SRXII: It lives!

I really must listen to Gentle Giant more.  I have almost everything from them, but I've still not really listened to them enough formulate any favorite songs or albums. 

I've been on an ELO kick lately.  

rushfan4 wrote: I really must listen to Gentle Giant more.  I have almost everything from them, but I've still not really listened to them enough formulate any favorite songs or albums.

You should; I think you'd like them alot too.

Epignosis wrote: I've been on an ELO kick lately.

One of my first bands.

A Person wrote: Coming back to GG after such a long time has helped me to "understand" the music better, if that makes sense.

Of "classic" bands GG is absolutely one of my favorites.  In fact only Yes tops them.

Padraic wrote: rushfan4 wrote: I really must listen to Gentle Giant more.  Yes you should. Hey, how'd you like Birdsongs of the Mezozoic?  I'm going to grab The Iridium Controversy from Amazon today.

I didn't really care all that much for the album that I got, but African American spiritual songs really aren't my thing.  I wouldn't mind trying something different from them however.

A Person wrote: I have heard a few tracks from Birdsongs of the Mesozoic on a chamber rock station on Pandora, I was impressed.

  That's what just happened to me

MovingPictures07 wrote: rushfan4 wrote: I really must listen to Gentle Giant more.  I have almost everything from them, but I've still not really listened to them enough formulate any favorite songs or albums.  You should; I think you'd like them alot too.

I liked them well enough to go out and get the majority of their albums, but not quite enough to where I want to listen to them alot or have become all that familiar with them.  I think it is just about getting so much new music in recent years has made it harder to focus on certain bands.  When I was younger and had less music I wore out all of my Rush, Yes, ELP and Pink Floyd albums and to a lesser degree my King Crimson albums.  At least Three of a Perfect Pair and Larks Tongue in Aspic.  I listened to Jethro Tull's greatest hits a lot, but not really their albums and I only knew Genesis for their Phil Collins output.  What is weird is now that I am listening to prog more frequently I haven't really been able to get into the other classic bands like Gentle Giant, VDGG, and Magma or the Canterbury or RIO/Avant bands from that time.  I like them all to varying degrees but not enough to go crazy listening to them like you guys did with Henry Cow and Magma, or you've done recently with Bela Fleck.  I give an album a spin, listen to it, think "that was pretty good" and then move on to the next "stack" of to be listened to albums. 

 I was talking a shower.

The only classic prog band that I liked at first listen was Pink Floyd, although I'm sure it would have been the same with any prog now that I think about it. It took me a long time before I could say I really liked some of  the most popular bands, it took forever with Magma.

Padraic wrote: rushfan4 wrote: I give an album a spin, listen to it, think "that was pretty good" and then move on to the next "stack" of to be listened to albums.  With an increasingly large collection indeed that is the case with me as well, but there's something sad about that, don't you think?

Yes.  That is one of the positives that I have gotten out of starting the monthly discussion thread.  At least with that particular CD that I choose, I tend to listen to it 7 to 10 times during the month, so I at least get to know that CD fairly well.