sitboaf

No votes for Book of Taliesyn? ;)

No, it's not my favorite DP album, but I love the first 3 albums with Rod Evans.

Also, I might be the only person who holds the unpopular opinion that House of Blue Light is better than its predecessor Perfect Strangers. Not more important or impactful, and there's nothing on HOBL better than Knocking At Your Back Door or Perfect Strangers, but it's a better album overall.

Anyone heard Les Claypool's live cover of the Animals album, played in it's entirety?

It's under the moniker The Les Claypool Frog Brigade, Live Frogs: Set 2

I adore it.

Some thoughts from the Final round at Deutsche Bank today (I attend every year), and it was a little weird this year.

 

Comparatively few big names this year, so we had to be extra-careful about how we wandered the course.

Rickie love is insane. The roar for his eagle was visceral.

The fans did yell a lot of stupid crap. It's bad every year. At least I heard "Fire Goodell!"

Though this Monday was better than previous Saturdays and Sundays I have seen, there were still a lot of bad-accent douchebags with their goatees, bermuda shorts, flip flops, beers and cigars. I run into about two cigar-smokers the other 364 days of the year, and then 200 at the golf tourney.

Unusually hot for September in Massachusetts. I drank five non-alcoholic beverages to stay hydrated.

I enjoyed Ian Poulter's wayward drive on four whereupon he yelled, "Bollocks!"

Parking and taking a shuttle to the course could not be quicker and easier. Really a nice bonus after a long drive.

 

Well done, Rickie!

Great report! Did you have a vantage point for the now infamous Stenson water ball?

way late on seeing your question, Goose. Sorry.

No. We bail out before the crowds get too drunk. I mean DEEP. That way, you can actually catch a bus to the parking lot right away and get out of the lots in a couple minutes.

We listened to the last 4 holes of the tourney via the PGA app while driving home. Since we know the course well, we could picture the shots. It was an entertaining drive home thanks to Stenson's collapse, that's for sure.

Some thoughts from the Final round at Deutsche Bank today (I attend every year), and it was a little weird this year.

Comparatively few big names this year, so we had to be extra-careful about how we wandered the course.

Rickie love is insane. The roar for his eagle was visceral.

The fans did yell a lot of stupid crap. It's bad every year. At least I heard "Fire Goodell!"

Though this Monday was better than previous Saturdays and Sundays I have seen, there were still a lot of bad-accent douchebags with their goatees, bermuda shorts, flip flops, beers and cigars. I run into about two cigar-smokers the other 364 days of the year, and then 200 at the golf tourney.

Unusually hot for September in Massachusetts. I drank five non-alcoholic beverages to stay hydrated.

I enjoyed Ian Poulter's wayward drive on four whereupon he yelled, "Bollocks!"

Parking and taking a shuttle to the course could not be quicker and easier. Really a nice bonus after a long drive.

Well done, Rickie!

Me and sitboaf - the first TRFer I ever met in real life. We are at the Maracanã Stadium in Rio, where we went to see a soccer match. This is the stadium where Rush in Rio was recorded, and where the World Cup finals of 1950 and 2014 were held:

 

 

http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k210/RodrigoAltaf/IMG-20150812-WA0005_zpsob0pnsdp.jpg

I made sure to wear my Rush shirt so there was no mistaking me!

Rod in Rio (Rodrigo) was a fabulous host and ambassador for his home country. My family and I benefitted greatly from his advice. Rio is the most gorgeous place, and we met so many friendly and wonderful people there. Trip of a lifetime! (Not that it will stop my wife and I from taking many more.)

I choose to un-bury this thread because no one mentioned:

Moody Blues - Days of Future Passed

Moody Blues - To Our Children's Children's Children

Captain Beyond - self-titled

I'm trying to think of guys who not only were great, but that can't really be faulted for anything. In other words, they were in successful bands, wrote great songs, and were ground-breaking or massively influential.

It's really hard to argue with

Jimi Hendrix

Jimmy Page

Keith Richards

Eddie Van Halen

as much as I love some other guys (and Joni Mitchell) to death. So that's my list.

Love them. Have everything.

A New World Record is perfect, and deserves a place among the very best rock albums of the mid-70s.

I'm super-stoked for the new release. Already pre-ordered. Almost shocking that they had never done a double album before.

 

 

Well, not a double cd, but in the vinyl days all their latest efforts would have been doubles... That's the problem nowadays (not particularly with Maiden, but in general): You can squeeze 80 minutes of material in one cd, so everyone does it - even if they have only 40 minutes of good stuff and the rest is filler. I loved AC/DC's latest: 11 tight songs, under 40 minutes. Nothing more than the essential. You don't need to put 18 songs on an album only because it's possible - unless you have 18 GOOD songs. 10 good songs is better than 10 good songs and 8 bad ones.

 

Many bands and artists seem to think that their fans value quantity over quality. Makes me wonder.

Good point about the last 4 albums - they WOULD have been double LPs.

Except their record company would have bitched until they pared the material down to 50 minutes to fit on one record, with a good 3.5 minute single to push on the radio.

I've written about the unnecessary use of the whole CD before, myself (see link). So…yes. Amen, brother.

http://www.therushfo...is#entry2954387

I'm super-stoked for the new release. Already pre-ordered. Almost shocking that they had never done a double album before.

Parts of the following opinion will probably be unpopular, but...

I think this album is going to be off-the-rails good. And not just because they've generally ruled and kicked ass since Brave New World.

The only flaw in those last four albums is that they are super DENSE. There's no room to breathe on them.

What made Judas Priest's Nostradamus so damn good was that it kicked your ass repeatedly, but took small breaks to let you recover. I honestly find Nostradamus to be an extraordinary album. Don't worry: I think almost everything up to Defenders is still awesome, too.

That space-to-breathe element is why my favorite Maiden album is Powerslave. There's a well-placed instrumental on side one (and nearly a second one inside Duellists). On side two, the title track takes its time, Back in the Village is nearly an Indian drone, and …well, then there's Rime…

I think a similar measured approach will serve Maiden very, very well.

Book of Souls may end up being a Clockwork Angels-type high water mark.

This would have been a good cover for TEST FOR ECHO, even if the lines would be moving too much such a dull and lifeless effort.

I fixed your typo ;)

Korn

Papa Roach

Los Lonely Boys - makes me cringe every time I hear it.

The Moody Blues, my favorite band, had a perfectly cool and appropriate name when they started in 1964 playing R&B. After the shift to psychedelic, however…

14/16.

Do I win something? Maybe a sword whetted with the blood of the unholy?

"Good call on the shades Alan, they won't think we've aged a day!" -Howe

 

http://i.imgur.com/HArpY2i.jpg

I see no sun. This is foolishness. Damn their eyes.

 

This is such an embarrassing picture.

 

Also, who else sees Alec Baldwin top left?

 

Embarrassing... and ridiculous.

 

So it's an accurate promo pic for what the band is today

It's hard to get a good picture of the Nazgul without their Fell Beasts.

Caress of Suds.

Caress of Castile

After Deep Purple Mark IV dissolved, Paice and Lord collaborated on one project and David Coverdale did an album and a half on his own. Paice and Lord then joined Coverdale in 1978. But, it's not inconceivable to think (since 3/5 of Mark III was now in the new Whitesnake), that those guys could have just continued the Deep Purple name.

And, had that been the case, I wonder what would have happened in 1983 when Paice and Lord got sick of Coverdale, and Blackmore got tired of Rainbow, and they all grabbed Gillan and Glover to do more Deep Purple, Mark II? A nasty legal battle over the name "Deep Purple"?

Love Zebra and have all their stuff.

I nominate Zebra's "Bears" and Zep's "Kashmir" as the two greatest hard-rock-with-Mellotron songs ever.

Saw them up close in Concord, NH a couple weeks ago.

Great: everything.

Bad: Singer dressed like a pirate.

nerdgasm

Perfect (4 stars):

Dreamline

Fantastic (3.5 stars):

-none-

Excellent (3 stars):

Roll the Bones

Where's My Thing?

Ghost of a Chance

Good (2.5 stars):

Bravado

Face Up

The Big Wheel

Pretty Good (2 stars):

Heresy

Neurotica

You Bet Your Life

Mediocre, Poor, Bad, Atrocious (1.5, 1.0, 0.5, 0 stars):

none

Beethoven invented boogie woogie. The 2nd movement of Piano sonata 32 is the blueprint for the 20th Century R&R revolution.

While I'll be the first to agree that there's a ton of crap music around right now (it gets made because it sells, not because it's good), you have to remember this:

There's not much difference between a "computer weirdo making music on Pro Tools" and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart sitting alone in his drawing room at the harpsichord for 75 straight hours, not eating or sleeping, and scribbling out a waltz (or four) that the society ladies will eat up at the next ball.

First review:

At its best: Marooned. At its worst: the first half of Cluster One

Second review:

Worse than I'd hoped, better than I'd feared.

Besides Rush…

Elvis Costello (Couldn't Call it Unexpected No. 4)

I saw a girl who'd found her consolation

She said "One day my Prince of Peace will come"

Above her head a portrait of her father

The wilted favour that he gave her still fastened to the frame

"They've got his bones and everything he owns

I've got his name"

Well you can laugh at this sentimental story

But in time you'll have to make amends

The sudden chill where lovers doubt their immortality

As the clouds cover the sky the evening ends

Describing a picture of eyes finally closing

As you sometimes glimpse terrible faces in the fire

We'll I'm the lucky goon

Who composed this tune

from birds arranged on the high wire

Who on earth is tapping at the window?

Does that face still linger at the pane?

I saw you shiver though the room was like a furnace

A shadow of regret across a young mother's face

So toll the bell or rock the cradle

Please don't let me fear anything I cannot explain

I can't believe, I'll never believe in anything again

Decembrists (Leslie Anne Levine)

My name is Leslie Anne Levine

My mother birthed me down a dry ravine

My mother birthed me far too soon

Born at nine and dead at noon

Fifteen years gone now

I still wander this parapet

And shake my rattle bone

Fifteen years gone now

I still cling to the petticoat

Of the girl who died with me

Joni Mitchell (Blue)

Blue, songs are like tattoos

You know I've been to sea before

Crown and anchor me or let me sail away

Hey blue, there is a song for you

Ink on a pin underneath the skin

An empty space to fill in

Well, theres so many sinking now

You've got to keep thinking

You can make it through these waves

Acid, booze and ass

Needles, guns and grass

Lots of laughs, lots of laughs

Everybody's saying that Hells the hippest way to go

Well, I don't think so but Im gonna take a look around it though

Blue, I love you

Blue, here is a shell for you

Inside you'll hear a sigh, a foggy lullaby

There is your song from me

If you'd asked about my favorite trio album, I would probably choose Duke.

But their best album is probably Invisible Touch.

Now personally, I never need to hear the title track or Anything She Does ever again, but on the plus side:

1. the title track was HUGE

2. Land of Confusion was HUGE and has a great video.

3. Throwing it All Away was HUGE

4. In Too Deep is very lovely (keyboard solo is gorgeous)

5. The Brazilian is a solid instrumental

6. Tonight Tonight Tonight is dark and proggy

7. Domino is awesome and very proggy

Invisible Touch wasn't the fans' most-loved by any stretch, but it was their most successful and broad-reaching effort.

I voted for Seconds Out, not just for Suppers Ready, but for that ridiculous dual-drummer ending to Cinema Show.

Also, I listen to a "new" version of Genesis Live now, with Suppers Ready put back in (from the box set).

Really can't go wrong with the first 3 choices, though.