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[PH]

It's good to see that you came back to the right side of the line.

NP:
Credo - Rhetoric


It gets better and better, a real grower.

[Nicky007]

It's good to see that you came back to the right side of the line.

But then I have to say, PH, that TA don't grip me the way that DT and SyX do - thus I is a heavy proggie.

Nicky.

[CompanyCroydon]

It's good to see that you came back to the right side of the line.

NP:
Credo - Rhetoric


It gets better and better, a real grower.

Quality Album

[Proglady]

Amaran's Plight - Voice In The Light I love it

[Bupie]

(Maybe Marillion should stop taking sedatives (ooo, Nicky, bad'un, but I'm right, aint I, Cap)).

The return of Wicked Nicky 

I have to admit that every time I hear After You're Gone from the LP Marbles, I think of the Simple Minds, but a version of Simple Minds where Jim Kerr and his mates would have been shot by sedative bullets for elephants ...

DT - Stream of Consciousness    Heavy enough for you, Nicky ?

[Nicky007]

DT - Stream of Consciousness    Heavy enough for you, Nicky ?

Betcha, Bupie. Quality prog and beer are the two things I'm gonna miss in the real heaven; doesn't look like you get'm there 

Nicky.

[maddox]

Transatlantic:  Bridge Across Forever.

PH and Maddox, have you heard about these guys? Pretty good stuff 

NP> Pain Of Salvation - BE

[maddox]

Amaran's Plight - Voice In The Light I love it

Great choice. Me too. 

[maddox]

Salem Hill - Mimi's Magic Moment

Track: 02 - All Fall Down

[Peter]

I got this album, because I agree with the title, but the music doesn't really agree with me 
See, this is alternative and indie, and it bores me, because there's so little going on.
Of course one has to consider that the album is from 1984.

Morrissey would surely tell you that *every* aspect of the music on this album (any of hos albums, actually) is intended to be exactly like that

[maddox]

Spocks Beard - Snow

Track: Solitary Soul

[Nicky007]

Morrissey would surely tell you that *every* aspect of the music on this album (any of hos albums, actually) is intended to be exactly like that

Cap, you mean that Morissey would admit that his music is monotonous, and that's the way he wants it to be?

What then turns people on? His voice, his looks, his stories?

Nicky.

[Nicky007]

Sun Caged:  A Fair Trade (track 2 on Artemisia)

Fabulous song, got it on repeat mode.

Paul Adrian has a good voice, precise and wide-ranging, but it lacks some power; that will hopefully come.

I actually talked a bit with Marcel at Headway this Easter. Real nice guy, reserved and discrete, doesn't at all smear his talent in your face. You can also hear on the album that although he's the genius behind, he's very reserved and precise with his guitar playing. Instead he lets it go at the concerts. This is a good attitude in my mind.

Nicky.

[maddox]

The Flower Kings - The Road Back Home

Track: [disc one] 03 - Stupid Girl

[Peter]

Cap, you mean that Morissey would admit that his music is monotonous, and that's the way he wants it to be?

In a way, yes. Not with the negative notion in the word "monotonous", but there may be more adequate descriptions.

What then turns people on? His voice, his looks, his stories?

Yep. The whole package of the "monotony", and the attributes you mentioned make up the style that is so unique to The Smiths and Morrissey.

The only artist I know who is similar to that, but without the guitars, was Blaine L. Reininger. You might want to listen to him, very intereting music back then

[maddox]

Dream Theater - The Ones Who Helped To Set The Sun

[PH]

Dream Theater - The Ones Who Helped To Set The Sun

Ok, and what's that?

[maddox]

Ok, and what's that?

A song from DT's first album called 'When Day And Dream Unite' though i'm playing the Official Bootleg (WDAD-RE-Unite) one. With James Labrie instead of Charlie Dominici. 

[PH]

  Ah ok...

I didn't listen to that album...
In fact, the only albums that I listen to on regular basis is:
- Awake
- Metropolis Part 2: Scenes From A Memory
- Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence
- Octavarium

Than there are the albums that I have, but that I don't listen that much (but when I listen, I enjoy it!):
- Images And Words
- Train Of Thought

And I can't put Systematic Chaos in any of those orders because I just got it since a month (or something).

This means that I didn't give When Dream And Day Unite and Falling Into Infinity a spin at all. In fact, I don't have those albums.



NP:
Arena - Immortal?
04. Ghost In The Firewall

The weakest song of this excellent album. The song is still better than anything by [random -->] James Blunt (or anything by The Flowerkings for that matter... (listened to Paradox Hotel today... ))

[Bupie]

Ah ok...


This means that I didn't give When Dream And Day Unite and Falling Into Infinity a spin at all. In fact, I don't have those albums.

PH, do me a favour, just add FII on your shopping list. Great album, sometimes uneven -I bet you won't like Burning my Soul or Just Let me Breathe- but with real GEMS : Lines in the Sand, Trial of Tears ...

So DT : Take away my Pain and his marillionesque solo

[Proglady]

Phideaux - The Great Leap I'm addicted to Phideaux music! 

[maddox]

PH, do me a favour, just add FII on your shopping list. Great album, sometimes uneven -I bet you won't like Burning my Soul or Just Let me Breathe- but with real GEMS : Lines in the Sand, Trial of Tears ...

So DT : Take away my Pain and his marillionesque solo

Good idea. 

Dream Theater - Falling Into Infinity

Track: 01 - New Millennium

After this i think i'll skip a few and head for Peruvian Skies. 

[johninblack]

Al Stewart - Love Chronicles - 06 - Love Chronicles

[Nicky007]

John, could you give us a characterisation? That always makes the NP's more interesting. I've heard a lot about Al Stewart, but never really got to know his music properly.

Nicky.

[Nicky007]

Dream Theater - Falling Into Infinity

Track: 01 - New Millennium

After this i think i'll skip a few and head for Peruvian Skies. 

My fave on FII is Take Away My Pain. It was written by Petrucci shortly after his Dad died. A very beautiful and touching song. I think anyone who can listen to rock would be touched by it.

But yeah, Maddox, Peruvian Skies is wonderful too.

FII is DT's "quiet" album, and it often gets bypassed, but it sure is a sparkling gem in the collection.


NP  Sylvan:  Posthumous Silence.

A very special album, many different moods, takes time to get into.

Just listening to Bitter Symphony, lots of Floyd in it, so mmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

Nicky.