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The.Crimson.King 
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 Posted: June 05 2013 at 11:58 |
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Just like I originally thought it was a huge black woman doing the singing on The Great Gig In The Sky  |
^this
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The.Crimson.King
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Posted: June 05 2013 at 11:57 |
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The opening song on the "Toward the Within" video is certainly the best Chinese Dulcimer playing I've ever seen  |
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Posted: June 05 2013 at 11:46 |
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Gimmie my headphones now!!! 🎧🤣
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Guldbamsen
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Posted: June 05 2013 at 11:39 |
I think most people know her voice - they'd just never imagine it coming from a white Aussie chick I mean, how many here have heard the soundtrack to Black Hawk Down and thought it was some Arabian woman wailing during the woeful scenes? Ok maybe most round this board know of her, but each time I've seen that movie with people unaware of Lisa - they just couldn't believe it, when I told them. Just like I originally thought it was a huge black woman doing the singing on The Great Gig In The Sky |
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The.Crimson.King
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Posted: June 05 2013 at 11:26 |
Lisa Gerard is great. Not only an amazing vocalist but she creates her own language as well 
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Guldbamsen
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Posted: June 05 2013 at 11:14 |
Count me in as well. Never been a fan of Haslam's vocals either. If we're going down that road, I'd much rather listen to Lisa Gerard.
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“The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.”
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The.Crimson.King
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Posted: June 05 2013 at 11:08 |
Mellotron Storm wrote:
I don't like Rennasaince, heck I can't even spell it. Not into Folk bands except for the rare exceptions. |
^ I can't stand the Annie Haslam lineups of Renaissance but really like their 1969 debut album with Jane Relf.
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Guldbamsen
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Posted: June 05 2013 at 10:55 |
Eye of the Tiger is way cool 
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“The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.”
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Posted: June 05 2013 at 10:48 |
The list is too long. To summarize, all the things that I don't like sound to me like the Rocky soundtrack song "The eye of the tiger". 
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Josef_K
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Posted: June 05 2013 at 10:39 |
Well... I love Final Cut but it's not really my favorite so maybe that doesn't count. Topographic Oceans being my favorite album of all time might cause some shock, but not on a prog site :D
"From Genesis to Revelation" is better than everything they recorded after Peter Gabriel left combined. My favorite King Crimson album is "Islands", only slightly above "Lizard" (I didn't know this was considered strange to be honest... apart from the obvious strangeness that comes with being a KC fan to begin with). I am a fan of symphonic prog but I'm bored by 99% of classical music (just to illustrate, my favorite classical music piece is Jon Lord's "Concerto for Group and Orchestra"). My favorite Rush song is "Fountain of Lamneth" (is that strange? I don't think so, just wrote it in case). I love Rick Wakeman's "King Arthur" album but I consider ELP to be way too show-offy (oh the irony, I know :)
That's all I can think of for the moment...
Edited by Josef_K - June 05 2013 at 10:40
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Mellotron Storm
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Posted: June 05 2013 at 10:29 |
Okay I do not like Kansas at all and I will never listen to anything by ELP other than their debut. I don't like Rennasaince, heck I can't even spell it. Not into Folk bands except for the rare exceptions. I don't like Kind Of Blue or really anything that is traditional Jazz. I can't get into Rick Wakeman's solo stuff at all, or Peter Gabriel's either although I do like some of his songs.
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"The wind is slowly tearing her apart"
"Sad Rain" ANEKDOTEN
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The.Crimson.King
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Posted: June 05 2013 at 10:09 |
stegor wrote:
Axe Victim is my favorite Be Bop Deluxe album. It seems to be considered by most to be their worst, just because Bill Nelson was trying to be David Bowie AND Mick Ronson at the same time. He actually pulled it off if you ask me!
I also bought it because of the cover.
Oh, different thread...
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^ this
He wasn't just trying to be Bowie & Ronson, he became Bill Nelson
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dr wu23
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Posted: June 05 2013 at 09:53 |
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Never understood the Ok computer hype since we're at it |
I'm with ya on that as well as Radiohead in general......a far better ' modern prog band' is PT.
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One does nothing yet nothing is left undone.
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Smurph
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Posted: June 05 2013 at 08:39 |
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I don't like Pink Floyd.
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Posted: June 05 2013 at 07:08 |
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Tarkus kick asses both sides, is the best album ever
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Posted: June 05 2013 at 07:02 |
ExittheLemming wrote:
Many dyed in the wool ELP aficionados loathe side 2 of Tarkus but I love (most of it)
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Me too.
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BaldFriede
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Posted: June 05 2013 at 06:46 |
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Not allbum, but song: My favourite Genesis song is "Waiting Room", which probably is the least favourite for many others. And "The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway" is my favourite album of them.
With Pink Floyd it is rather the opposite; "The Wall" is my least favourite of their albums, closely followed by "Animals". I don't count anything they published after "The Wall", by the way; for me that stuff has nothing to do with Pink Floyd anymore. They turned "A Momentary Lapse of Reason" into a lapse of reason that lasted for years.
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stegor
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Posted: June 04 2013 at 19:32 |
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Axe Victim is my favorite Be Bop Deluxe album. It seems to be considered by most to be their worst, just because Bill Nelson was trying to be David Bowie AND Mick Ronson at the same time. He actually pulled it off if you ask me!
I also bought it because of the cover.
Oh, different thread...
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The.Crimson.King
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Posted: June 03 2013 at 10:48 |
richardh wrote:
The.Crimson.King wrote:
richardh wrote:
The.Crimson.King wrote:
richardh wrote:
The Who By Numbers was my first Who album and I'm still very fond of it. Always considered it one of their best albums.
Tarkus Side Two is just disjointed and unfocused compared to Side One. ELP fans certainly don't loathe it otherwise they wouldn't be fans , its just that Side One gets a little bit overpraised by comparison.  |
Ya, The Who By Numbers has some great songs, "Slip Kid", "How Many Friends", "Success Story"...
I bought the Welcome Back My Friends... live set before I bought Tarkus so the studio version always feels too slow and tame for me... |
agreed. plus the extended live version of Aquatarkus makes the studio version redundant. |
The live version of Aquatarkus just wipes the floor with the studio version in terms of excitement and virtuoso playing from all 3. I think it includes some of Greg Lake's finest moments as a bass player. He really holds down the bottom so Emo can Moog-out but also throws in some great scale-based riffs for variety. As for Emo, the multiple Moog sounds/timbres he was able to conjure were revolutionary, and CP creates that great tom-tom driven freight train that keeps the song pounding in high gear. Wish I could've seen it live
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yeah me too. ELP were never more 'crucial' than when they played Aquatarkus live. I think also that piece introduced me to electronic music and encouraged me to explore Tangerine Dream and the like. |
I remember when I first heard the live version I thought how in the world was Emo playing all those synthesizer parts at once? Up until that, most synthesizer appearances were as a mono lead solo or deep growling bass. I can see Aquatarkus leading one to Tangerine Dream...if Emo can make all that synthesizer sound, how much could 3 people do
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Tom Ozric
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Posted: June 03 2013 at 03:46 |
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Tangerine Dream - 'Underwater Sunlight' - it sounds horribly '80's', but it's top-notch TD, composition-wise.
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