Trollheart's Listening List 2015/2016

Trollheart · 12-12-2015, 12:28 PM

Robbing this idea slightly (ie completely) from our Goofle, I'm going to use this thread as a way of making sure I get through my massive backlog of recently purchased music, which at the moment I am still in the process of downloading. As I listen to each album I'll do a short(ish) review of it and rate it. I'll be publishing the list shortly.

Note: this is NOT a rec thread. I have more than enough albums for this thread and I don't want any more. However if you know any of the albums I'll be listing and want to offer comments/advice/warnings, by all means go ahead.

Further Note: Though generally these will all be 2015 (and later, 2016) albums, this list is a record of what I am listening to/have listened to/will listen to this and next year, not necessarily only the new albums. So from time to time the odd album from 2014, or perhaps even further back, may creep in.

One more further note: Just to be different, I'm going to show where each album comes in the artiste's discography by inserting a big red number, 1 for debut, 2 for second album and so on.

Bear in mind that 99% of these I have not listened to, some I have but have not reviewed, and the odd one may have appeared, or will appear subsequently, in one of my journals. Many I chose on the basis of name or cover of album, and after listening to samples, so god knows what I may have in here. I'll be doing these in order. I'll try to do one a day, but who knows how that will work out? This list will be updated as I go along. Albums reviewed will be marked in Green (this does not reflect a "Love" status as in my other thread, merely that they've been completed) and their images will be removed from the OP here and replaced by the next one.

I've decided to change the "Familiarity" category, as it's a little vague. In future, I'll be assigning a Rank to this. I may do this retrospectively too. They will run thusly:
Noob: Have never heard anything by this artiste before.
Novice: 1 album only heard from the discography. Not very familiar with the artiste.
Apprentice: 2 or 3 albums heard from the artiste. Reasonably familiar but need to hear more.
Adept: More than four, or more than half of the discography, whichever is greater. Quite familiar at this point.
Master Adept: Have heard all their albums and know the artiste really well
High Priest: Have heard all their albums and know the artiste inside out.

As I have just merged this thread with my older review thread, the reviews from that thread will appear here shortly. Because of this, I have changed the running order below slightly to accommodate the albums from that thread. Not that you care.

Men Who Climb Mountains - Pendragon (Progressive Rock)

The Ghosts of Pripyat - Steve Rothery (Progressive Rock)

Somewhere Between Here and There - Edison's Children (Progressive Rock)
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Ten --- The Dragon and St. George
Lanterns on the Lake --- Beings
Riverside --- Love, Fear and the Time Machine
The Blues Overdrive --- Clinch!
Waken Eyes --- Exodus
Time Horizon --- Transitions
Mystery --- Delusion Rain
Julia Wolfe --- Anthracite Fields
Half Moon Run --- Sun Leads Me On
Panic Room --- Satellite
Don Henley --- Cass County
Antimatter --- The Judas Table
Jeff Lynne's ELO --- Alone in the Universe
Dark Symphonica --- Immersion
Gregg Lake/Geoff Downes --- Ride the Tiger
Gazpacho – Molok
Funeris --- Act III: Bitterness
Panopticon --- Autumn Eternal
Draconian --- Sovran
Baroness --- Purple
Eluvium --- Nightmare Ending
Comedy of Errors --- Spirit
Cynara --- There's No Beginning
Steve Roach --- Bloodmoon Rising --- Night 4
Gloryhammer ---- Space 1992: Rise of the Chaos Wizards
Leaves Eyes --- King of Kings
Kinetic Element --- Travelog
Progression by Failure --- Sonic Travelogue
Trespass --- Trespass
Unified Past --- Shifting the Equilibrium
Colin Bass --- At Wild End
A-Ha --- Cast in Steel
Gert Emmens and Ruud Heidj --- Echoes from Future Memories
John Grant --- Black Tickles, Grey Pressure
Bon Jovi --- Burning Bridges
Shadow Gallery --- Digital Ghosts
Threshold --- For the Journey
Arena --- The Unquiet Sky
Ten --- Isla de Muerta
Lunatic Soul --- Walking On a Flashlight Beam
Pendragon --- Men Who Climb Mountains
Steve Rothery --- The Ghosts of Pripyat
Edison's Children --- Somewhere Between Here and There
Millenium --- In Search of the Perfect Melody
Europe --- War of Kings
Tiger Moth Tales --- Storytellers, Part One
Karfagen --- 7
Newman --- The Elegance Machine
Midas Fall --- The Menagerie Inside
Stratovarius --- Eternal
The Sword – High Country
Elegy --- Reflection
House of Lords --- Indestructible
Detune Distortion Despondency --- Compilation 3.3
Praying Mantis --- Legacy
Spock's Beard --- The Oblivion Particle
Avenguard --- Epic Tales II
Royal Hunt --- Devil's Dozen
Echolyn --- I heard you listening
Constanzia --- Final Curtain
Dead Letter Circus --- Aesthesis
Hank Williams III – Take as Needed for Pain
Edison's Children --- Somewhere Between Here and There
Avenguard --- Epic Tales
Offramp --- The Road Goes On
Motorhead --- Bad Magic
Xandria --- Fire and Ashes
Iron Kingdom --- Ride for Glory
The Smokering --- Nothin' Comes Easy
Nelson --- Peace Out
Killer --- Monsters of Rock
Borealis --- Purgatory
Burning Point --- Burning Point
Backbone Blues Band --- Which Way to the Blues
Stormhammer --- Echoes of a Lost Paradise
Virgin Steele --- Nocturnes of Fire and Damnation
Luca Turilli's Rhapsody --- Prometheus-Symphonia Ignis Divinus
Steve Earle and the Dukes --- Terraplane
Millenium --- In Search of the Perfect Melody
The Dreaming --- Rise Again
Forever's Fallen Grace --- Ascending the Monolith
Sigh --- Graveward
Cairo --- A History of Reasons
Glacier --- Ashes for the Monarch
Ghosts of Eden --- What Makes You Happy
Fever Ray, Trevor Morris --- Vikings OST
Steven Wilson --- Hand. Cannot. Erase
The Storyteller --- Sacred Fire
Guthrie --- Painted Words
Graal --- Chapter IV
Glass Caves --- Alive
Detune Distortion Despondency --- Thought in the Form of Snow
Beyond the Black --- Songs of Love and Death
The Adventures --- Supersonic Home
Crown of Twilight --- Cold Late Winter
Europe --- War of Kings
The White Birch --- The Weight of Spring
Flying Colours --- Second Nature
Saracen – Redemption
Pineapple Thief – Magnolia
Blush --- Lifelines
Boduf Songs --- Stench of Exist
Koolsax --- Beyond the Sunset
Natalie Prass --- Natalie Prass
Black Whiskey --- Heavy Train
Funeris --- Funereal Symphonies
Blackberry Smoke --- Holding all the Roses
Winterage --- The Symphonic Passage
Impera --- Empire of Sin
Edenwar --- Edenwar
James Taylor --- Before this World

12-12-2015, 12:28 PM	#1 (permalink)
Trollheart Born to be mild Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: 404 Not Found Posts: 26,996	Trollheart's Listening List 2015/2016 Robbing this idea slightly (ie completely) from our Goofle, I'm going to use this thread as a way of making sure I get through my massive backlog of recently purchased music, which at the moment I am still in the process of downloading. As I listen to each album I'll do a short(ish) review of it and rate it. I'll be publishing the list shortly. Note: this is NOT a rec thread. I have more than enough albums for this thread and I don't want any more. However if you know any of the albums I'll be listing and want to offer comments/advice/warnings, by all means go ahead. Further Note: Though generally these will all be 2015 (and later, 2016) albums, this list is a record of what I am listening to/have listened to/will listen to this and next year, not necessarily only the new albums. So from time to time the odd album from 2014, or perhaps even further back, may creep in. One more further note: Just to be different, I'm going to show where each album comes in the artiste's discography by inserting a big red number, 1 for debut, 2 for second album and so on. Bear in mind that 99% of these I have not listened to, some I have but have not reviewed, and the odd one may have appeared, or will appear subsequently, in one of my journals. Many I chose on the basis of name or cover of album, and after listening to samples, so god knows what I may have in here. I'll be doing these in order. I'll try to do one a day, but who knows how that will work out? This list will be updated as I go along. Albums reviewed will be marked in Green (this does not reflect a "Love" status as in my other thread, merely that they've been completed) and their images will be removed from the OP here and replaced by the next one. I've decided to change the "Familiarity" category, as it's a little vague. In future, I'll be assigning a Rank to this. I may do this retrospectively too. They will run thusly: Noob: Have never heard anything by this artiste before. Novice: 1 album only heard from the discography. Not very familiar with the artiste. Apprentice: 2 or 3 albums heard from the artiste. Reasonably familiar but need to hear more. Adept: More than four, or more than half of the discography, whichever is greater. Quite familiar at this point. Master Adept: Have heard all their albums and know the artiste really well High Priest: Have heard all their albums and know the artiste inside out. As I have just merged this thread with my older review thread, the reviews from that thread will appear here shortly. Because of this, I have changed the running order below slightly to accommodate the albums from that thread. Not that you care. Men Who Climb Mountains - Pendragon (Progressive Rock) The Ghosts of Pripyat - Steve Rothery (Progressive Rock) Somewhere Between Here and There - Edison's Children (Progressive Rock) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ten --- The Dragon and St. George Lanterns on the Lake --- Beings Riverside --- Love, Fear and the Time Machine The Blues Overdrive --- Clinch! Waken Eyes --- Exodus Time Horizon --- Transitions Mystery --- Delusion Rain Julia Wolfe --- Anthracite Fields Half Moon Run --- Sun Leads Me On Panic Room --- Satellite Don Henley --- Cass County Antimatter --- The Judas Table Jeff Lynne's ELO --- Alone in the Universe Dark Symphonica --- Immersion Gregg Lake/Geoff Downes --- Ride the Tiger Gazpacho – Molok Funeris --- Act III: Bitterness Panopticon --- Autumn Eternal Draconian --- Sovran Baroness --- Purple Eluvium --- Nightmare Ending Comedy of Errors --- Spirit Cynara --- There's No Beginning Steve Roach --- Bloodmoon Rising --- Night 4 Gloryhammer ---- Space 1992: Rise of the Chaos Wizards Leaves Eyes --- King of Kings Kinetic Element --- Travelog Progression by Failure --- Sonic Travelogue Trespass --- Trespass Unified Past --- Shifting the Equilibrium Colin Bass --- At Wild End A-Ha --- Cast in Steel Gert Emmens and Ruud Heidj --- Echoes from Future Memories John Grant --- Black Tickles, Grey Pressure Bon Jovi --- Burning Bridges Shadow Gallery --- Digital Ghosts Threshold --- For the Journey Arena --- The Unquiet Sky Ten --- Isla de Muerta Lunatic Soul --- Walking On a Flashlight Beam Pendragon --- Men Who Climb Mountains Steve Rothery --- The Ghosts of Pripyat Edison's Children --- Somewhere Between Here and There Millenium --- In Search of the Perfect Melody Europe --- War of Kings Tiger Moth Tales --- Storytellers, Part One Karfagen --- 7 Newman --- The Elegance Machine Midas Fall --- The Menagerie Inside Stratovarius --- Eternal The Sword – High Country Elegy --- Reflection House of Lords --- Indestructible Detune Distortion Despondency --- Compilation 3.3 Praying Mantis --- Legacy Spock's Beard --- The Oblivion Particle Avenguard --- Epic Tales II Royal Hunt --- Devil's Dozen Echolyn --- I heard you listening Constanzia --- Final Curtain Dead Letter Circus --- Aesthesis Hank Williams III – Take as Needed for Pain Edison's Children --- Somewhere Between Here and There Avenguard --- Epic Tales Offramp --- The Road Goes On Motorhead --- Bad Magic Xandria --- Fire and Ashes Iron Kingdom --- Ride for Glory The Smokering --- Nothin' Comes Easy Nelson --- Peace Out Killer --- Monsters of Rock Borealis --- Purgatory Burning Point --- Burning Point Backbone Blues Band --- Which Way to the Blues Stormhammer --- Echoes of a Lost Paradise Virgin Steele --- Nocturnes of Fire and Damnation Luca Turilli's Rhapsody --- Prometheus-Symphonia Ignis Divinus Steve Earle and the Dukes --- Terraplane Millenium --- In Search of the Perfect Melody The Dreaming --- Rise Again Forever's Fallen Grace --- Ascending the Monolith Sigh --- Graveward Cairo --- A History of Reasons Glacier --- Ashes for the Monarch Ghosts of Eden --- What Makes You Happy Fever Ray, Trevor Morris --- Vikings OST Steven Wilson --- Hand. Cannot. Erase The Storyteller --- Sacred Fire Guthrie --- Painted Words Graal --- Chapter IV Glass Caves --- Alive Detune Distortion Despondency --- Thought in the Form of Snow Beyond the Black --- Songs of Love and Death The Adventures --- Supersonic Home Crown of Twilight --- Cold Late Winter Europe --- War of Kings The White Birch --- The Weight of Spring Flying Colours --- Second Nature Saracen – Redemption Pineapple Thief – Magnolia Blush --- Lifelines Boduf Songs --- Stench of Exist Koolsax --- Beyond the Sunset Natalie Prass --- Natalie Prass Black Whiskey --- Heavy Train Funeris --- Funereal Symphonies Blackberry Smoke --- Holding all the Roses Winterage --- The Symphonic Passage Impera --- Empire of Sin Edenwar --- Edenwar James Taylor --- Before this World __________________ Trollheart: Signature-free since April 2018 Last edited by Trollheart; 06-20-2022 at 10:33 AM.