Every Home Should Have One...

This is your opportunity to tell us about a particular album which you think is vastly underrated/ has been criminally overlooked, and tell us why you like it:

Here's mine:

Janison Edge: The Services Of Mary Goode (1998)

This will appeal to anyone who likes tuneful, atmospheric neo-prog (Tuxon, are you listening!?), with a female vocalist.  Sue Element, who wrote most of the material, came up with an album which really doesn't have a weak track, contains some very imaginary lyrics and is very even throughout. A highlight for me are the marvellously 'swirly' keyboards from Mike Varty; it's a great shame they only made one album.

4 Stars:  Standout Track: 'Beaneath The Boy'

OK, what album do you think we should know about?

Ice Age - The Great Divide.

It's just perfect ...

meurglysIII wrote: I know people probably will not believe me, but Journey's first self-titled album is excellent.  There is no Steve Perry, so you dont have to worry.  I recommend it highly; you can get it very cheap.  It is chock full of great instrumentals and improvisations.  I also think that Aynsley Dunbar is on it, and he is certainly a criminally underrated drummer as well.  Overall, it is a great, prog/fusion/hard rock with a few vocals added in and none of them are chessy!

Re Steve Perry: I actually like him...for me, they ran into problems after Captured, when Jonathan Cain joined the band.  They lost that great bluesy feel and became straight hard edged AOR.

Re Aynsley Dunbar: Have you heard Jefferson Starship: Freedom At Point Zero (1979)?  Again, a massively underrated album, with some really great proggy tracks...(you just have to get past 'Jane'!).

fandango wrote: MikeEnRegalia wrote: Ice Age - The Great Divide. It's just perfect ... Hi Mike, thanks for joining in... I personally preferred 'Liberation' but they are great musicians...there's no denying that.

I must admit that I have neither of them ... these two albums are difficult to find. I had The Great Divide as mp3 for a while and I really liked them, recently I downloaded Liberation and I think it's outstanding as well. But I think the songwriting is a bit better on The Great Divide ...

Another great album that every prog (metal) fan should have:

Psychotic Waltz - A Social Grace.

STARLESS AND BIBLE BLACK

It's my favourite Crimson album (maybe because it discovered me the 72-74 period of the band). I like the sound on this recording, even tough most of it comes from live performances!(I found that some years later after the first listening) and IMHO contains the best playing of King Crimson ever, on FRACTURE. It's sandwiched betwen two amazing albums but my ranking for this period is:

1º Starless and bible black

2º Red

3ªLark's Tongues in Aspic

Logos wrote: Dead Soul Tribe - The January Tree One hardly ever sees this band mentioned here, yet this album is a minor masterpiece IMO. I'm sure at least Mike knows this band. Devon Graves is the head of the band, the guy who sang the 'Agony' parts of The Human Equation.

Great album. And Devon Graves - apart from singing for Ayreon - is also known as the singer of Psychotic Waltz (under the alias "Buddy Lackey").

fandango wrote: MikeEnRegalia wrote: Logos wrote: Dead Soul Tribe - The January Tree One hardly ever sees this band mentioned here, yet this album is a minor masterpiece IMO. I'm sure at least Mike knows this band. Devon Graves is the head of the band, the guy who sang the 'Agony' parts of The Human Equation. Great album. And Devon Graves - apart from singing for Ayreon - is also known as the singer of Psychotic Waltz (under the alias "Buddy Lackey"). I've not heard this album... would you say its a step up from their debut?  I had a promo copy of it, and wasn't particularly impressed.

It's their third album. The second one (A Murder Of Crows) is my favorite, I'd recommend that to start with. It's a bit more diverse than the debut, but if you don't like that one, you'll probably don't like the others either. But DST is a band that takes some time to grow on you.

Re Steve Perry: I actually like him...for me, they ran into problems after Captured, when Jonathan Cain joined the band.  They lost that great bluesy feel and became straight hard edged AOR.

Re Aynsley Dunbar: Have you heard Jefferson Starship: Freedom At Point Zero (1979)?  Again, a massively underrated album, with some really great proggy tracks...(you just have to get past 'Jane'!).

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I like Steve Perry as well, but I know most people here probably don't, and Freedom at Point Zero is awesome; I have the album