Originally Posted by Mordor

This isn't just an album. It's an experience. I lay on my Zeppelin with ked in my arms, I put this on, and we lay in the dark and got utterly swept away by the music.

Originally Posted by Mordor

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I didn't know who Mike Oldfield was when I found Return to Ommadawn on the charts, but Progressive Rock always grabs my attention. I went ahead and got his 1975 Ommadawn and listened to the albums back to back. That was the right call. Quite enjoyable. It had a certain charm that, for some reason, reminded me of fantasy tabletop roleplaying, so the next week when my D&D group gathered at my house, I put these on. They were well received.

Originally Posted by Mordor

This is the Zeppelin to which I was referring. (NSFW)
Ah.
Sure, I know about and own Tubular Bells, but I didn't know about it until I saw Return to Ommadawn on RYM's 2017 chart.

Originally Posted by Mordor

On my headphones when I'm out and about, it's been prog rock for the past several days. That's fine, but when I'm at home, I've been playing nothing but jazz. I've only scratched the surface of my latest obsession, and, to be honest, it's kind of scary because from where I sit, peering over the edge, I see an inscrutable, depthless rabbit hole down which I could easily fall.

Do I take the plunge? I've been listening to Coltrane, Davis (my favorite by far), Monk, Corea, Evans, Peterson, Brubeck, Hall, Haynes, Chambers, Newborn, Rypdal, Vitous, and DeJohnette. I could go so much further.

Inscrutable, depthless. Like Melville's sea...though I predict jazz won't be as dangerous as the White Whale.

Yeah, sure. Undaunted, I wrote my Master's thesis on Moby-Dick. I feel as if I can, like Ahab in his pride, conquer the genre!

Wheeeeeeeee....!

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.

Originally Posted by Mordor

On my headphones when I'm out and about, it's been prog rock for the past several days. That's fine, but when I'm at home, I've been playing nothing but jazz. I've only scratched the surface of my latest obsession, and, to be honest, it's kind of scary because from where I sit, peering over the edge, I see an inscrutable, depthless rabbit hole down which I could easily fall.

Do I take the plunge? I've been listening to Coltrane, Davis (my favorite by far), Monk, Corea, Evans, Peterson, Brubeck, Hall, Haynes, Chambers, Newborn, Rypdal, Vitous, and DeJohnette. I could go so much further.

Inscrutable, depthless. Like Melville's sea...though I predict jazz won't be as dangerous as the White Whale.

Yeah, sure. Undaunted, I wrote my Master's thesis on Moby-Dick. I feel as if I can, like Ahab in his pride, conquer the genre!

Wheeeeeeeee....!