Top Ten????
 

OK - one of the reasons why I like Auralmoon is that it has totally widened my own playlist.

I am one of those people who tends to stick to what I know I like - I hate spending cash on a Cd which turns out to be a disappointment. I have discovered so many bands here that I really like that I am beginning to lose track of what I've heard.

So can I suggest an idea (which you may have done already)?

Could we make a top ten list of bands or Cd's which in our personal opinions are MUST HAVE purchases? I understand that this could be quite a challenge - I think I would find it hard myself to chose just 10 but then anything worth doing is often challenging.

So how about it?

So here goes; (though these are not in any particular order)

1. Mike Oldfield - Songs of Distant Earth
2. Tangerine Dream - Tangram
3. Rush - Hemispheres
4. Rush - Moving Pictures
5. Ozric Tentecles - Pungent Efflugent
6. Pink Floyd - The Wall
7. Yes - Going for the one
8. Genesis - Lamb lies down on broadway
9. Camel - Nod and a wink
10. Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells I and II


Phew - that was hard! - I would have put in a lot more Yes and Rush if I could.

OK - your turn!

Here's my top ten, for what its worth. For the most part I'm going to stay away from the obvious bands and choices, like Pink Floyd, Yes, Rush, King Crimson, etc. My first 2 choices are old standbys (artists) , but I think these albums are not well-known.

1. Goblin's Club - Tangerine Dream (not on the moon yet)
2. The Songs of Distant Earth- Mike Oldfield (not on the moon yet)
3. Oltre L'ignoto - Malibran
4. The Masquerade Overture - Pendragon
5. Variations of a Dream - Pineapple Thief (not on the moon yet)
6. Evolution of the Jazzraptor - Jack Foster iii
7. Heaven and Hell - Vangelis
8. Trying to Kiss the Sun - RPWL
9. Natural Timbre - Steve Howe
10. Any album by Niacin

Not about to say these are the best prog albums ever made, but I do think they are must haves for anyone looking for new and different music than regular artists.

Hope that helps tgleeson. :D

Great
 

Thanks teermin8r, some I have heard of here and some new to me so i'll get on with investigating the new ones.

Do you know when Goblin's Club was recorded? I tend not to like their post 1990 stuff.

Already got Heaven and hell - agreed, a great bit of music!!

Very intrigued by Niacin - I think I'll make them my first stop.

Thanks again!!

Ok - anyone else have any suggestions?

Goblin's Club is 1996, and it is my favorite Tangerine Dream cd. And so you know I have 13 Tangerine cds and 3 box sets.

Impressed!!
 

Yeah - I'm a bit of a TD collector too but gave up buying after Optical Race - their direction became a little to 'poppy' for me.

Having said that I have seen them live 3 or 4 times since the 1980's - my favourite being when they recorded LOGOs in London - I LOVE that cd.

I also like Edgar Froese solo albums - especially Stuntman - I bet between us we could do a top 10 TD list !!!

I may just buy Goblin's club on your recomendation though!!

Not so difficult when the moon is involved.
 

Ten fave new discoveries from listening to the Moon and now firmly in my must have and play list.

In no particular order, anything by:

1) Sebastian Hardie
2) Niacin
3) Angel Earth
4) Nathan Mahl
5) Jack Foster III
6) Harmonium
7) Hamadryad
8) Salam Hill
9) Azureth
10) Trace
11) Triumvirat

Ooops!!!! that's 11 and there are more.

All the above are on the playlist. Get requesting. :D

I was at the Logos gig at the Dominion and I agree that it was one of the best TD gigs I've been to. I started to go off them in the late 80s and the 90s. My fave era is definitely Rubycon, Ricochet, Green Desert times.

My non-obvious top ten of the top of my head.

1. The Appleseed Cast - Low Level Owl, Vol. 1 and Vol. 2
2. Tarentel - From Bone to Satellite
3. King's X - Faith Hope Love
4. King's X - Dogman
5. Don Caballero - American Don
6. Mike Oldfield - Tres Lunas
7. Sunny Day Real Estate - How It Feels To Be Something On
8. Rovo - Imago
9. Billy Mahonie - The Big Dig
10.Sigur Ros - Ageatis Byrjun

Honorable Mentions:
a. Turing Machine - A New Machine For Living
b. Godspeed You Black Emperor! - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven
c. American Football - The One With The Wurlitzer
d. King Black Acid - Womb Star Session
e. Kevin Max - Stereotype Be
f. Neal Schon - Electric World


Aaaaah! Not to mention Mogwai, Unwed Sailor, Popol Vuh, Adiemus, Oysterhead, Pele, Sacred Spirits, Iona, The Letter E, Morte Macabre, Platypus..., etc., etc., etc.


Tgleeson, my advice? By far the best thing to do is to just listen to the Moon and if something really jumps out at you, request more from the same album. If you like it, buy it. Repeat as necessary. Welcome to the Moon, last outpost of musical (in)sanity.

nice idea
 

I will stay away from the obvious ones too (add Tull to Term's fine list), and will not include non-prog favorites such as Queenryche's "Empire" or anything by Dada, XTC - "Oranges and Lemons" stop me please!

1) Discipline - Unfolded Like Staircase
2) Echolyn - As The World
3) Djam Karet - The Devouring
4) King's X - Gretchen Goes To Nebraska (with a nod to Spaz for mentioning the other King's X) :cool:
5) Salem Hill - Be
6) Izz - I Move
7) Iluvatar - Children
8) Ozric Tentacles - Erpland
9) The Flower Kings - Stardust We Are
10) Frank Gambale - The Great Explorers

Like how we get diffrent ones....

Let's do a top 100 sometime..........

Re: nice idea
 

A cut from this fine album will play on BrainRock's July 27/28 installment, for those who care :)

Re: Re: nice idea
 

You're cross-pollinating, again!

Re: Re: Re: nice idea
 

He's a busy Bee!!!!

Re: Re: Re: nice idea
 

Ah, that demon of promotion and marketing. Darned BS in mass media! :rolleyes:

10 faves
 

Hi friends! Here is my “10 new discoveries on the moon list” (not in anny perticular order)


Dûn: Eros
De De Lind: Io Non So Da Dove Vengo
Jade Warior: Waves
Passport: Looking Through
Henry Cow: In Praise Of Learning
Steve Hillage: Fish Rising
Joachim Kuhn: Hip Elegy
Eberhard Weber: Colours Of Cloe
Schorch Trio: Scorch Trio
Birdsongs of The Mesozoik: Iridium Controversy

And of course any Dream theater album there is on the moon “lol”

I also want to take this oportunity to thank Tommy, Sean and Alex for providing me many new music experiences when I least expected it.. a few of them are on the list.

Also many huggs to the fellow moonies for forcing me to hear lots of new stuff while desperatley waiting for my Tubelar bells requests....”lol”

All the love! Pontus

I won't include any big five bands album because every prog' fan must have at least the classic ones, so here's my list:

1.- Anglagard: Hybris
2.- Anglagard: Epilog
3.- Magenta: Revolutions
4.- Trespass (Israel): In Haze of Times
5.- Triumvirat: Illusions on a Double Dimple
6.- Par Lindh Project: Gothic Impressions
7.- Kansas: Leftoverture
8.- Le Orme: Felona e Sorona
9.- Banco del Mutuo Soccorso: Darwin
10.- Uriah Heep: Look at Yourself

And I can imagine 100 more essential albums.

Iván

Re: 10 faves
 

Re: Re: 10 faves
 

Don't be sad Spaz.................I'm sure that Fonzy would mention you if he were to be thanking people for new painful experiences. :p

Probably hasn't heard my show... :D

Oh I think he has..................:)

For me this is a very useful thread. I’d like to see lists from more of the luna locals.

ok i'll add one
 

These are not in any order, but they are ten:

1) Iona
2) Salem Hill
3) KBB
4) Gilgamesh
5) Schleigho
6) Don Caballero
7) Glass Hammer
8) Echolyn
9) Panzerpappa
10) Return To Forever

Some of those are fusion bands, but they're all on the Moon. And I like them.

(Oops I started a sentence with "and.")

Here goes
 

As with most people, I am concentrating on discoveries via AM and not the more popular prog bands.

In no particular order:

Godspeed You Black Emperor!!!!
Porcupine Tree
DFA
OSI
Spock's Beard
Discipline
Nathan Mahl
Al Dimeola
Sigur Ros
The Flower Kings

Let's see if I can out-obscure everyone:

Kaseke - Poletus Sonum
Finnforest - Lahto Matkalle
Bellaphon - Firefly
Blezqi Zatsaz - The Tide Turns
Popol Vuh - Einsjager & Siebenjager
Jean-Pascal Boffo - Carillons
Shylock - Gialorgues
Gordian Knot - Emergent
Arti & Mestieri - Tilt
Colin Masson - Isle Of Eight

these are all really good albums...

Bwah-ha-ha! I can do obscure. Yesspaz... GO!

1. The Album Leaf - One Day I'll Be On Time
2. The Mars Volta - De-Loused in the Comatorium
3. Ilium - Plexiglass Cube EP and Paint By Number EP (2 eps = one album?)
4. Physics - Physics1 and Physics2
5. Questions in Dialect - As You May Know
6. Sharks Keep Moving - Sharks Keep Moving
7. Lumen - The Man Felt An Iron Hand*
8. Date Course Pentagon Royal Garden - Report From Iron Mountain
9. Dirty Three - Whatever You Love You Are
10. Labradford - Mi Media Naranja
11. Do Make Say Think - Goodbye Enemy Airship the Landlord Is Dead
12. Macha - See It Another Way
13. Oma Yang - From the Heart of Jumbo Malaria
14. Aix Em Klemm - Aix Em Klemm
15. The Roots of Orchis - The Red House In Winter


How's that? :D


* Full Title: The man felt an iron hand grasp him by the hair, at the nape, not one hand, a hundred hands seized him, each by the hair, and tore him head to foot, the way you tear up a sheet of paper, into hundreds of little pieces

How's that? It depends on how badly these albums suck! Just kidding, but they are not on Aural Moon and I have no idea if most of them are prog or not. Whereas I am confident that most prog fans will like a fair amount of the albums I listed. Let's hear some of yours on Brain Rock....

yawn
 

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Did i say yawn?

How about if you out did each other with good tunes?

New show following BrainRock!, Dueling Tunes! featuring Jim and Spaz. Each DJ goes at it with alternating tunes. And if that doesn't work we throw them in a Alabama mud puddle and let them sling away. :D

too close...
 

to Spaz's home turf, need a neutral site like say....Oklahoma.

I'm jealous....I wish I could spin almost prog tunes...maybe in my next life (Shirley MacLaine will be my wife).

we have some fine red clay around here. I could dig a hole in the backyard and sell tix. :D

We got a good deal of that 'round these parts too. And it won't do no good fer spaz to be that close to home, since we don' hold too good with 'bamans.

Roger -Dot- Lee "Go Clemson?"

'Tis true that the Georgians get the upper hand. I mean Georgia's football team would whip the best picks from Alabama, Auburn, and Troy State combined. But I'm actually from Mississippi, so what do I care?

I chose albums not on AM for the obscurity factor. In fact, about half of these I don't own yet, but are on my list to buy, as I have "somehow" acquired mp3s of various songs and liked them. None of these albums are going to fall squarely in prog the way ELP is squarely in. Rather, they are all of the same ilk. I.e. Is GYBE! prog? Depends on who you ask. Same with these guys (not saying they sound like Godspeed, so those of you who just groaned can relax). :D

As for them beling played on BrainRock, I'm getting there! Patience, Grasshopper. Besides, Jim, eventually you may be receiving all these albums in the mail.:cool:


PS. Leave it to Rick to yawn at tunes he's never heard :eek: ! JK there Rick.

Re: yawn
 

I stand by my list as consisting of good albums, filled with good tunes. Don't yawn at stuff you don't even know. Try requesting some of it, you may learn something.

clarification
 

The points that I am making are:

1) That I am really a bit bored with the constant "I can do one better" competition that exists here. Out obscuring us to me seems a bit haughty. I'm also tired of anything that's related to how smart or intelligent one is. It's condescending.

2) The reason I said that about "good tunes" is that I am suggesting an alternative to "obscure". Not only am I sure that these tunes are good, I have picked up some great music via Spaz, Jim, and others. Also, I hope I have prorvided the same. If you want to gang up and say I am "dissing" you, well if that makes you happy, go ahead.

3) Not up on my abbr. What's "JK"?

4) All of this banter sometimes makes things lost that are serious (although sometimes minor) requests. I had to wait 2 months at least to get the name of the Finch tune corrected, while others are done much faster. I'm still waiting for the three-part Sonus Umbra tune to be put together, and the Discipline track to be as one instead of "Part 1 and 2", when there are much longer whole songs. At least with the Godspeed it's there at least once, in its correct form.

Maybe next time you should ask what I mean, and I should be more clear.

3) Just Kidding

;)

great I wasted a time consuming post?
 

Thanks roger, the "JK" changes the tenor of the post now doesn't it? Well Jim's didn't have a JK.

heh. yeah, it sounds like everybody needs another cup of coffee this morning... ;) :D
(where's that yawn smiley?...) :cool:

Re: clarification
 

I'm not perfect. In spite of the fact that my resume AND my references all say I do everything short of walking on water, things do slip by. Don't believe me? Just ask my wife. She'll tell you. But you better make yourself comfortable. You'll be there a while.

If you see me prattling on after you've made a request for a fix, especially in the same forum where the fix request was made, drop me a note (or a PM. I take those, too) and say "Hey Dot! Didja miss my request to fix Grobschnitz by Fizblat? It's supposed to be "Lickspittle" instead of "Grobschnitz"."

I'll likely look back, think "how did I miss that one" and fix it. Or, I might think "Didn't I already fix that one?", check it, realize that I didn't, and fix it then. Don't let 'em sit for two or three months. I have enough trouble remembering what I had for breakfast this morning let alone a request that was made weeks ago.

And it's entirely possible that I missed the request for the change entirely (either I didn't see the request or did see it and completely spaced on it. Both have happened more than once).

Don't sit on this stuff, Rick. If it looks like I'm not moving, throw a shoe at me. It'll wake me up and I'll get things done faster. Just make sure you tie a note to the laces to let me know WHY you're throwing it at me. Otherwise I might just try to wear it and be done with it.

Roger -Dot- Lee

Re: Top Ten????
 

I think we've all strayed far from the original intent of this thread...

Obviously, there's no need to tell tgleeson "check out Yes and Genesis, they're great bands" (and they were on his list). So sure, we need to suggest things that he maybe hasn't heard. If that makes them obscure, so be it. But are they MUST HAVE bands or CDs?

I'm guilty too. Some of the things on my list were there for the "you probably haven't heard these guys, but they're worth checking out" factor, but "worth checking out" doesn't always equal MUST HAVE.

Re: clarification
 

"Out-obscuring" isn't haughty; it's a joke. I don't think we were competing either. I think we were having fun promoting obscure bands. That's different.

Yesspaz, stealing a page from Dotty by giving myself a long name, wishing that everyone would relax and get some exercise.

Re: Re: Top Ten????
 

Moses gets my original post. If someone's asking for new material, I'm wasting time if I suggest something he already has. That's the only reason I chose the word obscure. Everything I listed I feel is an EXCELLENT album, amongst the best stuff you'll hear on AM. The "out-obscure" comment was meant in jest, and if it isn't obvious to all forum readers that I don't take myself too seriously, then I apologize to everyone, and let me state for the record: "I don't take myself too seriously, and you shouldn't take me too seriously either."

No Rick, my second post didn't have a JK. But neither did your yawn post, and I suppose I was a bit offended. It's difficult to read your post any other way than an insult.

Onto more practical matters: re-doing the Sonus Umbra and Discipline takes me getting the CDs out, re-ripping the songs in question, updating the MP3 tags, ftping it to the station, then Roger can add it to the appropriate folders and we're there. Deleting the second Godspeed takes Roger getting into the computer and deleting the file. That's why some corrections seem to drag out in time. Work is kicking my butt lately (waaah), and I just haven't had the time to make those fixes. I'll get to them...