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

BMS - Darwin!
TEAR (Reuter and Wingfield) - Incognita
Hawkwind - Space Ritual
Gong - I See You
Opeth - Watershed

Eleanor Friedberger | Last Summer - formerly half of the Fiery Furnaces with her Zappaesque maniac brother Matt. She provided a lot of the focus and down to earth personality for that often zany band, and here she does a simple album of indie pop songs, with her voice and phrasing setting it apart. Nothing to get too excited about, but pretty good.

Univers Zero | Heresie — Long time no see, Heresie! Wow, this was one of the first prog CDs I bought in the early 90s once the newly developed internet revealed that prog existed not only in England and the US! Who knew?

Universal Totem Orchestra | Rituale Alieno — cool Italian album, kind of Zeuhlish (not sure how/if they’re classified here), which I was given to review around the turn of the century.

Peter Gabriel | Security — Shock the Monkey just always makes me happy. Hard to explain. Heard it a million times and it just doesn’t get old. I missed the rest of side 2 cuz I got a call from a coworker who was babbling on a lot.

Mission of Burma | The Sound, The Speed, The Light - one of their post-reunion albums that I didn’t like at first but it sounded good today. I think I was comparing it to The Obliterati, which is produced in such a bludgeoning way (and I think it may he their masterpiece) that anything produced more cleanly sounded wimpy. It’s not, though.

Liars | WIXIW — amazing experimental rock group. This was 2 albums ago (2012) and they were a trio. Now they’re down to 1 guy. I’m eager to see if/how the band will build back up again.

The Jam | The Gift — the last Jam album. Love it. Not the best, but not the worst. Somewhere in the middle, but with 2-3 amazing songs.

The Turtles | Present the Battle of the Bands — Sgt. Turtle’s Lonely Hearts Club Band! What a fun ride this is. If you try one Turtles album, go with this one.

Preoccupations | s/t — post-punk circa 1996. Their debut (when they were called Viet Cong) was more impressive, but this one’s a grower. They have a newer one I should grab sometime.

Yo La Tengo | And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out — Quiet, twilight songs of gentle beauty. My 2nd favorite YLT album, and a real sonic treat for the ears. Couldn’t really crank it today but it sounds great that way.

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Foxtrot (Genesis)

Fragile (Yes)

Subterranea (IQ)

Band on the Run (Wings)

In the Land of Grey & Pink (Caravan)

And... Foxtrot again.

You can tell I was driving a lot today! Smile

"Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence" - Robert Fripp
"I am an anti-Christ" - Johnny Rotten

A very German week, and a few suggestions from Steven Wilson's podcast, which I'll keep discovering next week:
Marillion - Fugazi
Tangerine Dream - White Eagle
XTC - Drums and Wires (I heard some of their songs before but I only liked them now.)
ELO - On the Third Day
Talking Heads - Fear of Music
Can - Future Days (I heard it dozens of times but finally got myself a copy of it Big smile

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Schicke Führs Fröhling - Symphonic Pictures (Very playful intrumental Space/Symphonic Prog. I wasn't aware of them.)
Schicke Führs Fröhling - Sunburst (A bit more Fusion and Electronic. It reminded me of Heldon at times)
Lipps Inc. - Pucker Up
La Düsseldorf - La Düsseldorf (Same as Can. I like this one even more than Neu's debut.)
Cichla Temensis - Fantasia
XTC - Black Sea
Novalis - Sommerabend
Tangerine Dream - Sorcerer

Bought a nice stack of LPs yesterday at my friendly neighborhood store. Hadn’t been there in a while. Listened to about half so far. Couldn’t believe I found three original Earth & Fire LPs! For $8 each!

Earth & Fire | To the World of the Future
Earth & Fire | Gate to Infinity
Earth & Fire | Reality Fills Fantasy
Propaganda | A Secret Wish
The Fugs | The Belle of Avenue A
The James Gang | Yer’ Album
Passport | Infinity Machine
Kevin Ayers | The Confessions of Doctor Dream
Golden Earring | Hearing Earring
The Alarm | Strength
Adam & the Ants | Kings of the Wild Frontier

Edited by HolyMoly - August 30 2020 at 10:15

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Last couple of days:

Markus Reuter - Live 2020.08.08
Magenta - Essential
Gilgamesh - Another Fine Tune You've Got Me Into
Jack Hertz - Earth
Magma - Attahk
Myriad - Floating On Ascendings Plains
Rick Wakeman and the English Rock Ensemble - Out of the Blue
UFO - The Best of UFO
Roxy Music - Avalon

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HolyMoly wrote:

Bought a nice stack of LPs yesterday at my friendly neighborhood store. Hadn’t been there in a while. Listened to about half so far. Couldn’t believe I found three original Earth & Fire LPs! For $8 each!

Great finds! I also bought "A Secret Wish" on vinyl last month. I was looking for it in Germany and ended up finding it in my town's record store Tongue

HolyMoly wrote:

Nik Turner | Space Ritual 1994 Live

I have yet to hear the original album Embarrassed

I actually had the chance to see him play it five years ago. He played two sets on the same festival but on different days and I missed that one, I was too tired by the end of the last day.

Sagichim wrote:

Pure Reason Revolution - Eupnea (Best album I've heard this year)

I only heard it once, I thought it dragged on halfway through. I'll have to give it another listen.

Since Saturday:

Ozric Tentacles - Pungent Effulgent (I bought it last month although I didn't know their ealier work, but they already had developed their sound at the time.)
Stringtronics - Mindbender
Höstsonaten - Höstsonaten (Pastoral Prog with a very anemic mix and weak vocals, it's hard to stay awake, especially with a 41 minute "epic".)
Mike Oldfield - Crises (First listen to my mint condition original German pressing. I heard so many new little details.)
Ryuichi Sakamoto - B-2 Unit
Godley & Creme - L (First listen to this duo. I only knew 10cc's debut but it didn't convince me like this one. It's great how they used the production for comical purposes without sounding disjointed.)
Grobschnitt - Solar Music Live (One of the best sounding live albums of the 70's to my ears.)
Rick Wakeman - The Red Planet (I read some positive reviews but it still surprised me. Very tasteful music and he gives more space to other musicians which makes it more bearable.)
Kashgar - Artefact

Rocket Scientists - Oblivion Days

Martin Orford - The Old Road

Pendragon - Not Of This World

Nosound - Lightdark

Today

Gadi Caplan - Morning Sun (Such a beautiful album, would appeal to fans of Gilmour's On An Island)

Gadi Caplan - Look Back Step Forward

G.A.A - Auf Der Bahn Zum Uranus

Vak - Budo

Ovrfwrd - Blurring The Lines

Richard Wright - Broken China

Guillaume Perret - A Certain Trip