SR IV: This is the end, my only friend, the end.

TGM: Orb wrote: James wrote: Wow, Khan's Space Shanty is brilliant.  I've not played it in ages.  Wow wow wow! "Across the dyke of worry". Brilliant! Driving to Amsterdam = Driving to Amsterdam = OK Rest of the album is much the same. The opener is trés cool, though. Wolf City blaring at the moment - really fabulous album.

Oh well.  You clearly don't hear what I hear.

James wrote: Ricochet wrote: rushfan4 wrote: Oh OK. I've never heard Merci.  Based on previous posts here in the Shred Room, those just looked like fighting words to me. It's alright. James doesn't know how to fight anyway. I've not heard it yet either. But Pat and Mike have.

You didn't?!

James wrote: I haven't heard Merci.  Mike said it's not as bad as he was thinking it would be but it's still average.  I don't think Pat enjoys it at all.  Alex has already said he hates it.

I'm with Mike. It is average. It has the 80s flu. But it wasn't dreadful to listen to.

Except if you're a Magma purist and you're shocked to see Vander in a disco club instead of in his slumber chamber of ascension practice.

Not heard III yet.

Yes, the break in M.D.K. is a bit off putting and I don't always think Lockwood's violin fits.

However, I love the intro to M.D.K. better on this version and I also love the end.  It's just the pause and the violin.

But then it was a live recording.

Theusz Hamtaahk is best on this version.  I do enjoy the Trilogie Thuesz Hamtaahk version too, mind you.

The intro of MDK on RII is not better than the intro of MDK on MDK, me believes. It's faster and skips a lot of bars and phases, while the original is almost like a ritual, starting with the rhythms, the incantation and then all that wonderful developement.

I wasn't shocked that it stopped and went on to heavy improvs, on Retrospectiw. But it was as good as playing live can be. The original stays where it is.

Ricochet wrote: The intro of MDK on RII is not better than the intro of MDK on MDK, me believes. It's faster and skips a lot of bars and phases, while the original is almost like a ritual, starting with the rhythms, the incantation and then all that wonderful developement. I wasn't shocked that it stopped and went on to heavy improvs, on Retrospectiw. But it was as good as playing live can be. The original stays where it is.

I was mostly referring to the poem in French that Vander speaks.  That's not on the album version or the Trilogie Theusz Hamtaahk version.  That's the bit I like.  It sets the scene.  I get weird mental images in my head and I start pumping my fist in the air after the he says Mekanik Destruktiw Kommandoh.  It draws me in more than the studio version.  Plus his screams are more outrageous too.

The ending on Theusz Hamtaahk is marvellous.  They also don't have that on other versions.  It's so depressing.


Edited by James - May 09 2009 at 09:23

MovingPictures07 wrote: Ricochet wrote: MovingPictures07 wrote: Hey guys. It's Caturday. Prog quiz nao! Funny you mention that. I just started working on it.

Good, good!

Ricochet wrote: MovingPictures07 wrote: Ricochet wrote: MovingPictures07 wrote: Hey guys. It's Caturday. Prog quiz nao! Funny you mention that. I just started working on it. Good, good!

I had trouble deciding on this week's theme, but then I realized I couldn't appease everyone and that I'd eventually get to every single main sub-genre in some way or another so it doesn't matter.

MovingPictures07 wrote: Ricochet wrote: MovingPictures07 wrote: Ricochet wrote: MovingPictures07 wrote: Hey guys. It's Caturday. Prog quiz nao! Funny you mention that. I just started working on it. Good, good! I had trouble deciding on this week's theme, but then I realized I couldn't appease everyone and that I'd eventually get to every single main sub-genre in some way or another so it doesn't matter.

So it's Indo-Prog week, I take it.

Ricochet wrote: MovingPictures07 wrote: Ricochet wrote: MovingPictures07 wrote: Ricochet wrote: MovingPictures07 wrote: Hey guys. It's Caturday. Prog quiz nao! Funny you mention that. I just started working on it. Good, good! I had trouble deciding on this week's theme, but then I realized I couldn't appease everyone and that I'd eventually get to every single main sub-genre in some way or another so it doesn't matter. So it's Indo-Prog week, I take it.

Not yet, haha.