Help Whittle Down My Christmas List... (Part 1)
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Topic: Help Whittle Down My Christmas List... (Part 1)
Posted By: Zombywoof
Subject: Help Whittle Down My Christmas List... (Part 1)
Date Posted: December 04 2011 at 11:37
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I've allowed multiple votes, so users can vote for more than one title. I'm not as interested in the votes, as I am the comments. Part 2 to come soon. Thanks for the help! ------------- Continue the prog discussion here: http://zombyprog.proboards.com/index.cgi ... |
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Posted By: VanVanVan
Date Posted: December 04 2011 at 11:39
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Grave New world is an album everyone should have, and if you like Neo-Prog Marbles is pretty dang good. ------------- "The meaning of life is to give life meaning."-Arjen Lucassen |
Posted By: zravkapt
Date Posted: December 04 2011 at 11:40
| Get Decals as that is hard to find. If you can't get Caravan's Girls album. |
Posted By: Horizons
Date Posted: December 04 2011 at 12:04
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I voted for both the Caravan albums. Highly recommended. I also put up a vote for the new Beardfish. ------------- Crushed like a rose in the riverflow. |
Posted By: SaltyJon
Date Posted: December 04 2011 at 12:10
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I voted for three from this one; Hosianna Mantra, Camembert Electrique, and Waterloo Lily. Hosianna Mantra is just an amazing, pastoral, laid back album...great listening if you want to be able to relax. Camembert Electrique - if you already have the Radio Gnome Invisible trilogy, this one's what I'd recommend next from Gong, as you hear the beginnings of the saga (plus some good music to boot). Finally, Waterloo Lily - Caravan at their jazziest. It's great fun.
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Posted By: BrufordFreak
Date Posted: December 04 2011 at 12:16
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Recommend Hosianna Mantra and Space Shanty--two excellent and easily accessible (winning: they'll knock your socks off!) representatives of their respective sub-genres. ------------- Drew Fisher https://progisaliveandwell.blogspot.com/ |
Posted By: SaltyJon
Date Posted: December 04 2011 at 12:17
Well I wouldn't say that Hosianna Mantra is exactly a good representative of Krautrock, but I'll agree that it'll knock your socks off.  ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Salty_Jon" rel="nofollow">
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BrufordFreak wrote:Posted By: Zombywoof
Date Posted: December 04 2011 at 12:22
I've noticed that you and I have very similar tastes, so those are definately going to go into the 'whittled down' list. ------------- Continue the prog discussion here: http://zombyprog.proboards.com/index.cgi ... |
Posted By: PabstRibbon
Date Posted: December 04 2011 at 12:44
| If you already knows Beardfish you just have to get Mammoth ! If you don't know them, it's a great album to start with them, it got the Beardfish style with some different things that the other albums don't have. Bruford's One of a Kind is an amazing fusion album with Allan Holdsworth so you know what to expect: lots of mind blowing drumming and jazz guitar. I also voted for Porcupine Tree DVD. I'm not a big fan of them but the DVD is of an amazing quality and is very pleasant to watch and ear. |
Posted By: Wanorak
Date Posted: December 04 2011 at 12:48
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I went with Marbles, Grave New World, Brave and Script for a Jester's Tear(in that order). Marbles is fantastic, especially the 2 disc version which gets you Ocean Cloud! Well worth the price for just that song. Grave New World is a great prog-folk album; one of my favourite all-time albums. The other 2 discs are both eras of Marillion at their best! ------------- A GREAT YEAR FOR PROG!!! |
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: December 04 2011 at 12:52
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Why? because I said so.
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Posted By: Progosopher
Date Posted: December 04 2011 at 12:53
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Space Shanty by Kahn - I really like the interplay between Hillage's guitar and Stewar's keys. The whole album has a fresh, dynamic sound, energetic and well performed. The songs themselves are all good. I wish they stuck together for at least another album, but who knows whether it would be as good? Fish Rising by Steve Hillage - If you are familiar with You by Gong, this album has a similar quality (without the Daevid Allen madness of course) but takes it to the next level of spaciness. Lots of instrumental jams, featuring awesome guitar, naturally. Floating by Eloy - Another dose of extensive spacey hard jams. Lots of great riffs. I also like Strawbs and Caravan a lot u but don't have the albums listed here, so did not give them votes. ------------- The world of sound is certainly capable of infinite variety and, were our sense developed, of infinite extensions. -- George Santayana, "The Sense of Beauty" |
Posted By: Chozal
Date Posted: December 04 2011 at 13:10
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I'd vote for the whole Marillion package (the three albums), and the PT DVD. Especially the DVD though, which is more Christmas-y object :3
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Posted By: Fox On The Rocks
Date Posted: December 04 2011 at 13:11
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Nadir's Big Chance! One Of Peter's best solo albums along with Silent Corner and In Camera. In Camera is a personal favourite.
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Posted By: 2dogs
Date Posted: December 04 2011 at 13:27
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I don't seem able to vote, but would recommend Eloy as a cleanly produced collection of dynamic, tight and catchy riffs, and Tangerine Dream seeing as you can get 5 albums plus extras for the price of a single album, and you should be able to find at least 2 albums worth of good material on there |
Posted By: Triceratopsoil
Date Posted: December 04 2011 at 13:32
| Voted for Hosianna Mantra, Camembert Electrique, Nadir's Big Chance, Floating, and Stormcock. All absolute classics. |
Posted By: akamaisondufromage
Date Posted: December 04 2011 at 14:05
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I would go for the greatest cheese powered concept album ever made by an Australian led French / English band as well as the elevated gilled water dweller made by a later member of aformentioned group. ------------- Help me I'm falling! |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: December 04 2011 at 14:23
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Brave, For Girls Who Grow Plump in the Night, Space Shanty and Stormcock are all worth checking out. Brave is the best Hogarth-era Marillion album as far as I know them, the other three are classics. ------------- 
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Posted By: b_olariu
Date Posted: December 04 2011 at 15:09
| if you want some high class jazz fusion then without hesitation One of a Kind - Bill Bruford, is one of my fav albums ever with top notch musicians, second option from here Dixie Dregs - What if. |
Posted By: akaBona
Date Posted: December 04 2011 at 15:59
| Matching Mole, Gong and Bruford |
Posted By: Hercules
Date Posted: December 04 2011 at 16:35
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Grave New World is the only album on that list which deserves 5* and is utterly essential to any collection.
But it has to be listened to all the way through from the start to get the best out of it. ------------- A TVR is not a car. It's a way of life. |
Posted By: AtomicCrimsonRush
Date Posted: December 04 2011 at 17:43
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Wow, that's a heck of a Chrissie list Ok lets categorise this monster list essential In search of Hawkwind Grave New strawbs One of a Bruford Camembert Gong Mammoth Beardfish Anesthetise dvd Script for a jesters Marillion Both Caravans Space Shanty -Khan After that the other Marillions are worthwhile Autobahn has one masterpiece track and the rest is very mediocre - so just download the length title track. Hammills Solo is okay but not as good as Corner and stage... check it first before purchase One to avoid? perhaps And you will know us by the trail of dead - I had one album and detested that style but thats prog.... Ones to include on your list include: (well, these are all my 5 star reviews so its a good start!) AREA - Arbeit Macht Frei | review AYREON - The Human Equation | review BANCO DEL MUTUO SOCCORSO - Banco Del Mutuo Soccorso | review BANCO DEL MUTUO SOCCORSO - Io Sono Nato Libero | review BACAMARTE - Depois Do Fim THE BEATLES - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band | review THE ARTHUR BROWN BAND - The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown | review CAMEL - Mirage | review DREAM THEATER - Metropolis Part 2: Scenes From A Memory | review DUN - Eros | review EMERSON LAKE & PALMER Brain Salad Surgery | review EMERSON LAKE & PALMER Welcome Back My Friends To The Show That Never Ends | review HAWKWIND Space Ritual | review JETHRO TULL Thick As A Brick | review KING CRIMSON In The Court Of The Crimson King | review KING CRIMSON Red | review KRAFTWERK The Man-Machine (Die Mensch-Maschine) | review NEKTAR A Tab In The Ocean | review LE ORME Uomo Di Pezza | review PINK FLOYD Dark Side Of The Moon | review PINK FLOYD Wish You Were Here | review PORCUPINE TREE Deadwing | review QUEENSRYCHE Operation: Mindcrime | review RIVERSIDE Anno Domini High Definition | review RUSH A Farewell To Kings | review RUSH Permanent Waves | review DEVIN TOWNSEND Ziltoid the Omniscient | review VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR H to He, Who Am the Only One | review VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR Pawn Hearts | review YES Close To The Edge | review YES Fragile | review RENAISSANCE - Ashes Are Burning RUSH - Hemispheres YES - Relayer GENESIS - A Trick Of The Tail PINK FLOYD - The Wall MAUDLIN OF THE WELL - Part the Second IQ - Frequency MASTERS APPRENTICES, THE - Fully Qualified: The Choicest Cuts WISHBONE ASH - Argus MOODY BLUES, THE - This Is The Moody Blues GENESIS - Foxtrot MAGMA - MDK ANEKDOTEN - Vemod DEEP PURPLE - In Rock ATOMIC ROOSTER - Death walks behind you DIAGONAL - Diagonal GENESIS - Nursery Cryme GENESIS - Selling England By The Pound BLACK SABBATH - Paranoid BRAVE NEW WORLD - Iron Maiden SEVENTH SON OF A SEVENTH SON - Iron Maiden AQUARIUS - Haken INTO THE EVERFLOW - Psychotic Waltz VICTIMS OF THE MODERN AGE - Star One PHIDEAUX - Doomsday Afternoon PHIDEAUX - Snowtorch PERSEPHONE'S DREAM - Pan: An Urban Pastoral U.K - U.K A DRAMATIC TURN OF EVENTS - Dream Theater IMAGES AND WORDS - Dream Theater RAILS - Steve Hackett LED ZEPPELIN - Led Zeppelin THE YES ALBUM - Yes TALES OF THE SANDS - Myrath MAMMOTH - Beardfish FRANCES THE MUTE - The Mars Volta ------------- 
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Posted By: yanch
Date Posted: December 06 2011 at 05:51
| Marillion's Brave. One of the best concept albums ever. |
Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: December 06 2011 at 06:12
| One Of A Kind, Script For A Jester's Tear and For Girls Who Grow Plump In The Night show the respective bands at their peak. |
Posted By: octopus-4
Date Posted: December 06 2011 at 06:58
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The TANGERINE DREAM boxset is probably expensive enough, so I have checked only it. Have a nice relaxing Xmas with those electronic drones. ------------- I stand with Roger Waters, I stand with Joan Baez, I stand with Victor Jara, I stand with Woody Guthrie. Music is revolution |
Posted By: Sheavy
Date Posted: December 06 2011 at 16:55
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Hosianna Mantra, In Search Of Space, Grave New World, Autobahn, Lick My Decals Off Baby, Floating, Waterloo Lily, Space Shanty, What If, annnddddd Stormcock. ------------- 
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Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: December 06 2011 at 18:29
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I voted for Popol Vuh's Hosianna Mantra, which would be followed by Stormcock. I also love Space Shanty. I should get the Roland Kirk album. EDIT: I somehow failed to mention Little Red Record -- I love that album. |
Posted By: Zombywoof
Date Posted: December 06 2011 at 22:57
What a long list! I have all of the 'classic' bands on there, with Jethro Tull being possibly my favorite band, and with the exception of the Beatles ... I simply never got into them. I haven't heard "Francis the Mute" ... the only Mars Volta I have is "The Bedlam in Goliath", and I wasn't paticularly inpressed. ------------- Continue the prog discussion here: http://zombyprog.proboards.com/index.cgi ... |
Posted By: Lark the Starless
Date Posted: December 06 2011 at 22:58
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"For Girls..." by Caravan and "Script..." by Marillion ------------- 
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Posted By: Horizons
Date Posted: December 07 2011 at 13:06
Listen to Frances, i think it'll fit your tastes a lot more. Then either go to Deloused or Amputechture. ------------- Crushed like a rose in the riverflow. |