. (As a younger kid I remembered the 'hit' in the 1980s but didn't like it much, and it was...
I've had a listen to the whole lot - I'm quite surprised, it's pretty good and quite different to Zealot Gene.
Wolf Unchained is a great song, and other bits sound a bit folk-y in places. Sort of...
I'm just giving Zealot Gene a blast after not listening to it for a while. I quite like it, pretty decent. I'm looking forward to the new one. I'm just not sure if I've ordered it, or where I ordered...
Bloody hell! Me too now!
When I saw Tull do an Xmas show a few years back, Ian didn't sing on Solstice Bells at all, and I've seen recent clips where the new guitarist sings quite a few lines on some songs.
I saw him last year as part 'Dr Hook featuring Dennis Locorriere'. I knew there was something familiar about him.
They were excellent, and I was quite surprised as the size of venue DL was playing -...
There's a new track out, at least on Apple music. It's called Hammer on Hammer. Quite like it, rockier than the stuff on Zealot Gene.
I just found a second hand copy of the UK pressing in a local record shop (For 8 pounds). I quite enjoyed listening to it.
At the end of side 2, though, there's a weird a burst of random music...
I was going to book tickets for Birmingham, and the last time I looked it was almost sold out.
I saw them last year at the same venue and it was pretty much full.
I thought it was OK, nothing special, and I didn't find it memorable. I liked the instrumental sections, and the bass sounded nice and rumbly.
Reminded me of Tormato.
I liked The Quest (And some of...
I bought an album by a reformed Gracious! that had very dodgy vocals. Musically it was OK, though.
Totally agree on the Nephilim, I also love their album called Nephelim. When they split the rest went on to form Rubicon which I saw a few times as a support band. Did some of them end up in the Eden...
I quite like it as well. I certainly prefer it over anything by Yes-West, Union and Open Your Eyes. Both those latter two are putrid. I remember buying Union when it came out - it was the first new...
I agree. I saw them on the last tour they did before Ian 'retired' the name and thoroughly enjoyed it, mainly because the band rocked, especially Barre.
I saw them do one of their Xmas gigs a year...
Yeah, I have it somewhere. Not sure where. It's not something I really want to listen to again - from what I remember it had a lot of instrumentals that sound like the sort of cheesy orchestral stuff...
Grocer Jack was a hit, and its follow up was a minor hit - similarly cheesy. The two songs were part of a "Teenage Opera" that Mark Wirtz wanted to do, but everyone lost interest in it after the 2nd...
I'm sure he had cancer a few years ago as well.
I got into the Strawbs in the 1990s when I was a student, and very little of their back catalogue was available on CD and the band was no longer a...
I always liked both of these LPs, although for some reason I only have the longs on CD (But both of them on vinyl, which I found recently in a local record shop.) The cassettes I had years ago have...
You won't get much for it.
Amazon were selling the Quest box for 18 pounds recently, and I just got the Art Book edition for 11 pounds!
Lol, some hilarious comments.
Quite like the new tune. Nice opening with a bit of a jangly jazzy keyboard thing going on.
Just like the seventies, then! :-)
That, and better artwork. The front cover of ZG makes me want to puke!
Very sad news indeed. Been listening to The Specials all morning, I absolutely love the Encore album they did a few years back.
I received this today (UK) from a marketplace seller, although it is my local HMV for a somewhat eye-watering price.
I've listened to the remixed album and really enjoyed it. Sounds quite a lot...
Suzi Quatro? She was huge in the UK during the seventies along with Sweet, MUD and all the other glam rock bands.