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Drew

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Posted: June 08 2006 at 18:00

Snow Dog wrote:

Drew wrote:

RycheMan wrote:

Snow Dog wrote:

Close To The Edge

I agree.

Me 2- a little

You're not supposed to agree with me!!!

OK- then I didnt mean it?

Snow Dog

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Posted: June 08 2006 at 18:03

Drew wrote:

Snow Dog wrote:

Drew wrote:

RycheMan wrote:

Snow Dog wrote:

Close To The Edge

I agree.

Me 2- a little

You're not supposed to agree with me!!!

OK- then I didnt mean it?

Thats Ok....you can agree, just wasn't expecting it. LOL

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Posted: June 08 2006 at 18:06

Breakfast in America.

www.myspace.com/hail_peter

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Posted: June 08 2006 at 18:12

The Wall

last.fm

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Posted: June 08 2006 at 18:16

PF - The Final Cut

RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on!

Losendos

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Posted: June 08 2006 at 18:35

The late 70s were certainly disappointing. 77 was a good year Going for the One ,Wind and Wuthering, Works , Songs from the Wood and Animals. These albums weren't necesarily the band's best but they were certainly worthwhile purchases. The follow ups though could only be described as seriously deteriorating

Tormato A pop prog album with some really weak tracks. Unlike Genesis Yes had a full band. Why this?

The Wall Not much prog here either and I don't like Roger Waters self indulgence

And Then there were Three Like Floyd Genesis were a disappearing band and like Yes made a sort of pop/ prog hybrid. When I heard that this had got to number one I thought it was going to be really good. And Phil Collins was at that time playing in two prog bands so he seemed well credentialed

Love Beach This was the last word on trash

so the 70s heroes were no more and it was time to look for new ones

Edited by Losendos - June 08 2006 at 21:44

How wonderful to be so profound

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Posted: June 08 2006 at 18:58

Losendos wrote:

Tormato A pop prog album with some really weak tracks

The Wall Not much prog here either and I don't like Roger Waters self indulgence

Love Beach This was the last word on trash

so the 70s heroes were no more and it was time to look for new ones

The late 70s had two of my favourite 10 albums:

Nik Turner's Sphynx - Xitintoday (1978)
Mother Gong - Fairy Tales (1979)

Other good albums in the late 70s:

Christian Boulé - Photo Musik (1977)
Steve Hillage - Green (1978)
Steve Hillage - Live Herald (1978)
Clearlight - Visions (1978)
Hawkwind - Quark, Strangeness and Charm (1977)
Here & Now - Give and Take (1978)
Peter Hammill - PH7 (1979)
Magma - Attahk (1978)
Brand X - Livestock (1978)
Daevid Allen - N' Existe Pas (1979)

To name but a few.

Edited by BaldFriede - June 08 2006 at 18:58

BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue.

Nanook

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Posted: June 08 2006 at 19:11

Anything from Frank Zappa. While I recognize his musical talent, his output leaves me cold. I've heard most of his work over the years, but I've never spent a dime on any of it. Thank God.

The cable movie channels are playing 200 Motels, over and over, as they do sometimes with movies. What utter, complete garbage that is.

Oh, and another vote for The Final Cut. I gave that disc away not long after I bought it. Not traded, just gave it away.

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Posted: June 08 2006 at 19:25

Kraftwerk - Trans Europe Express. Because this one was 100% disco.

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Posted: June 08 2006 at 21:00

KazimirMajorinc wrote:

Kraftwerk - Trans Europe Express. Because this one was 100% disco.

Huh?

... I think I would have a hard time doing the hustle to that one.

a.k.a. H.T.

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Posted: June 08 2006 at 21:08

Chicapah wrote:

Yes - Drama (and I thought Tormato was weak!)

Genesis - And then there were three

ELP - Works Vol. I

Here the same. Those two also shocked me. With those albums, I knew an era had ended.

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Posted: June 08 2006 at 21:41

Drew wrote:

RycheMan wrote:

Snow Dog wrote:

Close To The Edge

I agree.

Me 2- a little

After listening to the great 'Fragile' and seeing this site's ranking of CttE my expectations were really high, alas not fulfilled

. CttE is still a good album (and Siberian Khatru, now playing btw, it's a great song!) but it just didn't match my expectations and I still prefer Fragile over CttE.

Damn expectations!

"After all, it's music what we're talking about here, so there's no best or worst; just what you like and what you don't"

Losendos

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Posted: June 08 2006 at 21:50

Back in the early and mid 70s we used to try out bands like Genesis and Yes with few expectations.Whatever they released surprised on the up side.Part of the pleasure is the discovery.

It is different now where people may come to this site and may hear that such and such is the best prog album ever ( CTTE ), the mother of all concept albums (TLLDOB), the best Floyd album (WYWH) and so on. With too much hype the recording is likely to disappoint on the downside.

How wonderful to be so profound

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Posted: June 08 2006 at 22:05

Losendos wrote:

Back in the early and mid 70s we used to try out bands like Genesis and Yes with few expectations.Whatever they released surprised on the up side.Part of the pleasure is the discovery.

Yeah, I know what you mean, and believe me, I tried to avoid such high expectations about CttE, but 'Fragile' really amazed me!!! So I guess that if I lived in the day CttE was released my expectations would've been high after 'Fragile' anyway.

I also didn't mean to say that CttE was a *huge* letdown, but rather a slight disapointment. And I blame my expectations for that, not the band.

"After all, it's music what we're talking about here, so there's no best or worst; just what you like and what you don't"

Paulieg

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Posted: June 09 2006 at 05:14

Rush: Signals. I remember when it came out my friends and I all thought Rush sold out. I've grown to appreciate this album though.

Arena: Peppers Ghost. After Contagion I really expected another winner. Don't think so.

Pink Floyd: The Wall. Again when this came out all I could think of was sell out. I couldn't believe the disco sounding guitar in Another Brick In The Wall and what happened to the epics so prevalent on their prior excellent release Animals. I did get into this album years after its release. I actually sold the original vinyle release I bought the day it came out to my neighbor, that's how dissapointed I was.

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Posted: June 09 2006 at 05:39

Pineapple Thief - Variations On A Dream

How boring can music get already?

fogwalker

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Posted: June 09 2006 at 12:03

BaldFriede wrote:

Peter Hammill - PH7 (1979)

Hmmm - this is possibly my least favourite Hammill Album - in close contention with The Future Now.

The late 70's weren't kind - even to Peter Hammill!

Epitath

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Posted: June 09 2006 at 14:43

Yes - 90125

Yes had just been reunited after a time apart so everyone was waiting for a new masterpiece and they come up with this 80s Pop=song collection? Seriously are these the same guys that released CTTE, Fragile and Relayer? You really wouldnt think so...

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Posted: June 09 2006 at 15:16

Epitath wrote:

are these the same guys that released CTTE, Fragile and Relayer? You really wouldnt think so...

CTTE = Anderson Howe Squire Wakeman Bruford

Fragile = Anderson Howe Squire Wakeman Bruford

Relayer = Anderson Howe Squire Moraz White

90125 = Anderson Rabin Squire Kaye White

...there's your answer. No, it wasn't the same guys.

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Posted: June 09 2006 at 20:39

Throughout the 1980s, I was a fan of Tangerine Dream's early music (Electronic Meditation; Alpha Centauri; Atem; Zeit).

However, when I bought Tangerine Dream's "Phaedra", there was only the short track that I thought was first class music. The rest of it seemed to lack depth and have too much repetition.

In the 1970s I was a fan of Groundhog's "Split". I think I could still like it if I heard it today, but some of their other music like "Who will save the world" didn't live up to my expectations after hearing that classic Split L.P, not that "Who" is a bad album, but it wasn't what I wanted it to be.

I am still a Henry Cow fan, but there was alot, but not all, of the music on the "Concerts" album which was such a disappointment. I think there was a track called "Oslo" which did nothing for me at all.

Samla Mammas Manna's "Snorungarnas Symphony" was weak - more like musak to play when you're busy doing the housework.

Uppsala's "Uppsala" pretended to be like Magma, but it sounded unnatural and forced to me and so I soon sold that one.

I used to be a Can fan, but when I bought Holger Czukay's "On the way to the peak of normal", I hated it and I sold it at the first opportunity.

Edited by Explorer-eighth - June 09 2006 at 20:40

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