Progressive Rock - Psychadelic Galaxies in 7/4 Time - General

[QUOTE=PwnNoobsFtw;32527647]Dude, Deliverance is amazing [editline]28th September 2011[/editline] Oh wait you don't like growls do you[/QUOTE] Not particularly Damnation is the other one with clear vocals right? I like Heritage best, I think its fantastic Also found a standard copy of Grace For Drowning today at the store and bought it, just your average 2CD set would like a special edition but decided I can't justify it really with the amount of money I have. He'll post the additional songs on his soundcloud anyway sooner or later

My special edition of Grace for Drowning FINALLY arrived today. It's amazing. [QUOTE=Dopey Trout;32502637][img]http://i436.photobucket.com/albums/qq87/Dopey_Trout/Photoon2011-09-27at12242.jpg[/img][/QUOTE] How the hell do you manage to get the discs out without freaking out about breaking them every time? The disc holders are really stupid.

Wow really? Yours was like two weeks late. I feel you bro. Grace for Drowning IS really good. It lacks the sort of rainy feeling I liked in Insurgentes, but I still like it very much. It's pretty unique, it doesn't really sound like anything I've ever heard before, not even Wilsons other stuff. Deform to Form a Star is just an amazing song and Raider II is equally great. I had to struggle with the CD holders too on my humble digibook edition. I was all "Jesus christ just give me the god damn cd how does this thing work fuck I don't want to break this thing just let me listen to the cd". Then I found out you just have to press the button real hard to relese the disc :v:.

On Insurgentes he was more experimental with sounds, therefore made a great original experience. Grace for Drowning was more personal and depressive. In ways better, but that's only because it might be more emotional. That being said, the first is the better experience for me. Only heard both albums once though.

He probably sort of found what he was looking for when working with Insurgentes and then settled with that in Grace for Drowning, it's still pretty diverse but not as diverse as Insurgentes. I liked all the stuff that was going on in Insurgentes and I liked it's feel more. To me Insurgentes seemed more melancholic while GfD is mainly just darker, I heard his father passed away rescently so that must've influenced his writing there. Though, I think GfD is more coherrent and a better "package" than Insurgentes. I was surprised how different the albums really are. How can you listen to albums only once? I'm always just overwhelmed on the first listen and it takes me like 3 listens to start to understand and apreciate an album, especially prog albums. To me they tend to really get better over time. That's the reason why I don't get to listen to very many albums though, I always get stuck on one or two albums for like a month before I move on.

Symphony X is the most underrated album of all times. I love it, but everyone seems to dislike it, and I have no idea why.

Took me a few listens before I got into it, but its really great.

[QUOTE=TehKaboose;32672977]He probably sort of found what he was looking for when working with Insurgentes and then settled with that in Grace for Drowning, it's still pretty diverse but not as diverse as Insurgentes. I liked all the stuff that was going on in Insurgentes and I liked it's feel more. To me Insurgentes seemed more melancholic while GfD is mainly just darker, I heard his father passed away rescently so that must've influenced his writing there. Though, I think GfD is more coherrent and a better "package" than Insurgentes. I was surprised how different the albums really are. How can you listen to albums only once? I'm always just overwhelmed on the first listen and it takes me like 3 listens to start to understand and apreciate an album, especially prog albums. To me they tend to really get better over time. That's the reason why I don't get to listen to very many albums though, I always get stuck on one or two albums for like a month before I move on.[/QUOTE] His father died well after the album was written I think. I think Insurgentes' downfall was the fact that he was trying to experiment with too many things, and it it didn't end up being as coherent as it should have been. I just listened to GfD for the 3rd time, 2nd in 5.1. And I have to say it is the best album I have heard in years. I'm completely blown away. The album doesn't have quite the same impact in stereo as in surround. The blu-ray mix is the best Steve has ever done if you ask me.

His father died after the album was written, while he was on tour with Blackfield He dedicated it to his dad

[QUOTE=TehKaboose;32672977] How can you listen to albums only once? I'm always just overwhelmed on the first listen and it takes me like 3 listens to start to understand and apreciate an album, especially prog albums. To me they tend to really get better over time. That's the reason why I don't get to listen to very many albums though, I always get stuck on one or two albums for like a month before I move on.[/QUOTE] True, I just feel that Steven Wilson is the kind of guy who has released a LOT of stuff. Therefore I'd need to get about 9 or 10 albums before I can understand the guy.

Steven Wilson is one of the most prolific artists in the world, up there with Frank Zappa and Peter Hammil. On that note, Tonefloat just announced a new Bass Communion album will be released very soon. Apparently the bluray edition of Grace for Drowning uses music from it in the main menu. The release is called Cenotaph and its a spiritual successor, apparently, to Ghosts on Magnetic Tape, thus meaning it has to be fantastic because Ghosts on Magnetic Tape is so good. Comes out November 10. Into it. [img]http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-sClIANilSMQ/Toq8wZzPrFI/AAAAAAAAAlM/NjTtDqJbSp0/s1600/116.jpg[/img] Also, Postcard is now a single! Great song to be a single. In other news, started listening to Curved Air the other day. Lead singer Sonja Kristina. Not many prog lady singers around these days. [img]http://www.feenstra.co.uk/bands/sonjakristina/promo.jpg[/img]

Requiem on King Crimson's Beat album is stunning.

This thread needs more North Atlantic Oscillation [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ds63qVri0I&feature=related[/media]

Psychedelia Prog you probably dont know about. I don't care if you don't like it, I care if you do. I'm just going to leave this here. Listen to it. If you like it, enjoy the rest of them. If you dont, then you dont [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9NnpUQ4ECg[/media]

[QUOTE=Reset Panda;32761974]Psychedelia Prog you probably dont know about. I don't care if you don't like it, I care if you do. I'm just going to leave this here. Listen to it. If you like it, enjoy the rest of them. If you dont, then you dont [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9NnpUQ4ECg[/media][/QUOTE] When did you come back

I can't stop listening to King Crimson's "Discipline" album.

[QUOTE=Pasalaqcua;32768442]I can't stop listening to King Crimson's "Discipline" album.[/QUOTE] I listened to Discipline a ton when I first got it, mostly on a little portable CD player. I carried it around with me for days and days, playing little games, like not listening to it for a whole day, and then... listening to it, to see if I still liked it... [b]I DID![/b]

[B]I WISH YOU WERE HERE TO SEE IT[/B] [editline]13th October 2011[/editline] Definitely my favorite song off of Discipline

Mine would be that if it weren't for Elephant Talk TALK, ITS ONLY TALK ARGUMENTS AGREEMENTS ADVICE ARTICULATE ANNOUNCEMENTS Or Frame by Frame because of that super fast guitar arpeggio thing I can never play no matter how hard I try

I got Marillion's first album today :D It's not quite as amazing as Misplaced Childhood, but it's still a cracker

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2c4k_dHA2Q[/media] I just love how there is very good footage of Gentle Giant all over youtube.

I fucking LOVE Tubular Bells parts 1 AND 2. Except the ending of the second part. Reminds me of Popeye. [editline]14th October 2011[/editline] I fucking LOVE Tubular Bells parts 1 AND 2. Except the ending of the second part. Reminds me of Popeye.

[QUOTE=Elecbullet;32789315]I fucking LOVE Tubular Bells parts 1 AND 2. Except the ending of the second part. Reminds me of Popeye. [editline]14th October 2011[/editline] I fucking LOVE Tubular Bells parts 1 AND 2. Except the ending of the second part. Reminds me of Popeye.[/QUOTE] Ommadawn does pretty much the same thing The whole album is typical Oldfield stuff then right at the end there's a folk song about horse riding

Anyway, ELP discussion from Floyd thread can move in here probably as a better idea as ELP are not Floyd I thought they had good potential with Trilogy and Tarkus and the title album, and Brain Salad Surgery was the start of their downfall in a way. It took itself very seriously I think I'm quite contrary here though because many think BSS is their best album

[QUOTE=BenJammin';32789309][media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2c4k_dHA2Q[/media] I just love how there is very good footage of Gentle Giant all over youtube.[/QUOTE] Fuck yeah motherfucker Time to listen to this beast again: [img]http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4kbBtb1KHKQ/TEXUb4W1rlI/AAAAAAAABRQ/wcs6gAiR9lA/s1600/gentle+giant+octopus.jpg[/img]

[QUOTE=killerteacup;32810057]Anyway, ELP discussion from Floyd thread can move in here probably as a better idea as ELP are not Floyd I thought they had good potential with Trilogy and Tarkus and the title album, and Brain Salad Surgery was the start of their downfall in a way. It took itself very seriously I think I'm quite contrary here though because many think BSS is their best album[/QUOTE] Man I love ELP. Oddly enough, two of my favourites are Works Vol. 1 and Black Moon.

I've heard good things about Black Moon but I don't think I would like Works Vol. 1

[IMG_thumb]http://i.imgur.com/fNEVG.jpg[/IMG_thumb] Figured you guys would get a kick out of this.

[QUOTE=CoolCorky;32818735]Man I love ELP. Oddly enough, two of my favourites are Works Vol. 1 and Black Moon.[/QUOTE] My favourite is Works Vol 1. Was it you or thisispain that got it on vinyl?

[QUOTE=Cosmicmeet;32824071][IMG_thumb]http://i.imgur.com/fNEVG.jpg[/IMG_thumb] Figured you guys would get a kick out of this.[/QUOTE] hang on... I clicked the big res and saw it was "Crimson King Ct" Ct as in Court. :pwn: