Mostly Autumn: The New Pink Floyd? - Progressive Rock Music Forum

SteveG wrote:

Another group that should have more success.

Hi,

But can't because PA does too many ELP, Genesis and Yes threads ... and admins are all over them with even more comments!

Bands like this, BBT and some others, deserve a lot more attention these days, but will never get it with the current crop of faux pas "progressive" folks!

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AFlowerKingCrimson wrote:

Are they good? I have two of their more recent albums but haven't played them yet.

If you're still in any doubt whether Mostly Autumn are good, then have a listen to "Porcupine Rain" from their very first album, For All We Shared (1998), where they sound like the new Pink Floyd. They've come a long way since then, and they're now approaching their 22nd autumn together.

MOSTLY AUTUMN - Music Inspired by the Lord of the Rings (2001)

1. Forge of Sauron / Greenwood the Great

2. Goodbye Alone

3. Lothorien

4. Helm's Deep

Edited by Psychedelic Paul - August 09 2020 at 14:12

Six songs from Mostly Autumn's third album, "The Last Bright Light" (2001)

1. We Come and We Go

2. The Dark Before the Dawn

3. Hollow

4. Never the Rainbow

5. Helm's Deep

6. Mother Nature

Edited by Psychedelic Paul - July 29 2020 at 00:56

That Night in Leamington (2010) - Part Three

The Dark Before the Dawn

Edited by Psychedelic Paul - August 03 2020 at 09:57

Psychedelic Paul wrote:

lazland wrote:

SteveG wrote:

lazland wrote:

Superb band, and my reviews say it all about my feelings. I still consider Dressed In Voices as one of the finest albums in my collection, and the last one, White Rainbow, is achingly beautiful in parts.

Seconded. And Laz's reviews are some of his best on PA.

Why, thank you, old chap Tongue

The first review of yours I ever read (today, on Steve G's recommendation) was your one-star review for King Crimson's Construkction of Light, because I wanted to read just how bad can a King Crimson album really be. Although I haven't listened to the album, I'll take your word for just how bad it is, if it's even worse than Larks' Tongues in Aspic. Construkction of Light is presumably so bad that King Crimson couldn't even spell the album title correctly. I'm sure I'd find myself in agreement with you if I dared to listen to the album. Thanks for a brief but entertaining review.

Actually, Paul, that review is not typical of my work. I wrote that review as a long-standing fan of KC’s work, and I think that Larks’s Tongue is superb BTW, but thoroughly fed up with the overly industrial and rather soulless feeling of that particular album. When I get around to reviewing Thrak, for example, it will be more sympathetic and in tune with what Fripp was trying to achieve.

Music, to me, is all about the soul, the feeling it inspires. As this thread is about Mostly Autumn, the best one I can recommend is Dressed in Voices. What an album. I do not disagree with Tony (Hercules) much, but we respectfully agree to disagree about this fine piece of work, because, to these ears, that was a work of love.

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Psychedelic Paul wrote:

Who amongst Mostly Autumn fans can forget That Night in Leamington in 2010 when Heather Findlay gave her last live performance with the band.....

That was a fantastic show. So emotional too. The DVD is worth buying.

lazland wrote:

SteveG wrote:

lazland wrote:

Superb band, and my reviews say it all about my feelings. I still consider Dressed In Voices as one of the finest albums in my collection, and the last one, White Rainbow, is achingly beautiful in parts.

Seconded. And Laz's reviews are some of his best on PA.

Why, thank you, old chap Tongue

The first review of yours I ever read (today, on Steve G's recommendation) was your one-star review for King Crimson's Construkction of Light, because I wanted to read just how bad can a King Crimson album really be. Although I haven't listened to the album, I'll take your word for just how bad it is, if it's even worse than Larks' Tongues in Aspic. Construkction of Light is presumably so bad that King Crimson couldn't even spell the album title correctly. I'm sure I'd find myself in agreement with you if I dared to listen to the album. Thanks for a brief but entertaining review.

SteveG wrote:

lazland wrote:

Superb band, and my reviews say it all about my feelings. I still consider Dressed In Voices as one of the finest albums in my collection, and the last one, White Rainbow, is achingly beautiful in parts.

Seconded. And Laz's reviews are some of his best on PA.

Thanks for pointing me in the direction of Lazland's album reviews for Mostly Autumn. I'll take a look.

One of Mostly Autumn's best-known songs: "Evergreen", from their second album, The Spirit of Autumn Past

Another song from the same album: "Underneath the Ice"

The official video for "The Gap is Too Wide"

The title track of the album: "The Spirit of Autumn Past"

Edited by Psychedelic Paul - July 27 2020 at 02:43