Vermilion Sands - Water Bluehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCOLo3qiFvY
Another japanese thing I should get on amazon mp3
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Tuesday, 31 March 2020 19:12 (four years ago) link
is there a chance the new phish album is any good?
https://www.stereogum.com/2078838/phish-sigma-oasis-listening-party/music/album-stream/
― reggie (qualmsley), Thursday, 2 April 2020 16:57 (four years ago) link
listening to the Vermilion Sands album now, very nice stuff, it's like a blend of prog Renaissance and uh...pop Renaissance
― frogbs, Thursday, 2 April 2020 18:48 (four years ago) link
Discogs says that the much later second album was a tribute to the deceased singer. She was in a Renaissance/Illusion tribute band. Wish I could find a decent picture of her solo album because all of them are either small or pixelated.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Thursday, 2 April 2020 19:16 (four years ago) link
How great is this?
https://youtu.be/PNwDhp3d7Bc?t=8m18s
― Maresn3st, Thursday, 2 April 2020 19:51 (four years ago) link
nice!! I didn't know there were Japanese prog acts active as early as '73 (when their debut came out according to RYM). I guess Mandrake was formed in '74 but they never actually released anything. This is really good
― frogbs, Thursday, 2 April 2020 19:57 (four years ago) link
Kinda schizophrenic, I've seen them written up as Japan's answer to Pink Floyd and yeah there's a definite Meddle era thing going on with the cover of Flying and elsewhere, but the track I linked to is like idk, Yes, Gentle Giant? With that lovely ECM style piano coda.
― Maresn3st, Thursday, 2 April 2020 20:11 (four years ago) link
It is good. The previous album with the Sloth smoking a pipe on the cover is supposed to be their best?
Just in case the link dies, it's Yonin Bayashi - Golden Picnic we're talking about.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Thursday, 2 April 2020 20:14 (four years ago) link
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― dow, Thursday, 2 April 2020 23:51 (four years ago) link
― frogbs
i think mops went a little prog in their later career... there's also a live album by the Peanuts where they do a pretty straight cover of "Epitaph"...
― Kate (rushomancy), Friday, 3 April 2020 00:03 (four years ago) link
I've broken plenty of prog rock records.
― Sasha (sgh), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 13:50 (fifteen years ago) bookmarkflaglink
Longest ARP Odyssey solo of all time?
― Bridge Over Thorley Waters (Tom D.), Friday, 3 April 2020 00:04 (four years ago) link
Most conceptual concept album
― threnody for the victims of alan shearer (Matt #2), Friday, 3 April 2020 00:18 (four years ago) link
I need assistance, been listening to Stormwatch a bit recently and it's really bugging me what (and who) the song 'Home' sounds like, my wife reckons it's Wings but I'm not sure, any suggestions?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8ZaIYzZlNo
― Maresn3st, Friday, 3 April 2020 11:37 (four years ago) link
procul harum
― ban laggy jazzer (imago), Friday, 3 April 2020 11:54 (four years ago) link
*procol
Sounds a bit like Elton John tbh.
― Bridge Over Thorley Waters (Tom D.), Friday, 3 April 2020 11:59 (four years ago) link
... but, yes, Procol Harum.
... or Roy Wood.
― Bridge Over Thorley Waters (Tom D.), Friday, 3 April 2020 12:00 (four years ago) link
anyone picked this up yet?
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51dLSpjZvZL._SX332_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg
― ymo sumac (NickB), Friday, 3 April 2020 12:08 (four years ago) link
Yeah it's great. I posted about it in the "good books about music" thread a month ago but got no replies.
― the grateful dead can dance (anagram), Friday, 3 April 2020 12:15 (four years ago) link
looking forward to getting it, hoping it gets stuck into the obscure poop at the bottom of the cage and doesn't just focus on the big birds
― ymo sumac (NickB), Friday, 3 April 2020 12:24 (four years ago) link
Definitely want to read that at some point.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Friday, 3 April 2020 13:23 (four years ago) link
anagram have you read The Show That Never Ends? been curious wondering which of the two is better?
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 3 April 2020 13:25 (four years ago) link
Haven't read that one. What I like about the Barnes book is that it scopes out everything except UK prog of the 70s. So despite its 600-page length it feels very focused.
― the grateful dead can dance (anagram), Friday, 3 April 2020 13:32 (four years ago) link
I have the Barnes one but it's sitting on the shelf, unread, next to The Big Note (Zappa book), also unread, vibrating monolithically.
― Maresn3st, Friday, 3 April 2020 13:40 (four years ago) link
neo-prog dude (and well-to-do general hospital director) phideaux switched his albums to 'pay what you want' (including $0) for crisis listening
https://phideaux.bandcamp.com/
http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=2379
snowtorch has an especially prescient record cover
― reggie (qualmsley), Saturday, 4 April 2020 19:13 (four years ago) link
I’m not huge on prog but have been enjoying watching various old live shows on YouTube (crimson, genesis, gentle giant, ars nova (the Japanese one))
― brimstead, Saturday, 4 April 2020 19:15 (four years ago) link
i don't know if they're "prog" proper but one of the bands from that era i love seeing are savage rose with annisette
here's a video of theirs from a '73 outdoor festival
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUora1Hj4Fg
there's another video of theirs from '74 that i think i've posted elsewhere
when it comes to brit prog there's some great video off french tv of the canterbury scene. i particularly recommend the episode of "rockenstock" that coupled a strange one-off lineup of caravan with a strange-one off lineup of hatfield and the north, the latter featuring robert wyatt on vocals!
― Kate (rushomancy), Saturday, 4 April 2020 19:33 (four years ago) link
i LOVE the first savage rose album, ty for the link!
― brimstead, Saturday, 4 April 2020 19:44 (four years ago) link
I'll bite. Yeah, it's really good - as far as Phish studio albums go. They (thankfully) ditched Bob Ezrin (not a good match for them at all) in favor of Vance Powell and I think he did a great job on this one. It's easily the best studio thing they've ever done, imo. The silliness is pretty much gone, in favor of a more introspective approach to lyrics. Helps that pretty much the entire record has been road tested for years. There are two instances where they jam out on the songs, to really great effect compared to past studio jams ("Everything's Right", "Thread"). There's also a few songs with orchestral touches that gave me a bit of a Beatles vibe for some reason. I'd hesitate to call it "prog" ("Petrichor", from their last album, was the closest they've come to prog in years), but I could see how prog fans might enjoy this far more than their other studio records.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 8 April 2020 19:49 (four years ago) link
A great recording of Dave Stweart's 'Rapid Eye Movement' went up on D1m3ad0z3n a few days ago and it's a great listen. It's from 1981, kinda like a strange cross between similar era Crimson, Bill Nelson's Red Noise and zippy New Wave Pop du jour. Includes a cover of XTC's Mekanik Dancing.
― Maresn3st, Sunday, 12 April 2020 18:27 (four years ago) link
never was much on rapid eye movement, but i got a pretty nice tape of rick biddulph early '80s demos that often circulate erroneously labelled as being by "rapid eye movement" and "meanwhile" is a nice jam. wonder if that song ever had a complete version released?
― Kate (rushomancy), Sunday, 12 April 2020 23:41 (four years ago) link
two of mike barnes' favorite words appear to be "moot" and "remit"
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 12 June 2020 16:21 (four years ago) link
local shop had 3 Triumvirat LPs - Spartacus, Old Loves Die Hard, and Pompeii (by "NEW TRIUMVIRAT"!!) - god, these records are so much fun
― frogbs, Tuesday, 11 August 2020 21:31 (four years ago) link
I never saw ELP, but I did see Triumvirat warm up for Fleetwoid Mac. They played the Illusions on a Double Dimple album in its entirety.
― Orson Well Yeah (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 11 August 2020 22:38 (four years ago) link
Just done a double take on my amazon recommendations because there's a 5 Essential albums collection of Nektar!
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 14 August 2020 18:52 (four years ago) link
I would opine that they don't have 5 essential albums, and I'm a fan; had tix to see the current touring version this year but they cancelled.
― Orson Well Yeah (Dan Peterson), Friday, 14 August 2020 19:00 (four years ago) link
There's also a box set of PFM's Manticore albums.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 14 August 2020 19:19 (four years ago) link
I'm not much of a modern prog connoisseur but I really like Vulkan's Technatura: late Opeth-esque Swedish prog with light shades of alt metal and what (to my ears) sounds like distant Thom Yorke inflections on the vocal front, which is a definite plus in my book.
― pomenitul, Sunday, 13 September 2020 20:05 (four years ago) link
Any love for Pulsar's Halloween? It's really good but not what the title or cover suggests.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Thursday, 19 November 2020 21:16 (three years ago) link
Not an ounce of originality involved (or almost) but Wobbler's Dwellers of the Deep is a damn good pastiche.
― pomenitul, Sunday, 22 November 2020 14:33 (three years ago) link
Yeah, like a very specific product of 1971-72 (esp. Yes and Gentle Giant). It's pandering as hell, but I kind of love it. They catch the funky side of those bands.
― umarell of the year (jmm), Saturday, 28 November 2020 15:54 (three years ago) link
oh damn I have to check that out. I was really excited about it then just forgot about it completely. Well, that's life.
I don't mind the '72 pastiche thing as long as you do it right. their last album very much sounded to me like it could've been recorded alongside Close to the Edge. it's like 95% as good too. a lotta bands try this but they just don't have the singer for it.
― frogbs, Saturday, 28 November 2020 17:58 (three years ago) link
Whoa, thanks for the tip re: Wobbler! Yup, that Dwellers EP is indeed very well-executed in terms of Yes/GG worship.
― call mr zbow that's my name that name again is mr zbow (Craig D.), Saturday, 28 November 2020 20:36 (three years ago) link
The final sprint at the end of "Merry Macabre" is great.
I often find new prog albums too polished and sterile, so the vintage approach is at least a way around that. Even if the Hammond organ isn't my favourite sound in the world.
― jmm, Sunday, 29 November 2020 15:44 (three years ago) link
Awhile ago on the Jethro Tull thread I was enthusing about related band Carmen's Fandangos In Space, one of my favorite and most perfectly sequenced albums.
Dancing On A Cold Wind isn't as consistently brilliant but the heights are just as good "The Horseman" in particular. My CD version is the two album pack and this is a flawed vinyl rip, would be nice to hear a remaster. I'm pretty sure it's a concept album, they reuse a couple of bits from the previous album.
Again, I think they're one of the very best prog bands that didn't even attain a Gentle Giant level of fame and they really need a nice high profile reissue someday.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 30 July 2021 20:01 (three years ago) link
I used to love Fandangos in Space but I haven't played it in years, time for a relisten. I also own their final album, The Gypsies, which isn't anywhere near as good.
The Nektar tour is back on after being cancelled in 2020 and I have repurchased a ticket, fulfilling a "never got to see them back in the day" bucket list. Recent setlists show them doing full sides of classic albums so I'm stoked.
And I've located by misfiled Remember the Future album, now I need to remember if I still have Tab in the Ocean, or if I sold it long ago.
― Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Monday, 7 March 2022 19:27 (two years ago) link
I'm still listening to The Gypsies, the first two are definitely better but I think by the third album they were hitting the start of lots of problems that ended up finishing them, there was troubles with getting a hold of Visconti again.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Tuesday, 8 March 2022 00:05 (two years ago) link
So I finally saw Nektar last night, a bucket list thing for me ever since I missed them back in the mid-70s. (Then punk happened and I didn't really think about them for decades.) I regained my nostalgia for prog, but also missed them in 2013, Roye Albrighton's last time with them here before he passed.
This could go on the "bands who shouldn't exist without..." thread, because without Roye they're essentially a pretty good Nektar tribute act. (His replacement used to be in Fireballet and also toured with Renaissance, so he's kind of a prog Zelig.) Original bassist and drummer remain, along their famed lightshow guy, with a few new recruits. They did do both side-long suites from Remember the Future, which were okay, the notes were there but something crucial seemed lacking. I'm glad I went, but I think I proved to myself I can't go back in time.
This is from two years ago, but it sounded essentially like this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eGVpVm4xyk
― Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 6 April 2022 14:49 (two years ago) link
it's quite a shame that these bands are really at the end of their line now. Can't think of any core prog bands still functional with a majority of long-term members now that Genesis and Crimson have folded up (VDGG still kicking though even w/o Jackson). I'm glad for the opportunities I've had to see many of them and regret missing the chance for many more.
― akm, Wednesday, 6 April 2022 23:55 (two years ago) link