What albums did you listen to today?

A great day today:

Kansas - Leftoverture
Steve Hackett - Spectral Mornings (Mr. Hackett back on track, not a single bad track in it)
Yes - Magnification (Easily the best album since 'Going for the one', Steve Howe's guitar work is great, the orchestra sounds so much better than those 80/90's synthesizers and both epics are epic!)
Adelbert Von Deyen - Atmosphere (Amazing album, completely different from the previous albums, more joyful and original)
Dave Brubeck - Time Out
PFM - Four Holes in the Chocolate (Awesome concert, better than Cook (except for the sound quality), I don't know why they played William Tell on the ending of two songs though. I noticed that on the beggining of the sixth track they played a riff from Rush's Xanadu one year before its release, coincidence? )
IQ - The Seventh House

So far today :
YES - Heaven And Earth
MAGENTA - The Twenty-Seven Club
CARAVAN - In The Land Of Grey And Pink
HAKEN - The Mountain
BUGGLES - Adventures In Modern Recording
BIG BIG TRAIN - English Electric Part II

Nirvana - In Utero

Edited by Xonty - November 01 2014 at 18:47

Le Orme - Piccola Rapsodia Dell'Ape (still signs of life, a decent continuation of the `Florian' sound)
Man - Live at the Padget Rooms
Matching Mole - s/t, Little Red Record (The first is much better for me, fellas, which do you think is better?)
Laquesis - s/t (great modern symphonic prog)
Matthew Sweet - Altered Beast
Maelstrom - s/t
Beggars Opera - Pathfinder
Bram Stoker - Schizo-Poltergeist
Kyrie Eleison - The Fountain Beyond the Sunrise

Aussie-Byrd-Brother wrote: Wow, you've been busy, Sam! I don't entirely love `Spectral Mornings' (I hate that kind of comical vaudeville piece in the second half!), but it's better than that other one you know I don't like! Be interested to know what you think of `Defector', I discovered that I owned the LP only a few weeks ago, listened to it for the first time and found it pretty impressive! Thought you'd like `Magnification'! How great is `Give Love Each Day'?! Actually, the whole album is good beginning to end. Might give it a spin on nightshift tonight if I remember! Yeah, the William Tell thing bugged me a bit as well on that PFM show! Man, the improv sections are so good!! Less so are Goat-Boy's vocals! Naw, he's alright.... I never tire of `Atmosphere' Heading off to bed, mate, catch you soon!

I didn't dislike that Hackett song, it's a nice change on the album. I liked the oriental influences on that album, I don't know if he explored that previously.

'Magnification' is so great that I'm afraid to listen to 'Fly From Here'

I guess the "goat vocals" are an acquired taste, like Gentle Giant's vocals, it doesn't bother me much now

Today:
ELP - s/t
Tangerine Dream - Tangram (Amazing, as always )
Guru Guru - Kanguru - (It's psychedelic, it's heavy, it's funky, it's weird and it's awesome )

Sam, `Fly From Here' is pleasant, but not too special. There's a so-called multi-part epic that opens the album that is a real con, it's a couple of unrelated passages (with the exception of a reprise at the end) strung together trying to come off as an epic, but it'd hard to convince of that when there's fade-outs between most of them!

Poor Benoit David, he's the singer on it. He's a very warm vocalist in the band he was in called Mystery, but he didn't get much chance to show any real personaility on `Fly From Here'. Anyway, I hope you like the album, it's not unlistenable by any means.

My mate and I have been discussing `Tangram' quite a lot lately...I maintain that's it's very easy to listen to (and I'm going to play it on the drive home in a few minutes!), but I really feel it's a bunch of little fragments stuck together to try to bluff fans that it's two side-long epics!

Edited by Aussie-Byrd-Brother - November 01 2014 at 14:40

Aussie-Byrd-Brother wrote: I've never listened to Led Zeppelin...I kind of feel Led Zep (and probably The Doors, etc) would have been early `gateway' bands that lead into prog, but I skipped them altogether

This comment is close to blasphemy, Michael!

Yes - Relayer
Johnny Winter - Johnny Winter And
Steve Hillage - Fish Rising

Happy Family- Minimal Gods

^ That's the one. It's hideously stuck in the 80's, and with quite the worst kind of sound - but where it wins is that some of the songs are actually quite good. As dear Rick referred to it " A failed experiment ". At least 4 of the tunes (out of 8) are excellent.