What albums did you listen to today?...continued

Van der Graaf Generator - The Quiet Zone/The Pleasure Dome

Larkstongue41 wrote: Duster - Stratosphere Duster - 1975

Gotta love Sundays.

Valium Aggelein - Hier Kommt Der Schwartze Mond

Forrest Fang - The Wolf At The Ruins

Long day writing letters for Amnesty International...

Duster - Transmission, Flux
King Crimson - Islands
Zbigniew Namysłowski - Winobranie
Duster - Stratosphere (This one has been on repeat here recently. Love this album)

Good to see you back, Nick, loved your pictures online, mate.

Feeling very flat the last few days, but somehow cobbled together a mostly modern selection:

Mike Oldfield – Tubular Bells
The Enid – Something Wicked This Way Comes (Hmmm, is this one worth listening to more than once?)
The Tangent – The Slow Rust of Forgotten Machinery
Anathema – The Optimist
Weedpecker – II
Mondo Drag – s/t
Blues Pills – s/tj
Rosy Finch – Witchboro
Enchant – The Great Divide
Oresund Space Collective – Hallucinations Inside the Oracle
Alpha Wave Movement – Echoes in the Vacuum
Alpha Wave Movement – Cerulean Skies
Erik Wollo – Silent Currents: Live at Star’s End 2015
Robert Rich - Filaments
Mike Oldfield – Return to Ommadawn

Marshall Tucker Band - Where We All Belong

Caspian - Dust and Disquiet (Arcs of Command - highly recommended)

Meltdowner wrote: Original classic Jazz editions are impossible to find here, I bet it was illegal back then  Well, I don't like rollercoasters  Not really, it won't be on my top 10 which is sad since I'm a big fan of the previous albums. I'm affraid modern Prog has a tendency to simplify, it's the 80's all over again.

Truth be told most of my jazz collection consists of cd's. It's only recently the vinyl bug bit me in the derriere. I would love to own some newly restored old school jazz recordings on LP...but I am most definitely not dishing out 40€ a piece.

You don't like rollercoasters? I'm not entirely sure what to respond My sis is the same way although it used to be the other way around....I think I have changed the other way as I used to be a scared little kid. Nowadays I'll gladly bungeejump onto a rollercoaster. Go figure.

Modern prog eh? I share your sentiment my friend...although I find a lot of new exciting stuff, but wouldn't call it prog. Funny but I actually dig the recent 80s infatuation that seems to have seeped into every nook and cranny in the music world. I do prefer it mixed in with electronic, pop, avant or more straight ahead rock music. In prog it sounds less convincing to these ears although Kayo Dot's Coffin On Io and Plastic Base On House Of Sky both are examples of the experiment working beautifully imo.

What I don't get with A LOT of modern prog is the verse and chorus structures. Pretty much 75% of all new prog sounds like generic European Song Contest material...only in prog it is spiced up with the usual suspects: solos, synthesisers and odd time sigs. So you effectively get one part mundane radio fluff and another one that vehemently tries to pull you back into the 70s. Well at least back in those days verse and chorus didn't sound this predictable and castrated.

This scenario actually reminds me of modern action movies in that it genuinely feels as if a couple of guys came up with 50 cool solos and fun bridges....and then afterwards suddenly needed a few verses and choruses in order to bind the whole batter together...just like coming up with 50 cool action scenes and explosions without having thought of a story beforehand. It just ends up fragmented and utterly mundane imho.

Today up until now:
King Crimson - Discipline (The Sheltering Sky is one of my fave KC tunes ever. Serene and calm yet with a weird unmelodious undercurrent of guitar treatments that end up sounding otherworldly like no other in their oevre.).
The Horrors - Skying (really digging this band recently. They're not reinventing the wheel or anything of that nature, yet I couldn't care less. Great neo-psych with post-punk and electronica elements.)
Ol Dirty b*****d - N***a Please (Perhaps his druggiest and most experimental release mixing in some Motown, funk, rock and avantguarde like Demetrio Stratos behaviour only done with moans and strange breathing techniques. Title track is awesome! Love those horns.)
Now spinning Eloy's Ocean. Quite a departure from ODB (even if Klaus Peter Matziol wouldn't have sounded out of place on some of the songs)

Edited by Guldbamsen - December 01 2017 at 06:53