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Gaspy Conana posted:I'm seeing King Crimson in Frankfurt tonight. Anyone know if I should grab earplugs? If you're close to the stage, you're drat close to a drum kit. But only a couple songs are loud. Ooh, look for the people in all black standing around the corners of the room, wearing red lanyards. Tell them I said hi from Copenhagen, I was one of them on Monday. GC folk acting as 4 Quarters Maintainers. Rust Martialis fucked around with this message at 10:53 on Jun 12, 2019 |
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Just got my final 40th anniversary King Crimson discs in the mail. The Power to Believe sounds great, but it was always pretty good. ReconstruKction of Light is a revelation. I was a bit iffy on the track they put out with changed drums but as a whole the album sounds amazing. It definitely feels more than worthy of being a KC album now. I’ve always liked CoL, but this is definitely a new league for it.
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Jun 18, 2019 13:47
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God I fucking love Diablo 3 gold, it even paid for this shitty title
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Jun 19, 2019 09:21
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LS5rjAI0kAo This was on my Spotify Release Radar (minus the commentary) and I just happened to listen to it during a shootout in The Division 2 last night and it was so loving perfect for that 
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Last night in London Sound quality was amazing. I got to year the revamped version of Frame By Frame, bit odd after hearing the Ade version for so long. No Cat Food, no Sheltering Sky. Aftershiw, usual crowd of suspects. Bruford was spotted preshow but not after. Met Lisa Wetton, very charming person. Went hunting for food after, ended up in a Lebanese joint in Kensington.
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I'm in love with the new Thank You Scientist. You should listen to it.
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I still don't love Fear of a Blank Planet but each time I listen to it I like it a bit more. That opening track is great but every track after that is a different kind of energy. Exploring the discography of Marillion has been disappointing. After falling in love with Marbles I went back and checked their earlier work and something about their production in their earlier records completely breaks their sound for me. I checked out Misplaced Childhood, Season's End, and Afraid of Sunlight and none of those albums did anything for me. But then I checked out Sounds That Can't Be Made and was really feeling it so I'm guessing somewhere in the late 90's/early 00's they changed their production style and whatever they did made their albums way more listenable for me.
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DoubleCakes posted:I still don't love Fear of a Blank Planet but each time I listen to it I like it a bit more. That opening track is great but every track after that is a different kind of energy.
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Omnikin posted:I'm in love with the new Thank You Scientist. You should listen to it. Personally I think it's really overstuffed. If you showed me any single track I'd probably enjoy it quite a bit, but listening through the whole thing everything blends together and I start to get a bit bored only to realize I'm not even halfway through. DoubleCakes posted:I still don't love Fear of a Blank Planet but each time I listen to it I like it a bit more. That opening track is great but every track after that is a different kind of energy. My issue with FOABP is the vocal performance. When they were workshopping things live before the release I downloaded a concert tape of the album and listened to it like crazy. There were some really awesome vocal hooks there that seemed to basically disappear on record. Steven sounds kind of docile and drugged. Likely purposefully because of the concept, but it takes away musically. I never really got over that and tend to prefer a lot of the live versions since.
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DoubleCakes posted:But then I checked out Sounds That Can't Be Made and was really feeling it so I'm guessing somewhere in the late 90's/early 00's they changed their production style and whatever they did made their albums way more listenable for me. The 80s band and the 90s and on band are very different. Different singer, and I like H’s voice pretty well. He seems to do a lot of the songwritng too. All of their H albums have at least a couple good to great songs on them and at worst inoffensive filler songs. Marbles is good, like you said, and you could make one pretty good album from Radiation, Marillion.com, and Anoraknophobia. Maybe try Anoraknophobia if you really wanted to listen to another album.
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RDreamer posted:My issue with FOABP is the vocal performance. When they were workshopping things live before the release I downloaded a concert tape of the album and listened to it like crazy. There were some really awesome vocal hooks there that seemed to basically disappear on record. Steven sounds kind of docile and drugged. Likely purposefully because of the concept, but it takes away musically. I never really got over that and tend to prefer a lot of the live versions since.
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Omnikin posted:I'm in love with the new Thank You Scientist. You should listen to it. Me too
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I've been doing a binge of prog rock lately, going down lists of highly recommended prog rock bands and albums. I'm not finding a lot I like but as someone who's been a self-described fan of prog rock for years it's surprising how much unexplored territory there is, especially in the modern space. Although Fish-era Marillion wasn't doing anything for me, I did check out Fish's debut Vigil In A Wilderness of Mirrors and I loved its mix of prog rock and pop rock, especially this jam.
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Bent Knee is kinda hit or miss for me, but this is a jam. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_pZNNWBnmw
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I've been listening to this new Helium Horse Fly album a lot lately. It lurches between droning repetitive no-wave, like sort of like Gothic period Swans, and mad manic noisy distorted prog madness. It's really not a blend I ever expected but I'm so into it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSVUeq1auF0
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Cymbal Monkey posted:I've been listening to this new Helium Horse Fly album a lot lately. It lurches between droning repetitive no-wave, like sort of like Gothic period Swans, and mad manic noisy distorted prog madness. It's really not a blend I ever expected but I'm so into it.
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RIP Frankie  https://www.dgmlive.com/news/Francesca%20Sundsten%20RIP
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Greetings from TOAPP '19 practicing Red in the Barn  
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New stuff from Flying Colors: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNEW042p0CM
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Aug 15, 2019 01:18
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Camp concert!
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That looks like a lot of fun.
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BigFactory posted:That looks like a lot of fun. I ended up playing on several jams including President Kill by XTC (Pat drumming), Green Onions (Booker T), Mercy Mercy Mercy, and The Chicken by Jaco
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Anyone seen king crimson on this latest tour yet? Catching the show in Toronto tomorrow. Can't wait for it
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teen bear posted:Anyone seen king crimson on this latest tour yet? Catching the show in Toronto tomorrow. Can't wait for it Yup. Leipzig and RAH. They played Cat Food.
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Rust Martialis posted:Yup. Leipzig and RAH. They played Cat Food. That's all I needed to hear. The 50th anniversary release today of it was great
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I'm going to the Montreal show next Thursday. My ex is coming with me, we were still together when we bought the tickets. Whatever, I can definitely get over that grudge for an evening with Crimson. I'm ridiculously excited, esp. considering its been 8 months since we got the tickets! if anyone had told me 15 years ago when I was getting into prog as a teen that I'd ever see KC live I wouldn't have believed them.
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King Crimson last night was fantastic. They did all the songs from the first album except "I Talk to the Wind." Tony Levin did a wonderful solo on his electric upright for "Moonchild." During the solos for "Starless" they did two choruses of a 12-bar blues. It was a very proggy blues, but still interesting nonetheless.
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Seventh Arrow posted:King Crimson last night was fantastic. They did all the songs from the first album except "I Talk to the Wind." Tony Levin did a wonderful solo on his electric upright for "Moonchild." During the solos for "Starless" they did two choruses of a 12-bar blues. It was a very proggy blues, but still interesting nonetheless. Yeah, it was an incredible show as always. Everyone was great but I had no idea how entertaining Mel Collins is to watch play
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Yeah, it takes a lot of cheek to quote "Take the A Train" during "21st Century Schizoid Man."
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Apparently security were garbage at enforcing no pictures, from colleagues present.
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Rust Martialis posted:Apparently security were garbage at enforcing no pictures, from colleagues present. Where I was — pretty close to the stage — there were a lot of cameras out. Security was shutting down some of them but nothing like when I saw them at Massey hall a few years ago. Definitely saw Fripp call someone out but unfortunately he did not stop the show to yell at him
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Saw Ayreon's Electric Castle live yesterday. Wasn't expecting to hear Marillion's Kayleigh that night, but it was a pleasant surprise. John de Lancie's rhymed narration was extremely goofy and forced in places, so I'm kind of mixed on this aspect of the show, but other than that it was amazing. Even though it was their fourth show in four days, it was obvious the whole cast were really enjoying themselves. Especially Damian Wilson. The man is almost 50, but is at his peak performance as a vocalist.
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Paladinus posted:Saw Ayreon's Electric Castle live yesterday. Wasn't expecting to hear Marillion's Kayleigh that night, but it was a pleasant surprise. John de Lancie's rhymed narration was extremely goofy and forced in places, so I'm kind of mixed on this aspect of the show, but other than that it was amazing. Even though it was their fourth show in four days, it was obvious the whole cast were really enjoying themselves. Especially Damian Wilson. The man is almost 50, but is at his peak performance as a vocalist. I’m an enormous fan of prog, but haven’t listened to a fraction of prog metal, primarily the usual suspects. I had never heard of this album until this post, and it absolutely loving amazing. 
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XBenedict posted:I’m an enormous fan of prog, but haven’t listened to a fraction of prog metal, primarily the usual suspects. I had never heard of this album until this post, and it absolutely loving amazing. Ayreon was probably what got me into prog in the first place. On one of his albums he had Fabio Lione, Andreas Deris, and Bruce Dickinson. I was a huge power metal fan, so I checked it out and it blew my teenage mind.
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Ten years ago (plus a few days because I got busy), Porpupine Tree released what would be their last studio album on September 14, 2009. No announcements were made that it would be the last, there was few indications until the very end that things were winding down. After 22 years, Porcupine Tree was finished. My favorite releases are the live EP We Lost the Skyline, along with the album Fear of a Blank Planet and its companion EP, Nil Recurring. If you've not listened to Porcupine Tree, give them a chance. Their early career spans psychedelic space rock with Steven Wilson more or less doing it solo; their middle career when they become a proper band is probably their most optimistic and at times almost happy music; and their late career introduces soul crushing themes together with an infatuation with metal.
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What are some good albums from the middle period?
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The middle period was shortest, with three studio albums. Signify (1996) is the first real album as a full band, but it still has a lot of trappings of the older psychadelic era. Stupid Dream (1999) followed shortly by Lightbulb Sun (2000) are the true marks of the middle era. Both albums are extremely similar to each other. Some of these choices are personal choices, and I'm sure other people will have their own favorites but in general highlights from Stupid Dream include Piano Lessons, Pure Narcotic, and Stranger By the Minute. Highlights for Lightbulb Sun include the title song, Shesmovedon, and The Rest Will Flow. This isn't to say there aren't other good songs on each album, but those are good choices to start with.
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I like A Smart Kid the best from Stupid Dream, and though there really isn't any Porcupine Tree album I love in its entirety, Lightbulb Sun comes the closest.
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Coincidentally I've been checking out Porcupine Tree's albums again and as cool and experimental Signify was I didn't like it. Up The Downstair was decent though. I don't know if I'll revisit that one. I've pretty much settled that I only really love The Incident and enjoy Fear of a Blank Planet. Sometime this week I'll revisit In Absentia. I've been binging a list of recommended prog albums and after feeling nothing for Italian prog ever since I first started exploring prog rock, I can say I liked Picchio dal Pozzo's self-titled album, especially the first couple tracks. I'm also starting to warm up towards Canterbury Scene. Currently, I'm still trying out lots of albums from the seventies but I wonder if my enthusiasm will change when I start getting into eighties stuff. I'm absurdly unfamiliar with eighties prog and all I really know about it is Rush and Marillion.
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1981-1984 is one of the very best eras of King Crimson, and Absent Lovers is one of the greatest live albums I've heard by any band. On opposite ends of the progressive rock spectrum, but I think Camel and Art Bears both released their best albums in 1981. Magma were going through this strange (strange for Magma, and strange for anyone) R&B and disco-influenced phase, and Retrospektiw III, Concert Bobino 1981, and Merci are all worth a listen. I guess IQ were pretty good, and The Wake is better than anything Marillion did before Clutching at Straws. Can I get away with calling Dead Can Dance prog? Within the Realm of a Dying Sun is my favorite prog album of the '80s if they count. Also in the category of not technically counting but I really want them to—Talk Talk. Spirit of Eden is a masterpiece, and I think is generally considered to be the first post-rock album. Edit: Forgot to mention Thinking Plague. In Extremis and A History of Madness are my favorite albums by them, but all their '80s stuff is really good too. Rollersnake fucked around with this message at 20:28 on Sep 18, 2019 |
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