What albums did you listen to today?...continued - Progressive Rock Music Forum

Kristen Hersh - The Grotto
'Til Tuesday - Everything's Different Now
Dave Gilmour - On an Island (Best "Floyd" album since...)

Finnforest wrote:

Dave Gilmour - On an Island (Best "Floyd" album since...)

It's my favourite solo Floyd album, very heartwarming and relaxing and yet sometimes dark and isolated. It could be titled "The Pros and Cons of Living on an Island" Tongue

This weekend:

Trip Lava - Ounds (Clearly an headphones album.)

Causa Sui - Vibraciones Doradas (To remind me of the best concert I've seen this year Cool

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Porcupine Tree - Voyage 34 Phase I & II (Listening to it as separate EP's as it was originally released.)

Ooh Kristin Hersh...I love Throwing Muses' House Tornado album and The Fat Skier EP. I've never checked out her solo stuff...yet.

progbethyname wrote:

^^^^ Love Killing Joke Prog Sothoth .:)

Yeah I'm really digging them these days. Very diverse in sound...not concerning individual songs on albums since they seem to get into a particular groove and roll with it, but over the course of their discography. They sure have a lot of phases!

Killling Joke - Killing Joke: Not the classic debut, but the 2003 self-titled, and man does it get heavy. Much of the vocals are in belligerent soccer hooligan mode, but the croons come out on occasion, and "You'll Never Get to Me" is quite a beauty. Overall, though, these is one mean and even metallic affair. Punchy and awesome.

Killing Joke - Fire Dances: Quite energetic with lots of tom-hits, giving many of these songs a "tribalistic" vibe (is that even a word)? The chord progressions are really weird, draping the album with a weird vibe, almost eerie yet ironically jubilant. Unusual post-punk rock with some pop inflections but nothing close to commercial.

Aretha Franklin - Lady Soul: My wife got me this LP, released in 1968, because she deduced that my collection needed a bit more "soul". I concur, since this is amazing stuff. Not just the vocals, but the band too. I mean Eric Clapton and Bobby Womack on guitars? Damn!. The song "Niki Hoeky" is like total FUNK.

Paul McCartney - Ram: Listening to this again (this time on yellow vinyl), and I have to admit that towards the end the album does get kinda goofy. Not in the cool "Monkberry Moon Delight" way, as "The Back Seat of My Car" is a bit cringy. "Long Haired Lady" has Linda going full nasal in parts, but the rest of the song is pretty gorgeous regardless.

Lovebites - Awakening From Abyss: Mi-ya is my new favorite guitarist. The other guitarist in the band can shred like a master too, but Mi-ya does a lot of the composing, also plays the keyboards on the album, and even more importantly, her sleek feline looks are shrine-worthy. I can be so shallow at times...but hey, it's power metal! When does "deep" even matter? Goddess Mi-ya...

Jethro Tull - Stand Up
Kingston Wall - II
Aimee Mann - Lost in Space
Aimee Mann - Whatever

Lost in Space was pretty cool, but I like the atmosphere of the TT records better than Whatever.

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Great titles there, Jim. I'm in the minority with Styx faves, but I actually like Cornerstone better than the much loved Pieces of Eight. And it follows with something Dennis said once re Pieces. Dennis doesn't care for the album because he thought his tracks sucked. But he acknowledged that Tommy's were great. That's kinda how I feel about it. I like Tommy's Pieces songs but not so much Dennis'. But I think both did well on Cornerstone.

Caress!

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Yes, it has been too long since I heard Caress.

I have to admit Jim, I really have not heard any of Styx's albums after Pieces of Eight. Of course the songs on the radio after that, but that was it until earlier this year at another record show I picked up Paradise Theater which I was quite pleased with. At this last show I evidently forgot I had Paradise and picked another copy (did the same thing with Yes's Relayer last year) LOL

. I guess the memory is the 2nd thing to go, can't remember the 1rst.....

Yesterday and today:

Rush - Hemispheres

Queen - News of the World

Pink Floyd - Meddle

Paradise Theater is a killer album. The vinyl had a good hologram thingy on it, the first time I’d seen such a thing.
I remember roller skating with a girl I’d asked to hold my hand for “The Best of Times”. It kinda was. One of the few times in my life I had the guts to approach a girl.

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HolyMoly wrote:

Paradise Theater is a killer album. The vinyl had a good hologram thingy on it, the first time I’d seen such a thing.

I remember roller skating with a girl I’d asked to hold my hand for “The Best of Times”. It kinda was. One of the few times in my life I had the guts to approach a girl.

Love this, Steve. Our experiences seem to be not so far off in time and moments. I remember the first time I ever approached one of the fairers...it was also at the roller rink and I had a crush on this girl. We did the couples skate handhold thing...but for me it was to "Dog and Butterfly." I thought it was great. The only thing I remember her saying was that "the song lyrics were too mushy." LOL

Finnforest wrote:

HolyMoly wrote:

Paradise Theater is a killer album. The vinyl had a good hologram thingy on it, the first time I’d seen such a thing.

I remember roller skating with a girl I’d asked to hold my hand for “The Best of Times”. It kinda was. One of the few times in my life I had the guts to approach a girl.

Love this, Steve. Our experiences seem to be not so far off in time and moments. I remember the first time I ever approached one of the fairers...it was also at the roller rink and I had a crush on this girl. We did the couples skate handhold thing...but for me it was to "Dog and Butterfly." I thought it was great. The only thing I remember her saying was that "the song lyrics were too mushy." LOL

i did get a bit verklempt remembering that. :)
Dog and Butterfly would have my memory even better.

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Finnforest wrote:

Yup. Relaxing, engaging, emotionally-appealing. On this spin, it felt like the most emotionally-appealing work since Wish. I'm not a huge Animals fan. So while I think that The Wall is a more iconic and important and conceptually interesting, On An Island may be, for me, the most appealing work since Wish. Roger's stuff doesn't do it at all for me anymore.

I do like Endless River but think they made a huge mistake not having a bit more vocals. I love instrumental rock and understand the appeal, but they could have employed his voice just a bit more--not every track--still have lots of open space. But how do you have access to one of rock's most beautiful male voices and then not use that weapon?

Animals is a different beast (pun intended). It was the first Floyd album I was fixated on, a great transition album for someone who came from Punk Rock. I still think it has Gilmour's best guitar work, he set his guitar to kill instead of stun LOL

Roger's stuff, or The Wall for that matter, never did it for me though.

I always think it should have been fully instrumental, the end is a bit odd, it seems like something they put there to have a song to play on the radio.

This week so far:

FEM - Mutazione (Sounds like AOTY material to me!)

Urso Bardo - Vida e Morte de Dona Antónia

Cake - Fashion Nugget

Riverside - Second Live Syndrome

Porcupine Tree - Up the Downstair

Gösta Berlings Saga - Et Ex

Esfera - Plano

Alusa Fallax - Intorno Alla Mia Cattiva Educazione (I don't know why I never heard of this before. Terrific album!)

Änglagård - Hybris (I realized I listened to so many related projects but barely never listened to them.)

Jorge Palma - Asas e Penas

Camel - Rain Dances (Always a great listen.)

Casiopea - s/t

Edited by Meltdowner - November 21 2018 at 08:23

^^^^ I'll need to get Cornerstone to round out my classic Styx era, since I like Paradise (although I need to get Crystal Ball back again). Oh yeah, Jim I love the Wooden Nickel stuff, my first exposure was Styx 2 back then, then got the rest.

Past day or two:

Genesis - Nursery Cryme

Beatles - Abbey Road

Eric Claption - Journeyman

Pure 80's Hits - Various (just something fun I picked up for $1)