Many Shades of Magenta
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Topic: Many Shades of Magenta
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Subject: Many Shades of Magenta
Date Posted: April 09 2023 at 09:40
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I've been going through a bit of a purple patch recently, so what better time than now to feature Welsh band Magenta - my all-time favourite Neo Prog band. There are more shades of Magenta than a Dulux colour chart, all of which feature ubiquitous founder member Rob Reed, including Cyan, Chimpan A, Kiama, Trippa, and the Fyreworks, as well as solo albums by Magenta band members, Christina Booth, Chris Fry and of course, Rob Reed. As you may be aware, I have a special affection for female-fronted Symphonic Neo Prog, so I may have gone a bit overboard with the five star ratings (again).   2001: Magenta - Revolutions - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_TaS3ukydpIe3T-MrH1EqR942YNj9Pwr" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_TaS3ukydpIe3T-MrH1EqR942YNj9Pwr 2004: Magenta - Seven - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_TaS3ukydpLxo1bk1tN9bv_UvqX5cGn1" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_TaS3ukydpLxo1bk1tN9bv_UvqX5cGn1 2005: Magenta - The Gathering - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_TaS3ukydpKYVLJTEygx4w0ZOsdOm0BT" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_TaS3ukydpKYVLJTEygx4w0ZOsdOm0BT 2006: Magenta - Home - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_TaS3ukydpKS0fMqXsgBwG9NIf68a7mB" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_TaS3ukydpKS0fMqXsgBwG9NIf68a7mB 2006: Magenta - New York Suite - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_TaS3ukydpIL-_2yfmDLTrJ5SzS7P7lM" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_TaS3ukydpIL-_2yfmDLTrJ5SzS7P7lM 2007: Magenta - The Singles - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_TaS3ukydpLfgG7xUho7eC82OLo4blf" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_TaS3ukydpLfgG7xUho7eC82OLo4blf _ 2007: Magenta - Live at the Point, Cardiff - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_TaS3ukydpIwzLFD-pM-zi4uyLQYqWAB" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_TaS3ukydpIwzLFD-pM-zi4uyLQYqWAB 2008: Magenta - Metamorphosis - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_TaS3ukydpJDG_UUWBs2xdA7BjpugLLs" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_TaS3ukydpJDG_UUWBs2xdA7BjpugLLs  2010: Magenta - Live at Real World - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_TaS3ukydpKx-MgP3UpnJskUo0-Cs8sD" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_TaS3ukydpKx-MgP3UpnJskUo0-Cs8sD 2011: Magenta - Chameleon - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_TaS3ukydpKZhN5CdD2sdwq-1XImhVtM" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_TaS3ukydpKZhN5CdD2sdwq-1XImhVtM 2013: Magenta - The Twenty Seven Club - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_TaS3ukydpJfGCKI69tFb4ZSvs7J17VN" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_TaS3ukydpJfGCKI69tFb4ZSvs7J17VN 2015: Magenta - The Singles Complete - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_TaS3ukydpIidnoclOfR-v40Q7Bel5fe" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_TaS3ukydpIidnoclOfR-v40Q7Bel5fe 2017: Magenta - We Are Legend - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_TaS3ukydpLBCN6ASIjRnhyuESyR2k0y" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_TaS3ukydpLBCN6ASIjRnhyuESyR2k0y  2019: Magenta - Acapela 2016 & 2017 - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_TaS3ukydpI00TCyPFNJoWDoMC7wXc1k" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_TaS3ukydpI00TCyPFNJoWDoMC7wXc1k 2020: Magenta - Masters of Illusion - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_TaS3ukydpJMP3JjOmOa_3Z0mr4GDeCA" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_TaS3ukydpJMP3JjOmOa_3Z0mr4GDeCA 2021: Magenta - Angels and Damned - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_TaS3ukydpL39WAlVlA67soFkSTlRvgs" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_TaS3ukydpL39WAlVlA67soFkSTlRvgs 1993: Cyan - For King and Country - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wacxgQvJe8A" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wacxgQvJe8A 1994: Cyan - Pictures from the Other Side - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aDaHGNq-7U" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aDaHGNq-7U 1999: Cyan - The Creeping Vine - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPDzwvBXPs2O9TH7eJy-ZYzhdJ5gqClmi" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPDzwvBXPs2O9TH7eJy-ZYzhdJ5gqClmi 2021: Cyan - For King and Country (re-recording) 1997: The Fyreworks - The Fyreworks 2007: Trippa - Sorry 2010: Christina Booth - Broken Lives & Bleeding Hearts 2015: Christina Booth - The Light 2012: Chris Fry - Composed 2014: Robert Reed - Sanctuary - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lEXFN-SNu_rgnMfkyMtR1OzwTemPOZS9s" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lEXFN-SNu_rgnMfkyMtR1OzwTemPOZS9s 2016: Kiama - Sign of IV - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Kehxw1_UDY" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Kehxw1_UDY 2020: Chimpan A - The Empathy Machine - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lKidY9ukttwY9DvXCTget5Whuz9nbU6Ys" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lKidY9ukttwY9DvXCTget5Whuz9nbU6Ys The title track from Magenta's brand new album!  |
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Posted By: progbethyname
Date Posted: April 09 2023 at 09:48
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I have both SEVEN and 27 CLUB. I was able to get the DVD audio deluxe editions and listening to both those albums in 5.1 is truly something. I feel I like SEVEN the best. I love how much of the sound is inspired by early Genesis. Christina boothe can sing her ass off. Both albums that I have are of course incredibly conceptual and you have to definitely be in the mood for them. ------------- Gimmie my headphones now!!! 🎧🤣 |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: April 09 2023 at 14:28
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David Longdon steps off the Big Big Train and joins Christina Booth and Peter Jones for a very special Live performance of Steve Hackett's Spectral Mornings, from Magenta's 2015 Angels and Damned tour. |
Posted By: cstack3
Date Posted: April 10 2023 at 01:33
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Thanks, Paul! Yes should have tried to hire Christina Booth to replace Jon Anderson, instead of going through the tribute-band singers! (from what I've heard about Chris Squire, he would have had a hard time keeping his hands off of her!) I love their interpretation of "Wond'rous Stories!" ------------- I am not a Robot, I'm a FREE MAN!! |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: April 10 2023 at 02:01
Yes, that's it! You've nailed it! As much as I love the last three albums by YES, what they need now is a frontwoman who sounds like Jon Anderson, just like Ann Marie Nacchio in the video below.  Christina Booth or that other Welsh songstress Charlotte Church would have been perfect for YES.
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cstack3 wrote:Posted By: omphaloskepsis
Date Posted: April 10 2023 at 02:43
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Ordered "The Twenty Seven Club" and "We Are Legend". DVD editions
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Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: April 13 2023 at 04:48
| I think Christina (or 'Tina' as Rob Reed calls her) has had a few health issues but thankfully has come through them by looks of it. We Are Legend is probably my favourite Magenta album closely followed by Seven. They are all worth checking out. Rob Reed is a very talented composer , his brother helps with lyrics and you also have the fantastic guitarist Chris Fry. He has stormed it every time I've seen them live. The first time was just after the release of Seven at the top studio of the now defunct London Astoria back in the early 00's. They were the first band on stage for a 2 day festival and there were barely half a dozen people in the room. Christina was incredibly pretty in those days and I like to think I caught her eye! . I was hooked in a heartbeat and have enjoyed their music ever since. |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: April 13 2023 at 10:04
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I've listened to some of the more r4ecent magenta but not much. I had listened to The White Witch a month or two ago. I had considered doing a female singer-songwriter poll not long ago with songs from Christina Booth's Broken Lives & Bleeding Hearts (which would seem more Crimson than Magenta) and The Light. Unfortunately when I look up Christina Booth on youtube the first results ar e a horrible murder case (different person). "You've got yourself a gun, To prove you're number one, But can you pull the trigger? There's a bullet with my name, That doesn't mean you win the game. Cos I've got something bigger... You've got yourself a war, But what you fighting for, I hope you can deliver. I know you love to kill and I guess you need the thrill, But I've got, Something bigger...." ------------- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXcp9fYc6K4IKuxIZkenfvukL_Y8VBqzK" rel="nofollow - Duos for fave acts |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: May 03 2023 at 03:49
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Magenta recorded and released Revolutions without the usual fanfare of official singles or videos to accompany the album, but what a magnificent debut! It's a double album (very rare for a first album), so I may as well start at the beginning with the first part of the first suite: Children of the Sun, which is possibly inspired by Mike Oldfield.  2001: Magenta - Revolutions - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_TaS3ukydpIe3T-MrH1EqR942YNj9Pwr" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_TaS3ukydpIe3T-MrH1EqR942YNj9Pwr |
Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: May 03 2023 at 04:02
Funny, I think I would say the same thing.
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Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: May 03 2023 at 04:25
On the subject of "The Twenty Seven Club" here are sixteen long-lost music legends who were all gone before their time while still in their twenties during the golden era of music: 1967-1977.  1946-1971: Duane Allman (The Allman Brothers) 1947-1977: Marc Bolan (T. Rex) 1951-1976: Tommy Bolin (Deep Purple) 1947-1975: Tim Buckley 1948-1974: Nick Drake 1947-1975: Pete Ham (Badfinger) 1942-1970: Jimi Hendrix 1942-1969: Brian Jones (The Rolling Stones) 1943-1970: Janis Joplin (Big Brother and the Holding Company) 1950-1977: Helmut Kollen (Triumvirat) 1943-1971: Jim Morrison (The Doors) 1946-1973: Gram Parsons (Flying Burrito Brothers) 1941-1967: Otis Redding 1945-1970: Tammi Terrell 1948-1975: Gary Thain (Uriah Heep) 1948-1977: Ronnie van Zant (Lynyrd Skynyrd)
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Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: May 03 2023 at 06:56
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^ Interestingly Wiki lists Helmut Kollen (Triumvirat) as an 'identified' member of the Twenty Seven Club. He died on 3 May 1977 (hint hint, update list before Doug sees the thread ) |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: May 03 2023 at 11:16
Done! I knew there'd be someone I'd overlooked.
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