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Points: 1594 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 23 2007 at 08:29
Originally posted by Abstrakt Abstrakt wrote:

 
Steve Hillage - Motivation Radio
Steve Hillage - Green
 
 
Two excellent albums from Captain Spillage full of spacey keyboards, funky-but-not-too-funky bass and wonderful guitar. Some lyrics are a bit cringeworthy but I heartily recommend all of Hillage's albums apart from And Not Or / For To Next.
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Points: 18292 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 22 2007 at 11:45
Originally posted by Bj-1 Bj-1 wrote:

Originally posted by Abstrakt Abstrakt wrote:

 
Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells II
Atheist - Elements
 
 
You have already heard Elements, at least you listened to it a while back.
 
Tubular Bells II is like a modern re-thinking of the original Tubular Bells album, only less good.
 
The Asia albums are just poppy hard rock with a few proggy moments. Still kinda good.
 
Did I? If i did, it was only the sample on PA
Any idea which albums i should get from Asia?
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Points: 31313 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 22 2007 at 08:43
Originally posted by Abstrakt Abstrakt wrote:

 
Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells II
Atheist - Elements
 
 
You have already heard Elements, at least you listened to it a while back.
 
Tubular Bells II is like a modern re-thinking of the original Tubular Bells album, only less good.
 
The Asia albums are just poppy hard rock with a few proggy moments. Still kinda good.
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Points: 5085 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 22 2007 at 06:15
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Points: 2703 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 22 2007 at 06:11
Originally posted by kazansky kazansky wrote:

also updating list
Kamelot - Early albums up to Karma
Derek Sherinian - Blood of the Snake
Spock's Beard - Spock's Beard
Green Carnation - The Quiet Offspring
Enslaved - any album
Blackmore's Night - Village Lantern
 
Blood of the snake - suprisingly good heavy fusion here, with only couple of downright weak funny tracks
SB - definitely best of post Neal era, with about 50 pct material being good prog-rock.
Blackmore's Night - this is ridiculous already....always the same old primitive tricks, completely unispired, repetitive and ultimately boring.
Do not know the rest and not that I really want to....
 
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Points: 5085 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 22 2007 at 05:45
also updating list
Kamelot - Early albums up to Karma
Derek Sherinian - Blood of the Snake
Spock's Beard - Spock's Beard
Green Carnation - The Quiet Offspring
Enslaved - any album
Blackmore's Night - Village Lantern
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Points: 2703 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 22 2007 at 05:36
Originally posted by Abstrakt Abstrakt wrote:

Thanks alot people!
Still a bit Left:
 
Asia - Asia
Asia - Aria
Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells II
Atheist - Elements
 
Do not know Atheist - metal probably ???
Stay away from Asia unless you like pop/AOR with one or two occasional prog-elemets, which are hard to find in their music anyway.
TBII is a pale parody (sequel ?) on TB, and to me is completely uninteresting, I am not the biggest fan of Mike Oldfield anyway....
 
Maybe a bit too harsh statements above, but as long as you wanted to hear subjective opinions - it should suits you fine...
 
 
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Points: 18292 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 22 2007 at 02:52
Thanks alot people!
Still a bit Left:
 
Asia - Asia
Asia - Aria
Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells II
Atheist - Elements
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Points: 2703 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 21 2007 at 17:21
Originally posted by Abstrakt Abstrakt wrote:

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
 
From this list I can wholeheartedly recommend:
Steve Hillage - Green
Both Hatfield & the North albums
if you like Canterbury/psychedelic/jazzy stuff
 
and Voyage of Acolyte - masterpiece of prog, sounding like lost Genesis (Gabriel -era) album 
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Points: 10261 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 21 2007 at 13:55
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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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.



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Points: 31313 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 21 2007 at 13:28
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.


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Points: 31313 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 21 2007 at 13:26
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What can you tell me about this albums:


 
 
Bizarre kraut mixed with RIO. Really good, but definitely an acquired taste!
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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: 18292 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 21 2007 at 05:11
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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: 8890 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 20 2007 at 18:44
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  • 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: 21342 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 20 2007 at 18:31
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  • 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 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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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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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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