What albums did you listen to today?

MESSHUGAH - 'I' (special edition LP)
MAGMA - Udu Wudu
RICK WAKEMAN - Live At Hammersmith

.....and my sister's requests (since I'm cleaning up her neglected vinyl accumulation, numbering close to 200, which haven't seen the light of day for around 2 decades......) :
REAL LIFE - Heartland (at least this 80's Synth-Pop slab was produced by Steve Hillage !! )
HAIRCUT 100 - Paint And Paint (funky New-Wave with some great brass arrangements and excellent Bass playing from Les Nemes - also a handful of genuinely listenable songs......)
Currently about to spin AKASHA - S/T (a return to my world).

Edited by Tom Ozric - April 04 2015 at 05:37

Sylvium - Waiting for the Noise

Meltdowner wrote: Aussie-Byrd-Brother wrote: Glass Hammer – Perilous Steve Roach – Bloodmoon Rising: Night 3 It's the next one I'll listen from them: how is it? I received the e-mail but didn't listen to it, is it better than the previous one?

`Perilous' is pretty damn good, Sam, but I was discussing it with Tom Ozric a few hours ago, and I find Jon Davison's voice gets a little too high-pitched and annoying in a few spots for my liking! The album seems awfully long as well, although it's still a single CD, so I don't think it can be much longer than the previous two Davison-led discs. But I definitely prefer those. After you mentioned `Cor Cordium' the other day, it reminded me that Id never given that as much of a listen as the previous `If' one, and it really is superb. OK, so vocal section of `Salvation Station' is a bit cheesy, but the instrumental bits are still kick-ass. `Nothing Box' is a knockout, one of my absolute favourite Hammer tracks. Sadly I think I relate to the lyric a bit too much on that one as well!

As for the Roach one, I think you may want to stay away from it. It's even less eventful than the previous one, looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong sections where not much happens at all (for like ten or fifteen minutes at a time), and when it starts to become a bit more psychedelic/drowsy, etc, it's just `more of the same' that has appeared on his last few albums. I wrote a very fairly rubbish 3 star review for it, I do like it and found it immersive, but he's released far superior works than this one. If it was half the length it would be much better. 73 minutes of nothing much happening really tests the friendship!

By all means grab that free download, because I'd be interested to see how long you last!

I haven't listened to King Crimson in a while, so today went like this, so far.

King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King
King Crimson - In the Wake of Poseidon
King Crimson - Lizard
King Crimson - Islands
King Crimson - Lark's Tongues in Aspic
King Crimson - Starless and Bible Black
King Crimson - Red
King Crimson - Discpline
King Crimson - Beat
King Crimson - Three of a Perfect Pair

to be continued...

STEVEN WILSON - The Raven That Refused To Sing
...........and this came after I spun KAJAGOOGOO's White Feather album for my sister. And I gotta say that Nick Beggs was already a pretty wicked bassist at this stage. Limahl was pretty cool, I must confess

Aussie-Byrd-Brother wrote: P.F.M – Miss Baker (urgh, 1987 studio album, awful smooth AOR with show-pony singing, but the playing is still great) Vangelis – Heaven and Hell - Some of the choir gets a little exhausting, but there is such a beautiful passage with Jon Anderson that closes the first side, and some of the flip-side is really intense and warped!

The ugly cover is enough reason for me to stay away from it What do you think of Passpartù?

It has some uninspired parts, but the others are really emotional, so I can forgive the uninspired ones

Today:
Alpha Wave Movement - Terra
Eela Craig - Virgin Oiland
Latte e Miele - Passio Secundum Mattheum
Alrune Rod - s/t
Johannes Schmoelling - Early Beginnings



Edited by Meltdowner - April 05 2015 at 15:26

Awe man. So much to comment on from the last 2 pages of this awesome thread, but I guess the really shocking thing that jumped out at me is that Tom Ozric listens to Meshuggha?
Damn that's awesome. :)
(Michael) that Jon Anderson vocal passage in heaven and hell gets me every time dude. One of his finest moments.
David (Guldbamsen) thank you for being you. Lol but seriously if that "mountain" album by Morse is just another rain dance in sola scriptura land then I probably need not to explore that album, even though I find sola scriptura bloody awesome.
All in all. Happy Easter to all of you.

Easter weekend....

Marillion-- seasons end
Dave Bainbridge--Celestial fire
Magenta--the 27 club
Elliot goedenthal--Alien 3 motion picture soundtrack score
Pendragon--Introducing Pendragon (disc 1)
Alan parsons project--Live versions (extended)
DELAIN-The human contradiction
Marillion--Strange engine ( that goddam Balalaika. Get out of my head! Lol)
Fields of the Nephilim-- live in Rockskild, Denmark 2000, Fallen, S/T, Elyzium and Dawnrazor
Goblin--Roller
Opeth--The watershed
Ozric Tentacles--The hidden step
Threshold--Hypothetical
Threshold--Extinct Instinct.
Arena--Songs from the lions cage
The orb--UFO ( Towers of dub. Get into that bass groove!!)

Eloy - Inside

Hey Sagi, is this the Dragon album you mean?!



I love that one! The vocals are pretty terrible, but what an album!

No no, my friend, this is a different Dragon! I think they were from Belgium? There IS an Australian Dragon band (who apparently had one or two proggier albums at the very start of their career), but they became a top-40, commercial FM radio kind of band. A staple of instore supermarket music as well!

I guess the vocals are...amateur rather than terrible! They do have a kind of dorky charm to them!

Nope, don't know that Basso one at all, recommended?