The New Neal Morse Appreciation Thread

geekfreak wrote: I`m still wondering why some of you. your self`s with. Why do you. Like Neal`s music at all. We all don`t like something on every album.

There are far too many reasons why I like Neal and his music!
I will say this though, right now I have been listening to Riverside non-stop (I love them), and some other bands too (plus my dose of Christmas music too-  Prog World Orchestra:)) . Not a lot of Morse besides that, but whenever I take the time to re listen to one of his albums, I always re fall in love with his music. I'm like wow I forgot how good this is and it never grows old. Of course I experience this with other music to some degree too, but with Morse it's different...


Edited by AlexDOM - December 20 2013 at 09:56

tilting at windmills again

it's not your fault

Edited by Crumple - December 20 2013 at 11:34

M27Barney wrote: geekfreak wrote: I`m still wondering why some of you. your self`s with. Why do you. Like Neal`s music at all. We all don`t like something on every album.      You see, with Spocks beard, the music was sublime - and they lyrics interesting...Then Morse he found Jesus...fair enough - he should just have kept a balance in his solo music and left his silly Christian faith out of Transatlantic altogether...because he ruins what is possibly the best music produced by a side-project band. The whirlwind could have been constructed to show how the maelstrom of mans greed is sweeping the world - without then suggesting that the solution is a sky-fairy and his mythological son jesus.....because patently a mans fantasy is DEFINATELY a non-starter as a solution to mans problems.

I'd agree that you needed the bombastic symphonic finale - after the high tempo part - but the lyrics are cheesier than cheese.... The lyrics are ok till you get the "The voice of one who holds the better way".....The giver of life is asking you to DANCE...
Well for a start...."One who has been for all time..." - lets examine that shall we - well since the canon that Morse preaches from is from about the third/fourth century AD....and modern man had been around for 500,000 years before that and is evolved from a common ancestor with chimpanzee's approximately 6 million years ago....life itself began simply a billion or so years before that.... and the earth is 4.5 billion years old...the universe 14.7 billion years....This is all far more interesting than some misogynistic clap-trap - regurgitated ad-nauseum by Morse the preacher - the music is good the lyrics a heap of preachy-warch.... oh and his insistence that we are here -(not by) time & chance - Morse's ignorance shining like a beacon - the fact that it isn't chance we are here in terms of evolution - just the action of natural selection on specific gene pools - the chance being that another large lump of rock hasn't hit the earth, thus wiping us out!
I don't need the crutch of religion in my life because I'm not crippled its as simple as that!

Edited by M27Barney - December 20 2013 at 17:38

deep breaths Barney, deep breaths.

dr wu23 wrote: Crumple wrote: deep breaths Barney, deep breaths. it's gonna be ok.   To quote Mr Morse...."At the end of the day you'll be fine.."

HA HA HA. Smart!

dr wu23 wrote: Crumple wrote: deep breaths Barney, deep breaths. it's gonna be ok.   To quote Mr Morse...."At the end of the day you'll be fine.."

At the end of the day There won't be anymore (So turn the world around) At the end of the day We'll know what this was for (As the sun keeps comin' down) At the end of the day You won't feel any pain (As the sky begins to fall) At the end of the day You'll be feeling right as rain (As the veil reveals it all)

zumacraig wrote: Eternal Glory is still too damn long.

I actually agree with you there

When I saw TA live in 2010 Eternal Glory was cool...I wasn't sure they were going to play it because after Is it Really Happening they had built into such a complete prog frenzy and the crowd went bananas when it was over.  

Crumple wrote: When I saw TA live in 2010 Eternal Glory was cool...I wasn't sure they were going to play it because after Is it Really Happening they had built into such a complete prog frenzy and the crowd went bananas when it was over.   then Neal regrouped after the applause died down and banged out the initial piano chord and off they went.  Because the themes come back in the 2nd half of the song it was a wonderful closer to just an awesome performance of Whirlwind.

That was similar to my experience at their live show in Chicago!
By the way I was listening to Neal Whirlwind Demos last night. It was cool hearing what parts actually stayed on the final product.
I was listening to a recent phone interview with Morse and Portnoy and is was so cool hearing them talk about their friendship. Mike states that Neal is his best musical companion and and easily closest friend. It was so cool hearing both of them talk about their musical and personal friendship.