What albums did you listen to today?...continued

Henry Cow - LegEnd
Pentangle - Basket of Light
Le Orme - Uomo di Pezza

No prog today.
Sun Ra - Lanquidity
Richard Wagner - Der Ring des Nibelungen

mechanicalflattery wrote: ALotOfBottle wrote: Richard Wagner - Der Ring des Nibelungen ..... like all of it? That's a pretty long piece if I recall correctly, although I've never listened to it myself.

It's just over an hour long on the version I've listened to (recorded at Berlin Philharmonic in 1988). It does feel pretty long, though. The music is very stretched, slowly evolving... very proud and phlegmatic. And I love it because of that. I highly recommend you listen to it and find out yourself!

Steve Vai - Fire Garden - One of the best prog albums of the 90's. One of the few albums that still fires me up the same way it did when I was 13; that's more than can be said for a lot of the stuff I fawned over in middle school. "There's A Fire In The House" is still one of the most incendiary intros to any album in rock. It simply shreds. "The Crying Machine" and "Blowfish" are still phenomenal air guitar songs. "Dyin' Day" and "Hand on Heart" are both gorgeous. And the title track..."Angel Food" is the best instrumental duel put to record and "Taurus Bulba" is Yes-levels of perfection. If only it wasn't for the very forgettable hard rock/metal vocal tracks on the second half of the disc, then this would be a total masterpiece. That's excluding "All About Eve" and "Genocide", of course. The latter is the catchiest thing Steve has ever touched. 

Led Zeppelin - "II"
R.E.M. - "Murmur"
Mac DeMarco - "Salad Days"
Many Moods of Dad - "asapep"
The Band - s/t
The Band - "Music From Big Pink"

Finnforest wrote: Pantera - Far Beyond Driven

sh*t, dude, blast from the past! "Just gimme....five minutes aluuurnnne!!"

Last night's choices:

La Batteria – s/t
Abraxis – s/t (Oh yeah, baby, still such a good album!)
Magma – Felicite Thosz
P.F.M - Passpartu (very nice album)
Quantum Fantay – Dancing in Limbo
Glass Hammer – Chronomotree
Opeth – Ghost Reveries
Cousin Silas – Berlin Evenings (slowly growing on me)

Genesis - ...and Then There were Three (I am more convinced than ever that this is an amazing album)
Genesis – Abacab

Genesis – Three Side Live (Nick, do you have the box-set that includes the studio tracks from the fourth side of the original vinyl version of this?)

Steve Hillage - L (haven't spun this in years)
Genesis – ...and Then There Were Three
Gentle Giant - Interview
Kansas - Masque
Iron Maiden – Killers
National Health – s/t
U.K – s/t
King Crimson – Lizard

Jethro Tull – Songs from the Wood (Sam, I’m kind of shocked, but this Dull album actually seems rather good...or at least nothing enrages me on it, and it's much more complex instrumentally lol Have you heard it yourself?)

Jim, is that the album with the track `Good Friends and a Bottle of Pills'?! Hilarious!

Aussie-Byrd-Brother wrote: Jim, is that the album with the track `Good Friends and a Bottle of Pills'?! Hilarious!

It is! 

Hey, nice new Av you have there!

Jim, I have to thank you for the random Pantera mention! I was never a fan when I was in highschool, but I had that run of four albums from `Cowboys from Hell' through to `The Great Southern Trendkill', probably because all the other kids at school had them. Sadly all those CD's are away somewhere in various boxes in a spare cupboard these days, so it would take a lot of effort to dig them out. So I just looked a full clip of `Far Beyond Driven' and have spent the last twenty minutes spinning it again (for probably the first time in twenty years!), and I have to say, those guys were sh*t hot, and that album endlessly grooves like an absolute monster!!



I'm also torn between thinking `These guys have the biggest balls ever', and pissing myself laughing at how `massive' the lyrics are! I correctly recalled some heroic favourites such as:

"I'm bone, brain and cock, deep down, STRONGER THAN ALL"

*****

Cheers about the avatar, mate, I've always liked this one, it's pretty old! There's a kind of funny story to it! Right as I was getting into prog, a mate and I came across a photo of Alan Parsons making the same pose with his eye, and we said `That is so freaky, I bet his music is really trippy!'...and after hearing the Alan Parsons Project for the first time, we were like `Wow, they are really vanilla....'