BARRACUDA BLUE

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Gracious!: This Is... Gracious!
CD Audio I have it ★★★★★
Gracious!: This Is... Gracious!
28 nov 14
There were times when already disbanded bands greeted showbiz by releasing masterpieces: Proto-Prog flags of the Vertigo school, they fell into that sonorous chessboard where King Crimson and Caravan used to reflect themselves from their ivory towers. The Supernova suite is still "gracefully" visible, lost in the most creative galaxies of Rock.
  • hellraiser
    29 nov 14
    Always interesting proposals from you, well done Barra.
  • hjhhjij
    29 nov 14
    A great album that I haven't listened to in eons. It's urgent to make amends.
  • piendepei
    1 dec 14
    I, unfortunately, listened to it instead....
Greenslade: Greenslade
Vinile I have it ★★★★★
Greenslade: Greenslade
1 oct 12
The debut of a perfectly balanced group, despite the moniker. Long instrumental passages, guitar replaced by the solo bass, light and fast drumming, intriguing vocals, and dual keyboard work with all the tricks of the genre. After 40 years, one single adjective: ELEGANT.
Happy the Man: Happy the Man
Vinile I have it ★★★★★
Happy the Man: Happy the Man
29 nov 15
The American Progressive? It arrives late, doesn't create scenes, doesn't sell records or dispense commentary. It's just the music that speaks, more emotional than ever, driven by an imaginative technique that dispels any pretentiousness. An album that illuminates every listen, every moment of sonic delight for refined tastes.
  • zaireeka
    29 nov 15
    Curious, I search for them. Lately, I've been getting into prog bands from the outskirts.. I've just discovered Kaipa, Swedish (with songs sung in Swedish) from the early 70s. An extraordinary prog band, for me, and immediately entered my personal prog Olympus.
  • BARRACUDA BLUE
    29 nov 15
    Excellent Kaipa, featuring a very young Roine Stolt, long before his fame with The Flower Kings. The Scandinavian Prog scene was and remains incredibly rich, while the American scene has always struggled to find its place in the market. The two albums by Happy The Man were a kind of white fly in the rich catalog of a major US label, Arista, which didn’t know what to do with a band of such caliber.
  • macaco
    30 nov 15
    Great musical personality and refinement. It’s also worth mentioning the Cartoon, even if with a more intricate proposal. And finally, I would gladly recall that a RIO scene does exist in the USA; it’s limited to a few musicians, but it is a force.
  • hjhhjij
    30 nov 15
    I don't know any of these people, not even from the American RIO, and of Nordic prog bands, I only know the Finnish Wigwam, who are pretty cool. Damn it.
Heatwave: Central Heating
Vinile I have it ★★★★★
Heatwave: Central Heating
11 aug 12
The mega Disco-Funk-Band of the author of Off The Wall, Rock With You, and Thriller, just to name a few: much of the sound of the King of Pop is born in these grooves, Rod Temperton and his interracial British collective, but not too much, at their best. The mystical charm of The Star of a Story stands tall like a beacon, and Quincy Jones and George Benson will give it even more shine. Spectacular disco.
High Tide: Sea Shanties / High Tide
Vinile I have it ★★★★★
High Tide: Sea Shanties
22 apr 12
The ghost ship of rock.
Hoelderlin: Hölderlin's Traum
CD Audio I have it ★★★★★
Hoelderlin: Hölderlin's Traum
8 nov 14
The tree of life in Continental Acid Folk, a vivid and stern Teutonic link between the Canterbury scene of Spirogyra and the baroque Neapolitan school of Saint Just. If I had been 18 in 1970, I would have wanted to record an album like this, only to disappear afterward.
  • Buzzin' Fly
    8 nov 14
    beautiful album, I haven't listened to it in years.
  • hjhhjij
    8 nov 14
    Interesting, to say the least.
  • Dragonstar
    8 nov 14
    Great record, I'll have to find it somewhere...
Ian Anderson: Walk Into Light
Vinile I have it ★★★★
Ian Anderson: Walk Into Light
25 oct 13
When electronics do not compromise quality and interpretation: Mr. Flauto and the little magician Peter John Vettese have briefly been a brilliant duo, the tracks flow rich with passion, warming the synthetic musical ideas, and there’s plenty to go around. To be listened to without any prejudice.
Iggy Pop: The Idiot
Vinile I have it ★★★★★
Iggy Pop: The Idiot
3 feb 15
Legendary sequence of tracks, one can almost sniff the decadent moods, the icy innovation, up to that compromise between Neu! and Fassbinder that permeates the tolls of Mass Production, perhaps the peak of the duo's romps in that Berlin interior.
  • Psychopathia
    3 feb 15
    So you mean to say that Iggy and David... actually, maybe I knew it, but I didn’t picture it like that, Iggy. Then again, de gustibus. Speaking of music, I believe Iggy Pop gave his best with the Stooges.
  • BARRACUDA BLUE
    3 feb 15
    Iggy treats drugs like sex... nothing goes to waste!
Indian Summer: Indian Summer
CD Audio I have it ★★★★★
Indian Summer: Indian Summer
9 jun 12
One Shot branded Neon with no response upon release. The fantastic voice of Bob Jackson, his keyboards in endless duets with the guitarist, a touch of Dark Sound in a melodic yet original mood. One of my desert island records.
iq: ever
CD Audio I have it ★★★★★
IQ: Ever
2 dec 14
After 4 years, navigating record labels and compromises, their '90s begin in total creative freedom, with a sound that is contemporary, excellent songwriting, and a Peter Nicholls who has returned and is in great shape. The Milan date of the related tour was a Prog Happening in grand style.
  • Lao Tze
    2 dec 14
    those I prefer from the English Prog of the '80s, even more than Marillion. I've never liked calling it "neo"-prog; it might just be me, but it almost seems to downgrade artists of this level to the rank of epigones. Poetic like few, far from just simple (skilled) craftsmen.
IQ: The Seventh House
CD Audio I have it ★★★★★
IQ: The Seventh House
26 dec 14
Someone might argue that all their post-Ever albums sound somewhat the same, but where do you find a similar transport, an emotionality that erases all that technique for the sake of technique typical of other names with much more flattering stories? The Other Side Of Wierd? The Title Track? Just chills...real chills.
It's Immaterial: Life's Hard and Then You Die
Vinile I have it ★★★★★
It's Immaterial: Life's Hard and Then You Die
10 dec 13
Champions of human coordinates in music, a mid-'80s debut destined to transcend genres and sounds. The vile Thatcherism opens the doors to globalization, and they, well ahead of their time, sing of fears and hopes, blending tradition and electropop. A gem to be rediscovered.
Japan: Quiet Life
Vinile I have it ★★★★
Japan: Quiet Life
2 jun 12
We’re not quite at the top yet, but it’s definitely the breakthrough album: the somewhat lethargic Dolls-clones transform into refined and cold dandies ready to point the way to the '80s. In Vogue, The Other Side of Life, and the dynamic title track outline the future coordinates.
Jethro Tull: Benefit
CD Audio I have it ★★★★★
Jethro Tull: Benefit
5 jun 12
No historical pieces but rather an improved sequence of tracks. A sense of measure that later Anderson will only maintain to keep himself balanced in his rockstar crossovers.
Joe Cocker: Joe Cocker
Vinile I have it ★★★★★
Joe Cocker: Joe Cocker
4 nov 13
Only in Italy did it come out with the American cover of "Joe Cocker" and the European title "Something To Say." Today, confusion is inevitable, but the album remains a classic Studio/Live in a swirl of grace. The prophetic blues of St. James Infirmary belongs solely to him, just as the songwriting of High Time We Went doesn't belong to Zucchero.
  • hellraiser
    5 nov 13
    Never listened to it again, but I adore the first Cocker! Especially this one and "With a Little Help..". Classic!
  • Lao Tze
    5 nov 13
    Not even For Whose Fault? belongs to Zucchero (it didn’t even belong to Joe, since Hitchcock Railway wasn’t his, so the Fornaciaro plagiarized a cover...). Not even New Wonderful Friend (Hello Little Friend), not even Mint & Rosemary (Sandpaper Cadillac)... long list.
Kansas: Leftoverture
Vinile I have it ★★★★★
Kansas: Leftoverture
26 apr 13
The first American prog album to enter the Billboard Top Ten, and rightly so: there isn't a single piece out of place, technique, inventiveness, and passion illuminating the individual performances, Steve Walsh's vocal range, an example for a myriad of colleagues, and the magical touch of Robbie Steinhardt's violin giving it its trademark sound. When I think of The Wall, only this album comes to mind.
Kate Bush: The Dreaming
Vinile I have it ★★★★★
Kate Bush: The Dreaming
13 mar 15
A record ahead of its time, as current and bold as few others, magnificent in revealing itself listen after listen, and even now I can still catch hidden details from my 18 years, when vocal exploration came before everything else. A masterpiece of expressiveness.
  • Lao Tze
    13 mar 15
    the Beauty that becomes the Beast, the sweet song that turns into a scream, the Angel's Voice that transforms into the braying of a mule. Hee-haw, hee-haw, hee-haw...
  • BARRACUDA BLUE
    13 mar 15
    I would have loved to see the faces of the distinguished EMI executives during the listening session. Yet everything became marketable in 1982; no one will take away their applause as long as they live, and even beyond.
  • hjhhjij
    13 mar 15
    I love her first album, an undisputed masterpiece of the most refined pop... But damn, when she "got dirty" and broadened her horizons and musical exploration, she reached levels of astonishing height and quality. "The Dreaming" is so beautiful it’s scary. I've been saying this for a few years now, and I haven't gotten tired of it at all. I love her.
Kayak: The Last Encore
Vinile I have it ★★★★★
Kayak: The Last Encore
18 may 12
Dutch craftsmanship specialized in Progressive Pop melodies: it contains everything needed to fall in love and a NOTHINGNESS to cherish forever. Not recommended for the faint-hearted.
Killing Joke: Killing Joke
Vinile I have it ★★★★★
Killing Joke: Killing Joke
6 sep 12
This monument stands to Post-Punk as the first Black Sabbath stands to Heavy Metal. A perpetually lit beacon for the entire Industrial scene... and it’s much more Punk than a lot of crap that still tries to pass itself off as such today. A timeless work.
  • Psychopathia
    6 sep 12
    so you got the cover wrong! this one is from the eponymous album of 2003! maybe you meant to refer to the very first one... :)
  • Psychopathia
    6 sep 12
    also because the first homoimo is nice, this one is very tacky, in my opinion.
  • BARRACUDA BLUE
    6 sep 12
    Homonymy of the Kaiser...wrong cover...Editors Help Me please!
Lisa Gerrard: The Mirror Pool
CD Audio I have it ★★★★★
Lisa Gerrard: The Mirror Pool
5 aug 12
Milan in August: the dark shades of the sky, the clouds quickly gathering, an air of storm... and this incredible voice carrying me away...
Lucifer's Friend: Where the Groupies Killed the Blues
CD Audio I have it ★★★★★
Lucifer's Friend: Where the Groupies Killed the Blues
20 may 12
The German response to English Classic Rock: hard, progressive, and psych scents elevated by an extraordinary voice and high-class arrangements. 40 years ago, Kraut was only in Hot Dogs!
Magic Mushroom Band: Process of Illumination
Vinile I have it ★★★★★
Magic Mushroom Band: Process of Illumination
5 mar 15
25 years after its release, I thank this "aromatic" band and the entire English Neo-Psych scene for paving my artistic path and a lifestyle between a Rock stage and a dance floor. Without Grunge, Stoner, and any Metal, my '90s enlightenment completes its process.
  • Buzzin' Fly
    5 mar 15
    25 years? I was a big fan of the English neo-psych scene; I had a ton of CDs from various Ozric, Mandragora, Poisoned Electric Head, Soma, Delirium Records, and so on. I was just a kid, and to look cool, I used to dig up the most incredible names. Great stuff, the thrill of searching for records, the wait for the mailman. My biggest regret is that I sold so much of that stuff.
  • R13569920
    5 mar 15
    Good job. So look for the rare, wonderful 12'' 'Head To Head' by Saqqara Dogs (I've been searching for twenty years, and to think I had it and some jerk stole it from me at a party, I think). It was stunning, it was beautiful. Even the first EP by Zodiac Mindwarp and the Love Reaction was no joke, though.
Magma: Mëkanïk Dëstruktï? Kömmandöh
Vinile I have it ★★★★★
Magma: Mëkanïk Dëstruktïẁ Kömmandöh
1 jul 12
If one day the world were to come to an end, this soundtrack would fade into oblivion as the best available epitaph.
Manfred Mann's Earth Band: The Good Earth
Vinile I have it ★★★★★
Manfred Mann's Earth Band: The Good Earth
27 nov 15
Riffs and solos Hard-Rock, impressive virtuosity on the Moog synthesizer, small collective tour de forces but also finely crafted Pop intuitions, and no cover versions. In 15 years and about fifteen studio albums, the high point is this small patch of good Welsh land, belonging to anyone who bought the vinyl upon its release in 1974.
  • hjhhjij
    28 nov 15
    The Moog makes me drool; it's top-notch stuff.
Metro: Metro
Vinile I have it ★★★★★
Metro: Metro
6 may 12
The host who pulls out the best bottle in the end. The last great album of English Glam Rock.
Michael Schenker Group: MSG
Vinile I have it ★★★★★
Michael Schenker Group: MSG
14 nov 12
A show quintet that won't last long except for these 8 gems driven by memorable solos from the Mad Axeman and the granite-like Cozy Powell, outstanding in breaks and transitions. Are you ready to rock?
Mick Karn: Titles
Vinile I have it ★★★★★
Mick Karn: Titles
29 jul 12
His debut 30 years ago: Cypriot origins and Middle Eastern effluvia take precedence over pop, with the cameo of SENSITIVE signed by Mikis Teodorakis, if anything, reinforcing the intentions to tread on those territories. An unprecedented use of the bass, ahead of its time, and his winds of a mystical enchanter foreshadow New Age and World Music. It's a shame not to have it in one's collection.
  • BARRACUDA BLUE
    29 jul 12
    I correct a mistake: the authors of Sensitive are Roberto and Erasmo Carlos. ;-)
  • Marco Salzano
    29 jul 12
    Curious, just yesterday I was listening to Sylvian's first album where he features all the Japanese but not himself, yet he practically uses the good Percy Jones as his stand-in on the fretless. I don't have this one, but I'll wonder about it following your advice. :-)
  • BARRACUDA BLUE
    29 jul 12
    Karn in '84 was engaged with Peter Murphy in Dali's Car, and curiously his last legacy is precisely a return of that exceptional duo, an EP released a few months after his death.
Mike Rutherford: Smallcreep's Day
Vinile I have it ★★★★★
Mike Rutherford: Smallcreep's Day
13 oct 14
A thank you to Phil Collins' marital storm for giving the good Rutherford time to record this gem and to team up with an Anthony Phillips in a keyboard role. With people like Simon Phillips, Morris Pert, and Noel McCalla, these are the final bursts of a characteristic sound swept away by Abacab. A suite and 5 tracks of excellent Prog, crafted to evoke emotion.
Motorhead: Ace Of Spades
CD Audio I have it ★★★★★
Motorhead: Ace Of Spades
28 apr 12
The three smelliest gamblers in rock history, and from the most penetrating snakes...LOVE ME LIKE A REPTILE!!!
Naked Sun: Naked Sun
CD Audio I have it ★★★★★
Naked Sun: Naked Sun
5 may 12
A record that in '91 made all grunge and prog metal pale in comparison. I've always thought of the Audience as driving a Testarossa: impossible to keep up!
Neu!: Neu! 75
CD Audio I have it ★★★★★
Neu!: Neu! '75
7 aug 12
Blending Rother's Soft-Ambient with Dinger's Proto-Punk is the turning point that sets this mega-epitaph apart from its predecessors, making it accessible to those who would truly smear Punk a couple of years later, but also to those who, pushing further, would sprinkle it with the icy electronics of the '80s.
New Musik: Anywhere
Vinile I have it ★★★★★
New Musik: Anywhere
21 sep 12
A 12-string guitar and a Fairlight haven't traveled together so well since 1981. Some consider it the best synth album ever recorded; I just say it’s never too late to get to know them... and love them.
  • Matteo Tarchi
    21 sep 12
    Come on, you’re a bottomless pit! There’s always some new name popping up with you! If I can find a link, I’ll grab it and then I’ll tell you what I think... (maybe holy rapidshare will grant me the favor)
  • BARRACUDA BLUE
    21 sep 12
    Hi Matteo, with this Rapidshare disk you'll be blessed... let me know.
Nico: Drama of Exile
Vinile I have it ★★★★★
Nico: Drama of Exile
2 may 12
The return of the dark lady after 7 years of oblivion. Devotedly, the Banshees will want her to tour with them. The cover of Heroes must have filled the White Duke with pride. But for her, it was just a record to pay for her stuff.
Nirvana: The Story of Simon Simopath
CD Audio I have it ★★★★★
Nirvana: The Story of Simon Simopath
1 feb 16
1967: Soft Psych/Baroque/Pop concept, released before Tommy and S.F. Sorrow and quickly cast into the shadows. Light, yes, but what does it matter when melodies and arrangements are first class? I envy Mr. Campbell-Lyons in his role as A&R for the legendary Vertigo, and even more for having been well paid by Cobain and company.
  • hjhhjij
    1 feb 16
    The legendary Nirvana version one :D Very beautiful.
Omega: The Hall of Floaters in the Sky
Vinile I have it ★★★★★
Omega: The Hall of Floaters in the Sky
16 may 12
Alongside the Rolling Stones, they are the longest-lasting band in the history of rock, a national legend in Hungary, one of the keys to breaking free from chains in Eastern Europe. In '75, their magical Hard-Progressive suggested: NEVER FEEL SHAME.
  • Matteo Tarchi
    18 may 12
    Sure, you always pull something new out of your hat, huh? And now where did these guys come from?? From the cover they look cursed, who knows! Do you recommend the download?
  • BARRACUDA BLUE
    18 may 12
    For me, they are old and very old; in Hungary, they are celebrating 50 years of their career. The album is one of their best, hard progressive typically '70s with great keyboards and electric guitar solos. Maybe you’ll like them; this one is in English, but the real gems are the albums sung in Hungarian—one can't understand a thing, but they're truly unique.
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark: Organisation
Vinile I have it ★★★★★
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark: Organisation
31 oct 13
A series of buried jewels soon to be overshadowed by the melodious apocalyptic release of Enola Gay. The night breathes in the misty garden of Statues and in the enormous mouths of the incinerators of Stanlow. In 1980's Liverpool, the Beatles shook hands with Kraftwerk.
  • GIANLUIGI67
    31 oct 13
    very nice.... too bad the dog ate the blanket.....
  • BARRACUDA BLUE
    31 oct 13
    ...That's why I have never had pets at home. ;-)))
Pavlov's Dog: Pampered Menial
Vinile I have it ★★★★★
Pavlov's Dog: Pampered Menial
24 apr 12
Passion, drama, and androgyny: American progressive like never before.
Pendragon: The Jewel
Vinile I have it ★★★★★
Pendragon: The Jewel
13 may 12
To fully enjoy English New Prog, you needed to be 20 in '84, but how is it that in 2012 such an album still moves me so deeply? Its title is the answer.
Popol Vuh: In den Gärten Pharaos
Vinile I have it ★★★★★
Popol Vuh: In den Gärten Pharaos
6 dec 14
The Title Track barely stirs the murky waters, making its way upstream on that barge from Apocalypse Now: the heavy air, desolate blood-red shores, drums and increasingly distant screams. Florian Fricke was able to anticipate that encounter with horror years in advance, solely through sound.
  • bluesboy94
    6 dec 14
    Visionary music (a "heavy" record, but I reiterate visionary and truly original for its time) and Fricke the greatest of the so-called krautrock movement.
Quatermass: Quatermass
CD Audio I have it ★★★★★
Quatermass: Quatermass
29 apr 12
This milestone hits the first EL&P on their own turf, crushing Deep Purple without the need for guitars. Years later, Blackmore will leave the Purple because of the opening track of this album. Essential in every rock collection.
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