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I think it's a great album. It's definitely not a metal album, though it has its heavy moments for sure, but it's 100% Cynic. Really digging it. I'll also second that the mix is really good. Edit: And after numerous listens, the lyrics are definitely stupid in places, but they're so loving prog-rock. It totally works for me. Cpt. Spring Types fucked around with this message at 04:49 on Feb 9, 2014 |
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FanaticalMilk posted:The bassist has way better stage presence than Myung has ever had. Yeah, Billy Sheehan started in hair metal and has played with Steve Vai forever, so acting all crazy on stage comes naturally, I'm sure.
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Man, I've just started listening to The Pineapple Thief (finally) and they've got some really phenomenal stuff. Pretty much the whole of 137 and Variations on a Dream are my favourites so far. http://grooveshark.com/#!/s/PVS/2gpAJV?src=5 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WlE7B6vjbU
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david puddy posted:Man, I've just started listening to The Pineapple Thief (finally) and they've got some really phenomenal stuff. Pretty much the whole of 137 and Variations on a Dream are my favourites so far. Also recommended is Bruce Soord's collaboration with Jonas Renkse from Katatonia, titled Wisdom of Crowds. It feels vaguely like Bruce Soord's signature Pineapple Thief style coming together with some of the electronic influences from Pure Reason Revolution's Amor Vincit Omnia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P66D8U7xxh8
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Misogynist posted:They're a really great band, and those are my favorites of their collection too! Variations on a Dream was a perfect breakup album for me after it came out. I saw Katatonia open for Opeth last year and I wasn't really a fan but I will definitely check it out after I've finished Tightly Unwound. I nearly bought it when it came out purely because the cover art owns and I trust Kscope to release good music e: yep that was pretty good, will check out the rest of it when I'm done with TPT strap on revenge fucked around with this message at 06:00 on Feb 22, 2014 |
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Feb 22, 2014 05:26
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Katatonia have a very appropriate band name.
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drat, this keeps getting better and better: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rpq5VRXIokg
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Ansur's Warring Factions is a pretty cool album. Lots of 70's prog/psych stuff appropriated in a metal context, but done very smartly. The first track has some great use of saxophone. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxDMMfTpxWI Not a fan of the extended country hoedown on track 4, though. That's more of a BTBAM thing...
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Feb 24, 2014 03:57
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Anyone else a fan of Glass Hammer? Can't get enough of 'em right now.
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Feb 24, 2014 21:22
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Yeah, I have "Culture of Ascent" and it's pretty great. I especially like their cover of "Long Distance Runaround" with female vocals. I should probably get more by them.
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Feb 24, 2014 22:51
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Glass Hammer's track (a twenty minute long rock operetta) from that colossus of a concept album "Odyssey: The Greatest Tale" is pretty good. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZEj6IxFWjU
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Has anybody been to a Security Project gig yet? I'm totally pumped since they have incorporated a lot of stuff from I-III solo albums. Basically if I can hear any songs from PG II is a total definite for me, and the price is totally reasonable for what I assume will be a 90+ minute set. Plus I totally wanna see Jerry Marrota play live.
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Steven Wilson put up a new page with links to Soundcloud stuff he throws up. Found this sweet track from him and Mikael Åkerfeldt (of Opeth): https://soundcloud.com/steven-wilson/cut-ribbon http://stevenwilsonhq.com/sw/audio/ Reading the description, it says the duo plan to release a collaboration this April which is pretty loving awesome.
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Stumbled upon Votum last night. Didn't like the older stuff I skimmed through, but I listened to their 2013 album Harvest Moon seven times at work today and it's a good listen. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DE1txZncgGo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrCzNsni-Fc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5FmUTs2j5c
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Helicity posted:Steven Wilson put up a new page with links to Soundcloud stuff he throws up. Found this sweet track from him and Mikael Åkerfeldt (of Opeth): drat, this page is super cool. There has actually been earlier versions of "Cut Ribbon" floating around on the internet for ages (it's on the Out Absentia collection of songs as Wet Ribbon as an alternate version of Collapse The Light Into The Earth but this version is much cleaner). I found another Pineapple Thief song I love, it's so much happier than what I usually listen to and I'm digging the poo poo out of it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBOne3Zwupo
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Helicity posted:Steven Wilson put up a new page with links to Soundcloud stuff he throws up. Found this sweet track from him and Mikael Åkerfeldt (of Opeth): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=manW5v-AR7U
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Anathema is touring in Australia in August yessssssssssssssssssssssss
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Chocobo posted:Stumbled upon Votum last night. Didn't like the older stuff I skimmed through, but I listened to their 2013 album Harvest Moon seven times at work today and it's a good listen.
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strap on revenge posted:Anathema is touring in Australia in August yessssssssssssssssssssssss I've enjoyed the recent Anathema albums, but my god are they boring live. They have this aura of has-beens despite them never have being more popular.
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Attitude Indicator posted:I've enjoyed the recent Anathema albums, but my god are they boring live. They have this aura of has-beens despite them never have being more popular. I have only seen the Universal blu-ray but they look pretty good to me. I have seen bands before with little stage presence and it doesn't bother me if they play the songs well.
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Misogynist posted:The description is over two years old and refers to the Storm Corrosion album that came out in 2012: I feel stupid now, but at least I don't have to wait for the album.
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God drat, several years on from when I first listened to it, Yes' Tales from Topographic Oceans is still amazing. Even with the weaker second side (although 'Ritual' is still good), I'd rank it alongside Close to the Edge. I've found myself listening to it on repeat the last couple of weeks and I never grow tired.
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Tales would have made a great single album. (There are very few double albums I don't feel this way about)
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I really like Ritual (Nous Sommes du Soleil) on Tales, though, which is on side 2. I agree the album feels a little stretched out - and believe me, as I'm sure most prog fans do, I have a high tolerance for long-rear end music. But I wouldn't want to see Ritual cut out 
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alnilam posted:I really like Ritual (Nous Sommes du Soleil) on Tales, though, which is on side 2. I agree the album feels a little stretched out - and believe me, as I'm sure most prog fans do, I have a high tolerance for long-rear end music. But I wouldn't want to see Ritual cut out I don't meant they should have just discarded the second half of the album, I mean they should have chopped most of The Ancient, most of The Remembering, and a little bit of Revealing Science and Ritual. It's a great single length album with a ton of filler.
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Iucounu posted:I don't meant they should have just discarded the second half of the album, I mean they should have chopped most of The Ancient, most of The Remembering, and a little bit of Revealing Science and Ritual. It's a great single length album with a ton of filler. Hey, 'The Remembering' is a great track. Don't you go putting it in the same category as 'The Ancient' which has nothing going for it. 
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Octy posted:Hey, 'The Remembering' is a great track. Don't you go putting it in the same category as 'The Ancient' which has nothing going for it. The Ancient has Leaves of Green which is awesome, and although that weird jam in the beginning goes on for too long I think it's pretty drat cool.
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The Ancient is the most bizarre and perhaps best thing Yes ever did, and I'm in awe of it.
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Tales from Topographic Oceans is kind of garbage. It's everything that people hate about progressive rock (well, 70's progressive rock) blown up into a double LP. It's so weird to hear people defend it, even in the prog thread.
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It is kind of longwinded, but I've never understood how it's so much worse than Close to the Edge or Relayer. I really respect The Ancient. The dissonance, the Stravinsky influence, even the "chanting the names of the sun, including some which Jon Anderson made up" bit people love to make fun of. It's ambitious, and unrestrained, and probably excessive according to some metric, but what other progressive rock band did anything like this? Tales from Topographic Oceans is why I love Yes.
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Rollersnake posted:It is kind of longwinded, but I've never understood how it's so much worse than Close to the Edge or Relayer. I mean, Relayer is alright (better than Tormato, worse than Drama) but Oceans has problem with pacing, the lyrics, the overall composition (and not dissonance, I mean the overall ideas in place), the production (putting Jon Anderson's vocals front and center and significantly higher than Howe and Squire is particularly egregious)... it's all just kind of unfocused and sounds, to my ears, like a bad parody of Yes. Like, it's an easy target, but it's also not very good. The only parts of it that I really enjoy are Alan White's drums (sometimes). As far as Close to the Edge goes, it's pretty much the peak of "how many different things can we get working in this rock album" without things becoming bloated or otherwise losing focus. It's got three songs and none of them have a wasted moment. Meanwhile Oceans has periods where I just wish the actual song would get going and then I realize that we're 8 minutes in and then I get why Rick Wakeman packed his 30 keyboards up and left.
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Tales is one of those cases where I feel the flaws contribute to the album's greatness because they give it its unique feel, or something like that. Maybe I just really enjoy a spectacle. I have to disagree with you on Close to the Edge, though, if only because of And You and I. I've always found it kind of a tedious, badly paced song that sounds like it's ending about three times before it actually does.
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Declan MacManus posted:I mean, Relayer is alright (better than Tormato, worse than Drama) but Oceans has problem with pacing, the lyrics, the overall composition (and not dissonance, I mean the overall ideas in place), the production (putting Jon Anderson's vocals front and center and significantly higher than Howe and Squire is particularly egregious)... it's all just kind of unfocused and sounds, to my ears, like a bad parody of Yes. Like, it's an easy target, but it's also not very good. The only parts of it that I really enjoy are Alan White's drums (sometimes). I refuse to rank Drama ahead of anything anywhere, simply because of Into the Lens. I mean, there's goofy Jon Anderson stuff (Don't Kill the Whale, for starters) but none of it quite dips to that point. I've been resdiscovering some of their stuff lately. A Venture has a such a different feel to it, perhaps because it's so short and direct and Turn of the Century is gorgeous on vinyl.
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RC and Moon Pie posted:I refuse to rank Drama ahead of anything anywhere, simply because of Into the Lens. I mean, there's goofy Jon Anderson stuff (Don't Kill the Whale, for starters) but none of it quite dips to that point. DOOON'T TAKE LOOOOOVE FOOOR GRAAANTEEEED Rollersnake fucked around with this message at 03:27 on Mar 10, 2014 |
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Jesus, I didn't know Kenny Loggins was fronting Yes now.
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If you're self-conscious about the music you like, Yes is not the band for you, because everything post-Drama is embarrassing on one level or other (and really everything after Close to the Edge has something to pick apart, Going for the One being the exception)
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Gianthogweed posted:The Ancient has Leaves of Green which is awesome, and although that weird jam in the beginning goes on for too long I think it's pretty drat cool. Well, I'll admit I haven't listened to it for about seven years and my taste in music has changed a bit. Time to dig out the CD.
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Declan MacManus posted:If you're self-conscious about the music you like, Yes is not the band for you, because everything post-Drama is embarrassing on one level or other (and really everything after Close to the Edge has something to pick apart, Going for the One being the exception) Very true. Pretty much everything after GFTO is either awful or a guilty pleasure for me. There are some diamonds in the rough though. Yes is such a strange band.
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Gianthogweed posted:Very true. Pretty much everything after GFTO is either awful or a guilty pleasure for me. There are some diamonds in the rough though. Yes is such a strange band. Awaken is a bit more than just a diamond in the rough, buddy.
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