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[The Butterfly Man]

NP: Eden's Curse on MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/edenscurse

Great progressive melodic metal. I had never heard of them until some minutes ago, but reading that James LaBrie was involved with their new album (to be released in March) made me curious so I checked out their MySpace. I like what I hear! They reminds me of bands like Scorpions and Queensrÿche - listen to the song Judge Like Judas and you'll know what I mean - at times. Check it out guys!

Oh, and Nicky, how is your new job? Never mind

Tom

[Nicky007]

Oh, and Nicky, how is your new job? Never mind

Yeah, I know, you guys forgot about it 

NP: Eden's Curse on MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/edenscurse

I'l check'm up - real promise, not mad promise 

Nicky.

[The Butterfly Man]

Yeah, I know, you guys forgot about it 

I did indeed. When I saw you were online I thought: "Hey wait, I remember reading that he got himself a new job, let's ask him about it." Once I finished my post, you already told us about it, making the last part of my previous post a bit silly and useless...

I'l check'm up - real promise, not mad promise 

I think you will like them, so if you don't check 'em out it's your loss.

NP: Queensrÿche - Operation: Mindcrime



Tom

[The Butterfly Man]

NP: Jamiroquai - Rock Dust Light Star

Very groovy and funky, a bit disco-like. Progressive? Not so much, but very enjoyable nonetheless.

Anyone else into them?

Tom

[Nicky007]

I did indeed. When I saw you were online I thought: "Hey wait, I remember reading that he got himself a new job, let's ask him about it." Once I finished my post, you already told us about it

OK, I'm convinced, Tom 

I think you will like them

Roger 

... but it'l have to wait, as I don't have headphones at this library .....

NP: Queensrÿche - Operation: Mindcrime 

How about OM II, Tom ?

Anyone else into them?

They were one of the performing acts at the Nobel Peace Prize Celebration 2010. I saw'm, and they were quite good, but I'm not gonna actively pursue'm 


NP  Several Sparks albums 

I was happily surprised to see that they had a whole section at Cop Main Library with Sparks albums, ten different albums, so I took all ten 

Some 25 years ago, I had randomly heard some Sparks songs. When I started playing'm again this time around, I could of course recognise Don't Turn Your Back On Mother Earth and This Town Aint Big Enough For Both Of Us, but I couldnt have foreseen that Propaganda and other albums of that time would thrill me that much. And I'm hearing their later albums for the first time 

Nicky.

[funkster]

Grand Magus - Hammer of the north

Now that is what i call metal 

[Bupie]

NP UFO - No Place To Run

An underrated gem that deeply suffered of the NWOHM concurrence back in 1980 (!) but has aged very well, thanks to George Martin's production 

To plagiarize Nicky, guys (and girls), you're missing something 

[Nicky007]

Now that is what i call metal 

But not prog.


NP  Eden's Curse  on  YouTube

Doesnt quite have the magic of Queensrÿche, but yeah 

Got'm noted in my LP. Thanx Tom 


Else I'm doin Sparks bigtime these days 

Only Iggy has listened properly to'm, right ?

And the rest if you guys aint the least interested, right ?

To plagiarize Nicky, guys (and girls), you're missing something 

The girls are missin somethin that the guys have ... and vice versa ... but that's just what we like, ainit ? ... but I hardly need to explain that to a Frenchie 

Nicky.

[Teunis]

Guilt Machine - On This Perfect Day
GPS - Window To The Soul

[Manatee]

JP: Blind Ego - Mirror
NP: Arena - Pepper's Ghost

[funkster]

But not prog.


Else I'm doin Sparks bigtime these days 

Only Iggy has listened properly to'm, right ?

And the rest if you guys aint the least interested, right ?


The girls are missin somethin that the guys have ... and vice versa ... but that's just what we like, ainit ? ... but I hardly need to explain that to a Frenchie 

Nicky.

Nope Nick they are not prog and neither are Sparks or Judas Priest  Variety is t spice of life eh

[funkster]

Cathedral - The v11 coming

Might , mighty fine doom metal 

[Nicky007]

neither are Sparks or Judas Priest 

Wrong ! 

Admittedly Priest up to 1988 werent prog ... but then something started happening ..... 

and Nostradamus from 2008 is prog bigtime - in all ways 

Unfortunately it looks like we won't get any further prog masterpieces from Priest 


Sparks have always been indie-prog right from the beginning some 40 years ago,

e.g.  www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSBNE9qnLaI&feature=related

+ all the links I'v posted earlier.

Funky, get into Nostradamus and Kimono My House (Sparks' best album imo) and you'l see I'm right 


NP  Sparks  on  YouTube

Here's a very funny history of Sparks, with samples of some of their best songs 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sx6BjeLnGb0&feature=related

Nicky.

[funkster]

I love Sparks Nick but they are not prog , maybe the most intelligent, funny and interesting pop band of the last 30 years but defo not prog.

As for Priest , 1 album does not make them prog.

Well now we have that sorted out    Listening to Ruun by Enslaved

[Teunis]

IQ - Nomzano
Seventh Wonder - The Great Escape
Transatlantic - The Whirlwind (live)
Subsignal Beautiful & Monstrous

[Nicky007]

Well now we have that sorted out 

Funky, you'r becoming a nightmare 

Priest have been prog since 1990: Painkiller had the groundbreaking song Touch Of Evil, definitely prog, while the album itself could be called proggish. Then Jugulator (1997) and Demolition (2001), both with Ripper, both very different from earlier Priest albums, and both vintage prog, and then Angel Of Retribution (2005), with Rob back again, also progmetal of the highest quality.

And then of course their great masterpiece, integrating everything from their 40 years plus a lot more: Nostradamus.

So, Funky - plus several other Roomies - I'd like you now to get into these albums before you once again make fools of yerselves 


Sparks have been into a lot of different stuff, from pop to prog. Their classic albums Kimono My House, Propaganda (both 1974), and Indiscreet (1975), can be characterised as both indie and prog, as prog as Arena.

Listening to Ruun by Enslaved

Now at last you make sense 


NP  Martin Gore:  Never Turn Your Back On Mother Earth 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ajRrTGYdZA&NR=1

The best he and DM have ever done imo !

Nicky.

[Iggy]

A lot of Muse for me this morning/afternoon.

NP - Origoin of Symmetry

[Teunis]

Magenta - Seven
Gazpacho - Tick Tock
IQ - Frequency
Carptree - Nymf
Darkwater - Where Stories End

[Peter]

"Prog or not?" is actually one of the few questions that have luckily not come up in the Room yet, because there was no reason. And please, fellas, don't let it get out of hands now. In the end we're all discussing taste here, and you know what that means, right.

np> Marillion - [The Thieving Magpie (La Gazza Ladra) CD1 (1988) #08] Sugar Mice  (6:03)

oh, those days...

[maddox]

"Prog or not?" is actually one of the few questions that have luckily not come up in the Room yet, because there was no reason. And please, fellas, don't let it get out of hands now. In the end we're all discussing taste here, and you know what that means, right.

Right.

Tonight I'm going to play something that I haven't played in a long, long, long, long etc etc time.

So now I'm going upstairs to look for it.

I'll be back. 

[maddox]

Tonight I'm going to play something that I haven't played in a long, long, long, long etc etc time.

So now I'm going upstairs to look for it.

I'll be back. 

That didn't take so long.
Actually quite fast, I found it almost immediatly!

Yay me!!

Okay, here it is.
Get ready to be shocked.

...

..

Here it is;

NP> Roger Glover ~ The Butterfly Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast

Yes, sir!!! 

[funkster]

V by Spock's Beard which is prog 

[maddox]

V by Spock's Beard which is prog 

Prog as it will ever be! Yes, sir!

NP> Transatlantic ~ Whirld Tour 2010 DVD

So it's actually now watching.

Oops, wrong topic?

[funkster]

Prog as it will ever be! Yes, sir!

NP> Transatlantic ~ Whirld Tour 2010 DVD

So it's actually now watching.

Oops, wrong topic?

Consider yourself reprimanded 

[Teunis]

Seventh Wonder - Mercy Falls 

Quite heavy, I would call it prog metal  .