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1001realapes 2387 posts |
Edited Jan 31, 2016, 03:52
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David Bowie - st (1967) Atomine Elektrine - Leftfield V.A. - Trojan Tighten Up (3cd) V.A. - Trojan Dub Box V.A. - Trojan Rare Groove (3cd) V.A. - Trojan Rocksteady (3cd) V.A. - Studio One Roots 1 V.A. - Studio One Roots 2 V.A. - Studio One Roots 3 V.A. - Studio One Classics V.A. - Studio One Dub V.A. - Studio One Sound V.A. - Studio One Mojo Rocksteady Beat Analog Memories: Autumn Drones The Charlatans - Between 10th And 11th The Cortinas -- Fascist Dictator/Television Families - 7" Tyrannosaurus Rex - My People Were Fair And Had Sky In Their Hair... But Now They're Content To Wear Stars On Their Brows Charles Bobuck - The Highway Elmore James - Blues Kingpins Steven Wilson - 4 1/2 Svasti-ayanam - The Rebearth Of The Black Sun Magnet & Paul Giovanni - The Wicker Man OST The Pigs - 1977 Frank Pahl - Dustier Nuggets : The Eighties Frank Pahl - Loose Threads The Soft Machine Legacy - st The Mock Turtles - Two Sides |
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IanB 6761 posts |
Edited Jan 31, 2016, 10:54
Jan 31, 2016, 08:43
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Steve Wilson - 4 1/2 Wilson reasserts his status as the undisputed king of "quiet desperation" Prog with this one. For a mini album of outtakes it hangs together remarkably well. Although most of the music is from the 'Hand Cannot Erase' sessions, this set sits sonically for me more neatly next to 'Raven'. In terms of referencing his past there are plenty of elements redolent of Porcupine Tree, Blackfield and No-Man but personally I could do with some sharper edges, a bit more 'Master of Puppets' and a bit less 'Division Bell'. Still pretty great though. I hope he resists the temptation to revive Porcupine Tree (who were as patchy as they were self-repeating) as he hasn't looked back since leaving their collective conservatism behind. A Wilson / Mustaine collaboration is high on my wish list! No-Man - Flowermouth Blackfield - Blackfield Scott Walker - Five Easy Pieces 4: This Is How You Disappear John and Yoko - Double Fantasy Stripped Deutsches Symphonieorchester Berlin & Kent Nagano - John Adams: El Nino Season of Lights...Laura Nyro in Concert (Complete Version) Laura Nyro - Angel In The Dark Bowie - Blackstar Dead Boys - Young, Loud And Snotty Dream Theater - The Astonishing This goes to reassert everything that has nagged at me about US Prog bands since I first heard Kansas. The singers nearly always sound like they have been recruited from a particularly anodyne branch of musical theatre. The sing like they are inhabiting a role not living it. RJ Dio is probably the only singer from America who makes Prog subject matter sound in any way convincing and he wouldn't have been seen dead around such a lightweight musical palette. Whatever you say about the Andersons, Hammill, Lake, Gabriel et al in their pomp - they sang like they meant it, man (even if they now say they didn't really). As for this record you get a couple of hours of woolly AOR with some clever bits under-pinning a plot basically borrowed from Rush, Ben Elton and Pete Townshend's Lifetime. The music is ambitious in sheer width and length but not on an atomic level and the whole future-dystopia-medieval-feudalism thing needs some credible human interest to make it stand up. Why are the heroes in these things so priggish and unsexy? There are of course plenty of people who will love this to bits and will pore over every nuance but you would get more watching Hunger Games with the sound down while listening to Gates of Delerium on a loop.
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Fitter Stoke 2611 posts |
Jan 31, 2016, 09:18
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Scott Walker 'Scott 2' Black Sabbath 'Sabotage' Geraint Watkins 'Dial W For Watkins' Steve Winwood 'Junction Seven' Radiohead 'OK Computer' Horisont 'Tva Sidor Av Horisonten' Isotope 'Deep End' Chris Potter Underground Orchestra 'Imaginary Cities' Fennesz 'Venice' ESG 'Dance To The Best Of ESG' Can 'The Lost Tapes' Ennio Morricone etc 'The Hateful Eight' soundtrack Beethoven: Symphony no.5 (LAPO/Carlo Maria Giulini) Boulez: Pli selon pli (Christine Schaeffer/Ensemble Intercontemporain/Pierre Boulez) Schumann: Fantasy in C, Arabeske & Humoreske (Wilhelm Kempff)
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Toni Torino 2299 posts |
Jan 31, 2016, 12:24
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David Bowie - Young Americans Crown Heights Affair - Dreaming A Dream (Best Of) - Sexy Ladies, Falsettos, Galaxies, Strings, Foxy Ladies, Awesome Basslines, Brass. This has the lot. Awesome. Aretha Franklin - Lady Soul Kosmischeboy - Clockwerk The Time And Space Machine (Richard Norris) - New Masters Volume 2 Remix Album.
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jb lamptoast-morsley 2447 posts |
Jan 31, 2016, 12:37
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Saul Williams - MartyrLoserKing. I can feel myself getting all snobby now that he is finally getting some serious air play - mainly for The Noise Came from Here. The great me was first introduced to him some 16 years ago by a friend with a track from The Lyricist Lounge vol 1. Truth is I'm a bit underwhelmed by this album, one or two tracks aside. Not that keen on his voice when he is singing. He has never really nailed an album, but seemed a lot closer 15 years ago. First Impression - maybe I'll give it some more plays. Breathless - Blue Moon Heron Oblivion - Oriar (single) The Membranes - Dark matter/Dark Energy. Great in a punky PIL meets Swan kinda way Nevermen - Mr Mistake (single) Massive Attack - Ritual Spirit EP. Great cast (Roots Manuva, Young Fathers and great to see Tricky collaborating with them again) From my Live collection: Lisa Knapp - The Western Hotel, St Ives Sep '12 Heather Leigh - St Ives. June '15 Sarah Lowes (from the Earlies) - Various assorted Mark Riley sessions Jeffrey Lewis - Mono, Dec '15
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flashbackcaruso 1056 posts |
Jan 31, 2016, 13:18
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V/A - Strange Pleasures: Further Sounds Of The Decca Underground Bert Jansch - L.A. Turnaround Bert Jansch - Santa Barbara Honeymoon Simon Joyner - Hotel Lives Simon Joyner - Lost With The Lights On David Bowie - Images 1966-1967 King Crimson - In The Wake Of Poseidon King Crimson - Lizard V/A - The Perfumed Garden Vols. 3 & 4 Miles Davis - Kind Of Blue Emerson Lake & Palmer - Trilogy Vangelis - L'Apocalypse Des Animaux Vangelis - Earth The Moody Blues - To Our Children's Children's Children The Moody Blues - A Question Of Balance Aphrodite's Child - 666 Tortoise - Millions Now Living Will Never Die Mouse On Mars - Iaora Tahiti of Arrowe Hill - A Few Minutes In The Absolute Elsewhere of Arrowe Hill - A Conspiracy Of Clocks Silvery - Etiquette The Beatles - Let It Be
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Beebon 1375 posts |
Jan 31, 2016, 15:02
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Conan - Monnos Ironsword - None But The Brave Cirith Ungol - Frost and Fire Hate Forest - Purity Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden Grand Magus - Iron Will Jimmi Hendrix - Electric Ladyland Beastie Boys - Check Your Head James Brown - The Payback Vangellis - Heaven and Hell Vangellis - Spiral
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Fatalist 1123 posts |
Jan 31, 2016, 15:13
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IanB wrote: Dream Theater - The Astonishing This goes to reassert everything that has nagged at me about US Prog bands since I first heard Kansas. The singers nearly always sound like they have been recruited from a particularly anodyne branch of musical theatre. The sing like they are inhabiting a role not living it. RJ Dio is probably the only singer from America who makes Prog subject matter sound in any way convincing and he wouldn't have been seen dead around such a lightweight musical palette. Whatever you say about the Andersons, Hammill, Lake, Gabriel et al in their pomp - they sang like they meant it, man (even if they now say they didn't really). Ha, prog is only real prog if it's sung with an English accent, discuss ;-)
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IanB 6761 posts |
Edited Jan 31, 2016, 15:55
Jan 31, 2016, 15:53
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Fatalist wrote: IanB wrote: Dream Theater - The Astonishing This goes to reassert everything that has nagged at me about US Prog bands since I first heard Kansas. The singers nearly always sound like they have been recruited from a particularly anodyne branch of musical theatre. The sing like they are inhabiting a role not living it. RJ Dio is probably the only singer from America who makes Prog subject matter sound in any way convincing and he wouldn't have been seen dead around such a lightweight musical palette. Whatever you say about the Andersons, Hammill, Lake, Gabriel et al in their pomp - they sang like they meant it, man (even if they now say they didn't really). Ha, prog is only real prog if it's sung with an English accent, discuss ;-) That would rule out of all Europe and the French Canadian scenes before we get started. And Geddy is a totally credible singer however daft those Rush lyrics get. Not about accent I don't think. More about the divide between imagining oneself into something potentially risible but going with it regardless and playing dress-up. I think it might have something to with people who came up through playing covers in bar bands finding the whole thing a bit fey.
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keith a 9573 posts |
Edited Jan 31, 2016, 17:07
Jan 31, 2016, 17:07
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jb lamptoast-morsle wrote: "The great me was first introduced to him some 16 years ago Blimey. How very modest of you! ;)
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