What are you listening to, right now................
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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.
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@JC Transported me back to the 70's only without the funny smelling cigarettes and blotting paper. Inspired me to an evening of prog rock. Yes, Crimson, Tangerine Dream, Tull, Renaissance, early Genesis - a real binge. Enjoyable - certainly some superb musicianship and brought back (too many) memories. Great trip but probably won't repeat it for another 20 years.
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@Tim said in What are you listening to, right now................:
The vocals have put a lot of people off, but this Supertramp track is a banger:
"School" with the volume set at 11 is pretty cool too...
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@JC said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@dogmeat Let me know what you think. Ideally needs a dimly lit room and a glass of something red. Lake played all the guitars and multi-tracked the bass on both an electric and double bass which gives it a very rich warm sound.
Listened to the whole thing again in the last week. Can admire the musicianship & production, but it comes across as bit souless to me now, almost as if the music is serving the playing rather than the other way round. Sad, as I was a huge fan of their stuff (even have Love Beach...)
Genesis from that period seems to have a lot more warmth and feel - just seems a lot more tasteful, particularly Tony Banks' playing.
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Sounds of a simple time -
Wife pissed off to the Neighbour’s tonight (oops .... don’t tell the Covid police) so after the kids went down decided to look for something to proper chill to. Came across Pink Floyd, a delicate sound of thunder.
Firstly a lot of it has proper dated. Blue Lights everywhere, terrible hair, clothes and the singers dancing is woeful.
But the music. Is just so so good. Gilmour is such a genius on the strat. Mood music at its most superb. Us and Them probably the top song, but Crazy Diamond and comfortably numb always up there. Feeling really refreshed and great now.
Side note. Solo in Comfortably Numb my fave of all time. Nobody can play it like Gilmour.
