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Tom Ozric

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Posted: November 24 2016 at 05:43

VEKTOR - Terminal Redux

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Posted: November 24 2016 at 06:06

micky wrote:

Happy Turkey Day everyone! Looking forward to a great day of food and drink with my better half who has been cooking for the last 2 days LOL

Even more so than all that.. happy for the long weekend. Giving thanks that I haven't got too old yet..and the bones are still strong.. fell off of a ladder yesterday and saw my foot land at a right angle to the rest of my leg.

Heard it POP and hurt like hell but figured since I could walk on it that nothing was broken and could put weight on it. But last night that sucker frickin killed me when I moved my foot around and swelled up. Possibly a facture.. more likely a sprained ankle.. boo for me.

anyhow... Happy Thanksgiving everyone! and for the first album of the day... Thumbs Up

Ouch

Hope the food, drink and company will make you forget about it Smile

It's lunch break now, no turkey for me though Tongue

Halfway through:

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Posted: November 24 2016 at 06:12

Halfway through `Il Corponauta', Sam? Heh, see you next week then!

Heh, I almost listened to it myself tonight on my modern Italian bender...

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Posted: November 24 2016 at 06:19

Meltdowner wrote:

micky wrote:

Happy Turkey Day everyone! Looking forward to a great day of food and drink with my better half who has been cooking for the last 2 days LOL

Ouch

Hope the food, drink and company will make you forget about it Smile

It's lunch break now, no turkey for me though Tongue

Halfway through:

thanks man! Nothing that self medication and a few days off won't cure. Glad to see this morning the pain and swelling went down.. the only thing I've broken (ummm .. had broken) has been my nose.
3 times in fact. LOL

next up... kicking up the asskickingtude...

Edited by micky - November 24 2016 at 06:20

The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip

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Posted: November 24 2016 at 06:32

Originally posted by Aussie-Byrd-Brother

Aussie-Byrd-Brother wrote:

Halfway through `Il Corponauta', Sam? Heh, see you next week then!

Heh, I almost listened to it myself tonight on my modern Italian bender...

I always save the long albums for this time of the day to take a break Tongue

I'm enjoying it much more than on my previous listen, so far Thumbs Up

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Posted: November 24 2016 at 06:55

next up... a stone cold classic... as I hit the fridge for the first bottle of medicine Thumbs Up

Edited by micky - November 24 2016 at 06:56

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Posted: November 24 2016 at 07:18

Macaco Bong - Macaco Bong (Cuiaba, Brazil 2016)

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Posted: November 24 2016 at 08:29

poor Raff.. she saw me heading for the Willie Nelson section of the wall of music and stepped in LOL

not that I'm complaining... her tastes are as good as mine.. just not as broad I suppose haha Heart

what a great album... and we still need to get the new album Angry

what a great song... one of my work crew's favorites.. have this one loaded on my tablet..

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Posted: November 24 2016 at 08:43

Do not disturb.

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Posted: November 24 2016 at 08:46

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Posted: November 24 2016 at 09:12

Some good Progressive Metal

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Posted: November 24 2016 at 09:18

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Posted: November 24 2016 at 09:40

good to see a revisit to this album hasn't changed my mind... I feel as if someone is pushing knives into my ears.

and hit eject...

next up...

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Posted: November 24 2016 at 09:42

ahhhhhh.. now that is better...

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Posted: November 24 2016 at 09:46

Radio Moscow - The Great Escape Of Leslie Magnafuzz (Story City, Iowa 2011)

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Posted: November 24 2016 at 09:48

micky wrote:

good to see a revisit to this album hasn't changed my mind... I feel as if someone is pushing knives into my ears.

and hit eject...

next up...

Yep, it's torture Dead

Now:

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Posted: November 24 2016 at 09:56

Meltdowner wrote:

micky wrote:

good to see a revisit to this album hasn't changed my mind... I feel as if someone is pushing knives into my ears.

and hit eject...

next up...

Yep, it's torture Dead

oh indeed it is.... goes back to what the almighty John said.. there is the crime of doing prog.. for prog's sake and that album is #1 on the list of examples of it..

take it away John

I guess the best way to explain my ambiguous feelings towards the group is to say that, for me, Van Der Graaf Generator are the fathers of "mediocre prog." (This should not be taken as me saying that VDGG themselves were mediocre, because I don't really believe that). As I've said many times on other pages on the site, I have nothing against prog rock as a whole, mainly because I refuse to buy into the notion that all the extra trappings prog brings to rock music are intrinisically incompatible with "the true spirit of rock and roll" (my personal least favorite phrase relating to rock music). Complexity, discord, "sophisticated" lyrics, non-traditional instrumentation etc are all perfectly fine by me, and the number of art-rock/prog-rock albums to which I give very high ratings on this webpage should aptly reflect that.

However, for all this tolerance, there is a catch: I tolerate and love these aspects so long as they are an augmentation of and not a replacement for traditional musical creativity. I know that for many prog fans, memorability is something to be shunned, and that an increase in atmosphere and complexity and impenetrable imagery at the expense of "traditional" music values is greatly desired. For somebody like myself, though, for whom prog is only one genre that I enjoy (a genre I enjoy a lot in comparison to some others, but only one genre nonetheless), this is a very shaky approach to prog, and one that (unfortunately) VDGG uses quite a bit. I actually have somewhat the same problem with mid-period Jethro Tull - I'm totally in love with them through Thick as a Brick (as well as the Chateau D'Isaster tapes), but from A Passion Play onward, except for some isolated cases, there are far too many stretches of what my ears hear as "prog for the sake of prog" for me to be that enthused.

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Posted: November 24 2016 at 10:30

next up.... thanks the guy who just PM'd me.... I think those who 'disagreed' with the addition thought I was kidding.. but wasn't then.. and still am getting them. Steely Dan belonged here... so much more than a stupid American top 40 band. If they had been English there would have been NO question.

I just wish, as I explained in my PM that my reviewing inspiration had extended past Steely Dan. I felt I had to explain what they were missing.. inspiration... sometimes great music isn't enough.. it takes your fellow collabs sticking knives in you to provide proper inspiration... reviewing isn't easy man if you aren't naturally talented as some of you (like my better half) are.

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Posted: November 24 2016 at 10:46

Ulver - NNO

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I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive
Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect.

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Posted: November 24 2016 at 10:56

M Dvais - On The Corner Sessions

Dig me...But don't...Bury me
I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive
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