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Joined: October 05 2013
Location: SFcaUsA
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Points: 14717
Posted: January 27 2015 at 19:55
^ I LOOOOOVE the Plat Du Jour, Clivage and Rocky's Filj. There all have extemely high ratings yet remain fairly obscure. Part of the problem with some really great music is that it was only released once on LP and has never been re-issued but many are free to hear on the net. Another album i totally dig is.....
CANZIONERE DEL LAZIO - Miradas
I've only heard a few tracks on YouTube. Only available on LP for some $$$
Joined: June 04 2012
Location: Virginia
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Points: 1413
Posted: January 27 2015 at 21:35
This fusion/funk diamond in the rough was flying so low, and blending into the terrain so well that the wise men of our brotherly Jazz Music Archives classified it as jazz-related R&B:
Barbaro - Barbaro III Chou Pahrot - Live The Gourishankar - 2nd Hands Man - Do You Like It Here Now Are You Settling In? Refugee - Refugee The Nice - Elegy The Nice - The Nice Rick Wakeman - No Earthly Connection Bram Stoker - Heavy Rock Spectacular Ethos - Open Up Nicholas Greenwood - Cold Cuts Odyssee - White Swan Runaway Totem - Andromeda The Who - By Numbers
Joined: February 01 2011
Location: Michigan
Status: Online
Points: 12660
Posted: February 03 2015 at 14:09
Perhaps it hasn't flown under the radar, seeing as it was released with much fanfare (yes, a jest), but it was savaged by the critics at the time and given such derision that many claim that this album (and the release before it, Welcome Back My Friends to the Show That Never Ends...) actually sunk the band and nearly destroyed rock music in the 70s. That album is Works, Volume 1 by ELP.
I just listened to it again for the first time in perhaps 10 or 15 years on my commute to work, and I actually enjoyed the damn thing more than I can remember doing previously, particularly the Carl Palmer side (The Enemy God Dances With the Black Spirits and L.A. Nights both are stellar -- love Joe Walsh kicking in at the end), and the 4th side containing Copeland's Fanfare for the Common Man and Pirates (Harrrr matey!). Even Greg Lake's ballads are well done pieces of pop (although Lake trying to sound sinister on Hallowed Be Thy Name is hilarious now). I was never very impressed with Keith Emerson's Piano Concerto, but it is not bad for all that -- more studious than moving, I guess.
So, do yourself a favor and give it a listen, or a relisten as the case may be. Yes, it is f**king pretentious as all hell, and a condensed version may have better served the band, but ELP certainly does pretentiousness better than any rock band in history. They are progressively pretentious, as it were.
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Joined: February 18 2004
Location: United Kingdom
Status: Offline
Points: 26108
Posted: February 03 2015 at 14:36
The Dark Elf wrote:
Perhaps it hasn't flown under the radar, seeing as it was released with much fanfare (yes, a jest), but it was savaged by the critics at the time and given such derision that many claim that this album (and the release before it, Welcome Back My Friends to the Show That Never Ends...) actually sunk the band and nearly destroyed rock music in the 70s. That album is Works, Volume 1 by ELP.
I just listened to it again for the first time in perhaps 10 or 15 years on my commute to work, and I actually enjoyed the damn thing more than I can remember doing previously, particularly the Carl Palmer side (The Enemy God Dances With the Black Spirits and L.A. Nights both are stellar -- love Joe Walsh kicking in at the end), and the 4th side containing Copeland's Fanfare for the Common Man and Pirates (Harrrr matey!). Even Greg Lake's ballads are well done pieces of pop (although Lake trying to sound sinister on Hallowed Be Thy Name is hilarious now). I was never very impressed with Keith Emerson's Piano Concerto, but it is not bad for all that -- more studious than moving, I guess.
So, do yourself a favor and give it a listen, or a relisten as the case may be. Yes, it is f**king pretentious as all hell, and a condensed version may have better served the band, but ELP certainly does pretentiousness better than any rock band in history. They are progressively pretentious, as it were.
Actually I think it was the Works Volume Two album that caused much more of a backlash ( it was effectively the rejected tracks of Volume One) and then that orchestral tour that had the trendy music critics frothing at the mouth.
Volume One made plenty of sense in bringing together separate solo projects that all heavily utilised orchestra while allowing the band to concentrate on a few killer ideas for the group side. (The original plan was to release 3 solo albums but the then head of Atlantic Records Ahmet Ertegun persuaded them against this). The track Pirates in my view is a triumph and maybe the best thing they ever did .. 13 minutes that flies by so beautifully. Fanfare is a sonic joy that pounds away at your head in a good way! Works Volume One represented the end of the band creatively. There was nowhere else to go after that. ELP done and dusted.
Joined: February 17 2012
Location: 444 Grove St RZ
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Points: 763
Posted: February 03 2015 at 22:54
One album (and I recommend everyone to listen to it):
Dreadnaught's Musica En Flagrante. It's on Amazon for cheap; the last album for Dreadnaught, it looks like (since it came out in 2004). An album I can listen to ∞ times.
And, big woo-hoo for a member here (pianoman) who created Revolving Maze from the band Involved.
Joined: July 29 2005
Location: None
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Points: 24391
Posted: February 04 2015 at 17:20
Raccoon wrote:
One album (and I recommend everyone to listen to it):
Dreadnaught's Musica En Flagrante. It's on Amazon for cheap; the last album for Dreadnaught, it looks like (since it came out in 2004). An album I can listen to ∞ times.
Dreadnaught are outstanding! We had the pleasure of seeing them perform live at ProgDay 2012, and are looking forward to their new album, which should be released later this year.
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