Mercury Rev.
They shoulda been a contender.
Obscure bands
Does anyone know a band called City Boy? (70's/80's)Very obscure and very original. It's beyond Me how such great talent goes so unnoticed! Also please chime in on other obscure talented musicians.
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Arcam, One of the greatest if not the greatest prog albums of all time is Caravan's "In The Land Of Grey & Pink 40Th Anniversary" Remastered by Steven Wilson and containing a DVDA version of the album in 5.1. The song "Nine Feet Underground"
(22:40) is great. http://www.amazon.com/Land-Grey-Pink-40Th-Anniversary/dp/B004TPXVKS/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&a... |
I don't think Steve Wilson is obscure, but love his work- i think he is a genius on many levels. I was never into death metal, but the remix of Opeth's Damnation- natural vocals, long form "prog" with good melodic hooks that keeps morphing--is one of the records I've been enjoying a lot lately. This is the remix from the twofer of Deliverance and Damnation. Hard core Opeth fans apparently don't like Damnation. |
Acam, Steven Wilson has been very prolific in his remixing activities. He has remixed in surround the first 5 or so King Crimsons, Jethro Tull through "Too Old To Rock "n" Roll" (he actually made "Aqualung sound good) the first 3 ELP albums "The Power and The Glory" and "Octopus" by Gentle Giant and more. He wants to do much more including ABBA. All while still making his own fine recordings. Whart, I am a fan of Opeth, their new one "Pale Communion" is good. They have finally done away with the "Cookie Monster" vocals due to voice damage concerns. |
Add the German band Jane to my list. http://www.amazon.com/Fire-Water-Earth-Air-Jane/dp/B00000716C/ref=pd_sim_15_4?ie=UTF8&dpID=41BpA... |
Arcam, Here’s when and where I saw The Flower Kings: ProgDay 1998 • SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 5th Crucible (USA) / Boud Deun (USA) / Soundscape (USA) / A Piedi Nudi (Italy) / Discipline (USA) / |
It’s been a while but I would give them 4.5 stars. We met the band before the show and they were all very pleasant but the two main guys, Roine Stolt and the other guitarist were pretty stuck on themselves. The highlight to me was meeting the members of Gongzilla. Who are ex members of Gong. They all seemed like wonderful people and very nice. They were playing in town Saturday night but we couldn’t go see them because it rained a lot and forced Progday to move indoors and run way late. One year we met George Underwood who did album covers for many artists including David Bowie and Gentle Giant. He had lot’s of stories and I bought some of his art. He was very gracious. I wish I could have spent more time talking to him. Haven’t been to Progday in many years but it was fun. |
Saw Davey Knowles tonight. He was great. "A musical phenomenon...a guitar prodigy" Paul Sexton, The Sunday Times" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OznU8W4-9dQ |
The Nines . Don't be confused by other bands with the same name (especially a wedding band that goes by that name). You want Steve Eggers' power pop trio from Canada and the self-titled 2011 release, specifically (first track: Sun Don't Shine); only available as a download, unfortunately. Here's a link to the full album on Spotify. spotify:album:04LmRFSkQGjQicDN3u2cXm Here it is on CDBaby: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/thenines2 Talk about criminally unknown....that's The Nines. |
infection - If you refer to my highly opinionated statement regarding "Cookie Monster" vocals, I was attempting to state that such vocal affectations remove, for me, any semblance of genuine emotion from a performance. If you enjoy such vocals, more power to you. You know what they say about opinions. And nothing brings out people's opinions like musical preferences. |