What albums did you listen to today?

Meltdowner wrote: Aussie-Byrd-Brother wrote: Dream Theater – The Astonishing <span style="line-height: 18.2px;">Rush – Hemispheres</span><br style="line-height: 18.2px;"> I must say I was surprised to read your five star review, I thought you didn't like it  What did you think of Hemispheres?  <span style="line-height: 18.2px;"> TeleStrat wrote: </span><span style="line-height: 1.4;">Black Mountain - IV</span><div style="line-height: 18.2px;">Miss Lava - Red Supergiant<span style="line-height: 18.2px;"> You found it? Cool!  Great album, don't you think?</span> <span style="line-height: 18.2px;">I'm still waiting for them to confirm a concert near me to get the new album </span> <span style="line-height: 18.2px;"> </span> <span style="line-height: 18.2px;">Last two days:</span> <span style="line-height: 18.2px;">Nemo - Le Vers Dans le Fruit</span> Black Mountain - IV Samsara Blues Experiment - Waiting for the Flood

Heh....if you read very closely, you'll notice I slyly/conveniently didn't reveal if I personally liked it or not! Admiring the effort, inspiration and scale of something is very different from personally enjoying an album! Credit where's it's due, even if that credit makes me want to pound my head against a wall!

I think `Hemispheres' is the first Rush album I ever owned, so I'm already familair with the album even though I just bought the CD remaster recently, but it fails to engage me any more or less than most of their other ones. I think `Permanent Waves' is the one I can stand the most of (the singing is less distracting and screeching!).

Edited by Aussie-Byrd-Brother - March 28 2016 at 04:28

Meltdowner wrote: Ah, I almost believed it... if it wasn't for the Disney comparisons  You don't like it and have two copies of it?  I still don't have it but I know the epic can be annoying. At least the last track is a really good instrumental one.

Oh, yeah, man, there were still moments where I took little shots at it!

To be honest, even though I have hundreds of vinyl LP's, the bulk of my complete collections are on the CD format. For instance, I might have five or six Genesis vinyls, but I've collected ALL of their albums on CD. Same goes Floyd, Yes, Iron Maiden, etc...If I had to be honest, my vinyl collection is more likely to hold rarer, more obscure artists and albums.

And I don't hesitate rebuying albums I already have on vinyl again on CD (like in this Rush instance) if I have the majority of their titles on that later format. Hard to explain, and I don't know if I exlained it properly!

For me, it's becoming a matter of space....I'm slowly running out of it to be precise! At least with the way my life has headed the last couple of years, unless I meet someone again and it changes the course of my life (as in, for instance, we eventually move somewhere else together), I'll more than likely be staying where I am now (and I fought my silly ex for over a year to keep my house and then remake it on my own two years ago). So stockpilling and collecting prog CD's is a little easier to do on a large scale than LP's, plus in addition to those I have two massive bookshelves full of DVD's and blurays (actually a few years ago I got rid of about 400 plastic standard DVD cases and put all the discs into plastic folders, and now that freed up space is filling up again!) which is growing all the time, as well as glass cabinets with my vintage Transformer toys (yes, I think I have officialy hit my mid-life crisis! ). I don't think I'll have to worry for about a decade or so, but it's still something I need to keep an eye on.

Meltdowner wrote: No space for useless furniture, I see  I'm actually curious to see that Transformers shrine  When I'll run out of space I know what I'll get rid of... hello VdGG

Will post some pictures sometime soon

I've got nice furniture that perfectly suits me, but there are CD's in the main bedroom, my living room, and especially the man-cave, er, I mean spare room . Everything looks pretty tidy (I'm a bit OCD like that), so it certainly doesn't look like hoarding or everything creeping inwards! Again, I think I've got probably about a decade before that starts to happen!

Oh, yeah, I'd happily throw my VdGG albums on an open fire if the gas was turned off to keep the warmth coming! Also, you should try listening to Henry Cow's `In Praise of Learning', that would be the first thing I'd throw on a fire!

Well the (rather excellent) first Hnery Cow album is mostly instrumental and has quite a lot of Canterbury elements.

Then we reach this a couple of albums later and after two minutes I want to drive my car at high speed into a tree just to get it to stop!



Pretty sure the Avant/R.I.O friends adore it though!

Tom Ozric wrote: ^ Yes - indeed. All HC albums are magical. I love Daggie. You gotta get Western Culture. It's all instrumental and unique. The more 'jagged' music is, the more I love it. I just counter-balance the insane with a bit of 'Goo. Nick Beggs is my hero

Both dogsh*t, just one is more pretentious dogsh*t than the other in this instance! Although when she shuts up there's occasional little amazing instrumental passsages - that are only obliterated by more studid whooping, twitching theatrical vocal quirks within seconds!

I've never come across `Western Culture' sadly...barely ever come across any Henry Cow albums at any of the fairs. Would snap them up if they presented themselves.

I just heard the album and it's not that bad and I didn't think it has too much vocals. I already knew Slapp Happy.

Henry Cow - In Praise of Learning
Black Mountain - IV

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