At 10/16/11 06:05 PM, Tobi wrote:
At 10/16/11 05:20 PM, Sense-Offender wrote:
Even the album Beat at least has Heartbeat.
Are you implying Heartbeat is the only good song on Heartbeat?
Well, I dunno. I haven't listened to it much, but it seemed quite unmemorable compared to their other stuff. I also remember liking Niel and Jack and Me, but what's the deal with the chorus? "Niel and Jack and me, absent lovers, absent lovers". Uh, is this about a gay love triangle? Not that there's anything wrong with that (hurr Seinfeld).
Cause I suggest you give the album a second spin, it's my fav. next to Discipline and Starless and Bible Black.
really? Beat is one of your favorite KC albums? Those other two are definitely among the best, but do you really like Starless more than Red and Lark's Tongues? I mean, Starless and Bible Black is absolutely amazing, even almost perfect, but I think it's still the weakest of the three Wetton era albums, while Red and Lark's Tongues in Aspic are pretty much equal in mind blowing perfection. I never hear any love for the Talking Drum, which is just so great.
So what do you think of in the Court, Poseidon, Thrak, Red, Lark's Tongues, and Power to Believe? I think those are also among the best Crimson albums ever, along with Discipline and Starless.
King Crimson is my favorite band, and really, you can't go wrong with looking into any one album, cause none really define them, save for a period of a few years.
high five! They're like the best band ever. Even their worst stuff is still at least decent. I've been meaning to check out the Construkction of Light. I'm pretty sure that's how they spell it, probably because their name can be initialized as "KC", so, the ConstruKCion of Light. I've also never checked out those Projekct albums.
Check out in The Court if you want some good Symphonic Prog, Most everything up until Discipline is a nice selection of jazzy prog, the 80's era is an excellent take on New Wave/post-punk,
post-punk? I don't hear it. But yeah, it's great. I just wish Levin used that Chapman stick even more. It sounds sick on songs like Elephant Talk and Frame by Frame. The only thing about Adrian Belew era KC is that synth guitar Belew's got going on that sounds like some weird high pitched squeaking. It doesn't sound right.
Thrak is a cool piece of Grunge, and the two recent albums expand on the Grungy aspects while adding more electronic elements.
I guess you could say it's grungy. I never thought of it like that. Thrak and the Power to Believe are definitely their heaviest albums. Some songs on the Power to Believe come pretty close to sounding like metal without actually quite getting there.
Checking out the solo output of the band wouldn't hurt either. Fripp is really good at drone, Levin's latest is extremely heavy to the point one could call it metal, Belew is a collage of weird guitar noises (with a hot bassist to boot).
I think Belew's solo stuff is hit and miss. Some stuff is good, some not so much. And the only album of Levin's solo work I've heard is Resonator, which has some cool stuff and some not so cool stuff. I definitely like Break it Down and his cover of the Sabre Dance. However, he's not that good of a vocalist and sometimes he tries to do things with his voice that just don't work. I've also not heard much from Fripp's solo stuff. I have one album from him, which is Exposure. I haven't listened to it much and I don't remember a lot in particular, but I remember thinking it was pretty good. He's a fantastic, unique guitarist, though, so I intend to listen to more of his stuff. I know he's also collaborated with Brian Eno, which is very cool.
Also, didn't Les Claypool do guest bass for one of Belew's songs?
Have you ever listened to Bill Bruford's band? It's quite good. He's definitely one of the greatest drummers that ever lived, and I'm not exaggerating. I don't mean he's the fastest, but he's the most creative and rhythmically savvy. His jazz band, Earthworks is also really good. I love the song Teratoma, even though that's a pretty messed up name for such a cool jazz tune. I got to see a removed teratoma in a glass case when I went to the Bodies exhibit at the South Street Sea Port in NYC. You could see the hair and teeth in it. That wasn't even the most disturbing thing that was there. There was a whole room full of dead infants, fetuses, embryos, and such. It was still fascinating, though.
Also, listen to Sense Offender.
word, brah.
At 10/16/11 06:14 PM, Anti-pie wrote:
Not sure if this has been brought up but as we all (should) know Amon (no not Amon Amarth just Amon) was brought back after the Hoffman bros. were kicked out of Deicide.
That cover looks sick. I like it. What is it? death metal? The name reminds me of one of my fabvorite artists, Amon Tobin. I still haven't checked out Deicide. I might do that. They're death metal, right? I've come to really appreciate death metal, that is, depending on the kind of death metal. I like old school and new school, but some of the new stuff sounds shitty to me. Some death vocals are just dumb. And the stuff that just sounds like random, arbitrary guitar playing and a machine gun constantly firing instead of drums...bleh. the wall of noise type of stuff. Anyway, I'll try to remember to check out those two bands. I need to do some digging through this thread and find those death metal recommendations that were given to me by Dalnaki and others.
By the way, are those Acid Bath lyrics in your sig?
At 10/16/11 06:49 PM, batman64 wrote:
Yes, I prefer their earlier 70's works myself since I feel the 80's kinda messed em up a bit(Will say now, 80's messed up a lot of prog bands...weird decade)
I haven't heard many of their albums in their entirety, but Fragile and Starship Trooper are super awesome.
King Crimson...it's all good prog(Court of the Crimson King is a personal fave album)
That one is pretty much their only hit. People from that time see me wearing a KC shirt and tell me they remember that album, but then I ask if they remember their others, and the answer is almost always no.
Emerson, Lake, and Palmer..ELP..Their early works are great prog and Brain Salad Surgery is essential listening for prog fans IMO.
One of the best prog bands ever. One of my teachers in highschool got me into them by borrowing the record player from the library and playing their records during lunch break. She played all their best stuff for me. ELP, Tarkus, Trilogy, and Pictures at an Exhibition. I don't remember if she brought in Brain Salad Surgery. She was my favorite teacher. She was the one who gave me her perfect condition issue number one of Heavy Metal Magazine as a graduation gift. No matter how much that sells for, I'll never part with it, and I'll always take good care of it.
Electric Light Orchestra(ELO)
Jethro Tull
My mom really likes both of those bands. I only know a bit of Jethro Tull. I mostly remember the Christmas stuff.
Rush and Deep Purple are listed as Metal
I never really considered Deep Purple to be true prog, but they're still awesome. I think Deep Purple in Rock is their best. Machine Head is great, but a bit overrated. Fireball and Burn are also awesome, and Who Do We Think We Are and Perfect Strangers are a bit Underrated. I do think of them as being somewhat metal, at the least what would be called "proto-metal". And Rush is great, but I don't know why anybody calls them metal.
Traffic..early works are great prog.
I remember my father talking about them, but I never gave them a listen.
The Moody Blues
My mom still loves them. All I know is Knights in White Satin, though, which is a great song.
