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rushfan4 
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 Posted: October 11 2008 at 11:54 |
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In honor of it being Tea time, I threw in the album 101 from the band Tea for Two. They're a nice mellow prog band in the crossover prog section. I find them to be slightly folky; a bit Strawbs related.
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Jared
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Posted: October 11 2008 at 12:08 |
^^sound good to me, Scott...I always trust your judgement... 
incidentally, I don't know whether you were thinking of investing in some more Eloy, but could I suggest you started with Silent Cries & Mighty Echoes?? Its my personal fave, and possibly one which straddles their more spacey stuff with the more immediate '80s stuff...  |
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Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson
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rushfan4
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Posted: October 11 2008 at 12:37 |
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I'll keep that in mind. I was looking at eMusic last week and they only have The Tides Return Forever, Destination, and RA. None of these are too highly rated here on PA, so I didn't download any of them. Are you familiar with any of these, and are any of them worthwhile?
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Jared
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Posted: October 11 2008 at 12:56 |
^^Eloy kind of split up after Mtromania (1984), then reformed and did 4 more studios...
Ra (88) is kind of an acquired taste...very stripped down.. 2.5 stars Destination (92) 2 stars I probably wouldn't bother...
but The Tides Return Forever is very good 4 Stars, and Ocean II The Answer is almost as good 3.5 stars... that was it..then they were gone... |
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Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson
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Padraic
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Posted: October 11 2008 at 13:05 |
Rest assured that your Threshold geekiness did not go unnoticed... 
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rushfan4
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Posted: October 11 2008 at 13:12 |
 fandango wrote:
^^Eloy kind of split up after Mtromania (1984), then reformed and did 4 more studios...
Ra (88) is kind of an acquired taste...very stripped down.. 2.5 stars Destination (92) 2 stars I probably wouldn't bother...
but The Tides Return Forever is very good 4 Stars, and Ocean II The Answer is almost as good 3.5 stars... that was it..then they were gone... |
Thank you. My downloads were just renewed this morning, so I will add The Tides Return Forever to the list of possible downloads for this month. 
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rushfan4
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Posted: October 11 2008 at 13:13 |
NaturalScience wrote:
Rest assured that your Threshold geekiness did not go unnoticed... |
Geekiness????  Alright, I'll grant you that.
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Jared
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Posted: October 11 2008 at 13:16 |
NaturalScience wrote:
Rest assured that your Threshold geekiness did not go unnoticed... |
whoops, we've been spotted, Scott... 
must be time for our Dead Reckoning.... 
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Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson
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rushfan4
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Posted: October 11 2008 at 13:32 |
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Padraic
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Posted: October 11 2008 at 13:32 |
(for the record, Hypothetical is my favorite  )
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Jared
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Posted: October 11 2008 at 13:44 |
^^as far as the Studios are concerned:
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Wounded Land |
1993 |
GEPea |
1st |
8 |
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Psychadelicatessen |
1994 |
GEPea |
2nd |
8.5 |
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Extinct Instinct |
1997 |
GEPea |
3rd |
7.5 |
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Clone |
1998 |
GEPea |
4th |
8.5 |
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Hypothetical |
2001 |
Inside Out |
5th |
8.5 |
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Critical Mass |
2002 |
Inside Out |
6th |
8 |
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Subsurface |
2004 |
Inside Out |
7th |
8.5 |
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Dead Reckoning |
2007 |
Nuclear Blast |
8th |
9 |
unimaginative scoring perhaps, but they are to my mind, one of the most consistent bands out there..
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Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson
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rushfan4
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Posted: October 11 2008 at 13:52 |
I'm not sure if I have a favorite from them. I pretty much like all of their albums. I think that maybe Subsurface or Wounded Land might be my favorite, but they're all really good.
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rushfan4
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Posted: October 11 2008 at 16:00 |
I have only recently discovered Anekdoten thanks to PA, but I am really liking this band. I still need to get From Within, but I really enjoy the other 4 albums. I am currently listening to Vemod and it is an excellent album. A bit slow in parts, but the slow parts are beautiful. Kind of strange especially considering I am only a minor King Crimson fan, and that is who they are compared to the most on this album.
My only conclusion is that I am strange. Kind of like my really liking Discipline and Matthew Parmenter, but not really liking VDGG and Peter Hammill, even though those are the artists that they are most compared to. I must still continue trying to like VDGG, because I know that it will have to happen one of these days.
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Jared
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Posted: October 11 2008 at 16:06 |
^^as per usual, my favourite Anekdoten album (Gravity) is the one with the lowest ratings on PA.. 
..and you think you have a persecution complex??...
I love Monolith, Ricochet & Gravity in particular... 
anyway, the best VDGG album I've heard is Prawn Tarts...which takes a bit of listening to, but is very good..  |
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Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson
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rushfan4
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Posted: October 11 2008 at 16:20 |
Gravity was my first one since I was able to download it from eMusic. It was the lowest rated of the albums on PA, but since I heard so many great things about this band, I really wanted to hear what they sounded like. I liked Gravity enough that I investigated further. I bought MP3 of Vemod and Nucleus from Amazon.Com, and I really like them. And in the meantime, A Time of Day showed up on eMusic, so I downloaded that one too. I like all 4 of these.
With VDGG, I recently purchased Aerosol Grey Machine and actually liked it with the first listen. I didn't really care for H to He or Pawn Hearts. The first one that I got from them (kind of) was The Quiet Zone/The Pleasure Dome and that was really disappointing after all of the great things I had heard about VDGG.
Crazily enough I bought the live album Real Time, and quite liked that. I haven't heard anything else from them yet. Kind of weird. Might be my mood on the given day or just where I happened to be listening to it. Whether in the car or at home or at work.
I am pretty confident that they are a band that I could definitely like. I'm just not quite there yet.
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Petrovsk Mizinski
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Posted: October 12 2008 at 04:10 |
song_of_copper wrote:
I NEED TO LISTEN TO MORE MAGMA
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song_of_copper
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Posted: October 12 2008 at 04:13 |
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Petrovsk Mizinski
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Posted: October 12 2008 at 04:13 |
You ruined my post 
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song_of_copper
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Posted: October 12 2008 at 04:16 |
What's going on...?! I'm confused!  
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Jared
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Posted: October 12 2008 at 05:36 |
song_of_copper wrote:
What's going on...?! I'm confused!
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well, you're listening to Magma...
no wonder you're confused...
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Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson
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