I Had Forgotten How Good That Was
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Topic: I Had Forgotten How Good That Was
Posted By: Topographic Oce
Subject: I Had Forgotten How Good That Was
Date Posted: November 26 2005 at 13:22
Just been listening to an internet radio station called UK70s Prog Rock Greatsand he plays America by YesJust how good was that and how could I have not played it or thought of it for years. Anyone else been down that route and rediscovered a track or even a band |
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Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: November 26 2005 at 13:50
| Yep, I listened to Tangerine Dream for the first time on a prog radio, but other tracks disappointed me; months later I listened to 'Sun Gate'; it was played on a New Age station. Now I'm a big fan. |
Posted By: VanderGraafKommandöh
Date Posted: November 27 2005 at 14:24
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I heard "Mr. Blue Sky" by E.L.O. (as well a cover version by a live
covers band - both on the same day; coincidence?) again in a club and
it's actually better than I thought it was. Jeff Lynn certainly
knows how to write a catchy tune. What do others think of this tune? -------------   
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Posted By: Certif1ed
Date Posted: November 27 2005 at 15:05
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Mr Blue Sky is brilliant! But the album that does this to me just about every time I listen to it is Marillion's "Script for a Jester's Tear" - and I listen to it a lot compared to other albums. Most of Gentle Giant's output is like that too - just when you thought you really liked it and put it on again for a refresher, it leaps out at you and makes you hear stuff you swore you never heard before. Or maybe that's just me... |
Posted By: Plastic Man
Date Posted: November 27 2005 at 15:11
whats the url for that station? I think America is Steve Howe's best song ever with Yes. ------------- I begin to wonder if the points of all the ancient myths are solemnly di-rected straight.. at.. meeeeeeeeee! |
Topographic Oce wrote:Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: November 27 2005 at 16:12
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I recently rediscovered America after buying the remastered version of
Fragile. Before that I only had it on vinyl or the edited version on
Yesyears. It's definitely an epic cover and one of my favourite Yes
tracks. As for bands, I've recently rediscovered Van der Graaf Generator after buying Still Life in the 70s and not liking it. |
Posted By: BePinkTheater
Date Posted: November 27 2005 at 17:31
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yea I never listened to it when i got the remasterd Fragile simply because it wasnt really part of the album.But then i listend to it! Its great!
But yea i want that website to listen to ------------- I can strangle a canary in a tin can and it would be really original, but that wouldn't save it from sounding like utter sh*t. -Stone Beard |
Posted By: ThisWas
Date Posted: November 27 2005 at 20:48
| about 4 years ago, i was a mere 12 years old, i fell in love with king crimson. i had the basics: 21st century schizoid man, red, one more red nightmare all the well known stuff. i looked more into them and foudn out about discipline and their newer stuff, I HATED IT! and i instantly dismissed them and forgot about them, untill i found VDGG and Rush last year and my taste matured and i liked some of discipline and some of the new stuff, but i loved larks and lizard and all the stuff i disliked before. |
Posted By: The Wizard
Date Posted: November 27 2005 at 21:41
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My favorite ELO tune, reminds me of the Beatles. -------------  
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Posted By: transend
Date Posted: November 27 2005 at 21:41
| Odd, that we talk about bands for inclusion, I LOVE E.L.O. , I am not sure they are prog, but they are truly on the fringes, maybe because of Jeff Lynne's very obvious Beatles influences, either way I have a feeling many older prog fans love them and probably have a few ELO CDs in their collection. Maybe it was a product of the 70s? Liking them, just like I like Abba!! Great songs...maybe we could put them up for inclusion!!!! Oh yeah, Abba and Opeth in the same database....what a thought.. |
Posted By: The Wizard
Date Posted: November 27 2005 at 21:41
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Great station by the way, I listen to it all the time. -------------
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Posted By: VanderGraafKommandöh
Date Posted: November 28 2005 at 23:06
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But ELO also recorded that awful Chuck Berry/Classical piece too that really annoys me! Not one of their finest moments. Ah, how about Edgar Winter - Frankenstein (I think that's what it's called)? It's prog to my ears and underrated too. -------------
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Posted By: micky
Date Posted: November 28 2005 at 23:20
good call my first prog album was ELO 2. My paents were nuts about ELO. Kuiama (the 2nd half, the instrumental half that is ha hahah) took me to another world. Got 'em all, and love them. I would very strongly, support including them. ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: VanderGraafKommandöh
Date Posted: November 28 2005 at 23:50
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The Traveling Wilbury's, although not Prog, are better than I first
thought too. Plus one of the most underrated super groups too,
you have: Bob Dylan, Jeff Lynne, Tom Petty, George Harrison and Roy
Orbison (on the first album anyhow, he died before the second album)
and not forgetting the mysterious drummer! Worth checking out,
not because it's prog, but just 'cause it's good. The same
applies for George Harrison solo.
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Posted By: Certif1ed
Date Posted: November 29 2005 at 03:31
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Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Variations on a Theme of Paganini". Don't laugh - it may feature the theme tune to the "South Bank Show" (for those old or English enough to remember), but it's an amazing work of prog rock - much better than many of the "Classics" simply because it's "properly" composed and next to perfectly executed. It's also played by most of Colosseum II, with some wonderful guest musicians... and Julian Lloyd Webber... This definitely is one to go back to and be truly amazed at just how great it really is. |
Posted By: VanderGraafKommandöh
Date Posted: November 29 2005 at 04:24
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But it has Andrew Lloyd Webber's name on it..., bad! I have issues with him for some odd reason. -------------
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Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: November 29 2005 at 08:05
I remember our music teacher playing us bits of the 'Variations' album. I remember thinking it was good then. I'm going to have to re-visit that one. I think the Lloyd Webber thing put me off as a teenager into Heavy Metal, but I like to think I'm broad minded enough to give it a go nowadays Thanks for reminding me! ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: Certif1ed
Date Posted: November 29 2005 at 08:13
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I completely understand. My odd reasons for having issues with ALW are; Just about everything he wrote after "Variations". Trust me on this one - it's a great album. Pretend it's another Colosseum II album instead, and scriblle out "Andrew Lloyd Webber" on the album cover... |
Posted By: con safo
Date Posted: November 29 2005 at 11:45
Steve Hillage. I had the song "Solar Musick Suite" on my computer for the longest time and never listened to it, i decided to put it on my ipod... brilliant! I ordered "Fish Rising" off of amazon yesterday! ------------- 
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Posted By: Topographic Oce
Date Posted: November 29 2005 at 12:57
URL is as follows http://www.live365.com/stations/haroldthebarrel |
Posted By: cuncuna
Date Posted: November 29 2005 at 13:18
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Father of day, Father of night, by Manfred Mann's. I heard the whole Solar fire album once on a very very late night radio show. Almost ten years later, I caught the first track on another radio, broadcasting at 5:00 a.m. (I was wating for my beloved girldfriend on a bus terminal, but that's a different tale). Just then I got the name of the band and the song title. The first thing after that was me, running to an specialized record store, asking for that band, and checking out the track lists. now, I have the album, and I listen to it every time I want to, but... ¡How good it was to just catch that great song by accident, sitting on a bench, watching the stars on a strange place (I was way up north, away from home, etc.), and waiting for my girl to wake up and remember to pick me (she was quite sleppy, I waited for at least three hours). Pretty amazing. ------------- ¡Beware of the Bee! |