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Started by Nicky007, Thu, 2008-06-26, 19:01:33

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Bupie

Quote from: Nicky007 on Wed, 2008-07-09, 18:12:36
Good Lord, Bupie !!!  You can't compare Ten with Asia and Def Leppard. Asia's and Leppard's lyrics are banal, Gary's are some of the best around. How many times do I have to remind you guys that lyrics are an essential part of prog  ::)

I won't defend the Lepp's lyrics which are obviously not very interesting, to say the least ...

QuoteFurther, Gary sings much better than any of the singers of Asia and Leppard

I wouldn't be so affirmative, at least for John Wetton, and Joe Elliot has a rough but expressive voice that I like a lot.

Quoteexcepting Steve Howe, who's of course one of the best, Vinny Burns and Chris Francis are significantly better guitarists than anything the other two bands have seen.

I won't argue on the technical side of things since I am not a musician but on my Ten compilation, I find the guitar solos rather uninspired. For instance, on Remembrance for the Dead, there is a noisy and unmelodic solo that almost ruins the song when it could help it to become really stunning. But each to his own, I guess ...

QuoteBupie, you're giving me grey hairs, good grief   :'( :'( :'(

I have a lot myself. Is it a big issue for a prog fan ?


Nicky007

#26
Paco, this is absurd:  You don't even have any of the Ten studio albums (I just checked your PL). How can you make any judgements on the basis of the short spread samples ?  Particularly Rome, which is a long epic song with several different moods, simply can't be judged on a ½ minute sample. And Twilight is a conceptual album which has to be heard in its entireness.

I know, it's silly to go on like this, and as I wrote earlier, I wouldnt give a damn in any other community, but since you roomies do value good rock with intelligent lyrics (eh, Bups?) and expressive singing, I wanna make it clear to you that Ten is up there  :)

So guys, enough bull. Let's now stick to the formula ten ten Ten  8)


Quote from: Bupie on Thu, 2008-07-10, 10:41:57
I wouldn't be so affirmative, at least for John Wetton, and Joe Elliot has a rough but expressive voice that I like a lot.

ACK Bups  :)

Nicky.
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Nicky007

Quote from: Bupie on Thu, 2008-07-10, 10:41:57
... on Remembrance For The Brave, there is a noisy and unmelodic solo that almost ruins the song when it could help it to become really stunning ...

I just listened a couple of times to Remembrance, and I agree, Bupie, it's a rather poor solo by Chris Francis. But then again, I also find the song one of Ten's poorer. I usually skip Remembrance and Spellbound nowadays to get to The Robe.

Nicky.
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Bupie

Quote from: Nicky007 on Fri, 2008-07-11, 12:14:12
I just listened a couple of times to Remembrance, and I agree, Bupie, it's a rather poor solo by Chris Francis. But then again, I also find the song one of Ten's poorer.

I like its sort of celtic dance-along melody. Dunno, maybe the original version (if there is one) had a better solo ?

Nicky007

#29
Hey, was lucky this time: Found some nices videos/audios with Ten music on YouTube, maybe not official, but I don't think Gary would mind, as they'r very genuine and respectful of Ten.

So guys, if your hearts don't melt ... then I guess you'v been out at sea too long  ;D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-MJRwtaPGs  (from The Twilight Chronicles)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAQCxmkG_qw&feature=related  (from Twilight)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCt8bCXugwM&feature=related  (from Babylon)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5PMCLJOFe4&feature=related  (from Babylon)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZdAbFnEQaQ  (from Once And Future King, with Irene Jansen)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyENHupbjv8&feature=related  (from King)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aK-IIk0flk&feature=related  (from Babylon)

Enjoy  :)

Nicky.
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bellanova

I saw Ten 3 times as they supported Asia in 20002. I was quite impressed. Very good live band!

maddox

Quote from: bellanova on Sun, 2009-11-08, 15:00:41
I saw Ten 3 times as they supported Asia in 20002. I was quite impressed. Very good live band!

Bella, the time-traveller.  ;)

Thanks for the linkies, Nicky.
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Nicky007

We'l just take things step by step, Mad. Now you'r beginning to promise ...  ;D

Nicky.
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Bupie

Despite the "Warning : this topic has not been posted in for at least 120 days", I dig out this topic to let Nicky know that Ten is releasing a new album that is reviewed here : http://www.musicwaves.fr/frmChronique.aspx?pro_id=9022&url_ref=Ten_Heresy_And_Creed

Ok, to be honest, I don't intend to buy it but I thought that this was a good opportunity for Nicky to work on his French ;D

Nicky007

Thanx, Bupie  :)

I was a bit disappointed with Stormwarning, good, but not exhilarating like Chronicles, beautiful and deep like Essential, or epic like Babylon.

The title Heresy and Creed, and the song titles sound exciting, so I'l get it at some point, but at the moment there are other groups I'd like to spend time with.

But definitely still a pantheon group  *horns*

And French has been on the shelf for a while. Doin some translations to German instead  ;)

- Nicky
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And so you want to meet God
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