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[maddox]

Adrenaline Mob ~ Omerta

[Teunis]

Fly From Here - Part I - We Can Fly   www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKJwXLCnBKs&ob=av2e

It Will Be A Good Day (The River)   www.youtube.com/watch?v=PreNtCKgI0A

I Am Waiting   www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOB-t2Et5uM

Teunis, I'm sure that when you (and others) have played these videos thru, your opinion(s) on Yes will have changed 

Thanks for the links Nicky. I have to admit these tracks are bearable . Not bad at all. I remember that I owned the album 'Union', found that it really sucked and gave it away to a friend who likes Yes. Tried more stuff (don't know what though) and still didn't like that. Maybe not the right albums .

np: Sylvan - Sceneries

[Nicky007]

Gojira - the way of all flesh

Funky, you are a man of surprises:  One moment you'r listenin to Enya, the next to upfront hardcore metal 

Good stuff, ainit 

Thanks for the links Nicky.

I have to admit these tracks are bearable . Not bad at all.

I detect a development here 

I remember that I owned the album 'Union', found that it really sucked and gave it away to a friend who likes Yes.

I actually quite liked Union when I got it some six years ago. It's very uneven, but has some lovely melodic passages. The guys didnt get along well with each other at the time, so the album had to be patched together, but the result turned out surprisingly good 


NP  Genesis:  Self-titled

This is the album where they left progressive and turned disco. (Abacab is the transition album.) With this in mind, it's an excellent album. They'r still a lot better than most any other disco group. And the lyrics are quite good too 

Nicky.

[Bupie]

PP Simon Phillips - Another Lifetime Simon under his own name created a bunch of jazz rock albums. I am not so found of this one, even if it has some great bits here and there.

JF Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here  Which sends me back to your debate about Yes and Genesis. If the question was Yes or Genesis or Pink Floyd, who would you pick ?

NP Nothing at the moment and I am missing it.

[funkster]

The thing is Nicky is that variety is the spice of life plus i am easily bored so listening to different styles of music keeps me enthused

Still on Gojira plus -

Abbey Road - the fab four at their very best
Beneath the remains/Arise - my fave 2 albums by the Seps

Next on my "must listen to" list is various ones by Death and Meshuggah

[Teunis]

I detect a development here 

Don't be so sure about that 

NP  Genesis:  Self-titled

Really like Home By The Sea/Second Home By The Sea 

jp: Astra - The Black Chord (now on progstreaming.com. Some nice passages, but overall not my cup of tea)
np: Subsignal - Beautiful & Monstrous

[PH]

NP  Genesis:  Self-titled

This is the album where they left progressive and turned disco. (Abacab is the transition album.) With this in mind, it's an excellent album. They'r still a lot better than most any other disco group. And the lyrics are quite good too 

Well, this album and the next one ("Invisible Touch") are disco influenced, but "We Can't Dance" is no disco anymore. Not a 'back to form' as such, but quite some nice pop/rock tunes and a few prog songs as well. "Calling All Stations" is no disco either. A very nice and underrated album that one.

JF Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here  Which sends me back to your debate about Yes and Genesis. If the question was Yes or Genesis or Pink Floyd, who would you pick ?

I'd still choose Genesis. I hardly play any of the early or late Pink Floyd stuff. Just the middle period: "The Dark Side Of The Moon", "Wish You Were Here", "Animals" and "The Wall".

With Yes it is anything but the (large) middle period. I like their latest album and (parts of) "Fragile", "Close To The Edge" and "Tales From Topographic Oceans".

With Genesis I can play any album and not getting tired of it. With the exception of "From Genesis To Revelations", mostly because of the production and 'early sound' and "Genesis", which is indeed a disco album.

Really like Home By The Sea/Second Home By The Sea 

Yes, me too. And Mama is alright too, but the rest is not so good.

They should have made this album:

1. Mama (6:46)
2. Home By The Sea (4:46)
3. Second Home By The Sea (6:22)
4. Tonight, Tonight, Tonight (8:53)
5. Land Of Confusion (4:45)
6. Domino (10:44)
7. The Brazilian (4:50)

Length: 47:06

They could even call it "Invisible Genesis", or "Genesis Touch".

[Nicky007]

If the question was Yes or Genesis or Pink Floyd, who would you pick ?

In that case it's gotta be Floyd. I consider Beatles to be the greatest rock group overall - they created rock after all (and prog and whatever), from rock'n'roll (dance music) and blues (oh man, life is sooo unjust, and I'm suffering sooo much) - and on second place has gotta be Floyd 

After that it's debatable whether it's Zep, Yes, or DT, even Stones could land here, imo 

The thing is Nicky is that variety is the spice of life plus i am easily bored so listening to different styles of music keeps me enthused

Next on my "must listen to" list is various ones by Death and Meshuggah

Right, Funky. I have to get back to Death, and Meshuggah I'l be seeing at Copenhell 


Played:

Genesis:  Invisible Touch

Better than I thought. Disco, yes, but along the way it rises above ordinary disco, and some of the lyrics engage me. Genesis can't help being progressive, after all 

Nicky.

[funkster]

Killing Joke - Pandemonium

Bit rock , bit dancey , bit industrial and generally amazing

[Teunis]

Gazpacho - March Of Ghosts
Lunatic Soul - Lunatic Soul II
Antimatter - A Dream For The Blind

[Nicky007]

Played:

Eumeria:  Rebel Mind

Exciting melodic progmetal, on the heavy side, with blast beats, like Stride (or CM or SW) meet All That Remains 

Straight to my pantheon list 


Trivium:  In Waves

Keeps the high standard (pantheon) 

Nicky.

[Teunis]

IQ - Ever
Arena - Contagion

[Nicky007]

And here's a fine YouTube with what's imo the currently greatest Dutch (based) progband, Sun Caged:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQKKQpXXO18

Teunis, Roel Van Helden plays drums on SC's latest studio album, The Lotus Effect (from which this piece is taken) 


NP  Eumeria:  Rebel Mind

This album is awesome, my best musical discovery for a while 

- and they'r not even even wikied yet 

- but fortunately YouTubed 

Rebel Mind   www.youtube.com/watch?v=27dDga7gDcw&list=UUpmK2yRALnYoWYn87HUgHxA&index=2&feature=plcp

Tides   www.youtube.com/watch?v=9g4H4XLGWxs&feature=related

Secret Places    www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3Ce7vdEGvY&list=UUpmK2yRALnYoWYn87HUgHxA&index=3&feature=plcp


I'v never heard anyone play like this before, not even JP, Jeff or Steve. Guys, introducing to you Reece Fullwood, only 21 y/o, guitarist of Eumeria:

undergroundguitarist.com/master-shredder-reece-fullwood


Funky, man, get yer ass over here 

Nicky.

[funkster]

You rang 

Hope the train does not appear anytime soon !

Bit widdly widdly mate but decent stuff. Not hugely grabbing me yet but i will keep with it.

Listening to Red at the moment myself plus Hillsong

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-08YZF87OBQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gcEyO-XqAw

[Teunis]

Teunis, Roel Van Helden plays drums on SC's latest studio album, The Lotus Effect (from which this piece is taken) 

Yeah and I've read that he left Subsignal recently :-(. I'll check this out later.

Today:
Steve Lukather - Ever Changing Times
Asia - Alpha
Dee Expus - King Of Number 33

np: Magenta - Seven

[PH]

Amaran's Plight - "Voice In The Light"
04. Incident At Haldeman's Lake

I'm now listening to the very nice instrumental middle section called: 'Nex Per Res'.
For some reason I don't play this album that often, but it is really good.
I like Nick's drumming very much on this one.

[Nicky007]

Hope the train does not appear anytime soon !

If you get a load of excellent beer, you just might survive 

Not hugely grabbing me yet but i will keep with it.

Requires sufficiently big b*s to grab 


NP  Dio:  Holy Diver

Stumbled over a special release from 2005 with lotta extra material (& cheap) 

Reminds me of classic Priest 

Nicky.

[Nicky007]

NP  Eumeria:  Rebel Mind

Stellar !  Beats everythin else I'v heard lately 

But takes some listens to sink in properly - even for me 

All five of these guys are extraordinary 

Nicky.

[Nicky007]

NP  Star of Ash:  Crossing Over

www.youtube.com/watch?v=016czLGkWAk&feature=list_related&playnext=1&list=AL94UKMTqg-9CRr_ENiWNL4dP6rPL3zTos

Great song 

Star of Ash is Ihriel, Ihsahn's wife, with Ihsahn, Garm and other friends. Quite special stuff 

Nicky.

[Bupie]

NP Pendragon - Concerto Maximo

[Teunis]

DeeExpus - The King Of Number 33 

And this:

And here's a fine YouTube with what's imo the currently greatest Dutch (based) progband, Sun Caged:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQKKQpXXO18

This really rocks and contains clean vocals. What more can a man desire  . Thanks (again) Nicky.

[PH]

I was listening to classic Kaipa:
"Kaipa" (from 1975)
"Inget Nytt Under Solen" (from 1976)

Both in Swedish vocals and both excellent prog albums. I really love it!
I have not listened that much to the third album "Solo", so I can't say if it's good. After that, they went 'pop' for two albums. And in 2002 they reformed with a different line-up, with only two founding members: Hans Lundin, and... Roine Stolt! They made again some brilliant albums, but their sound is very different from the 70s albums.

Anyone else who likes Kaipa, and especially the classic Kaipa albums?

[maddox]

Isildurs Bane ~ Mind vol. 1

A bit of a mix of acts like The Flower Kings, Jethro Tull, Änglagård, some Italprog bands and Yes.

[Nicky007]

This really rocks and contains clean vocals. What more can a man desire 

That it rocks and has grrrrrrowl 

Thanks (again) Nicky.

You werent familiar with SC beforehand, Teunis ? 


NP  Genesis:  ...And Then There Were Three

I was so ashamed that I only recognised the first two songs, Down And Out and Undertow, that I played the album thru three times. So now I know it - somewhat 

Great stuff !  (Otherwise I wouldnt have played it thrice.) Tony Banks is the main songwriter here, and he's a fine composer and lyricist 

After Three, Phil and Mike would gradually take over, Genesis would become more rhythm oriented, and lose their invisible touch 

Isildurs Bane ~ Mind vol. 1

A bit of a mix of acts like The Flower Kings, Jethro Tull, Änglagård, some Italprog bands and Yes.

Mad, why don't you put all your cd's (with their band names) into a blender, and make a nice mix (mess) of it all 

Nicky.

[Teunis]

You werent familiar with SC beforehand, Teunis ? 

Knew them only by name, not the music. But that has to change, I noticed .

Galahad - Battle Scars

Read some positive reviews. Now it's on progstreaming.com, I'll check out if they're right  .