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I began this tribute to Arjen Anthony Lucassen and Ayreon with The Final Experiment album, and now, having realised an Actual Fantasy exactly four months and 26 albums later, 
it's time for the final album....
 
 
Get ready to Embrace the Storm of Progressive Metal coming your way because this is the debut album by Stream of Passion and their only album to feature Arjen Anthony Lucassen.
 I hope you like it, Wherever You Are in the world. Hug
 
 
 
 


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I saw SoP live twice Paul; they were a great band on stage.
Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson
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Originally posted by Jared Jared wrote:

I saw SoP live twice Paul; they were a great band on stage.

I'm passionate about S.o.P.  too and it's a nice album to finish on. Heart

All of the albums together in one place, in some semblance of chronological order. Smile

5 stars 2000: Ayreon - Universal Migrator Part 1: The Dream Sequencer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVOsr4GKrzU
4 stars 2000: Ayreon - Universal Migrator Part 2: Flight of the Navigator -  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvWTIYnQcuY
5 stars 2018: Ayreon - Ayreon's Universe: Best of Ayreon Live - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJGn3wi7b7b606GfoKAdOgm6rtX9OliRc

3 stars 1994: Arjen Anthony Lucassen - Pools of Sorrow, Waves of Joy - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3A7MsAKmnfIgAWZzQwqyiaxpvjH1Gif0
4 stars 1996: Arjen Anthony Lucassen - Strange Hobby - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB87CB1D16F331CFF
4 stars 2012: Arjen Anthony Lucassen - Lost in the New Real - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mHPJknQMxGE9JfUuZ519pzA2DmDQ_VdJQ



 
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All you've missed are the two heavy metal bands Arjen played in the 80s. LOL

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Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

All you've missed are the two heavy metal bands Arjen played in the 80s. LOL

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Than maybe I need to Transitus back in time to the 80's aboard the Universal Migrator. Big smile


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Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

All you've missed are the two heavy metal bands Arjen played in the 80s. LOL

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If you want to feature those earlier bands here then be my guest, but my primary focus was the Ayreon era (1994-2020), so you could say this thread's title should be The Theory of (Almost) Everything. Wink
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Have you covered The Gentle Storm album, The Diary, he did with Anneke? It was a fave of Sue's back in the day and I took her to see her perform the album in support of Delain, back in 2015... it wasn't a bad album at all... 
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Originally posted by Jared Jared wrote:

Have you covered The Gentle Storm album, The Diary, he did with Anneke? It was a fave of Sue's back in the day and I took her to see her perform the album in support of Delain, back in 2015... it wasn't a bad album at all... 

 I Love The Gentle Storm  too and their 2015 album is the last album on my list at the top of Page 1. Wink 

Having featured all of Arjen Anthony Lucassen's related albums (apart from those earlier albums that Cristi mentioned) it's finally time for me to put this thread to bed with a nice warm blanket and a wonderous bedtime story. Smile
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Originally posted by Psychedelic Paul Psychedelic Paul wrote:

I Love The Gentle Storm  too and their 2015 album is the last album on my list at the top of Page 1. Wink 

Oops.. I apologise for not reading your list properly.. Embarrassed

I saw SoP headline the Dames Of Darkness Festival in 2014, during their double headline European tour with Xandria, then when they decided to split up, they did a Farewell tour with a set of over 2 hours at the Robin. They were excellent live. As I said, I also saw Anneke do the Gentle Storm thing and afterwards with her other band, Vuur... she's an excellent front-woman.. Clap
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^ That's okay. Wink

Two videos from the stormier side of The Gentle Storm.....

From the Heart of Amsterdam....


To the Shores of India....




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Originally posted by Psychedelic Paul Psychedelic Paul wrote:

Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

All you've missed are the two heavy metal bands Arjen played in the 80s. LOL

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If you want to feature those earlier bands here then be my guest, but my primary focus was the Ayreon era (1994-2020), so you could say this thread's title should be The Theory of (Almost) Everything. Wink


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Originally posted by Psychedelic Paul Psychedelic Paul wrote:


You got a bit ahead of me here so I will just jump to the last album on the list. 

For the most part I enjoyed this collection of songs but I definitely preferred "The Gentle" selections to "The Storm" selections. One things for certain, you surely get your moneys worth with the amount of music here, so much so that it can get a bit wearing listening to the whole thing in one go and I found the vocals got a bit piercing after a while, but I still think this is worth a solid 3.5 ranking. 
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Originally posted by Hugh Manatee Hugh Manatee wrote:

Originally posted by Psychedelic Paul Psychedelic Paul wrote:


You got a bit ahead of me here so I will just jump to the last album on the list. 

For the most part I enjoyed this collection of songs but I definitely preferred "The Gentle" selections to "The Storm" selections. One things for certain, you surely get your moneys worth with the amount of music here, so much so that it can get a bit wearing listening to the whole thing in one go and I found the vocals got a bit piercing after a while, but I still think this is worth a solid 3.5 ranking. 
That sounds fair. You may have missed what I wrote about The Gentle Storm back on Page 5.....

"Arjen Anthony Lucassen & Anneke van Giersbergen get together in this unique one-off album project, which consists of two completely different versions of the same eleven songs on the album. Disc One features the gentler, folkier side of The Gentle Storm and Disc Two features  the stormier Progressive and Symphonic Metal versions of the same songs. Hence the title: The Gentle Storm. " Smile
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