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    Albums You've Listened To Today, V.9

    in Music Of The Spheres

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    I drove across southwest Ontario today so I had time to play some music:

    A Perfect Circle - Mer de noms

    Strapping Young Lad - Alien

    Devin Townsend - Terria

    The Tragically Hip - Man Machine Poem

    Rush - Clockwork Angels

    Handsome Jack - A Good Thing

    Iggy Pop - Post Pop Depression

    Murder By Death - Who Will Survive, and What Will Be Left of Them?

    Gogol Bordello - Super Taranta!

    Gary Clark Jr - JPEG RAW

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    The Solar Eclipse on April 8th is coming! Are you in the path of totality? Planning on traveling to see it?

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    All I got to see in Livingston County, NY. It was still cool to see all the lights flicker on across the valley. And experience it with my parents (who lived a mile from this vantage point). It sucks it was cloudy (my fault for playing Dark Side of the Moon on the way there), but it was still pretty awesome for a quick drive.

     

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    Rank Your Favorite Bands' Albums

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    The Tragically Hip:

     

    1. Fully Completely

    2. Day for Night

    3. Road Apples

    4. Phantom Power

    5. Trouble at the Henhouse

    6. Man Machine Poem

    7. In Violet Light

    8. Up To Here

    9. In Between Evolution

    10. Music @ Work

    11. Now For Plan A

    12. We Are the Same

    13. World Container

     

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    Rank Your Favorite Bands' Albums

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    Speaking of big 90s Rock bands, I'll try Smashing Pumpkins with one of the more predictable top 5s ever

     

    1. Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

    2. Siamese dream

    3. Adore

    4. Gish

    5. Pisces Iscariot (All unreleased songs so I count this one)

    6. Oceania

    7. Machina/The Machines of God

    8. Shiny and Oh So bright, Vol. 1 / LP: No Past. No future. No Sun.

    9. Cyr

    10. Atum

    11. Zeitgeist

    12. Monuments to an Elegy

     

    That bottom half is pretty bleak. Even reuniting with several of the originals did nothing to help them.

    Rank Your Favorite Bands' Albums

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    4 hours ago, Segue Myles said:

    I like Core...don't love it...lose total interest after that.

     

    I hear people say they sound like a carbon copy of Pearl Jam on groups I am on, and I've never heard it myself.

     

    I fancy a relisten to be honest

    I wouldn't call them a carbon copy of Pearl Jam, but I think their sound isn't as distinct as some of their peers.Their first two albums are peak grunge and their third album is a great psychedelic inspired album. The rest of their discography then comes down to personal taste. I like most of it quite a bit, but it's not for everyone.

    Rank Your Favorite Bands' Albums

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    1 hour ago, bluefox4000 said:

     

    i love their first 2 albums.  not big on much else.

     

    so actually based on that alone i'd put after PJ moving nirvana down one more.

     

    i really should revisit STP though.

     

    Mick

    I think their third album has quite a bit to like on it. They fall off a bit after that though.

     

    Unpopular but I'm partial to STP 2010 since it has more of a Bowie influence. They also had a solid EP with Chester Bennington which people hated at the time but I think it has aged well.

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    Rank Your Favorite Bands' Albums

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    21 hours ago, bluefox4000 said:

     

    i think  Soundgarden have the best musicians bar none.

     

    though AiC come very close.  Also SC has a scrappy garage band feel that i love that None of the others have.

     

    If i had to rank ONLY the "big four"

     

    1. Alice in Chains (just a preference here, lol)

    2. Soundgarden (very close on the heels of SG)

    3. Pearl Jam (when they're great they're are fantastic but they do plunge the deapths of boredom at times for me)

    4. Nirvana (dead last.  Never got the hype......never will get the hype.  Don't even WANNA get the hype at this point, lol)

     

    Mick

     

     

    Also the same ranking. Where would you wedge STP in as they're another grunge band from it's golden age.

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    Am I the only one who needed closure?

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    On 3/28/2024 at 11:37 PM, Timbale said:

    This might sound snarky...but I don't mean it to - I think there was some mythologizing around R40 and the idea that they were going out "at the top of their game".  Certainly Geddy wasn't in peak form as a vocalist...and I think Alex had some less than stellar moments on that tour as well.  As for Neil...I think he played very competently, as always...but there had been a fire missing for quite a few tours, I think.  I say that so that you don't beat yourself up too much on missing the tour.  It was a pretty great set list, especially the 2nd half...but it's quite likely you saw a better tour.  

     

    Compared to a number of their peers, they absolutely went out near the top. They stopped long before they became a parody of themselves. Sure Geddy's voice had degraded a bit after Snakes & Arrows, but the band still played extremely well. If I remember correctly, most of Alex's flubs were at the start of the tour. Once things got going, they were on fire. It's a shame Geddy waited 40 years to start getting into esoteric basses. That was also a real treat.

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    Am I the only one who needed closure?

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    I fully went into my R40 show expecting this to be the very final show I'll ever see from them.  I was seeing my favorite band go out on top. I even bought Neil's R40 travel book, Far and Wide and went to see Geddy & Alex do an interview/signing at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2019, but that more just felt like an epilogue. Following Neil's death, that stung quite a bit especially with the 1-2 punch of COVID and a crisis in my personal life almost immediately after. His death caused me to return to their music after a bit of a hiatus and made me appreciate his words and his talent behind the kit even more.

     

    Geddy's book just feels like an additional epilogue to a book i closed long ago. It's a great read and I'm grateful that he released such a detailed retelling of his life and time in the band, even if he could have given us another 200 pages. It gave me a better understanding of how much he and the others truly busted their asses to make it and the sacrifices that came with his level of fame. And again, after not listening to Rush for a long while, I burned through the entire discography (studio and live) as I read through the book. This band remains my absolute favorite even if my listening wanes every now and then. It just hits harder when I return to it after a long time away.

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    Albums You've Listened To Today, V.9

    in Music Of The Spheres

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    16 hours ago, Segue Myles said:

    I adore Obsidian. Also love to see Cold Dark Place get some attention! For an EP, it sure packs a punch! 

     

    I've been slowly digesting Paradise Lost over the last few weeks. I mainly knew The Plague Within previously but I'm enjoying the others I've heard (Draconian Times, Medusa, Obsidian). It makes me want to dive back into Katatonia

     

    I got the EP a few years ago when the band did a signing for a hometown show. It's probably the sole EP in my entire collection and it always hits right when I crave a short burst of heavy music.

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