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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“Dance of the Goodbyes”, “Second Split” and “Quiet Euphoria” by Progressive Rock/Canterbury Scene style Spanish band Amoeba Split.
A ProgArchives review of their first album, “Dance of the Goodbyes” issued in 2010 says “This is the tim… -
American Football’s s/t Post Rock/Alternative album from 1999.AMG says “American Football's songs dig deep into uncommon time signatures and jazz-influenced chords, and even implement understated trumpet and electric piano i…
Lazing by the pool on holiday in Crete listening to “Alvin Lee - The Anthology”. In particular, enjoying “Bluest Blues” (George Harrison also on guitar), “Help Me Baby” and, an all time favourite of mine, “I’m Coming Home” from his Ten Years After h…Perfect shoegaze from Alison’s Halo’s 1997 album “Eyedazzler 1992-1996”.
AMG says “Alison's Halo used their love of British groups like My…Alphataurus s/t album from 1973. To my mind, one of the best examples of Italian Progressive Rock at its 1970s peak.ProgArchives says “Alphataurus is one of those legendary RPI bands who are obscure in the annals of general progr…“The Mantle” by Agalloch.
A mix of Progessive Rock, Post Rock and Post Metal, the album is rated No. 4 for the year 2002 by ProgArchives.Celebrating the Australian team beating the French to go through to the semifinals of Soccer Women’s World Cup. And where better to be doing that than on holiday in Paris!And what better to remind me of home than listening to t…“Survival & Resistance” by Adrian Sherwood
AMG says that Adrian Sherwood is “Long one of the most influential and innovative figures on the U.K. reggae scene, producer Adrian Sherwood and his famed On-U Sound label pioneered a dist…“Green Man” the 1971 Prog rock album by Danish band Ache.
I can only imagine that this would have featured on a @Brighternow list of top Scandinavian rock albums.<…@confused thanks for the reminder of some excellent Ginger Baker albums.
In return, here are a couple from Jack Bruce.
"Why Dontcha" by West, Bruce & L…(Quote) @greg I couldn't have said it better! I too discovered that first Chicago (Transit Authority) album from "Fill Your Head with Rock" plus a whole lot of other bands fr…(Quote) And when on MoonJune don't forget to visit the Soft Machine page!(Quote) Whereas. I did go to Sussex with the band playing on my first weekend there being Cream. Unfortunately, my lady friend at the time was far more interested in Eric Clapton than she was in me!One of my all time favourite bands of any era is Affinity and their s/t album issued in 1970.
Funnily enough, they came from the University of Sussex at the time that I was studying there but unfortunately I never came across them in pers…Listening to “Tubular Bells” led me to explore Mike and his sister Sally’s other music.The 50th anniversary of the release of Mike Oldfield's “Tubular Bells” and the film, “The Exorcist”, on which it featured was big news in today’s The Australian newspaper, with a full page article.
Really enjoyed listening to it again tod…(Quote) Another two 65DaysofStatic albums well worth trying are "The Destruction Of Small Ideas" and "The Fall Of Math", plus the covers are more informative!in What Are You Listening to (23) Skidoo? Comment by peterfrederics July 2023
Thanks again @confused for another great intro with Gas.
Am spending a relaxing Saturday afternoon listening to “Pop”.
in What Are You Listening to (23) Skidoo? Comment by peterfrederics July 2023'RidingEasy Records Summertime Mixtape" is a surprisingly g…
@confused your post got me investigating Gamelan bands, so thanks to you and @Brighternow for the intr…(Quote) Oh no! What have I started!
Watched the first episode of the 1971 TV series last night and it was really good.
I had just moved from London to Perth, Western Australia for work the year before in 1970. The saying…@djh in The End, The West is always the Best!
Meanwhile, on the topic of 1971 as the best year in rock, I'm just off to watch the Apple TV documentary series "1971: The Ye…(Quote) Not to forget Love's "Forever Changes", Jimi's "Are You Experienced", Pink Floyd's "Piper At The Gate Of Dawn", "Moby Grape", "Procol Harum" and "Songs of Leonard Cohen".
1967 was indeed a great year for debut albums. In fa…Went to training yesterday morning and none of the trainers (in their 20s) had heard of The Doors! But every single one of us doing training (50s and up) of course had!
This just meant that I had to play The Doors first album all the way …"The Last Embrace", the 2003 compilation album by Spirit Caravan. A very listenable version of Stoner Rock.in What Are You Listening to (23) Skidoo? Comment by peterfrederics June 2023
