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[Steve Jones]

Ozric Tentacles - The Hidden Step

[Steve Jones]

Semisonic - All About Chemistry

[maddox]

Bloem ~ Even Aan Mijn Moeder Vragen 

[Steve Jones]

The Smiths - Strangeways, Here We Come

Most excellent album

[Teunis]

Bloem ~ Even Aan Mijn Moeder Vragen 

[maddox]

NP> Tick Tock

[Steve Jones]

Just: Bruce Woolley and The Camera Club - English Garden
Now: Arena - Songs From the Lions Cage

[Manatee]

NP: Gazpacho - Night

I think I went a full week without Gazpachoing!   I'm beginning to think I might like Night even a hair better than Tick Tock.  The 17-minute opener, Dream of Stone, is magical.      I love the line, "And what becomes of little boys who get lost inside their head?"

[Steve Jones]

Just: Hugh Cornwell - Hi Fi
Now: XTC - Wasp Star (Apple Venus Volume 2)

[erik]

NP: The Devin Townsend Project - Ki
(..)
So far I listened to the album twice, but I can already feel a Ki-addiction coming up...

This name is popping up a lot here recently and read that Manatee is a Devin Townsend advocate. I must confess I'm still struggling with his Terria album which I've had for quite some time now. Doesn't seem to click with me..

NP: Gazpacho - Night

I think I went a full week without Gazpachoing!   I'm beginning to think I might like Night even a hair better than Tick Tock.  The 17-minute opener, Dream of Stone, is magical.      I love the line, "And what becomes of little boys who get lost inside their head?"

I haven't got Tick Tock long enough/listened to it enough to really make the verdict yet, but the odds are also tilted towards Night, a bit more intense somehow, can't pinpoint it really.

[Manatee]

NP: The Devin Townsend Project - Ki

This is my very first encounter with Devin Townsend's music but what a pleasant one! After listening to (and enjoying) a few soundclips for the last couple of days I just picked up the album at my local cd-store. If I had to describe it with only one word it has to be 'intense'.  Regardless of the seemingly laid-back playing there is a continuously dark atmosphere and while these thirteen songs rarely become really heavy, Ki is an extremely intense album, always building up to an outburst but never quite reaching it.

So far I listened to the album twice, but I can already feel a Ki-addiction coming up...

Also, this album is the first of four conceptually linked albums under the moniker of "Devin Townsend Project". The second album is planned to be released later this year.

How is it that you can get the album a month before I can when he's in Canada?     OK, I already know the answer -- Inside Out is based in Germany.  I'm glad to hear it's good anyway.  I was a little worried he was going for an ambient experiment, which isn't really my thing.

This name is popping up a lot here recently and read that Manatee is a Devin Townsend advocate. I must confess I'm still struggling with his Terria album which I've had for quite some time now. Doesn't seem to click with me..
I haven't got Tick Tock long enough/listened to it enough to really make the verdict yet, but the odds are also tilted towards Night, a bit more intense somehow, can't pinpoint it really.

Terria is probably my favorite of all of his albums, but I'll grant that he's the sort you'll probably either become a fanatic for or not really like much at all.

I actually got Tick Tock first and loved it enough to get Night soon afterward.   I still think both are excellent, but I think maybe what makes me give Night the slight edge is Dream of Stone, which is one of those songs you can keep finding more things to like about the more you play it.  I generally play the two albums back-to-back anyway.   

IQ - Frequency

Received it this morning and all I can say is WOOOOOOOW  .

Another one you guys get before I do.  I have it on pre-order from Amazon.


NP: Gazpacho - Tick Tock

[Steve Jones]

Just: The Stranglers - La Folie
Now: Arena - Contagion

[Manatee]

Now Playing: Martin Orford - The Old Road

Now Wondering: Why am I too dumb to go to bed?

[Steve Jones]

Now Wondering: Why am I too dumb to go to bed?

I don't feel it's for us non-Gothamites to comment


NP: Brand X - Masques.  Did somebody mention jazz-rock?
Must rip some more Brand X today, although most of my collection is still on vinyl

[Manatee]

NP: Brand X - Masques.  Did somebody mention jazz-rock?
Must rip some more Brand X today, although most of my collection is still on vinyl

On first play, I wasn't wowed by Bruford's 'One of a Kind'.  It has some good bits, but it has a fair amount that's not all that interesting.  It could use some more oomph.  Maybe I should've gone for the live album 'The Bruford Tapes', which seems to have more energy in the same songs.  Still, I've only played it once, so by prog rules, it deserved further review before a verdict.

The title track to The Old Road is really nifty.   

[Steve Jones]

On first play, I wasn't wowed by Bruford's 'One of a Kind'.  It has some good bits, but it has a fair amount that's not all that interesting.  It could use some more oomph.

Personally I need to be in jazz-rock mood before I can get the most out of such things.  But then I have to be in a metal mood for metal, AOR mood for AOR, etc, etc.  The only thing that seems to work regardless of my mood is the prog end of the spectrum.  I ain't complainin', as Quo once opined

[Teunis]

IQ - Frequency

3. Stronger Than Friction 

Oh yes 

[Steve Jones]

Half Past Four - Assorted free downloads from the official site at http://www.halfpastfour.com/.

[maddox]

U2 ~ No Line On The Horizon

Oh lovely.

[Steve Jones]

Mowing the lawns to the sound of:
Machine Head - Burn My Eyes.

Ideal lawn-mowing music.  I started off with Richard Ashcroft but couldn't hear the b*gg*r!

[The Butterfly Man]

NP: Arena - Songs From The Lions Cage

Tom

[maddox]

King Crimson ~ Larks Tongues In Aspic

[Steve Jones]

Ozric Tentacles - Strangeitude.

Beyond awesome.  The record that comverted me to the Ozrics way back when somebody lent me a copy with a 'this is gonna cost you' glint in his eye

The new album ('The Yum Yum Tree') needs to be acquired as a matter of some urgency

[Nicky007]

I was with Mother 007 and Ms 007 these past two days. None of'm go for metal (Mother doesnt even know this sense of the word), so now that we're back in Malmö, I need a heavy dose of it, thus:

NP  Down:  Over The Under

Fully satisfying, mmmmmmm 

Noone else here into Down ?  No hardcore Pantera fans ?

Nicky.

[Steve Jones]

Just: Camel - Pressure Points: Live in Concert
Now: Blue Öyster Cult - On Your Feet or on Your Knees.  The first BÖC album I ever bought, way back when I was still at school.