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    Posted: February 20 2007 at 09:31

The meaning of this thread is to post albums that you are curious on, And then let the people that owns that album tell their opinion and such.

I'm curios on thease at the moment:

  • Asia - Asia
  • Asia - Aria
  • Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells II
  • Tangerine Dream - Stratosfear
  • Brand X - Product
  • Steve Hillage - Motivation Radio
  • Steve Hillage - Green
  • Hatfield & the North - Hatfield & the North
  • Hatfield & the North - Rotters Club
  • Steve Hackett - Voyage of the Acolyte

Please help me out. Thanks! Smile
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Points: 67407 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 20 2007 at 09:55
Nice idea for a thread!

Stratosfear is the only one I've heard from your list. If you like their other albums you won't be disappointed with Stratosfear, especially the title track is awesome.

My list:
Talk Talk - Laughing Stock
Magenta - Revolutions
Roger Waters - The Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking
Curved Air - Air Conditioning
Yes - Time and a Word
Rush - Vapor Trails
David Sylvian - Blemish
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Points: 31327 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 20 2007 at 10:36
Originally posted by Abstrakt Abstrakt wrote:

The meaning of this thread is to post albums that you are curious on, And then let the people that owns that album tell their opinion and such.

I'm curios on thease at the moment:

  • Tangerine Dream - Stratosfear
  • Brand X - Product
  • Hatfield & the North - Hatfield & the North
  • Hatfield & the North - Rotters Club
  • Steve Hackett - Voyage of the Acolyte

Please help me out. Thanks! Smile

 
 
Both Hatfield's are excellent canterbury stuff. Hackett's album is great as well, very similar to Gabriel-era Genesis at times. Product is very uneven plus a bit different to other Brand X albums. Stratosfear reminds me of JMJ at times, very good stuff, I like it slightly better than Phaedra.Smile
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Points: 31327 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 20 2007 at 10:39
Originally posted by Vompatti Vompatti wrote:


Talk Talk - Laughing Stock
 
 
Similar to Spirit of Eden, perhaps more experimental and complex. Both albums are brilliant, but it is an acquired taste.
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Points: 6336 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 20 2007 at 13:08
Originally posted by Abstrakt Abstrakt wrote:

  • Hatfield & the North - Rotters Club
  • Steve Hackett - Voyage of the Acolyte



Rotters club is a nice combo of what I think cantembury is at its best, its not really my style, but I can tell you its good. The musicianship is mindblowing without being in your face, something really rewarding!
Voyage is a great album, Hackett proved that not only Banks and Rutherford could compose in Genesis. The good thing about this album is that Collins plays drums and sings and Rutherford plays bass...so it´s almoust a Genesis album...there is even a song, Star of sirius, which many call "the Genesis song Genesis never recorded"...but the best by far is Shadow of the Hierophant.
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Points: 18292 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 20 2007 at 13:54
If many people makes lists, it would be very helpful if you quote eachother so it doesn't get messy.
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Great idea Abstrakt!

I'm curious about:

  • Meshuggah - I
  • Pain of Salvation - any album
  • Porcupine Tree - In Absentia
  • Egg - any album
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Points: 18292 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 20 2007 at 14:05
Originally posted by progismylife progismylife wrote:



  • Meshuggah - I

 
Fantastic and really mindblowing album. Great place to start, because which albums you'll get next depends on which part of it you like.
The first couple of minutes is extreamly fast thrash-influenced stuff. If you like that, get "Contradictions Collapse"
If you'll like the über-complex and varied part around 5:00-11:00 or so, get "Destroy Erase Improve" and/or "Chaosphere".
If you prefer the last part, The bloody dark and heavy part at 11:00-20:00 (like me), you should get "Nothing" and/or "Catch 33".
Excellent album/EP overall!
 
WARNING: if you're unfamiliar with polyrhytms, insane time signatures, and insane guitar solos, it will crack your brain. Enough said.


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Add to my curiosity list:
  • Atheist - Elements
  • Jethro Tull - Stormwatch
  • Bo Hansson - Sagan om Ringen
  • Bo Hansson - Ur Magikerns Hatt
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Points: 5085 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 20 2007 at 17:17
Nice thread !
My list :
Kamelot - Early albums up to Karma
Derek Sherinian - Blood of the Snake
Spock's Beard - Spock's Beard, Feel Euphoria
Green Carnation - The Quiet Offspring
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Points: 13536 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 20 2007 at 17:37
What can you tell me about this albums:
"Music is much like f**king, but some composers can't climax and others climax too often, leaving themselves and the listener jaded and spent."

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Originally posted by Abstrakt Abstrakt wrote:

Add to my curiosity list:
  • Jethro Tull - Stormwatch
 
I love that album. When I was a child my brother played the instrumental "Elegy" over and over on his cassette player. When I grew up I didn't stop until I found the Tull album that included that track. It was such a beautiful melody. The album was Stormwatch. Not a masterpiece but I think it's a good album, one of their darkest, and the last hard rockin' one before their 80's synth-driven albums.


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Originally posted by progismylife progismylife wrote:

  • Pain of Salvation - any album

Well... if you want more  metal works, then Entropia (probably their most complex album) and One Hour by the Concrete Lake will be your best choices. Their first two albums of the new millennium, The Perfect Element and Remedy Lane, are the two best albums to start with, as they have all of the elements of the previous two but expand upon them with some very symphonic and gorgeous acoustic moments. BE is a good album if you can take overly pretentious concepts, it is the least "metal" album they've made, but there are still heavy moments. Scarsick is a bit of a misfire by them according to some, but I like it as much as BE. It's their heaviest album since OHbtCL but it is a lot more stripped down and not nearly as complex.
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Originally posted by progismylife progismylife wrote:


  • Egg - any album

All of their albums are worth it, although I wouldn't quite call any of them "essential."  Most consider The Polite Force their best, but I'm quite fond of The Civil Surface (people tend to overlook this one).  To me, all three of their albums are a solid 4 stars (I prefer the 2nd and 3rd to the debut, but thats just me).
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Points: 18292 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 21 2007 at 05:11
Originally posted by kazansky kazansky wrote:


Spock's Beard - Feel Euphoria

 
A really good piece of modern prog. Features both the epic (A guy named sid), the fast rocker (Onomatopoetic), and the Emotional Song (Shining Star).
It's a great album, if you don't compare it to something else. A few poppy moments, thought.
I recommend you to buy the 2CD set together with "Don't try this at home".
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Points: 18292 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 21 2007 at 05:14
Updating my list:
  • Asia - Asia
  • Asia - Aria
  • Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells II
  • Tangerine Dream - Stratosfear
  • Brand X - Product
  • Steve Hillage - Motivation Radio
  • Steve Hillage - Green
  • Hatfield & the North - Hatfield & the North
  • Hatfield & the North - Rotters Club
  • Steve Hackett - Voyage of the Acolyte
  • Atheist - Elements
  • Jethro Tull - Stormwatch
  • Bo Hansson - Sagan om Ringen
  • Bo Hansson - Ur Magikerns Hatt
  • Strawbs - From the witchwood
  • Jon Anderson - Olias of Sunhillow
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Points: 31327 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 21 2007 at 13:26
Originally posted by Tuzvihar Tuzvihar wrote:

What can you tell me about this albums:


 
 
Bizarre kraut mixed with RIO. Really good, but definitely an acquired taste!
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Originally posted by Abstrakt Abstrakt wrote:

  • Strawbs - From the witchwood
  • Jon Anderson - Olias of Sunhillow
 
 
From The Withwood is one of their best albums, though I recommend you to start with Ghosts or Hero & Heroine first. Olias is very Yes-ish at times, only more acoustic and very trippy.


Edited by Bj-1 - February 21 2007 at 13:28
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Points: 3089 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 21 2007 at 13:40
Originally posted by Abstrakt Abstrakt wrote:

Brand X - Product

Please help me out. Thanks! Smile

Don't buy it, unless you already have Unorthodox Behaviour , Missing Period (1975) and Morrocan Roll

Originally posted by Abstrakt Abstrakt wrote:

Jon Anderson - Olias of Sunhillow

Nice one to have, but necessarily a priority.



Edited by andu - February 21 2007 at 13:43
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Originally posted by Abstrakt Abstrakt wrote:

  • Bo Hansson - Sagan om Ringen
  • Bo Hansson - Ur Magikerns Hatt

I can recommend both, especially the first. Turn on the music, close your eyes and let the music get you. Instant favorites on the first album will probably be "The Black Riders / Flight to the Ford" and "Lothlorien".


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