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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 22 2017 at 15:04
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Classical music isn't dead, it's more alive than it's ever been. It's just not on MTV.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 22 2017 at 14:57
yes, one thing I am learning through this is there are a vast number more CD importers than I was previously aware.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 22 2017 at 13:11
^ These days Amazon is full of 3rd party vendors who seem to think that if a CD is OOP, or just a bit difficult to track down new, it must be worth 75 to 200 smackers to someone. I sincerely hope nobody is giving these schmucks any business.

Thankfully Discogs remains as a kind of wildlife preserve for non-a****le sellers.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 22 2017 at 10:29
I also checked Greg Walker and he had it Genius Hans for $16. My usual sources only had the debut and the $90 option was some 3rd party nozzle on Amazon.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 22 2017 at 07:29
^ damn. I should have set up some sort of sales commision for this list LOL

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 22 2017 at 07:23

Ha-ha! siLLy puPPy cost Mr. Toad some bucks.   I guess siLLy puPPy cost me some dough too.    I just ordered Behold...The Arctopus  Skullgrid.  Island and Yezda Urfa are in the batting circle. Wink


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 22 2017 at 06:34
^ that's ridiculous for the MOVING GELATINE PLATES

you should get BOTH of their first two albums. 2nd is slightly better but but mandatory prog listenings IMHO
here they are for normal prices



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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 21 2017 at 22:03
Yezda Urfa and Yugen are also on my shortlist
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 21 2017 at 21:57
Gnidorlog (Harry and Lake)
Island
Amon Duul (Lemmings and Yeti)
Poil
5uu's
Art Zoyd (The other AZ I have did not match that posting of "Symphonie...")

Ok, closer to 150. But I want that Moving Gelatine Plates album and I only see it for $90. Haven't checked at synphonic yet though.

Been on a binge since xmas. 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 21 2017 at 20:59
^ LOL! If only i could promote myself so well Pinch

I'm sure a GG or two will make the list but i've been too distracted to update it. While i agree that individual tracks like "So Sincere" more than qualify, not every track on the album is like that one. I'm thinking "Octopus", "Power and Glory" and "In A Glass House" are their most complex and should probably be included. I've listened to them so much that they aren't weird for me anymore!!

And your $200 bought you which ones?

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 21 2017 at 19:53
Alright siLLy puPPy! I am going to again lobby for The Power and the Glory to make your list. Especially after seeing your review of it. Certainly, as you say, much of their material is accessible, but the rather routine bashing it gets even in prog circles for being exactly the opposite tells me its a worthy pick. I mean So Sincere? Not thick with notes maybe, but the syncopation, atonal falsetto, and absurd instrumental talk backs? Good gravy! Love it so much I have gone so far as to do something I have managed to avoid all but twice... buy another copy just to get the 5.1 remaster. 

So, while my collection was well represented already, your list has cost me close to $200 so far. Censored
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 16 2017 at 00:39
Originally posted by Tapfret Tapfret wrote:

especially on In This Life, because of the vocalist. She hits those dissonant notes with amazing precision. Dissonant precision. Yup, that's the ticket.

Her voice is beautiful, so is the chromaticism Heart
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 15 2017 at 23:52
^I wanted to get at least one of those first reviews. You've been knocking them out of the park. 

Thinking Plague stands out to me, especially on In This Life, because of the vocalist. She hits those dissonant notes with amazing precision. Dissonant precision. Yup, that's the ticket.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 15 2017 at 21:33
^ I've been considering Thinking Plague but RIO and avant-prog is plentiful in this complex category therefore i've been limiting to samples i guess. BTW great description of Kaleidoscalp. That is one of my faves from non-Pike days :)  I'll get to all those reviews one of these days but aliens have been sucking my life forces away and making me a slave 2 da mon. b*****ds

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 15 2017 at 16:10
Don't know how I forgot to mention Thinking Plague.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 15 2017 at 15:40
Some extreme stuff here.....

For me Can can be, on first listen, a complete mess of WTF Confused. But after several listens Damo starts to make sense, I must be nuts! Wacko
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 15 2017 at 13:48
^Hmmmm... tough call. I think his selection of Skullgrid surely meets the standard of the discussion best. Really, you can probably just jump in anywhere. The earlier you go, the rougher the recording. 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 15 2017 at 13:13
After checking out Silly Puppies list, I realized I have 50% of the albums listed.  And I like them all.  So, I must take the other half for a spin.  

I avoided  Behold...the Arctopus because several bad reviews.   Now, I'll have to check that out too.   Which Behold...the Arctopus album should I audition first?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 15 2017 at 11:26
Originally posted by Mascodagama Mascodagama wrote:



...Were they using a drum machine on the demo then?



Yes, which did not sound that bad. They were the songs that ultimately became "Alcoholocaust" and "You Will Be Reincarnated As An Imperial Attack Spaceturtle,part 1". But at that time the songs were titled "We need a drummer" and "we still need a drummer". When they finally found a drummer it was it was Charlie Zeleny, who would go on to team up with Ron Jarzombek, of the aforementioned Spastic Ink, on another project worthy of SP's list, Blotted Science.


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