Music? Anyone?

[vanalisa]

I like all kinds of different music. Vampire Weekend, Mumm-ra, Foster the People, Rhodes, Alison Krauss, Feist, etc. They all make really good music.

Alison Krauss sings like I imagine an angel might. She also stays active on lots of projects~impressive☆

 

[vanalisa]

My musical tastes can picky. I love progressive music. I love metal and rock, but I appreciate any music that has legitimate heart, feeling and thought into it, be it metal, bluegrass, classical, whathaveyou. My two favorite bands are Opeth (pre Martin/Peter split) and Coheed and Cambria.

Love the C&C; new to me.
Opeth, kindly let the cookie monster vocals crumble away! It's so pretty without.

I'm impressed at the way prog has branched out. There seems to be 3 waves; I love hearing the influences carried over time

I've loved prog since high school; we called it Art Rock.

 

[ClownLurch]

I seem to be currently in the process of rebuying a lot of stuff on vinyl that I had on vinyl before the cd arrived. I’m gonna limit myself to 52 albums only just for the sake of having a STOP! limit.
Back then I had just under 600 vinyl albums and had my own place after a relationship finished. By the time cds were commonplace having a shelf full of vinyl was an indication of your age as no one was buying vinyl any more.
This being brought home to me a number of times when having “lured ladies back to my lair for a little lovin” they’d ask on seeing my racks of vinyl which by now were matched by huge racks of CDs often of the same stuff “ How old are you?”. When I asked why it suddenly seemed to bother them they’d point at the vinyl. Luckily I always looked younger than I am though I’m not entirely sure I got away with it tbh.
Nowadays with vinyl back in vogue I don’t think sad single blokes would have that problem.
Anyway I ended up selling all but about 20 vinyl albums to help fund a house purchase, but not having a turntable for over 25yrs meantni couldn’t play them anyway....guess what Santa brought me last Xmas?

 

[vanalisa]

I seem to be currently in the process of rebuying a lot of stuff on vinyl that I had on vinyl before the cd arrived. I’m gonna limit myself to 52 albums only just for the sake of having a STOP! limit.
Back then I had just under 600 vinyl albums and had my own place after a relationship finished. By the time cds were commonplace having a shelf full of vinyl was an indication of your age as no one was buying vinyl any more.
This being brought home to me a number of times when having “lured ladies back to my lair for a little lovin” they’d ask on seeing my racks of vinyl which by now were matched by huge racks of CDs often of the same stuff “ How old are you?”. When I asked why it suddenly seemed to bother them they’d point at the vinyl. Luckily I always looked younger than I am though I’m not entirely sure I got away with it tbh.
Nowadays with vinyl back in vogue I don’t think sad single blokes would have that problem.
Anyway I ended up selling all but about 20 vinyl albums to help fund a house purchase, but not having a turntable for over 25yrs meantni couldn’t play them anyway....guess what Santa brought me last Xmas?

Hallelujah! Congrats!
Love the warm spacious hug that is analog.
Too bad for me I'm not in a position to seriously collect vinyl.
I had one relationship drag on longer than it should have all because of music.
I stayed for the vinyl and for his awesome recording equipment. It was fun as long as we were making music or listening to it.
Otherwise...we really didn't have anything else in common.
Funny.

 

[PheonixKingZ]

What’s bad with Rush? Tom Sawyer is the best.

And, one of the best drummers ever used to be in the band. (Neil Pert, he died a few months ago... )

 

[PheonixKingZ]

Tedashi is pretty fire too.

If you like both Tedashii and Lecrae, check out “Get Out My Way”.

 

[Flushable Pets]

Love the C&C; new to me.
Opeth, kindly let the cookie monster vocals crumble away! It's so pretty without.

I'm impressed at the way prog has branched out. There seems to be 3 waves; I love hearing the influences carried over time

I've loved prog since high school; we called it Art Rock.

I enjoy the aggressive vocals where appropriate, which old Opeth was good at. I look at it like you would use distortion/overdrive on a guitar. Ever since Martin and Peter left, Opeth has become a prog rock band in vain of 60s and 70s prog rock like Camel, but it sounds forced and B side-ish. Like rejected riffs sitting on a shelf thrown together over the weekend. So sad because everything before the split was a masterpiece.

 

[FishFinatic77]

Alison Krauss sings like I imagine an angel might. She also stays active on lots of projects~impressive☆

I know! She really is incredible.

 

[mbsqw1d]

Artist: Jan Hammer Group
Album: Melodies
Song: Don't You Know

 

[vanalisa]

Artist: Jan Hammer Group
Album: Melodies
Song: Don't You Know

Just listened. Groovy.

 

[vanalisa]

I enjoy the aggressive vocals where appropriate, which old Opeth was good at. I look at it like you would use distortion/overdrive on a guitar. Ever since Martin and Peter left, Opeth has become a prog rock band in vain of 60s and 70s prog rock like Camel, but it sounds forced and B side-ish. Like rejected riffs sitting on a shelf thrown together over the weekend. So sad because everything before the split was a masterpiece.

Interesting. Don't know about Opeth. The song you provided made good use of early prog elements. Still, cookie monster is a deal breaker. Nevertheless, a great example of one of the branches of the prog tree.
As far as the newer line up, why not just listen to classic Camel? There's only a bit of Camel I've heard.
Snow Goose, anyone?

 

[vanalisa]

What’s bad with Rush? Tom Sawyer is the best.

And, one of the best drummers ever used to be in the band. (Neil Pert, he died a few months ago... )

Nothing wrong, I love Rush! It just seemed like a funny afterthought to a list of bands I've never heard of, save ACDC. That's why I made the comment. My opinion Rush belongs first on the list. ☆☆♡☆☆
(Hope you take a look at some early Rush, too). RIP Mr. Peart .

 

[mbsqw1d]

Artist: Sonic Youth
Album: dirty
Song: Orange Rolls, Angel's Spit

got me awake this morning.. well, that and the coffee

 

[PheonixKingZ]

Nothing wrong, I love Rush! It just seemed like a funny afterthought to a list of bands I've never heard of, save ACDC. That's why I made the comment. My opinion Rush belongs first on the list. ☆☆♡☆☆
(Hope you take a look at some early Rush, too). RIP Mr. Peart .

It was a long day...

 

[Flushable Pets]

Interesting. Don't know about Opeth. The song you provided made good use of early prog elements. Still, cookie monster is a deal breaker. Nevertheless, a great example of one of the branches of the prog tree.
As far as the newer line up, why not just listen to classic Camel? There's only a bit of Camel I've heard.
Snow Goose, anyone?

I definitely understand that the growls aren't for everyone, but you gave credit where credit was due. When I first discovered more extreme metal, I admit I was a bit wary of the vocal style and had a bit of difficulty digesting it. I ended up making friends with a phenomenal local band called Turbid North and things suddenly clicked for me. However, if you liked the non aggressive parts, their album "Damnation" features entirely clean vocals and is very mellow. Excellent mash up blues, jazz and prog elements with all the darkness of more extreme forms of metal. Mikael Akerfeldt (Opeth) has done work with Steve Wilson (of Porcupine Tree, check them out!) with a collaborative effort called Storm Corrosion. Perfect veg out music.

What about Pelican? Sludgy stoner instrumental prog metal. Or Pomegranate Tiger, an insane instrumental metal band for fans of Between The Buried And Me and Periphery.