Not to mention dead. But then, I suppose a dead guy might well be a better vocalist than Roger these days. He sounds like Leonard Cohen with a mouth full of cotton.
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Not to mention dead. But then, I suppose a dead guy might well be a better vocalist than Roger these days. He sounds like Leonard Cohen with a mouth full of cotton.
When I want something of this sort, I usually turn to the Shemp Meditation Tape. Alas, only a sample (or is that a cample?) appears to be available online.
I agree with what you say. But it wasn't a matter of not speaking against the government; it was a matter of having voluntarily issued a statement in favor of the Uyghur genocide. I draw the line...
I have seen exactly one episode of The X-Files -- the one with the vampire pizza delivery boy -- and, while I thought it was pretty funny, I had no desire to see any more.
I've heard one track by Might Could, but it was a long time ago. I remember liking it.
Re: Three Body Problem -- I've read the original trilogy, thought they were brilliant, and will probably never reread them or read anything else by Cixin Liu.
I can usually separate a writer's...
Thank you for posting this. Mahavishnu Orchestra have always been kind of opaque to me. This short piece let me "get it."
Mick was often involved in writing the lyrics, as I understand it.
I'm not going to post it, because everybody here knows it (or should), but the outro to Cinema Show has one of the greatest 7/8 grooves imaginable.
The original Night Stalker film was written by Richard Matheson, one of the best horror writers of his generation -- as indeed was The Night Strangler.
Matheson wrote The Incredible Shrinking Man...
...not quite prog, so I put it in the Off-Topic forum...
...I present the Korean quartet, J.Una Team...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfPVAYYsDuU
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"Singularity" is a mathematical term for "a point at which a function takes an infinite value." The singularity in a black hole is the point at which the energy required to escape is infinite.
The...
Bittersweet? That final scene is just harrowing.
H'mmm. I honestly don't care for much from New World Record on. Those first albums are absolutely prime stuff though...
^^^Given that National Health were founded nine years after Martin wrote "Theme One," I think the answer -- if there's any actual influence or "borrowing" -- is obvious.
Funny...it doesn't seem to actually contain a CD version of the actual ZS&tR&FotSfM* album.
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* Say that five times fast, and then go have your head examined.
^^^ I'm pretty sure Gracie was being sarcastic there...
As Spider Robinson's cluracaun character says, "Saints dip us in preservatives."
Just finished a book "by" C.S. Lewis called On Writing. It's a Frankenbook, built out of quotes from real books, essays, and letters Lewis wrote.
Now reading James Stephen's The Crock of Gold. A...
Okay, we're losing the thread a bit here... I'm talking about good/important musicians named Steve H. (I'm pretty sure there's still at least one that I'm just not thinking of and nobody has named.)
^^^ Ummmm....no.
Vinge popularized it, starting in 1983, but the concept, including the term "singularity," go back to at least 1958, when Stanislaw Ulam reported a discussion "some time earlier"...
Drool.
...and to think it all started with a little band called Spinal Tap...
I loved A Mighty Wind, probably the best film that bunch have done. "Old Joe's Place" is the early Kingstons to a T.
Yeah, I always liked them. "A Town Called Malice" is a great tune.
RIP science fiction writer Vernor Vinge, who arguably portrayed "cyberspace" in his novella "True Names" three years before Neuromancer.
I saw that movie, kind of liked it, and have no desire ever to see it again...
I do not understand why the live discs don't actually have anything from RtF on them...
Okay, that's fair. But then, so did the Clash and the Police, to name two off the top of my head.
This year's Oscar-winning short documentary is about the musical instrument repair shop for the LA schools' music program. It's just ... wow.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xttrkgKXtZ4
If that's a full version of "Dream Nebula," I am so in...
That is -- why are there so many seriously good musicians (mostly guitarists) named Steve H?
Hackett, Howe, Hunter, Hillage, Hogarth, Harley...
There's a bit of an uncanny pattern here.
The movie named Joe that I know about is the one from 1970, with Peter Boyle. I thought it was really good at the time, but I suspect that if I saw it today I would find the Suck Fairy had been very...
Indeed -- the first time I saw the Dead was a "Day on the Green" where they opened for The Who. (A really strange pairing...) "Day on the Green" concerts, or DoGs, typically had four to six acts;...
ETA: Response to Jed above; I forgot to click "Reply With Quote."
Local car stereo shop which, like many such, has since gone OOB.
Another Steve H? I was unaware of this one...
The Who certainly do have direct descendants -- the entire English punk movement, for one thing.
As to Tommy as a/the foundation of prog -- yes, to some extent. But Days of Future Passed was two...
I finally broke down and got my current in-car sound system when one disk of a 16-disc set wouldn't come out no matter what I tried. (Well, except for putting butter in the works.) They were able to...
Now, that's a damn shame. He did a lot of good work, even if some of it offended political ideologues.
^^^ It will eventually refuse altogether. You're gonna need a new CD player. Fortunately they aren't that expensive these days...
https://youtu.be/NmPhaG1ud38?feature=shared
This makes me unreasonably happy.
Indeed .... I would certainly put X on that list, as well as the Clash. Possibly Black Flag. And -- if you count them as punk -- Green Day.
Though I imagine it's probably blasphemy to like it over Dean -- I do too, and, yes, I have the cutout edges.
I probably like it better because it's the first Gentle Giant I ever owned (or...
Keep talkin yall! This is fascinating...
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This is the cover on my old LP. Does anyone know why there's two different covers?
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He's together with Eydie again...
(Re)watched the 1991 Addams Family last night for the first time since I first saw it. I forgot how damn good it was! And great direct references to the classic Chas Addams cartoons that started the...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfuVAHECbw8
I'm pretty sure that if you look carefully the true colors will come shining through...
I heard that one too.
Gabriel's ... peculiar ... voice combined with his unique lyrics in those days lent itself to a lot of mishearing. From just the first album:
"Oh, Mother, it's eating out...
I've read a bunch of Irving, but not all -- the thing about him, I think, is that he is a cheerful existentialist, or maybe an existential humorist. Sort of like a brainier (though not quite as...
^^^That is weirdly, hypnotically beautiful.
That album reminds me of what Rossini said about Wagner: "[He] has lovely moments but awful quarters of an hour." Only, well, not awful, just ... "When are they going to get back to the good stuff?"...
Also, Godzilla Minus One didn't have people fighting for scary popcorn buckets.
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Just listening for the first time to the 2021(?) reissue of Earthbound. The sound is better than I remember the vinyl being. That was like a really poor '70s bootleg. This is like a pretty good '70s...
I've never read Midnight's Children, but I enjoyed this one far more than Satanic Verses, which is kind of a confusing mess.
Now reading: the Library of Americ reissue of Ursula K. Le Guin's...
King Crimson - Sick Morning. Apropos when one goes to a show on a work night; I have certainly called in sick after a concert...
Cannot agree. A couple of Utopia albums -- at minimum Another Live and RA -- stand with anything in his solo career.
I'm pretty sure the shopowner wasn't from a century ago, but I could be wrong. It was the seventies and he looked about 40 or so.
About a third of the way into Salman Rushdie's 2023 novel Victory City. It's e.ven weirder than The Satanic Verses. Also, much better (at least so far)
Some years ago -- less than ten, more than five -- we went on a package trip to China. (Not my choice; my father-in-law really wanted to go and paid everyone's air fare....)
One of the people on...