What albums did you listen to today?...continued - Progressive Rock Music Forum

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AEProgman wrote:

Finnforest wrote:

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Jim, I've been re-appreciating those first 4 Cars albums in a big way. Such great pop songcraft but with a nice, heavy edge to it. The guitarist is truly underappreciated.

Hey Jim, pop with a nice, heavy edge is the perfect description. Think I will go get Candy-O next.

I sometimes could kick myself for missing out on bands of all kinds and styles during my youth due to a dumb, youthful mindset if music was not of a certain style. At least now I can have a real appreciation for some of the music of those and older times and actually hear an album for the first time with some "spry" expectations.

No albums today yet, but will spin Jefferson Airplane - Surrealistic Pillow

I've done the same, Jim. Wrote off many bands in the 80s for not being sufficiently hardass enough for me when I was in my youthful hard-rock/metal-only phase. You're not alone there. Anyway, Amazon has a little Cars box set, all 5 albums for $18. Great deal if you don't mind the minimalist slip-case only design. No booklet or lyrics.

Panorama is the most adventurous. Some feel it a little too strange, others think it is there best. My sense is that after the crazy success of the first, they did try to break out of their radio hit and expand a bit for two albums, then settled back into more accessible pop for the final two albums. But I love all of those first five album, esp the first four.

Cristi wrote:

progbethyname wrote:

More 80's madness

Savatage-- In the hall of the mountain king
Pet shop boys-- Actually
Peter Gabriel-- Birdy
Pat Benatar-- Best Shots
Glass Tiger-- the thin red line
Glass Tiger-- Diamond head
Rush-- Moving Pictures ( this disc just capped off a great listening day for me. Incredible recording. )

nice choices, that Glass Tiger album is called Diamond Sun, I guess when you wrote "diamond", you instantly thought "diamond head", great band :))))

Haha! Thank you kind sir! And yes. I am surprised i did not write king diamond.

I did the same thing for van der graff generator's 'godbluff'...would call it goldbluff all the time.

Gimmie my headphones now!!! 🎧🤣

On the long walk home from work:

Abusiveness - Bramy Nawii,

Mayhem - De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas.

Then at home:

Behemoth - Demigod.

Black Metal rules!! Evil Smile

Edited by Tuzvihar - October 02 2018 at 15:01

"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."

Charles Bukowski

Code Sap - Untitled

Streiber - Uncertain

Dan Dlugosielski - 2000

Saturnus Pyramydne - Loyal To Love

Categories strain, crack and sometimes break, under their burden - step out of the space provided.

Tuzvihar wrote:

Behemoth - Demigod.

This is one of those I can enjoy in short spurts...it sounds so beastly, but the perpetual layered vocals get on my nerves after a couple of songs and I can't finish it. I love me some Zos Kia Cultus though, gotta red vinyl of that one!

Marissa Nadler - For My Crimes: When I listen to her, I get this image of utterly rural, rustic dilapidated houses off of dirt roads. Gothic folk all the way, very moody. She's from Needham, MA, which is far from rustic...quite a wealthy suburb actually. I'm glad I got this...need more folksy stuff in my collection.

Morbid Angel - Formulas Fatal to the Flesh: When I heard this back in the day (around the millennium) I thought it was a bunch of swirly fast noise with boring vocals. Listening to it now, after delving into all kinds of dissonant madness, caverncore, tech-death, grind, Portal etc., I'm enjoying it! I'd rank this as my third fav by the guys now, after the first two albums.

Alestorm - Captain Morgan's Revenge: I don't know what else to say about this other than "it's pirate metal." They seem like one of those bands that are a blast live with lots of wild stuff going on, but not a lot of concert goers actually buy the CDs. Kinda like The Dropkick Murphys, The Upper Crust, or even Phish. Can you imagine if all the Phish concert goers actually bought each of their albums? They'd be among the top selling CDs EVER. Hell, Junta would be at Floyd level sales. At least The Grateful Dead had a couple of albums that can be considered "classic" by rock standards.

Bolt Thrower - Realm of Chaos: This came out in 1989, and holds up quite well as one of the heaviest death/grind classics since mankind first began beating each other with clubs. Nothing else to add but WOORRLLD EEEAATTER!!!

Edited by Prog Sothoth - October 03 2018 at 19:26

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Meltdowner wrote:

Gong - You

Dis, tu veux un camembert?

^ désolé, il ne me reste que quelques noisettes et des bottins téléphoniques.

Ooh, might give that `Concerto Grosso' a listen tonight myself, Sam!

Finnforest wrote:

Floyd - More

Still my favourite Floyd album, Jim...so hazy and beautiful

Last two nights for me:

Jefferson Airplane – Takes Off
Rush – s/t
The Doors – s/t
Beggars Opera – Waters of Change
Jody Grind – One Step On
Genesis - Abacab
Yes – Progeny: Duke University, 11th November 1972 (disc one)
Dream Theater – Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence.

The Doors – Strange Days
Yes – Relayer
Barclay James Harvest – Everyone is Everybody Else
Steve Hillage – Motivation Radio
Tim Blake - Crystal Machine
Peter Baumann – Romance ‘76
Genesis – Invisible Touch
PTF – Percept From...
Oresund Space Collective – Live in Berlin 2018
Stormloop – Into the Void
Ishq – In a Rainbow Air

Edited by Aussie-Byrd-Brother - October 04 2018 at 14:22