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When I was kid listening to Alice Cooper his lyrics were controversial, and songs like "I Love The Dead" confirm why (I love that song). But, these parents didn't bat an eyelash as almost every Martinez song contains some profanity. Her favorite being f++k. One of the top worst shows I've ever seen. The uniqueness she gives off in her videos and songs is non-existent live. BORING is the best that can be said. But, even so, her teen fans were in love.

So, she sucks live. Her videos are really cool, and her album is great. There isn't a bad song on it (IMO). This track Pity Party incorporates Lesley Gore's It's My Party perfectly.

[video=youtube;6bAPlojfgO0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bAPlojfgO0[/video]]]>
When I was kid listening to Alice Cooper his lyrics were controversial, and songs like "I Love The Dead" confirm why (I love that song). But, these parents didn't bat an eyelash as almost every Martinez song contains some profanity. Her favorite being f++k. One of the top worst shows I've ever seen. The uniqueness she gives off in her videos and songs is non-existent live. BORING is the best that can be said. But, even so, her teen fans were in love.

So, she sucks live. Her videos are really cool, and her album is great. There isn't a bad song on it (IMO). This track Pity Party incorporates Lesley Gore's It's My Party perfectly.

[video=youtube;6bAPlojfgO0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bAPlojfgO0[/video]]]> https://www.music-discussion.com/showthread.php?tid=17647 Fri, 20 Jan 2017 02:27:41 +0000 https://www.music-discussion.com/showthread.php?tid=17647
The ONE - The ONLY the Godmother of Punk Miss NINA HAGEN!

[video=youtube;nIDnN34ZZaE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIDnN34ZZaE[/video]]]>
The ONE - The ONLY the Godmother of Punk Miss NINA HAGEN!

[video=youtube;nIDnN34ZZaE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIDnN34ZZaE[/video]]]> https://www.music-discussion.com/showthread.php?tid=17390 Tue, 22 Nov 2016 16:35:41 +0000 https://www.music-discussion.com/showthread.php?tid=17390 This rendition is not from the album recording but Like an angel passing through my room in this version is still so soft and beautiful...
[video=youtube_share;cg9Nxy0LsnA]http://youtu.be/cg9Nxy0LsnA[/video]

Note: Madonnas cover version is also a lovely one...]]> This rendition is not from the album recording but Like an angel passing through my room in this version is still so soft and beautiful...
[video=youtube_share;cg9Nxy0LsnA]http://youtu.be/cg9Nxy0LsnA[/video]

Note: Madonnas cover version is also a lovely one...]]> https://www.music-discussion.com/showthread.php?tid=17193 Tue, 25 Oct 2016 09:42:19 +0000 https://www.music-discussion.com/showthread.php?tid=17193 https://www.music-discussion.com/showthread.php?tid=16925 Tue, 20 Sep 2016 07:37:11 +0000 https://www.music-discussion.com/showthread.php?tid=16925

Neil Diamond "hot august night"

pretty much the "live" album that all others either aspire to be
or are compared to....
an electrifying performance from the band and Diamond as a singer...
the album, at the time, failed to make the UK top20 yet on the other hand
still holds the record for most weeks at #1 here in Australia (29 wks at #1)...
the making of this album was also a defining moment in his career that propelled
him from a "mum and grandma" singer (although a hugely successful one)
to the threshold of a fullblown stadium rocker...

if I had to list live albums in my collection this one would be up there with the best of them!

from the album:

[video=youtube;3OkWSaxEEVk]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OkWSaxEEVk[/video]]]>

Neil Diamond "hot august night"

pretty much the "live" album that all others either aspire to be
or are compared to....
an electrifying performance from the band and Diamond as a singer...
the album, at the time, failed to make the UK top20 yet on the other hand
still holds the record for most weeks at #1 here in Australia (29 wks at #1)...
the making of this album was also a defining moment in his career that propelled
him from a "mum and grandma" singer (although a hugely successful one)
to the threshold of a fullblown stadium rocker...

if I had to list live albums in my collection this one would be up there with the best of them!

from the album:

[video=youtube;3OkWSaxEEVk]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OkWSaxEEVk[/video]]]> https://www.music-discussion.com/showthread.php?tid=16782 Sun, 28 Aug 2016 17:09:36 +0000 https://www.music-discussion.com/showthread.php?tid=16782
The history of the band is fascinating, and it's all on Wikipedia, so I'll just give the bare bones of it here:

The inception of the band is generally dated from about 1989; however the name "Porcupine Tree" did not originally refer to an actual band. It was simply a fictitious name concocted by Steven Wilson, somewhat in the manner of "Spinal Tap", as a name under which to release his material. Early tracks (sometimes it's a stretch to call them "songs") were composed with lyrical input from Alan Duffy; many of them are mostly spoken word over a musical backing - and yes, there is at least one that would probably qualify as "rap". Themes typically centred around science fiction, fantasy and Gothic horror; no teenage love songs here.The album "On the Sunday of Life", the first official Porcupine Tree album, is in fact a compilation of material previously put out on limited edition cassette releases; Wilson selected what he considered the best tracks for the album.

The next couple of PT albums featured a more or less stable set of musicians as the studio band, and show much more refinement in the production. These early albums are often compared to Pink Floyd, and Wilson has a couple of times stated that he regrets having maybe too much Floyd influence. Personally I think the similarity is overstated; I hear the influence, but they were by no means clones of pink Floyd.

By the time of album 4, Porcupine Tree officially consisted of four musicians: Wilson, keyboardist Richard Barbieri (formerly of japan), bassist Colin Edwin, and drummer Chris Maitland. This line-up would persist until 2001, when Maitland was replaced by Gavin Harrison. This has been the only line-up change.

Now to the music.... and this is the hard part, because there is no such thing as a typical Porcupine Tree song or album, and that's one reason why I like them.

I categorise their output into three main phases:

(1) psychedelic/electronic (-> 1997)

(2) progressive pop-rock (1998 - 2001)

(3) metal-influenced progressive rock (2002 ->)

First phase: psychedelic/electronic

Albums:

- On the Sunday of Life
- Up the Downstair
- The Sky Moves Sideways (this one is the most Floydian)

Many of the tracks on these are instrumentals, or mostly instrumental, and of extended length.

There is also a release called Voyage 34, originally intended to be part of Up the Downstair which was planned as a double album, but eventually released as a single. EP would be a better term, as it is quite long. the title is a reference to an LSD trip, and consists mostly of voice-overs recounting someone's trip experience, set to a musical backing that many people think was inspired by Pink Floyd, but the musical inspiration in fact came from the krautrock band Ash Ra Tempel.

Second phase: progressive pop/rock

The songs become generally shorter in length, and are more like actual songs in the conventional sense of the word. Lyrical themes are also becoming slightly less strange - there are even a few "relationship" songs.

Albums:

- Signify
- Stupid Dream
- Lightbulb Sun
- Recordings (a limited release of additional songs recorded during the Stupid Dream and Lightbulb Sun Sessions; this was later given a proper full release.

Signify is the first full band album, and a bit of a maverick, not really fitting neatly into either the first or second phase. In some ways it more resembles their later albums from the metal-influenced period, though it is probably the most unique of all their albums.

Third phase: metal-influenced prog rock

This coincided with the departure of drummer Chris Maitland and his replacement by Gavin Harrison, though whether there was any cause-and-effect operating here is open to conjecture. The opening track on the album in Absentia announced with a bang the fact that Wilson was now not afraid to use heavy drumming and guitar riffs that people might have been more inclined to associate with bands like Led Zeppelin.

Albums:

- In Absentia
- Deadwing
- Fear of a Blank Planet
- The Incident

While the songs from this period contain a great deal of beauty, there are heavy moments here that you would not have found on their albums from their earlier periods. Themes are very dark. In Absentia is believed to be mostly about a certain serial killer in the UK. Fear of a Blank Planet was inspired by a character in the novel Lunar Park by Brett Easton Ellis, and is basically lamenting the disconnect of young people from the physical world around them and their retreat into the virtual worlds of TV and the internet.

The Incident was released in 2009. Since 2010 the band has been inactive, and while it has never officially disbanded, most people acknowledge that PT is effectively no longer a going concern, with Wilson concentrating on his solo career.

Now to my favourites:

I've said a few times on this forum that I am not a fan of heavy metal, so it may surprise you that my favourite PT album is one from this period, Fear of a Blank Planet. It may have something to do with it being the first album I heard by the band. (On the other hand, the second one I heard, Deadwing, is my least favourite.) I don't want to overstate the "heavy" aspect here; much of the album is not heavy at all, and the parts that are use it very effectively.

Second place goes to Up the Downstair, which I consider the best work from their psychedelic phase.

Third place: probably Lightbulb Sun - but this is a difficult choice, as Stupid Dream and Recordings are very good also, and there are times when Signify is the only one that will hit the spot.

Least favourites:

- Deadwing (a couple of great songs, but also some dumb heavy rock songs)
- On the Sunday of Life (much of this is actually very good, but it's a real hodge-podge with a few throwaway tracks).

I'll post a few clips, but three or four songs can only go so far in giving an impression of this band. Bear in mind that Porcupine Tree are not like Status Quo or AC/DC, where if you have heard one song you know what the rest sound like. Every Porcupine Tree album has its own feel; in fact one could almost say that about each PT song.

---------------------------------------------------

There is much more to be said about Steven Wilson, his other band projects and his solo career, but one has to stop somewhere. i consider myself lucky to have seen Porcupine Tree perform live in Melbourne in 2010, as they have not performed since around that time and do not appear likely to.]]>
The history of the band is fascinating, and it's all on Wikipedia, so I'll just give the bare bones of it here:

The inception of the band is generally dated from about 1989; however the name "Porcupine Tree" did not originally refer to an actual band. It was simply a fictitious name concocted by Steven Wilson, somewhat in the manner of "Spinal Tap", as a name under which to release his material. Early tracks (sometimes it's a stretch to call them "songs") were composed with lyrical input from Alan Duffy; many of them are mostly spoken word over a musical backing - and yes, there is at least one that would probably qualify as "rap". Themes typically centred around science fiction, fantasy and Gothic horror; no teenage love songs here.The album "On the Sunday of Life", the first official Porcupine Tree album, is in fact a compilation of material previously put out on limited edition cassette releases; Wilson selected what he considered the best tracks for the album.

The next couple of PT albums featured a more or less stable set of musicians as the studio band, and show much more refinement in the production. These early albums are often compared to Pink Floyd, and Wilson has a couple of times stated that he regrets having maybe too much Floyd influence. Personally I think the similarity is overstated; I hear the influence, but they were by no means clones of pink Floyd.

By the time of album 4, Porcupine Tree officially consisted of four musicians: Wilson, keyboardist Richard Barbieri (formerly of japan), bassist Colin Edwin, and drummer Chris Maitland. This line-up would persist until 2001, when Maitland was replaced by Gavin Harrison. This has been the only line-up change.

Now to the music.... and this is the hard part, because there is no such thing as a typical Porcupine Tree song or album, and that's one reason why I like them.

I categorise their output into three main phases:

(1) psychedelic/electronic (-> 1997)

(2) progressive pop-rock (1998 - 2001)

(3) metal-influenced progressive rock (2002 ->)

First phase: psychedelic/electronic

Albums:

- On the Sunday of Life
- Up the Downstair
- The Sky Moves Sideways (this one is the most Floydian)

Many of the tracks on these are instrumentals, or mostly instrumental, and of extended length.

There is also a release called Voyage 34, originally intended to be part of Up the Downstair which was planned as a double album, but eventually released as a single. EP would be a better term, as it is quite long. the title is a reference to an LSD trip, and consists mostly of voice-overs recounting someone's trip experience, set to a musical backing that many people think was inspired by Pink Floyd, but the musical inspiration in fact came from the krautrock band Ash Ra Tempel.

Second phase: progressive pop/rock

The songs become generally shorter in length, and are more like actual songs in the conventional sense of the word. Lyrical themes are also becoming slightly less strange - there are even a few "relationship" songs.

Albums:

- Signify
- Stupid Dream
- Lightbulb Sun
- Recordings (a limited release of additional songs recorded during the Stupid Dream and Lightbulb Sun Sessions; this was later given a proper full release.

Signify is the first full band album, and a bit of a maverick, not really fitting neatly into either the first or second phase. In some ways it more resembles their later albums from the metal-influenced period, though it is probably the most unique of all their albums.

Third phase: metal-influenced prog rock

This coincided with the departure of drummer Chris Maitland and his replacement by Gavin Harrison, though whether there was any cause-and-effect operating here is open to conjecture. The opening track on the album in Absentia announced with a bang the fact that Wilson was now not afraid to use heavy drumming and guitar riffs that people might have been more inclined to associate with bands like Led Zeppelin.

Albums:

- In Absentia
- Deadwing
- Fear of a Blank Planet
- The Incident

While the songs from this period contain a great deal of beauty, there are heavy moments here that you would not have found on their albums from their earlier periods. Themes are very dark. In Absentia is believed to be mostly about a certain serial killer in the UK. Fear of a Blank Planet was inspired by a character in the novel Lunar Park by Brett Easton Ellis, and is basically lamenting the disconnect of young people from the physical world around them and their retreat into the virtual worlds of TV and the internet.

The Incident was released in 2009. Since 2010 the band has been inactive, and while it has never officially disbanded, most people acknowledge that PT is effectively no longer a going concern, with Wilson concentrating on his solo career.

Now to my favourites:

I've said a few times on this forum that I am not a fan of heavy metal, so it may surprise you that my favourite PT album is one from this period, Fear of a Blank Planet. It may have something to do with it being the first album I heard by the band. (On the other hand, the second one I heard, Deadwing, is my least favourite.) I don't want to overstate the "heavy" aspect here; much of the album is not heavy at all, and the parts that are use it very effectively.

Second place goes to Up the Downstair, which I consider the best work from their psychedelic phase.

Third place: probably Lightbulb Sun - but this is a difficult choice, as Stupid Dream and Recordings are very good also, and there are times when Signify is the only one that will hit the spot.

Least favourites:

- Deadwing (a couple of great songs, but also some dumb heavy rock songs)
- On the Sunday of Life (much of this is actually very good, but it's a real hodge-podge with a few throwaway tracks).

I'll post a few clips, but three or four songs can only go so far in giving an impression of this band. Bear in mind that Porcupine Tree are not like Status Quo or AC/DC, where if you have heard one song you know what the rest sound like. Every Porcupine Tree album has its own feel; in fact one could almost say that about each PT song.

---------------------------------------------------

There is much more to be said about Steven Wilson, his other band projects and his solo career, but one has to stop somewhere. i consider myself lucky to have seen Porcupine Tree perform live in Melbourne in 2010, as they have not performed since around that time and do not appear likely to.]]> https://www.music-discussion.com/showthread.php?tid=16245 Sat, 04 Jun 2016 22:35:13 +0000 https://www.music-discussion.com/showthread.php?tid=16245 Artist: John Coltrane
Release date: 1957
Label: Blue Note Records
Producer: Alfred Lion
Genres: Jazz, Hard bop
Songs
Side one
1 Blue Train 10:40
2 Moment's Notice 9:08
Side two
3 Locomotion 7:12
4 I'm Old Fashioned 7:55
5 Lazy Bird 7:04

"the essence of cool"]]> Artist: John Coltrane
Release date: 1957
Label: Blue Note Records
Producer: Alfred Lion
Genres: Jazz, Hard bop
Songs
Side one
1 Blue Train 10:40
2 Moment's Notice 9:08
Side two
3 Locomotion 7:12
4 I'm Old Fashioned 7:55
5 Lazy Bird 7:04

"the essence of cool"]]> https://www.music-discussion.com/showthread.php?tid=16127 Thu, 19 May 2016 23:25:44 +0000 https://www.music-discussion.com/showthread.php?tid=16127 We are young entrepreneurs starting a new label and a new clothing line that is called Vilain City Recordz

We are From Montreal, Canada in the city where people never make it. We want to change this tradition

You can listen to one of our song here https://vilainzcity.bandcamp.com/releases Thanks For the Support !!!!!!






]]> We are young entrepreneurs starting a new label and a new clothing line that is called Vilain City Recordz

We are From Montreal, Canada in the city where people never make it. We want to change this tradition

You can listen to one of our song here https://vilainzcity.bandcamp.com/releases Thanks For the Support !!!!!!






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