What Are You Listening to Now 7.0

[litfan10]

Careful, careful! I know both how to read a room and my palate includes more than just ultrabrutal blunt face trauma. When I worked in a copy shop for two years, I claimed stewardship of the shop's sound system and my choice of a late '70s/early '80s classics playlist was appreciated by my boss and customers both. You can't go wrong with a mix of Queen, Dire Straits, ELO, Alan Parson's, Eagles and the occasional ZZ Top, Black Sabbath or Rainbow. I even managed to sneak in a few Iron Maiden tracks and no one threatened to fire me. Didn't change the fact that I spent more time sorting recycling papers than tending to the shop's IT systems (which had been in my initial job offer). Oh well, at least I had good music to sweeten the slave labor.

Okay, I stand corrected, you're hired.
I often play ELO, Alan Parsons Proect, Queen, Styx and Kansas. But technically that's still prog.
Iron Maiden? You rebel!
Actually, more than prog I play ambient music or the Harry Potter soundtrack and people love those.

 

[Handley_Page]

Mike Post: Main title theme; "Law & Order".

 

[Haulover]

Ha! Typically, I have a rather elderly clientele who read bodice-ripper romances or mysteries. During non-holiday season I play a lot of prog. Fortunately, my store is 100 feet below the threshold of me having to pay royalties on what I play. I have had numerous elderly regulars come up with a scowl, "What in tarnations is that wild noise?!?!?"
Sigh
They're in the store for a half hour at most whilst I'm in there eight hours a day, six days a week - prog it is.
Good thing I'm not a fan of death growls....
Could you imagine if Blind_Justice was in charge of the playlist?
I'd be calling for ambulances constantly

LOL @ calling ambulances for B-J's selections!

I once took a playlist to my winter indoor cycle racing training studio. I've been banned from ever playing or talking about music again!

Most of my selection was actually excellent. But I inserted 1 death-metal track, and Sleepytime Gorilla Museum's "Sleep Is Wrong" track.

this was 3 years ago, and they're still ribbing me about it, and pretending that they've been traumatized for life LOL



I knew a guy who had s store selling skimpy "clothes" to strippers etc. Interesting business! He played nothing but prog and called the store "Clothes To The Edge".

He then opened a prog themed coffee shop, but it didn't work out.

 

[Haulover]

A Christmas Carol

Choruscant

a very proggy interpretation of Dicken's Christmas Carol.

Definitely something more adventurous!

I'll look that up - I'm always looking for something new and decent with Christmas themes.

(We have tickets to see my friend Chris (guitarist) in the Transiberian Orchestra show in a few weeks time.

 

[Haulover]

Aquilus Bellum I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiJE7HErVfE

This is my find of the week.

It's hard to describe the sound - black metal over lush, orchestral-sounding keyscapes, full-on metal guitar work, long piano passages, acoustic guitars, angry black metal - it's all there!

Aquilus is actually a 1-man band, which usually means the music lacks the layered complexities of a band of creatives. Aquilus is an exception to that rule.

Well worth a listen!

Now playing Aquilus : Griseus

It's (much) older, but also very good. More of the lush, filmic keyscapes than the newer album, not quite as varied or edgy. Most of the death growls are mixed so far into the background that you'll hardly notice them.

Definitely worth a listen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YKTG7UeKKY&list=OLAK5uy_nz3P1dIy9cSZL5TwjNyfzTab0_osYRcLI&index=8

 

[litfan10]

Giant Sky's eponymous first album

atmospheric space prog out of Norway. I am enjoying this.

 

[litfan10]

In Crushing Waves

Twin Volt

New prog metal from the USA.

 

[Blind_Justice]

Dani playing piano in the other room.

 

[Haulover]

Deep Purple : Whoosh!


Unfortunately, this ain't your daddy's Deep Purple

It's rock. It isn't metal - from one of the bands that invented the metal genre.

 

[Haulover]

Gojira : Fortitude

 

[Haulover]

Cult of Luna : Years In A Day

 

[litfan10]

The Monkees - Last Train To Clarksville

R.I.P Mike Nesmith who passed away today

 

[Haulover]

R.I.P Mike Nesmith who passed away today

I read about that

 

[Haulover]

Cult of Luna : Years In A Day

Damn, this is good!

But caveat : It contains https://www.progressiveears.org/forum/images/smilies/cookie.png

 

[litfan10]

A Song of Yuletide

Ola Lindqvist

brand new Christmas instrumental from this one man band out of Sweden

 

[Lori_the_Hoosier]

Found an ELP vinyl, 'Brain Salad Surgery' from 1973 in my husband's collection. It must have been his older brother's, because Will was only 6 when it came out, so I doubt he was into Prog. Interesting, my only foray into prog so far, and some interestingly weird sounds. 'Jerusalem' was nice, if a little different from the anthem I know so well, 'Toccata' was incomprehensible, and 'Benny The Bouncer' was melodic if strange. 'Karn Evil 9' just wore me out, 29 unbroken minutes of ELP was enough for a lifetime...

 

[litfan10]

Found an ELP vinyl, 'Brain Salad Surgery' from 1973 in my husband's collection. It must have been his older brother's, because Will was only 6 when it came out, so I doubt he was into Prog. Interesting, my only foray into prog so far, and some interestingly weird sounds. 'Jerusalem' was nice, if a little different from the anthem I know so well, 'Toccata' was incomprehensible, and 'Benny The Bouncer' was melodic if strange. 'Karn Evil 9' just wore me out, 29 unbroken minutes of ELP was enough for a lifetime...

Great choice, Love Brain Salad Surgery classic ELP
Take care Lori, you and Will be safe and well

 

[Lori_the_Hoosier]

Found another strange album, by King Crimson, 'In The Court of The Crimson King'. Interesting. '21st Century Schizoid Man' is really good, frenetic, with howling, jangling guitar overdubs, a real 60's sound and taste of things to come. Very good, glad I discovered it.

 

[Haulover]

Found an ELP vinyl, 'Brain Salad Surgery' from 1973 in my husband's collection. It must have been his older brother's, because Will was only 6 when it came out, so I doubt he was into Prog. Interesting, my only foray into prog so far, and some interestingly weird sounds. 'Jerusalem' was nice, if a little different from the anthem I know so well, 'Toccata' was incomprehensible, and 'Benny The Bouncer' was melodic if strange. 'Karn Evil 9' just wore me out, 29 unbroken minutes of ELP was enough for a lifetime...

Found another strange album, by King Crimson, 'In The Court of The Crimson King'. Interesting. '21st Century Schizoid Man' is really good, frenetic, with howling, jangling guitar overdubs, a real 60's sound and taste of things to come. Very good, glad I discovered it.

That's a pair of gold-plated classics!

After repeated listens those albums grow on you and their brilliance becomes clearer.

Welcome to the world of quality music :

https://pics.me.me/200-bpm-ripping-solos-tempo-changes-mid-song-years-and-years-6058881.png

 

[litfan10]

Found an ELP vinyl, 'Brain Salad Surgery' from 1973 in my husband's collection. It must have been his older brother's, because Will was only 6 when it came out, so I doubt he was into Prog. Interesting, my only foray into prog so far, and some interestingly weird sounds. 'Jerusalem' was nice, if a little different from the anthem I know so well, 'Toccata' was incomprehensible, and 'Benny The Bouncer' was melodic if strange. 'Karn Evil 9' just wore me out, 29 unbroken minutes of ELP was enough for a lifetime...

Found another strange album, by King Crimson, 'In The Court of The Crimson King'. Interesting. '21st Century Schizoid Man' is really good, frenetic, with howling, jangling guitar overdubs, a real 60's sound and taste of things to come. Very good, glad I discovered it.

That's a pair of gold-plated classics!

After repeated listens those albums grow on you and their brilliance becomes clearer.

Welcome to the world of quality music :

https://pics.me.me/200-bpm-ripping-solos-tempo-changes-mid-song-years-and-years-6058881.png

Interesting that Lori of all the prog albums in the world found two albums both with Greg Lake on bass and vocals (guitar as well in Brain Salad Surgery.)

 

[TadOverdon]

The Nineties

 

[MrPixel]

Right now? My wife's foot massager and the snoring dog next to my chair.

Speaking of talented guitar licks, I'm developing a fondness for Alyona Vargasova and fingerstyle guitar in general. Fits well with my current romantic writing jag. Doesn't hurt that she's easy on the eyes, too, like my characters. ;-)

 

[TadOverdon]

A holiday standard from Root Boy Slim.

 

[Bud_Spencer]

Warren Zevon - "Frank and Jesse James"

 

[MrPixel]

Arvo Pärt at the moment. Distant, ethereal, introspective.