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The very ace The Heart is Strange by xPropaganda, a worthy successor to Propaganda's eternally brilliant A Secret Wish released 36 years ago!
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Most of the players i like have been in bands with some guesting on other people's albums. Does that count as a session player? In which case I'd say Derek Forbes, Michael Dempsey.
For players that have done a lot of guesting/session/sidemen work, it's easy for me. Marcus Miller, Louis Johnson and Tony Levin
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22 hours ago, prowla said:
I think a lot of those albums are really good - no accounting for taste, eh?
I used to have a thing where I'd listen to an album and not really like it so much, but then after the third or fourth listen it would be great; 2 minutes isn't really enough.
that's 2 minutes per track not per album!
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After my re-try of LZ albums I've since had other listens to the supposed best and worst albums of classic rock bands I've generally had little time for; Queen, Black Sabbath and Pink Floyd. OK I more or less flipped through each one giving each track around 2 mins which is ample time to make a call.
Viz PF, IMO the best supposedly DTOSM and Wish You Were Here - still bore the s**t out of me. The 'worst -which mainly seem to be Ummagumma, Division Bell, Momentary Lapse of Reason - turn up no pleasant surprises either.
Black Sabbath - Ozzy Osbourne has one of the worst voices in music. I just don't get how he's a multi platinum album artist in the US. As for RJ Dio, I can't stand that style of cod-operatic s**t (same with Rob Halford, Bruce Dickinson, Myles Kennedy) I forced myself to listen to 'best' ones like Paranoid, Master of Reality and the 'worst' - Technical Ecstasy, Born Again and Forbidden. Because Born Again has Ian Gillan - a way better singer than the other BS vocalists - it is by default their best, even though it's no great shakes.
Queen - so, Shear Heart Attack, Night at The Opera and The Game appear to be their highest rated. I've not heard SHA since I was a kid and actually it's pretty good, way better than the overrated NATO. Also way better to my ears is Hot Space as I like its dance/pop vibe and is on a par with the well rated The Game , which I admit is mostly pretty good.
Next up, if I can summon up the strength I'll work my way through a selection of 'best' and 'worst' of two of my least fave big names of classic rock, The Who and the Stones. I'm not expecting any pleasant surprises, particularly with the Stones as Jagger's voice is as bad as Ozzy's and I'm too familiar with their best known tunes, few of which I even can tolerate
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17 hours ago, borntohang said:
The steep drop in quality after Pinkerton is nearly vertical. I just pretend that they broke up in '97 and the occasional single of note after that (Hash Pipe, Keep Fishing, not much else) was just scavenged from unreleased Blue sessions.
IMO they still had (most of) it up to Red with green the best of the post Pinkerton albums. While none of these are quite up to blue at least half the tunes are good on each one and don't deserve the bashing , mostly from fans it seems. Check out allmusic and all their albums are at least 3 1/2 star ratings.
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1 hour ago, Ricky Rioli said:
Killers is my favourite of Maiden's classic era, and some days So Far So Good So What reaches me in ways none of the other early Megadeth albums do, and I think they typical come bottom of their respective piles?
Oh, I knew I could do better than that! Jane's Addiction. I love Strays to bits and I couldn't care less about any of their other albums.
Viz JA i fully agree. I used to have all their albums and got rid of all apart from Strays which is light years better
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Going against my own nature over the last few days I've listened to Led Zep, all their albums and all the way through. In conclusion, for me In Through The Out Door is by some margin their best album and I'm not trolling for the hell of it. The reasons?
1. it features lots of tasty keyboards which flesh out their sound by some margin
2. Plant actually mostly sings with his banshee yowling/screeching that marred their other albums out of sight...kinda.
3. The production is cleaner, tighter and lighter with the plodding heavy sound of the early albums reined in
4. I dislike Blues heavily influenced rock intensely but there's little sign of that here
I understand that John Paul Jones -the best musician in the band - had more input here than on the other albums so that explains the heavier keys orientation
So, what allegedly weak albums by well-known bands would you say are among their better, if not the best albums
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But the map doesn't show the underworld/Hades where I'm domiciled! Think I might have a couple of neighbours from BC
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13 minutes ago, MrSpace said:
Watched this yesterday, passed the time admirably while going the ironing. Great show, even showed Chris Squire for a reasonable amount of the time!
Let's take a step back here. You do ironing!!!? 😱
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22 hours ago, Stofferson said:
Unida- The Great Divide (never released which is a shame)
Clutch - pretty much every album, but Robot Hive, Exodus
Kyuss - Welcome to Sky Valley
Ah, forgot my two fave Clutch albums. Earth Rocker and Psychic Warfare. Crackers all the way through
Also forgot to say
Music has the right to children and Tomorrow's harvest - Boards of Canada
Adventures beyond the Ultraworld, UF Orb, Abolition of the royal familia - The Orb
Music for the jilted generation - Prodigy
Tri repetae, LP5 and Amber - Autechre
Looping state of mind - The Field
Supermodified, Permutation and Out from out where -Amon Tobin
Lifeforms and the Archived series 1-6 though these aren't 'proper' albums - Future Sound of London
Suzuki and No hassle -Tosca
Hydroponic garden, Interloper and World of sleepers - Carbon Based Lifeforms
Dream of 100 nations and Rejoice rejoice - Transglobal Underground
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There are a few in my collection, off the top of my head those with 8+ tracks being
Lexicon of Love - ABC
A secret wish - Propaganda
Stella - Yello
House of Love's epon debut
Dubnobasswithmyheadman - Underworld
brown album - Orbital
Vertigo -Groove Armada
Life is Yours - Foals
Chairs missing - Wire
Giant -The Woodentops
Rattus Norvegicus - Stranglers
Title of Record - Filter
Doolittle - Pixies
Risotto -Fluke
Fear of Music - Talking Heads
Leftism -Leftfield
Endtroducing - DJ Shadow
Fat of the land - Prodigy
Probably a few more
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7 minutes ago, odysseus said:
Sacrilege, I know. But I really like this, so nerrr!!.... 😛
Not sacrilege in my books, in which Prince isn't all that hype /myth have cracked him up to be. The original sounds so much of its time and has dated badly IMO and so was due for a bit of freshing up. I'm not a fan of this genre of music in the vid but it's definitely better than the original.
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On 14/08/2022 at 11:09, SteveK said:
I know nothing of Dave Mustaine or Megadeath, so may have this wrong...
Is Mustaine a bit of a creep? I ask because an article just popped up on my news feed:
Mustaine was being interviewed and explained that the song Celebutante was about a "very attractive" girl in a Megadeath T-shirt who didn't know who he was, ignored him (even after telling her, "That's me") and refusing to let him take a photo of her.
Seems his ego was damaged to the point that he's written the song as a way of "Making fun of her" and similar girls he describes as "Over indulged little brats"... charming!
...actually, ignore my question... I already know the answer!
https://guitar.com/news/music-news/dave-mustaine-little-brats-megadeth-t-shirt/
I've read many anecdotes suggesting he really is a grade A a-hole, as are his former Metallica bandmates, what with their constant hazing of original bassist Ron McGovney
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On 29/04/2022 at 12:51, Nail Soup said:
This came into my mind too. Great song, and yes, better than the already-good original.
Struck me as a strange choice of cover.... original fairly recent and in the same genre as the Pixies. People normally jump back in time or across genres for covers. They didn't attempt to significantly re-imagine it or anything either, but still worked.
Hadn't seen the video before..... very good! Quick Wikipedia search shows that Black Francis only agreed to make a video if it was shot in one take of a live performance/mime by the band.
The director had the idea to set up 12 cameras focus on top/middle/bottom of the 4 members, cut into the 4*3 grid in the video.
I really like the Pixies take though I wouldn't say it's better than the JAMC original. I agree about it being an odd choice. I've always thought the Pixies style would've been well suited to taking a country music classic and totally bastidising it.
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On 28/08/2022 at 21:43, MrSpace said:
Glass Animals set at Reading Festival
Thought Robin Williams had died
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Right now it's the top LP5 by Autechre, maybe Greater Manchester region's finest, jostling for that spot between 808 State and Future Sound of London.
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2 minutes ago, pigface said:
Yes, my first and probably only time. I feel the same as you did. Not a band I ever expected to see, similar to when I saw Johnny Winter in Leverkusen a few years ago not long before he died.
No, me neither. When I was very young Autobahn was the first pop tune I heard that grabbed my attention. My dad had lots of Beatles 45s which I heard many times I didn't care for them then, still don't. Far prefer the Fab(elhafte) Vier to the Fab Four.
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On 25/07/2022 at 16:24, borntohang said:
We were booked for BlueDot in 2020 but sadly didn't make the reschedule - shame as it looked brilliant. We've played with Henge before and they're a great party.
Shame for you as again it was great. It's now the only must-go to festival for me and the mrs. The science talks and seminars are always very interesting and the line-ups always imaginative and eclectic.
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3 hours ago, pigface said:
Kraftwerk in Bonn on Sunday night. No pics, unfortunately. Little did I imagine, when I first heard 'Autobahn', that I'd be seeing (what's left of) them 47 years later. They were great, if you like that sort of thing.
Saw them when they headlined 2019 BlueDot fest. It was great to see them for the first time, me a near lifetime fan, even though there was no Florian Scheider there, not that anyone could tell
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5 hours ago, taunton-hobbit said:
And so it all ended badly - shame
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Not surprised unfortunately. Reading festival has always stood out as one where trouble nearly always kicks off. I recall my eldest daughter going a dozen years ago and she came home early as trouble was kicking off on the saturday e.g. with bottles of p1$$ liberally being chucked into the crowd.
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On 26/05/2022 at 07:26, ubit said:
Dance and trance music from the 90's was to a large part instrumental
...as is all ambient electronica and Warp type stuff like early Orb, Autechre, Boards of Canada, Carbon Based Lifeforms, Biosphere, Plaid etc. Well that's my taste in instrumental music. At the mo' on Planet Rock they're doing 100 greatest guitar solos. Seems to me voters can't distinguish between a guitar solo and and solo guitar instrumental, what with a fair few instrumentals being played e.g. SRV's Little Wing, Cliffs of Dover by Eric Johnson. No doubt there'll be some Joe Satriani higher up the chart.
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There were plenty of c@ck formulaic rock bands jumping on various bandwagons in the 80s, 90s, '00s be it hair metal, death metal, shred, nu-metal, metalcore, southern rock, pop punk, landfill indie.... The Leeds-Reading line-up isn't the worst I've seen. At least there a few goodish bands like Fever 333, Enter Shikari, Run The Jewels (cracking rap duo).... err that's it. I try to keep an open mind and regularly check out artists who get name-checked as something worth taking notice of. To my ears the only Brit band debuting this century I've time for is Foals. Nearly everything else is cloned and boring as f3ck. As for North American bands? I'll get back to you if I can think of any.
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2 hours ago, ezbass said:
The request shows are an indication of why the daytime shows tend to peddle the same old, same old a lot of the time. 4 hours or so for the listening public to request what it likes and yet these requests are even more predictable than the usual programming. Yes, they probably select requests of things they have readily available in their library but, for the most part, it’s the same weekend in, weekend out. I listen to PR most days and always like the ‘shortest show on the radio’ where Darren (a fellow BCer) and Wyatt do their grumpy old men schtick.
I sometimes tune into Wyatt and Derren mainly because of the between song chat. Good presenters but the music selection is mostly meh
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8 hours ago, steantval said:
This Bank Holiday Monday PR is playing throughout the day the top 75 guitar solo songs as voted by the listeners, looking forward to hearing them.
My guess for number one would probably be Comfortably Numb.
I recall them doing this a few years ago. And indeed, you're quite right if you'd picked the #1 spot back then. I doubt anything will have changed. Be nice to hear some more unpredictable choices e.g. the solos in Another Girl Another Planet by The Only Ones, Just What I Needed by The Cars and Shot by Both Sides by Magazine. I nommed these but doesn't seem many others did. I've also entered submissions for the Rock Block, including the likes of Pixies, Killing Joke, House of Love, New Model Army, Echo ATB and other post punk and US alt-rock bands. Seems PR doesn't wanna know.
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