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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 01 2007 at 17:11
Originally posted by Barla Barla wrote:

Great idea to start a thread like this!! Clap As for me:
  • Focus - Moving Waves while I have not heard the entire album, Focus are an excellent band. Very organ driven, like a less over-the-top version of ELP.
  • Any Colosseum to start Valentyne Suite obviously!
  • Egg - The Polite Force have only heard samples from it. If you like Canterbury you should pick it up fast!
  • Rush - A Farewell To Kings (I only own Moving Pictures, Exit Stage Left, 2112, well, and their Rush In Rio DVD) You'll love it, trust me. Get Hemispheres and Permanent Waves too!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 01 2007 at 16:06

  • Caravan - In The Land Of Grey And Pink: Great Canterbury Album with some warm/moody instrumental passages with fuzzy organ & Flute. It's got a warm autumn-like feel to it, and i love it!
  • Gong - You: A Very nice Psychedelic album. Essential if you've got "Flying Teapot" and/or "Angel's Egg". This one is more structured and has longer songs than Angel's Egg, and the last two songs features some yummy jamming!
  • Any Soft Machine to start: I'd recommend Third to start with. Experimental Jazz-rock at it's very best. The long songs features lovely solos from Organ & Sax and the songs just float by. It's not recommended for a "beginner" if you know what i mean, but i guess you're not one.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 01 2007 at 14:29
Great idea to start a thread like this!! Clap As for me:
  • Caravan - In The Land Of Grey And Pink
  • Focus - Moving Waves
  • Any Colosseum to start
  • Egg - The Polite Force
  • Gong - You
  • Rush - A Farewell To Kings (I only own Moving Pictures, Exit Stage Left, 2112, well, and their Rush In Rio DVD)
  • Explorers Club - Rising The Mammoth (have heard Age Of Impact and loved it!)
  • Any Soft Machine to start
Thanks in advance! Big%20smile

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 28 2007 at 09:58
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 28 2007 at 09:27
  • Anathema - Judgment great moody and not too heavy prog-metal
  • Soft Machine - Six, Seven you should like'em if you like their other stuff
  • Van Der Graaf Generator - Still Life, Godbluff, World Record... Godbluff is the best one here, IMO, but all are excellent.
  • Frank Zappa - Waka/Jawaka, One Size Fits All, Zoot Allures... OSFA is probably his best album, WJ is fairly similar to Grand Wazoo, ZA is more basic but still have some great songs!
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    Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 28 2007 at 04:18
    • Anathema - Judgment, A Fine Day to Exit, Alternative 4...
    • Burzum - Det som En gang Var
    • Soft Machine - The Soft Machine, Volume Two, Six, Seven
    • Van Der Graaf Generator - Still Life, Godbluff, World Record...
    • Peter Hammill - Black Box
    • Sigur Ros - Takk
    • Frank Zappa - 200 Motels, Waka/Jawaka, One Size Fits All, Zoot Allures...

    and growing... Tongue

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    Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 03 2007 at 06:25
    Ok, cool, thanks! I'll get both.
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    Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 02 2007 at 18:00
    Originally posted by Visitor13 Visitor13 wrote:

    Album tracks? Do you mean composed pieces? Are there any at all on that album? I'm pretty certain all the tracks there are improvised. I love 'messy' impros, BTW, free jazz (broadely understood) is my favourite music nowadays!

    Similarly, would anyone here recommend the Projekcts 4-CD boxset?
     
    I recommend both. TA is MUCH more avant-garde like, where as the projeKcts usually sound "unmessy", even though theres lots of improv.
     
    TA is definitely more for either the diehard KC fan or for people with experimental ears...its rewarding still.
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    Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 02 2007 at 13:24
    Album tracks? Do you mean composed pieces? Are there any at all on that album? I'm pretty certain all the tracks there are improvised. I love 'messy' impros, BTW, free jazz (broadely understood) is my favourite music nowadays!

    Similarly, would anyone here recommend the Projekcts 4-CD boxset?
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    Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 01 2007 at 19:00
    Originally posted by Abstrakt Abstrakt wrote:

    What I've read, it's full of "messy" improvisation, and not many Album-tracks.

    My two cents - the best part of the album is the cover sticker that warns buyers that it contains instances of musical improvisation ... and a sticker (LOLLOLLOLLOLLOLLOL)
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    Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 01 2007 at 08:55
    What I've read, it's full of "messy" improvisation, and not many Album-tracks.
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    Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 01 2007 at 03:05
    Is King Crimson's 'Thrakattak' worth getting?
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    Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 28 2007 at 16:49
    Originally posted by Abstrakt Abstrakt wrote:

    Originally posted by Arsillus Arsillus wrote:

    Originally posted by Abstrakt Abstrakt wrote:

    A Couple of new ones:

    • Porcupine Tree - Signify
    • Porcupine Tree - Stupid Dream
    • Porcupine Tree - The Sky Moves Sideways
    • Porcupine Tree - In Abstensia
    • Porcupine Tree - Fear of a Blank Planet

      Looking for something diffrent from Gentle Giant & King Crimson Smile


       

    Sky Moves Sideways is very Pink Floyd-esque- very space and chill-out typte stuff. Signify retains a lot of the spaciness from the TSMS but condenses it into slightly shorter songs. It has quite a few instrumentals which are awesome. Stupid Dream sees slightly poppier songs and fairly different from the earlier stuff. In Absentia starts to incorporate more of the metal sound into the songs and incorporates more of the spaciness from the earlier albums into the songs Fear of a Blank Planet is kind of like Deadwing...but not. I don't know, it's kind of hard to describe, so just get it, it's great! All of these albums are excellent, but I would start out with Signify and In Absentia. What do you already have by GG and KC?

    By GG: Only "Aquiring the taste" yet on CD Embarrassed. But i have "Gente Giant", "Octopus", "The Power and the Glory" as .mp3


    By KC: Nothing on CD. "In the Court of the Crimson King", "In the Wake of Poseidon", "Lizard", "Islands", "Earthbound", "Larks Tongues in Aspic", "Three of a Perfect Pair" as well as the bootleg "Of Terse Economy" as .mp3 Embarrassed

     

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    Definitely get "In A Glass House" by GG- their best album out of all of them in my opinion.

    For KC, definitely check out "Discipline" and "Red."







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    Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 28 2007 at 13:58
    Originally posted by Moogtron III Moogtron III wrote:

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    Steve Hackett - Voyage of the Acolyte Brilliant album!
    Agreed - a brilliant album, with good vocals by Philip Collins Esq..
    Incidentally, There is a tenuous (and in R J Godfrey's eyes, contentious) link between this album and The Enid's In The Region Of The Summer Stars, as both are based upon the Tarrot.
     
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    Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 28 2007 at 12:14
    Originally posted by Abstrakt Abstrakt wrote:

    • Porcupine Tree - In Abstensia


    This one got me into PT. I was hooked from the very beginning of 'Blackest Eyes'. The album has this spacey feel to it, with poppy moments scattered here and there(like the verse/chorus of Blackest Eyes), and I personally find it a very easy album to fall in love with.
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    Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 28 2007 at 10:16
    Originally posted by Arsillus Arsillus wrote:

    Originally posted by Abstrakt Abstrakt wrote:

    A Couple of new ones:

    • Porcupine Tree - Signify
    • Porcupine Tree - Stupid Dream
    • Porcupine Tree - The Sky Moves Sideways
    • Porcupine Tree - In Abstensia
    • Porcupine Tree - Fear of a Blank Planet

      Looking for something diffrent from Gentle Giant & King Crimson Smile


       



    Sky Moves Sideways is very Pink Floyd-esque- very space and chill-out typte stuff.
    Signify retains a lot of the spaciness from the TSMS but condenses it into slightly shorter songs. It has quite a few instrumentals which are awesome.
    Stupid Dream sees slightly poppier songs and fairly different from the earlier stuff.
    In Absentia starts to incorporate more of the metal sound into the songs and incorporates more of the spaciness from the earlier albums into the songs
    Fear of a Blank Planet is kind of like Deadwing...but not. I don't know, it's kind of hard to describe, so just get it, it's great!

    All of these albums are excellent, but I would start out with Signify and In Absentia.

    What do you already have by GG and KC?


    By GG: Only "Aquiring the taste" yet on CD Embarrassed. But i have "Gente Giant", "Octopus", "The Power and the Glory" as .mp3

    By KC: Nothing on CD. "In the Court of the Crimson King", "In the Wake of Poseidon", "Lizard", "Islands", "Earthbound", "Larks Tongues in Aspic", "Three of a Perfect Pair" as well as the bootleg "Of Terse Economy" as .mp3 Embarrassed
     
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    Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 28 2007 at 08:44
    Originally posted by Abstrakt Abstrakt wrote:

    A Couple of new ones:

    • Porcupine Tree - Signify

    • Porcupine Tree - Stupid Dream

    • Porcupine Tree - The Sky Moves Sideways

    • Porcupine Tree - In Abstensia

    • Porcupine Tree - Fear of a Blank Planet


    • Looking for something diffrent from Gentle Giant & King Crimson Smile


       



    Sky Moves Sideways is very Pink Floyd-esque- very space and chill-out typte stuff.
    Signify retains a lot of the spaciness from the TSMS but condenses it into slightly shorter songs. It has quite a few instrumentals which are awesome.
    Stupid Dream sees slightly poppier songs and fairly different from the earlier stuff.
    In Absentia starts to incorporate more of the metal sound into the songs and incorporates more of the spaciness from the earlier albums into the songs
    Fear of a Blank Planet is kind of like Deadwing...but not. I don't know, it's kind of hard to describe, so just get it, it's great!

    All of these albums are excellent, but I would start out with Signify and In Absentia.

    What do you already have by GG and KC?




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    Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 28 2007 at 02:09
    A Couple of new ones:
    • Ozric Tentacles - Erpland
    • Ozric Tentacles - Strangeitude
    • Ozric Tentacles - Jurrasic Shift
    • Ozric Tentacles - Arborescene
    • Ozric Tentacles - Become the Other
    • Ozric Tentacles - Curious Corn
    • Ozric Tentacles - Waterfall Cities
    • Ozric Tentacles - The Hidden Step
    • Ozric Tentacles - Swirly Termination
    • Porcupine Tree - Up the Downstair
    • Porcupine Tree - Signify
    • Porcupine Tree - Stupid Dream
    • Porcupine Tree - The Sky Moves Sideways
    • Porcupine Tree - In Abstensia
    • Porcupine Tree - Fear of a Blank Planet
    • Soft Machine - Volumes 1 & 2
    • Soft Machine - Six
    • Soft Machine - Seven
    • Daevid Allen - Good Morning
    • Gong - Flying Teapot
    • Barclay James Harvest - Caught in the Light (Sold Really Cheap at a used record store)
    • Les Claypool - Highball with the Devil
    • Les Claypool - Of Whales and Woe

    Looking for something diffrent from Gentle Giant & King Crimson Smile

     

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