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Progosopher
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Posted: October 22 2011 at 11:09 |
Magnification is magnificent!
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The world of sound is certainly capable of infinite variety and, were our sense developed, of infinite extensions. -- George Santayana, "The Sense of Beauty"
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Fox On The Rocks
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Posted: October 22 2011 at 11:37 |
maudlin followed by PT or Kayo Dot.
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Wanorak
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Posted: October 22 2011 at 13:28 |
Marbles!!!!
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A GREAT YEAR FOR PROG!!!
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Nerdmonstro
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Posted: October 22 2011 at 19:12 |
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Luna
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Posted: October 22 2011 at 19:14 |
No vote. Too many good ones
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40footwolf
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Posted: October 23 2011 at 00:19 |
Lateralus is trailing so hard :(
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Heaven's made a cesspool of us all.
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Ivan_Melgar_M
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Posted: October 23 2011 at 00:34 |
KA
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Earendil
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Posted: October 23 2011 at 12:50 |
Lateralus, but not by much
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Logan
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Posted: October 23 2011 at 13:15 |
I have been really back into Kayo Dot after the modern band championship poll, and am voting for Choirs of the Eye over K.A. Much as I like K.A., I do find CotE a better and more satisfying album. K.A. I find lacking, cliche for a Magma fan (quite formulaic), and even quite cliche for a Prog fan generally. I finding it lacking in textures, nuance and, I don't usually this word for music, but lacking in emotion or mood, and rather dull -- feels. Unlike most, I like the "K.A II" track the most. Of modern Magma albums, I prefer E-Re by a wide margin, partially because of Christian Vander's exuberance in the "Hhai" and related part.
While I can understand the excitement of K.A.'s arrival, taken on it's own, it is to me, to use a word many hate, Magma's most overrated studio album.
Edited by Logan - October 23 2011 at 13:20
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Just a fanboy passin' through.
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petrica
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Posted: October 23 2011 at 13:24 |
Remedy Lane but Frances The Mute really close to....
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Horizons
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Posted: October 23 2011 at 13:25 |
Choirs and In Absentia would be cool to see go through.
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Crushed like a rose in the riverflow.
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AlexDOM
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Posted: October 23 2011 at 22:24 |
Really tough. I'm going to have to say Remedy Lane, but Frances the Mute is very very close.
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Gandalff
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Posted: October 24 2011 at 02:05 |
Last day to vote!
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A Elbereth Gilthoniel silivren penna míriel o menel aglar elenath! Na-chaered palan-díriel o galadhremmin ennorath, Fanuilos, le linnathon nef aear, sí nef aearon!
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Saperlipopette!
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Posted: October 24 2011 at 05:42 |
Logan wrote:
I have been really back into Kayo Dot after the modern band championship poll, and am voting for Choirs of the Eye over K.A. Much as I like K.A., I do find CotE a better and more satisfying album. K.A. I find lacking, cliche for a Magma fan (quite formulaic), and even quite cliche for a Prog fan generally. I finding it lacking in textures, nuance and, I don't usually this word for music, but lacking in emotion or mood, and rather dull -- feels. Unlike most, I like the "K.A II" track the most. Of modern Magma albums, I prefer E-Re by a wide margin, partially because of Christian Vander's exuberance in the "Hhai" and related part.
While I can understand the excitement of K.A.'s arrival, taken on it's own, it is to me, to use a word many hate, Magma's most overrated studio album. |
In full agreement with this. I find it a complete mystery that K.A actually is the highest rated, and the second most rated Magma studioalbum on PA. I have a hard time listening all the way through the third part, which has a kind of glorious finale of a christian rock opera/musical (of unaturally high quality) feel to it. Still the second best album of this lot, no doubt.
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harmonium.ro
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Posted: October 24 2011 at 06:03 |
Saperlipopette! wrote:
I find it a complete mystery |
Is it so difficult to gather that many people love it?
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Saperlipopette!
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Posted: October 24 2011 at 06:30 |
harmonium.ro wrote:
Saperlipopette! wrote:
I find it a complete mystery |
Is it so difficult to gather that many people love it?
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No, I like it just fine myself. The complete mystery is that its more popular and higher rated than the (imo) far superior Kobaïa, 1001° centigrades, Köhntarkösz and also higher rated than Mekanïk Destruktïw Kommandöh. K.A is not in my top ten of the Magma albums I own.
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harmonium.ro
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Posted: October 24 2011 at 06:33 |
^ I rephrase then, I find a mystery why you can't compute that others might like K.A more than Kobaia, MDK and others Magma albums. Surely you must know that tastes vary.
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Saperlipopette!
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Posted: October 24 2011 at 07:10 |
harmonium.ro wrote:
^ I rephrase then, I find a mystery why you
can't compute that others might like K.A more than Kobaia, MDK and
others Magma albums. Surely you must know that tastes vary.
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Don't get too hung up on the "mystery" part. I could write that its a
complete mystery to me that someone would want pineapple on their pizza
too. It doesn't mean sit and think about it while trying to solve it as a some kind of puzzle all day long. I know tastes vary, but its easier to understand that some prefer
neoprog and some are into avantprog and only rarely do they enjoy the
same artists. Its different with a band I have to assume that "we" all
love. To me K.A is more of less to MDK what Present is to Pawn Hearts . As in a solid comeback and nothing to be ashamed of. But among their best?
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harmonium.ro
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Posted: October 24 2011 at 07:12 |
^ I know it's not literally a mistery, which is why it's more effective as a figure of speech. It's quite derogatory, you know.
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digdug
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Posted: October 24 2011 at 10:06 |
In Absentia
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Prog On!
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