What are you listening to?

[margetti]

 

[idc]

Drummerdave:Amyl Right Mate:

Drummerdave:Tortoise - excellent. Been listening to their new one, Beacons of Ancestorship, tis pretty good.

Yeah, haven't given the new one a proper spin yet... I lost interest a bit when Standards came out. I always seem to go back to the 1st three LP's, though.

Standards wasn't great. The only other ones I've heard are the first one and TNT.

I bought TNT, brand new at a jumble sale for 10p, my best music purchase ever. Presently listen to superb anthemic, melodic, prog heavy metal from the Finnish band Amorphis and the Polish band Riverside.

 

[SpiceWeasel]

Spent a few hours on Spotify, started off with a bit of cheese..... Dire Straits - Sultans of swing (a few tracks anyway)

Dr Dre - 2001

Air - Moon Safari

Next up I think a bit of The rolling stones, loving Spotify

 

[Dave_]

 

[SpiceWeasel]

daveh75:

Oooooh, saw them live at Wembley..... warm up for the Foo's. Fantastic
live, had only previously heard 2 of their tracks on the radio before
then. Good albums

 

[PJPro]

Steely Dan - Aja

Started off with Pretzel Logic and have, over the years, bought another three of their albums including the one above.

 

[Amyl Right Mate]

Sally Shapiro - My Guilty Pleasure

Voice of the Seven Woods - Black Morning

 

[Dave_]

 

[Dave_]

SpiceWeasel:daveh75:

Oooooh, saw them live at Wembley..... warm up for the Foo's. Fantastic
live, had only previously heard 2 of their tracks on the radio before
then. Good albums

Totally agree,they're fantastic live.

Have seen them a few times.most recently in october in their home town (Sunderland) at the Split Festival which is a showcase for local talent and The FH's were headlining and were absolutely brilliant......

 

[kena]

 

[hammill]

Tori Amos Under The Pink. A beautiful record and very well recorded. A good dynamic range, real rockers and gentle ballads.

Genesis Selling England By The Pound SACD. One of my all time favourites given new life on SACD.Hard to believe it is 35 years old. Sounding terrific on my new Oppo 83.

 

[idc]

More Amorphis. All thriller and no filler..........strong songwriting, punchy riffs, heavy rhythms and an excellent combination of keyboards and guitar. Eclipse is the best metal album I have heard for ages.

 

[idc]

On a roll now, after stating 'Eclipse' was the best metal album I have heard in ages, along comes another one. However, there is one caveat to The Devin Townsend Band's 'Synchestra'. It is such a wall of sound that unless you have a system that can dig deep, capture detail and cope with huge dynamics, this will sound a mess.......otherwise, it is absolutely chuffing magnificent.....

 

[Big Chris]

idc:

On a roll now, after stating 'Eclipse' was the best metal album I have heard in ages, along comes another one. However, there is one caveat to The Devin Townsend Band's 'Synchestra'. It is such a wall of sound that unless you have a system that can dig deep, capture detail and cope with huge dynamics, this will sound a mess.......otherwise, it is absolutely chuffing magnificent.....

It's good, but it's no 'Terria'.....

 

[Big Chris]

 

[Dave_]

 

[idc]

The finest exponents (till I find another similar band) of Norwegian goth/metal/punk/prog. In The Woods.. make lush, anthemic, moody, thoughtfull, mellow/heavy, slow/fast music, which pretty much covers everything that modern Scandinavian progressive rock has been producing over the past 20 years. The production and musicianship is excellent. They must have some brilliant music schools and recording studios over there to produce such consistently high standard work.

 

[Dave_]

 

[idc]

Since one of the main elements to prog rock is experimentation, it would seem unnecessary to describe something as experimental prog rock, but Kayo Dot certainly push the boundaries and produce an amazing imaginative soundscape. They easily combine woodwind and strings with thrash metal riffs and produce dramatic music in the vein of Mogwei and King Crimson.

 

[Anonymous]

 

[Anonymous]

 

[Dave_]

 

[idc]

Pain of Salvation, who manage to combine sounds that range from Guns n' Roses to The Scissor Sisters to Eminem to Seal to Soundgarden to produce a prog metal album of great musicality. 'Idiocracy' is a mini epic.

 

[Lost Angeles]

A few albums I played whilst on holiday but only on MP3 (320)

Rory Gallagher Tattoo, Calling Card, Deuce, Top Priority, Photo Finish and Fresh Evidence.
Lynyrd Skynyrd Gods and Guns and Nuthin Fancy.
Thin Lizzy Renegade, Bad Reputation and Chinatown.
Free Heartbreaker.
Barclay James Harvest Time Honoured Ghosts and Everyone is Everybody Else.
Gary Moore After the War and Run for Cover.

Gerry Rafferty Night Owl.
Plus loads of others I can't remember now but it was nice doing nothing on the beach.

 

[Amyl Right Mate]

Four Tet - Ringer