Great albums that have flown under the radar
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Topic: Great albums that have flown under the radar
Posted By: Master of Time
Subject: Great albums that have flown under the radar
Date Posted: March 14 2014 at 00:47
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There are a lot of great albums on this website that have gone seemingly unnoticed that I think deserve to be noticed. I know there is a similar thread up right now but it seems to be about underrated albums rather than undiscovered.
Dan Arborise- Of Tide and Trail (this is an album I bring up a lot) Perfect Beings- Perfect Beings (though this album is admittedly still quite new) Chrome Hoof- Chrome Black Gold (though this was on the 2013 collaborators list) Voice of the Seven Thunders- Voice of the Seven Thunders |
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Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: March 14 2014 at 02:24
we only have your word that these are 'great' albums its a bit chicken and egg
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Posted By: Master of Time
Date Posted: March 14 2014 at 03:04
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richardh wrote:Posted By: Svetonio
Date Posted: March 14 2014 at 04:18
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... to name a few ... Smile by David Maxim Micic http://davidmaximmicic.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow - http://davidmaximmicic.bandcamp.com/ (progressive metal)  Living Home by Fuchs http://fuchs.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow - http://fuchs.bandcamp.com/ (crossover prog)  Show by The Vorticists http://thevorticists.bandcamp.com/album/show" rel="nofollow - http://thevorticists.bandcamp.com/album/show (crossover prog, pretty spacey)  |
Posted By: Master of Time
Date Posted: March 20 2014 at 14:02
| Seems the post was a little premature as Perfect Beings is now gaining popularity, though this was posted before it happened. |
Posted By: AreYouHuman
Date Posted: March 20 2014 at 21:49
Gurumander & Friends – Blue Star. An album that got put in the New Age bin, but features some quite unique guitar work. The second half is a lot like instrumental Floyd. Should also appeal to fans of Jade Warrior and Anthony Phillips. I just checked and it’s still available on Amazon.  ------------- Caption: We tend to take ourselves a little too seriously. Silly human race! Yes is for everybody! |
Posted By: Kati
Date Posted: March 20 2014 at 23:15
Hello Master of Time  
Coincidently your name is also one of my ultimate favorite track name's from a British Band called Big Big Train,when you have time here is a link to their song, as named Master of Time  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0evzFOVclJU
Back to topic, a band that has been under the radar in the west is LOS JAIVAS, they are from Chile since the 70's to date, listen to this track it was actually filmed on location in Machu Picchu I promise it's really good https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExGOc5dVY10&list=PLMyHPEAFkfwMOS5u60qHezYqcYvx_qTdf
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Posted By: AreYouHuman
Date Posted: November 04 2014 at 23:33
Turner and Kirwan of Wexford – Absolutely and Completely. There was just one album under the band name, but the two principals are still around, Pierce Turner as a solo artist and Larry Kirwan as leader of Black 47.Listen for the Rachmaninoff
adaptation at the end of the title track.
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Posted By: Intruder
Date Posted: November 06 2014 at 09:01
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In the US, Nick Cave had flown under the radar for the longest time, but his popularity has picked up over the years.
No More Shall We Part and The Boatman's Call - two albums that went Top 10 around the world but didn't make a dent in the US Top 100. ------------- I like to feel the suspense when you're certain you know I am there..... |
Posted By: Guldbamsen
Date Posted: November 06 2014 at 09:07
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^Funny how some things work out. Talk Talk had something similar happen to them. It was first with the internet that they really grew to the status they have now, which is something like the proto architects of post rock. Nick Drake's albums never sold much at the time, but today he's an icon - folk's cult figure. ------------- “The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.” - Douglas Adams |
Posted By: Rednight
Date Posted: November 06 2014 at 10:15
One man's word is as good as the next man's (until one finds out otherwise). 
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Posted By: timothy leary
Date Posted: November 06 2014 at 11:25
| Word..........Robert Erdesz........Meeting Point.........way under the radar |
Posted By: AreYouHuman
Date Posted: January 21 2015 at 21:53
Aviator. The British supergroup consisting of Jack Lancaster,
John G. Perry, Clive Bunker and Mick Rogers.
Their self-titled first album has long been high on my list of albums
that had everything going for them and deserved to be at least a cult favorite but
still remained undeservedly obscure. They
struck a near-perfect balance, IMO, between prog and 70’s pop. The longer and more complex tracks (Keep Your
Heart Right, Silver Needles, Country Morning, Morning Journey) are my faves. Both of their albums never even got an actual
CD release. |
Posted By: Rednight
Date Posted: January 21 2015 at 23:24
Speaking of Jack Lancaster, I think Marscape featuring him and the Brand X boys (Lumley, Goodsall, Jones, and Collins) flys mightily "under the radar." It's been readily reviewed on Prog Archives (thanks, Slartibartfast), but I personally don't know anyone who's heard it (I don't get out much), nor have I ever read mention of it on this site. There are those detractors who'll say it ain't prog, but that's splitting hairs, really. Whatever one might term it, it remains amazing to the ear, IMHO. |
Posted By: AreYouHuman
Date Posted: January 21 2015 at 23:32
Couldn’t agree more on
Marscape!
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Posted By: siLLy puPPy
Date Posted: January 21 2015 at 23:33
Agreed! It seems like the internet is making classics out of bands and albums that were utterly ignored when released. I know sites like this have exposed me to a wealth of music i NEVER would have found otherwise. |
Posted By: siLLy puPPy
Date Posted: January 21 2015 at 23:35
Opinion it all is of course. I have not heard anything here other than Chrome Hoof - Chrome Black Gold which i find much less interesting than Pre-Emptive False.... Just MY opinion and not to say it's bad but just doesn't hit me the same way. Thanks for the suggestions though. I always love hearing new music but despite listening to new music constantly there's sooooooooo freaking much!
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Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: January 23 2015 at 21:54
I'm not really sure he'd be keen on large corporations using his songs for commercials. But then I usually get irritated when I hear any good song used to hock some item I am completely ambivalent about. ------------- ...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology... |
Posted By: Wakeman's Birotron
Date Posted: January 26 2015 at 14:04
| While Gryphon's Red queen to Gryphon three is pretty well known in the prog community, I always felt it was outrageously underrated. To me it should be ranked easily in the top 15 symph prog albums. |
Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: January 26 2015 at 14:09
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Some Dutch albums: Coda - Sounds Of Passion Coda - What A Symphony Cliffhanger - Not To Be Or Not To Be Some Italian prog: I Giganti - Terra In Bocca Il Paese Dei Balocchi - Il Paese Dei Balocchi |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: January 26 2015 at 16:22
fixed for ya brother... ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: Guldbamsen
Date Posted: January 27 2015 at 13:53
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URuXVeMiKhU" rel="nofollow - French boogie funk jazz zeuhl with a bit of psych, punkish attitude and motown thrown in for good measure.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QBYaoynkVg" rel="nofollow - Experimental soundtrack to Shaft in India  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwR4Js4ran8" rel="nofollow - Moonloop fully unleashed  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2DgIJtvcmw" rel="nofollow - Charlie Mariano joins up with the lads from Holland to tell the story of Alexander the Great  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZxZWGZk6uo" rel="nofollow - Riding bull in Napoli
------------- “The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.” - Douglas Adams |
Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: January 27 2015 at 13:59
Right, I knew I was being incomplete
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Posted By: siLLy puPPy
Date Posted: January 27 2015 at 19:55
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^ 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 $$$
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Posted By: Argonaught
Date Posted: January 27 2015 at 21:35
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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: http://blackpearlrecords.bandcamp.com/album/sok-der-gr-ne-vogel |
Posted By: King Manuel
Date Posted: February 01 2015 at 00:56
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Posted By: King Manuel
Date Posted: February 01 2015 at 00:59
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Posted By: ExittheLemming
Date Posted: February 01 2015 at 01:34
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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 ------------- 
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Posted By: Prog Snob
Date Posted: February 01 2015 at 01:38
| And I will make an attempt to listen to all of the releases mentioned in this thread. That's how excited I get to discover something new. |
Posted By: SquonkHunter
Date Posted: February 01 2015 at 18:13
Excellent album! ------------- "You never had the things you thought you should have had and you'll not get them now..." |
Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: February 02 2015 at 12:04
I think this is a wonderful album.....rarely gets mentioned here. ------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: February 02 2015 at 12:07
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Another one that doesn't get mentioned enough...imho. ------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: TeleStrat
Date Posted: February 02 2015 at 12:47
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First Key - Amos Key Pictures From Cyclus 7 - Ache Beckett - Beckett Spider's Dance - Toto Blanke Cycles - Canarios World Of The Future - Earth & Fire One Niter - EEla Craig Skeleton In Armour - Fusion Orchestra Blue Apple - Gift Can't Get Through - Hairy Chapter Deluxe - Harmonium Neon Dream - Hug
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Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: February 03 2015 at 14:09
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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. ------------- ...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology... |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: February 03 2015 at 14:36
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.
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Posted By: zappaholic
Date Posted: February 03 2015 at 17:07
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Any Thought Industry album. ------------- "Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard." -- H.L. Mencken |
Posted By: siLLy puPPy
Date Posted: February 03 2015 at 22:39
Hear that! Have been a fan for a long time and there's still only like less than 10 ratings!
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Posted By: Raccoon
Date Posted: February 03 2015 at 22:54
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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. http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=99899&PID=5060509#5060509 ------------- Check out my FREE album: A one-man project The Distant Dynasty |
Posted By: Raccoon
Date Posted: February 03 2015 at 22:54
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Okay, that's TWO I suppose... ------------- Check out my FREE album: A one-man project The Distant Dynasty |
Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: February 04 2015 at 17:20
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. |
Posted By: MFP
Date Posted: February 04 2015 at 18:21
 Honduras's La Única Posición es la Oposición |
Posted By: ten years after
Date Posted: February 07 2015 at 00:08
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Wally - Valley Gardens (Almost unheard of English band produced a prog rock masterpiece with strong West Coast influences) Edgar Broughton Band - self titled (contains Evening Over Rooftops which should be recognized as a prog classic) Al Stewart - Past Present & Future (Not normally a prog artist but this is a prog album) Colosseum - Those about to die salute you US version (the US release of this album has never been released on CD but contains the original, and superior version of the Valentyne Suite) Quintessence - Self (hugely popular at the time but hardly heard of now) String Driven Thing - The Machine That Cried Keith Christmas - Pigmy (side two is pure prog, side one is a series of beautiful ballads) Stackridge - Man in the Bowler Hat Brinsley Schwarz - self titled (this band fell foul of the critics but their only real prog song - ballad of a has been beauty queen - is the track that defines the expression: "organ drenched") Blodwyn Pig - Getting to This (great band, sadly overlooked)
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