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[Steve Jones]

Peter Hammill - Room Temperature: Live

[The Butterfly Man]

NP: Mastodon - Crack The Skye

Tom

[Steve Jones]

The Beautiful South - Maiow

[maddox]

Beardfish ~ Sleeping In Traffic Prt II

I still have to get my hands on prt I. 

[Nicky007]

NP  Corrosion Of Conformity:  Deliverance

Pretty hot on this group atm 

... but they're probably too grungy for you guys 

Imagine Jimi Hendrix joinin AIC, a bit unrealistic, but that'l give ya a notion 

Nicky.

[Teunis]

IQ - Subterranea 

[Steve Jones]

Yes - Union

[Steve Jones]

UFO - No Heavy Petting

[maddox]

Fish ~ Vigil In A Wilderness Of Mirrors

[Steve Jones]

Strangers on a Train - The Key Part 1: The Prophecy

[maddox]

Strangers on a Train - The Key Part 1: The Prophecy

Hmm, need to get myself a copy of that one and prt II obviously.

NP> Porcupine Tree ~ In Absentia

Together with Deadwing their best work.

Edit: Hey, Steve. Where's your LastFM page? 

Did you delete yourself?

[Steve Jones]

Hmm, need to get myself a copy of that one and prt II obviously.

Absolutely.  First class piece of work, great vocals in particular

Edit: Hey, Steve. Where's your LastFM page? 
Did you delete yourself?

Yes, I got p*ssed off with the erratic iPod scrobbling amongst other things.  Also, I was mainly using it for statistics and I found I could export the data from iTunes and import it into a database and get more useful data myself.

I can still listen to music on LastFM anyway...

[Steve Jones]

The Rats - The Rise and Fall of Bernie Gripplestone and the Rats from Hull

[Manatee]

NP: Porcupine Tree - Deadwing

Was listening to morow.com again.  Carptree sounds interesting.  Roundabout just came on though, and while it's a good song, it's the designated Yes song that gets overplayed on the radio here, so I'm kind of permanently tired of it.   

[Steve Jones]

Carptree sounds interesting.

They are.  I've got 'Man Made Machine' and have never fully got into all of it, although a couple of tracks (eg 'In the Centre of an Empty Space') are to die for.  Definitely 'interesting'

[Steve Jones]

Magenta - Metamorphosis

[funkster]

Twlight of the gods by Bathory

[Steve Jones]

Elastica - The Radio One Sessions

[Manatee]

Martin Orford - The Old Road

I went for the download purchase again.  The CD is available a few places, but at thrice the price or more, plus Amazon gave me a $1 credit toward a download purchase based on some other purchase I made.  I went on a bit of
an Amazon binge again (and without benefit of Guinness to motivate it!), so I figured I should economize on something.   

[Steve Jones]

Yes - Keys to Ascension 2

[Manatee]

Martin Orford - The Old Road

That's rather nice.  Parts of it sound rather Asia-ish (no shock with John Wetton doing a lot of the vocals), but the music is generally more interesting than Asia's, so it doesn't seem too poppy.  Certain instrumental passages remind me of Yes, surprisingly enough, and of course a good bit sounds like IQ (about which you'll hear no complaints from me).

NP: Genesis - Foxtrot

[Steve Jones]

That's rather nice.  Parts of it sound rather Asia-ish (no shock with John Wetton doing a lot of the vocals), but the music is generally more interesting than Asia's, so it doesn't seem too poppy

My thoughts exactly

[Bupie]

My thoughts exactly

So I suppose it's not an essential purchase ? Would you pick Martin's first solo album over this last one ?

NP  Styx and REO Speedwagon - Arch Allies : live at Riverport

From a common tour of the two bands, each band having his cd and two songs being jammed between the two bands.

Listening to REO's cd at the moment. Not challenging but nevertheless very pleasant. I must confess I always had a soft spot for Can't Fight This Feeling  even if the studio version is better IMHO.

[Steve Jones]

So I suppose it's not an essential purchase ?

Essential purchase!!!!   Any Asia-ish moments are like a prog version of Asia

Would you pick Martin's first solo album over this last one ?

I haven't heard the first one

[Manatee]

Essential purchase!!!!   Any Asia-ish moments are like a prog version of Asia

Agreed, although I've only played it once so far, so my final rating may change.  Thus far I'd give 4 out of 5 stars on the Prog Archives scale -- a fine addition to any prog collection or words to that effect.  I agree the Asia-ish moments are proggier than Asia (hence my comment that the music is generally more interesting than Asia's).  Also, there's enough IQ in there that I'd think most IQ fans would want it.

I haven't heard the first one

Same here.

Supper's Ready just ended.

NP: Martin Orford - The Old Road