Oliver ,'Conviction (1)'
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
Uh oh. From the 33 1/3 blog:
You'll have to bear with us a little while longer, I'm afraid. There are some economy related goings-on here at Continuum, and I can't progress the 33 1/3 proposals any further until those are properly taken care of. Thank you for your continued patience, and your understanding. We'll have a further update on here next week, I hope.
Speaking of Serge G, I saw the other day that someone has remastered and rereleased Histoire de Melody Nelson.
I regularly check Phil Freeman's blog: [link]
Bought the new Lamb of God a couple of weeks ago cos I read about it on there. I usually find Phil's opinion on Metal is favourable to my personality. Whatever that means.
It's not a music blog per se, but its delightful (and I think Lyn-Z must be on pelvic rest)
New Decemberists is out today. Local-istas might want to note that Newbury Comics is selling it for $7.99 for a short time.
New Decemberists is out today.
In which they fully embrace their prog-rock bombastic tendencies with a full-on rock opera.
I can't decide yet whether I like it, but I give 'em credit for trying.
In which they fully embrace their prog-rock bombastic tendencies with a full-on rock opera.
So the prog stuff on Crane Wife is not just a one-off? That's the only other disc of theirs I have (though I hope to rectify that soon).
I can't decide yet whether I like it
I bet I will, since prog-rock was the music I was really into when I first got into music on my own (as opposed to hearing it from family or friends).
In which they fully embrace their prog-rock bombastic tendencies with a full-on rock opera.
I haven't really been able to fully embrace my prog-rock bombastic tendencies since high school. At the most, I shake hands with them.
I bet I will, since prog-rock was the music I was really into when I first got into music on my own (as opposed to hearing it from family or friends).
My older brother was into Pink Floyd, so The Wall was my fave album when I was in high school. The first music I got into on my own was The Velvet Underground, when I was a sophomore in college.
eta: Oh yeah, and David Bowie, when I was a freshman.
Jethro Tull was the first band I was really into (so that mulit-part epic on Crane Wife really struck a note with me), but I dived head-long into the art rock abyss - Yes, ELP, King Crimson, Floyd. I branched of into space-rock.
There still bits of all of them I love, but the only one I could say I'm still really a fan of is Crimson. They were definitely a different breed of prog, even in their early days, though.
This all led to stuff like Roxy Music, Eno, Talking Heads, and onward. Then my older brother lent me a couple of Clash albums which really expanded things.
We will not speak of the fusion phase I went through, however. Oh, wait...