Gnidrolog albums
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Topic: Gnidrolog albums
Posted By: el böthy
Subject: Gnidrolog albums
Date Posted: January 07 2007 at 14:43
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I just got Lady Lake, and think its excellent, long time have I wanted to get hold of Gnidrolog and finally I have this wonderful album. Which is your favorite?
------------- "You want me to play what, Robert?" 
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Posted By: eugene
Date Posted: January 07 2007 at 14:48
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I do not know Gnosis, but first two are excellent. Can't say which one is better - say one year ago I was totally in love with Lady Lake and the first one seemed to me less brilliant. However lately I tend to prefer the first one, so it's really difficult to choose here - both are Great!!! ------------- carefulwiththataxe |
Posted By: Mikerinos
Date Posted: January 07 2007 at 15:26
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Depends when you ask me, but right now I'd say Lady Lake. Both are different, yet excellent, 4.5 star albums. Don't have Gnosis, but I doubt it's as good as their '72 albums. ------------- 
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Posted By: Spacemac
Date Posted: January 07 2007 at 16:21
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Posted By: Rocktopus
Date Posted: January 07 2007 at 16:33
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Have and love both, but still Toe Nail! By far. Its darker, more complex and more aggressive, if you like that. But also more medieval/folk sounding. Never really warmed up to I Could Never be a Soldier. ------------- Over land and under ashes In the sunlight, see - it flashes Find a fly and eat his eye But don't believe in me Don't believe in me Don't believe in me |
Posted By: Fassbinder
Date Posted: January 07 2007 at 16:35
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I know nothing about Gnosis, but I have both In Spite of Harry's Toe-nail and Lady Lake on one disc (2-in-1 edition). Both albums are superb, it is just impossible for me to choose any of them as a favourite. Both are favourites, or, if you want, the whole disc with two albums on it is a favourite. Can't vote.
I would like, however, to acquaint myself with those obscure bonus tracks of In Spite of Harry's Toe-nail (they don't appear on 2-in-1 edition disc) as well as with the live 1972 album...
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Posted By: eugene
Date Posted: January 07 2007 at 16:38
Can tell you with all my love to their two albums, these bonus track are of so awful quality, that I have to skip them all the time to avoid spoiling pleasure of listening to the main material.
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Fassbinder wrote:Posted By: Fassbinder
Date Posted: January 07 2007 at 16:43
Well, that's sad.
BTW, how do you pronounce the name of the band?
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Posted By: eugene
Date Posted: January 07 2007 at 16:52
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Гнидролог - sounds perfectly surrealistic to me ------------- carefulwiththataxe |
Posted By: Fassbinder
Date Posted: January 07 2007 at 17:00
Where is the stress -- at the ultimate syllable or at the penultimate one? People are always in shock when I tell them about this band. It reminds them (and me too) of "nit"... Something like a "nit specialist"...
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Posted By: Prog-jester
Date Posted: January 07 2007 at 17:07
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gnidrolOg - that's how I pronounce it I like LADY LAKE more.Got it from NotAProghead, thanks a lot, Zhenya!!! 
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Posted By: eugene
Date Posted: January 07 2007 at 17:10
Emphasis on penultimate syllable - makes it sounds exactly like that - brilliant. When I told my Russian friend that I got aquainted with gnidrolog he fell laughing. By the way Wobbler also sounds quite funny to slavonic ears - Во бля ! - just perfect.
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Posted By: eugene
Date Posted: January 07 2007 at 17:13
no-no, it sounds too much like catalogue, I prefer it the other way round.
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Posted By: Fassbinder
Date Posted: January 07 2007 at 17:16
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The question is -- whether the Goldring brothers themselves know how their band's name sounds to Slavic ears?
As for Wobbler -- for me it's either eater or catcher of вобла...
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Posted By: Fassbinder
Date Posted: January 07 2007 at 17:18
| I also prefer [gnidrolOg]. [gnidrOlog] sounds like a profession... |
Posted By: eugene
Date Posted: January 07 2007 at 17:20
Do not know for sure but they could well have known...
Why catcher or eater - just вобла - great name for a band as well.
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Posted By: eugene
Date Posted: January 07 2007 at 17:23
like a professor of secret ancient science of gnidrology... ------------- carefulwiththataxe |
Posted By: Fassbinder
Date Posted: January 07 2007 at 17:25
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Posted By: eugene
Date Posted: January 07 2007 at 17:33
But some pronounce "mister" as [mista] and "wobbler" as [wobla],
But we are hijacking this thread with our philological exercises... ------------- carefulwiththataxe |
Posted By: Fassbinder
Date Posted: January 07 2007 at 17:41
Anyway, Gnidrolog is an incredible group, and, still, I would like at least to listen to their live 1972 album.
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Posted By: Publius84
Date Posted: January 07 2007 at 17:42
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Lady Lake ------------- I know what I like and I like what I know... Prog is in my heart, in my mind, in my soul... |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: January 08 2007 at 04:08
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Lady Lake is definitely more accessible, but ISOHTN is ultimately more rewarding (and if you search for the right version, you get superb bonus tracks). Both are stupendous.
The Live 72 album is a great addition, if you do not mind poor sound.
If anyone is interested, I am getting rid of Gnosis (priced to sell).
------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: Prog-jester
Date Posted: January 08 2007 at 06:33
damn, you named it!!! you should have been doing it...now thousands of agents from Gnidrology Studies Inc. all over the world dying!!! 
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Posted By: allen36_0
Date Posted: January 08 2007 at 12:00
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enjoy Lady Lake much more - especially the nice long track (Ship?) with its fantastic closing guitare break, and the title track. An unusual mixture of Gentle Giant, VDGG and Jethro Tull if I had to compare Assume folks realise their name is derived from the surname of two core members (Goldring) ------------- I was there but not aware |
Posted By: Equality 7-2521
Date Posted: January 08 2007 at 12:12
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Both the 72 albums are very similar but Lady Lake shows the band playing with much more emotion IMO so I'll side with that release. ------------- "One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall. " |
Posted By: Bj-1
Date Posted: January 08 2007 at 12:15
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I like'em both very much. No vote yet. ------------- RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on! http://www.last.fm/music/Exerior" rel="nofollow - EXERIOR Experimental tech/death/progmetal from Norway! |