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[Steve Jones]

I'm tempted to start a new topic about Radio, but that seems like a Big Step.  Am I worthy?

More to the point, is radio worthy?

[Manatee]

More to the point, is radio worthy?

Actually, that was going to be one of the main questions posed.


NP:  The Killers - Sam's Town

A strange band -- they're from Las Vegas.

[Steve Jones]

Ratt - Out of the Cellar.

[Manatee]

Ratt - Out of the Cellar.

Dude, Pandora played so many good Ratt songs while pretending to be working on Queensryche, I may have to buy an album.

[Bupie]

OK, I give up, I'm going to Pandoraize Queensrÿche and see if I've been missing out.  Funny how some bands are more popular abroad than in their home countries.  My long-time impression of them was that they were more or less Night Ranger with one song that was trying to be Stairway to Heaven (which, oddly enough, although I'm a big Zep fan, was never a song I liked).   I'll give the lads a fair chance this time.  

My only attempt to Queensrÿche was their self-titled debut EP and I found it so dreadful that it was almost impossible to me to get to the end of each song. It was loaded with live bonuses that even made things worse    Actually, it's one of the worst metal albums that I have ever heard (but I am not a specialist of the genre). I would like to sell it back but it's priced so low on any website that I would actually have to lose money to get rid of it ... Sorry, I don't want to offend anybody but that's just my two cents about this band. I guess things changed afterwards (as Fates Warning changed after No Exit ?) but I'm still reluctant to give them another try ...

Yeah, that's true.
I am a member of the ProgArchives forum, but I never post there cause of the above mentioned views.
There are a bit too much prog snobs there.

Same here and for the same reasons. I hope you won't see any paradox between this statement and what I wrote about Queesrÿche just above ...

JP : A-Ha - East Of The Sun, West Of The Moon
NP : A-Ha - Scoundrel Days

I find A-Ha to be (at least in the late 80's) an above average pop band, with brilliant musical arrangements (does this word exists in English ?), very convincing hints to rock (i.e. on Am I Losing You) and moving lyrics. Although I really dislike most of their synthpop songs ala Cry Wolf or Sun Always Shine ..., it's a band I have a certain affection for. Steve will be interested to know that Michael Sturgis, drummer of ... Wishbone Ash (!) and (special dedicace to Nicky  ) Asia fame, played for A-Ha before joining those bands.

I completely disconnected from A-Ha after East Of The Sun so I don't know how they have evolved during the 90's and 00's ...

[Steve Jones]

I guess things changed afterwards (as Fates Warning changed after No Exit ?)

Quite.  Each to their own, of course, but I'm glad I didn't give up on Genesis after their first album

[Steve Jones]

Steve will be interested to know that Michael Sturgis, drummer of ... Wishbone Ash (!) and (special dedicace to Nicky  ) Asia fame, played for A-ha before joining those bands.

Curiously, a girlfriend of mine back in the 80s used to be into A-ha and I didn't find them unpleasant.  I've not heard them since, however, so I don't have much of an opinion!

[Manatee]

Curiously, a girlfriend of mine back in the 80s used to be into A-ha and I didn't find them unpleasant.  I've not heard them since, however, so I don't have much of an opinion!

Count yourself lucky.  My last serious gf was into Air Supply (really).

NP: Coldplay -Viva la Vida

If Nicky wants to abuse me for it, he'll need to wake up.  I like it.   

[Steve Jones]

Robbie Robertson - Robbie Robertson

[Manatee]

Robbie Robertson - Robbie Robertson

Would this be the member of the Doors voted least likely to die of an overdose?


NP: Counting Crows - August and Everything After

See, I do like American bands, just not prog ones.   

[Steve Jones]

Would this be the member of the Doors voted least likely to die of an overdose?

A member of The Band: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robbie_Robertson

Annoyingly, the CD I've got has no mention of the musicians involved on the album, though I guess the vinyl version did.  An all-star cast http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robbie_Robertson_(album) as I was immediately reminded when Peter Gabriel burst forth on track one

[Manatee]

A member of The Band: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robbie_Robertson

Annoyingly, the CD I've got has no mention of the musicians involved on the album, though I guess the vinyl version did.  I was immediately reminded of this when Peter Gabriel burst forth on track one.

Oh my, that's embarrassing with me being a Band fanatic and all.  I was thinking of Robbie Krieger.   To change the subject back to something that doesn't make me look stupid, I had the pleasure of seeing The Band at a small arena in Worcester, Massachusetts (roughly 60 miles west of civilization), although it was after Richard Manuel died.  They seem to fill a unique niche in music, although I can't quite articulate what it is.  In any case, it's good they were there.   

[Steve Jones]

Oh my, that's embarrassing with me being a Band fanatic and all.

Don't worry.  If you're old enough to remember The Band, you're old enough to forget them

[Manatee]

Don't worry.  If you're old enough to remember The Band, you're old enough to forget them

Good point!  Although, other than Levon Helm, I think they're all Canadians, and, as you know, I am a connoisseur of Canadians.

[The Butterfly Man]

Good point!  Although, other than Levon Helm, I think they're all Canadians, and, as you know, I am a connoisseur of Canadians.

Don't you think it's about time to get some sleep? What time is it over there? 4 AM? 5 AM?

NP: Porcupine Tree - XMII

Tom

[Manatee]

Don't you think it's about time to get some sleep? What time is it over there? 4 AM? 5 AM?

If I was going to do something responsible like that, it would've been hours ago.  I have work to do tomorrow, but it doesn't really matter when I do it, so if I get up after noon and get some work done in the evening, that's ok.  I'm a night-owl by nature, so I'm often up very late night.  I'm just not used to talking to people who have just gotten up before I've gone to bed.   

[Steve Jones]

I have work to do tomorrow, but it doesn't really matter when I do it, so if I get up after noon and get some work done in the evening, that's ok.

That's the good thing about being Guinness's US Quality Control Executive, I guess

[Manatee]

That's the good thing about being Guinness's US Quality Control Executive, I guess

Gawd, I wonder who I'd have to kill to get that job.   

[Steve Jones]

Gawd, I wonder who I'd have to kill to get that job.   

Who cares?  Just lock'n'load...

[Manatee]

Who cares?  Just lock'n'load...

That'd work except I'm one of the 14 Americans who don't own a firearm.   

P.S. I vote for the return of your Anorak avatar.  It made me less dizzy.

[Steve Jones]

I vote for the return of your Anorak avatar.  It made me less dizzy.

Yes, the new one is p1ssing me off mightily already.  A decision made in the excitement of the pre-release build-up that I'm now regretting!

Primus - Sailing the Seas of Cheese.

[Manatee]

NP: Alice Cooper - Alice Cooper's Greatest Hits

Woeful, I know, but I only own a greatest hits album of his.   

I figured I needed to play something nice and intellectual before finally hitting the sack.

[Steve Jones]

Genesis - Foxtrot

[Manatee]

Genesis - Foxtrot

That one doesn't suck.   

[Steve Jones]

That one doesn't suck.