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What I listened to from 2015 ![]() Edited by rushfan4 - March 09 2016 at 05:11 |
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I think my next purchase may well be Skye. I have been tempted after reading positive reviews.
As ever, Scott, your recommendation rather confirms it. |
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Enhance your life. Get down to www.lazland.org
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The updated listing of recommendations:
Astra - The Weirding http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=59071&PN=1
The Wishing Tree - Ostara http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=59948&PID=3326358#3326358
Eureka - Shackleton's Voyage http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=60977&PID=3370008#3370008
Lobster Newberg - Actress http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=61661&PID=3400467#3400467
Knifeworld - Buried Alone: Tales of Crushing Defeat http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=62529&PID=3433550#3433550
Brother Ape - Tubulence http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=63402&PID=3471283#3471283
Black Bonzo - The Guillotine Drama http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=64197&PID=3507408#3507408
Shadow Circus - Whispers and Screams http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=64762&PID=3537210#3537210
Roswell Six - Terra Incognita: Beyond The Horizon http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=65438&PID=3568221#3568221
From.UZ - Seventh Story http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=66257 Monarch Trail - Skye http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=99553&PID=5043594#5043594Algabas - Angels and Demons http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=100124&PID=5068682 Seven Impale - City of the Sun http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=100527&PID=5088921� |
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I hope that this message at least introduces one person to some previously unheard of before gem. |
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For anyone who may happen to wonder, here is my top 10 list as submitted for the Collaborator list:
Only numbers 1 and 9 made the Collab list but a number on the Collab list made my next 10. Overall I found 2013 to be an excellent year for music. I listened to nearly 100 new prog releases for 2013 and aside from the ones that were overtaken by the Satanic Cookie Monster I really enjoyed most of them and even then those releases had many redeeming qualities. Here's to 2014 and hopefully another year of great music releases. Edited by rushfan4 - February 01 2014 at 08:35 |
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The new release from Manning "The Root, The Leaf & The Bone" is really good. With his voice and the use of flute it can inevitably compared to Jethro Tull. However, they also include fiddles, saxophone, mandolin, banjo, trumpet, violin, a diddlybow, and on track 3, Autumn Song, Chloe Herrington from Knifeworld adds some bassoon. It is quite accessible and yet also quite eclectic.
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The last couple of days I have been listening to albums on the Prog Archives 2013 playlist on Spotify created by Andy Webb and I have been finding some wonderful albums. Not A Good Sign's self-titled debut; Airbag's The Greatest Show On Earth; Amplifier's Echo Street; some RPI with Ingranaggi Della Valle's In Hoc Signo; and Sky Architect's A Billion Years of Solitude. I am currently listening to Argentina's Jinetes Negros album Tawa Sarira. They are listed here as Prog Metal, but this album is not really metal and is highly eclectic. So far it is an excellent listen that is trying really hard to muscle its way into my top 10 for the year. I have enjoyed so many albums this year. It really is going to be difficult to narrow them down to a top 10 for the year.
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If your the type of person who likes their music the way they like their coffee, with lots of sludge, than Earthless is the band for you. Their latest album titled From The Ages clocks in at 66 minutes, with the title track clocking in at over half an hour and nary a word is spoken. This is old school psychedelic in an Ash Ra Tempel meets Black Sabbath kind of way. Strictly a guitar bass drum trio they play the type of face melting heavy rock that is sure to appeal to those prog fans who don't mind getting their ears a bit dirty while they listen.
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News from earlier this year that Andy Tillison had disbanded The Tangent came as quite sad news. News that the now re-formed more economically sound version of the band was releasing the album Le Sacre Du Travail was much better news. This album is/was musically formed around Stravinsky's Rites of Spring and tells the story of a day in the life of a working stiff aka today's Tom Sawyer. Multiple references to Rush automatically adds a star to this album for me.
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I hit pause on my iPod for about 15 minutes and then hit play. After a few minutes of listening I had to ask myself which Genesis album was this again. Oh yeah, it is Sound of Contact and the singer is Phil Collins' son.
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I know that it is a PA cliche to list Steven Wilson projects at the top of annual lists and for this year there is a good chance that I might follow this lead. I really enjoy Porcupine Tree, but have to admit that I was not that big on Steven Wilson solo projects...until now. The Raven is an album that wowed me upon first listen and it has just grown better with repeated listens. The pacing, sound and production are all excellent on this album. One of the highlights of this album that seems to stand out for me though is Theo Travis' flute and saxophone playing, which seem to add that extra oomph to put this album at or near the top of my albums of the year list for 2013.
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Don't look now but I am listening to Top of the Charts music. The return of the Prince of Darkness and the Sabs sans Bill Ward rocked the charts upon its release earlier this year, and was well deserved as this is some excellent doom and gloom from the guys that started it all. Black Sabbath 13 is a nice return to form providing all of the stuff that made early Sabbath the legends that they are. If this is to be their last release it is one that they can be proud of.
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Queensryche had a revolution calling or maybe it was a civil war, but at any rate on the other side emerged two Queensryches. For the most part, I am one of the few around these parts that has enjoyed all of their albums. The period through Hear In The Now Frontier obviously being their best period, but I also enjoyed their latter period albums as well. Now we have two albums, with the first being the now well-documented rushed Geoff Tate led F.U. to the other band members and the second being the other band members with a new singer who sounds quite a lot like Geoff Tate. I have read a number of reviews and comments regarding these releases and the general comments have been negative regarding Geoff Tate's release and pretty positive about the other guys' release. For me, it is kind of a toss up. Neither album really jumps out at me as an Operation Mindcrime/Empire type masterpiece. End result for me is that we have two decent releases with the Queensryche name on them but neither of them have a strong wow factor.
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Brief Nocturnes and Dreamless Sleep is interesting as it is the most recent release from a band called Spock's Beard. This is their first album with new singer, Ted Leonard, formerly (and I suppose currently) of prog metal band Enchant. I enjoy this album well enough, but it doesn't really feel like a Spock's Beard album to me. I am a huge fan of the Neal Morse years of the band, who are one of my gateway bands to the modern prog scene, by way of Dream Theater, Mike Portnoy, and Transatlantic. Although disappointed that Neal left the band, the Nick D'Virgilio's switchover from the drumseat to the microphone worked well for me too, and I enjoyed the albums with him fronting the band. I suppose that it may just take additional listens for this new album to grow on me, but for now it is lacking something. I don't dislike it by no means, but it just seems to be lacking in Spockiness.
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Yup i've got that on my "to get" list Scott, I have their first one which I really enjoyed, and that's a great reference(Astra) as well.
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"The wind is slowly tearing her apart"
"Sad Rain" ANEKDOTEN |
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French band Nemo are one of those bands whose sound has a great appeal to me. Barbares was one of my top 5 albums in 2009 and Revolution was a top 10 album in 2011. I have just listened to Le ver Dans Le Fruit for the first time and I think that it too will be a strong contender for one of my top spots. I have only recently acquired downloads of Si parts 1 and 2, and really enjoyed these as well. My only negative with all of these albums is that I do not speak French. Non-English singing tends to be a problem for me. It falls under the "it's me...not you" thing that we hear from girls/women that we like who don't want to go out with us. I have found that this language issue doesn't really bother me as much as it once did, but it is still a problem for me. That said, this is still an excellent album, and I suppose that it may be best that I don't know what they are singing about.
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Currently listening to Turkish band Nemrud's second album Ritual. It is a really enjoyable psychedelic prog album. To a certain extent it brings to mind the sound of Pink Floyd, and more recently, Astra. It is a short album at just over half an hour and consists of 4 tracks; the highlight being the 18 minute long title track, which ends the album. I think that if you found Astra's The Weirding and The Black Chord to your liking, you should give Ritual a listen.
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Hi, I've always said that time never was when music was not progressive, and that it is a matter of our own enlightenment, and appreciation for things that are different, and sometimes a bit more pointed and meaningfull than most twerk'ing! For me, this probably started in Brazil, when radio and the music I was hearing was so different than anything in Portugal, and in that country, specially our house, things were very classical, academic and specially insulated from the outside world! Higher class well educated folks in Europe are like that! When we went to Brazil, dad basically took a massive step to become a bona fide writer, and that puts us in a shack in the state of Sao Paolo, and of course, that puts you in touch with the "street" and "people", something that the family did not like and had aversions to. Dad, was too worried about his writing and literary works, to give a darn about that but he was in a position that prevented him from doing politics and make comments on it, so he stayed away from it for the most part. So you land in Brazil, in 1959, and then you end up witnessing things like the coup later, and then the very impressive array of music and arts that were against the coup, and exploded. From Maria Betania, to many others and all of a sudden Beatles, Rolling Stones, and the like, it all became a symbol for something that people did not have. And the music was totally different! Form me, as I stated before, progressive, has always been tied to life and living and it's artistic side. Most of the work is not just a song in my mind and in many cases they are the most important works composed in the last 70 years! While there are some nice things in a lot of pop music, in the end, I'm not sure that most of it as as valuable or important but creating a line of definition for it, is tough, and I don't want to argue where Brown Sugar or Sympathy for the Devil belong! But one of those songs is meaningless to me! |
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Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told!
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Ayreon's Theory Of Everything comes with the classic Ayreon sound. I still need to sit down with the booklet and read along to the music, but I am enjoying the music and the parts of the story I can make out while casually listening. My biggest complaint on this album is that he has decided to make it into 42 separate songs rather than one long song or 9 ten minute songs. Not one of the songs is more than 4 minutes long with most of them under 2 minutes long. Listening to the album on my CD player causes 41 unnecessary pauses with some of them occurring mid-word within the lyrics. I really don't know what he was trying to do here. Not sure if he is trying to make people pay $42 on iTunes in order to purchase every song on the album? At any rate, I like the sound, but I guess I am not thrilled with the production/presentation of it. I will have to update my opinion once I have a chance to sit down with the booklet and listen to it.
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