What are you Listening to Right Now? Febus XIII

Semiramis - Dedicato a Frazz

Guldbamsen wrote: Semiramis - Dedicato a Frazz

Ohhhhhhhh.....baby! Awesome album buddy! I love all those insane parts, it's one of those wolf in sheep's clothing albums that the Italians are so famous for.

Toaster Mantis wrote: Going through Uriah Heep's classic albums in light of that thread I started a while ago about them being the favourite punching bag of music reviewers not just in the mainstream but also among the prog/psych fanzine scene. (at least here in Scandinavia) Interesting that they shared more of a fanbase with Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin etc than with the prog-rock movement when to a modern listener their artistic sensibility seems much closer to the latter.

What little Heep I've heard strikes me as being plain vanilla heavy rock with a smidgin of Prog seasoning here and there (although the proggy/jazzy elements are much more to the fore on something like Salisbury which I would imagine might not sit so well with the Sabbath, Zep crowd) Perhaps for the Prog herd, like Atomic Rooster, Heep are approached cautiously as heavy rock wolves in sheeo's clothing?


Edited by ExittheLemming - June 06 2014 at 08:08

^ Bob day today.

I may just have to spin 'Blood on the Tracks' then
'If you see her, say hello' is possibly one of the most beautiful singer songwriter tunes I've ever heard. It gives me goosebumps every time. Something about his vocals....so frail and honest.

I'm listening to Selling England By The Pound.

Edited by Guldbamsen - June 06 2014 at 09:39

Guldbamsen wrote: I may just have to spin 'Blood on the Tracks' then 'If you see her, say hello' is possibly one of the most beautiful singer songwriter tunes I've ever heard. It gives me goosebumps every time. Something about his vocals....so frail and honest. I'm listening to Selling England By The Pound.

For me, it's "You're a Big Girl Now" that reduces me to a puddle of feels.  .... There! see, I got goosebumps just writing that sentence.

Guldbamsen wrote: Steve: How was 'Hathor'? Did you feel the whole "Egyptian vibe"? Personally, I'm flown straight into the giant pyramid of Giza, whenever I spin that album.

Up til now, I've had a hard time really connecting with Igor, but today it seemed to fit into place.  The droney chanty thing worked really nice on that album. 

I'll put on "Logos" now, see if that works too.

HolyMoly wrote: Guldbamsen wrote: Steve: How was 'Hathor'? Did you feel the whole "Egyptian vibe"? Personally, I'm flown straight into the giant pyramid of Giza, whenever I spin that album. Up til now, I've had a hard time really connecting with Igor, but today it seemed to fit into place.  The droney chanty thing worked really nice on that album.  I'll put on "Logos" now, see if that works too.

Good call on Logos my friend. The trick to Igor's output is that you can't approach it like any other musical endeavour. I'd compare it to watching a movie by David Lynch or maybe Winding Refn's Valhalla Rising, where seemingly odd and confusing dream sequences take place, and the audience is deliberately mislead. You don't get that in most other films, just like with music that too relies on recognizable and almost storyleading melody lines. When we pass that, or when Igor passed that line, it changed the rules. I'm not sure how that sounds, maybe I explain it better in my Logos review, but there is something that really reminds me of those Lynchian dream scenes.