Discussion on Aural Moon updates

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Originally posted by Bob Lentil
Presto fans unite!

"Show! Don't Tell!" - May be the best Rush song between Signals and "Driven" from Test For Echo. The rest of the album is okay. I'm also fond of "Scars" and "Red Tide." Still, it's an underrated album. I like it, but it's not a Rush classic by any means. But "Show Don't Tell"! Man what a song!:

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Originally posted by Michael Rawdon
(I think Roll the Bones was half of a good album, Counterparts was sort of like all the worst parts of Presto done over again, and Test For Echo was, well, the less said, the better. I think it will be the last Rush album I own, as I haven't been able to work up any enthusiasm for buying Vapor Trails.)

Amazing. I think they just got better and better from Presto to Vapor Trails! Exactly the opposite from your assessment.

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SAM recognizes album titles as distinct fields from the artist, so when you add a cover to a track, then upload it, then "apply to album" you will apply the cover to any track from an album with that name. So when Roger.Lee added Styx II, he added to album and it labeled every track from every album named II. When you go to add covers to albums, you can de-select the ones that are actually different albums. I can fix this after PSHores is off. Not a problem.

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Yeah, I found out that it sees all "II" the same when I added a cover like that by accident from some other two-albums with the same name, having to fix one. Can't remember now what they were. I know that both King Crimson and Mike Oldfield have an "Islands" but that wasn't it. Something like that though.

Anyway, the proper covers have been restored on all albums named "II."

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I wonder is it possible to reset the thread every so often, say every two months, without actually deleting the thread. I mean I'm on page 8 right now.

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Originally posted by fremder99
Just a thought... Is there any way to close this thread, clone it, and remove the "commentary" leaving only a list of album additions?

The mod can do it, but I don't know if it'd be worth the effort. Why would you want to know what was added in March of 2003? or June of 2004?

The list of all songs is the request list, so only the new adds are "news." As per finding new artists by looking at "old new adds" - how's that different than scrolling the playlist or just listening to the Moon and making note of interesting stuff? Just curious.

And I think that a read-only recent add list is a phenomenal idea. All it takes is for Roger.Lee to be the mod and he lock the thread. New adds come along, unlock, add post, relock.

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Actually, we don't have all of Flying In A Blue Dream - I left off a few songs that I felt were un-prog. Big Bad Moon being one, and maybe 2 or 3 others. I have more Satriani which I will add, just keeps slipping through the cracks.

Innuendo, I uploaded less than half of it. I feel the songs I chose are reasonably proggish. The title track has Steve Howe playing that flamenco guitar, therefore it must be prog, right?

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on the kate Bush (Red Shoes), I left off 3 songs that I felt were too pop for the moon. There were probably 2 others that JUST made it. Program Director's prerogative...

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Originally posted by Rick and Roll
I wonder if "Constellation of the Heart" was cut? That's a prime of example of the kind of "pop" I like (it's my favorite cut) that doesn't make it on the moon (for acceptable reasons may I add). I'd be interested to know.....

yep, Constellation was cut. It was one of those several on the cusp...

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IZZ are cool, I like them. Stylistically similar to Spock's beard (with Neal), but I like IZZ better - their sound is more integrated than SB. How many more CDs do they have?

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Originally posted by Rick and Roll
but there's no e!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What is Queen Pre Ordained??? Some kind of compilation? Say it ain't so! I can't find anything by that title. As far as I know, "Innuendo" was the last record - please say it's not a compilation, that would be weak.


Enlighten me!

I AM Jim and there's no "E" in Univers Zero.

Queen "Pre-Ordained" is a brand new release of material that pre-dates the first album. All of it was recorded between 1969 and 1973. I found it to be interesting, and fairly progressive.

Rick, on Izz and "integrated", what I was referring to is that SB (to me) is pop with progressive instrumental breaks inbetween, whereas Izz integrates pop and progressive into a coherent whole. It is truly progressive pop, whereas SB is pop, then progressive, then pop, then progressive.

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What I like about Tres Lunas is that it doesn't sound like every other Oldfield release. There's a sameness to his sound (to me) which means I like any of his albums, but I need space between listens.

Same thing about the Journey, though that one was pretty interesting in it's own right. Nice mix of the orchestra/strings and Schon's guitar. It got cheesy in one or two places, and I did leave one song out (sounded like sappy pop to me), but overall a fine effort.

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we did have several versions of Siberian Khatru on the playlist, just not the studio version. Don't ask me why, that predates my time here.

Jim "who me?" Brennan

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Originally posted by Roger Lee

Here, in no particular order:

• Bozzio, Terry & Billy Sheehan - Nine Short Films
• IQ - Dark Matter
• Karda Estra - Voivode Dracula
• Ritual - Superb Birth
• Saens - Prophet In A Statistical World
• Tr3nity - Precious Seconds

Roger -Dot- Lee

actually, it is in a particular order - alphabetical, to be precise.

Jim the nit-picker...

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Did I not upload Matthew Parmenter like I thought I did, or did you forget to mention it? Or is there some other more sinister explanation?

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Originally posted by Roger Lee

Oh, and about that one National Health song that I'd mentioned elsewhere: I think it's a good call to leave it off. It makes no sense and will likely leave people scratching their heads than anything else. Something along the lines of "What was THAT?" springs to mind right off hand...

Roger -Dot- Lee

hmm, I'm not so sure I disapprove of making people think "WTF?"

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Originally posted by moses
For those who aren't aware, the Balanescu Quartet stuff is mostly string quartet arrangements of Kraftwerk songs... interesting!

and Moses should know as it was his donation - everybody say "Thanks Moses"...

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the latest additions:

Henry Cow - Unrest
Popol Vuh - Einsjager & Siebenjager
Gjallarhorn - Grimborg
Xen - Master Of Night
Gongzilla - Suffer
Tunnels - Tunnels
Cathedral - Stained Glass Stories
Scott Lindenmuth Group - Penalty Phase
Styx - Man Of Miracles
Styx - The Serpent Is Rising

I think Roger dot had already posted this, but we had some serious weirdness with the forums over the weekend...

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I actually had nothing to do with Opeth being added. Based on the little I've heard of them (Inlcuding snippets of "Damnation"), I'm not interested in them...

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Originally posted by Bob Lentil
Wasn't Elf Tales already on the playlist?

Yes, but we were missing a song which I added. I didn't mention to Rger that it was only one song that was new...