the drumming on that album is killer, i just have to hear it properly.
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[QUOTE=CoolCorky;39978843]Red in 5.1 is sublime, even if the only way I could listen to it in surround properly is if I sat cross-legged in the middle of the room. :v:[/QUOTE]
why not move the speakers?
[QUOTE=BenJammin';39895449]Greetings! I offer thee more 70's prog you may not have heard yet!
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZj9vEfiIsY[/media]
I haven't heard this album till yesterday and it blew my mind. Apparently these guys were a cult prog band that opened for more "popular" cult prog bands lol.
These guys are still around and they released an album last year but I have not heard it yet.
I am always finding more great underrated stuff from the 70's. It's great.[/QUOTE]
I was listening to a Prog Rock station on Spotify the other day, and Nektar came up, and I loved it.
if you like the King Crimson remixes check out the 40th anniversary mixes of the first ELP album and Tarkus, they're excellent
pity steve wilson refused to do any of the others which confirms my suspicion that he thinks brain salad surgery is bad which is good because it is bad
To be honest, I had to turn off Brain Salad Surgery within minutes of me starting it, but I really need to listen to all of it in order to make a proper judgment.
I think for me, I see brain salad surgery as the beginning of that really rapid end of prog's popularity in prog history. Its like the album that was just too pretentious and people couldn't ignore that fact any longer, and prog didn't get any better so it got shelved
I enjoyed Brain Salad Surgery.
If you moan about pretentiousness, ur not a real prog fan. :-)
Yo, you can listen to The Dear Hunter's new album IN FULL here.
[url]http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/1554459/the-dear-hunter-migrant-exclusive-album-premiere[/url]
It's baller as shit.
I did like their Colors EPs, so I will have to check this out.
This song is perfect in every way. [video=youtube;-kORf_0uVTw]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kORf_0uVTw[/video]
It's a good song, but I wouldn't call it "perfect in every way".
Hell, I don't think that it's even the best prog song.
Listened to Dark Side and In The Court again.
Holy shit what was I thinking Dark Side was amazing.
In The Court was pretty good but Moonchild could be a boring listen at times.
[QUOTE=Dr-Amazing;40083885]Listened to Dark Side again.[/QUOTE]
more pink floyd?! wow good show good show.
[QUOTE=Duldef;40083566]This song is perfect in every way. [video=youtube;-kORf_0uVTw]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kORf_0uVTw[/video][/QUOTE]
I always feel like it's too long. Not that I have anything against long songs, but it can never hold my attention for the whole thing
I wouldn't listen to Supper's Ready in the same way I'll hear their other stuff tbh.
Long prog songs are more like different things segueing into each other. They're a challenge at first, like jazz fusion too. (look at Bitches Brew)
On the records, long songs are arranged into sections which is a fairly good indication that they're really just 3 or 4 songs strung together with some musical segues in between more often than not. Not a bad thing as some long songs are just fantastic ie Liard, TAAB, etc. Some are just dross though. Its funny when people look at my playlist though as the majority of songs are over the 3.5 minute mark and it takes a bit of scrolling to get to one that isn't
Supper's Ready is a particularly good one but I prefer Can Utility & The Coastliners off that album, and Watcher of the Skies
but I think my favourite Genesis at the moment would have to be Wind & Wuthering. Once you listen to the Gabriel Genesis enough the two Hackett-Collins albums are really nice changes from that ambitiousness to something more simple
[QUOTE=Dr-Amazing;40083885]Listened to Dark Side and In The Court again.
Holy shit what was I thinking Dark Side was amazing.
In The Court was pretty good but Moonchild could be a boring listen at times.[/QUOTE]
hey man please get over floyd there is better prog out there
[QUOTE=killerteacup;40087241]
but I think my favourite Genesis at the moment would have to be Wind & Wuthering.[/QUOTE]
atm i'm kind of put off by that one and and then there were three. dunno why, but if i'm gonna listen to a phil album, it'd be trick or shapes.
that being said, their archive sets are incredible.
Yeah, Trick and Shapes are both great - I don't like and then there were three either. But I'm very partial to Wind and Wuthering. One for the Vine is cool as shit
[QUOTE=AK'z;40084232]I wouldn't listen to Supper's Ready in the same way I'll hear their other stuff tbh.
Long prog songs are more like different things segueing into each other. They're a challenge at first, like jazz fusion too. (look at Bitches Brew)[/QUOTE]
Like I said, I don't not like the long prog songs (2112 is one of my favorite songs) It's just that Supper's Ready always bores me
Honestly, Supper's Ready isn't that spectacular, with the exceptions of Lovers Leap, Willow Farm and Apocalypse in 9/8.
Supper's Ready requires multiple listenings
I know that's such a copout excuse but the first time I listened to it I found it boring - stuck with it for a few songs and realised the genius behind it only after that effort
Doesn't most prog require multiple listenings?
At least to people who don't usually listen to prog.
Not really. 21st century schizoid man didn't really need multiple for me to appreciate
but even for suppers ready you really have to focus to get the complexity of that piece
[QUOTE=killerteacup;40093469]Not really. 21st century schizoid man didn't really need multiple for me to appreciate
but even for suppers ready you really have to focus to get the complexity of that piece[/QUOTE]
[I]Most[/I] prog.
I don't know man, a lot of prog is pretty okay listening, like it isn't too forbidding on the textures or anything, just the instrumentation
I suppose I found some prog kind of hard to listen to in the beginning, but its not a hard genre to get into if you give it a couple of days
depends imo, if you're really new to prog then yeah you'll need a bit of time to get a feel.
after a while you'll find taking in Tales of Topographic Oceans a lot easier :-)
Yeah I still can't do that album
In my very honest opinion, Yes are overrated in the prog scene.
They're a good band, don't get me wrong, but I don't really think that they're one of the best.
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