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[funkster]

Lately, I've laid the rock stuff aside a bit.

np> Talk Talk - [The Colour Of Spring (1986) #03] Life's What You Make It (4:29)

Wow, this album is truly amazing. To all real music lovers, I can really only recommend it, it's a true diamond, despite being 25 years old... omg...

The Cap speaks the truth - all hail Peter 

Now listening to Skyforger by Amorphis

First bit of heavier stuff for a few weeks and damn fine it is as well. Not much growly vocals but what there are , Majestic beast , add a nice balance to what is a superb album. A band on a par with Opeth for me     

[maddox]

NP  Babemetal

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7b-_YcACuQ

Which makes me wonder why there aren't more female progartists in the universe.
Prog, metal and such are considered to be a male-thingy but I'm sure that there are also a lot of females who likes the music as well.

NP> nothing.
Am tired, will go to bed in a bit.
Have to go to the hospital tomorrow with my daughter.
Been there all day and the doc's would like to see her in the morning again.

[maddox]

Lately, I've laid the rock stuff aside a bit.

np> Talk Talk - [The Colour Of Spring (1986) #03] Life's What You Make It (4:29)

Wow, this album is truly amazing. To all real music lovers, I can really only recommend it, it's a true diamond, despite being 25 years old... omg...

Right!
Haven't played it in centuries but the album is indeed stunning.
It is actually prog allright.
Talk Talk is labeled as post-rock, together with artists like The Pineapple Thief, Mono and Sigur Ross.

[Peter]

NP  Babemetal
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7b-_YcACuQ

what was it? can't play it here, due to "not available in your country"

[PH]

Right!
Haven't played it in centuries but the album is indeed stunning.
It is actually prog allright.
Talk Talk is labeled as post-rock, together with artists like The Pineapple Thief, Mono and Sigur Ross.

I guess I have no other choice than to check it out.
I quite like post-rock.
Anyone ever heard of Au4?
I can't find their album (On:Audio) for sale anywhere, but check out their website. You can stream their whole album for free!
It's really an amazing album.

http://www.au4.ca/home/

They are going to release their second album this year! If it's only half as good...


Today I played Threshold - "Replica".
It's better than your average compilation album. In fact I play this album more than the other Threshold albums I own. I love the version of Static here. The two previously unreleased songs are really cool too.

[Nicky007]

what was it? can't play it here, due to "not available in your country"

Hey Cap, you'r supposed to be the IT-expert 

Well OK, go onto YouTube and search 'Orianthi Vai strung' .....

Now listening to Skyforger by Amorphis

One'o my faves too, Funky 


NP  Negură Bunget:  Măiestrit

Romanian dark metal group, often compared to Nachtmystium.

Well, Nachtmystium are more varied, but Negura have some cool atmospheres 

Try this, guys:  www.youtube.com/watch?v=46GhUrtrklM

Don't ask me what they'r singin about tho 

From Wikipedia: "Negură Bunget is a black fog coming from a deep dark dense forest. The name tries to picture somehow the kind of atmosphere, both musical and spiritual we'd want to create through our music. It has also an esoteric nature, standing for the inexpressible parts of our ideology. The two words are also from the Tracic substrate of the Romanian language (the oldest one, containing about 90 words) as the interest for our local history and spirituality is something of crucial importance and meaning for us as a band." - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negur%C4%83_Bunget

Nicky.

[Peter]

Hey Cap, you'r supposed to be the IT-expert 

I'll kindly ignpre that

Well OK, go onto YouTube and search 'Orianthi Vai strung' .....

That's a nice guitar duel for sure. Clicked some other videos, and just found high school girlie rock
If I could play like this and make money out of it, I'd do it, too

[funkster]

Real to reel by Marillion which was their first album i bought all those years ago and still sounds amazing

[Peter]

Real to reel by Marillion which was their first album i bought all those years ago and still sounds amazing

Absolutely one of the best live albums I know of. Unmatched atmosphere and energy. "This is dedicated to all the drunken romantics in the audience... "

[Nicky007]

NP  Negura Bunget  on  YouTube

E.g.   www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDtk0LaQeM4&NR=1

and the earlier link.

Imagine this arising outta Romania 

Guys, I think we'l be seeing even more diversity in progworld, emerging from all the spots on this globe that gain liberty 

Which makes me wonder why there aren't more female progartists in the universe.

There actually are some notable ones, but they seem to be largely ignored by Roomies. I have on several occasions lauded Lana Lane, Natasha Shneider, Julie Kiss, Lisa Gerrard, and Lee Douglas 

However, Roomies are almost as conservative and male-chauvinistic as everybody else 

Admittedly, these are largely singers. I too miss some female stars on the instruments 

Nicky.

[maddox]

Admittedly, these are largely singers. I too miss some female stars on the instruments 

Nicky.

And that's where I was aiming on.

NP> Pink Floyd ~ Is There Anybody out There? [The Wall-live '80-'81]

[Bupie]

However, Roomies are almost as conservative and male-chauvinistic as everybody else 

Please, don't include me in this statement, Nicky 

NP - Nothing with a female on the instrument but if you search for an album of this kind, my advice is to try this one  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Trance   

OK, I ----> but joke aside, it's a very good classic metal album 

[Peter]

Lori Linstruth... as mentioned a few times earlier on

[maddox]

Lori Linstruth... as mentioned a few times earlier on

True, though lately she plays other instruments then guitars.
She's Arjen's personal assistant.

[PH]

True, though lately she plays other instruments then guitars.

I hope you're referring to a musical instrument. 

[The Butterfly Man]

I hope you're referring to a musical instrument. 

She plays Arjen's guitar so he doesn't have to bother anymore. That's what personal assistants do isn't it? Assisting the ones who hired them.

Tom

[maddox]

I hope you're referring to a musical instrument. 

Of course I do!

What else? 

[PH]

So no sudden flute playing or something?

[Bupie]

So no sudden flute playing or something?

PH, you seem to have changed. What happened when you were away from the Room ? Did you pay Nicky a visit in Denmark ? Beware, he represents the dark side of the Force (his musical tastes prove it) 

NP Threshold - Subsurface
So far, I don't find it as astonishing as you do but Dead Reckoning took a long time to grow on me and now I love it so I am optimistic for Sub...

[funkster]

PH, you seem to have changed. What happened when you were away from the Room ? Did you pay Nicky a visit in Denmark ? Beware, he represents the dark side of the Force (his musical tastes prove it) 

NP Threshold - Subsurface
So far, I don't find it as astonishing as you do but Dead Reckoning took a long time to grow on me and now I love it so I am optimistic for Sub...

fear leads to hate , hate leads to sudden flute playing !!

All bow to  Nicky - dark lord of the prog metal sith aka Darth growly vocals and his young apprentice Paco 

[The Butterfly Man]

fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate , hate leads to sudden flute playing !!

There, I fixed it for ya! Believe it or not, that's from the only Star Wars movie I've ever seen but it somehow got stuck in my mind. Regardless, I'm still feeling kinda nerdy right now...

Anyway.............

NP: Marillion - Marillion.com

Not a fan-favourite, not my favourite, but there's still a lot to enjoy on this one. Songs like Go!, Enlightened, Interior Lulu and House are classics (imo), others like Deserve, Rich, Tumbling Down The Years and Built In Bastard Radar are still nice songs to listen to every once in a while!

Tom

[Nicky007]

So no sudden flute playing or something?

Paxi - man 

Remember the're some elderly gentlemen in the Room !

and his young apprentice Paco 

In that case he's a pretty lousy apprentice: I tried to turn him onto Ten, onto Chris Cornell, Marmite .... all to no avail. He's simply hopeless. May God have pity on him !

Beware, he represents the dark side of the Force

And I'm takin you guys with me - grrrrrowl 

I am optimistic for Subsurface

Threshold are a great group. They don't go to extremes, but with modest means they manage to get under ya skin 

We don't need all that dumbassed growly stuff 


NP  Nachtmystium:  Assassins

Yeah, metal at its best 

Imagine Floyd meets Opeth - there ya have it 

Nicky.

[PH]

Paxi - man 

Remember the're some elderly gentlemen in the Room !

I apologize to the elderly.

In that case he's a pretty lousy apprentice: I tried to turn him onto Ten, onto Chris Cornell, Marmite .... all to no avail. He's simply hopeless. May God have pity on him !

I'm into PROGRESSIVE rock, or otherwise GOOD music. Marmite is just a strange herbal paste. My taste buds are still young, fresh, unspoiled and not corrupted. Yours must have been through a lot of tough times.

Threshold are a great group. They don't go to extremes, but with modest means they manage to get under ya skin 

And they're catchy too!

[Bupie]

Paxi - man 
In that case he's a pretty lousy apprentice: I tried to turn him onto Ten, onto Chris Cornell, Marmite .... all to no avail. He's simply hopeless. May God have pity on him !

PH and Nicky, do you know that you inspired a famous comics ? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9onard_(comics) 

Léonard is set in the early Renaissance period (with some aspects of the 20th century thrown in). He is an inventor and self-proclaimed genius who lives in a small town where he comes up with all sorts of inventions. Most of these are based on more recent, real-life achievements including television, fire extinguishers, cars and planes. He has also made more fanciful inventions like time machines and robots.

Léonard is flanked by Basile, his long-suffering (and often quite reluctant) assistant. Léonard refers to his younger helper as "Disciple" ("Lackey" in the English version), while Basile calls him "Master".

Basile shows, and not without good cause, little of the respect that Léonard feels due to him and their relationship is more one of squabbling worker and employer than that of pupil and mentor. One cannot really blame the Disciple given the Master's arrogance and over-sized ego. In fact, far from teaching his Disciple the ways of science, Léonard looks upon him as a convenient guinea-pig for his inventions and shows little sympathy when they go wrong, which they almost always do.



NP Threshold - Subsurface
Very good indeed though unspectacular, as always  with Threshold. I am with you here, Nicky.

[Nicky007]

Played:

Asia:  Alpha

Now that I'v gotten over my disappointment that Steve and Carl sold out, playing in a non-prog band with banal lyrics - took several years - I can take Asia for what they are: an excellent melodic rock band, on line with Bad English and Whitesnake, nothing more, nothing less 


Toto: Falling in Between Live  (2007)

Now this was a BIG surprise 

If I hadnt known it, I couldnt have guessed that this was Toto - really 

They had changed soooo much from the early days with those polished poppy Rosannas and stuff. Here on Falling you got a solid gutsy base, some real raunchy singing, and even wild and winding solos by Steve Luk-at-him and Tony Spinner. Whew, what a treat !  All kudos to Toto 


Jolly:  The Pattern

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QOAkEfi124

Also 

Yours must have been through a lot of tough times.

My toughest times have been dealing with you 

PH and Nicky, do you know that you inspired a famous comics ?

 

Nicky.