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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 06 2007 at 21:44
The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys I pretty jammy. No grand overly complex counterpointed intellectual composiitons here. Some great music in a vein similar to the Allman bros but less southern. not southern at all really.

Fates Warning, one of my favs when they first appeared on the scene but I'm not a big fan of upper register operatic vocals.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 09 2007 at 09:07

A couple more:

  • Rage Against The Machine - Evil Empire
  • Rage Against The Machine - Battle of Los Angeles
  • Queensr˙che - Empire
  • Fates Warning - Disconnected

All of those were avaible at a very cheap price (used) at my favorite record store.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 09 2007 at 09:24
  • Asia - Asia Very good melodious pop / rock
  • Asia - Aria Bad melodious pop / rock; the magic has gone after the first album
  • Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells II Not as good as the first T.B.
  • Hatfield & the North - Hatfield & the North Very good Canterbury stuff
  • Hatfield & the North - Rotters Club Even better Canterbury stuff
  • Steve Hackett - Voyage of the Acolyte Brilliant album!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 09 2007 at 09:26
Originally posted by Flyingsod Flyingsod wrote:

The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys I pretty jammy. No grand overly complex counterpointed intellectual composiitons here. Some great music in a vein similar to the Allman bros but less southern. not southern at all really.

 
I agree. Traffic and John Barleycorn Must Die are much better. It's still a nice album though.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 28 2007 at 10:11
Thought i'd bring back this thread with a new list.
  • Procol Harum - Procol Harum
  • Procol Harum - A Salty Dog
  • Procol Harum - Exotic Birds & Fruit
  • Procol Harum - Procol's Ninth
  • Marillion - Afraid of Sunlight
  • Marillion - Brave
  • Weather Report - Weather Report (1982)
  • Mike Oldfield - Ommadawn
  • Mike Oldfield - Hergest Ridge
  • Mike Oldfield - QE2
  • Mike Oldfield - Discovery
  • Mike Oldfield - Crises
  • Triumvirat - Illusions on a Double Dimple
  • Triumvirat - Pompeii
  • Gentle Giant - In a Glass House
  • Gentle Giant - Free Hand
  • Captain Beefheart - Lick My Decals Off, Baby
  • Captain Beefheart - Safe as Milk
  • Captain Beefheart - Strictly Personal
  • King Crimson - Three of a Perfect Pair
  • King Crimson - The Power to Believe

And some Metal stuff:

  • Burzum - Burzum/Aske
  • Burzum - Det som En Gang var
  • Burzum - Filosofem
  • Posessed - Seven Churches
  • Death - Leprosy
  • Death - Symbolic
  • Opeth - Orchid
  • Opeth - Morningrise
 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 29 2007 at 02:12
  • Marillion - Afraid of Sunlight get the Fish era stuff first
  • Marillion - Brave same as above
  • Mike Oldfield - Ommadawn essential if you like TB
  • Mike Oldfield - Hergest Ridge same
  • Mike Oldfield - QE2 very good and should do it for any MO fan
  • Mike Oldfield - Discovery average pop with only one really good track
  • Mike Oldfield - Crises title track is brilliant, the rest is average
  • Triumvirat - Illusions on a Double Dimple excellent, essential if you like Spartacus
  • Triumvirat - Pompeii more uneven but still very good
  • Gentle Giant - In a Glass House brilliant
  • Gentle Giant - Free Hand brilliant
  • King Crimson - Three of a Perfect Pair Discipline-ish but not as good
  • King Crimson - The Power to Believe excellent avant-ish metal KC

And some Metal stuff:

  • Opeth - Morningrise nice early Opeth, one of my personal favs with them
not familiar enough with most of the rest

Edited by Bj-1 - April 29 2007 at 02:13
RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 29 2007 at 02:14
^ Thanks alot anyway!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 29 2007 at 07:32
Originally posted by Abstrakt Abstrakt wrote:


Captain Beefheart - Safe as Milk personally this this is Beefhearts best, great deubt

And some Metal stuff:

Burzum - Burzum/Aske wouldn't start with this album if you are new to his works
Burzum - Det som En Gang var great raw black metal
Burzum - Filosofem where he gets the balance between Ambience and black metal perfect, his best album
Posessed - Seven Churches hmmm... often hailed as the first death metal album. Probably closer to brutal thrash. Not sure what your tastes are like considering metal, but this could be a turn off. If you are looking for early death metal 'Death' might be the way to go.
Opeth - Orchid Closer to straight death metal, look into if you are a interested in the bands roots
Opeth - MorningriseThe bands best album, a lot rawer than their later albums
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 29 2007 at 08:14
Well, i have several albums by "Death", So getting into Posessed and Opeth's debut shouldn't be a problem
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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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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 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 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 13:46
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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.
 
I'm curious about Magna Carta ~ Lord of Ages
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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."







Edited by Arsillus - May 28 2007 at 16:49
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Is King Crimson's 'Thrakattak' worth getting?
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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 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 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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