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[Koray Savas 2,260]

I feel like I should have mentioned this back when Babel was released, but I really love Mumford & Sons' Dharohar Project EP with Laura Marling from a couple years back.

An oddly excellent mix of Indian and English/Irish musical stylings.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cw5-AnvUdLc

[Jay 46,244]

It's a weird EP

[Koray Savas 2,260]

I dig it. Better than Babel, at any rate.

[A24 5,156]

Gilmour's disappointing first solo album sounds very middle-of-the-road.

And I wasn't thrilled with 'Paul goes Diana Krall' either.

Alex

[Naïve Old Fart 13,023]

Agreed, Alex. I far prefer "About Face".

[A24 5,156]

Because I was never a fan of Gilmour's debut album, I actually never bothered to listen to his second album 'About Face', Richard. I did buy his latest solo album (it was only 5 Euro), but again, I didn't like it so I gave it away.

I can't check out 'About Face' either because apparently Gilmour thinks he is above spotify. Who does he think he is!

Alex

[Naïve Old Fart 13,023]

Your not missing much, Alex "On An Island" sounds like lukewarm outakes from "The Division Bell".

"About Face" contains 2 songs co-written by Pete Townsend, and 2 of my faves: "Cruise", and the instrumental "Let's Get Metaphysical", the latter having a nice orchestral arrangement by Michael Kamen. It's worth checking out.

Above Spotify, eh? "What Do You Want From Me?" Money, I guess...

[Quintus 6,496]

Gilmore is entitled to plug away at it till his heart's content, but the rekindlement is forever destined to evade him and his fans. He should try a saxy jazz record instead.

Lee - who likes On an Island, parts of it.

[Koray Savas 2,260]

I don't even like all of Pink Floyd's stuff, wouldn't dare try them solo.

[Naïve Old Fart 13,023]

Roger Water's "Radio K.A.O.S." is surperb. His "Amused To Death" is not bad, either. Rick Wright's "Broken China" is good, as well.

Both "ATD", and "BC" are in Q-sound.

[A24 5,156]

I bought The Pros And Cons Of Hitch Hiking (which feels a lot like Pink Floyd's The Final Cut) and Richard's Wright's Wet Dream on vinyl back in the days. I still have them. I once had Gilmour's debut album too but it got lost several months later. Was one of my friends a thief?

Today I'm not really all that much into Pink Floyd anymore but I enjoyed their music for decades.

Alex

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 12,387]

Nice ass!

[Quintus 6,496]

Nice mullet!

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 12,387]

Did you have a mullet back in the day?

[Quintus 6,496]

In the eighties I had a curly wog.

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 12,387]

did you shave your head in the techno crazed 90s?

[Ren 77]

No I dont think he did. He had a great head of hair from what I know.

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 12,387]

What the hell happened to it?

I had bright red hair throughout my childhood and teens. Started to notice the first slight recede on the first day of my new school.

That was a week of self consciousness.....

[Quintus 6,496]

Up until last year I had a decent head of hair on me, but then the great recede begun and out came the clippers. Now I keep it short, no.2 on top, no.1 back and sides. I really like it, to my surprise.

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 12,387]

I started to recede early, but it's also stopped years ago (much to my mo...mum's annoyance, she has been proclaiming that I'll go completely and utterly bald ever since I was 15).

I tend to keep it short because i'm too fucking lazy to even run a comb though it, much less considering styling it.

[Naïve Old Fart 13,023]

Question for Richard, but it's worthy of being discussed in this forum:

How do you like the 2012 next generation version of Jeff Waynes' War of the Worlds, featuring Liam Neeson? I've read mixed reviews on it.

It totally slipped my mind when I was making my list to "Santa" (mom and gf), so it's something I would wait to buy after Christmas. I have some lengthy car drives ahead of me, making the original a worthy companion for the trip.

Right, Wojo! Sorry it's taken so long to reply, but...I like it. Of course it cannot hope to compare with original, but the new artists do the work credit, and Liam Neeson is far better than I imagined he would be. It's satisfying to hear old effects (the cylinder opening, the pod crashing on poor old Beth) but I like the new "21st century" touches, also, as well as the extended dramatic pieces.

It's nice to hear players such as Herbie Flowers, and Jo Partridge again, but I have never cared for the "modern" epilogue, by JW's dad: it's completely unnecessary, and I always fade out the CD before it gets to that.

All 'n' all, a nice re-working of a modern classic - but don't do it again, please...

Actually, let's see if JW could make "Spartacus" any better...

[A24 5,156]

[Quintus 6,496]

Thorin Oakenshield's debut solo album? (dressed by Grace Jones for the cover)

[Wojo 2,458]

That reminds me, I really need to branch out into more of Frank Zappa's material beyond the greatest hits album. It's the time of year when the yellow snow song is appropriate, but beyond that, I don't know as much of his stuff as I want.

[Ren 77]

i'm looking for some music to listen to - i'm actually sick of trance right now.

[Jay 46,244]

I've been enjoying Oasis, Grace Potter and the Nocturnals, Green Day, Jewel, and Guns N Roses on Spotify lately.

[A24 5,156]

That reminds me, I really need to branch out into more of Frank Zappa's material beyond the greatest hits album. It's the time of year when the yellow snow song is appropriate, but beyond that, I don't know as much of his stuff as I want.

I'm not a Zappa expert but that album (Sheik Yerbouti (get it?)) is probably a good start.

[Naïve Old Fart 13,023]

Ah! The one with "Baby Snakes", and "Dancin' Fool" on it. A nice place to begin, Alex.

Having said that, the Zappa catalogue is such that one could start almost anywhere, and hit a bullseye every time. "Hot Rats" is another good place to start. Best to avoid "Joe's Garage" until one has had a chance "build up" to it. It's the "The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway" of Zappa, if you know what I mean...

[Wojo 2,458]

Right. I never got to The Lamb until I'd listened to the three prior, though I had grown up with Duke onwards.

[Naïve Old Fart 13,023]

Actually, Wojo, there were 5 prior (6, if you count the live LP), but I quibble...

"Duke" is a perfectly good port of entry for Genesis, but for absolute beginers, I'd recommend their comercial peak of "Invisible Touch", which is easily their most accessible recording.

So...what do make of Mr. Zappa?

P.s. don't eat the yellow snow...

[Wojo 2,458]

Well as long as we're quibbling, what I meant was that my first Genesis with Gabriel was Nursery Cryme, which I followed in undergrad with Foxtrot and Selling England by the Pound, which are the studio albums I referred to as "the three prior." I didn't really start to enjoy Trespass until after I had listened to The Lamb, and the next time I listen to From Genesis to Revelation shall be my first.

Cassettes of Invisible Touch and the eponymous album were what I started with in grade school, then gradually moved forward to WCD and back to Abacab and Duke, and then eventually I found the three studio albums that I left out. I consider the live albums as companions to the studio ones, even the great live ones like Genesis Live and disc 3 of the first Archive. They remain perhaps my favorite band of all time.

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 12,387]

i'm looking for some music to listen to - i'm actually sick of trance right now.

Naturally!

Listen to more Goldsmith...

[Naïve Old Fart 13,023]

Well as long as we're quibbling, what I meant was that my first Genesis with Gabriel was Nursery Cryme, which I followed in undergrad with Foxtrot and Selling England by the Pound, which are the studio albums I referred to as "the three prior." I didn't really start to enjoy Trespass until after I had listened to The Lamb, and the next time I listen to From Genesis to Revelation shall be my first.

Cassettes of Invisible Touch and the eponymous album were what I started with in grade school, then gradually moved forward to WCD and back to Abacab and Duke, and then eventually I found the three studio albums that I left out. I consider the live albums as companions to the studio ones, even the great live ones like Genesis Live and disc 3 of the first Archive. They remain perhaps my favorite band of all time.

Top man! Genesis would probably be my 3rd favourite.

I take it that the "three studio albums that I left out" are "A Trick Of The Tail", "Wind And Wuthering", and "...and then there were three..." ?

O.K...so, what do you think of "Calling All Stations", and all the non-album tracks?

[A24 5,156]

"Let us be lovers we'll marry our fortunes together"

"I've got some real estate here in my bag"

So we bought a pack of cigarettes and Mrs. Wagner pies

And we walked off to look for America

"Kathy," I said as we boarded a Greyhound in Pittsburgh

"Michigan seems like a dream to me now"

It took me four days to hitchhike from Saginaw

I've gone to look for America

Laughing on the bus

Playing games with the faces

She said the man in the gabardine suit was a spy

I said "Be careful his bowtie is really a camera"

"Toss me a cigarette, I think there's one in my raincoat"

"We smoked the last one an hour ago"

So I looked at the scenery, she read her magazine

And the moon rose over an open field

"Kathy, I'm lost," I said, though I knew she was sleeping

I'm empty and aching and I don't know why

Counting the cars on the New Jersey Turnpike

They've all gone to look for America

All gone to look for America

All gone to look for America

[Naïve Old Fart 13,023]

Er...yes, Alex: great band, great artwork from "Avatar" - sorry, I meant Roger Dean - and a storming cover version, although it originally appeared as a track on the compilation LP called "Age Of Atlantic".

Have you heard "America" in its 5.1 mix, as the extra track on the DVD-A of "Fragile"?

[A24 5,156]

You really know you sh!t, Richard. No, I only know that cover version from this album. I don't have 5.1 or DVD-A. I was a 'follower' of the SACD system. I had one but only stereo. Stereo rules!

Alex Anderson

[Koray Savas 2,260]

I have $8 in Amazon MP3 credit. Pick my next album!

Miles Davis' Kind Of Blue for $2.99 is tempting. As is Rage Against The Machine's eponymous album for the same price.

[Jay 46,244]

RATM FTW!

[Koray Savas 2,260]

I've always liked them but never bought any of their stuff.

[Jay 46,244]

Their first album is far and away their best. Their most rock-oriented, their least rap-oriented

[Naïve Old Fart 13,023]

Koray, if you don't buy "Kind Of Blue" NOW, then you are an idiot! (actually, that's American idiot - see what I did there?)

[A24 5,156]

Miles Davis? I only have:

Alex

[A24 5,156]

Paul & David

[Naïve Old Fart 13,023]

A brilliant picture!!!! taken on the "Venus And Mars" tour?

[A24 5,156]

I don't know ... but it did make me wonder if the two ever worked together.

[Wojo 2,458]

Best rock photo ever.

http://whenyouawake.com/2012/08/16/snapshot-paul-mccartney-david-gilmour-and-linda-mccartney/

They're watching Led Zeppelin in 1975!

[A24 5,156]

The one where Linda is cut off is better.

[Koray Savas 2,260]

Finally bought the Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears albums I've been 'wishing for' for so long. Any fan of blues rock will love them.

[ShowUStheHOOK 8]

don't kill me, but these two songs made me stick with playing piano

[Naïve Old Fart 13,023]

I don't know ... but it did make me wonder if the two ever worked together.

Yes they did. They both played on the "Rockestra Theme" track, from Wings' 1979 album, "Back To The Egg".