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BigFactory posted:If you listened to them and said to yourself “well this kinda sucks and the singer is horrible”, you may be on your way to a dream theater free life. The most noble pursuit: inventing time travel to go back to 1994 and stop James from eating that shrimp
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Snow Cone Capone posted:The Future Bites has that eye-rolling part where it's just a voice listing a bunch of consumer products That voice being Elton John! I figured it had to be ironic at that point. SW being a big Abba fan, I could almost see him try Eurovision with something like Permanating or some of the no-man stuff
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Anonymouse Mook posted:That voice being Elton John! I figured it had to be ironic at that point. SW being a big Abba fan, I could almost see him try Eurovision with something like Permanating or some of the no-man stuff Holy poo poo that's Sir Elton? wow, learn something new every day I'd love to believe that he's being ironic but all personal evidence to date has shown to the contrary, but again the music is fantastic so who cares lol but yeah he's outspokenly a huge pop fan too and I bet he could write some great Eurovision material
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I'd been kinda regretting lately not buying the Yes Progeny 1972 box set when it came out as it's impossible to find cheap now. So I saw that Rhino is doing an LP rerelease of it. Then I clicked on the link $475. Uh, no. It's also limited edition. Nice of them to offer free shipping though.
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I was front row for a Mars Volta show tonight, and let me tell you: if you're scared of going to see them because you think they might not play the old stuff, don't be. They played a bunch of stuff I wanted to hear from Deloused and Frances  Cedric's voice sounded great and he's still got dance moves!
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any Yes fans in here might wanna see if Jon Anderson & the Band Geeks are playing anywhere near you, because I've been watching them on YouTube and seriously they're not far off from the Yessongs band, miles ahead of where Yes official are now. mostly the same set too, plus "Gates of Delirium"
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JAMOOOL posted:any Yes fans in here might wanna see if Jon Anderson & the Band Geeks are playing anywhere near you, because I've been watching them on YouTube and seriously they're not far off from the Yessongs band, miles ahead of where Yes official are now. mostly the same set too, plus "Gates of Delirium" The tour just ended in America. I saw Anderson during his limited run with the Paul Green School of Rock last year, and the kids with him weren't that bad. I don't know how his voice has stayed this good.
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Jon Anderson rules. My friends mom who I miss dearly was a feng shui designer and her office was always full of hippy magazines and stuff like that. Invariably there would be an article in each one of them by Job Anderson about the healing power of crystals or how to talk to Celtic spirits or something like that. Living legend.
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I caught Jon Anderson and the band geeks recently. I’ve seen real Yes 3 times in the early 2000s and this was better than all those times. Jon sounds just as good as ever, and I’m not sure how that’s possible at 78. If anything his pitch control is even more consistent than it was in the ‘70s.
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I've been listening to parts of this Genesis BBC Broadcasts collection, and I think with that and Archive #2 I managed to compile an enhanced version of Three Sides Live:quote:Disk 1 ...This my most autistic post thus far
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Nightmare Cinema posted:I've been listening to parts of this Genesis BBC Broadcasts collection, and I think with that and Archive #2 I managed to compile an enhanced version of Three Sides Live: If you haven’t heard it, there’s also a bootleg called Three Discs Live (It’s on YouTube) that’s basically an complete version of all the songs played on those tours that’s pretty solid.
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fartknocker posted:If you haven’t heard it, there’s also a bootleg called Three Discs Live (It’s on YouTube) that’s basically an complete version of all the songs played on those tours that’s pretty solid. OHHH nice let me see aaaaaaaaaaaand video removed.
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How did I miss both Threshold and Seventh Wonder dropping albums last year? I gotta get my poo poo together.
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May 29, 2023 23:55
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Name the actual albums:
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I've got all of them except the last one also "go now" and "stop" (while not prog) are still quite catchy hexwren fucked around with this message at 23:07 on Jun 30, 2023 |
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Jun 30, 2023 23:03
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I feel embarrassed I only got three of them off the top of my head: Lizard’s Feet in Gelatin = Larks Tongue in Aspic Over the Hedge = Close to the Edge Crying all Night = Calling All Stations
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fartknocker posted:I feel embarrassed I only got three of them off the top of my head: You managed to not get The Final Cut?
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Jedit posted:You managed to not get The Final Cut? Never would have had it. I don’t like Pink Floyd and probably wouldn’t recognize any of their album covers beyond Dark Side of the Moon.
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surprising myself by realizing i only have two of those eight on vinyl. i should probably buy a $1 copy of love beach at some point, just to complete my collection of their pre-breakup stuff i definitely should have copies of stand up and the magnificent moodies weirdly, i kinda like parts of the final cut better than a lot of the album that came before it
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hexwren posted:weirdly, i kinda like parts of the final cut better than a lot of the album that came before it I don’t think that’s weird. Gunner’s Dream and Two Suns in the Sunset are both really good later PF songs. The album as a whole is inoffensive, when parts of the Wall are really dumb. But it’s got some great songs, obviously.
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agreed - also i am inevitably biased against double albums you gotta really need that space if you're making me flip that many sides to say nothing of the triple live set, you gotta deserve that. i really like the band, but rock of ages and the last waltz are each on their own excessive. together, they're a loving problem
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Final Cut is a snoozefest. I'm partial to Momentary Lapse myself. Some bangers on there.
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so what was the eighth record in the cartoon?
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hexwren posted:so what was the eighth record in the cartoon? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Present_(Van_der_Graaf_Generator_album) I started to bug me so I had to search for it.
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BigFactory posted:I don’t think that’s weird. Gunner’s Dream and Two Suns in the Sunset are both really good later PF songs. The album as a whole is inoffensive, when parts of the Wall are really dumb. But it’s got some great songs, obviously. Gunner's Dream and Fletcher Memorial Home are my highlights. I think it's an ok album - not close to one of their best but a bit unfairly maligned.
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OneSizeFitsAll posted:Gunner's Dream and Fletcher Memorial Home are my highlights. I think it's an ok album - not close to one of their best but a bit unfairly maligned. I don’t mind it and I hate most Pink Floyd after meddle. Although I listened to Division Bell this summer for the first time since the 90s and it’s not bad!
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It's a fascinating album to read about though. Gilmour didn't even have a writing credit on it, I don't think, because of Waters. Just a completely dysfunctional mess at the end.
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BigFactory posted:I don’t mind it and I hate most Pink Floyd after meddle. Although I listened to Division Bell this summer for the first time since the 90s and it’s not bad! I think if they had cut a couple tracks and edited a couple others down - I did the math on this once, but forget which I picked - you could make a single LP of division bell that would have been fantastic oh, here it is: hexwren posted:Division Bell would be great if it was boiled down to the length of a short LP. hatelull posted:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Present_(Van_der_Graaf_Generator_album) oh, huh. that's definitely a group I need to listen to more than just the one record of, maybe I'll snag that one next. hexwren fucked around with this message at 06:47 on Jul 2, 2023 |
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Wiltsghost posted:It's a fascinating album to read about though. Gilmour didn't even have a writing credit on it, I don't think, because of Waters. Just a completely dysfunctional mess at the end. The Final Cut is basically just songs that were excised from The Wall for length. Gilmour didn't want a credit on it because as he put it, if they weren't good enough for The Wall they weren't good enough now. I think he was pissed off at the time - When The Tigers Broke Free was certainly a good addition to the movie, and not all the other songs on TFC are bad - but it's still valid to say that as a collection of offcuts it wasn't really necessary and describing it as "essentially a solo album" is 100% accurate.
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Kazinsal posted:Well’p. Just spent a mildly silly amount of money on a front row floor seat for Dream Theater, Devin Townsend, and Animals as Leaders in Vancouver this July. JP’s side of the stage. Gonna be looooooud I just got tickets, 8 rows back at a heavy discount. Sounds like they aren't selling many tickets at any of their stops. I'm pretty much only going to see Devin, I've seen AAL before and don't care for Dream Theatre. I wonder if the three acts don't have as much cross-promotional appeal as Dream Theatre hoped. Or if their fanbase has fallen off more than they expected. I know if they didn't discount the prices I wouldn't have paid that much just to see the one act I wanted...
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Never really listened to much Steve Hackett solo stuff but I came across this song in a youtube comment and have been listening to it a bunch lately. The rest of the album is pretty good too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjJSPwMqx68
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Dreamsonic 2023 Vancouver trip report: -bold choice of Dream Theater to be the worst band on their own tour -John Petrucci's forehead is HUGE. Good lord. Must be all the HGH. And that haircut is not working for him. He looks like Thulsa Doom from Conan the barbarian. -Devin playing the last song with dream theatre just made everybody in the venue realize how good the DT show could have been with a real frontman. I overheard some chatter from other people who weren't familiar with Devin. No lyric sheets at this point, he knows the song -unlike the DT bassist or keyboardist apparently? Just staring at the charts on their iPads the entire show. -of all the bands, Animals As Leaders made me want no seats on the floor the most. A couple pretty heavy sections. Everybody was standing the rest of the concert anyway so seats just got in the way. -Devin was so good. Thought I'd be over deadhead from all the concert vids I've seen, but live it hits hard. The rest was all just good fun. stratdax fucked around with this message at 08:13 on Jul 22, 2023 |
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Oh hey my buddy and I were there. Second row, right in the middle. Great show, brilliant encore. I caught JP's pick when he threw one at the end of the set! I think James actually sounded better than the last DT show I went to. There was at least one pretty decent scream I wasn’t expecting him to belt out. e: Definitely echoing the part about Deadhead being just so powerful to witness live. The opening to Kingdom making basically everyone freak out was awesome too. Kazinsal fucked around with this message at 09:37 on Jul 22, 2023 |
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I knew they'd be together on tour, but Devin used to have a thing about not performing songs that he didn't write or contributed to, so it's nice that he joined the fun. There are videos of the last song from different gigs, and LaBrie's performances are very hit and miss (mostly miss), while Devin just gets better the more they perform together. I guess it's not fair to compare, since LaBrie had to struggle to keep his voice after the injury, while Devin expanded his range, and his voice only improved with years. Still, it's night and day when they are together on stage. Devin is simply one of the best live performers out there.
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stratdax posted:-Devin playing the last song with dream theatre just made everybody in the venue realize how good the DT show could have been with a real frontman. I overheard some chatter from other people who weren't familiar with Devin. No lyric sheets at this point, he knows the song what song was that?
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Spirit Carries On. Tosin came out for it too.
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I used to be frightened of singing I used to think James was the end. But that was before I'm not scared any more.
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I have remastered the poo poo out of When Dream And Day Unite, the Falling To Infinity demos, and the NYC 3/4/93 show with the original Change of Seasons. PM me if you'd like .wav files.
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My friend and I normally see DT every single opportunity we can, but they’ve reached the point where their albums since ADTOE have all just been decidedly mediocre and forgettable, and if I remember tickets were laughably expensive so we just aren’t going anymore. Plus across the last few times we’ve seen them they’ve played all of Images and Words, all of SFAM, and I think even all of Awake, with A Change of Seasons in there too, so there’s no point
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 TL playing Sleepless just now, at TOAPP
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