What albums did you listen to today?

Gentle Giant - The Power and The Glory
Procol Harum - Grand Hotel

Gentle Giant - Giant for a Day!

Capitolo 6 - Frutti Per Kagua
Catapilla - S/T
Atila - Reviure
Distorted Harmony (rediscovering this one and wow!)
Necromonkey - A Glimpse Of Possible Endings

Tuesday 22nd July 2014:

Caravan - Blind Dog at St Dunstans (really a fine Caravan album!)
Accordo dei Contrari - AdC (killer third album)
Yes - Heaven and Earth
Illusion - Out of the Mist
Finch - Glory of the Inner Force (vintage 70's instrumental PERFECTION!)

Edited by Aussie-Byrd-Brother - July 22 2014 at 15:43

Triumvirat - Illusions on a Double Dimple
Magma - Wurdah Itah (or Christian Vander if you're gonna be that guy)
Swans - The Seer (that one took a while, and it really drained me, but no regrets!)

I think I haven't been here in a little bit, so I will recap from last Sunday. ;)

The Sisters Of Mercy--Floodland
Godsmack--The Otherside
Porcupine Tree--In Absentia
Jethro Tull-- A Passion Play X7 played. :)
Mike Oldfield--Ommadawn
Arena--Contagion
APP--Pyramid
The Gathering--Mandylion
ENGINE--Superholic
Dead Can Dance--In The Realm Of A Dying Sun. (Love this record)
Fields Of The Nephilim--The Burning Plain and From Here to Gehanna
Twelfth Night--Live and Let Live. (Both discs from definitive edition)
Dream Theater--S/T
Novembers Doom--The Knowing (2010 remaster)
IQ--The Seventh House and The Road Of Bones (new album just won't die from my ears. )
Jethro Tull--Aqualung and Thick as a Brick
Rage Against the Machine--Battle Los Angelas
Riverside--Second Life Syndrome
Shamall--This is Human Behaviour. (Pretty cool album)
Dream Theater--Octavarium.

Swans - The Seer

Edited by Xonty - July 24 2014 at 15:50

This week so far:
Bo Hanson - Watership Down
Krafwerk - Techno Pop
Return to Forever - Music Magic
Ozric Tentacles - Strangeitude
Harmonium - L'Heptade

Sagichim wrote: Aussie-Byrd-Brother wrote: Finch - Glory of the Inner Force (vintage 70's instrumental PERFECTION!) You know I always had a tough time with this album, if I remember correctly as fine as that guitar player is he just doesn't stop or cools down for a second. It does has its moments but that album just tires me, if there's an album with too much soloing it's this one.

You know, Sagi, I don't find the constant soloing obnoxious on this one! I think the album is overloaded with really strong melodic passages, so it never sounds like...`guitar masturbation'! It also helps that I realy love his tone, if the guitar sound would have been like, say, something from the Ozric Tentacles, I would have put my head through the wall!

It's funny, in the CD booklet that comes with a recent reissue of all their work, the guitar player (I really should have checked his name before posting this!) mentioned how it used to annoy him (or disappoint him, can't recall the exact detail) that people used to praise how good the improvisations were on it, because he said NONE of it was improvised, every bit of it was carefully written and rehearsed! So never does it sound like aimless jamming to me. In comparison, something like the first Mahavishnu Orchestra I find quite unengaging for the same reason you stated above, even though it's well played.

OK, rambling, hope there's some sense in there!

Swans - My Father Will Guide Me A Rope To The Sky

Edited by Xonty - July 25 2014 at 16:42