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JustAnEngineer wrote:Living After Midnight (NSFW)
Captain Ned wrote:Brit metal? The album was recorded in Stowe, VT and it was the reunion of the five original members. Huge MTV hit in 1984 or so.
Anovoca wrote:just brew it! wrote:I've decided to start with Leviathan and Blood Mountain. CD order placed with Amazon, MP3 Auto-Rip copies downloaded. Will listen while I'm working this afternoon.
Those two albums are kind of like orchid and morningrise. The purests will always say those were the best while the casual listeners don't touch them because they are so rough around the edges.
Edit: 4wiw, Crack the Skye is probably my favorite album. it has the best balance of prog and metal and likes to suck you in and take you on a pretty epic trip. If you want to listen to their newest 4 albums just shoot me a PM, I have them all on my PLEX Media server.
Captain Ned wrote:DP (and the eternal spinoffs) was as far as I ever got into Brit Metal. I, as a new college senior in the fall of 1984, found it amusing and satisfying that a band I'd spun many times found themselves in, of all places, Stowe, VT to record a "reunion" album and that I could see the MTV vid and say "I've been there, there, and there".
just brew it! wrote:The one that I let pass always had names like Ferrari, Porsche, or Harley attached to it.Maybe it's my version of a mid-life crisis or something.
just brew it! wrote:My intro to prog rock came about in a similarly odd way (and at a similar age). Mom picked up ITCOTKC and listened to it obsessively for several months. That album is one of my indelibly etched childhood memories.
just brew it! wrote:JC Superstar was indeed in fairly heavy rotation for a while as well; should've probably grabbed the original vinyl when I ran across it when we were cleaning out Dad's house a couple of years ago. I'm sure it was worn all to hell, but in retrospect I wouldn't mind having it for nostalgic value.
Captain Ned wrote:There was also this girl I approached with all of the social skills of a Vogon who ignored that for a bit and turned me on to Genesis in that same freshman year. Janice, I apologize.
Captain Ned wrote:In my Uni days I had 3 comfort albums. "Crime of the Century", "Foxtrot", and "Fragile".
just brew it! wrote:[FWIW I have the MFSL vinyl of Crime of the Century... (speaking of "maybe worth something someday")
Captain Ned wrote:I never did the prog/jazz/fusion thing (well, like any decent late '70s kid, I did like Chuck Mangione), but some of the most treasured vinyl in my collection is the first three Nektar albums.
just brew it! wrote:While we're taking this little trip down musical memory lane, it got me to thinking about how my musical tastes have shifted over the years. The progression has been:
Pop and Rock -> Prog Rock -> Fusion, Jazz, and Classical -> Metal (mostly Prog Metal, with some catching up on classic '70s/'80s Metal I ignored the first time around)
It's cumulative, in that I still actively listen to and acquire all of these genres, though my purchases in the Pop realm are now limited to nostalgic back-filling of stuff from the '70s and '80s (I don't care for contemporary Pop music).
just brew it! wrote:Anovoca wrote:Edit: 4wiw, Crack the Skye is probably my favorite album. it has the best balance of prog and metal and likes to suck you in and take you on a pretty epic trip.
After doing a bit of research I decided on the two I picked because it seemed like it was a transitional period for them. Crack The Skye will most likely be next, though I'm liking Leviathan well enough that I may backfill their first album Remission as well.
Vhalidictes wrote:OK, JBI, I must ask... what is "contemporary Pop music"? Are you referring to what Country turned into, or something else?
just brew it! wrote:Re Mastodon:just brew it! wrote:Anovoca wrote:Edit: 4wiw, Crack the Skye is probably my favorite album. it has the best balance of prog and metal and likes to suck you in and take you on a pretty epic trip.
After doing a bit of research I decided on the two I picked because it seemed like it was a transitional period for them. Crack The Skye will most likely be next, though I'm liking Leviathan well enough that I may backfill their first album Remission as well.
Already caved and ordered Crack The Skye too. Listening to the MP3 auto-rip now, CD should arrive in a couple of days.
just brew it! wrote:Crack The Skye is indeed very good, but I also quite enjoy the raw crunch of Leviathan. Not sure which one I like better.
Anovoca wrote:Glad to hear you like it though! I was worried that you went off and bought their oldest two records after I intentionally recommended their newer and more polished ones.
just brew it! wrote:Frederik Thordendal and Special Defects - Sol Niger Within (1997)
Side project by the guitarist from metal band Meshuggah. I was not aware of this album's existence until earlier this evening, but given Thordendal's unique approach to metal (extreme metal rhythm guitar meets jazzy legato solos...), I was intrigued. The whole thing is posted on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZx4e1pdq1Y
Unfortunately the CD is out of print and rare, commanding ridiculous prices for a used copy. BUT... there's an Amazon MP3 download of it, and since the entire album is a single 43-minute track, the entire download is 99 cents (the price of a single track)!
This is some seriously warped stuff, with some sick (in a good way) guitar playing on it.