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Post by frozenhero on Oct 26, 2018 19:24:15 GMT
Thanks, I was assuming that. Just can't be sure on the interwebs, can you? I have always preferred Fish as a solo artist to Marillion - whichever version. I did download a track from an internet only album by Marillion a few years ago called One Fine Day. The album was (I think) Another DAT At The Office. I liked that song but the rest did nothing for me. I was never the biggest prog rock fan. If they're in that sort of category that is. I'm not altogether sure. Another DAT at the Office is one of their many "side releases", containing album demos and outtakes and the likes. The regular version of "One Fine Day" appeared on "This Strange Engine", which is a bit of a controversial album. They were trying to change their sound, get rockier and simpler, but sales were dwindling and fans started to lose patience a bit. They came back with a vengeance though and have strengthened ties with the fanbase ever since, to a point where it's gotta be said that Marillion fans are among the most dedicated and loyal fans of ANY rock group. The clip I posted above is from one of their "weekends". Yes, you read that right; fans actually travel from all over the world to spend three days together with the band, and the band play three specially themed shows during that time. It's quite fascinating to hear about. In fact, they had been dropped by their major label (EMI) and basically invented crowd-funding as a result. Nobody gives them any credit for this... I know they tried to distance themselves from the prog moniker for a long time and tried to be U2, Radiohead, Coldplay, Massive Attack or whatever instead, but now I think they actually embrace it and don't care that you're not supposed to make 20-minute songs anymore. One of their best newer albums is "Marbles" - check out Hogarth's show in "The Invisible Man". Stunning stuff. I admit that I have no clue about Fish's solo material, though. It's not like he's a musician, all he does is write lyrics, so I'm not surprised people describe his solo albums as stylistically uneven but the Steven Wilson collab definitely intrigues me. I'm tempted by these 3CD sets he's been releasing recently but they're only available from his shop and I'm a bit lazy when it comes to dealing with ordering stuff. I like things to be as easy as possible
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Post by craydarr on Oct 26, 2018 19:47:53 GMT
Thanks, I was assuming that. Just can't be sure on the interwebs, can you? I have always preferred Fish as a solo artist to Marillion - whichever version. I did download a track from an internet only album by Marillion a few years ago called One Fine Day. The album was (I think) Another DAT At The Office. I liked that song but the rest did nothing for me. I was never the biggest prog rock fan. If they're in that sort of category that is. I'm not altogether sure. Another DAT at the Office is one of their many "side releases", containing album demos and outtakes and the likes. The regular version of "One Fine Day" appeared on "This Strange Engine", which is a bit of a controversial album. They were trying to change their sound, get rockier and simpler, but sales were dwindling and fans started to lose patience a bit. They came back with a vengeance though and have strengthened ties with the fanbase ever since, to a point where it's gotta be said that Marillion fans are among the most dedicated and loyal fans of ANY rock group. The clip I posted above is from one of their "weekends". Yes, you read that right; fans actually travel from all over the world to spend three days together with the band, and the band play three specially themed shows during that time. It's quite fascinating to hear about. In fact, they had been dropped by their major label (EMI) and basically invented crowd-funding as a result. Nobody gives them any credit for this... I know they tried to distance themselves from the prog moniker for a long time and tried to be U2, Radiohead, Coldplay, Massive Attack or whatever instead, but now I think they actually embrace it and don't care that you're not supposed to make 20-minute songs anymore. One of their best newer albums is "Marbles" - check out Hogarth's show in "The Invisible Man". Stunning stuff. I admit that I have no clue about Fish's solo material, though. It's not like he's a musician, all he does is write lyrics, so I'm not surprised people describe his solo albums as stylistically uneven but the Steven Wilson collab definitely intrigues me. I'm tempted by these 3CD sets he's been releasing recently but they're only available from his shop and I'm a bit lazy when it comes to dealing with ordering stuff. I like things to be as easy as possible
The albums I have from Marillion are Holidays in Eden, Anoraknaphobia, Afraid of the Sunlight and Unplugged live at the Walls.
Afraid of the Sunlight is a blinding album and the tracks Cannibal Surf Babe and Beautiful are my favourite Marillion tracks.
Enjoy
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Post by frozenhero on Oct 26, 2018 21:01:14 GMT
craydarr Don't tell that to the Marillion fans! eclipsed rated the AOS album very highly, but also remarked it contained two bad tracks - guess which ones Holidays in Eden has some great tracks but suffers from being produced too commercially. Anoraknophobia I only know from live versions (they performed the entire album at the 2015 weekend, which I have on a 3 Blu-Ray set) Unplugged at the Walls is a great album with totally new arrangements and wonderful atmosphere - imo it puts Quo's acoustic attempts to shame.
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Post by noproblems on Dec 28, 2018 8:53:48 GMT
My three: 1. The Rolling Stones Fantastic to see them for the first time since 1982. Much tighter, slicker, exciting. I was at the Olympic Park in May, and I was on the Internet looking for tickets for their Coventry gig before they got to the encore.
2. Joe Bonamassa According to Pete Way, he auditioned for UFO. "Nothing came of it" , he says. Not helped by the drugs and drink culture of the band methinks. Sidestepping UFO didn't do him any harm.
3. Bryan Adams Very much the forgotten man for me. He fell in with Mutt Lange in the late 80s / early 90s, and that put me off quite a bit. I only rediscovered him in 2017 and was quite surprised how well his output stands up after all this time. Saw him in May 2018, will see him again Feb 2019. It would be harsh to describe him as a Canadian Springsteen, but he puts on an excellent show for less than Β£60.
Others include Springsteen, Joanne Shaw Taylor.
Would love to see Peter Gabriel, but there hasn't been much output from him in recent years which makes me think that he's stopped writing, recording, touring.
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Post by dai on Dec 28, 2018 10:12:01 GMT
My three: 1. The Rolling Stones Fantastic to see them for the first time since 1982. Much tighter, slicker, exciting. I was at the Olympic Park in May, and I was on the Internet looking for tickets for their Coventry gig before they got to the encore. 2. Joe Bonamassa According to Pete Way, he auditioned for UFO. "Nothing came of it" , he says. Not helped by the drugs and drink culture of the band methinks. Sidestepping UFO didn't do him any harm. 3. Bryan Adams Very much the forgotten man for me. He fell in with Mutt Lange in the late 80s / early 90s, and that put me off quite a bit. I only rediscovered him in 2017 and was quite surprised how well his output stands up after all this time. Saw him in May 2018, will see him again Feb 2019. It would be harsh to describe him as a Canadian Springsteen, but he puts on an excellent show for less than Β£60. Others include Springsteen, Joanne Shaw Taylor. Would love to see Peter Gabriel, but there hasn't been much output from him in recent years which makes me think that he's stopped writing, recording, touring. Seen Bryan Adams live a couple of times & he's very impressive. Huge back catalogue of catchy rock songs. I've been getting more into Pink Floyd as I get older. Was never a fan as I was growing up, always thought they were a bit pretentious. Been catching up on a lot of their stuff & love the guitar playing of Dave Gilmour. I could listen to his solo in Comfortably Numb all day long.
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Post by mortified on Dec 28, 2018 10:24:04 GMT
Would love to see Peter Gabriel, but there hasn't been much output from him in recent years which makes me think that he's stopped writing, recording, touring. I'm the same but I don't think he performs much these days. The last thing he brought out was a download single called The Veil in 2016. At least I think that was the last thing. I could be wrong. I was never a fan of Genesis back in the 70's - quite the reverse! But as a solo artist, Peter Gabriel has generally always been excellent.
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Post by flawed on Jan 1, 2019 21:47:57 GMT
Hi, I'm new here, although my musical taste is very eclectic, my 3 other fave bands which does change regular would be:
Manic Street Preachers These Animal Men (most haven't heard of them) Foo Fighters
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Post by snakelady on Jan 2, 2019 5:40:53 GMT
Hi, I'm new here, although my musical taste is very eclectic, my 3 other fave bands which does change regular would be: Manic Street Preachers These Animal Men (most haven't heard of them) Foo Fighters Welcome to our little mb - and I've indeed never heard of These Animal Men. What kind of music is it ?
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Post by mortified on Jan 2, 2019 6:47:29 GMT
Quo fans with eclectic tastes I tend to find is the norm. Despite what the world thinks of us
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Post by flawed on Jan 2, 2019 10:24:48 GMT
Hi, I'm new here, although my musical taste is very eclectic, my 3 other fave bands which does change regular would be: Manic Street Preachers These Animal Men (most haven't heard of them) Foo Fighters Welcome to our little mb - and I've indeed never heard of These Animal Men. What kind of music is it ? There were apart of a music scene that never really got going in the the mid 90's (new wave of new wave) ('94-'98) but brit pop exploded instead, they split in 1998, but one the band members have a new band called scare taxi. www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_vDVxqpumc
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Post by snakelady on Jan 2, 2019 16:21:16 GMT
Welcome to our little mb - and I've indeed never heard of These Animal Men. What kind of music is it ? There were apart of a music scene that never really got going in the the mid 90's (new wave of new wave) ('94-'98) but brit pop exploded instead, they split in 1998, but one the band members have a new band called scare taxi. www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_vDVxqpumcOi, my knowledge is somewhat extremely limited when it comes to 90s music, so I'd not have known them even if they had been a really big act. Musically it's ok from my perspective, but the vocals would get on my nerves rather sooner than later. Got to say that video very much reminds me of what I perceive as typical 80s - the type of video, the way it's sung. There's a strong possibility though that I don't have a clue .
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Post by flawed on Jan 2, 2019 16:55:28 GMT
There were apart of a music scene that never really got going in the the mid 90's (new wave of new wave) ('94-'98) but brit pop exploded instead, they split in 1998, but one the band members have a new band called scare taxi. www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_vDVxqpumcOi, my knowledge is somewhat extremely limited when it comes to 90s music, so I'd not have known them even if they had been a really big act. Musically it's ok from my perspective, but the vocals would get on my nerves rather sooner than later. Got to say that video very much reminds me of what I perceive as typical 80s - the type of video, the way it's sung. There's a strong possibility though that I don't have a clue . Thats the beauty of music though, not everyone is going to like what you like, and makes life more interesting.
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Post by tramper on Jan 7, 2019 18:35:44 GMT
Other than QUO. 30/40 years ago i would have said The Stranglers, Boomtown Rats, Ramones. Now I'm listening to a lot of Metalica, and then there's ACDC and Iron Maiden. Tough call though ππ€π€
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Post by mortified on Jan 8, 2019 8:00:55 GMT
Other than QUO. 30/40 years ago i would have said The Stranglers, Boomtown Rats, Ramones. Now I'm listening to a lot of Metalica, and then there's ACDC and Iron Maiden. Tough call though ππ€π€ Yeah, ask the same question 30 or even 20 years ago and it's a different answer. Probably for everyone. I sort of went for who has consistently been up there for me during all that time, even although there will have been peaks and troughs with each of them. The Stranglers, I must admit, have stayed consistently good.
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Post by snakelady on Jan 8, 2019 9:26:58 GMT
Other than QUO. 30/40 years ago i would have said The Stranglers, Boomtown Rats, Ramones. Now I'm listening to a lot of Metallica, and then there's ACDC and Iron Maiden. Tough call though ππ€π€ Yeah, ask the same question 30 or even 20 years ago and it's a different answer. Probably for everyone. I sort of went for who has consistently been up there for me during all that time, even although there will have been peaks and troughs with each of them. The Stranglers, I must admit, have stayed consistently good. Not everyone .. even 40 years ago my answer would've been the same. When it comes to music I'm obviously very much a creature of habit.
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Post by mortified on Jan 8, 2019 11:24:35 GMT
Yeah, ask the same question 30 or even 20 years ago and it's a different answer. Probably for everyone. I sort of went for who has consistently been up there for me during all that time, even although there will have been peaks and troughs with each of them. The Stranglers, I must admit, have stayed consistently good. Not everyone .. even 40 years ago my answer would've been the same. When it comes to music I'm obviously very much a creature of habit. Or a stubbornness not to move with the times Says the Quo fan of 47 years standing
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Post by I Ain't Complaining on Feb 18, 2019 23:50:15 GMT
Bit late to this one, but anyhow.....
In no particular order I would say
Springsteen Brian Adams Oasis Del Amitri
That's four!! I like loads of other different stuff, but these ones jump off the page. I know 3 of them are 'similar' to Quo, and that's probably why they're in the top 5. Other stuff is great, but not in the same way as this type of music. I love Eva Cassidy, but I have to be in a different mood to listen to that sort of music.
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Post by PsychedeliCon on Jul 6, 2019 21:25:52 GMT
I actually love many different acts, but going by how often I listen to them my three favourites are Barclay James Harvest Manfred Mann's Earth Band Billy Joel No hard rock band for me, Quo is about the rockiest band I still like. I'd have to split my answer in two groups. 3 favorite bands and 3 favorite musicians other than Quo, though I am not entirely sure if I actually count SQ into my top 3. They are certainly one of my favorite bands but in recent years there wasn't really that much great new music coming from their direction; the best two albums were 4th Chord and Quid pro Quo in my opinion, though both had a number of weak/generic songs as well.
As for my three favorite bands, the answer right now would have to be... Deaf Radio Pollinator Acid Bath
As for my three favorite musicians, the answer would need to be
Josh Homme (Queens of the Stone Age, Arctic Monkeys, Kyuss, Eagles of Death Metal, Desert Sessions, Them Crooked Vultures) Dax Riggs (Acid Bath, Agents of Oblivion, Deadboy and the Elephantmen) David Byron (Uriah Heep)
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Post by snakelady on Jul 7, 2019 5:44:46 GMT
I actually love many different acts, but going by how often I listen to them my three favourites are Barclay James Harvest Manfred Mann's Earth Band Billy Joel No hard rock band for me, Quo is about the rockiest band I still like. I'd have to split my answer in two groups. 3 favorite bands and 3 favorite musicians other than Quo, though I am not entirely sure if I actually count SQ into my top 3. They are certainly one of my favorite bands but in recent years there wasn't really that much great new music coming from their direction; the best two albums were 4th Chord and Quid pro Quo in my opinion, though both had a number of weak/generic songs as well.
As for my three favorite bands, the answer right now would have to be... Deaf Radio Pollinator Acid Bath
As for my three favorite musicians, the answer would need to be
Josh Homme (Queens of the Stone Age, Arctic Monkeys, Kyuss, Eagles of Death Metal, Desert Sessions, Them Crooked Vultures) Dax Riggs (Acid Bath, Agents of Oblivion, Deadboy and the Elephantmen) David Byron (Uriah Heep)
We can at least agree about David Byron. He definitely was essential for Heep. I've heard of some of the other bands (Pollinator is ok, I think ?) ..
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