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Endless Sacrifice is a mid 2000s rocker. Meh on much of the rest. I mean the new material is good and this is a tour to support it, but they have so many awesome past tracks I'm almost in favor of them just doing the whole nostalgia act thing at this point.

There's some smiliarities, but more differences in the vocal styles. For the harder/edgier material I think your voice suits the music more, Mike had a good folk/alt rock voice (similar to my collaborator).

So, two Rush albums and Zep IV?

The In Absentia deluxe from a couple years ago is good, and fairly cheap. The surround wasn't bad in the original DTS, so for me the alt versions and in progress versions of the songs, as well as a couple that didn't make the record, is the true worth in that particular set. My price point is $100 or less. I mostly buy them for surround mixes that are bundled, and only sometimes distributed separately. Exception is SW's Hand Cannot Erase, which is a true piece of art with the book that I rather enjoy. There has to be something significant about the release for me to spend more than $20 on new/re-released music. If you are into lynyrd skynyrd, Wal mart used sell the a greatest hit package with one disc in surround sound. A regular CD and a DVD of the Grey whistle test. Price was around $10! Not into Ssynyrd, but Queen has a best of in the same type of packaging still available through Amazon. Great surround mixes for $15 shipped.

Been on my short todo list for what seems like forever, and now that I've discovered it's a free download I'm listening now (and have it for the car, which is where I spend much of my casual music listening time). I'm digging Jack's approach to vocals, there's some passion and honesty that's immediately evident. Is MIke done for good or just stepping away for a bit?

Probably the darkest song we've done... Letter to Another Me

Rush and Tool have a fairly solid catalog.

This poll inspired me to fire up the message in a boxed set for the car this week, to freshen up my Police muscle memory. The first three albums kinda blur together in my mind.

At least 999,900 of it is pure spam. :whip:

Agree. Tom Sawyer's absence duly noted as well.

I could have put 4 of these in a hat, picked one and been fine with the choice.

There's few bands I'm familiar enough with their entire discography that I feel I can participate in these polls. ACDC is one of them I am not.

Probably more than half of my compositions start on an acoustic, even ones that end up being tracked entirely on electric.

That's generally my take on extras as well. The Beatles load their boxed sets with outtakes, which are mostly useless studio banter and start/stop performances, etc. Maybe buried there's a few a-ha moments but mostly stuff left on the cutting room floor for a reason, as you explained. In Absentia and a few of Yes's sets are the only ones I've ever returned to. Have you actually listened to the Sgt. Pepper’s, White Album and Abbey Road boxes? Sgt Pepper's, they're expensive so I'm holding out for the price to drop over time then will snag them all second hand. The surround mix is good, I've heard the Abbey Road surround mix and it's phenomenal. Sadly have not heard anything from the white album box yet, and it's my favorite of the three.

That's generally my take on extras as well. The Beatles load their boxed sets with outtakes, which are mostly useless studio banter and start/stop performances, etc. Maybe buried there's a few a-ha moments but mostly stuff left on the cutting room floor for a reason, as you explained. In Absentia and a few of Yes's sets are the only ones I've ever returned to.

The In Absentia deluxe from a couple years ago is good, and fairly cheap. The surround wasn't bad in the original DTS, so for me the alt versions and in progress versions of the songs, as well as a couple that didn't make the record, is the true worth in that particular set. My price point is $100 or less. I mostly buy them for surround mixes that are bundled, and only sometimes distributed separately. Exception is SW's Hand Cannot Erase, which is a true piece of art with the book that I rather enjoy. There has to be something significant about the release for me to spend more than $20 on new/re-released music.

Never liked Supertramp, and probably due to a revisit at some point. But based on my recent rediscovery of Steely Dan, I'm doubtful my mind would be changed. The Dan all the way. Easily my favorite old school rediscoveries. The Who, Stones, earliest Floyd and Crimson haven't seen nearly as much time combined as SD have in the past year or two.

You're right.

Awake is my favorite for casual listening/prog ingestion, but if I'm being honest Scenes is the best album they made and most important to their career. Eliminating Awake is easily the hardest vote I've made yet in any of these polls.

Check for track level volume (and pan) automation, I use this to manually adjust small sections of vocals and instruments that are too loud or soft, rather than trying to overcompress the snot out of the entire track to get it all the same level. If the louder/softer passages are long enough, it may make sense to have them on a sperate track too. This way the compression can be set to the correct amount for that section versus having to compromise on the compression settings for the entire vocal track. Trial and error and getting to know your vocalist's style/needs from a technical mixing standpoint is something that's learned in time working together.

Nice collection btw.

A hole in the wall is just a dry wall anchor that you haven't installed yet.

Probably my top 3, although I don't enjoy Images as much as when it first came out. It's an iconic Prog Metal album now, so out of respect for its importance I'll always rank it high.

Coincidentally, I used to refer to INXS as "U2 on Ecstasy." When Achtung Baby came out it was like they had taken it themselves. :) Songs like Love Is Blindness, One, Throw Yours Arms Around, So Cruel disagree with you though. Have you ever taken ecstasy?

Guthrie appears to be very down to earth too, so great player and potentially good person. These things can often be mutually exclusive. lol