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

Mortte wrote: Magnum Vaeltaja wrote: Wigwam - Fairyport What´s your opinion about it?

Gotta love the WigWam

King Crimson - Earthbound (40th Anniversary Edition)
Wobbler - Rites At Dawn
The Alan Parsons Project - Pyramid
Leif Edling - Songs of Torture Songs of Joy
Peter Hammill - Fools Mate
Ethos - Open Up
Cosmos Factory - An Old Castle of Transylvania
Omega - 200 Years After the Last War
Steve Howe - The Steve Howe Album

Larkstongue41 wrote: La Monte Young - The Well-Tuned Piano (not entirely )

Magnum Vaeltaja wrote: Aussie-Byrd-Brother wrote: Have a happy Christmas everyone! You too! Any good tacky Hallmark Christmas flicks you recommend this year? I know you've mentioned in the past that you're quite the connoisseur.

Ha, you remember my secret shame, eh?! Well, I went on a bit of a bender watching a ton of older ones and newer ones this year, so I can safely say that `Crown for Christmas', `Ice Sculpture Christmas', `A Very Country Christmas' and `A Song for Christmas' in particular impressed, and I'm hearing a lot of `buzz' around `A Christmas Prince', which I bet is nowhere near as bad as people are saying it is (or possibly much worse! ) - besides, it's got the adorable lead girl from `Izombie' in it, so I'm pretty sold already!

Mortte wrote: Guldbamsen wrote: Gotta love the WigWam Jim Pembroke is one of the only white boys that can pull off a 'Stevie Wonder'. He sounds like Stevie's brother on here, and it is also rather cool to hear how Stevie would have sounded like had he ventured just a little further into fusion territory.  It's been so long since I last span it actually. I think I'll do Lambertland as well. Oh yeah Tasavallan Presidentti (maybe a little Haikara too....just not too late. That album works like ten cups of coffee) Great to hear you are Finnish prog fan too! I think you mix now Jukka Gustavson and Jim Pembroke. Jukka is the one who sounds really much Winwood/Wonder. Jim is of course too very great vocalist! But anyway I think Jukka is the best vocalist in Finland (he´s singing most of Being, also singing his entity Joined to Conscience in Fairyport). "Pressa" and Haikara are great too! My favourite Haikara is Geafar, first one is great too! Have you heard also Kalevala´s People No Names? the Harri Saksala´s vocals are very rude, but the music is just great! Tabula Rasa, Nimbus and Nova are also Finnish progbands from that time, not as great as those four, but very good any way. Also band called Apollo made one, quite interesting album. And then there were some folkprogs, band called Pihasoittajat made "Kontaten Kotia"-album that is really great! BTW I think WigWam (put that way) is Norwegian band that is quite different animal...

sorry my bad. It's Jukka of course.
Yes I know the Kalevala one as well, but it is actually the singing I least enjoy about that release. Nah I spin that sucker for its raw unhinged energy. Other ones I'm not familiar with, so thanks for the heads up!
Btw do you know Uzva? Finnish woodlands flavoired Canterbury and one of my favourite modern'ish' acts from your native country.

Snow Live - Spock's Beard - CDs and now DVDs
.....a welcome Christmas present!

A nice mostly vintage line-up to distract from stupid messy affairs of the heart and the banality of life!   

Tangerine Dream - Phaedra
Rush - Grace Under Pressure
Malicorne – s/t
Apoteosi – s/t
Museo Rosenbach – Zarathustra
Out of Focus – Not Too Late
Can – Future Days
Bo Hansson – Attic Thoughts
Bo Hansson – Lord of the Rings
Morpheus – Rabenteuer

Hanuman – s/t (man, I went from listening to this beautiful jazzy heavy German rocker every few weeks on end for years, to putting it back in the wrong place on my LP shelf and losing it for five-plus years! Well, it’s back now, baby!

Karfagen - Spektra
Bridge to Imla (Michael Bruckner & Hans-Dieter Schmidt) – The Radiant Sea

progbethyname wrote: Got this great new Vacuum Tube amplifier and I've been enjoying it immensely, so I've been spinning these albums that really just thrive under Tube amplification because of how they were originally recorded. A real pleasure and nothing else like it for me. Metallica-- Black album Zombie-- Spirit Animal Black Sabbath-- Master of Reality Black Sabbath--Never say Die! Fields of the Nephilim-- Revelations APP--Tales of mystery and imagination (original stereo 1976 mix 24/96k) Genesis--live over Europe (2007) Niadem's Ghost-- In Sheltered Winds Fates Warning--Parallels Metallica-- Master of Puppets (original cd pressing) Supertramp-- The classics vol.9 (compilation) Asia Minor-- Between Flesh & Divine Marillion--Clutching at Straws Pink Floyd-- WYWH (1992 remaster. It's brilliant!)

Those 92 remasters are indeed wonderful. All of my Floyd studio albums (bar Ummagumma (old cd but sounds terrific)) are 92 remasters. They are however consistently a third of a volume knob lower than most other cd's (maybe except for Iggy and Dickinson's 1997 remix of the classic Stooges album Raw Power that literally will blow your neighbour out his window with but the slightest turn of the volume. Insane...and actually works better than the original Bowie mix. As Iggy mentions it (and here I am paraphrasing) 'it was supposed to sound like this from the beginning, but it never made it through the ceo's' ), but manages to retain the dynamics and warmth of the original recordings. All you really have to do is to crank it up!

Oh and tell me more tell me more.....about the tube! You can of course also bust sing a bit more from the Grease soundtrack now that I started the small choir in your brain. But yeah erm please enlighten me about ze tube over in the Dolly thread.

Edited by Guldbamsen - December 28 2017 at 12:51