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[Nicky007]

I must say my buying increased hugely after joining some forums.   

Can't have been the Room 

Nicky.

[Steve Jones]

Can't have been the Room 

Absolutely not.

NP: Amaseffer, erm I mean Demians, erm no....Nevermore....oh b*gg*r... 

[maddox]

Presto Ballet - The Lost Art Of Time Travel

Track: [01] The Mind Machine

[Nicky007]

Played:

Helloween:  Gambling With The Devil
Mercenary:  Everblack

Both terrific !!!  Tons better than I expected. I can only recommend them warmly to all prog metal fans 

Deenie, thanks again for pressing, and Mads at Fona Lyngby, thanks for a great recom.

Guys, I'l return re these albums after some spins.

Anyone got the impression that I'v become a metalhead 

Nicky.

[Deenfan]

  At first listen, I remember finding it excellent too  ... but it didn't grow on me as much as expected  afterwards     I listened to it again yesterday (well, only disc one, I keep the second for tonight ) and it is very good indeed. The ballad Comfort Me is a killer !

We're in sync here, my esteemed lady. And I am THE Shadow Gallery fan. Not just A.

[Deenfan]

I also like Adel Moustafa's drumming a lot. He's one of my fave drummers. What is your opinion, Deenie ?

Certainly nothing wrong there. If I'd do stuff differently at all, it'd be because I can't pull off what he does.

[Bupie]

NP Sonata Arctica - Ecliptica   

[Iggy]

Beardfish Sleeping in Traffic Pt 1 on the way to work
Streets by Savatage on the way home
NP Wintersun again!

Now ripping Dark Passion Play by Nightwish

[Steve Jones]

Fischer-Z - Red Skies Over Paradise.

Permission to use 'Yay' in the wrong thread, Keptin? 

[Teunis]

Fischer-Z - Red Skies Over Paradise.

Wow, a golden oldie. I had that one as an lp. 'Marliese' is such a great song  .

np: Darwin's Radio - Eyes of the World

[Iggy]

Np my single disc version of Shadow gallery Room V      (for the second disc)

[maddox]

Iron Maiden - Phantom Of The Opera (live) 

[Iggy]

Np Threshold Hypothetically

mad your signature is driving me mad!   

[maddox]

Np Threshold Hypothetically

mad your signature is driving me mad!   

Big brother is watching yourself.   

[Iggy]

Big brother is watching yourself.   

But he's in Australia.

[Nicky007]

NP  Porcupine Tree:  Lazarus

"Moonlight is bleeding from out of your soul"

What a fabulous metaphor !!!

And one of the greatest songs eva 

Nicky.

[Nicky007]

mad your signature is driving me mad!   

Hey yeah, just noticed that it's personal - I dont think anyone else here is using Tele Danmark.

Sooo phisticated, Mad 

Nicky.

[Nicky007]

We're in sync here, my esteemed lady ...

I know that Frenchmen can be rather effeminate (e.g. cabaret), but ...

Nicky.

[maddox]

Don't be scared guys.
The information you see in my signature is for your eyes and your eyes only. 

Kind of like a Bond thingy. 

[Steve Jones]

Wow, a golden oldie. I had that one as an lp. 'Marliese' is such a great song  .

Indeed.  There's lots of great tunes on the album, I'd forgotten just how good the title track is for example. John Watts seemed to have a genius for the catchy tune, but I lost touch after Fischer-Z originally split.  I see from his website that he's been busy since then, so I think I need to investigate. 

NP: Deep Purple - Live in London. 

[Nicky007]

NP  Foreigner 4

First spin left me cold, sounded pretty banal. But now, on second run, it carries me a bit away. Lou Gramm certainly does sing very expressively. When he sings "I've been waiting for a girl like you to come into my life," you can actually believe him (a bit), if you're not cynical (watch out, roomies) and see the megabucks a-rollin. Of course, Foreigner was mainly a commercial undertaking, but when that's said, it was one of the better, I'd say, in league with Chris Rea (yeah, I know some of you will wanna kill me for sayin that), and Break It Up almost rises up to Kansas class (note that I said "almost", Bups).

That sorta wraps up my take on Foreigner.

Nicky.

[Bupie]

I know that Frenchmen can be rather effeminate (e.g. cabaret), but ...

Nicky.

Well, I didn't know what to think of Deenie's sentence so I didn't answer (but checked that I still have a blue arrow in my profile  ). Yours doesn't deserve an answer, Wicky Nicky.

NP  Foreigner 4

Lou Gramm certainly does sing very expressively. When he sings "I've been waiting for a girl like you to come into my life," you can actually believe him (a bit), if you're not cynical (watch out, roomies)

I LOVE a awful lot of cheesy ballads (think of REO Speedwagon Can't Fight this Feeling, for instance  ) but I absolutely dislike this one. It gets me on my nerves and when it comes to the keyboard "solo", I just want to stop it. Now.

Of course, Foreigner was mainly a commercial undertaking, but when that's said, it was one of the better, I'd say, in league with Chris Rea (yeah, I know some of you will wanna kill me for sayin that), and Break It Up almost rises up to Kansas class (note that I said "almost", Bups).

Sorry Nicky, but Break it Up doesn't remind me of Kansas at all. It's true that Kansas became a (very) bad AOR band after Vinyl Confessions and until Somewhere tio Elsewhere. During this period, I find all their albums inferior to Foreigner 4, which has a few catchy songs. But before this period, Kansas was really a symphonic prog band (first), then a symphonic/metal prog band, then a symphonic/metal/(brilliant)AOR prog band.

I strongly believe that somebody who likes catchy AOR/metal with hints of progressive music, in the vein IMHO of Shadow Gallery's Room V that we were discussing lately, should check Kansas Audio-Visions. Sorry for proselytism again but you got me started 

[Bupie]

Oh and I forgot ...

NP Dream Theater - Falling into Infinity

Speaking of "cheesy" ballads, I also LOVE Take Away my Pain  ... that I don't find cheesy at all, the lyrics sounding pretty brilliant to me.

[Deenfan]

Sorry, it's just that thing with the user manual...

[Bupie]

Sorry, it's just that thing with the user manual...