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octopus-4 
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 Posted: February 15 2024 at 07:55 |
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Looking at the Testament page on PA I've noticed that a good Zeuhl musician from Belarus that I really like has rated it with 5 stars. What am I missing?
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I stand with Roger Waters, I stand with Joan Baez, I stand with Victor Jara, I stand with Woody Guthrie. Music is revolution
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Nogbad_The_Bad
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Posted: February 15 2024 at 08:39 |
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I really didn't like the second Shub-Niggurath album so I'm probably not the best to ask on their third. The debut is a stone cold classic. Has any band had a bigger drop off?
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octopus-4
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Posted: February 15 2024 at 08:59 |
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Compared to the third, the second is a masterpiece
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I stand with Roger Waters, I stand with Joan Baez, I stand with Victor Jara, I stand with Woody Guthrie. Music is revolution
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moshkito
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Posted: February 16 2024 at 03:19 |
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Hi, Pleaseeeee ... a kazoo is sacred, unless you have never heard PDQ Bach and think the name is just a joke and not a true (and excellent) musician ... named Peter Schickele. Next you really need to listen to "... have you got any onions? ... " just before the Oratorio half teaspoon! The kazoo is sacred!!!!
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Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told!
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moshkito
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Posted: February 16 2024 at 03:21 |
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Hi, The version to listen of this song, is Rickie Lee Jones' ... awesome. I don't think that Celine has the voice touch that this song would require ... bad choice on her part, but obviously a song she likes.
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Valdez1
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Posted: February 16 2024 at 08:52 |
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FANTASTIC
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Saw this and while its been YEARS, I know that has to be wrong. You must have bumped your head. Edited by ProcolWho? - March 01 2024 at 20:48 |
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I disliked both VdGG's albums post 2010.Instead of the screeching saxophone led rock that pivoted them in the 70s, it sounded so tame and boring. Not the worst, but I found some of Can 's highly touted works like Tago Mago to go over my head. I do like their approach to sounds [liked their archived instrumental albums released recently] and love Monster Movie from them. But Pete's sake, they were terrible songwriters and vocalists. Every time, they come out and let their vocals override their instrumental abilities, they deride the quality of their work to me.
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^ I love Tago Mago and each of Can's first five albums. Monster Movie is the album that got me to appreciate Can, and then I go into Soundtracks. Ege Bamyası is a particular favourite of mine. I came to really appreciate the singing and and whole experience when it comes to listening to Can. To each their own appreciations. There are some very much liked artists at PA such as Neal Morse that almost leave me hoping for a flood of Biblical proportions, if only to flood out the sound.... Then I remember the pause and off switches and all is as right as rain....
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Yeah think I agree, although they are their best at doing cover versions of things like Yellow Brick Road.I bought the Kaleidoscope only for the bonus CD. Mostly I just find their music very sterile and lacking any real ideas. It does a lot of 'proggy' things but never has an identity of its own. (IMO) Edited by richardh - September 20 2024 at 23:00 |
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The fact that when I was young I'd listen to some East German radio out of interest even though from the west, and hardly anyone else in the west did that (they played some good music occasionally, for example the first time I heard something from Talk Talk was on "Stimme der DDR") connected me to Stern Meissen (aka Stern-Combo Meissen) maybe it bit more than most of their music deserved (although they have some very good material indeed). But in the mid-eighties they recorded some ridiculously bad albums, the worst probably being "Taufrisch". Be happy that you'll probably never hear this.
Eloy - Ra is also very very bad. (Another band I used to love as a teenager, and I still love some of their stuff.)
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Posted: September 21 2024 at 05:12 |
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Robert Wyatt - Rock Bottom. I'll never understand the praise this album receives. I find it unlistenable.
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Posted: September 21 2024 at 05:28 |
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That second Comus album is a cruel letdown, but the album in itself is not so bad as such. About half the tracks are OK. I could've seen those as the flipside of that sidelong epic they'd written and never recorded for their second album to be. Never liked Shub Niggurath, though... partly because they outdo Lovecraft (never a fan) in pure horror. SN is so sinister that they make UZ sound likea sunshine pop band. .
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let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
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Psychedelic Paul
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Posted: September 21 2024 at 06:02 |
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Least favourite prog albums of the 1970's:-
 1970: Robert Wyatt - The End of an Ear - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lZWgv3mSthsAZCOauH1isGsIjTfFrkGng 1979: Henry Cow - Western Culture - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kywH6xoua8WUuHprkrIvjPmJN1HpN8E3o 1979: This Heat - This Heat - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLs9zwqXsceUi2PF0ZF5_PEo5mRqlxvkLl 1979: The Residents - Eskimo - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mP9-XE1XbmuRiCV69afJ0sqdRCNIIdnN8 1979: Throbbing Gristle - 20 Jazz Funk Greats - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lRUlpMRiVHaiR284WEgrxFqJFBjqT-mvAThere seems to be a pattern emerging there.
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Posted: September 21 2024 at 06:50 |
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Very valid comparison, I love First Utterance and the follow up was a significant drop off. |
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Posted: September 21 2024 at 08:38 |
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I made a Dream Theater ranking on a metal forum, Systematic Chaos and The Astonishing are at the bottom.  The problem with The Astonishing is that it's supposed to be a concept album, but to me it feels so disjointed, lacks any kind of flow.
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Posted: September 21 2024 at 11:05 |
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Sorry, but that's something I quickly forget.  |
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quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond
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Floydoid
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I totally agree that both ATD and Broken China could have been truly great PF albums with the involvement of the rest of the band. Broken China (as good as it is) especially would have been enhanced by the presence of Gilmour & Mason, tho maybe it was too much of a personal album to be considered for a band project. Edited by Floydoid - September 21 2024 at 13:08 |
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Floydoid
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Posted: September 21 2024 at 13:23 |
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Having said that I'll nominate Captain Beefheart's 'Trout Mask Replica' as one of the most unlistenable albums I've heard - I find it very much an endurance test and often give up before getting through to the end of it.
If we're talking non-music albums then for me John & Yoko's 'Two Virgins', 'Life with the Lions' and 'Wedding Albums' totally boring and pointless. Edited by Floydoid - September 22 2024 at 00:10 |
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