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What Are You Listening To?

I almost never use my Denon D7000 headphones so tonight I'm trying to go deaf with them while playing this.


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Unbeknownst to me (and perhaps you too), Kansas released a new studio album last September. I just learned about it a week ago and, after sampling, decided it was too good to pass up. During my first spin, I wasn't through the 4th track and I was glad I bought it. It's unmistakably Kansas-sounding. I'm talking classic Kansas. Acoustic guitars, rock violins, etc. If you've ever been a Kansas fan, this album is highly recommended.
 
Zing said:
I almost never use my Denon D7000 headphones so tonight I'm trying to go deaf with them while playing this.


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Unbeknownst to me (and perhaps you too), Kansas released a new studio album last September. I just learned about it a week ago and, after sampling, decided it was too good to pass up. During my first spin, I wasn't through the 4th track and I was glad I bought it. It's unmistakably Kansas-sounding. I'm talking classic Kansas. Acoustic guitars, rock violins, etc. If you've ever been a Kansas fan, this album is highly recommended.
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Prog Rock..........I was and still a fan!!!
 
Thanks for the heads-up Zing.

I'd stopped my Kansas collection at Audio-Visions (1982) - thinking (incorrectly) that they had not produced anything worthwhile after that. That's now been corrected.

Jeff
 
L.A. Salami -- Dancing with Bad Grammar
I'm not sure how to classify this one, but it's a little on the weird side... but i like weird. I think I like it. It's one of those I'll have to listen to a couple of times to be sure, but so far, I'm into it's oddness.

And L.A. Salami is his real name -- or in long form, Lookman Adekunle Salami.

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I must confess that up until a few days ago I really had never heard of prog-rock group Marillion.

I was doing some random searching to see if I could find a list of all the 5.1 remixes that Steven Wilson has done, and I came across the 2017 Blu-ray Audio for Marillion's Misplaced Childhood.

As far as prog-rock goes it's not bad. But it's the Wilson touch that makes it now better than most.

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Don't look now but Jeff's coming around. Before long he'll be adding Dream Theater, Clearlight, Miriodor and Novalis CDs to his collection.
 
JeffMackwood said:
I must confess that up until a few days ago I really had never heard of prog-rock group Marillion.

I was doing some random searching to see if I could find a list of all the 5.1 remixes that Steven Wilson has done, and I came across the 2017 Blu-ray Audio for Marillion's Misplaced Childhood.

As far as prog-rock goes it's not bad. But it's the Wilson touch that makes it now better than most.

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Wow...what a blast from the past. The name Marillion sounded familiar like I had seen them somewhere back in my misspent youth. Google tells me it was 1983!! They were on the bill with Todd Rundgren and Utopia. I suspect that is why I was there as I love Todd Rundgren!! Marillion as I said "sounded familiar"!!
 
This past weekend I wrapped up the consulting project I'd taken on over the summer, so I'm back to being a full-time retiree. This means I have more time to get back to the important things in life: working out, listening to music, and drinking!

I had an opportunity to add some Tangerine Dream to my collection, but after listening to several cuts from several of their albums, I now fully understand why I don't have any in my collection - and likely never will. Not that I don't like (good) synthesizer-based music, but I kept searching for at least one catchy-sounding song, and searching, and searching, and searching. I spun some Jean Michel Jarre instead - just to remind myself that there's some great stuff in this genre to be had.

Jeff

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ps. Part IV is my fave!
 
Looking for something I hadn't heard before and found this after a google search of "best bands I've never heard of"... so far, I'm agree.

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I may have put one of their other albums on there, but listening to this on my Amazon Prime music account
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  1. Sweet Water Pools 3:32
  2. Bikini Red 3:47
  3. Too Much Love 3:07
  4. I Can Speak American 2:57
  5. Big Brother Muscle 2:59
  6. I Wanna Be a Flintstone 2:31
  7. Jesus Chrysler Drives a Dodge 4:01
  8. Lie Detector 3:59
  9. 55-The Law 2:10
  10. All Shook Down 2:16
  11. Waltz 3:31
 
Back to that incredible "new" album by Van Halen. The more I hear it, the more I am convinced this is the album that I didn't bother to buy in 1986. Amazing work!

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