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 | Jethro42 Barock Project - Coffee in Neukolln (modern prog), The Tea Club - Quickly Quickly Quickly, (modern prog) Campo Di Marte - Campo Di Marte, (Classic era prog), so I consider these three, the last one to a lesser extent.
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| Jethro42 Feel comfortable with it, Nag. I'll go by myself. I have at least two albums I'd want to review. That represent a lot of work for me, so I thought you could join me. I'll shoutbox you as the things are going on. Pandemic wise, it's better here too. The public health starts to open everything progressively, and we can visit and receive more people as well. It's only positive.
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| Jethro42 A Nag's sighting!...How are you doing, bro! I often think of you about writing another ProgJect review. Would be cool! I'd hesitate between two bands...So close to typing it...
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| Jethro42 No no my friend. I didn't lost the review; I rather lost my last shoutbox message, and I had to try to rewrite as precise as possible. I prefer to let the review on a shelf anyway, cos I have to edit all my paragraphs, you know when you decide to bump it down from a 4.5 to a 3.5. I'm listening to so many albums these days, It's gonna be an easy task to choose another one. I hope you're doing fine.Tell me when you're ready to give me an adress to send you my review(s)
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| Jethro42 Apologies if my last message is not too clear, I lost it entirely by mistake, so I had to rewrite it all, and I was more clear the first time, oh well...
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| Jethro42 Hi Nag, nice to see you. I've changed my mind about the album/review. I'll probably bump it down from 4.5 to 3.5, so it's a mess; I have to edit lots of passages, and I prefer leave it on a shelf for now. On that matter, I will totally choose another album. Remains to be confirmed. My email has changed and I could transmit it to you, but I thought you first would let me yours to submit you my review(s). Let's wait to be both live here, so we can e.rase all traces of our email.
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| Jethro42 Hello there. I'm about to finish my writing. My rating has bumped down to a 4. Intro; check. Middle; kinda puzzle mess, in process. Conclusion; under construction. I still need to eliminate/rearrange some sentences. I think it's of a good lenght. I'll need your email address again.We'll have to meet in our shoutboxes, and so to e.rase your address, then. It looks like a review. I expect it to be in a ProgJect standards.
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 | Hello there. I'm about to finish my writing. My rating has bumped down to a 4. Intro; check. Middle; kinda puzzle mess, in process. Conclusion; under construction. I still need to eliminate/rearrange some sentences. I think it's of a good lenght. I'll need your email address again.We'll have to meet in our shoutboxes, and so to your address, then. It looks like a review. I expect it to be in a ProgJect standards. Figure it in having a lot of correcting. I'll do my best.
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| Jethro42 You'd prefer Perigeo. It's half prog metal, half classic prog. Very melodic. I hesitated in my choice of album. Apofenia gives me chills in every turns, but it also turns my hairs in the wrong side, and I'm losing my breath because of its sometimes eerie atmospheres. It's darkness that competes with light, I feel. There's a lot of hope combined with tension. I like the final product. Thanks for sharing, Nag, bro. I'm on my writing process ;)
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| Jethro42 You're right my friend, I'm really attracted to that branch of prog. From the start, Italy is a good country for prog in general. They hugely borrow from British approach, but they have their own style and flavor. There is nothing like a Mediterranean breeze and flavor.
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| Jethro42 Hellow sir! Here is the album I wish to review if ever you have the occasion to listen to. It's also available in spotify, but songs are not exactly in a proper order. Album is unknown here in sput, and it's the only low point. Classic modern prog right here. Cheers! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24Ivyi__s24
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| Jethro42 That's weird, my last few comments don't show my profile picture neither my nick name (before my comments) in your shoutbox. Only a question mark is shown. Do you see the same?
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| Once in prog, always in prog. You can get out the proghead out of prog, but you can't get out prog from the proghead. I have some modern prog ideas, but for the sake of being more attractive, I'll try to focus on 70's classic prog. Either way, It's gonna be a judicious choice. It's always a pleasure to talk to you, all the same. I can't help to say; Keep on progging!
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| Jethro42 Thanks so much, Nag. I doubt about having as much exposure as the first generation of ProgJect, since prog is more and more a rare thing here on sput; Progheads almost have all gone away. I'm not expecting much with the readers, but I'm ready to try it whatever happens, or not happens :)
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| I've just noticed I've added 8 Brand X albums to the data base over time. I suggest you to give a try to a French instrumental Jazz Fusion-with-a-Zeuhl-touch band named One Shot (''Ewaz Vader'' and ''Dark Shot'' found on Youtube. Also an instrumental Italian band named Accordo Dei Contrari that you can find on Bandcamp. I have yet to suggest you some other bands, but I don't want to overcharge you. On another note, I'd be willing to do a review eventually. May I count on you to assist me again?
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| Jethro42 Hi Nag, bro! I'm doing fine thanks. In effect, I see you're into a Brand X binge.I've passed my teen times listening to their first three ones in a constant rotation. I still remember voting with my friends about which is the best style; Brand X or UK. At the unanimity it was easily Brand X vote. UK got exciting style, but they were a short lived band. Both are timeless music. Pandemic speaking, things are not really getting better, so we have to respect a curfew for a month. Patience needed.
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| Jethro42 It's the third world war, and our enemy is invisible. Not quite right for the first portion, I hope. Here at home, things seem to get stable. Not ideal, but stable. Just like you, gyms, libraries, museums and a lot of enterprises are closed and if it continues, there will be a serious economic crash. As for now, i don't have the right to visit more than one person at a time. Too bad, I do visit my old and wise parents. The pandemic gathers people from a distance...
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| Jethro42 Hope you're doing ok in these crazy times. I for one get enough wearing the mask everywhere, and the family visit restrictions...
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 | GamamJ Understandable, I've only written two myself, and it certainly is a good chunk of time gone when doing it. Between finding all the nuances of the album at hand, to writing and perfecting the review itself. I unpopularly thought Angel was a great comeback album, so putting on this, as you say tired, uninspired and weak sounding album my disappointment was indescribable. I've got tickets dto Judas myself in June! Really hope this whole virus situation doesn't ruin it....
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| GamamJ You are very welcome. Well deserved after such well written reviews. Completely agree about all the albums! I?m sure you saw my rating of Redeemer when on my page.... So yes, it was very disappointing to say the least. Firepower was incredible, and truly shocking after that hahah. Any specific reason why you dropped writing reviews?
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| GamamJ Hey, have just been going through the runts of both Sabbath?s and Priest?s discographies lately. I saw you had written some great reviews for both of their discogs. Really curious what you?d think of their newest releases; have you considered giving their newest albums the Nagrarok treatment?
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 | manosg Baffling, is the correct word. I don't know if you have checked Biff Byford's solo album, but even though it is more or less what you expect it to be in terms of songwriting, it has so much more artistic value than Ozzy's LP.
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| Jethro42 Btw, I am a Montreal city's citizen which is the capital of showbusiness, and I'm not a big traveller neither.
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| Jethro42 Thanks for your good wishes, Nag. Well, every countries have their sides to discover. Where I live, there are great landscapes I have yet to discover in the province of Quebec alone, with its wide green spaces surrounded by big amount of water, mountains, forests and lots of way of evasions. If ever you're preparing to visiting us, just let me know...I'll provide you some other descriptions. As for writing a review, let me think about a judicious choice. I'll get back to you on that.
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| Jethro42 Neil went through huge issues in the nineties, when he lost his 20 yo daughter's only child in a car accident and then, 10 months later he lost his long-time wife from terminal cancer's phase. It's enough to give a guy a brain cancer. And you're right, he contributed a lot in rock music. As for me, my moral is good. I always think of doing a review. For now I have a stucked nerve in my back that causes inflammation. Today I went for a cortisone injection, and it seems i'm getting better.
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 | Friday13th Sounds good man, we worked it out. Feel free to jam with us when you can!
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| Friday13th Hey Nag, you hungry for some prog? We're trying to fill in our last tournament contestant. See my list for the rules.
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| Jethro42 I'm in big time, dear friend! I secretly dreamed on such a come back last few years, but you were not in sight anymore. I have some band ideas in my mind, but such a return requires something under the spotlight for a minimum of attention. Let me juggle with it, and feel free if you have an idea. Cheers, Supernag!
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| Jethro42 Cruise to the Edge looks like to be worldwide, and Terra Incognita seems to be a local festival for may the 17th, 18th and 19th in the evenings, this current year. What interest me the most are Finisterre and Phideaux for the 19th, but yeah, my health is too precarious these days. So, would you be available for another Progject review for real, so we could shake the sput floor once again...
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| Jethro42 i'd like to see Hackett, really, especially on the kind of show you're attended to. I'd be in for some nostalgia. i'll see where my health will lead me until then. Have you heard of Terra Incognita or Cruise to the Edge? I think both own prog magazines and are a kind of Woodstock, but for prog music. It happens once a year...for Terra Incognita in all cases...
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| Jethro42 King Crimson transformed themselves instrumentally and for the arrangements. Three drummers is kinda intriguing. i've seen a recent video of them on song Indiscipline, and it took me a while to recognize the song, as it wasn't the same vocal lines. As for Project, I'm not gonna lie, I thought about our duo when I talked about reviewing ;) Now that you put it on the air, it sounds good. Let me think about which review it could be for our 32nd. Would be a surprise and would revive prog on sput :)
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| Jethro42 Yes, Hackett still helds the prog torch regarding Genesis music. His solo career might be better than I think. It's only hard to go through an album sometimes. He's experimenting a lot with folk, world music, Middle Eastern and even new-wave, and it's not always a good thing. I agree with you about the covering bands. I'd rather see most of them in some little local clubs insteadthank you for your good wishes about my health. i see a private physiotherapist to recuperate to the max.
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| Jethro42 Would be good for me to go to a show. The last one i've seen was at january the fourth 2018...The Musical Box. It was great except for the sound. it was loud and unbalanced. Great setlist https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/the-musical-box/2018/salle-wilfrid-pelletier-montreal-qc-canada-13e1213d.html
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| Jethro42 Hi, Supernag! Nice to hear from you again. I see you're on a huge binge for a reason! it's good that Hackett revisits his 2nd best solo album and on the other hand reproduces the most memorable Genesis album. It's gonna be a nostalgic show and a sensational one for sure. Are you in to write a review about Hackett? As for me, I take an English and a drawing lessons (no credits for, it's from a community organization). I have few other activities but I'm limited physically. I now walk with a stick
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| Jethro42 I'd be amazed to attend that memorable show. I've taken a look, and nothing for Montreal up to september the 17th. Probably they will add some cities after that. I'm gonna be attentive, and I cross my fingers.
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| Jethro42 haha, I'd like to tell you I've seen Moonmadness, but no, I never saw them live. My very first show was in 1979 for Supertramp's Breakfast in America, the year Camel released I Can See Your House From Here. During that time, I didn't know about Camel, even if I was into the prog monsters of the 70s. A friend of my brother was a huge Camel fan, and he introduced me to them couple years later, so I missed their prime time. I'm not sure about what happened afterwards, but no, I never saw them live.
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| Jethro42 Sounds great Nag! I'm surprised you can't find Dust, Harbour and Rajaz from their site. I assume you already own Moonmadness. Me, I have Mirage, The Snowgoose, Moonmadness, Rain Dances and Stationary Traveller on vinyl, but I don't have a turntable since a while. Will fix it. I also have Harbour on cd. Would like to get the first album, A Nod and a Wink and Rajaz. What a brillant discog they have! The guitar playing is so warm and emotional everywhere. So unique. So colorful.
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| Jethro42 Snow Goose is my first contact with the band, and album helped me to consolidate my love for prog music. Moon and Mirage confirmed my love for the band, and then I was hurry to searching for their entire discog. I invite you to try Snow Goose Re-Recording. It's pretty much faithful to the original, save for extra arrangements and some extended parts. Also it's more punch-y, tighter. Some say it's still better than the original. Maybe it could give you a new appreciation of the album. Cheers!
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| Jethro42 Thanks for your wishes, mate. Yeah, the Netherlands must be a warm audience, considering Camel visit your country that often... I'm happy for you, really. The line-up is great. Colin Bass is a longtime Latimer's co-worker and Denis Clement has proven himself as a great drummer. I hope Latimer totally recovered of all his health issues. Don't know about Pete Jones, but if he's joining Camel, I guess he can play the keys. Personally, I put Mirage, Snow Goose and Moonmadness all on par.
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| Jethro42 Hey Nag how are you, I'm fine myself in the circumstances, thank you. I try to accept my let-say fragile condition in order to live with less anxiety. Whoa, man, lucky you!...That is gonna be epic!!! I'm listening to the album atm to celebrate with you!... They're certainly going to play extra material as well. Do you know if it's the same line-up as for A Nod and a Wink? Would be awesome if Andy Ward could join them. For sure, you'll be in for an amazing event! That's some great Camel!
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| Jethro42 I appreciate you are sensible about my health, my friend. You're the first person on sput who is aware of that. It shows how much I trust you. I'm affected of a muscular dystrophy that is reducing my mobility. My legs are particularly weak. I'm also affected of rheumatoid arthritis. Both are more or less controlled (exercises) but it cannot improve. I've said it. As for FW, I will relisten to that album. My rating belongs to my first impression. It doent seem to be exactly my cup of tea ;)
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| Jethro42 Yes I'm not surprised you are too busy, and it's a reason why you don't frequent the site as you used to. We have an expression here that says ''When you're busy, you're not preoccupied''. I have nothing too special to say about my life. Since 7 years, I have some health problems that prevent me to work anymore. I'm looking for some volunteering since that's all I can do. I won't give you details of my diseases by now, but it's serious enough. It doesn't reduce my life expectancy, so yes...
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| Jethro42 Hey bro!If you get some free time, there is a new Sputnik prog tournament you might find interesting. Cheers!http://www.sputnikmusic.com/list.php?listid=177103
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 | neekafat Ohhhh I get you. Yeah I'm still kinda new to the site and such
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| neekafat You were away for a while, weren't you??
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| neekafat Your Black Sabbath reviews are the only thing getting me through their discog, thank you
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 | danielcardoso Hey buddy, as for dino jr if you're looking to get into em "you're living all over me" and "bug" are essentials. Cheers!
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| danielcardoso Hey buddy! Just checking up on ya, how have you been? New dinosaur jr album coming out in august, are you a fan of theirs?
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 | frigyourgenre can you rec me some prog rock with flutes and synths and s***? In the vein of camel and asia minor
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 | TalonsOfFire Ooh haha don't remember FF that well. Also you've jammed Forever Changes by Love right??
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| TalonsOfFire I always like seeing your av in comment threads, is it a fantasy graphic from a game or just something you found on the internet?
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| danielcardoso Hey man, have you been around? I haven't seen you posting or commenting here lately, how's your life going for you?
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| Jethro42 I only retain all these numerous great moments we shared...All that prog all spread over sput's prog community, all these exceptionally well written reviews, thanks to your expertise, and all these mornings where I woke up with a brand new ProgJect review to read, and all the faithful people who kept visiting us to share the adventure all together. I could never thank you enough for putting together 31 reviews of ours, and we also owe something to qwe from whom the idea of a ProgJect was born.
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| Jethro42 It's really a deliverance to confess you that, and I'm glad that you take it lightly.I guess that the places you had to correct grammar came from my own sentences (cos I wrote myself a few too through it all), and the reorganization was mostly needed to glue together two schools of thought. And the repetitiveness was logic, given the similarities between a lot of the reviews. We had fun anyways. That's what matters.
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| Jethro42 I thought it was the time to tell you that fact. You have the right to know, and I think to some extent, that it was blatant, with all these beautiful sentences thrown to you.
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| Jethro42 Nice to hear that. A lot to explain why you don't have much time to be productive on sput. I have something to confess about our ProgJect. I would have prefered to tell you this before, and I think you won't be surprised; All of the reviews were supported by pieces and bites from some other reviews. It's not like they were copied pasted, because I've always read several reviews, picked up some good sentences and ideas from each, and then build up and put up the review and bringing it to you. :/
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 | MvdW Uitstekende reviews.
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 | MrSirLordGentleman Telegraph Road is easily their best song. The last five minutesbare just perfect
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| MrSirLordGentleman Dude, you really need to check Love Over Gold https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dd3btVhwr48
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 | makrand I don't know if you are active on this site anymore but I have to say you are one of the best writers I have read over here! So many good (and underrated) albums you have reviewed! Cheers!
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| MrSirLordGentleman Most of those are classic albums dude!: 1, 7, 13, 14, 15, 24, 30, 42, 53, 63, 92 and 97 are the best ones of those you haven't listened yet imo. You should check them asap, some of them are essentials!
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| MrSirLordGentleman Hey man, thanks for your comments. Which of the albums in the list you haven't checked yet? I can tell that they are all worth checking
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| danielcardoso Debut's excellent as well, it's got Sultans Of Swing which is a classic. Also, definitely check Down To The Waterline and Water Of Love, they're essentials in that album. Yeah man, judging by your taste, it seems as if you'd love some Dire Straits.
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| danielcardoso If you've enjoyed Brothers In Arms, definitely check Making Movies and Love Over Gold, you should love it.
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| danielcardoso Haha thanks man, I've been digging Alice In Chains and R.E.M. a lot lately. Oh, and Dire Straits as well. Do you dig 'em?
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| danielcardoso Hey Nag, I hope you're doing great as usual. Hope life's being nice to you. Are you planning on writing more reviews in the future? I'm just curious, you're a great writer.
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 | Pangea Hey, Nagrarok. Have you heard the blof album that came out this year? Just curious, considering you reviewed 2 of their albums
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 | BMDrummer lol dude that soundoff for as the roots undo is so wrong
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| TalonsOfFire I just realized I was talking to the user who reviewed all the Sabbath albums, are you going to review 13 now that Forbidden isn't their last anymore?
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| MrSirLordGentleman haha yup, you're right; it's always nice to listen a fresh sound in prog
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| MrSirLordGentleman Hey Nag I'd love to see your opinion on this album I really think its sound will interest you http://www.sputnikmusic.com/review/60899/Los-Jaivas-Alturas-de-Machu-Picchu/
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| Jethro42 Oh, and I'm still looking for some similarities between Genesis and GG. I think there are some more. And revisiting The Missing Piece, I find they flirt unsuccessfully with Rock and Roll there too.
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| Jethro42 Interview is pretty great from start to end, but album is perhaps lacking of consistence. The Missing Piece contains few great tracks like Two Weeks in Spain, As Old As You're Young and For Nobody. Both Giant For a Day and Civilian tried too hard to offer a rock and roll album. It still contains few good songs like Thank You, Spookie Boogie and It's Only Goodbye. Civilian has Shadows on the Street, Inside Out and Convenience and couple of nice spots scattered through the album.
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| Jethro42 Yes you're right...at Relight Studios. GG and Genesis in the same time!!! Wow, good observation! Now that some late 70's GG songs come to my mind, I find that a certain amount of them sound like Genesis at some point, as if they crossed the dark age of prog rock at the very same time and similarly. Now that you put me on reflexion, they both started to do some samey songs around (not before) 1976 (Interview / ATOTT). The only thing is that Genesis did flirt with prog (and music) a bit longer.
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 | Insurrection Ah, well I hope you do. As you can imagine its not that great but its not their worst by a long shot imo.
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| Jethro42 Once again, you made a big difference on the review. You know how to embellish sentences with your professionalism. Thanks for all. Cheers mate!
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| Jethro42 What a coincidence, I have to go away too so no worries. It's better to end on a good note than too fast and at the last minute.
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 | mandan In any case, I wanted to say that I think The Doors get too little discussion on the site, given how relevant they were to music and all.
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| mandan I mean, I love Pearl Jam about as much as you do, and we both love classic rock (although your knowledge by far exceeds mine), but I guess we have different interests and reasons why we listen to the music.
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| mandan Yeah, you seem to like everything. We seem to have differing views on what makes music interesting, although we also seem to have similar tastes. I just find it weird to tell the truth.
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| Jethro42 That's some good news. I'm looking forward to that. omg, when I see all these Yes albums being rated, it makes me realize I still have some of them to listen to. Out of these I only have Keystudio, Yesstory, Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe and Yesterdays.
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| Jethro42 I was hoping that it simply remained in oblivion. So I'm stoked about this seeing the day. In your time of course, SuperNag!
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| Jethro42 Hey Nag! Hope everything goes well for you. I was asking myself, do you still have the Moody Blues review. If yes, do you intend to cover it sooner or later?
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| mandan Is there any band/artist that you despise?
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 | Metalstyles Yeah, though I don't casually sputnik often anymore either. My sputniking went way down when I went into university two years ago, and nowadays I work at Estonia's last record store. I still check in quite regularly, but it's often a brief look and not much more. I do still review when possible, but my voluntary music consumption has fallen off due to a lack of time. With a job, friends and other hobbies, 24 hours in a day just isn't enough anymore and music often pulls the short straw :(
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| Metalstyles NAG! Maybe I haven't been looking carefully enough, but I haven't seen your name pop up in a looooooong time. How you been, man?
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 | Voivod Well I added the band to sputnik, but I haven't listened to the Mother Turtle album that much so as to rate it. I forgot to go back to the album since that time, but I thought it would be great to inform you and Jethro about it, since you are both very fond of this sound.
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| mandan Dude, I've prob never discussed this with you, but your taste is quite similar to mine. Although I'm not a big fan of Dream Theater or Guns N' Roses.
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 | JamieTwort Yeah, wasn't sure I'd make it with only 24 reviews in 4 years but I intend to write more regularly this year. Seems crazy to me that you've never been promoted.
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| Jethro42 When I told you about my hesitation between Eloy and The Moodies, I had in fact already started with the latter, that's why it appears to be quick. As for the review, do it in your time.
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| Jethro42 In Search of the Lost Chord is all yours. Rating = 4/5
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| Jethro42 Hey Nag! What I intend to do next is rather The Moody Blues - In Search of the Lost Chord or Eloy - Silent Cries and Mighty Echoes. I need to re-listen to the latter to see if my rating is fair enough.
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| mandan Also dude, I disagree with you on Sin After Sin: it's a solid 4.5 for me, the only weak moment being the "Let Us Prey" section; but we can't all agree. Where does it rank in the Priest discog for you?
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| Jethro42 I'll be there to receive it. Cheers!
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 | Frippertronics would you like a recommendation? if so, check out The Seed and the Sower and/or the debut album. I can provide download links as well.
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| Frippertronics Hey man, if you like The Enid, I have a review for their third album recently posted. Decent prog album though.
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| mandan I made a list of Priest songs and would like you to check it out. It was the last one I made.
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| Jethro42 Do you intend to do the latest review ''Le Orme - Uomo di Pezza'' ?
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| mandan Out of curiosity, why don't you have any Megadeth album 5'd?
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| mandan Well, since you're Dutch, I was a bit curious. I'm intrigued by your country's culture.Have you been in Amsterdam?
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| mandan Do you speak Frisian, by any chance?
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| mandan Also, I see TSMS is your fave Porcupine Tree album.
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| mandan I'll admit that it isn't easy to do proper discography reviews, so I can understand why you'd be worn out by them. All the same, I congratulate you for finishing up with Genesis.
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| Jethro42 It must be hard to go through a negative review, especially a Genesis one. Congrats in advance!
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| mandan I see you've rated a lot of Tim Buckley, what kind of music does he play?
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| Jethro42 It's now on the map. I feel curious you're not in the game.
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| Jethro42 I'm about to finish my Peter Hammill' review. I thought to do it under my account. It would allow you to breathe a little more.
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| Jethro42 So, how does it go for your review? I'm currently completing another one myself. It's Peter Hammill's The Silent Corner and the Empty Stage.
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 | OmairSh http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJlhSU6_HPI, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEjfiBWPHmA
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| mandan I've come to realize that JP has plenty of great openers: Painkiller, The Hellion, Freewheel Burning, Heading Out to the Highway, Delivering the Goods and, though you may disagree, Turbo Lover. A pity those openers don't always lead into consistent albums.I've definitely come to appreciate JP's discography more these days, although RID and PoE are rather dissapointing.
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| Jethro42 Don't give up. The largest part is done.
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| Jethro42 And bravo! Mission accomplished!
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| Jethro42 The obligatory album to go on through in order to complete that mammoth discog. It should not be fun, but you have to do it. Courage! ;)
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| Jethro42 As usual I wonder if my review is too long, too repetitive or not well structured. Well, take the freedom to edit whatever you want. And yet, finally, the 30th ProgJect review is about to see the day. Cigarzzz !!!And take note that you still receive it all in 2 different formats. Take what's best for you. I also apologize about the words that look too small. Cheers!
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| Jethro42 My choice fell on Le Orme (Uomo di Pezza) so to complete the Italian prog' big three.
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| Jethro42 I plan to do another one of ours. I just can't decide which one yet. I hesitate between Le Orme, Peter Hammill or Arena, among others. To be continued...
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| Voivod Nag this is prog rock from a band residing in my hometown, I think it's worth your attention, let me know what you think like whenever - http://motherturtleband.bandcamp.com/album/mother-turtle
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| Voivod Nag, the Argus album is streaming from bandcamp - http://cruzdelsurmusic.bandcamp.com/album/beyond-the-martyrs
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| mandan I see you're rating some live stuff.
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 | Willie I don't know. Why not? ;)
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| mandan I just wanted to say that I was a bit frustrated because I didn't think I'd fit in with all the music fans on this site. I love music, but I've been somewhat slow in truly appreciating it. I also guess I tried too hard to equal you as a reviewer. And I apologize for that. And I guess I bit off more than I could chew. I learned from you that hearing music is an art in itself, and I thank you for it.
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| OmairSh Ah theres the prog guru :D. Going through the Tull discog I see p/
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| Jethro42 Hey Nag. I just re-read the Maxophone review and I have to tell you bravo. I'm happy with the result me too, really. Too bad it barely reached 2 pages, but what can we expect from that obscure (but quality) album. To maintain a good amount of readers, in the future, I'll keep in mind to review prog bands that are better known.
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| Voivod Saw your comment on that Anthrax album, you can see them live tomorrow at the Bloodstock Open Air - http://www.sputnikmusic.com/news/28184/Bloodstock-Open-Air-live-stream/
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| danielcardoso Pretty much, just have one doubt: do i need a picture of the album cover?
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| Jethro42 It's alright with me, mate. Have a good summer time!
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 | Permabanned dude what do you honestly hate about heretic so much
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| Jethro42 And sorry if it's a bit redundant. As usual, you can abbreviate and edit as much as you want.
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| Jethro42 Maxophone is all yours, Nag. Once again, I used a poor imitation of Word Pad and it wasn't easy to do. I'll try to exchange for the true model asap. Until then, keep on P/
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| Permabanned start with gardens of grief honestly and then just work your way up to WFIKTBD and then don't even both with the rest
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| Permabanned dude for real you gotta man i mean their first EP and 2 studio albums are lifechanging displays of psychotic dark psychedelic metal
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| Permabanned bro have you heard at the gates - the red in the sky is ours??
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| Jethro42 Not easy to follow an album like X
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| Jethro42 No, I havent heard a single note off of it. I must correct it.
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| Jethro42 What's up Nag, mate? Glad to hear that you're about to finish one of the most ambitious discog ever. I'm looking forward to read it. I was myself thinking about putting up another ProgJect. I just cant decide which one among Triumvirat (we covered one of them), The Watch (very Genesis like) or Maxophone (One shot winner Italian prog). I now have a new computer, so let's celebrate!
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| danielcardoso Hey Matthijs. First of all, I'm sorry I'm crowding your shoutbox ;DI just wanna ask you something: will you review Now What?! and 13?
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| danielcardoso At least, I think it's better than "We Can't Dance"...
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| danielcardoso By the way, I think "Calling All Stations" is very overlooked, dont you think?I mean, it's average, but it still has a few good tracks. The title track is awesome...
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| mandan Is songwriting important to you when evaluating an album?
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| danielcardoso Hey Nagrarok, I was reading your Forbidden review and i just have a quick question, man: how do you give an album an 0,5 rating? Thanks.
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 | rockandmetaljunkie Hey Matthijs how are you ? Listen, I'll review Cathedral's entire discography, is there something specific I must keep in mind ? You have done entire discographies in the past, so can you give me a piece of advice ?
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| mandan Undoubtedly, although in my opinion SG's Superunknown comes close. But yes, Ten has a perfect opener, a perfect closer, and is easily the band's most emotional record. Vs. is great as well, and I certainly appreciate it a lot more now than in the past. It also opens and closes perfectly.
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| mandan See you've been digging Uriah Heep, I take it they were sorof like "the unspoken 4th member" of the British Hard Rock Trinity.I've been revisiting the PJ discog, and I must say I enjoy it a lot more thanks to your advice (though it was ILJ who finally got me thinking). It's impressive how one's view of things can change with repetition.
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| mandan I gave some thought to what you said, and you have a point. There are quite afe few albums that I wouldn't bother much to revisit, but I might want to hear again quite a few.On another note, I want to say that I admire your reviewing skills.
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 | ViperAces oh right, forget youre at it. do it if you find time though, its suprisingly one of their best
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| ViperAces are you going to review the new sabbath? seing as your discog is now incomplete and all...
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 | greg84 Cool. I'm happy how this interview turned out.
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| greg84 Are you one of the few chosen people who read the interview? Yes, I've liked them since I heard their debut last year. It even made my top20 last year.
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| Jethro42 Hey what's up Nag! For Anthony Phillips, I think I found it on Isohunt. If not, try Pirate Bay.
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| mandan Yeah, I personally consider Nirvana to be overrated next to those three. Nevermind is an okay album, but imo the other bands had better musicianship. Although Dave Grohl is a very good drummer.
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| mandan Do you like all of the Grunge Big 4 equally (I prefer Pearl Jam, followed by SG and AIC)? And, on another note, which Hawkwind album have you liked the most?
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| mandan Would you say that the 70's are your favourite musical era?
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| mandan You once said in a post that you didn't like the Beatles. What made you change your mind? And do you like the Rolling Stones?
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| mandan I imagined you did. You seem to be quite fond of both prog and metal. Do you play any instrument?
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| mandan Do you play bass, by any chance?
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 | BigHans Yeah for sure. I mean there are a few clunkers in their discog, and its quite large, but band rules all in all.
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| Jethro42 Excellent! There's only one thing though; I couldnt catch up the review if you send it between noon and 3 o'clock (your 6 and 9 o'clock) because I will be on the road. So would it be possible for you to put it on the map before or after these hours? Thanks!
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| Jethro42 I'm obviously looking forward to it, mate. Priorities first, of course.
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| Jethro42 How is it going with Renaissance? Not to busy with it?
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| mandan I see you've been digging Caravan. Which of their records has pleased you most?
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| Jethro42 Your time is mine, mate. Cheers!
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| Jethro42 Turn of the Cards is all yours, Nag. Freedom to you if you want to shorten it, or to do any modification you feel you have to do. Cheers to our ProgJect!
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| Voivod I meant in writing a review for Phobos
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| Voivod I will review Phobos i due time. Right now, My mind is messed up because of whole lotta work plus I randomly listen to many stuff and I can't focus on anything, as soon as I get back in shape, I will review it. That's a promise. You can write a review yourself, you know, I mean you know how it goes ;-)
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| Jethro42 Hi Nag! I'm currently trying to put together Renaissance's 'Turn of the Cards' and I asked myself if you could take some of your time to help me for that ProgJect. If ever you couldnt, I would do it under my own account, so feel free with it. Cheers mate!
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| mandan Who do you think can do the Kansas discog? It's a pretty long haul...
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| mandan Interesting enough. Might check it out one of these days.
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| mandan Is sonictheplumber still active in Sputnik?
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| Jethro42 I'm sure that old thread deserves to be bumped ;) So yes.
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| Jethro42 I barely edited my first comment on your review, js. I'm soon gonna read your other one, their eponymous album.
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| Jethro42 Ah! That's good to see you back at the writing, Nag. Well I missed your review cos I just left the hospital for a throat surgery. It was successfully accomplished. Now I have the time to read whatever you put on. Happy New Year to you too, mate.
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 | Irving Dear Tonberry. We miss you. Come back soon.
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| greg84 I know man. I just wanted to remind you...
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| greg84 ah and the deadline is today
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| greg84 You have to vote for them right now man. They really need your vote. Otherwise, they may not make it to the top 50. Trust me. I know something about it.
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