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Direct Link To This Post Topic: 2nd Round Moderns: Book of Horizons v. Snowtorch
    Posted: August 01 2015 at 09:35
next up.. damn... that will a hard one to choose...


in this corner.. a revelation to me courtesy of the polls.

Secret Chiefs 3 ClapClapClap



and in the far corner... one of greats out of the American progressive scene (tradtional prog division)

Phideaux ClapClapClap


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 01 2015 at 09:41
SC3 by quite a bit.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 01 2015 at 09:46
SC3 quite easily, I like Phideaux & this is a pretty good one but SC3 are a monster.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 01 2015 at 09:58
Snowtorch by a smidge.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 01 2015 at 10:19
hard vote for me...  and have been wondering.. why did we go with this SC3 album over Book M. Definitely higher rated..in PA's terms... and I noted on a lot of people's top modern album lists.

If it were Book M.. easy vote..  an out of this world album..Clap this one is harder though.. 2 merely GREAT albums.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 01 2015 at 14:27
SC3!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 01 2015 at 14:50
SC3, though Snowtoch is good as well.

I actually prefer Horizons over M slightly.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 01 2015 at 15:13
Voted for Phideaux
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 01 2015 at 15:31
Originally posted by Moogtron III Moogtron III wrote:

Voted for Phideaux


leaning toward Phideuax myself... that kind of music really isn't my stylistic cup of tea these days. It has shifted more to off-center but for what it was.. it was pretty close to perfection in my eyes. Reinforced by seeing them live at the Orion where they absolutely KILLED those songs live. Really an experience sitting right there in front of them and seeing the invest everything into those songs. Quite the experience and was in fact one of the best concerts I've seen in recent memory.

However I simply haven't heard Book of Horizons enough.. I had only just been wowed by it when Raff told me.. hey dummy.. you know we have one of their albums.. and prompty fell head over heels in love with Book M.  I need to give Book of Horizons some more listens.. and still need to order it as a matter of fact.

For the first year in many years .. really since I finished my massive search and destroy mission of purchasing RPI/Krautrock albums... I'll be hitting the album vendors at Progday hard.. and with a purpose.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 01 2015 at 18:00
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 01 2015 at 20:14
I do like Phideaux, have been enjoying a couple of their albums in recent times and this one is already a minor favourite. I confess that as I fully embrace old fartdom easy listening is becoming me. Crikey, I'll be listening to The Carpenters next. Wacko  SC3 otoh are one must admit simply wonderful. The more I listen the more I'm becoming hopelessly devoted and this album is quite simply gorgeous. Damn they are good. The playing, composition, production .... all bloody near faultless. Not overly rapt in the thankfully minimal vocals so Exterminating Angel and Hypostasis lose me to some extent but then the Owl in Daylights sucks me right back in. Book T is really something of an oddity wot ? If Dick Dale had gone Prog ?  LOL  Anthropomorphis seals the deal and Welcome to the Theatron Animatronique does nothing to dissuade me. Clap

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 01 2015 at 21:05
hey! Angry  Nothing wrong with the Carpenters man! LOL In fact we have they have a mini-fanclub here at PA's. Thumbs Up 

Yeah.. I get your point though. Easy listening prog is not normally my thing but Phideaux is quite excellent. LOL  It does scratches the itch. Chaos may be a ladder, violence a refuge, but beauty can still stir the jaded soul.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 02 2015 at 10:33
poor Raff needs a break...  ohh.. and what does she choose.. ELO!!! ClapLOL


next up will be refreshers to this poll.  Mainly for the SC3 album.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 02 2015 at 11:19
alrighty...  back to it...

going with Book of Horizons...
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 02 2015 at 11:20
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 02 2015 at 13:01
Originally posted by micky micky wrote:

Originally posted by Moogtron III Moogtron III wrote:

Voted for Phideaux


leaning toward Phideuax myself... that kind of music really isn't my stylistic cup of tea these days. It has shifted more to off-center but for what it was.. it was pretty close to perfection in my eyes. Reinforced by seeing them live at the Orion where they absolutely KILLED those songs live. Really an experience sitting right there in front of them and seeing the invest everything into those songs. Quite the experience and was in fact one of the best concerts I've seen in recent memory.

However I simply haven't heard Book of Horizons enough.. I had only just been wowed by it when Raff told me.. hey dummy.. you know we have one of their albums.. and prompty fell head over heels in love with Book M.  I need to give Book of Horizons some more listens.. and still need to order it as a matter of fact.

For the first year in many years .. really since I finished my massive search and destroy mission of purchasing RPI/Krautrock albums... I'll be hitting the album vendors at Progday hard.. and with a purpose.

Yes, hit them hard LOL
Actually, it wasn't an easy choice. Might have voted otherwise, I think today.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 02 2015 at 13:34
Snowtorch.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 02 2015 at 15:47
yeah.. a refresher listen is sort of pointing me to what I suspected.

Book of Horizons may be a great album. a real styilistic WTF'r and creative on high.. but as an album it lacks the cohesion of Book M.  Perhaps a bit too jarring in stylistic departures. Something I thought Book M pulled off more sucessfully.

Also I did a refresher to Snowtorch.  Giving BoH one more listen later but the vote is likely going to Snowtorch.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 02 2015 at 16:56
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 02 2015 at 17:44
and tying it up.... for Snowtorch.. and it had to be a damn good album to get the vote.
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