hellraiser

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Manassas: Manassas
CD Audio I have it ★★★★★
Manassas: Manassas
7 mar 15
One of Stills' many masterpieces from those years, an ambitious project, a double album, excellent musicians (Hillman, Dallas Taylor, Perkins...), a great mix of musical genres, rock, country, folk-rock, bluegrass, and a touch of Latin rhythms so dear to the blonde Texan. A stunning album...
Marillion: Misplaced Childhood
CD Audio I have it ★★★★★
Marillion: Misplaced Childhood
27 dec 14
I only knew the band by name and had heard a few songs on the radio, like the famous "Kayleigh." I listened to the entire album yesterday and I have to say it’s excellent; Fish shows great skill in writing poetic and visionary lyrics, his voice is very reminiscent of Gabriel’s, and the band, although deviating quite a bit from the classic progressive sound of previous years, does an outstanding job. A lovely listen.
  • hjhhjij
    27 dec 14
    I, on the other hand, can't handle this much, I prefer others in the group, de gustibus.
  • Dragonstar
    27 dec 14
    I actually like it a lot, even though I'm not crazy about this type of prog.
  • hellraiser
    27 dec 14
    What do you think, Hj, of The Cheerful Insanity of Giles, Giles and Fripp? I found it for 15 euros and I intended to pick it up today, but I haven't read very enthusiastic things about it. What do you think?
  • SydBarrett96
    27 dec 14
    My favorite of the group, although I greatly prefer the first wave of progressive.
  • hjhhjij
    27 dec 14
    Be 15 euros is a high price for a non-essential album (that's why sometimes it can be downloaded in the end ;) but I would still tell you to get it because it's a good work (just a bit raw, that's all) and very interesting from a historical-musical perspective considering what they produced just a year later. A nice little disc and a great historical document, so it's up to you. An album featuring psych pop, psychedelia, folk, classical moments, very varied even though a bit confusing, with Fripp not yet the undisputed sovereign (the songwriting was evenly distributed among the three) and Peter Giles on bass and vocals, a position that will later belong to Lake.
  • hjhhjij
    27 dec 14
    Instead, I recommend the home recordings of the three from late 1968, released in 2001 as "The Brondesbury Tapes." There you can truly find King Crimson in their infancy as a band, with Peter Sinfield already a songwriter, the entry of McDonald into the lineup who here juggles as a songwriter, singer, and great multi-instrumentalist, the "in nuce" versions of I Talk to the Wind, and really, the only thing missing is Lake. Oh, and on some tracks, Judy Dyble sings, who at that time had just parted ways with Fairport Convention (the same year of their debut, also 1968).
  • hjhhjij
    27 dec 14
    Could you ever imagine the Crimson of "In the Court of the Crimson King" with Dyble instead of Lake? Who knows if it had gone that way, if she had stayed when Fripp and the others took a sharp turn in '69, would we have had an "Epitaph" with a female voice? Well, after 1968, with the imprint of English Folk in this stuff (and therefore with the typical female voice), the Crimson only retained an inspiration mixed among a thousand others...
  • hellraiser
    27 dec 14
    Got it, perfectly clear as usual Hj. Now I’ll look around a bit, I have a limited budget and I have a few titles in mind besides this one, I’ll assess in the store in Cuneo. I didn’t know all these backstories, but I’m grateful that the story turned out this way, an album like this deserves to have remained unchanged, it’s an album for my desert island and it’s perfect as it is. Thank you!
  • hjhhjij
    27 dec 14
    Absolutely perfect, yes, there’s nothing out of place on that RECORD. Anyway, it's up to you; the Tapes are very interesting (for the additional presence of Sinfield and McDonald, and that of Dyble and Talk to the Wind) I’d spend a bit of euros on them. Cheerful you might skip if you're on a tight budget :)
  • hellraiser
    27 dec 14
    Picked up Cheeful this afternoon, I was very undecided then, since I'm a good customer, a friend, and the dealer is a crazy King Crimson fan, he gave it to me for 12 and there was also the self-titled album by Caravan. I'll listen to it in the coming days and then I'll let you know, I took note of the Tapes, if I manage to find them I'll gladly get them, cheers.
May Blitz: May Blitz
CD Audio I have it ★★★★★
May Blitz: May Blitz
28 feb 15
The sole opening track "Smocking the Day Away" is worth the purchase. A very powerful and energetic English hard-blues band from the late '60s, responsible for just a couple of excellent albums...
  • Dragonstar
    1 mar 15
    Ah, I remember this, a great debut like few are around. And we're talking about an album from 1970, so just think about what it can still offer...
Melvins: Houdini
Vinile I have it ★★★★
Melvins: Houdini
25 may 17
I don't know them well yet, very interesting...
Miles Davis: Bitches Brew
CD Audio I have it ★★★★★
Miles Davis: Bitches Brew
24 jan 15
I'm not familiar with jazz; I know little to nothing about this musical genre, and I admit my ignorance on the subject. I recently acquired this record, but after a few attentive listens, I found it fascinating, perhaps even more than Kind of Blue. I don't know if I'm right or not; it's just a gut feeling...
  • hjhhjij
    24 jan 15
    They are truly two different and very distant worlds, this and "Kind of Blue." This is not Jazz, it's JAZZ-ROCK, or rather it's not... the Whole, it's Jazz, Rock, Psychedelia, Black Africa and ancestral, a new Big Bang, get ready to lose yourself in it again.
  • Psychopathia
    24 jan 15
    in agreement with hjhhjij, this is total, and there are decent live performances from that period. kind of blue is more classic jazz.
  • hjhhjij
    24 jan 15
    "discreti" Live? :D No, really, there are Live performances from the period 1970-1975 that are stunning, in every sense.
  • Psychopathia
    24 jan 15
    Yes, apart from the famous live evil, I like to remember grand magus, pangea, and agartha!
  • madcat
    24 jan 15
    I am totally ignorant when it comes to jazz as well; I only have this album, which is obviously great, but I think that in any case it’s not really my genre, jazz I mean.
  • hjhhjij
    24 jan 15
    Pangaea! Christ of Live...
  • east of eden80
    24 jan 15
    bic brew is not jezz
Mountain: Twin Peaks
CD Audio I have it ★★★★★
Mountain: Twin Peaks
14 feb 14
The most beautiful work, in my opinion, by the band of West and Pappalardi. All great songs, but above all, the magnificent "Theme For An Imaginary Western," written by the friend Jack Bruce and Pete Brown...
Muddy Waters: His Best, 1947 to 1955
CD Audio I have it ★★★★★
Muddy Waters: His Best, 1947 to 1955
25 may 14
I'm usually not a fan of "the best of" compilations, but this is practically perfect for anyone looking to get closer to a giant like Waters. A showcase of great blues songs that ooze dust and sweat, his golden age...
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