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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. 
Yeah, youīre right, the United States of America is full blooded psych album, not prog at all. Much more I think that US Genesis album goes prog direction (have you heard that?). Also I am thinking "Music In a Dollīs House" is really sixties sounding, but thatīs the part of itīs fascination (I really love those "1967" echoed, bright sounds). And I agree really many 1968 albums were much more sixties than seventies sounding, although bands have then willing to develope towards that seventies sound. But really many bands 1969 has that more seventies sounds. Here are 1968 albums I think sounds more seventies than sixties:

The Band: Music From a Big Pink
the Doors: Waiting For the Sun (this is still partly sixties sounding, for example "Hello I Love You")
the Jeff Beck Group: Truth
Cream: Wheels Of Fire
Steppenwolf: s/t & the Second
the Byrds: Sweetheart Of the Rodeo
Procol Harum: Shine On Brightly (partly again sixties sounding)
the Jimi Hendrix Experience: Electric Ladyland (the earliest recorded piece "Burning Of The Midnight Lamb" is really sixties sounding, although Jimi remixed it)
Traffic: s/t (some sixties sounds in some pieces)
Canned Heat: Boogie With Canned Heat & Living the Blues
the Beatles: s/t
Van Morrison: Astral Weeks
Red Krayola: God Bless the Red Krayola and All Who Sail With It
Rolling Stones: Beggarīs Banquet (also partly sixties sounding)
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Alright for tonight gonna jam out with Wishbone Ash's self-titled debut album! 

The only one I have heard by them is Argus but I have a live WA dvd somewhere too. I saw them one and a half times live also. To be honest they kind of bored me. Not a bad band just rather boring in concert(imo). 

Oh and I say half because I left before their show was finished. They were headliners but after Nektar(who opened)it was anti climactic. Nektar should have been the headliner. Speaking of which definitely check out Tab in the Ocean and remember the future by them.


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Goat vocals? More like Mickey Mouse vocals. Did you actually listen to it?
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Mercy, that's one kick a** album! 

Blind Eye - Teddy! 
Lady Whiskey - One of their absolute most kick a** tunes! 
Errors of My Way - HARMONY! If this isn't classic Wishbone Ash then I don't know what is. 
Queen of Torture - These first 4 songs are ridiculously good on this album.
Handy - This one gets off to a very slow start, but once it hits it's stride it's obviously really good. 
Phoenix - A towering concert staple. 
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Alright for tonight gonna jam out with Wishbone Ash's self-titled debut album! 
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Originally posted by Mortte Mortte wrote:

Originally posted by YESESIS YESESIS wrote:

Originally posted by Mortte Mortte wrote:

Originally posted by YESESIS YESESIS wrote:

Originally posted by Mortte Mortte wrote:

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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, thatīs 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. Itīs same as Spinal Tap to me. And I know itīs really big also for many others as you. But, itīs just, you canīt understand everything (probably there are many artists I love you canīt 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 havenīt talked about it, do you like that band? Hereīs album from them from my early childhood that I still love:

Alright, sometime soon I'll check that album out. I've obviously heard some songs from them like Little Willy, Ballroom Blitz, Fox on the Run, etc. But never listened to a whole album though. 
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Originally posted by YESESIS YESESIS wrote:

Originally posted by AFlowerKingCrimson 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.

I just looked at your reviews and the first album you only gave 3 stars to and it only has a 2.63 overall rating(that's not great). But this album you gave 4 stars and it has a 4.07 rating(much better!), so I'll be listening to it sometime soon. Thanks again for the recommendations and keep the reviews coming! 

It boils down to personal taste. Most on here are judging it's quality by it's progginess. In other words the more prog it sounds the higher they rate it. If you like later Alan Parsons Project(eye in the sky era or later) you should check it out. Don't go by what others think. Judge it for yourself. It's easy just to put the title in youtube and listen to it and best of all it won't cost you anything. Wink The Pavlov's Dog album might actually turn you off because of the vocals. Again, youtube it. Tongue

Hahahaha, a great example of that is the album Invisible Touch.. I've noticed it's very popular on here to say that album SUCKS! And it's basically all because it sounds too 'pop.' Oh well. I guess on a prog forum it's understandable. Anyway, uh oh not goat vocals again on that Pavlov album lol. Well I might listen to the other one soon though, I do like Eye in the Sky a lot.  
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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. 

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Originally posted by AFlowerKingCrimson 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.

I just looked at your reviews and the first album you only gave 3 stars to and it only has a 2.63 overall rating(that's not great). But this album you gave 4 stars and it has a 4.07 rating(much better!), so I'll be listening to it sometime soon. Thanks again for the recommendations and keep the reviews coming! 

It boils down to personal taste. Most on here are judging it's quality by it's progginess. In other words the more prog it sounds the higher they rate it. If you like later Alan Parsons Project(eye in the sky era or later) you should check it out. Don't go by what others think. Judge it for yourself. It's easy just to put the title in youtube and listen to it and best of all it won't cost you anything. Wink The Pavlov's Dog album might actually turn you off because of the vocals. Again, youtube it. Tongue
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7 albums on the official Midsummerday:
Genesis: In the Beginning
This really isnīt a re-release of the first album of THAT Genesis, itīs US Genesis album from 1968. This was the reason why THAT Genesis changed their name to Revelation, but took the original name back when this band disbanded. I really didnīt know this first Genesis even released an album and to my big surprise it was lot better than I thought! Itīs quite heavy, but there are always few really great melodic pieces, great version from Cohenīs Suzanne, really great version of the old, to me formerly unknown piece "Gloomy Sunday" and their own "Girl Who Never Was". In these last two pieces there are really great string arrangements. In "Ten Second Song" and specially 16 minutes long "World Without You" there are prog elements, although the last one would have needed some other instruments than just basic drums-bass-guitar. What I really love in this album is singer Sue Richmanīs voice! Going to listen this again someday.

Nomeansno: The Worldhood Of the World (As Such)
I have thought this album earlier weaker than their previous albums, but I was wrong! This is really great, really in the nineties this band become Canadian pride instead of Rush that had changed really boring. If Zappa had started to make punk rock, I believe heīs punk would have sounded like "Wiggly Worm" & "Victimīs Choise". And drummer John Wright could have played with Zappa anytime! If I had got power to give success to the bands in the nineties, I would have given it Alice Donut or this band instead boring "punk" bands like Green Day Or Offspring. But so sad I didnīt have that power. Also "My Politics" really shows what Trump represents has been already in the US and in many other countries politics a long time. But that song really tells about his ideology. 

The United States Of America: s/t
Listened this again. I like this every time more, but still I think it really sounds quite typical 1967/68 album. On the other hand even more 1967 album, because many bands and also studio technics went forward in 1968 (for example Beatles double and mostly parts Hendrix double sounded much more seventies sounding than this album). My faves from this album are really much Jefferson Airplane sounding "Hard Coming Love", "the Garden Of Earthly Delights" & "Coming Down".

Aburadako: s/t (their first)
This Japan band hasnīt made their albums easy to separate. All the albums havenīt got any other name than band name, only different covers and of course different songs. Originally band started as HC-punk band but become more experimental in later albums. In this first album they remind quite much US HC-punk bands of the same time for example Minutemen & Bad Brains, specially vocals sounds really same as latter bands vocals. But as those two Aburadako also added elements outside HC-punk, for example first piece sounds almost acoustic and two last pieces are really close goth punk. Good band, going to listen them more!

Roy Harper & Jimmy Page: Whatever Happened To Jugula?
Is this the most underrated great album from the eighties? Donīt know because I havenīt heard all Roy Harperīs albums from the eighties, just because theyīre not in spotify or youtube (I think that tells how underrated Harper is!) Anyway this is really spiritual, beautiful album, maybe not masterpiece as his Stormcock & Lifemask, but really close! And really this is more Royīs album, he has composed all the songs, one together with Dave Gilmour, Jimmy just plays electric guitar, but quite great way.

Hank Williams With His Drifting Cowboys: Memorial Album
I guessed there will come this guy in the third part of country document in television, so I decided to listen this his first LP that come first 10" and included only eight pieces. As the name tells it was released after heīs death. Starting piece "Your Cheatin`Heart" is my fav Williams piece, it fit really well into one Dennis Potter serie scene, donīt know remember what serie it was. But really loved also "Half As Much", it is really untypical country song with itīs native American rhythm. I believe I have heard it before but really didnīt remember it for the song name.

the Moody Blues: the Magnificent Moodies
This is the greatest Moodies album, absolutely MASTERPIECE...no, I was just kidding. I really understand why you Yesesis didnīt like this at all. This really is Brit white guys trying to make US soul and blues...and really without that emotion it needs. Denny Laineīs voice is just too clean, also band plays well but again so clean. Last "Bye Bye Bird" is the only piece where is some groove. Stones, the Pretty Things, the Animals & the Who just made everything same time so much better. In the b-side in their own songs they manage little better, but only little. I listened after the album their single "Boulevard De La Madeleine" and itīs just so big step forward. Who knows if composers Laine/Pinder could have made same kind of masterpiece as "Days Of Future Passed" if Laine had not leave the band.


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Originally posted by Mortte Mortte wrote:

Originally posted by YESESIS YESESIS wrote:

Originally posted by Mortte Mortte wrote:

Originally posted by YESESIS 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, thatīs 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. Itīs same as Spinal Tap to me. And I know itīs really big also for many others as you. But, itīs just, you canīt understand everything (probably there are many artists I love you canīt 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 havenīt talked about it, do you like that band? Hereīs album from them from my early childhood that I still love:
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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. 

Youīre 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 havenīt made a bad album, although I havenīt heard their all after reunion albums (canīt found them from the net), but those two first really are masterpieces!
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Originally posted by Mortte Mortte wrote:

Originally posted by YESESIS YESESIS wrote:

Originally posted by Mortte Mortte wrote:

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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, thatīs 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. Itīs same as Spinal Tap to me. And I know itīs really big also for many others as you. But, itīs just, you canīt understand everything (probably there are many artists I love you canīt 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. 
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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. 
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Midsummerdays albums:
Topi Sorsakoski & Agents: Pop
This band was really popular in Finland at eighties and still I think many think this was one of the greatest bands in Finland! Band took itīs style from the 50ties & 60ties Finnish "shlager" music, but took it to the more rock with Shadows style guitars. This was their third album and there is even some slight psychedelia, for example version of the Marianne Faithfullīs "Summer Nights" (In Finnish itīs "On Kesäyö"). Although Finnish 50ties "Schlager" took itīs influences everywhere else than Finnish folk music, for example US, Italian & Soviet hits, I think there still was something very Finnish in it. Or maybe some outside Finland should listen this album and say, does it just sound ordinary fifties/sixties western pop music. Anyway this really fits into Finnish Midsummer atmosphere!

Faust: So Far
Listened again this great album, really this also fit into midsummer day, although some may hard to believe it!

Hatfield and the North: the Rottersī Club
First time listening of this album. I was really suprised how good this was! Really liked this more than their first album. Although there is a lot of complexity that I expected, there are also really great melodies & also kind of alienation feeling in many pieces I really like! Also naturally Sinclair vocals are just great! I believe this band will never go over Caravan, Soft Machine, Gong or Matching Mole to me, but anyway I liked this album much more than any album of National Health or Egg. Donīt know have I just great midsummer feeling, but this also fit this day perfectly!

Rauli Badding Somerjoki: Näin Käy Rockīn`Roll
Another very popular Finnish singer, but this album he mostly sings Finnish translated versions of the fifties rock pieces for example from Presley & Berry. But there are also few very great pieces of his own, quite unknown "Eeva & Zeus" and very famous "Paratiisi" in Finland. This album really also is Midsummerīs days music!

The Band: Moondog Matinee
This band (haha) has always been one of the most positive artists to me and always cheers me up! This is totally cover album, but still sounds just the Band! Bobby "Blue" Bland is an artist I just know by the name and really I havenīt ever heard his version of "Share Your Love (With Me)", but the Bands version is just great! Other greaties here are "Ainīt Got No Home", "Mystery Train", "The Great Pretender" (I think Richard Manuel sings this classic much better than Freddie Mercury) & the last "A Change Is Gonna Come".

Alice Donut: the Untidy Suicides Of Your Degenerate Children
I believe this really good US band could have become much more popular with this album as it came. This is very good produced and all the way fits into that alternative rock period in 1992, itīs something in the middle of Faith No More and Smashing Pumpkins, although I really like this band much more than those. But no, this band remained quite unknown. All the way I think nineties were much better musically in the US as in UK, in UK I think only P J Harvey was really great, when US there were this band, RHCP, Fishbone, Nirvana, Sonic Youth, Mudhoney, Kyuss, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Pere Ubu, the Red Krayola, Dead Moon, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, U.S. Maple & Trumans Water.

This is band that I've always wanted to try to get into, but keep forgetting. No longer, tonight going to listen to their self-titled album from 1969.
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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.

I just looked at your reviews and the first album you only gave 3 stars to and it only has a 2.63 overall rating(that's not great). But this album you gave 4 stars and it has a 4.07 rating(much better!), so I'll be listening to it sometime soon. Thanks again for the recommendations and keep the reviews coming! 
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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.
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Midsummerdays albums:
Topi Sorsakoski & Agents: Pop
This band was really popular in Finland at eighties and still I think many think this was one of the greatest bands in Finland! Band took itīs style from the 50ties & 60ties Finnish "shlager" music, but took it to the more rock with Shadows style guitars. This was their third album and there is even some slight psychedelia, for example version of the Marianne Faithfullīs "Summer Nights" (In Finnish itīs "On Kesäyö"). Although Finnish 50ties "Schlager" took itīs influences everywhere else than Finnish folk music, for example US, Italian & Soviet hits, I think there still was something very Finnish in it. Or maybe some outside Finland should listen this album and say, does it just sound ordinary fifties/sixties western pop music. Anyway this really fits into Finnish Midsummer atmosphere!

Faust: So Far
Listened again this great album, really this also fit into midsummer day, although some may hard to believe it!

Hatfield and the North: the Rottersī Club
First time listening of this album. I was really suprised how good this was! Really liked this more than their first album. Although there is a lot of complexity that I expected, there are also really great melodies & also kind of alienation feeling in many pieces I really like! Also naturally Sinclair vocals are just great! I believe this band will never go over Caravan, Soft Machine, Gong or Matching Mole to me, but anyway I liked this album much more than any album of National Health or Egg. Donīt know have I just great midsummer feeling, but this also fit this day perfectly!

Rauli Badding Somerjoki: Näin Käy Rockīn`Roll
Another very popular Finnish singer, but this album he mostly sings Finnish translated versions of the fifties rock pieces for example from Presley & Berry. But there are also few very great pieces of his own, quite unknown "Eeva & Zeus" and very famous "Paratiisi" in Finland. This album really also is Midsummerīs days music!

The Band: Moondog Matinee
This band (haha) has always been one of the most positive artists to me and always cheers me up! This is totally cover album, but still sounds just the Band! Bobby "Blue" Bland is an artist I just know by the name and really I havenīt ever heard his version of "Share Your Love (With Me)", but the Bands version is just great! Other greaties here are "Ainīt Got No Home", "Mystery Train", "The Great Pretender" (I think Richard Manuel sings this classic much better than Freddie Mercury) & the last "A Change Is Gonna Come".

Alice Donut: the Untidy Suicides Of Your Degenerate Children
I believe this really good US band could have become much more popular with this album as it came. This is very good produced and all the way fits into that alternative rock period in 1992, itīs something in the middle of Faith No More and Smashing Pumpkins, although I really like this band much more than those. But no, this band remained quite unknown. All the way I think nineties were much better musically in the US as in UK, in UK I think only P J Harvey was really great, when US there were this band, RHCP, Fishbone, Nirvana, Sonic Youth, Mudhoney, Kyuss, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Pere Ubu, the Red Krayola, Dead Moon, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, U.S. Maple & Trumans Water.


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Originally posted by Mortte Mortte wrote:

Originally posted by YESESIS 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, thatīs 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. Itīs same as Spinal Tap to me. And I know itīs really big also for many others as you. But, itīs just, you canīt understand everything (probably there are many artists I love you canīt understand at all).
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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 auntīs 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 donīt want to hear it anymore.

Also, liked really much "Bohemian Rhapsody"-movie.
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