What are you listening to, right now................
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There are people who have dedicated substantial portions of their lives to deciphering and hunting down the hours of music produced for Michael Mann's [i]The Keep[/i] (1983), which has never been released in any kind of not butchered cut.
Some of the tracks that have surfaced are fan favourite versions of their songs, or never otherwise released classics.
I'm grateful that one of them still has his website up:
It's still unclear if either of the two best tracks, Stealing the Silver Cross, and Evil Healing, were part of the original edit submitted by Mann. They are fucking bangers though. (A live version of the former was used in theatrical release.)
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Found some old Emerson, Lake & Palmer mp3's (Trilogy, Tarkus) and popped them on the server. (In years gone by, it would have been "popped them on the turntable...)
Wish I hadn't as it's sort of ruined the view of them I had in my memory. Can admire the virtuosity and by all accounts they were good blokes, but gee, a heck of a lot of it sounds pretentious BS. Hasn't aged well - unlike early Genesis stuff
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@MajorRage said in What are you listening to, right now................:
Found this online. One of, if not the, best rock singers of all time. Once they get the volume right, it’s there and it puts the hairs up. Every. Single.Time.
He was up there with the best of his time. Sensational, distinctive voice but it was a great era for singers so he had a lot of competition.
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@MN5 said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@MajorRage said in What are you listening to, right now................:
Found this online. One of, if not the, best rock singers of all time. Once they get the volume right, it’s there and it puts the hairs up. Every. Single.Time.
He was up there with the best of his time. Sensational, distinctive voice but it was a great era for singers so he had a lot of competition.
Indeed. But for me, he's the best. That's not to say that my 2 favourite bands (Tool, Faith No More) would be better with him - far from it.
Staleys voice is just unreal though. You really feel the emotion in it.
Funny thing about the song Would ... AIC is basically Jerry Cantrell & Friends. And he's the guitarist. But I'd put the guitar behind Bass, Vocals & Drums as the most important instrument in the track. And although it would probably be my number 5 or 6 AIC track, it's still their "signature" song.
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@Victor-Meldrew ELP was always peak prog rock self-indulgent pretentiousness though.
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@dogmeat said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@Victor-Meldrew ELP was always peak prog rock self-indulgent pretentiousness though.
Yep. The stuff they wrote just wasn't that good - virtuosity came before the music.
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@Victor-Meldrew said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@dogmeat said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@Victor-Meldrew ELP was always peak prog rock self-indulgent pretentiousness though.
Yep. The stuff they wrote just wasn't that good - virtuosity came before the music.
That’s why Cream didn’t last. Even so I think every member was overrated on their respective instruments
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@MN5 said in What are you listening to, right now................:
Extremely catchy tune and anyone who lives in the nations great capital can enjoy.
Has he got a new album out?
And, unrelated, are there any decent record stores in central Wellington? There's one or two places on Cuba Street, from memory... but do they do new releases, or just 2nd-hand? -
@Victor-Meldrew said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@dogmeat said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@Victor-Meldrew ELP was always peak prog rock self-indulgent pretentiousness though.
Yep. The stuff they wrote just wasn't that good - virtuosity came before the music.
If you have a great hifi system and want to give it a run try "From the Beginning" from Trilogy, the least lossy format the better. If you can track down a vinyl version it will reward the effort.
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@JC said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@Victor-Meldrew said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@dogmeat said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@Victor-Meldrew ELP was always peak prog rock self-indulgent pretentiousness though.
Yep. The stuff they wrote just wasn't that good - virtuosity came before the music.
If you have a great hifi system and want to give it a run try "From the Beginning" from Trilogy, the least lossy format the better. If you can track down a vinyl version it will reward the effort.
Yeah, that's a great song and I have it in FLAC somewhere. Interestingly it's one of the least ELP-like things they did.
I just find that a most of their stuff now comes across as virtuosity rather than musicality and hasn't aged well.
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I know this has been posted before, but this came back on my radar recently (learning to play it) and it's still hands down for me the greatest music video ever.
If you've not seen it before, get that sand out of your eye. A truly powerful piece of music, sung by a truly powerful timeless voice, accompanied by a truly powerful video about growing old.
Epic.
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@JC said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@Victor-Meldrew said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@dogmeat said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@Victor-Meldrew ELP was always peak prog rock self-indulgent pretentiousness though.
Yep. The stuff they wrote just wasn't that good - virtuosity came before the music.
If you have a great hifi system and want to give it a run try "From the Beginning" from Trilogy, the least lossy format the better. If you can track down a vinyl version it will reward the effort.
The boxset came out a few years ago, and through my objectively superior FLAC rip to DAC to transparent headphone amp to Sennheisser HD 650s (and 600s), the "Alternative Version" is the definitive one.
Sounds fucking great, and rocks pretty hard for an organ solo.
