MrGMauro

WHEN YOU ENTER THE CHAT YOU HAVE TO WRITE!!!!!!!

this is something more than just a nice album...(just one thing, if I may: it’s his sunniest album, no doubt about that, but "pleasantly" and "gene clark" cannot be put in the same sentence)

to my friend Ribaldo, I hope in name and not in fact, I'm in chat by mistake, and I don't know how to get out of it... as for the use of "pleasantly" with the person of Gene Clark, it's true that it's an absurdity, but, as you can imagine, I was referring to his listening and not to his life...

In reality, when it comes to sound, it's true that what you hear on this album the GG won't bring out again. But as for the quality, the levels remained not just high but divine at least until 1973, but let's say until 1975. Then, well, de gustibus. Moreover, for me it’s such a perfect and great album that I feel sorry to hear you being a bit "cold" towards it, but, I reiterate, de gustibus etc.

I'm sorry for having misunderstood about the G.G., who for many are still untouchable icons. No, I’m not cold towards them at all; in fact, I still enjoy listening to them very much. What I meant was something else: like almost all rock musicians, after their debut albums, they tend to exhaust the initial momentum and the originality that characterized them at the time of their debut. In the case of the G.G., as a music lover and not a musician, while acknowledging their technical skill and talent, I found their subsequent albums to be a bit heavy to listen to over time...

Mauro, first of all, here we are all, or almost all, music lovers and not musicians, so when we talk, we often speak from personal tastes or for the pure enjoyment that this or that artist brings us. Just to keep talking a bit about the band, I'm not an excessive fanatic of the "First Album Law" even though this very album is my favorite from the band in question. Sometimes I support "The Law," other times I don’t. With Gentle Giant, I have always loved the evolution of their subsequent albums, which maintained a high quality while filling in where the visceral nature of the first two albums had, partially, diminished. For example, in "Octopus," they managed to condense all the classic progressive stylistic elements into songs of no more than 5 minutes, unique stuff at the time, not to mention that a ballad like "Think of Me With Kindness" is something you don’t find every da...y...century. "In the Glass House," for instance, I find much lighter than this, it has almost danceable groove moments amidst the virtuosity and tempo changes that can give you a headache. Just to talk about it, of course. If you’re someone who feels closer to the spontaneity of a band’s early days, that's usually fine too; it’s still a matter of personal feelings. In their case, I think we’re talking about a band that has always maintained a certain spontaneity and a high level of inspiration at least until 1976, and that has never made a bad album. Of course, you lose the surprise of the beginnings, but that's normal; if the band keeps the quality of their offering high, that’s perfectly fine with me anyway.

"it gets lost"

"Classic Prog album." I don’t agree with the second part of the definition: it’s true that the Giant experienced a decline towards the end of the Seventies, but IMHO it still delivered excellent demonstrations of skill :)

Octopus and Acquiring The Taste are up for a vote... I still need to determine which of the two is actually my favorite...

*runoff...

Well, the debut and Three Friends remain two great albums... but Acquiring and Octopus are still vital for me, also because they made me love them.

Pssss... "In A Glass House" and "Free Hand". XD

Hi, go back to uncle Hammill, then I'll take them back in hand, no worries...

Now I'm at Uncle Roy's place anyway.

That awkward moment when I have no idea who you're talking about... damn...

Harper. I'm listening to the debut.

Gender?

The answer isn't that simple... Wait until after lunch.

@[tonysoprano] I was saying. The first album I'm listening to is a natural child of the so-called British Baroque Folk school, or British singer-songwriter style, which later also developed into the recovery of traditional sounds and the British traditionals themselves. Harper emerges from people like Davy Graham, Bert Jansch, John Renbourn, and after him came John Martyn, Nick Drake, etc. Those people, who, among other things, placed the acoustic guitar at the center of everything rather than just as a simple accompaniment, played with tremendous technical skill; they were true virtuosos. From this album, however, Harper shows himself to be something a bit different, more free, "expanded" psychedelic (sometimes close to the psych pop-rock of the era, sometimes simply Roy Harper). What he did in the following years... Well, a path of his own, marked by a thousand difficulties (read something about him) a character always on the edges and margins of the music industry and society. Advocate of an evolved, expanded, highly dilated folk, sometimes almost mystical, with the voice used as an instrument and vehicle for infinite psych-folk rides like "The Lord's Prayer" 23, I repeat, 23 minutes of pure ecstasy. His most celebrated album is "Stormcock." Unfortunately, I still need to delve into it properly myself so I can't tell you more. The debut is already a very good work, nonetheless, one of the most unique in the British baroque folk scene, from a class of acoustic virtuosos.

My beloved Led Zeppelin...great. One more reason to listen to it.

Anyway, I'm in a phase of doubt about my favorite band. I'm almost loving Van Der Graaf Generator more than LZ.

A really nice challenge indeed! By now, I've given up on putting an artist on any podium ;)

When I finish the discography of the Generator, I'll know who my favorite is... even though VDGG will undoubtedly remain among the top two...

92 minutes of applause for Kotatsu.

Engaging in pointless challenges is useless, right? However, I want to delve into groups and how far they can go...

The rankings I create are simply reminders for me of the albums I love from that specific artist, but in the end, they are more of a list. I certainly don't intend to randomly place 100 artists, as that wouldn't make much sense...

I had mentioned that I would stop by Disco Club these days to treat myself before returning to work, I've decided: I will buy "Acquiring The Taste" again (even though I already have it in mp3 format).

Without a doubt, money is spent!

Well, excuse me.

you always beautiful things...

It seems interesting.