Top Ten????

[zvinki]

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

[progdirjim(Admin)]

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...

[Yesspaz]

Originally posted by progdirjim
Let's see if I can out-obscure everyone:

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?


* 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

[progdirjim(Admin)]

Originally posted by Yesspaz
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?


* 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....

[Rick and Roll]

yawn
yawn
yawn
yawn
yawn
yawn

Did i say yawn?

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

[teermin8r]

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.

[Rick and Roll]

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).

[teermin8r]

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

[Roger -Dot- Lee(Admin)]

Originally posted by teermin8r
we have some fine red clay around here. I could dig a hole in the backyard and sell tix.

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?"

[Yesspaz]

'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?

[Yesspaz]

Originally posted by progdirjim
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....

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).

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.


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

[progdirjim(Admin)]

Originally posted by Rick and Roll
yawn
yawn
yawn
yawn
yawn
yawn

Did i say yawn?

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

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.

[Rick and Roll]

Originally posted by Rick and Roll
yawn
yawn
yawn
yawn
yawn
yawn

Did i say yawn?

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

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.

[roger]

3) Just Kidding

[Rick and Roll]

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

[roger]

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

[Roger -Dot- Lee(Admin)]

Originally posted by Rick and Roll
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.

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

[moses]

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

Originally posted by tgleeson
Could we make a top ten list of bands or Cd's which in our personal opinions are MUST HAVE purchases?

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.

[Yesspaz]

Originally posted by Rick and Roll
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.

"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.

[progdirjim(Admin)]

Originally posted by moses
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?

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...