What albums did you listen to today?...continued

Finnforest wrote: Ad Maiora - Repetita Luvant.   Jury still out.  Some nice parts, some "prog by numbers" feel.  Too many English vocals.  Mike Oldfield - Earth Moving.   God I liked this way more than I should.  But I'm very capable of enjoying pop albums, I don't judge this album for not being Ommadawn.  Had a friend back in the day who destroyed this album after one play.  Brand new.  I said....ya could've sold it man.....he goes....Nope, it needed to be rendered unplayable this instant.

Well, their debut didn't have any Italian... nor much vocals

I would never do that to a record, not even if I really hated it. I never listened to that one but I like some of his Pop stuff. I have "Discovery" which I partly enjoy and then "Amarok".

Rush - "Spirit of the Airwaves: Live 1980 Radio Broadcast"

Oh... I'm going to school tomorrow...
Cervello - Melos Yeah! It's one of the RPI favorites. Everything just really seems to fulfill my personal musical aesthetic. It's close to perfection. Love it.

Bigletto per l'Inferno - Bigletto per l'Inferno First listen and I must say I'm not crazy about that one. It's a nice listen, but it recalls all to many groups like Jethro Tull, Deep Purple, without its own identity. The music quality is about 4 stars, playing is kind of single-faceted. Decent, but not great.

Samla Mammas Manna - Klosa Knapitatet Love this band by bits. All three albums are equally great and it would be near impossible to pick a favorite. Klosa Knapitatet is the least comedic, but the most elaborate musically. However, that does not mean there is no SMM-style humor on it - just a little less. This is just amazing.

Premiata Forneria Marconi - Per Un Amico Yes, this is rightfully one of the most-loved RPI albums. Not my favorite, though, in fact, I'm guilty of having overlooked it a bit in the past. "Goverments will fall, winters will come and go, the humanity will die, and PFM will remain the English prog fan's favorite RPI band."

Exmagma - Exmagma That's an interesting one. It's kind of krauty, kind of jazzy, kind of free, and kind of avant. It's mainly very primitive free modal jamming with a Henry Cow-like sax and krautrocky guitars. Nice, I recommend this, though the quailty of recording is terrible.

Wendy Carlos - Sonic Seasonings This is troo ambient, thanks for the recommendation, Michael. If you thought Zeit or Timewind evolves slowly, you have not heard Sonic Seasonings. Wendy can really shape very nice, distinctive soundscapes!

Arachnoid - Dark and delicious French creepy-symphonic from the 70s.  A real favorite.  Today's winner. 

ACDC - For Those About to Rock.  The best Johnson.  (no pun intended). 

Museo Rosenbach - Zarathustra.

Air - Moon Safari

Finnforest wrote: Arachnoid - Dark and delicious French creepy-symphonic from the 70s.  A real favorite.  Today's winner.

I was just tidying up my vinyl collection yesterday and came across that one, Jim! So creepy and mad! Endless infernal Mellotron too, brrrrr!

Finnforest wrote: ALotOfBottle wrote: Premiata Forneria Marconi - Per Un Amico Yes, this is rightfully one of the most-loved RPI albums. Not my favorite, though, in fact, I'm guilty of having overlooked it a bit in the past. "Goverments will fall, winters will come and go, the humanity will die, and PFM will remain the English prog fan's favorite RPI band."   Where is the quote from? Love it

Now hang on, Jim! We need to work out your angle here!

To my mind, the first three PFM albums - `Storia di un Minuto', `Per un Amico' and `L'isola di Niente' (forgetting the English language `re-make' `Photos of Ghosts' in between the last two and `The World Became the World' afterwards, both of which don't exist in my mind )- are, to my mind, bona-fide full-blown RPI classics, full of textbook trademarks of the true Italian style. Do you not even give those beauties credit?

The rest...well, you know my feelings from several previous rants before about those ones! I don't have a lot of time for Goat-boy and his singing on `Chocolate Kings'!

Edu Lobo - s/t
Rush - "Permanent Waves"
Rush - "Rush in Rio" disc 1

The Cosmic Groove - Observations In Resonance And Vibration

ALotOfBottle wrote: It's my quote, partly. I think you once said that PFM willr emain the English prog fan's favorite RPI band.

Ahhh, a joint effort, no wonder it resonated with me.  Thanks for your insights on these RPI albums I really enjoy them. 

It's been a very good day today.

Banco del Mutuo Soccorso - Banco del Mutuo Soccorso This is a perfect album! I had been a bit hesitant to have a listen once more, thinking I would not enjoy it as much, because it could've been blind love. And were I wrong? This album really has something that really suits my personality, my soul, my emotions. I just have a very intimate spiritual bond with this album, if that makes any sense.

Magma - Kobaia Had some time before the new-school-year ceremony in school, so I thought I would finnish this old review I started a while ago. You can read it here, if you wish. Won't say anything about the album here, it would be kind of pointless. As always, I encourage you to read.

Rustichelli e Bordini - Opera Prima This album surprisingly gets relatively low ratings and I am capable of understanding why, but, for me personally, it's great. It really fascinates me what amazing duo can do. Not only are compositions very nice, the production and the overall sound is really pleasing. The vocals are an acquired taste for me. If I were to come up with an artistic name for this album, it would be "The Temple of Great Keyboards."

Wigwam - Fairyport I had never checked out a full Wigwam album before, just tracks and portions of albums. I was not prepared for how good this was really - it has everything I like about mild Canterburian jazz-rock reinvented fused with Wigwam's unique style of composing and great sense of humor (I mean, c'mon, gotta love those titles). Great album, very original. I wish I checked this out much earlier.

Le Orme - Contrappunti To quote Micheal, "Poor Old Contrappunti..." I was surprised to like it at first listen. Although there is loads of contrast here, the music flows rather naturally and has a healthy amount of sophistication in it. Obviously, it's not as full, colorful, evocative as the previous two (and even three), but it's a nice effort. It deserves a much better cover in my opinion.

Birth Control - Hoodoo Man I followed Sam in checking out Birth Control. I knew the band more or less, but could not remember much. It's a very nice album. I like their improvisational style and the structure of the compositions. Once again, the flow is very natural, pleasant and the jazzy organ make the whole deal so much better. Nice!