Uplifting/Feel good Prog

Rockpommel's Land by Grobbschnitt was fun, in my recollection.

^Speaking of Ashra, 25+ years later, I still can't get enough of Correlations. Timeless music!

Edited by YESESIS - February 14 2018 at 16:06

YESESIS wrote: Mortte wrote: Dellinger wrote:   Now, for Zappa, I really haven't gotten into it. The recommendations given to me seem to have been good places to start... only that I usually check out new music through internet at the office while working (I got a better connection there), but I haven't given myself the time to open the fórum there and look for the thread and see the albums recommended. But I guess I really should do it... I only need to find those posts again. Hot Rats was the one highly recommended from me and also someone else to you. No more excuses to get into Zappa!  Yeah that album is very good but I slightly prefer One Size Fits All. The Grand Wazoo is obviously great as well though he might not like the For Calvin song(but Eat That Question and Blessed Relief are both REALLY good).  Dellinger, just let me know if you do try some of these Zappa albums(you certainly don't have to but I can't imagine you not liking it). And then I guess I'll try some Mike Oldfield.. I don't think I'll like it but you never know.

Now, what is it you think you won't like? The connection to The Exorcist... well, I already tried to explain the way things happened and my point of view about that one, but if you're still not convinced there's not much to do about it. You don't like the music from that bit you already know from said movie? Then that would be like judging Yes for Owner of a Lonely Heart (or Pink Floyd for Another Brick in the Wall 2, but you don't really like Floyd much anyway). However, there's a thing that might actually work against your apreciation. I have got the impression you don't really like those bands that go a bit more simple, or soft, or pop (because of your disregard to Pink Floyd), so perhaps there might be a slight similarity from Oldfield on that aproach (not that the music is really all that similar, except for the long músical passages... in the case of Oldfield his songs are mostly all instrumental... in the 70's they were totally instrumental). But come on, if you are liking the idea of side-long instrumentals, you must at least give it a fair listen (once again, perhaps not at first listen... when I checked out his songs on YouTube without paying them their fair attention they didn't really click with me, I actually had to buy the albums and listen to them with more attention. Now he's among my favourite 5 artists, and those 70's albums are among the most special pieces of music I can think of.

Edited by verslibre - February 15 2018 at 10:30

YESESIS wrote: Again thank you all for the great suggestions, I'll try to listen to as many of them as I can.  Dellinger, I just listened to all of Ommadawn(from start to finish) and it was... surprisingly good. I love that it was all instrumental and it was quite interesting. During parts of it I was thinking that it would work well for my meditation. So thank you again for the recommendation. I didn't really want to do it, but you turned out to be right.. of course.

With luck it will grow on you. The key for that álbum is, I think, the first 3 or 4 minutes... for me they are really another thing. From there you might want to keep on listening to it all. I mostly love side one... side two is a bit of a mixed bag, but 1 is so good that it makes it one of my favourite albums. Now, there's more of that among his 70's albums (his first 4 albums)... the other wonderful hook for me is in Incantation's last 4 or 5 minutes... actually, I first Heard both exceprpts from a best of álbum. The beginning of side 2 of Hergest Ridge is also very beautiful.

On the other hand, I did get on to listen to Hot Rats today... still I've got more listening to do for it to grow on me. It was actually very good... but perhaps too much like jamming, and though it might make a wonderful listening while doing other things, I'm not sure I would really love it for paying attention to it and as songs with more melody... or perhaps my problema was exactly that I was doing other things and not paying enough attention (that could, actually, be a very big problem to get into Oldfield). I go again with my live albums, but because of his jamming nature, I feel his live albums should be very good, and once again perhaps better than the studio ones. Perhaps once I give those 3 albums a fair listen I should check out wich might be his best live ones. I remember having heard on some Face-book groups some songs from Zappa... many didn't interest me, but I do remember having liked Cosmic Blues and Bobby Brown... maybe I would need to listen to them again, but I did notice those ones weren't on any of the 3 albums suggested (which actually coincide with the highest rated ones on PA).

How good i forget these: