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[Steve Jones]

Never heard of this band. Can you describe and compare them, Steve ?   

Late 1970s prog 'supergroup', if you're comfortable with that term.  Featured various name players, although inexplicably not Ms Dion. 

Rather than me waffling on, here's a couple of links to the albums on Amazon that should give you some background:
First album: UK
Second: Danger Money

[Steve Jones]

NP   Brian May:  Back To The Light
Being a big Queen fan thru the ages, I just had to get this album.

I've not got 'Back to the Light' but, coincidentally, I was planning to give Queen/Queen II/Sheer Heart Attack a whirl in the next few days.  I do like a good dose of pre-stadium Queen now and then. 

[maddox]

Pink Floyd - Meddle

[Steve Jones]

Saga - Saga.

[bluepony]

NP   Brian May:  Back To The Light

Being a big Queen fan thru the ages, I just had to get this album.

What a gem !!!  And I'v only just started listening to it. The title song is a real killer, a true May piece, well thought thru and perfectly recorded and produced.

Freddie was The Voice, but I always liked Brian's music best. He was one of my great heros, and he has given me sooo much joi de vivre (just tryin to impress Bupsie here), also at times when I really missed it   =>

Céline Dion does all the singing on this album - no, just foolin, Steve     Brian himself does most of the singing, and here and there some of his friends chi(r)p in. Admittedly Brian doesnt have anything near the terrific vocal powers that Freddie had, but his voice is expressive, warm and genuine.

And there's of course some awesome guitar playing.

This album was a very personal offering by Brian. He writes a note about it in the cd booklet. He spent years preparing it, and released it in 1992. Of course, it's dedicated to Freddie (and to Brian's deceased father Harold, and Alfred Dobson (dunno)).

So guys, if you like songs like Brighton Rock (which totally swept me away in the mid-70's), Father To Son, and The Prophet's song, there's more of this wonderful stuff on Back To The Light.

Interesting (Wikipedia - Brian May):

"Brian has stated in interviews that he suffered from depression in the late 1980s, even to the point of contemplating suicide, and that drug use would have worsened any problems he faced."

Nicky.

Nicky, for once ... I totally agree with you! 

[Nicky007]

NP   Brian May:  Back To The Light   

I'm completely floored. This is sooo good !!!

This is also back to "pre-stadium" Queen, brings forth the same pristine feelings I had when I first listened to Queen I-V back in the 70's, genuine rock at its best !

Considering how big Queen is, it's simply incomprehensible how little known Brian's solo stuff is. One would think that at least the true Queen fans .... Well, it's not the first time I'm wondering about humanity 

Six years later (1998) he released Another World. Guess who put this on his SL ?   

I've not got 'Back to the Light' but, coincidentally, I was planning to give Queen/Queen II/Sheer Heart Attack a whirl in the next few days.  I do like a good dose of pre-stadium Queen now and then. 

We're completely in line here, Steve:  Queen I-V are fabulous. Then their music degenerated into cabaret, stadium, disco and stuff. But even late Queen is far better than the slush that routinely pours out of our radios. And Made In Heaven was a return to the roots, a great album. Good that Freddie experienced that before his early death 

Nicky, for once ... I totally agree with you! 

Great Bluey !  Except how we disagree about posting styles - but I know you did that on purpose 

Nicky.

[Nicky007]

Featured various name players, although inexplicably not Ms Dion. 

I could imagine one reason being that she was still in diapers at the time - complicates choreography iac. Probably her vocabulary wasnt either so extensive  

Nicky.

[Steve Jones]

I could imagine one reason being that she was still in diapers at the time

I don't think I know Diapers - were they a prog band? 

NP: Nightwish - Dark Passion Play, Orchestral Version.  Possibly the heaviest orchestration on a rock record I can call to mind, especially the opening of 'The Poet & the Pendulum'. Awesome.  Wagner with a bad hangover. 

[Nicky007]

I don't think I know Diapers - were they a prog band? 

Yeah, in a sense, Steve:  They pissed people off with all their shit 

Nicky.

[Steve Jones]

Spock's Beard - Day for Night.

The first Spock's album I ever heard or bought. Lent to me by the same guy who thrust an Arena album into my sticky paws years ago, saying 'you've gotta listen to this!" 

[Steve Jones]

Spock's Beard - V.

I've not even had breakfast* yet, but I can see this being a Spock's day. 

* With or without tabasco. 

[Steve Jones]

Spock's Beard - Snow.

A definite trend here.  Can you tell what it is, yet? 

[Bupie]

Freddie was The Voice, but I always liked Brian's music best. He was one of my great heros, and he has given me sooo much joie de vivre (just tryin to impress Bupsie here)

Missed  or should I say raté ?

NP: Nightwish - Dark Passion Play, Orchestral Version.  Possibly the heaviest orchestration on a rock record I can call to mind, especially the opening of 'The Poet & the Pendulum'. Awesome.  Wagner with a bad hangover. 

Don't mention Nightwish when Nicky is around. It gets him on his nerves 

NP Queen - Fat Bottomed Girls

Nice lyrics but please, Nicky, don't comment on them, especially since Bluey is black ... which is great 

[The Butterfly Man]

Don't mention Nightwish when Nicky is around. It gets him on his nerves 

Well, he's finished talking now since he revealed that he listens to Céline Dion....No offence Nicky!

NP: Demians - The Perfect Symmetry

Tom

[Iggy]

Galahad Empires never last

[Steve Jones]

Galahad Empires never last

Excellent selection, sir! 

NP: The Reasoning - Awakening

[Nicky007]

... or should I say raté ?

Now you're bein ratty, Bups   

Don't mention Nightwish when Nicky is around. It gets him on his nerves 

It's amazin what a*s & b*s can do to you guys   

At least noone can blame me for bein warped thataway with Céline - cute, yeah, but sexy 

NP Queen - Fat Bottomed Girls

Yaknow Bups, that's very un-French. In Denmark, we have the expression "pariserrøv", which is the opposite of the above.

... since Bluey is black ...

Aha, so she was in Africa all this time 

Or how about "black and blue".

Hey Bups, I just found a lyric for you:  "I'm feelin blue, cause Bluey is black" 


NP   Yeah, what may it be ?   

Nicky.

[Nicky007]

Well, he's finished talking now since he revealed that he listens to Céline Dion....No offence Nicky!

Hey, now you guys are going off into a spin. I listened to her rendition of The Power Of Love, and I was duly impressed. Did you guys ever take the link to Youtube ?  Just cause she's a woman - comon, she can't help it, just like Bluey can't - hey, maybe I should stop here   

Nicky.

[Nicky007]

... "you've gotta listen to this!" 

Thus spock the (re) thruster !   

Nicky.

[Iggy]

Magenta - Metamorphosis

[Steve Jones]

Thus spock the (re) thruster !   

Groan 

NP: Caamora - She

[Bupie]

Now you're bein ratty, Bups   ;DIt's amazin what a*s & b*s can do to you guys   

At least noone can blame me for bein warped thataway with Céline - cute, yeah, but sexy 

She is neither cute nor sexy nor clever but she is extremely popular in France. Still, since I like you, Nicky, I have found the link to the only video where she really looks cute and sexy (plus, she was young by the time) singing a Meat Loaf-like song  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYhhxyp4d7I&feature=related

Aha, so she was in Africa all this time 

My mistake but she could enjoy herself there since it's one of the best songs ever ...

Hey Bups, I just found a lyric for you:  "I'm feelin blue, cause Bluey is black" 

No way, I want her to stay the way she is 

NP Toto - Africa

[Steve Jones]

She is neither cute nor sexy nor clever but she is extremely popular in France.

But then so are snails. 

I have found the link to the only video where she really looks cute and sexy (plus, she was young by the time) singing a Meat Loaf-like song

"Thank you for using Microsoft CoverDivaWizard.  Ensure you rename your file immediately, otherwise you won't be able to tell which was yours."   


NP: The Jam - Live Jam

[Nicky007]

... the link to the only video where she really looks cute and sexy (plus, she was young at the time) singing a Meat Loaf-like song  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYhhxyp4d7I&feature=related

They'v dressed her up as Greta Garbo, dreamy-eyed and all ... but that's OK, as GG was Swedish (like all Gretas in Hollywood movies) and my lovely is Swedish ..... now what was I goin to say ?   

But the singing is terrific - you guys gotta admit !

Next time anyone says that Céline can't sing, I'm not only gonna drink all his beers but also take all his cd's 

- and maybe his b*s too 

... since it's one of the best songs ever ...

NP Toto - Africa

Yeah, Bups, you were always a freaker 

Have I used up my quota of puns for today 

Nicky.

[Steve Jones]

Have I used up my quota of puns for today 

We can but hope, we can but hope.