Yesesis´s & Mortte`s Album Thread

AFlowerKingCrimson wrote: I just reviewed my first album on here(as afkc) which is the single factor by Camel. It's a bit poppy and a later one so it's mostly a nostalgia thing for me but it's good for what it is. Those who like later Alan Parson's Project might want to check it out.

YESESIS wrote: That sounded tremendous! I know people will come screening that A Night at the Opera and Queen II are 1,000,000 times better, and they absolutely ARE both great albums. I love Sheer Heart Attack and News of the World myself.. But this one will always be special to me because it was from the time when I first started really getting into music.  Play The Game - Great Queen track.  Dragon Attack - That Bass! Just ATTACKING with it in this one.  Another One Bites the Dust - One of their best and most well known songs.  Need Your Loving Tonight - Rockin tune!  Loved this one as a kid!  Crazy Little Thing Called Love - Another huge classic. Great song.  Rock It(Prime Jive) - Jammin out so hard to this one!! Don't Try Suicide - Only song on the whole album close to being weak.  Sail Away Sweet Sister - Really nice song by Brian to the sister he never had.  Coming Soon - Somewhat cheesy sounding but I love it.  Save Me - Powerful ending to a truly great album!

Queen has never been as big to me as for example those bands I listed earlier. Naturally you saw quite much their "I want to Break Free"-vid in the television in the eighties. I found in the eighties "Night at the Opera"-cassette from my aunt´s cassettes and borrowed it. I liked it quite much, later bought it as vinyl and also "Day At the Races" same time. Long time those were my only Queen albums that I listened, but some years ago started to listen a little their three first albums that are also OK albums (have to listen them more). Maybe I listen even their eighties albums some time, but possible not their few last albums. For example "Show Must Go On" has played so much in Finnish radio that...I just don´t want to hear it anymore.

Midsummerdays albums:

Edited by Mortte - June 19 2020 at 10:01

AFlowerKingCrimson wrote: Ok, I just put up my second review which is(just like I said it was going to be)"pampered menial" by Pavlov's Dog. This is one you will definitely want to listen to on youtube first. Read the review and you'll know why. I have liked this one for a very long time though.

Well that was better than I expected. Actually a lot better. Here's a word I haven't used in a while.. MASTERPIECE! 

YESESIS wrote: Well that was better than I expected. Actually a lot better. Here's a word I haven't used in a while.. MASTERPIECE!  Across the Great Divide - Really good song.  Rag Mama Rag - fun song.  The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down - Hadn't heard this version before. I know the one by Joan Baez(used to be a big fan of hers - GREAT voice).  When You Awake - good but not great  Up on Cripple Creek - Ok, this one I've heard before. Obviously good song.  Whispering Pines - Wow, good slow tune.  Jemima Surrender - Funky fun song!  Rockin' Chair - Another really good one!  Look Out Cleveland - Really on a roll here!  Jawbone - This album is getting ridiculous.  The Unfaithful Servant - A little weaker, still good though.  King Harvest(Has Surely come) - Funky and very good.

You´re absolutely right and I am really glad you listened this album from theirs! This album really is my top50 all time albums list! "Music From Big Pink" is almost as great! They haven´t made a bad album, although I haven´t heard their all after reunion albums (can´t found them from the net), but those two first really are masterpieces!

7 albums on the official Midsummerday:

Edited by Mortte - June 20 2020 at 13:10

To Mortte, I think I mentioned that United States of America album a while ago. I like it even though it is a bit wacked. The first time I heard about it I saw it mentioned in a rock book that described it as "progressive rock." Ultimately, it's more of a psych album than anything else imo albeit a very experimental psych album. It is progressive in the sense that a lot of psych back then was progressive(ie moving forward and trying to be experimental)but I wouldn't say it's prog rock in the way that term is usually used. A lot of albums from that era don't sound like the seventies though. Only a few select artists and bands had the capital and know how to produce cutting edge sounding albums(including the Beatles). If you listen to Music from a doll's house it sounds kind of basic in some ways despite the fact it was recorded on an 8 track. Bands on major labels like the Beatles, Stones, Doors, Hendrix or whoever could afford the best equipment and technology and had an advantage over lesser known bands. 

Edited by AFlowerKingCrimson - June 20 2020 at 17:10

Mortte wrote: YESESIS wrote: Mortte wrote: YESESIS wrote: Mortte wrote: YESESIS wrote: Caravan, Magma, Yes, Genesis, Can, Gong, Jethro Tull, Spooky Tooth,  These are the bands I really love and all goes over your top 5 (well not Spooky Tooth and maybe even Gong go over Beatles). Anyway my top5 is at the moment: 1. P J Harvey 2. Wigwam 3. Pink Floyd 4. Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band 5. Sonic Youth after those come for example King Crimson, Dr. John, the Birthday Party, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Tom Waits, Jethro, Rolling Stones, the Who, Jimi Hendrix, Faust, Family, Traffic, Comus, the Ventures, the Velvet Underground, the Red Krayola, Pere Ubu, Harry Partch, the Pop Group, the Stooges, the Raincoats, Eddie Cochran, John Lee Hooker, Howlin Wolf, Little Richard etc. And my top 5 albums are: 1. Wigwam: Fairyport 2. John Parish & Polly Jean Harvey: Dance Hall at the Louse Point 3. Pink Floyd: Atom Heart Mother 4. Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band: Trout Mask Replica 5. Sonic Youth: Sister What are yours? 5 favorite albums.. that's a tough one, there's so many albums! I guess off the top of my head right now: 1. Steely Dan: Countdown to Ecstasy  2. Radio Head: The Bends  3. Kiss: Alive!  4. Wishbone Ash: New England  5. Caravan: For Girls Who Grow Plump in the Night Well, we really have very different tastes! Caravan is the only band from those which album I can even thing to go into my top5. But, that´s only a good thing, always thought really boring if people were just the same! BTW never understood Kiss. Not the most worst band in the world, but their music has sounded always to me more as humor thing. It´s same as Spinal Tap to me. And I know it´s really big also for many others as you. But, it´s just, you can´t understand everything (probably there are many artists I love you can´t understand at all). Yeah that's a good way to put it. I was a HUGE Kiss fan as a kid. Not as much now, but still when I really want to rock out.. they're definitely who I reach for.  Somehow from Kiss came "the Sweet" in my mind. I think we haven´t talked about it, do you like that band? Here´s album from them from my early childhood that I still love: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJTAVb1bdOBjaWlSxjta9dP8C_vmFLK3U

Mercy, that's one kick a** album!