What CD's Are you Playing Right Now? Top 5

[MonkeyPhoneAlex]

Rush: Snakes and Arrows
lots of people talk bad about this album, but I like it. Not Rush's best by a longshot, but a solid album nonetheless.

Tubular Bells is one of those albums that I need to listen to at least once a week or so.

The Snow Goose, by Camel, has held my interest since I first got it. It will always hold a special place in my heart as the album that got me into prog.

Gates Of Delirium is currently a track I'm addicted to.

Recently I've found mainstream music in general to be an enormous disappointment. The quality of the music seems inversely proportional to the band's popularity these days. Very sad.

[Yesspaz]

Originally Posted by mailotron

... how many Adiemuses are there ?
none
n o n e
n o n e


They don't a(di)amuse me at all

Um, I'm not sure I followed that none none none part, but for the record, they have five albums. Really, it's composer Karl Jenkins' rather than a group.
Yeah, the Soft Machine guy.

[dinosaur]

[quote=Lellu;28115]I bought Tales From Topographic Oceans by Yes few weeks ago. Certainly not too approachable an album...QUOTE]

Ah, to be experiencing Tales anew...I envy you Lellu. Keep spinning it, it will amaze you more the more you listen! The last few minutes of Ritual shows Steve is capable of simply inhuman guitar work.

[Lellu]

Originally Posted by VAXman

I just bought Tales From Topographic Oceans by Yes a few (3) decades ago. It was certainly an approachable album then. A phonograph needle approached it so often that I wore out the first copy. I gave it to a friend and bought a second copy.

Before Tales my only albums by Yes were Fragile and Relayer...
Tales feels quite tranquil when compared to those.

ps.

I think therefore iMac

[mailotron]

today

Ben HArper and the blind boys of Alabama , no words to describe it !
Phide

[mailotron]

Phideaux 3 13 it loops in my car , not really prog but fine pop songs full of analog instruments
Just unwrapped new Loreena Mc Kennit live cd and dvd ,
HAmmill Peter X my heart
Strawbs Grave new world
Barclay James Harvest Time Nonoured Ghosts

and SUM 41 and Fall out Boy cos' of the kids

[roger]

a bunch of unreleased Frost*/Jem Godfrey stuff. awesome.

and there's going to be a second Frost* disc! yay! next summer.

Twelfth Night - Live at the Target. Recorded in 1981. Really good sound.
Threshold - Dead Reckoning. Latest offering from this Metalish band. Saw them recently at SEfest and loved them even though the vocalist is a different guy. Great performance.
Galahad - Empires Never Last. Another SEfest band. Superb songs.
Nick May - Whimwise. Amazing sound. Eastern avant garde feel from this band led by ex Enid guitarist Nick May. Fabulous.
Big Big Train - The Difference Machine. My dear friend Rogor Mortis put me onto this UK band and they have knocked me sideways with this, their latest release. A future classic. You can check out some of their songs at their home page or MyWaste.

http://www.bigbigtrain.com/

http://www.myspace.com/wwwmyspacecombigbigtrain

I've written to them asking if they want to donate a CD to the station. I'm convinced that when you hear it you'll want to buy it.

[jrstudioboss]

Hipgnosis' "sky's the Limit" is good polish prog - I especially like "mantra"
Neal Morse's "?" absolutely blows me away, and "12" gives me chills
Fear of a Blank Planet - the more I listen, the more I like it, I play it at least once a week
Stupid Dream - ok, so I like P Tree! my favorites are Even Less, Smart Kid and Stop Swimming
Cyndee Lee Rule, UFOsmosis, apologies to a fellow moonite, but thumbs down on this one

[OverHillandDale(Admin)]

Here's this week's list:

Anima Mundi - Septentrion - Cuba's prog representative
Within Temptation - The Heart of Everything - metal goth from the neitherlands. Female lead like Evanescense but a little more fantastical in theme

Blezqui Zatsa - The Tide Turns

Rare Earth - Greatest Hits & Rare Classics - Them white boys could poor on the that motown sound.

IQ - The Lost Attic

Yes - The Ladder, Relayer, The Word is Live

Rain - Cerelean Blue

Calm Wizardry - Poems From The Past (Internets longest piece of free music)

Mark Knofpler - Kill To Get Crimson (New Release)

[schupdoggy]

So far this week...

Mahavishnu Orchestra - Visions Of The Emerald Beyond
Nazareth - Loud 'N' Proud
Steppenwolf - Steppenwolf 7
Tommy Bolin - Teaser
Trapeze - Medusa
Sensational Alex Harvey Band - Tomorrow Belongs To Me
Martin Barre - A Trick of Memory
Nathan Mahl - Shadows Unbound
Mats & Morgan - Thanks For Flying With Us
Flame Dream - Calatea
Dust - Dust
Carlos Santana & Buddy Miles - Live
Boston - Don't Look Back
Black Crowes - Amorica
Billy Thorpe - Children Of The Sun ... Revisited
Les Claypool - Live Frogs - Set 1
Jimi Hendrix - War Heroes
Happy The Man - Crafty Hands
Galactic Cowboys - Space In Your Face
Tucky Buzzard - Buzzard
Triumvirat - Mediterranean Tales (Across the Water)
XII Alfonso - This Is
Wolfmother - Wolfmother
Peter Hammill - pH7
Osibisa - Woyaya
Mandrill - Mandrilland
Far Corner - Far Corner
Edgar Winter Group - Shock Treatment

[Ted]

This week my top 5 cd's are:

Neal Morse - Sola Scriptura
Jean Michel Jarre - Teo & Tea
Jean Michel Jarre - Oxygene
Queen - A Night at the Opera
Queen - Queen II

Of course - everything I got by ELP - in fact, driving into work today - I listened to "3" - Emerson, Berry, & Palmer - very 80's & poppy....

From the "Live Music Capital of the World" (that's what THEY say....) Austin, TX

Ted

[NorCalKurt]

Ice Age - The Great Divide
Enchant - Juggling 9 or Dropping 10
Pinnacle - Meld
Tony Levin - Stick Man
Robben Ford - Truth



those are just the latest.

[zvinki]

Riverside - Rapid Eye Movement (Not as strong as the first 2 but definately worth listening)
Anathema - A Natural Disaster (Softer side of this death metal band. I really like their and introspection)
Porcupine Tree - Fear of a Blank Planet (very good CD. I am probably dangerously close to OD on PT though)

Mostly while driving.

[schupdoggy]

IZZ - I Move
Don Caballero - American Don
Bozzio-Levin-Stevens - Black Light Syndrome
Bloodrock - Bloodrock 2
Ken Hensley - The Last Dance
Ohm - Ohm
Spock's Beard - Octane
Marillion - Anoraknophobia

[eloy1964]

Apple Pie - Crossroad

Heard this here on the moon and was hooked. Not taken it out my cd player since putting in last week! This Russian group deserve our support and offer a wide variety of influences in one disc.

[Methem]

Originally Posted by zvinki

Anathema - A Natural Disaster (Softer side of this death metal band. I really like their and introspection)

An album worth listening, although I definitely prefer some of the earlier works. The fourth song on ND, the emotional "Are You There", is great... the kind of stuff that should also appeal to many females.


-Methem

[zvinki]

Which earlier work are you thinking of Methem? I have Eternity and am thinking of getting judgement or A Fine Day to Exit. They also have a couple of new songs that you can download from their webiste for free. They are really quite good in the same style as "Are You There".

[Methem]

Originally Posted by zvinki

Which earlier work are you thinking of Methem? I have Eternity and am thinking of getting judgement or A Fine Day to Exit. They also have a couple of new songs that you can download from their webiste for free. They are really quite good in the same style as "Are You There".

The earlier works are Eternity and the 1998 album Alternative 4.

Judgement is all right. The song "Wings Of God" is probably my favourite on that one. A Fine Day to Exit is an album I was a bit disappointed with, personally, but you might like it.


-Methem

[Sven]

Gammaray - Skeletons In The Closet (2-CD set), not prog but fine Metal from Germany.