peterfrederics
Thanks for your comments and totally understand what it’s like to be so busy! Really glad that emusers is here for the long term. I likewise listen to many of your tips and often for similar reasons. That is, to my mind, what makes this group so great to belong to.
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"Out Of The Blue" an excellent 1973 album by Australian Jazz/Prog Rock group "MacKenzie Theory" with outstanding guitar and viola playing.
Start off by trying Track 4 "New Song" but all the tracks are really good
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(Quote) @djh couldn't agree more. For me, Slint's Spiderland is where it all seriously began for Post Rock
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However, I really prefer Bark Psychosis's second album "///Codename: dustsucker" which came out ten years later in 2004 and was one of the first albums I downloaded from eMusic.
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"Fearless. The Making Of Post Rock" by Jeanette Leech
Amazon says "Post-rock is an anti-genre, impossible to fence in. Elevating texture over riff and ambiance over traditional rock hierarchies, its exponents used ideas of space and de… -
An embarrassment of riches for live music in Melbourne, at the moment. My other alternative for Monday night would be "Queens of the Stone Age".
Playing my favourite QOTSA album 2002's "Songs For The Deaf"
Excited to be off to see Mogwai live in Melbourne on Monday!
However, I am afraid that I have given Tay Tay a miss! She appeared before a record crowd, for her, of 96,000 at the Melbourne Cricket Ground last night and is on again tonight …"Fauna" the latest album by outstanding British Progressive Rock band Haken. Their 2013 album "Mountain" was ranked no. 2 for the year by ProgArchives. I will be seeing them live in Melbourne on May 2nd.
AMG says "Fauna is often…"A Fabulous Creation: How The LP Saved Our Lives" by David Hepworth.
A fascinating book about the period, 1966 to 1982, that Hepworth considers to be the heyday of the LP and how it impacted the music industry and the broader community. <…"Meaty, Beaty, Big and Bouncy" a 1971 album with 14 "best of" by The Who.
What a great album bringing back fabulous memories!
"My Generation" still resonates in the way it did back in 1965 when I was in my teens although not so…The Open Window s/t 1969 Prog/Art Rock album
The members of The Open Window (including Peter Schickele - refer my RIP post) also composed the score and lyrics for the famous and controversial, in its day, theatrical review, “Oh! Calcutta!…Johann Peter Schickele an American composer, musical educator and parodist, best known for comedy albums featuring his music, which he presented as being composed by the fictional in RIP Comment by peterfrederics February 2024"II" the beautiful 1999 Post Rock album by The Sonora Pine
AMG says ""II" was an early breakthrough in this mysterious magic, creating a glimmering world of soft-focus expressions that hung like smoke in the air and disappeared just as…"Radios Appear" the 1977 album by early Australian punk band Radio Birdman.
Calling them punk though underrates the tunefulness of their music and vocals.
Going to see them live in Melbourne on June 21st for their 50th Annivers…Melanie (Safka) who featured strongly in 1969 as well as the early 1970s, performing at Woodstock.
Apparently, she was inspired to write her greatest hit "Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)" after looking out into the crowd at Woodstock and s…"Live at the Atlanta International Pop Festival: July 3 & 5, 1970" by The Allman Brothers Band.
Outstanding live album probably only bettered by what many people consider to be the best live album of all time, their "At Fillmore East"…Four of my Aussie mates visiting our beach house!
in What's sitting outside your window right now? Comment by peterfrederics January 2024
Have just finished reading “Scattershot” by Bernie Taupin.
Enjoyed it but there is rather too much name dropping the more you progress through the book.in What Are You Reading? Comment by peterfrederics January 2024
Felt I had to listen to the Al Kooper/Michael Bloomfield/Stephen Stills 1968 album “Super Session” having just listened to the later Al/Michael album (see my post on 24 Hours…”).
And what better track than the Al Kooper/Stephen Stills cov…Down the beach at Lorne, enjoying the Australian summer!Just bought an original 1969 pressing of the album “The Live Adventures of Michael Bloomfield and Al Kooper” in one of the local shops. I think that this album together w…For some unknown reason, having long departed as a member, I checked back today on eMusic.
Much to my surprise, all my purchases are still sitting there and fully accessible under "My Music" although, I hasten to add, I long ago uploaded …Well I need to relax after Isis, so what could be better than one of my favourite Post Rock albums - "Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven" by Godspeed You! Black Emperor.
AMG says"It is a windfall for any fan of ambient pop,…"Oceanic" an Experimental/Post Metal album by Isis and it is far more melodic than this description would suggest. Rated no. 8 for 2002 by ProgArchives
AMG says "Oceanic is a masterfully complex symphony of majestic noise and melody, a…"Enigmatic" and "Niemen (Czerwony)" Progressive/Jazz Rock albums by Polish artist Czeslaw Niemen which came out in 1970 and 1971.
Outstanding but relatively unknown albums which are rated by ProgArchives in the top 25 and top 50 in what …Automatic Fine Tuning s/t Progressive Rock album from 1976
ProgArchives says "In 1976, guitarists Paul A. MacDONNELL and Robert CROSS, bass player Trevor DARKS and drummer/vocalist Dave BALL joined their considerable skills and …
