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Ok, it’s not really a lost 70’s album but, man, this new album could have fit in seamlessly between Contrappunti and Felona! Best new album I’ve heard by any old school band. Cracking tunes in ‘the...

The man had an idiosyncratic style. Couldn’t really sing or play, and I had no idea what he was talking about but found him a compelling artist nonetheless, at least until ‘Prima Donna’. Buddy could...

If it’s in the style of their longer Crane Wife tracks, it’s a must listen.

For me, this is one of the most heart-tugging tracks ever. Theme from a long ago blooming romance that began with a trek on snowy country trails.

The best thing I’ve heard in a few years: Mong Tong. Very original, very Asian, highly sampled psych from Taipei.

https://mongtongggb.bandcamp.com/album/tao-fire

Cockayne reminds me of those later Can albums which I had likewise avoided because they were much maligned by the prog cognoscenti. Upon later hearing them I found a lot there to be enthused about....

Writer/singer of one of the greatest songs of the past 60 years, If You Could Read My Mind. For that alone, his life is special.

This makes sense of course because the shorter you are, the less you need to ride in airplanes, drive a car, heat your home, read newspapers/books, or do your laundry. Or make sense.

I was thinking the same thing. That last item to me is botched word salad surgery.

Nothing by ‘new’ artists grabbed me much. But the Berlin school had their best year in about 40-

Klaus Schulze- Deus Arrakis, his best since X and a very worthy denouement.

TD- Raum, a similar...

It gave street cred to some of the prog purge survivors.

Energy up the wazoo.

Two words: Samurai Blue! The country is alight right now.

How do you beat Germany and Spain but lose to Costa Rica? Better ask Croatia.

I've finally decided to walk the Camino Frances (France/Spain border to Santiago De Compostela) next spring. Have any PEers done any of the caminos before? Interested in hearing your stories.

Dear Boston,

Stop it. Just stop it. Now!

Very early season observation:
Every team in the East looks either very strong or improved. Except the Bolts.

This is brilliant. As good as anything from the Timewind to X period.

Avs were deserving.

Bolts have to re-tool with a bit more speed. Not too much on the farm though since they mortgaged their first rounders until, I believe, 2040. A healthy Point will help. I want...

Yeah, it’s always the losing team that got jobbed by the refs. Weird how that happens.

Although we were getting our asses kicked in OT, and the Avs likely would have scored eventually, the play shouldn’t have counted.

The number of players Tampa had on the ice is irrelevant, as is...

You were giving me visions of - shudder - Jacques Lemaire.

I’m on board with pretty much all of this. Another approach I’d add is that of glossolalia, focusing upon the texture and timbre of the syllables and their interaction with the music rather than any...

Trap? Tampa doesn’t play a trap. Or a lock. Those are specific strategies. Too often good positional D is conflated with trapping. If they actually used a trap they wouldn’t have generated so much...

Great player who could bridge musical cultures with finesse and sensitivity. Deserves more respect. Will be missed.

Yeah, I know we’ve had those ‘Julie Andrews- Prog?’ type threads on PE in the past, where a poster tries to shoehorn anyone he/likes into the prog umbrella.

But Taylor Swift’s Evermore is actually...

Cautiously optimistic for the Bolts.

We re all waiting for news on Point but, then again, we’ve managed before without one of our big guns.

If the Bolts don’t make it, I don’t have a problem with any of the three other remaining teams hoisting the cup. If they’d lost to Toronto or Florida, that would’ve chafed. Pens, Bruins, Caps? Do not...

Tampa’s got that thing going where they just do... that... thing.

What a defense breaker by Kuch. Most clutch last 10 second player in the league.

Still, Bolts won both games in Fla last year and it turned out to be a tough series.

Battle of Alberta… what the hell was that? Did they enter a time warp that transported them all back to 1985?

The focus on apparently innocuous detail is riveting because you know that the significance will soon be revealed.

Having said that, the boxing sequence between Howard and Jimmy seemed just…...

Best ever from the Netherlands and top 5 non-UK Canterbury (including the required whimsical bits).
Loved the intricate sound fidelity on this album - a revelation to my then 15 year old ears.

The knee jerk dismissal of prog which characterized the 80s all the way to the first few years of the 2000s has itself become unfashionable.

The door opened slightly a few decades back when you...

Actually, he’s gone on record as saying his goal is to ‘liberate’ the repressed Russian majorly province of Donetsk from Ukrainian neo-nazis and thugs. See? He’s a man of peace- a humanitarian in his...

Certainly there are times when military responses are called for, I agree. If ISIS invaded your community college or Nazis took over your strata council, armed resistance might make sense. But it’s...

Is anybody actually ‘pro-war’? I mean, that’s like being pro-crime or pro-violence (or anti-environment/education). Is there any music that actually stands in favour of these?

People who lead or...

Richard Thompson- Guns Are The Tongues

Not just best ‘anti-war’ song ever but possibly the best song ever period.

Bolts beat a pretty lackluster Isles squad. Looks like the Isles could use a dose of speed.

Of course staring with 13 straight games on the road can’t help.

A strong recommendation to search out Canterbury-ish bands that didn’t come from the UK. Much of it surpasses the original stuff IMO.

One of the keys to the power play is to present your body and stick in ways that are a little contradictory. For example, body stance appears to say ‘shot’ but stick position is set for a pass. This...

I think the focus on shot blocking followed the change to more static PP formations, since if you play the pentagon style, the trigger men are more readily identifiable. Before static special teams...

San Marino trumps all.

Speaking of the PP, one thing that has changed is the lack of a will to rush or drive the net. It's all about gaining the zone and then setting up the formation.

Why? Because they practice from...

Australia knows how to win. And they seem to expect to win.

Kendra Smith is a textbook case. Went completely off the grid after releasing her excellent, and presciently titled, ‘Five Ways of Disappearing’.

Look up grit in the dictionary and there’s a photo of Goodrow.

Glad he’s going to a good home.

Collapsed under the weight of all those asterisks.

Not the most elegant of victories perhaps but our top guys were really starting to get run down. Glad the 3rd and 4th lines showed up big time!

If it had been a normal 82 game season with every team playing everybody it would have affected only about 2 or 3 of the eventual playoff teams. The vast majority would have held the same ground...

Happy ending for some!

In the same spirit, Good Vibrations. If it wasn’t so thoroughly well-known...

I don’t usually post on RIP threads but...

Thank you Jon, for making my life better through the music.

A totally unique, original artist.

I mean, we are ‘supposed’ to win but the Habs have absolutely nothing to lose and will be on a permanent high.

Bolts are a little banged up- Kuch is still hurting, Stamkos is a shell of himself...

So, Price -- Vasilievsky... goalie fight!!!

Choked 2-0 lead and now Kuch is out. Not feeling too good about the universe.

“We want Tampa!”

You got Tampa.

Ok, here's the long-winded version (from a Bolts fan).

First, there is no cap in the playoffs so nobody can be over the cap at this time.

Second, the 18 million narrative is an exaggeration as...

Some fire in the Bolts-Isles game today.

Not an auspicious opening by the Bolts. Looked like they were sitting back trying to analyze the Isles' strategy rather than actually playing.

Isles have excellent depth.

Bolts :beer

Getting out my popcorn for Bruins/Isles. Hope they beat the hell out of each other.

The Leafs and the playoffs. How do you explain it?

They go together like peanut butter and opera.