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Joined: May 18 2012
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Posted: May 19 2012 at 17:07
My Favorite is A Trick of the Tail because I love the songs Dance on a Volcano, Squonk, Robbery, Assault, and Battery,
Ripples, and Los Endos. They have amazing Keyboard playing and freaking awesome drums, not to mention the excellent Guitar playing of Steve Hackett and the great sounding bass playing of Mike Ruhterford. A Trick of the Tail is the best Rock Album ever. I highly recommend it for any Genesis Fans.
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Posted: May 20 2012 at 13:12
Jonathan wrote:
My Favorite is A Trick of the Tail because I love the songs Dance on a Volcano, Squonk, Robbery, Assault, and Battery,
Ripples, and Los Endos. They have amazing Keyboard playing and freaking awesome drums, not to mention the excellent Guitar playing of Steve Hackett and the great sounding bass playing of Mike Ruhterford. A Trick of the Tail is the best Rock Album ever. I highly recommend it for any Genesis Fans.
In terms of sound rather than quality however, I think this is one my least favourite sounding records. It just sounds so 'flat'.
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Posted: May 21 2012 at 10:50
HI,
A couple more additions to the list.
Nektar's "Recycled" ... is excellent ... it really is all Larry Fast, but it makes Nektar more complete.
Ange's Emile Jacotey is wonderful. And it preceeded Roger Waters' Amused to Death by a few years. It has a very nice continuity to it and some wonderful work.
Klaus Schulze's "Mirage" is definitly worthy of this list.
Amon Duul 2's Yeti ... has an interesting sound that is really lively and "sparkles" on some good Sandoz ... ooopppsss ... these folks would not know about this, would they?
Egberto Gismonti, Jan Garbarek and Charlie Haden -- Magico
Keith Jarrett - The Koln Concert -- which apparently is now available on DVD ... best piano concert ever done.
Capability Brown - Voice. Super lovely folk rock with magnificent vocals and outstanding musicianship. I never thought of this as "progressive" ... but I didn't care ... it is one of the prettiest albums ever, and only metal hardened ears won't appreciate it!
Kevin Ayers - The Confessions of Dr. Dream. Sometimes thought of as an odd album, but in many ways a perfect album for Kevin and his friends. Even though there is no continuity required or needed, the album has a very nice flow and ends with a massive blast by Mike Oldfield and friends!
Roy Harper - The Unknown Soldier -- probably his most studio-centric album of all, but really sharply done and beautifully put together with some wonderful material. Jugula +4 is also worthy of mention, as it is more Jimmy Page than you have ever heard on Roy's albums.
Spirit - The 12 Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus -- Best known for their hit "Nature's Way" which is a magnificent piece, hit ot not!, The album itself is somewhat of a satire of all the major groups at the time ... and it starts with some weirdness as an instrumental and goes into the hardcore progressive metal piece "When I Touch You", and then runs through various songs that are all different from each other, that allows you to just about name a hit maker on the radio for each piece. Wonderfull album all around, and deserves the progressive mark, but it will alienate some with its pop songs mostly, but all of them ... not quite right!
Edited by moshkito - May 21 2012 at 11:29
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Posted: May 21 2012 at 14:58
JS19 wrote:
Jonathan wrote:
My Favorite is A Trick of the Tail because I love the songs Dance on a Volcano, Squonk, Robbery, Assault, and Battery,
Ripples, and Los Endos. They have amazing Keyboard playing and freaking awesome drums, not to mention the excellent Guitar playing of Steve Hackett and the great sounding bass playing of Mike Ruhterford. A Trick of the Tail is the best Rock Album ever. I highly recommend it for any Genesis Fans.
In terms of sound rather than quality however, I think this is one my least favourite sounding records. It just sounds so 'flat'.
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Posted: May 21 2012 at 15:02
Jonathan wrote:
JS19 wrote:
Jonathan wrote:
My Favorite is A Trick of the Tail because I love the songs Dance on a Volcano, Squonk, Robbery, Assault, and Battery,
Ripples, and Los Endos. They have amazing Keyboard playing and freaking awesome drums, not to mention the excellent Guitar playing of Steve Hackett and the great sounding bass playing of Mike Ruhterford. A Trick of the Tail is the best Rock Album ever. I highly recommend it for any Genesis Fans.
In terms of sound rather than quality however, I think this is one my least favourite sounding records. It just sounds so 'flat'.
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Posted: May 21 2012 at 15:17
Many great albums from the past but i'll go for a more recent one....Kate Bush's " 50 Words for Snow" the entire CD sounds like it was recorded in a snowy landscape! All the sounds have that icy sharpness and a sense of the eerie near silence, like falling snow.
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Posted: May 21 2012 at 15:32
JS19 wrote:
Jonathan wrote:
JS19 wrote:
Jonathan wrote:
My Favorite is A Trick of the Tail because I love the songs Dance on a Volcano, Squonk, Robbery, Assault, and Battery,
Ripples, and Los Endos. They have amazing Keyboard playing and freaking awesome drums, not to mention the excellent Guitar playing of Steve Hackett and the great sounding bass playing of Mike Ruhterford. A Trick of the Tail is the best Rock Album ever. I highly recommend it for any Genesis Fans.
In terms of sound rather than quality however, I think this is one my least favourite sounding records. It just sounds so 'flat'.
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Posted: May 21 2012 at 16:17
JS19 wrote:
Jonathan wrote:
My Favorite is A Trick of the Tail because I love the songs Dance on a Volcano, Squonk, Robbery, Assault, and Battery,
Ripples, and Los Endos. They have amazing Keyboard playing and freaking awesome drums, not to mention the excellent Guitar playing of Steve Hackett and the great sounding bass playing of Mike Ruhterford. A Trick of the Tail is the best Rock Album ever. I highly recommend it for any Genesis Fans.
In terms of sound rather than quality however, I think this is one my least favourite sounding records. It just sounds so 'flat'.
Agreed, i don't like the album's sound too. sorry.
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Posted: May 21 2012 at 21:13
Terria by Devin Townsend is fantastic! I love the sheer ambiance of it. I think I also saw Still Life by Opeth mentioned, and that one stands out to me as well. And this one isn't prog in the slightest, but Murmur by R.E.M. is magical is every sense.
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Posted: May 21 2012 at 21:39
Vapor Trails. No lie, it's the first thing that popped into my head. It sounds like three (well, more like 20, with all the overdubs) brilliant teenage virtuoso prodigies who knew everything about music but nothing about recording got together in their garage, recorded the whole thing live on their PA, and then released it to the world without mixing or mastering.
My Favorite is A Trick of the Tail because I love the songs Dance on a Volcano, Squonk, Robbery, Assault, and Battery,
Ripples, and Los Endos. They have amazing Keyboard playing and freaking awesome drums, not to mention the excellent Guitar playing of Steve Hackett and the great sounding bass playing of Mike Ruhterford. A Trick of the Tail is the best Rock Album ever. I highly recommend it for any Genesis Fans.
In terms of sound rather than quality however, I think this is one my least favourite sounding records. It just sounds so 'flat'.
What is your favorite sounding album?
Sigur Ros - Ágætis Byrjun
It just sounds so dynamic
What kind of Progressive Rock is the Album?
Post-Rock. Sorry JS19 if you were going to respond to the question.
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Posted: May 21 2012 at 22:11
Ambient Hurricanes wrote:
Vapor Trails. No lie, it's the first thing that popped into my head. It sounds like three (well, more like 20, with all the overdubs) brilliant teenage virtuoso prodigies who knew everything about music but nothing about recording got together in their garage, recorded the whole thing live on their PA, and then released it to the world without mixing or mastering.
And it's awesome.
Im not mentioning this in the other thread BUT.. VT is my least favorite album sonicaly. I swear to you it makes me think something is wrong with my stereo . I agree with everything you said.. cept your last three words.
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Posted: May 21 2012 at 22:25
For rock albums, I think there's a good contrast in excellence between something like Power Windows and Snakes and Arrows. Two superbly recorded albums in different styles. Snakes and Arrows is just a perfectly mixed modern rock album. Not overbearingly loud, and definite, articulate guitar, bass, and drum sounds.
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Posted: May 21 2012 at 23:04
JS19 wrote:
Jonathan wrote:
My Favorite is A Trick of the Tail because I love the songs Dance on a Volcano, Squonk, Robbery, Assault, and Battery,
Ripples, and Los Endos. They have amazing Keyboard playing and freaking awesome drums, not to mention the excellent Guitar playing of Steve Hackett and the great sounding bass playing of Mike Ruhterford. A Trick of the Tail is the best Rock Album ever. I highly recommend it for any Genesis Fans.
In terms of sound rather than quality however, I think this is one my least favourite sounding records. It just sounds so 'flat'.
I initially agreed that this album sounded flat, and couldn't get into to, but after I got a more recent remastered version I thought it was much better and I too love the sound of this album, but for different reasons I think. Though I love all the songs you listed the ones I really loved the sound and feel of were Robbery Assault and Battery and Ripples (which you did mention), but also Mad Man Moon and Entangled. I like the bright, happy, twee, whimsical sound of those songs. I love hearing Phil's accent when he sings.
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Jonathan wrote:
. I agree with everything you said.. cept your last three words.
