All Prog From Italy Appreciation Thread

amen brother Ryan 

have I ever doubted that hahahha....  recall a recent post of mine.... ELP smokes anything Camel ever tried.. but YS smokes 99% of anything PROG ever did.   There simply is not another album like that... anywhere.. then or now.

hahah.. this is PA's....  we live for rehashing old battles.. old threads.. old topics.  The fun is trying to put new spins on them hahhah

you too Ryan... great to see you around. We do miss you round these parts. 

Second round of YS in progress, and what the heck, I'm starting to get it 

Despite the fact that I know very few Italian words part of the amusement of Italian prog for us Finns (or at least me ) is spotting familiar words. There are quite many cases due to the somewhat similar phonetics of Finnish and Italian. Take for example the descending "talo talo talo talo!" (incorrect spelling, I'm sure) line around five minutes into Introduzione. To us it sounds like "house house house house!"
And on Banco's Dopo... Niente è Più Lo Stesso I always hear the "eroismo qui comincia" line as "Eero Ismo Mikko Misha", the three first are Finnish male names and the fourth is a Russian name. And the dramatic "VIVE!" sounds to us like "delay"

I'd like to learn Italian some day. It's a beautiful language and I hear it's quite easy at least when compared to French which I tried for five years in elementary school and junior high.

Keppa4v wrote:  I'd like to learn Italian some day. It's a beautiful language and I hear it's quite easy at least when compared to French which I tried for five years in elementary school and junior high.

^Wow, cool  I had to check if we have that book in our shelf since my girlfriend's been taking some italian lessons in University, but she had a different one.

Let the first lesson begin: how do you really spell that "talo talo" thingy and what does it mean?

And in which part of Finland did you live?

^ Jyväskylä is a very nice town, I have some family there  (Should go for visit very soon, my cousin just had a daughter with her Spanish husband and I haven't seen her yet. She's the cutest thing, I've seen some pictures.)

It was a real pain in the ass trying to make all those throat gurgling sounds happen when studying French. It was nice to notice on my recent trip to Paris that hey, I can finally make those sounds, those five years were not complete waste of time. I didn't learn much else

But back to the topic: Music was not the only thing Italians were good at in the early 70s, look at those record covers. Alphataurus, Semiramis, YS, Storia di Un Minuto and many more, wow. Very good stuff.

Keppa4v wrote: For some reason I've never listened to Area before, now I'm checking out the two sample tunes from the 'archives and thinking about buying Arbeit Macht Frei and Crac! Very good sounding stuff. edit: Damn this song from Crac! is brilliant And there's a really interesting review by LinusW that I'm reading while listening to this for the third time in a row.

Don (LinusW)  is one of the finest reviewers on the site.   I know he'd be happy to know to know the review hit someone.  That is why we try to write them

guys, reading through this wonderfull tread , and  this awesome italian prog fanbase community here , made me  renew my interest  for Italian Prog again.  so i recently listened to some recomendation up here that i thought to check in the past but i didn't ,so one of them would be Battiato - Sulle Corde di Aries, some psych moments ,i enyojed in it.   . another gem i missed ,but checked now is Il Castello di Atlante - Come Il Seguitare Delle Stagioni, i love this album, such i great tunes, Premiata Forneria Marconi - Stati Di Immaginazione, i'am amazed by this band , after 37 years of making prog never lost their touch, Stati Di Immaginazione sounds as was released in the best years of prog; 70' , superb album. Maxophone - Maxophone, very interesting album, sax doing great job here,