What Are You Listening To Right Now? Febus Mark 11 - Progressive Rock Music Forum

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A couple of more first listens to TR albums.

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Uriah Heep The Magicians Birthday album cover

Their three previous albums are great, but this one I still, after several listenings, can't get into, and this has stopped me from exploring UH further. I enjoy parts of "Rain" and the title track, but the rest is forgettable stuff, IMO. Quite the disappointment!

Now:

Various Artists (Tributes) Leader of the Starry Skies: A Tribute to Tim Smith, Songbook 1 album cover

I have his 2-disc Anthology which I have listened to a number of times, so I was familiar with some of the songs, and probably not surprisingly, those songs stood out more for me on the first listen, just because of that familiarity. The one thing that I like about him best is that he is very eclectic. He seems to really try to do something different from album to album and even from song to song.

Now listening:

The first song, Real Man, is one of my favorites from his Anthology. So far I am really enjoying this one.

1/2 covers and 1/2 originals.

rushfan4 wrote:

I have his 2-disc Anthology which I have listened to a number of times, so I was familiar with some of the songs, and probably not surprisingly, those songs stood out more for me on the first listen, just because of that familiarity. The one thing that I like about him best is that he is very eclectic. He seems to really try to do something different from album to album and even from song to song.

True, he does. I think "Something/Anything" was the first album I got by him, and it was quite cool how it was almost structured like 4 different mini-albums - each side of the record showing a different side of Todd. Side One was pure pop, Side Two was more prog, Side Three was heavy rock, and Side Four was live singalong stuff. The album "Todd" had a similar mix of these styles, but juxtaposed them against each other (often back to back), and maybe put a little more emphasis on the weird/prog side.

Cool that you're listening to Initiation too. I might throw that on today myself. Probably the only LP I have where there's 36 minutes of music crammed onto a single side!

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Wow... no, I don't recall you saying that, but that's quite cool. He'd be an interesting guy to meet I think.

Anyway, I put on Initiation and remembered why I don't listen to it that much. It's a great album, but I think I really need to get the CD. The sound quality on the vinyl really suffers from having over 30 minutes per side. I had to turn it way up, and even then it just did POP like I wanted it to.

So instead, I'm putting on Chicago X.

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Another first listen thanks to the power of Grooveshark.

Edited by rushfan4 - March 09 2013 at 12:36

Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...

First listen:

“The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.”

- Douglas Adams

rushfan4 wrote:

1/2 covers and 1/2 originals.

The song "cliché" was part of a playlist I prepared for one of my shows on iskc internet radio station.

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