Slartibartfast's Magical Music Random Load Blog

Having known THG for a while I was like hmm, interesting.  (Not in a bad way mind you.)  The song that grabbed me was Riddles I think that was the one AOL radio was playing on their progressive streaming station when they had one  a few years back.

Edited by Slartibartfast - August 02 2011 at 06:00

I got into Primus after that Frogs.

Code Talkers, The with Col. Bruce Hampton    Bootleg Live - got this one as a freebie at the sports bar/music bar where they were playing about two weeks before 9/11/2001.  The club has closed.  Shame it was within walking distance of my house.  Then again it wasn't a really good venue for music, but I've been in worse.  "All you need are dreams and a little bit of faith and my ferry boat will take you away..."

Coryell, Larry    Comin' Home - basic jazz, nothing special.

Dunmall, Paul Octet    Great Divide - jazz, but something more interesting and avant.

Jethro Tull    Nightcap - had to get this one for the Disaster re assembly.  The tracks on the second disc from later era Tull are OK but not as impressive.

Nektar    Remember the Future - the first CD issue of this had a serious mix flaw at the beginning.  This is a proper remaster.  Essential Nektar.

Radiohead    Pablo Honey - the last song shows a progressive direction.  The rest of the album is OK.  I've even come to terms with Creep, which certainly put me off to the band for all the airplay it got.  Now I kinda like it.

Various    More for Your Pleasure: A Tribute to Roxy Music - alas not quite as good as some other mixed artist prog artist tribute albums I have.

Wakeman, Rick    1984 - dreadful.  The music is just wrong for the novel.  I don't think they'd have to torture Winston, just make him listen to this album over and over.  How many fingers am I holding up?  One and it's the middle one.  The Eurythmics sound track for the move captured the spirit much much better.  Of interest, I mail ordered this one used and it took forever to get here to the point I had forgotten about it.  When it did show up it came from a seller in Russia.  The package had some cool stamps and was hand made.  Inside wrapping the CD was used typing paper that had Cyrillic typing on it.  The CD itself was either made especially for distribution behind the iron curtain or is a pirate copy.

Weather Report    Mysterious Traveller - one of their better ones most would agree.




Edited by Slartibartfast - August 03 2011 at 23:08

Badalamenti, Angelo    Lost Highway - yep I had to put this one in the truck player for the commute.  Really not something you can crank up on your work computer.   Worth having in particular for songs that weren't used in the soundtrack.

Burton, Gary & Stephane Grappelli    Paris Encounter - nice basic mellow jazz album.

Claypool, Les Frog Brigade    Live Frogs - Set 1 - the gateway drug for me to Primus. 

Coryell, Larry    Tricycles - seem to be coming up with an interesting dispersion of jazz albums that don't really excite me in the random draws.  This would be one of them.  I need to put together a playlist of these and run it on shuffle in order to challenge myself to figure out which one is is from which album as they shuffle by.

Husband, Gary    Things I See, The - so the drummer who worked with Holdsworth takes tracks from that era and turns them into reinterpreted piano pieces.  Cool.

zincs, the    dimmer - the CD for this mysteriously disappeared a few years ago.  I think it was bumped off by the Zappa albums or something.  Nobody else gets to be at the end of the collection, take that!  Opening act for Stereolab one year.  File it under I don't where to file it, possibly crossover prog.  The vocalist has a style similar to David Sylvian and that Crash Test Dummies guy (sorry I forgot his name, he's one one of my Joe Jackson albums for a song).


Edited by Slartibartfast - August 02 2011 at 19:00

Amos, Tori    Welcome To Sunny Florida - a DVD with an EP in a CD case.  Where the hell am I supposed to put it?  Primus did this to us, too.  Great show from the Scarlett's walk tour.  Too bad David Torn was only on the studio album.

Davis, Miles    Miles In The Sky - there are Miles albums that wow me and many that are merely alright.  Changes were about.

Eno, Brian-David Byrne    My Life in the Bush of Ghosts (Remaster) - interestingly enough they expanded the CD and left off one of the original tracks Qu'Ran.

Hancock, Herbie    Head Hunters - a lot of fun.

King Crimson    Vroom - really should resist temptation to buy these EPs that have too much of the material that is about to come on in a regular release, still sometimes you can't resist.

Muffins, The    Double Negative - these guys had to quit making music to pay the bills.  Damn shame but a good thing they came back.

Praxis    Warszawa - yowsa.

Santana    Welcome - even though the S man reached a pinnacle of prog in Caravanserai, there's plenty to love here if uh, you're devoted, and uhm surrender.


Edited by Slartibartfast - August 01 2011 at 20:17

jammun wrote: Well it's in the end disappointing, but the first few songs on Tinseltown still knock me down.  Fine Girl/Easy Meat/For the Young Sophisticated are FZ doing what FZ does best, which is play great music and offend some people on the side.

It's a fine album and would probably poke it around if it died down.  The easily offended should stay away from FZ as he really didn't give a damn about who he offended.  For me his crassness is part of the appeal, but that alone would not be sufficient.  Combine it with good music and you have a winning combination.  Kind of a letdown after Sheik Yerbouti and Joe's Garage.  I also put You Are What You Is above it.  One of my standard jokes is that Disco Volante is the only disco album in my collection.  I think TR qualifies, perhaps better.

Bowie, David    Scary Monsters - one of the Bowie must haves for me.

Flood    Tales From The Four Seasons - I approved his addition to crossover.  Almost too mellow for this site.

Genesis    Foxtrot - one of those albums I have long ago lost track of how many times I've listened to it. 

Gentle Giant    Three Friends - way too short for me.  But they did pretty well cover their concept.

Jethro Tull    Warchild (Remaster) - kind of funny getting their remasters.  I have a box set that has most of the bonus tracks from them.

Khan featuring Steve Hillage & Dave Stewart    Space Shanty - very well regarded on this site, but I still find them to be no big deal.  More promising when I saw it at the store than it delivered for me I guess.

Oldfield, Sally    Flaming Star - all these years before I got this I thought her only solo venture was Waterbearer. Kind of new agey in a good way.

XTC    White Music - a hard one to get into since I got on the XTC train at the English Settlement.

Zappa, Frank    Tinseltown Rebellion- OK already commented on this a little below.


Edited by Slartibartfast - July 28 2011 at 07:25

I'll stick up for XTC whenever they come up.  Ever since I first got to know them (English Settlement) I've always considered them prog personally.

Funny story about the Morissette album, my girlfriend at the time got a cassette, I got a copy of the CD.  She wore it out until she couldn't stand to listen to the album any more.  I took a more measured approach and still like to give it a spin on occasion.

No need to worry about me mentioning you know what in this thread.  I've got 594 titles to finish this run through the entire collection and then I'll need to come up with a new blog thread.  I think my next cycle will be either through the last 10 years of new releases I have or the additions that were new to me over the last 10 years. 

So I'm making a log of LPs to sell and come to find out that I never logged in In The Wake Of Poseidon.  I think I got the CD back in 2002.
OK, it gets a heavy rotation for that.

Anderson, Laurie    United States Live (Disc Three) - this four disc box set is something else and as soon as I figure out what that something is, I'll let you know.  For purposes of rotation the set is separated into the three discs.  For my player it's one continuous piece.  Take that you some double albums are too long and have too much filler types.

Budd, Harold with Zeigeist    She is a Phantom - a concept album of sorts about ghostly encounters.

Emerson, Lake, and Palmer    Brain Salad Surgery - a semi concept album of sorts with one of my top ten ELP tracks.

Jarrett, Keith Trio    Somewhere Before - Keith before ECM.

Manzanera, Phil    6pm - do you know where you're Manzan is?

No Sound    Sol29 - I actually haven't been keeping up with No Sound.  Should remedy that before too long.

Psychedelic Furs, The    Book of Days - didn't get the attention of their predecessors.

Tibbetts, Steve    Big Map Idea - your basic ECM ST

Zappa, Dweezil    Zappa Plays Zappa - decided to skip listening and just watch the whole DVD concert instead.



Edited by Slartibartfast - July 17 2011 at 20:03

This is a weird combination:
Davis, Miles    Milestones - a less laid back predecessor to Kind Of Blue

Eno, Roger    Voices - a cousin to The Plateau Of Mirror

Nine Inch Nails    [With Teeth] - Mr. Profanity is back.

Way, Darryl    Ultra Violins - ordered this from his web site.  Appears to be a home made CD-R affair as the disc has a blank label that was autographed to me. 


Edited by Slartibartfast - July 16 2011 at 05:04