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[Nicky007]

... the album's been out ages and I had it on release.

What I meant was whether it was getting fulfilling.

Nicky.

[Steve Jones]

Tomas Bodin - I Am.

Oh wow!  What a gorgeous, beautiful, awesome, progtastic album this is!  And I'm not saying that purely because of the £2.37 price

[Manatee]

NP: Gazpacho - Night

Tomas Bodin - I Am.

Oh wow!  What a gorgeous, beautiful, awesome, progtastic album this is!  And I'm not saying that purely because of the £2.37 price

Sounds like a Flower King or somesuch.

[Steve Jones]

Sounds like a Flower King or somesuch.

Indeed.  This product may not be suitable for persons requiring tracks to be under 20 minutes in length and containing at least one Stipe or Townsend

[Manatee]

Indeed.  This product may not be suitable for persons requiring tracks to be under 20 minutes in length and containing at least one Stipe or Townsend

Duly noted.  The song I'm currently listening to clocks in at an emphemeral 17:01.   No Stipes or Townsends, although if they collaborated with Gazpacho, that might just be enough to make my head explode (good fun for onlookers if they're not squeamish).

[Steve Jones]

IQ - Frequency

[Manatee]

IQ - Frequency

Hey, you guys leave some Frequency for me!

[maddox]

Beardfish ~ Sleeping In Traffic pt II

[The Butterfly Man]

NP: System Of A Down - Toxicity

Yeah! I used to play this album endlessly back in 2001. Good to listen to it again after all these years.

Tom

[Steve Jones]

NP: System Of A Down - Toxicity
Yeah! I used to play this album endlessly back in 2001. Good to listen to it again after all these years.

I think it would be good for me to listen to it again, too.  Unfortunately my copy vanished under mysterious circumstances and I've never gotten around to replacing it

NP: Devin Townsend - Ki.  First spin so too early to say if I'll regret listening to land-based sea mammals

[The Butterfly Man]

I think it would be good for me to listen to it again, too.  Unfortunately my copy vanished under mysterious circumstances and I've never gotten around to replacing it

Too bad! Maybe you should buy it again, I don't think it will be very expensive these days.

I remember being on school-camp in Austria in October 2001 when I shared a room in this hotel with a mate of mine. Every morning we woke up to the nice and mellow first verse of Chop Suey: "Wake Up!!..." Ahh good times!

Tom

[Steve Jones]

Too bad! Maybe you should buy it again, I don't think it will be very expensive these days.

Funnily enough I was looking into that about a week ago.  The CD is reasonably priced, but there's so much other newer stuff I want that I'm in no rush to re-buy something I've previously purchased!

Devin update - my brain hurts!

[Manatee]

Devin update - my brain hurts!

It's supposed to do that.  Keep listening.

[The Butterfly Man]

NP: The Devin Townsend Project - Ki

Tom

[Teunis]

Just: IQ - Frequency

About to play: Satellite - Nostalgia

It great to be at home alone .... turn up the volume ... 

[Steve Jones]

IQ - Frequency.

Hmm, this is a bit of a disaster to my ears.

Musically it seems the band are in fine form, if not exactly breaking any new ground.  There's some storming early Genesis sounding guitar in there that's worthy of recommendation  in particular.

Sound quality wise, however, this is completely awful.  Probably the poorest sounding new release that I've bought in recent memory, certainly worse than the much-maligned Metallica 'Death Magnetic' that's often held up as an example of how not to do it.  Now, I neither know (nor care) whether this is down to loudness wars, over-compression or whatever techy thing is being blamed this week, but I do know it sounds like a third-generation cassette copy.  Squashed-up and lifeless sound, no dynamics and cymbals that sound like no cymbals you can buy in a shop.

NB my comments relate to the legal MP3 download from Amazon.  I'm well aware of the limitations of mp3 and don't expect the same quality I'd get from a CD on my big Hi-Fi.  But like many of us that haunt online forums I spend a lot of time listening to music on the move and am intimately familiar with what can and can't be expected from mp3s.  IQ's Frequency sounds very poor indeed compared to other mp3s - particularly the Tomas Bodin and Devin Townsend releases that I downloaded at the same time.


I don't want to universally pan Frequency as I'm aware that many folk don't give a monkey's about sound quality anyway.  But for those that do, approach this with caution and hear before you buy if at all possible.  For the mp3 version, at least...

[Steve Jones]

Dead Soul Tribe - A Murder of Crows

[Nicky007]

I remember being on school-camp in Austria in October 2001 when I shared a room in this hotel with a mate of mine. Every morning we woke up to the nice and mellow first verse of Chop Suey: "Wake Up!!..." Ahh good times!

You sound like somebody my age, Tom. Hey, don't get sentimental yet, huh, you got a lot of extracurriculars comin on 

More seriously, I'v tried SOAD a few times, and it didnt sound like anything that could click with me. But maybe I'm wrong there 

Nicky.

[Steve Jones]

Marillion - Anorak in the UK Live

[Steve Jones]

Tomas Bodin - I Am.

Warning!  Ringing telephones detected on first track - likely to be harmful to green aquatic mammals

[The Butterfly Man]

You sound like somebody my age, Tom. Hey, don't get sentimental yet, huh, you got a lot of extracurriculars comin on 

Wow, I didn't know you were 23 as well!

More seriously, I'v tried SOAD a few times, and it didnt sound like anything that could click with me. But maybe I'm wrong there 

Well they are pretty insane so I think they should click with you. Maybe you need to try a bit harder!

NP: Scar Symmetry - Holographic Universe

Tom

[Manatee]

NP: Devin Townsend - Synchestra

Have to get my fix while waiting for Ki to migrate back to North America.

[PH]

Samson & Gert - Ik Wil Niet In Bad

[Draco chimera]

Porccupine Tree, Trains

[Teunis]

Samson & Gert - Ik Wil Niet In Bad

You're in a real prog mood 

Gazpacho - Tick Tock
Blind Ego - Numb

np: Sylvan - Encounters