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4d3d3d posted:I didn't get into Yes until I was in my 20s but I still fall for the sentimental stuff. I think it's Jon Anderson, who is maybe the only guy capable of pulling off music like that. I even love a lot of his solo stuff, a lot of which is really saccharine. I mean, this is all great: Olias of Sunhillow is one of my favorite albums. Three Ships is just awful.
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Olias is a masterpiece, and I love it more than any Yes album except Tales and maybe Relayer. Also I hate that every time I see multiple new posts in the prog thread these days, my immediate thought is "who died now?" 
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Earwicker posted:I agree in that I love some of Yes' and Genesis' actual straight up pop songs as well as some solo Phil Collins tunes. but personally I can't stomach the AWBH stuff, not because it's poppy but because it's just so overwhelmingly saccharine. The production on ABWH is very...sprightly. Bright. It definitely doesn't sound like a lot of other stuff. Ammonia Avenue is loving great and I didn't hear it until I was a teenager.
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Rollersnake posted:Also I hate that every time I see multiple new posts in the prog thread these days, my immediate thought is "who died now?"
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As the AV Club puts it, "All 165 Pink Floyd songs have been ranked, now let’s fight about it" http://www.vulture.com/2017/08/all-165-pink-floyd-songs-ranked-from-worst-to-best.html short version: who the gently caress is this clown? middle length version: just wait 'til you get to #144 and he starts throwing shade at Tull and Crimson. long version: maybe later.
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Allen Wren posted:As the AV Club puts it, "All 165 Pink Floyd songs have been ranked, now let’s fight about it" I pretty much agree with him! Other than occasionally listening to songs from Piper and Meddle I have almost zero interest in listening to Pink Floyd ever, and they were my favorite band when I was 15. I might like Saucerful of Secrets a little more than him, and The Wall a lot less. And Passion Play is a terrible album, he's right about that too.
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Pink floyd is really astoundingly bad and its incredible that they've become a rock solid part of the rock music canon or whatever
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A human heart posted:Pink floyd is really astoundingly bad and its incredible that they've become a rock solid part of the rock music canon or whatever They run the gamut from terribly amateurish to terribly over-wrought, with very little in between. I guess that's kinda cool in a way. I do like a lot of the Syd Barret stuff though.
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I could live without most of their discography but you'll pry this copy of Animals, played hundreds of times, from my cold dead hands
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quote:Waters’s sense of subtlety is disappearing by the minute, and there are a lot of minutes here. “Meek and obedient / You follow the leader.” (We get it, Rog. The song is called “Sheep,” for chrissakes.)
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I like all of it except the last 3 albums.
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4d3d3d posted:I've been cranking ABWH in the car for the last week and I'm still convinced that it's direly underrated. It's cheesy but there are some transcendent moments like "Brother of Mine," especially the last few minutes, and one of my favorite tracks ever, "Order of the Universe" which just kicks all kinds of rear end throughout. It just seems like everything is turned way up, especially Rick Wakeman's insane but catchy keyboard flourishes. The only flaw is that the single version of "I'm Alive" isn't on there: No. I feel the same way. ABWH has some incredibly big 80s cheese moments, but it's it's the kind of cheese I love to eat. I missed the ABWH tour, but it was around that time that I first got into Yes, because my older sister's boyfriend saw them at Jones Beach that year and bought her some of their CDs. Yessongs hooked me forever. For decades I wish I saw that concert. Well, with the magic of youtube I did indeed eventually get to see it: https://youtu.be/WShedlLNndk?list=PLB19Uwuurs0v_CJ2xRuN-okH4QLm7PBdo I had seen the "An Evening of Yes Music Plus" DVD many times, but this was a real treat, because I had not seen a concert with Tony Levin playing with the band. He's always fun to watch. It was an underrated band. You should also check out the lost ABWH SARM/Perfect Union demos. This was essentially the stuff that would have been on the second album had they not turned it into Union. Some really cool stuff. You can tell why they were so upset with the way Union turned out. A lot of cool jams were butchered, for example the faded out jam at the end of I would Waited Forever. I think they planned on it being a 10 minute mini-epic a la "brother of mine" but the producer was trying to shorten it into some sort of ridiculous 6 minute single. Not sure what he was thinking. Gianthogweed fucked around with this message at 23:30 on Aug 5, 2017 |
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A human heart posted:Pink floyd is really astoundingly bad and its incredible that they've become a rock solid part of the rock music canon or whatever I still like Pink Floyd, though I admit along with Led Zeppelin, they're one of the two bands I binged through voraciously in junior high school that I revisit the least nowadays. I've probably revisited Floyd a bit more often than Zeppelin, but nowadays I think find myself drawn more towards Led Zeppelin again. Interestingly enough, The Beatles, which is one of the first bands I got into when I was 10 years old, I still revisit regularly. I guess it depends on my mood. Pink Floyd I find drawn to during my darker periods, which, thankfully I haven't been in in awhile, but I do find them tedious when I'm trying to be optimistic. Zeppelin is just a fun romp so I enjoy them more now. The Beatles are great no matter what mood you're in. They ran the gamut. Gianthogweed fucked around with this message at 00:01 on Aug 6, 2017 |
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BigFactory posted:I pretty much agree with him! Other than occasionally listening to songs from Piper and Meddle I have almost zero interest in listening to Pink Floyd ever, and they were my favorite band when I was 15. I might like Saucerful of Secrets a little more than him, and The Wall a lot less. Meddle has always been my favorite Pink Floyd album, but I always felt that Saucerful>Piper. Every so often I get into the Piper mood though. As far as Passion Play goes, at first I didn't like it either, but it has grown on me considerably over the years, now I listen to it quite often, especially after the Steven Wilson remixed deluxe edition came out. I still can't say it's anything great. It was repetitive and it does drag in places, but it does have a weird energy to it. I think the band had reached a technical proficiency musically to make anything sound cool and Anderson was starting to take some risks in weird directions. Definitely not as good as Thick as a Brick, but a fun tangent nonetheless.
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Hi from TOAPP 2017! https://imgur.com/a/uFexU Rust Martialis fucked around with this message at 01:19 on Aug 8, 2017 |
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Have they announced the next reissue in the King Crimson 40th Anniversary Series?
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Fun at Camp (I think you can see this) "Breathless", Fripp. TL on bass Rats no. One sec. Now? https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10212507661299355&id=1017396071 Rust Martialis fucked around with this message at 16:05 on Aug 16, 2017 |
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Rust Martialis posted:Fun at Camp (I think you can see this) The page you requested cannot be displayed right now. It may be temporarily unavailable, the link you clicked on may be broken or expired, or you may not have permission to view this page. Is what I get
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Steven Wilson has an album coming out on the 18th, and if this song is any indication, it seems like he is taking a departure from his moody brooding. I like this Steven Wilson. I really, really hope the whole album is like this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0gryiltJo0
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Myrmidongs posted:Steven Wilson has an album coming out on the 18th, and if this song is any indication, it seems like he is taking a departure from his moody brooding. I like this Steven Wilson. I really, really hope the whole album is like this.
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I'm a grumpy prog nerd  Wilson's new album doesn't mean anything good to me. I think the new track is terrible. I mean it's his right to branch out and follow his influences and do what he wants, but I don't think I'll be following. I'll be relistening to Grace for Drowning...
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For all of your new prog-metal needs: New Leprous is weird: more rock-ish and less metal-ish. Not sure how I feel about it yet. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jk63FcCIw9g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tl4gwOMrJiQ New Caligula's Horse sounds good, though. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QJlFdFquiY
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This is a bit of "Help me identify a song" but I'm trying to remember this American prog rock album called 'The Icon' (or at least I think that's the name of it). I can't remember when it was released, but I think it was either the 70's or 80's. Maybe some of your prog rock vets know of it.
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I'm never much for PTree on the regular, and I'm not super-enthused by the Wilson single linked above, but the album's got Andy Partridge writing two songs (fantastic) and the strings are arranged by one of my favorite little-known prog guys, Dave Stewart, the keyb guy for Arzachel and Egg. I'm inclined to give it a listen.
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It's really poppy and straightforward relative to Grace For Drowning or Hand Cannot Erase, but I really dig it. He probably needs to stop doing the falsetto though...
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SW doesn't have the voice for this kind of music. That falsetto is terrible.
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Iucounu posted:SW doesn't have the voice for this kind of music. That falsetto is terrible.
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Iucounu posted:SW doesn't have the voice for this kind of music. That falsetto is terrible. Like how did he produce and edit this for hours and not once spot how wacked it sounds
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Not his best album, but I like it and there's some solid tracks on there, particularly 'Refuge' and 'The People Who Eat Darkness'. Personally I don't hate the falsetto and he's humble enough to have talked about how he's not very confident with it yet, so I'll let him off.
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David Singleton is spilling some real T on the Krimson/Belew beef that's been bubbling up... https://www.dgmlive.com/diaries/Robert%20Fripp/RF_diary_2017_August_22
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I don't really get Belew's attitude to be honest - as the letter points out, didn't he himself sing plenty of Sinfield or Palmer-Jones penned lyrics and Lake or Wetton crafted melodies during his years touring with KC? why should he be treated differently than any previous KC vocalist or lyricist?
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Earwicker posted:I don't really get Belew's attitude to be honest - as the letter points out, didn't he himself sing plenty of Sinfield or Palmer-Jones penned lyrics and Lake or Wetton crafted melodies during his years touring with KC? why should he be treated differently than any previous KC vocalist or lyricist? While the 1981 lineup was founded on an 'everyone contributes' basis, my understanding is that Adrian wrote quite a lot of the music himself and basically all the lyrics. Over the years, this has been acknowledged as 'unfair to Adrian', but it never got to the level that it trainwrecked things. Well, now it has. Nobody's happy about this, nobody's winning anything here. I really wish this had all been dealt with privately. Beyond that I'm keeping my mouth shut as I know almost everyone involved to a greater or lesser extent.
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Seeing Stick Men tonight and Haken tomorrow, what a great way to end the week.
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Colonel J posted:Seeing Stick Men tonight and Haken tomorrow, what a great way to end the week. Tell Markus "Someone from camp said to say 'It is crap'" please.
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gently caress. Radio interview with Stewart Copeland and Adrian Belew about Gizmodrome. Topic wandered to include KC. https://youtu.be/eEJfIRkaZBg
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Rust Martialis posted:gently caress. Radio interview with Stewart Copeland and Adrian Belew about Gizmodrome. Topic wandered to include KC. Funny seeing Norton and Sam kiss up to Copeland after making GBS threads on him and Sting for all those years on O&A.
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Gianthogweed posted:Funny seeing Norton and Sam kiss up to Copeland after making GBS threads on him and Sting for all those years on O&A. They get some interesting guests but they're bad interviewers. Like they had talib kweli on a little while ago who was really interesting despite norton asking dumb questions the whole time.
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AB & RF talked stuff out. Ade is back in KC but inactive. Margaritas are being quaffed. https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10150883829769995&id=6696764994
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