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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 19 2014 at 13:38
Originally posted by presdoug presdoug wrote:

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I like a lot of early symphony recordings made by the older giants of conducting done in the 1930s-1950s. There are several dozen conductors from that era that I collect.
Clap Wonderful to hear people enjoying classical! Who is your favorite composer PD?
Anton Bruckner
Yes Bruckner is amazing. After seeing the movie Amadeus in 1984, I became enchanted with the Classics and started listening to composers alphabetically starting with Bach. I borrowed many Symphonic works from my library, some were the same symphonies but the quality of the music varied drastically. That's when I realized how important the conductor is regardless of how good the orchestra is. It's been a 30 year learning experience for me as I'm now up to Tchaikowsky!


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 19 2014 at 15:42
^Well I think it's time to Vivaldi right now Wink But I guess everyone has already listened to this:
 
 


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 19 2014 at 16:23
Originally posted by SteveG SteveG wrote:

Originally posted by presdoug presdoug wrote:

Originally posted by SteveG SteveG wrote:

Originally posted by presdoug presdoug wrote:

I like a lot of early symphony recordings made by the older giants of conducting done in the 1930s-1950s. There are several dozen conductors from that era that I collect.
Clap Wonderful to hear people enjoying classical! Who is your favorite composer PD?
Anton Bruckner
Yes Bruckner is amazing. After seeing the movie Amadeus in 1984, I became enchanted with the Classics and started listening to composers alphabetically starting with Bach. I borrowed many Symphonic works from my library, some were the same symphonies but the quality of the music varied drastically. That's when I realized how important the conductor is regardless of how good the orchestra is. It's been a 30 year learning experience for me as I'm now up to Tchaikowsky!
Hey, cool, Steve! For me, as well, it was after seeing the movie Amadeus that I became enchanted with the Classics-I saw Amadeus in the spring of 1985.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 19 2014 at 16:24
Originally posted by Rick Robson Rick Robson wrote:

^Well I think it's time to Vivaldi right now Wink But I guess everyone has already listened to this:
 
 
Right on, Ric! A wonderful recording, to say the least.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 19 2014 at 17:29
The earliest music I truly enjoy is the Beatles.  I've heard some old blues stuff that's pretty neat too, but I've never really connected with the blues in the same way.  Orchestral ("classical") composers likewise occasionally push my pleasure buttons, but I RARELY look to them for real entertainment.

I honestly think there is more great music coming out today than ever before - not prog-wise, but in more experimental forms of pop and rock.  Not because people are magically more creative now than they were before, but because so many more people have access to the means to produce their own music.  Even I have 2 albums publicly released, and I'm a nobody.  Enough people like me around and some of them are bound to be great. 


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 20 2014 at 03:46
Dire Straits, yes, take this Private Investigations piece as a nice example. When it comes to personal tastes, I actually love their whole On Every Street album. Amy Winehouse's Back to Black, perhaps? ABBA (geniuses!), Brothers Gibb sometimes, Faith No More (great band's name, innit), bits from Pet Shop Boys (surely West End Girls, but how about This Couldn't Happen Here too? Lovely, moody piece). Queen (purely progressive, symphonic Innuendo), Deep Purple (Child in Time, Perfect Stranger - sweet), Led Zeppelin (Kashmir, no need to say more) - they all might already be considered quite proggy, so maybe there is not even any need to mention them here. Pretenders. The Pretenders. Chemical Brothers, Prince by all means, why not The Smiths? Public Service Broadcasting, Goldfrapp.. It feels sometimes you may find progressive reminiscences nearly everywhere.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 20 2014 at 07:28
^Why no one have mentioned The Doors?  What an impressive style they had! Impressed also with some Jim Morrison's live performances that I watched some times. 'Strange Days' and 'When The Music Is Over' are amongst my favourites, btw I think 'Strange Days' could have fit perfectly as one of the soundtracks of that stunning film 'Pulp Fiction'  , even better than that other famous track I knew when watched this film but don't recall its name.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 20 2014 at 09:33
^No doubt the Doors were great but they are listed as Proto prog in PA, so people like me might be giving them a pass and going on to other nonlisted groups.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 20 2014 at 13:30
Originally posted by Darious Darious wrote:

Dire Straits, yes, take this Private Investigations piece as a nice example. When it comes to personal tastes, I actually love their whole On Every Street album. Amy Winehouse's Back to Black, perhaps? ABBA (geniuses!), Brothers Gibb sometimes, Faith No More (great band's name, innit), bits from Pet Shop Boys (surely West End Girls, but how about This Couldn't Happen Here too? Lovely, moody piece). Queen (purely progressive, symphonic Innuendo), Deep Purple (Child in Time, Perfect Stranger - sweet), Led Zeppelin (Kashmir, no need to say more) - they all might already be considered quite proggy, so maybe there is not even any need to mention them here. Pretenders. The Pretenders. Chemical Brothers, Prince by all means, why not The Smiths? Public Service Broadcasting, Goldfrapp.. It feels sometimes you may find progressive reminiscences nearly everywhere.
Great list Darious. No doubt a lot of our tastes run toward more proggy material, but it would not surprise me if some early rap groups are going to be mentioned also.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 20 2014 at 22:41
I have always liked the Jeff Beck group incarnations and his solo albums also......especially Rough and Ready.
Beck shreds on this and Middleton's keyboards are simply sublime.
 
 


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 20 2014 at 23:26
And this...doesn't get any better imho....
 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 21 2014 at 09:41
^Awesome! Time to start digging out my Beck collection. Thanks Doc.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 21 2014 at 11:41
I have so many different genres and styles of music that I listen to, so this is going to be impossible and never-endingLOL

I guess I can muster up a wee list of albums that I really dig from a couple of styles though:

Electronica:
Primal Scream - Screamadelica
The Future Sound Of London - Dead Cities
Orbital - In Sides
Ochre - Lemodie
Boards Of Canada - Geogaddi

60s rock:
Paul Butterfield Blues Band - East-West
Cream - Live
The Velvet Underground - White Light/White Heat
Steve Miller Band - Children Of The Future
The Stones - Get Yer Ya Ya's Out
CCR - Cosmo's Factory
Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

Funk/Soul/Bouncy Rock:
James Brown - Live at the Apollo
Funkadelic - Maggot Brain
Fela Kuti - Zombie
Sly & The Family Stone - Stand!
Stevie Wonder - Innervisions
The Temptations - 1990
Bob Marley - Exodus
The Budos Band - ll
Curtis Mayfield - Superfly

Punk/Post Punk:
The Chameleons - Script of the Bridge
The Sound - From The Lions Mouth
Dead Kennedys - Rotting Fruit & Fresh Vegetables
The Stooges - Raw Power
Chrome - Everything by them
Magazine - Real Life
The Gun Club - Miami

80s:
Gary Numan - Replicas
Siouxsie & The Banshees - Kiss In The Dreamhouse
Cocteau Twins - Victorialand
The Cure - Disintegration
Depeche Mode - Music For The Masses
The Cult - Love
The Police - Ghost in the Machine

Jazz:
Pharoah Sanders - Karma
Sun Ra - Atlantis
John Coltrane - Sun Ship
Alice Coltrane - Journey in Satchidananda
Miles - Sketches of Spain
Charles Mingus - The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady
Eric Dolphy - Out to Lunch
Albert Ayler - Vibrations

Contemporary and mixed martial arts:
Todd Terje - It's Album Time (disco made for head-phones, I kid you not!)
Boris - Pink
F*ck Buttons - Tarot Sport
Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues
Wu-Tang Clan - Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
Bohren & der Club of Gore - Sunset Mission
Type O Negative - October Rust
OM - Advaitic Songs
Crystal Castles - lll
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Before Today
Tame Impala - Lonerism
Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
GZA - Liquid Swords
Smashing Pumpkins - Adore
Burial - Untrue
Marilyn Manson - Mechanical Animals
Manu Chao - Esperanza
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 21 2014 at 12:47
I listen to more non prog than prog.  The list would be long but at the moment at the top of the list is:

Nick Cave : Bad Seeds and Birthday Party
Siouxsie Sioux
PJ Harvey
THe Ramones
Rocket From the Tombs
Throwing Muses
Neil Young

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 21 2014 at 17:48
early Alice Cooper and darly Elton John,
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 22 2014 at 08:57
Originally posted by SteveG SteveG wrote:

^Awesome! Time to start digging out my Beck collection. Thanks Doc.
 
You are welcome....saw Beck in 1974-75 (?) in Chicago with BOC opening up for him. Then around 2000 also with Santana on the same ticket. Always fun to watch him play his guitar.
 
I used to listen to a good deal of Traffic, Neil Young , Steely Dan,  Nick Drake, BOC, among many others.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 22 2014 at 10:15
^Absolutely true! Beck is one of the true "better seen live" performers that I've had the pleasure to witness in a small venue. I've had a quick chat with him about his early albums and he seems really sincere and humble, too.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 25 2014 at 11:35
  • Blind Blake
  • Robert Johnson
  • Sleepy John Estes
  • Bling Willie Johnson
  • Pink Anderson
  • Blind Willie McTell
  • Ry Cooder
  • Towns Van Zandt
  • John Prine
  • Tom Rush
  • Lucinda Williams
  • Tift Merritt
  • Mark Knopfer
  • The Flaming Lips
  • System Of a Down
  • Stevie Ray Vaughen

       That's about all for this week. Wink

 

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 28 2014 at 09:57
  • Willie Dixon
  • Brownie McGee and Sonny Terry
  • Big Bill Broonzy
  • Rev. Gary Davis
  • Muddy Waters
  • Buddy Guy
  • Death
  • Pestilence
  • Lucinda Williams
  • Willie Watson
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 23 2014 at 13:50
Originally posted by Rick Robson Rick Robson wrote:

I alway thought there are some Dire Straits songs that are pretty sensual, 'Down to the Waterline' is the one I recall right now but 'cause its my favourite of theirs, besides Sultans of Swing of course Wink
 
Oh... just listened to the lovely Dire Straits' Love Over Gold, yeah I forgot to mention it as one of my favourites of them, but especially the track from the album 'Alchemy'(that famous live concert from the year 1984) as it is rather more intensely played. Btw that show features some amazing guitar melody passages, which I dare to say are amongst my favourites - one of the major climax of that show begins for me right at the minute 9:45 of the song Tunnel of Love, when an awesome guitar melody takes the main role, beginning with a delicate arpeggios in such a romantic atmosphere! Mark Knopfler is indeed a helluva composer! And he plays even better in the live shows.
 
Unfortunately I wasn't fortunate to find it in YouTube, found only this other version of the same excerpt, but clearly doesn't equate with the above mentioned that was released in the CD 2 of the album Alchemy. Anyway it's obviously interesting to check out these two different performances of the same excerpt of Tunnel Of Love, perhaps it's just a matter of different tastes to prefer one over the other.
 
 
 


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