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Dean

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Posted: July 02 2012 at 12:27

^ That

What?

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Posted: July 02 2012 at 11:51

This.

Haiku

Writing a poem
With seventeen syllables
Is very diffic....

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Posted: July 01 2012 at 16:03

Silverchair - Diorama

Judas Priest - Painkiller

Bruce Springsteen - The Rising

Manic Street Preachers - this is my truth, tell me yours

Stevie Womder - Songs in the Key of Life

Simple Minds - Once upon a time

Skyline Teacher taught me everything!

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Posted: July 01 2012 at 15:41

Meat is Murder perhaps, or the last one where they went bunkers in the studio?

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Dean

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Posted: July 01 2012 at 15:24

^ Thanks.

What?

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Posted: July 01 2012 at 15:02

Dean wrote:

^ Not that

Isn't it? Oh, I'd better choose another one then.

Haiku

Writing a poem
With seventeen syllables
Is very diffic....

richardh

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Posted: June 29 2012 at 01:43

bytor2112 wrote:

Faith no More - Angel Dust

- King For a Day, Fool for a Lifetime

King Diamond - Abigail

Mercyful Fate - Melissa

Judas Priest - Stained Class

- Unleased in the East

- Sad Wings of Destiny

The Aggregation - Mind Odyssey

I don't listen to whole lot of music unrelated to prog

me too as my original list only had 3 albums

one I forgot about was Suzanne Vega's debut album. Very beautifull songs and production.

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Posted: June 28 2012 at 20:33

Dean wrote:

^ Not that

Isn't Frankly Mr. Shankley just the bee's knees, though?

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Posted: June 28 2012 at 15:31

Faith no More - Angel Dust

- King For a Day, Fool for a Lifetime

King Diamond - Abigail

Mercyful Fate - Melissa

Judas Priest - Stained Class

- Unleased in the East

- Sad Wings of Destiny

The Aggregation - Mind Odyssey

I don't listen to whole lot of music unrelated to prog

Dean

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Posted: June 28 2012 at 15:21

^ Not that

What?

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Posted: June 28 2012 at 15:21

This.

Haiku

Writing a poem
With seventeen syllables
Is very diffic....

Alitare

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Posted: June 28 2012 at 07:18

Here are some of my favorite albums:

Nick Cave - Tender Prey, The Good Son

Tom Waits - Small Change, Rain Dogs, Bone Machine, Mule Variations (others)

Ween - Chocolate and Cheese, The Mollusk, White Pepper

The Flaming Lips - Clouds Taste Metallic, The Soft Bulletin (this especially)

Wilco - Summerteeth

Will Oldham - I See a Darkness (as Bonnie 'Prince' Billy)

Bjork - Homogenic, Vespertine

Stevie Wonder - Talking Book, Fullfillingness' First Finale, Songs in the Key of Life, (possibly Innervisions, too)

Neil Young - After the Gold Rush, Weld

The Band - Music from Big Pink, The Band

John Lennon - John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band, Imagine

Warren Zevon - Excitable Boy

Johnny Cash - American IV: The Man Comes Around

Danzig - Lucifage

Cat Stevens - Tea for the Tillerman

Judas Priest - Unleashed in the East

Alice in Chains - Dirt, Jar of Flies

The Seatbelts - Cowboy Bebop OST

Beck - Sea Change (can't stand Odelay or Mellow Gold, though)

Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited, John Wesley Harding, Blood on the Tracks, Time out of Mind

Rolling Stones - Beggar's Banquet, Let it Bleed, Sticky Fingers

Joe Satriani - Surfing with the Alien

Hank Williams Sr. - 40 Greatest Hits

DJ Shadow - Endtroducing

Portishead - Dummy

Marty Robbins - Gunfighter Ballads

Creedence Clearwater Revival - Cosmo's Factory

The Kinks - Arthur

Prince - Purple Rain (but Sign O' the Times comes close)

Modest Mouse - The Moon and Antarctica

Beach Boys - Pet Sounds

Janis Joplin/Big Brother - Cheap Thrills

Antony and the Johnsons - I Am a Bird Now

Leonard Cohen - Songs of Love and Hate, Death of a Ladies Man

Van Morrison - Astral Weeks

Marilyn Manson - Mechanical Animals (and that's all it'll ever be from him)

Bob Marley - Catch a Fire (though Exodus comes close)

Elton John - Honky Chateau (a few come close - Tumbleweed/Captain Fantastic/etc.)

Lou Reed - Berlin

Alice Cooper - Da Da

Frank Sinatra - For Only the Lonely, In the Wee Small Hours

Marvin Gaye - What's Going On

Pixies - Doolittle

The Cure - Disintegration

Cocteau Twins - Treasure

Bruce Springsteen - Darkness on the Edge of Town

Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine

Imperial Bedroom - Elvis Costello

Crosby, Stills and Nash - Crosby, Stills and Nash

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Posted: June 28 2012 at 06:40

Dean wrote:

HolyMoly wrote:

Jo Jo Gunne: Jumpin' the Gunne (1973) -- Semi-obscure spin-off of Spirit, with former Spirit frontman Jay Ferguson leading the way. This is intelligent and highly evolved boogie rock, like an amped-up Guess Who. Just one of those albums where every song makes me jump with glee.

I had their eponymous debut, bought on the strength of Run, Run, Run, but they kind of disapeared from the UK record stores after that. I recall on seeing it much later that "Jumpin' the Gunne" has one of the most, erm, let's say, bizarre, covers I've ever seen.

When I was a teenage lad, I had the Run, Run, Run single. I quite liked it, so I bought it from a classmate for one guilder. But I fell instantly in love with the B-side, Take It Easy.

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Posted: June 28 2012 at 05:41

OK seriously this time:

Kinks - Something Else, Village Green Preservation Society, Arthur, Lola vs The Money Go Round (take your pick)

Cat Stevens - Mona Bone Jakon, Tea For The TIllerman, Foreigner (take your pick again)

Big Country - The Crossing, Steeltown, Driving To Damascus....all a must

Pearl Jam - Ten

Living Colour - Vivid, Time's Up, Stain, Colleidoscope (4 fantastic albums)

The Skids - The Absolute Game

Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not, Favourite Worst Nightmare

Magazine - The Correct Use Of Soap

Simple Minds - Sons and Fascination

Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left, Bryter Later, Pink Moon

Augie March - Moo You Bloody Choir

Cure - Faith

Echo and The Bunnymen - Porcupine

The Armoury Show - Waiting For the Floods - if you can find this GET IT

I could go on but won't....as for Nickelback masterpieces well there is......!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Posted: June 28 2012 at 05:27

Only joshing to above!!!!!!

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Posted: June 28 2012 at 05:26

Nickelback - Silver Side Up

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Posted: June 28 2012 at 00:08

Rolling Stones - Beggars Banquet
Velvet Underground - VU & Nico
Stooges - Raw Power
Nick Drake - Bryter Later
Judas Priest - Stained Class
Love - Forever Changes
Thin Lizzy - Jailbreak
Byrds - Younger Than Yesterday
Funkadelic - Maggot Brain
Pretty Things - S.F. Sorrow
Small Faces - Small Faces (Immediate)
Alice Cooper - Killer

He looks at this world and wants it all... so he strikes, like Thunderball!

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Posted: June 27 2012 at 23:36

REM - Automatic for the People
The Cars - S/T
Mott the Hoople - Mott
Ian Hunter - You're Never Alone with a Schizophrenic
Duran Duran - Seven and the Ragged Tiger
Chris DeBurgh - Spanish Train and Other Stories
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Deja Vu
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
Def Leppard - Pyromania
Dio - Holy Diver
Paul Kantner - Blows Against the Empire
The Fixx - Reach the Beach
Violent Femmes - S/T
Nazareth - Hair of the Dog
The Police - Synchronicity
Rolling Stones - Beggar's Banquet

In no particular order.

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Posted: June 27 2012 at 23:20

SolarLuna96 wrote:

Ambient Hurricanes wrote:

I listened to this today for the first time, so I don't know whether it's a "masterpiece" yet, but I think it deserves a mention:

I thought it was a pretty good album, but I wouldn't call it a masterpiece. Just my opinion, though

I'll have to give it a few more listens (and more attentive ones at that). It's definitely intriguing, probably at least a four star album for me. Whether or not it's a masterpiece...well, I'll see about that, but I get the feeling that I didn't even begin to take in the full force of the album, hear all the intricacies, or understand the plot on the first listen.

On another note, one of my threads finally got past three pages. Pretty cool, right?

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Luna

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Posted: June 27 2012 at 22:12

Ambient Hurricanes wrote:

I listened to this today for the first time, so I don't know whether it's a "masterpiece" yet, but I think it deserves a mention:

I thought it was a pretty good album, but I wouldn't call it a masterpiece. Just my opinion, though

Edited by SolarLuna96 - June 27 2012 at 22:13