Haha, I have loads of albums in my server library I don't remember buying and loads I have never played as well :oQuote:
Originally Posted by Alex_UK
Haha, I have loads of albums in my server library I don't remember buying and loads I have never played as well :oQuote:
Originally Posted by Alex_UK
Just seen that there’s a new Eels album out in October (I know Mike’s a fan) and by this comment in the email which made me smile:
“Reflecting on the 16th studio album, frontman E says: “All of this will be forgotten. Every joy, accomplishment and hardship will one day become so irrelevant it will be as if none of it occurred. But as the great philosopher of our times, Cookie Monster once said: “Me no cry because cookie is finished. Me smile because cookie happened.” This will all be forgotten. But isn’t it still a beautiful thing that it happened?””
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Eliza Gilkyson - Paradise Hotel (2005)
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Must have been you Tim that put me onto Eliza Gilkyson? I don’t really pretend to understand the politics but a few good tunes nonetheless.
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Quite possible, seen her a few times but haven't played her much since 2018, but played her a lot back in 2013 and 14. Last.fm tells me I played this album the most;Quote:
Originally Posted by Alex_UK
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I think she got a Grammy nomination for Paradise Hotel - she was very critical of George Bush. She's a bit like Lucinda Williams, but without the raspy voice and a bit more folky.
Something a bit more gravely then to close. :)
Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels on a Gravel Road (1998)
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From the bits that I've heard, it isn't going to be a classic :(Quote:
Originally Posted by Alex_UK
Remember seeing them live in the 70’s, used to have that album but long gone,Quote:
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The only Lucinda Williams CD I have is this:Quote:
Originally Posted by Alex_UK
It's a double CD packaged with 'Live at Effenaar, Eindhoven, Netherlands, May 19,1989'.
That's not how Family Guy tells it:Quote:
Originally Posted by Alex_UK
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Hollie Cook 'Vessel Of Love'
I prefer dub to pop reggae but this album is built to make you smile on a sunny day. Daughter of Paul Cook, goddaughter of Boy George but her stuff stands up in its own right.
Gravity Freeze
Little Barrie
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I did manage to play this the other evening without eating my own ears, so there may be hope yet!Quote:
Originally Posted by Idlewithnodrive
Enigma - MCMXC a.D. (1990)
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One of my all time favourites.
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I have the first three of their CDs - my favourite is 'Le Roi Est Mort, Vive Le Roi', but YMMV.Quote:
Originally Posted by Alex_UK
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Simple Minds - Real to Real Cacophony
Esja
Hania Rani
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Great Simple Minds album Mine, but they all are! (Sister Feelings Call probably my favourite if pushed!)
Another downtempo classic, better than listening to the drivel of commentary for the footie…
Chicane - Far from the Maddening Crowds (1997)
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(I love pretty much anything by Enigma, Barry, the first probably still my favourite though as it was so groundbreaking at the time.)
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I'm not sure I could tell you my favourite Alex, but this would be a contender.
Another unknown . . . ATTL (added to the list).Quote:
Originally Posted by Alex_UK
Ghosts
Hania Rani
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Qobuz has this categorised as Progressive Rock :scratch:
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I like it though
Similar cover, similar music, similarly a masterpiece in my opinion (if you like Trance…. So not sure these will be for you, Tim!)
The Space Brothers - Shine (1999)
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Don't know that. As a wise sage once uttered, ATTL :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by Alex_UK
Back in early 2000 I found myself moving back in with my parents at aged 31, leaving my hifi, all my records and CDs in the marital home. I bought a Sony Discman from Dixons and about 6 CDs from HMV - the two above and this one included:
Tina Cousins- Killing Time (1999)
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They have a very special place in my memory, as the soundtrack to a difficult but also transformative time of my life.
Two of the others I can remember will have to wait for another night - Leftfield - Rhythm and Stealth and Melanie C - Northern Star. Both classics (to me!) in very different ways. I ended up playing some of them on Mum & Dads mini system, and subsequently my Mum ended up buying both Rhythm and Stealth and also Leftism by Leftfield for herself!
I liked all the Simple Minds albums with Michael MacNeil on keyboards. When he left they became focused on big guitar chords and lost their character IMHO.
If I had to choose then New Gold Dream would be my favourite.
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Like a lot of people who had grown up with rock music, Leftfield opened my mind to electronica as being just as potent in album form. Even though these days they are just Neil Barnes and his engineer I stick with them - the dub remix of their last album This Is What We Do (Version Excursion) sounds monumental.
Southern Blood
Gregg Allman
2017
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Totally with you on Leftfield. Pretty much the same for the Chemical Brothers, Prodigy, The Orb, Orbital etc.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pete The Cat
I hadn’t heard of that version, Pete, I shall add it to this morning’s roster - thank you!Quote:
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Chris Rea - The Road to Hell (1989)
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The final “Tell Me There’s A Heaven” even more poignant now, and I had forgotten how much I enjoy this album.
I doubt very much if there will be any ATTL going on today with my plays :D
The Yes Album
Yes
1971
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Wow, cool mum - mind you, my mum used to like my Orbital and Renaissance the Mix albums.Quote:
Originally Posted by Alex_UK
The ones Mike listed (Prodigy, Chemical Brothers, Leftfield, Orbital, The Orb, I would also add Underworld), were giants in the 90s, and still sound relevant today.
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I explored this for the first time a few weeks ago (only 50-odd years late but never mind!) Really liked it instrumentally, just felt that Jon Anderson's vocals were a bit detached, like he's a singer-songwriter whose melodies were being bolted on to a rock band. I went on to explore Close To The Edge and felt the components were much better integrated. May still buy TYA though.
FWIW Burning Shed are selling vinyl copies of TYA and CTTE signed by Bill Bruford for £40 each. I hope this doesn't mean he's fallen on hard times.
Never too late Pete :)Quote:
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I was a big Yes fan back in the day, saw them a few times too and on another of my cycle home jaunts from Leicester's De Montfort Hall, I got to meet Rick Wakeman. He called the hangers on ‘for autographs folk’ into the band dressing room, but all he wanted to talk about was football, so I was a bit out of my depth! Nice bloke though and kind of him to invite us backstage.
Relayer is probably my favourite Yes album and I only play the early stuff. I have seen the later incarnations of the band, but that's not Yes. I lost interest after Tormato, when Anderson and Wakeman left around 1980. Nerdy little known fact, after Anderson & Wakeman left, Trevor Horn and Geoff Downes from The Buggles joined the band, Horn did vocals on the Drama album and toured with them - Downes replaced Wakeman on keyboards.
Relayer
Yes
1974
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My music tastes are more obscure (cool ?) than my kids, age 29 - 36 :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
I've tried -
Enigma - MXMXC a.D.
Hania Rani - Ghosts
Both quite reasonable. I had heard a couple of the usual suspect Enigma tracks but hadn't even heard of Hania Rani. I think she might be a grower / worth exploring more.
I've never knowingly listened to a Yes Album. What's a good hop on Album.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tim
That's a tough one, but I guess the first album with Rick Wakeman - Fragile. If you don't like that, then probably no need to go any further. Although Drama with Trevor Horn is a very different sound, a bit more rock than prog, but they only did that one before the original band broke up. My knowledge ends there as I never bothered with them after that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Idlewithnodrive
Roundabout
Long Distance Runaround
Heart of the Sunrise
3 best tracks IMO
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I used to love the sound of Chris Squire's Rickenbacker - he played the bass rather than just keep time.
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I thought the same, but just checked my server and i have Fragile and a "best of"! SO I guess if you can't beat 'em...Quote:
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I'm pleased to say that although I failed to explore early Yes until recently, I was on board for GFTO and Drama at the time. IIRC Drama wasn't well received, probably for narrow-minded reasons relating to the personnel, but I think it has undergone a reappraisal in recent years. I got the Kevin Gray remaster of it a few years ago and it's a banger, makes my original sound damp by comparison.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tim
RW has a good reputation. A friend of mine found himself at the same lunch table (box at a football match) and said that he was naturally convivial.
Danny Baker tells a story about him as a pianist-for-hire earning his crust. Apparently RW got a call from Tony Visconti one day asking if he'd join a session for his usual fee (£20 I think). He turned up to find it was T Rex recording Get It On. When RW asked to see the score he found that there was no piano part on it. Visconti said they just wanted him to do that glissando at the start. £20 and on his way he went...
Good luck lads, I suspect Yes are not an easy band to access in 2026. If you are feeling really masochistic Tales from Topographic Oceans is arguably the original bands most divisive record, a double album with only 4 songs. I played it to death and loved everything about it. A gorgeous Roger Dean double album gatefold sleeve with one song on each side of the 2 LPs . . . what's not to like :lol:
I believe the below was their best selling record, certainly their most ambitious. I think the landscape was very different then, in those days you bought an album, put it on with your mates in a low light room and sat listening to the whole thing then discussed it after. Yes aren't a streaming playlist band, so very much of their time. For me they are a time machine. I've never tired of them and doubt I ever will . . a bit like Floyd.
Close to the Edge
Yes
1972
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I saw Yes play live in Salford, back in 1970 at the start of their career. Thought little of them at the time, and my impression hasn't changed with time.
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{BTW Tim what has happened to the musical stave motif in your signature? It ought to be centred. )
The Crystal Method - Vegas (1997)
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Another classic electronica album I haven’t played in a while. The dog jumped out of his skin half way through the opening track when the beat kicked in! :lol: Maybe need to turn it down a notch…!
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Sad Wings of Destiny
Judas Priest
1976
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Dimitri From Paris - Sacrebleu (1996)
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As the cover suggests, a bit silly. But fun!