What albums did you listen to today?...continued - Progressive Rock Music Forum

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Larkstongue41 wrote:

Minutemen - Double Nickels on the Dime

Mercury Rev - Yerself is Steam

Vampire Rodents - Lullaby Land

Morphine - Good

Klaus Schulze - Irrlicht

Jon Hassell - Dream Theory in Malaya

Love the Minutemen and that early Merc Rev!

What Makes a Man Start Fires? is my favourite, but Double Nickels is also really great!

Pretty much everything they did is great. One of my all-time favorites. I think those 2 are most likely their best 2.

Well, I think 3-Way Tie is quite poor album comparing those others. Haven´t listened it as much as those others, have to give it a try some of these days.

in retrospect, 3-Way Tie is hurt by its weak production, but as a fan at the time, I saw it as them branching out and expanding their sound. I’d just seen them live (opening for REM in ‘85) and after investigating their albums (the live show was a bit strange to my young ears) they’d become my favorite band in a short amount of time. Then D Boon died and it was all over. I’m still upset about that. I met Mike Watt a few years later and we shared a tear or two over D Boon. The guy was his best friend. What a sad tale.

Really great you have seen them! I am quite recent fan, I think I started listen them maybe 2013 or 2014. I think 3-Way Tie material is much more weaker than those others. Do you like fIREHOUSE? What I´ve heard from them it hadn´t woke my interest.

i was a very big fIREHOSE fan, and caught them live once, but I admit they haven’t aged as well as the Minutemen. Still, the first 2 fH albums are both filled with pretty great tracks.

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Fact and Fiction - Twelfth Night
The Wake - IQ
Technical Ecstasy - Black Sabbath
Southern Empire - Southern Empire
Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd
Live - Jeff Beck with the Jan Hammer Group
Live and Dangerous - Thin Lizzy
Kick Off Your Muddy Boots - The Graeme Edge Band

“Living in their pools, they soon forget about the sea.”

Viima: Ajatuksia Maailman Laidalta

Jethro Tull: the Broadsword and the Beast

Derek and the Dominos: In Concert

Ani Difranco: Knuckle Down

On the weekend:
Boredoms - Super Ae
Bo Hansson - Sagan om ringen
Dean Blunt - The Narcissist II

Categories strain, crack and sometimes break, under their burden - step out of the space provided.

Mike Oldfield - QE2

Synergy - Sequencer

Philippe Guerre - Cristal

Philippe Guerre - Concerto Pour la Mort d'Un Clown

Claude Larson - Plant Life

Yawning Man - Nomadic Pursuits

Marillion - F.E.A.R./Afraid of Sunlight
Twelfth Night - Fact & Fiction/Live at the Target
Glass Hammer - If
Magma - M.D.K
The Mute Gods - Tardigrades Will Inherit the Earth
Steven Wilson - To the Bone
Neil Young - Sleeps With Angels/Ragged Glory
Jethro Tull - Stormwatch

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Marillion - F.E.A.R./Afraid of Sunlight
Twelfth Night - Fact & Fiction/Live at the Target
Glass Hammer - If
Magma - M.D.K
The Mute Gods - Tardigrades Will Inherit the Earth
Steven Wilson - To the Bone
Neil Young - Sleeps With Angels/Ragged Glory
Jethro Tull - Stormwatch

Feelin’ the Magma and the Neil <3

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^ Same here!

Steely Dan - The Royal Scam

Brockhampton - Saturation II

Magma - Attahk

Air - Moon Safari

Neu! - Neu! '75

Slint - Spiderland

The Books - Thought for Food

Labradford - Mi Media Naranja

"Larks' tongues. Wrens' livers. Chaffinch brains. Jaguars' earlobes. Wolf nipple chips. Get 'em while they're hot. They're lovely. Dromedary pretzels, only half a denar."

Silas Neptune - The Scales of Tahuti

Six by Seven - The Things We Make

Lynyrd Skynyrd - Second Helping

Magma - Sl*g Tanz

Past few days:

Pestilence - Testimony of the Ancients: I know a lot of metal fans who consider 1986 as the best year for metal due to all of those thrash metal classics, but as a death metal nut, 1991 is THE year for metal as far as I'm concerned. Here's one of the more forward thinking ones, and my favorite Pestilence album by far (sorry Martin van Drunen fans). The added keyboards are tastefully rendered, and the mix of fast and slow slower numbers is spot on.

Bolt Thrower - War Master: Another 1991 monster. Less grind-influenced than their prior classic Realm of Chaos, but it still has a fair amount of ripping fast sections, plus the lyrics are still the fun "destruction of all mankind" lunacy rather than history lesson stuff. It does wear me down towards the end, but the first half of the album is a bludgeoning rush of monstrous riffs, and the death vocals are singularly great.

The Who - Live at Leeds: Nice raw and angry guitar tone, although Keith's madness behind the kit often steals the show. This extended version with a whole lotta Tommy tunes is a gas, adding some needed ballsiness in the guitar to songs like The Acid Queen. Heaven and Hell is a cool opener as well. Not Roger's best vocal performance on this album, but serviceable, and adds to the heavy garage vibe I'm feeling to some of their earlier cuts and covers.

Echo and the Bunnymen - Crocodiles: It took a lot of good reviews back in the day before I finally bought this album back in 1984 or so, thanks to the bandname. Listening to it for the first time in decades, it pretty much holds up well as prime post-punk. The detractors who claim it doesn't have the catchiness of Ocean Rain need to bugger off to The Thompson Twins. My fav song here is Monkeys, with that amazing one word chorus I still haven't bothered to look up. I always sing "Keymon!!"

Alice Merton - No Roots EP: I guess this considered "indie" because she doesn't sound like she's trying out for the part of Eponine in the Les Miserable musical. Sounds like pop to me, but...I hate to say this...I'm kind of on board with this woman. I'm occasionally on the lookout for a modern new mainstream female singer who's output doesn't suck. The title track kinda dominates, but I listened to the whole shebang a few times now.

Ayumi Hamasaki - I Am: Jpop queen whose music on this release sounds a lot like the band Garbage but with bouncier melodies and 8 bars of 80's style guitar solo w**k thrown in (I'm a sucker for the w**k). Her voice isn't as cute as my last excursion into this world (Ai Otsuka), but it's just as shrill. For the first 30 minutes or so it's one rockin' bop after another, and then a string of some marshmallow ballads ruin the joyride.