Best/ Fav Spock’s Beard

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The Great Nothing (aka Reed Lover)

Noone for "The Light"?  I would vote for all the albums (except Feel Euphoria) as they are simply great...

Velvetclown wrote: Yes Kindness is also my favourite Beard album , too bad that Neal Morse was by God. Fav song is " The Great Nuttin " from " V "

Amen to the 'Great Nothing' my brother....V is my fave (so far)

Interesting that nobody has voted for 'The Light' which seems to be the critics choice in the poular press.


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Either of Beware of Darkness, Kindness of Strangers and Day for Night. I got Day for Night first and immediately sucked me right in. A lot of people think it sucks though.

If you want to get into SB, I suggest you get the albums in chronological order and avoid the two last ones. On Snow there was too much of Neal and his religiosity. On FE there was no Neal at all, and listening to it I realized that a lot of what I like about the other SB albums came from Neal.

As for favourite track, I have several and couldn't pick just one, but the song that first really got to me was Crack the Big Sky.

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Gibberish!!! What a great song!!!

That's #1 in your compilation...

Another one for Snow... but it'll be different tomorrow, so I'll post tomorrow's favourite track, which'll prolly be from a different LP, but that's tbe Beard for ya!

Great band!

 

Hi, guys from ProgArchives. This is my first message in this forum. My favourite SB album is theri second 'Beware of Darkness', which I find the most cohesive in terms of inspired writing and progressive sophistication. I have more than one favourite individual track, but I have to choose onlu one specifically in this moment, that would be "Thoughts" from 'Beware...'  (other ones I was thinking of are "The Light", "Go the Way You Go", "Harm's Way", "The Doorway").

Greetings.

 

 

I have this love-hate relationship with the music and albums of Spocks Beard. There are bits on all albums that  I enjoy, but none match "Kindness" forits level of originality. I was introduced to their music with the loan of "Kindness" and then went out and bought it myself. However, having then gone to find earlier and later recordings, I realise they peaked with "Kindness" with an album that avoided obvious lifts from other bands. "Snow" in contrast is the worst.  I got sent the promo by SPV Records (the double edited down to a single CD) and I have report  I found myself listening to that album, and saying to myself for 40 minutes; here's the Yes bit, now the Gentle Giant, blimey Deep Purple for change - thinking where they had nicked the samples from? I had to turn it off in the end, I wasn't enjoying it as whole (although I have radio-played the Deep Purple tribute a couple of times!!). Progressive rock ought to progress not retrogress - however, I'm thankful Spocks Beard do their own playing unlike these dire manufactured boy or girl pop groups!

I'm afraid Anekdoten have spoilt me, in demonstrating how derivatisation can work towards new sounds.

Kindness of Strangers, and I'll go for Flow as well. What a beatiful intro!!

 

Yes Kindness is also my favourite Beard album , too bad that Neal Morse was by God. Fav song is " The Great Nuttin " from " V "

 

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