What albums did you listen to today?...continued

**JKL2000** · 08-14-2023

Druid - Fluid Druid
Druid - Toward the Sun
Banco - s/t (Manticore's rerecorded, Anglicized compilation)

**Dave (in MA)** · 08-14-2023

**Zeuhlmate** · 08-15-2023

Hermann Szobel - Szobel

And

**JKL2000** · 08-15-2023

Fruup - Future Legends
Renaissance - 50th Anniversary - Ashes Are Burning - An Anthology - Live In Concert (disk 1)
Djam Karet - A Sky Full of Stars for a Roof (Wow! This is one of their best albums - I somehow missed this one when it came out, which is strange for me, then I'd only listened to the album once on Bandcamp. Got the CD and it's great!)
Renaissance - 50th Anniversary - Ashes Are Burning - An Anthology - Live In Concert (disk 2)

**StarThrower** · 08-15-2023

Mike Keneally: Sluggo
The Band: Music From Big Pink 50th Anniversary Edition
The Band: s/t 50th Anniversary Edition

**Piskie** · 08-15-2023

Fruupp- Future Legends/Seven Secrets 2fer
Duty Free Area
Fred Frith -Gravity
Fit& Limo Ginnestan & As Above So Below

**Aggie87** · 08-15-2023

ProjeKct X - Heaven and Earth
David Bowie - A Reality Tour
John Zorn/George Lewis/Bill Frisell - News for Lulu
ZZ Top - Tres Hombres

**mozo-pg** · 08-15-2023

Yes - Tales

**Rick L.** · 08-16-2023

Michel Camilo - Triangulo
Rod Levitt Orchestra - Insight/Solid Ground
Bruckner - Symphony 7 (Karajan/Vienna)
Stan Kenton - City of Glass

**aith01** · 08-16-2023

Tony Banks - Soundtracks
George Clanton - Ooh Rap I Ya
Todd Rundgren - Nearly Human
Neon Indian - Vega Intl. Night School
Banco - Io Sono Nato Libero

All on vinyl, accompanied by adult beverages.

**Geoff O'Donoghue** · 08-16-2023

The Human League - Reproduction
The Human League - Travelogue
The Human League - Dare

Love their first two ground-breaking albums, and Dare is just an iconic 80s recording.

**JKL2000** · 08-16-2023

Originally Posted by aith01

Tony Banks - Soundtracks
George Clanton - Ooh Rap I Ya
Todd Rundgren - Nearly Human
Neon Indian - Vega Intl. Night School
Banco - Io Sono Nato Libero

All on vinyl, accompanied by adult beverages.

Nearly Human is probably the album I listened to the most in the '90s (and very late '80s) that wasn't Marillion or Fish. Pretty much every song is great, and it sounds perfect to me (my least favorite song is the Elvis Costello cover of "Two Little Hitlers," so I have to admit I sometimes skip it. I think the next album, "Second Wind," is ALMOST as good. Maybe a little too much Gilbert & Sullivan-type stuff, even though I like G&S and those songs. Just not so much in the context of the album.

**GuitarGeek** · 08-16-2023

Jin Hi Kim: Sargeng
Steve Roach/Vir Unis: Blood Machine
Steve Roach/Robert Logan: Second Nature
Steve Roach: The Weaving Way

Also listened to the 20th and last CD of the Grateful Dead Listen To THe River boxset. Took me forever to get around to that one.

**aith01** · 08-16-2023

Originally Posted by JKL2000

Nearly Human is probably the album I listened to the most in the '90s (and very late '80s) that wasn't Marillion or Fish. Pretty much every song is great, and it sounds perfect to me (my least favorite song is the Elvis Costello cover of "Two Little Hitlers," so I have to admit I sometimes skip it. I think the next album, "Second Wind," is ALMOST as good. Maybe a little too much Gilbert & Sullivan-type stuff, even though I like G&S and those songs. Just not so much in the context of the album.

Man, I totally agree about Nearly Human -- even down to the Elvis Costello cover, which I usually skip myself as it's also my least favorite. But every other song on there is top-notch, and the band he had with him was stellar. I didn't "discover" Todd until I was about 20, and it wasn't until a few years later when I really came to appreciate him. Nearly Human was one of the first albums of his I bought and quickly became a favorite. I must have played "The Waiting Game" a hundred times while I was at work.

That album is loaded with great tunes, and some incredible performances.

Second Wind is really good too, even if it's not quite as consistent. The strong material there is really strong though, and songs like "If I Have to be Alone", "Who's Sorry Now?", "Gaia's Eyes", and the title track are among the best that Rundgren has ever written IMO.

Over the last couple days I've been listening to his Live in Chicago '91 album, which was from the tour supporting Second Wind (I think). It also features some songs from Nearly Human, and it has killer renditions of "Real Man" and "Something to Fall Back On". The version of "Unloved Children" on there is a showstopper. Have you heard it? If not, I highly recommend it.

As a bonus, Larry Tagg (of Bourgeois Tagg) was in the band for that tour.

The album Yoyo by Bourgeois Tagg is also a must IMO.

**Digital_Man** · 08-16-2023

Since last post:

Big Big Train - Common Ground
Agusa - Hogtid
Big Big Train - Welcome to the Planet
Marillion - Season's End
Agusa -TVA
Pattern Seeking Animals - Same
Triumvirat - Illusions on a Double Dimple
Pattern Seeking Animals - Prehensile Tales
Triumvirat - Spartacus

**JKL2000** · 08-17-2023

^ Wow, great stuff!

Tonight:

Steve Hackett - Surrender of Silence
ABWH - ABWH

**Lopez** · 08-17-2023

Yesterday:

Attila - Attila

**Aggie87** · 08-17-2023

Markus Reuter - Trepanation
Porcupine Tree - Metanoia
Cassandra Wilson - Blue Light Til Dawn
John Prine - Bruised Orange

**BravadoNJ** · 08-17-2023

Squeeze- Play
Rush- Test For Echo
Styx- Pieces Of Eight

**Digital_Man** · 08-17-2023

Camel - Same
Agusa - Same

**JKL2000** · 08-18-2023

Par Lindh Project - Time Mirror

**GuitarGeek** · 08-18-2023

Grateful Dead: 13/5/73 Des Moines, Iowa second and third sets (listened to the first set yesterday)
Django Reinhardt: a bunch of stuff recorded in 1934 (not sure which boxset it came off of, I've got like three Django boxes)