All Prog From Italy Appreciation Thread

TGM: Orb wrote: micky wrote: TGM: Orb wrote: Time for the bed-time album. Brain Salad Surgery seems appropriate.. hahahah.. for me the sonic equivalent of a double expresso before bed What? Normal people don't have a double expresso before bed?

find prog-head and 'normal' mentioned anywhere together .. and I'll ship you all my ADII albums

hahahha...  sh*t...  I was just joking you know 

 oh no.... 

I've actually had contests here at PA's where I've offered my copies of albums I didn't like .. no one took me up on it though

and speaking of that...  I do need to get rid of a lot of albums when Raff moves here.. the first to go..  MY Genesis albums..

we thankfully have slightly different tastes in prog.. so our collection overlap is almost exclusively in the big groups...  I have more Genesis.. she has more King Crimson... I have more Yes...  she has WAY more Tull (mainly a fan of the Cornick era.. the rest never really got to me).  I have more Floyd. We sort of diverge from there.. she's more English.. I'm more 'Continental'. the Spanish, French, German, and Italian stuff.


Edited by micky - May 16 2008 at 18:10

hahahhahah...  classic... 

A good place to start with Area?..hmmm..ahhhh..  one Ryan got...

Are(A)zione

A live album with great cuts from their first 3 albums.

I can't wait to see what makes it on this order.. should be one hell of  great order though. 

hahahha..  oh yes... that can be very hard to restrain..  and I've failed on more that one occassion.  When I buy.. I tend to in rather rediculous volumes like my first trip to Rome when I came home with .. I think it was 75 CD's.  I had brought a spare suitcase .. just for albums 

micky wrote: hahahha..  oh yes... that can be very hard to restrain..  and I've failed on more that one occassion.  When I buy.. I tend to in rather rediculous volumes like my first trip to Rome when I came home with .. I think it was 75 CD's.  I had brought a spare suitcase .. just for albums

Seriously, that's worse than my restraint in not annoying the cats when they want to be fed.

TGM: Orb wrote: micky wrote: hahahha..  oh yes... that can be very hard to restrain..  and I've failed on more that one occassion.  When I buy.. I tend to in rather rediculous volumes like my first trip to Rome when I came home with .. I think it was 75 CD's.  I had brought a spare suitcase .. just for albums  Seriously, that's worse than my restraint in not annoying the cats when they want to be fed.

hahahha.. method to madnes there... when the albums were 1/2 or even a 1/3rd of what you'd pay here in the states online. Many of those albums I found for less than 6 or 7 euros.

oh great ..thanks for reminding me...  Raff's DT collection comes with her 

then again.. hearing them when we are together always leads to more pleasureable things like...

putting on.....Caravan.. the anit-DT

it is a perverse musical ritual in the house of Mick and Raff..

the only DT album I had... is now in the procession of some acne-scarred teenager I'm sure. I have some stinkers in my collection.. but that DT didn't even rate 'drink coaster' status... I  pawned it.


Edited by micky - May 16 2008 at 18:49

micky wrote: I LOVE that 2nd impression... almost as much as the first half of the first.. and the third?.. well that just never..ever caught on to me.   Another group and album I have stayed away from reviewing.. but my review of BSS would be marred by KE 9.. which I think has some of their best playing.. and musical ideas.. yet as whole. .the whole piece just sound disjointed as all hell.  That 2nd impression... much as I love it. .and I do.. makes no sense to me within the context of the KE 9 suite.  And the 3rd impression.. meehhh... never took to it.

phew! If you guys continue to gush about ELP, I'll have no choice but to ask to mods to close this thread.