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[Bupie]

Hmm, I'd guess the sympathy part refers to Sympathy for the Devil (and hey, I'm American, but I'm not *that* evil  ).  The horned one was the supposed tempter in snake form in Eden.  The exists part has me puzzled.  I suppose you could connect it to Eden by saying that it's an account of how we came to exist, but I feel like I'm stretching for that one.  Is this close to what you had in mind?

Huh 

Maybe I should have put the last (*) just after the word "version" ...

OK, so the album Holidays In Eden has been reissued in a 2 cd's version that includes two covers of a song entitled Sympathy which has this line in it "and sympathy is what we need my friends".

But forget it too ... 

NP Blind Guardian - At The Edge Of Time

[funkster]

Blind Guardian for me as well 

Plus loads of Amorphis so a big thank you for Nicky in particular for mentioning them. What a superb band - a bit of Opeth , bit of Wolverine , a smidgeon of Katatonia mixed with a pinch of death metal et voila - Amorphis     

[Nicky007]

But forget it, maybe French are too clever to share this kind of jokes with foreigners ... 

How sweet you are, Bups 

Skyforger by Amorphis for the first time

NP: Amorphis (songs on My Space)

Great to share this wonderful group with you guys 

It was actually Tom who brought Amorphis into the Room for good, but with such a "superb band", it's even an honor to second it 

And even for you to third it, Funkster 

Now I'm countin on you to join me in Priest adventure world    - that is: Priest and Glenn after Painkiller. I have to make this clear, as some Roomies (no names mentioned) have made it a point of honor to misunderstand me with this 

losing Hackett may have cost them some of their complexity

I think that Mad (ups, name mentioned  ) is very right here. With the departure of Peter Gabriel, Genesis lost a lotta their bite (similar to Fish's departure from Marillion), but as Hackett seems to have been the most progressive of the remaining four members, with his departure they gave up the progressive dimension (luckily gradually and not suddenly), and banked more and more on making hits.

Isnt that so, guys ?

I benefit a lot from your comments on the Genesis albums, as I never got into'm in the olden days, and I'm only now slowly doing so (in heavy competition with a lotta other great stuff these days) 

As to the Stones vs. the Beatles ...

I agree with all that you'v written in that paragraph, Greenie, but all considered, arent The Beatles the greatest rock group of all times ?

I think so iac 

and I also like Meddle, but it's perhaps not as rich as the others.

Meddle has One Of These Days, which was a bomb that exploded in my life, and Echoes is a groundbreaking piece too 
 

Mixed by Steven Wilson, I see.  Not a bad sign.   

Nope 

JP  Porcupine Tree:    On the Sunday of Life...    Voyage 34: The Complete Trip    Up the Downstair

Three fine albums    - and interesting in their own rights:


Sunday was SW's first album, recorded during 1988-91, and all the music was composed and played by him, apart from some drums.

"Most of the lyrics were written by Alan Duffy, a school friend with whom Steven Wilson had lost touch a few years before the album was released." - Wiki, On The Sunday ...

There are some fine songs on it, plus a lot of experimentation. As SW writes, PT could have gone other ways than they (he) actually did. Sunday gives an indication of the span that SW started out with (lotta Floyd-inspired stuff btw) and the different directions that he tried out initially.

A must-have for big PT-fans 


"Voyage 34: The Complete Trip" is a more introverted album. It's about the effects of LSD. There's a guy who took LSD 33 times, and clicked outta it when he got enuff, but the 34st time, he just can't get out, and you follow his tribulation.

"The Complete Trip" is cuz the album is a compilation from several official studio albums - and it's of course a pun too (SW is full'o'm).

Interesting concept, but musically rather monotonous.


With Up The Downstair, SW got PT on the (right) track as we know'm: Lotta wonderful melody, lyrics, rhythms, and special PT twists and turns 


Still havent figured what "Porcupine Tree" means ... but maybe SW intended it to be ambiguous (and equivocal) 

One meaning is "a joke that is too good to be funny" - Thomas Bambaataa Ghidrah Towers

Nicky.

[Iggy]

Shadow Gallery - Room V and what is more they are playing in London on 3rd October. Yay!

[Nicky007]

NP  Mew:  No More Stories ... & ...

I'm surprised that I like it so much 

I rarely get properly gripped by indie, but I think that what does it for me with this album is that there's so much melody, catchy rhythms, lotta variation, and it's really well composed and produced.

I'l be back-cataloging with Mew for sure ..... 

And it doesnt detract that they'r Danish

Interesting: "In 2009, the band supported Nine Inch Nails for various tour dates across Europe." - Wiki, Mew

Quite diff'ent bands, I'd say 

Nicky.

[Nicky007]

NP  Cloudscape  on  MySpace

http://www.myspace.com/cloudscapemetal

The world is really an unjust place 

These guys are formidable ... just let that rest for a while ... ... and sooooo below the radar 

They don't have one Cloudscape album at Cop Main Library - while they have all sorta obscure stuff 

Rarely have I heard a bass and rhythm section so crisp and so slap in yer face as with Cloudscape - WOW 

And guess what: I'm gonna do mine to making the Cloudscape catalog a household article ... and as ya know: I don't let off ..... 

Maybe next thing ya know is that you have a nice smelly dogshit inside yer main door - unless ... 

Nicky.

[Iggy]

NP  Cloudscape  on  MySpace

http://www.myspace.com/cloudscapemetal

The world is really an unjust place 

These guys are formidable ... just let that rest for a while ... ... and sooooo below the radar 

They don't have one Cloudscape album at Cop Main Library - while they have all sorta obscure stuff 

Rarely have I heard a bass and rhythm section so crisp and so slap in yer face as with Cloudscape - WOW 

And guess what: I'm gonna do mine to making the Cloudscape catalog a household article ... and as ya know: I don't let off ..... 

Maybe next thing ya know is that you have a nice smelly dogshit inside yer main door - unless ... 

Nicky.

In that case Cloudscape - Global Drama. I've got enough cleaning up to do as it is!

[Nicky007]

In that case Cloudscape - Global Drama. I've got enough cleaning up to do as it is!

Iggy, you'r actually not supposed to remove it for a while. It shid stay there till ya got the entire Cloudscape dogalog 

Hm, maybe I'v been hangin around in this joint long enuff for today.


I leave ya with

NP  Priest:  Nostradamus

mmmmmmmmmmmmmm 

Nicky.

[funkster]

A little bit of While heaven wept

http://www.myspace.com/whileheavenwept

http://whileheavenwept.com/

Recommended for fans of doom/progressive metal 

[Iggy]

Ian Gillan - Mr Universe takes me back to my youth. 

[maddox]

Heathen ~ The Evolution of Chaos

This is what I call 

[funkster]

Heathen ~ The Evolution of Chaos

This is what I call 

Excellent choice Mad - nothing like a bit of Heathen to get the metal juices flowing

[Bupie]

Marillion - This Strange Engine

A title referring to the heart, if I don't mistake. Great album IMO.

[Nicky007]

http://www.myspace.com/whileheavenwept

Hey, great stuff 

Thanx, Funkie 

I'l sure be pursuing these guys 

Got'm in my "other groups" list and on my SL now 

Sorta Adagio meets Floyd, and certainly original in their own right. (I know that WHW are much older than Adagio.)

They should go well with Roomies 


NP  While Heaven Wept  on  MySpace

mmmmmmmmmmmmmm 

Nicky.

[funkster]

Hey, great stuff 

Thanx, Funkie 

I'l sure be pursuing these guys 

Got'm in my "other groups" list and on my SL now 

Sorta Adagio meets Floyd, and certainly original in their own right. (I know that WHW are much older than Adagio.)

They should go well with Roomies 


NP  While Heaven Wept  on  MySpace

mmmmmmmmmmmmmm 

Nicky.

My -pleasure mate. I think i owe you a few bands after all your recommendations 

[funkster]

A bit of Adramelch 

http://www.adramelch.com/

[Nicky007]

NP  Adagio:  Underworld

Super stuff !  Even better than Dominate 

Near SyX, but more experimental, I guess in part to go their own ways while still honoring the great SyX 

So there is hope for la France 

Tom & Jerry (aka Funky) and Iggy 

Nicky.

[Nicky007]

NP  Cloudscape  on  MySpace

http://www.myspace.com/cloudscapemetal

Great band for sure 

As I don't have a credit card these days, and I havent been able to find any of their albums at the libraries or cd-shops, I have to make do with their MySpace. Fortunately they got quite a lotta music there.

Tip: Go down to the last three songs on the MySpace list: Aqua 275, Under Fire, and Everyday Is Up To You - supersongs 

Iggy, when you get Global Drama, tell me what you think 

Nicky.

[Iggy]

NP Not Necessarily Acoustic - Steve Howe

Next up Cloudscape

[maddox]

Dream Theater ~ Images & Words

Still a bit sentimental right now.
This was the first album that got me into Dream Theater almost two decades ago.

[Iggy]

NP  Cloudscape  on  MySpace

http://www.myspace.com/cloudscapemetal

Great band for sure 

As I don't have a credit card these days, and I havent been able to find any of their albums at the libraries or cd-shops, I have to make do with their MySpace. Fortunately they got quite a lotta music there.

Tip: Go down to the last three songs on the MySpace list: Aqua 275, Under Fire, and Everyday Is Up To You - supersongs 

Iggy, when you get Global Drama, tell me what you think 

Nicky.

I think I prefer Circus Maximus to Cloudscape. Not that there is nothing wrong with Cloudscape I just haven't clicked with it yet.

NP Circus Maximus - The 1st Chapter

[Nicky007]

I think I prefer Circus Maximus to Cloudscape. Not that there is nothing wrong with Cloudscape I just haven't clicked with it yet.

NP Circus Maximus - The 1st Chapter

Nothin wrong with CM neither 


NP  A7  on  MySpace

http://www.myspace.com/avengedsevenfold

Nothin wrong with them either 

Got a great and currently very much discussed drummer on their newly released album Nightmare 

Nicky.

[maddox]

Nothin wrong with CM neither 


NP  A7  on  MySpace

http://www.myspace.com/avengedsevenfold

Nothin wrong with them either 

Got a great and currently very much discussed drummer on their newly released album Nightmare 

Nicky.

It's also a pretty decent album.
Funny thing is, that when you listen to the band without the knowledge that that certain very much discussed drummer is on it, you wouldn't spot it at all.

[Iggy]

NP Pat Travers - Go for what you know.

[Peter]

Gotthard - Firedance