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10-14-2012, 04:24 PM | #122 (permalink) | |
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I reckon it might be approved, if not just PM one of the mods on here and I'm sure they can copy and paste it back to you.
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10-14-2012, 06:25 PM | #123 (permalink) | |
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I think a journal would be a great way for you to express your talent and love for music, and there are no rules as to when you have to update. To be perfectly honest, if you did all your reviews as well as that one, I'd be happy with one a month. It's whatever you can manage, and there's nothing to stop you posting one review every month then suddenly deciding you want to do three in a week, or whatever. Plus you don't only have to do reviews; you can do anything you want with your journal. I'd strongly urge you, if you think you can spare the time and are interested, to go ahead. All you have to do is make the thread in the members' journal thread and once it's approved you'll be on your way.
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10-14-2012, 06:37 PM | #124 (permalink) |
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US, nice review too! I have to admit, I never really heard the new romantic influences on the album. I'll have to give it yet another listen with that in mind. When I got this I was well into my "neo-prog" discovery period, with albums by Marillion, Pallas and Quasar (another great album, almost impossible to find but I have it on vinyl, if I ever get around to setting up my USB turntable which was bought for me last Christmas and is STILL sealed in its box!), though I only found Pendragon a few years ago. I just like all the different aspects of it, but I really do love the creepy, echoing rolling drums in the sort of end-section of "Creepshow", where Mann is describing things like the mirror. Sure made me shiver!
I know TN have had other albums without him (he went on to become some sort of Christian singer before he sadly died) but I haven't heard them. Jackhammer (whose opinion I always trust) says "XII" is very good, so perhaps check that out if you want to. On a sidenote, even though it's so far only three of us, I'm glad we've managed to resurrect and bring this thread back from the brink. There may be other reviews or comments to come, but I'd think it's only fair, as he was the first to respond, to hand over choice of the next album to Big Ears. Oh, and one point for him: I always write my reviews in OpenOffice and then copy and paste into the post, that way if something goes wrong I always have a copy to refer back to. You just can't trust these darn browsers! But US is right: any mod will send you back a copy if you need it, though I'm sure we'll see your name up in lights shortly. I'll be watching for it. Congratulations, guys! I think the patient is going to pull through! It was touch and go for a moment there, but we may very well be out of the woods now...
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10-15-2012, 08:13 AM | #126 (permalink) |
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The Light Tracklist
All songs written by Neal Morse, except One Man (Alan Morse, Neal Morse). 1. The Light (15:32) I. The Dream II. One Man (Alan Morse, Neal Morse) III. Garden People IV. Look Straight into the Light V. The Man in the Mountain VI. Señor Valasco's Mystic Voodoo Love Dance VII. The Return of the Horrible Catfish Man VIII. The Dream 2. Go the Way You Go (12:07 3. The Water (23:10) I. Introduction/The Water II. When It All Goes to Hell III. A Thief in the Night IV. FU/I'm Sorry V. The Water (Revisited) VI. Runnin' the Race VII. Reach for the Sky 4. On the Edge (6:14) Bonus track on the special edition 5. The Light (home demo) (15:18) |
10-15-2012, 08:16 AM | #127 (permalink) |
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Neal Morse: Lead vocals, keyboards Alan Morse: Guitars, cello, vocals Dave Meros: Bass Nick D'Virgilio: Drums, vocals Molly Pasutti and Wanda Houston: Background vocals on The Water Produced by Spock's Beard and Neal Morse Released 1995 |
10-15-2012, 11:09 AM | #128 (permalink) | |
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That was a quick two weeks between albums Anyway I know this album quite well and will review it in the next few days.
Now I was thinking, everybody that has reviewed the album should give it a mark out of ten or out of five (as I did) and then depending on how many people have reviewed and voted, an overall mark is then given to the album based on our votes. Its just a way of keeping a mini-league and it could be placed at the start of the thread. It would give the club a better focus.
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10-15-2012, 04:09 PM | #129 (permalink) |
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I'd join in if I wasn't busy with listening to stuff from a different album club, but I just wanted to point out that I think it's good to discuss each album in its own thread. I just wanna throw that suggestion out there.
There are a few reasons why I think so. It makes it easier for other prog-interested people who are not "members" of the club to join in the discussion. Collecting links to the different threads is a nice and tidy way of keeping tabs on the discussions and discussion in an album's own thread is always about that album. If someone a few weeks into the future wants to add their opinion on Twelfth Night's album, that post will be a bit out of place and may even look off-topic to those who doesn't know this thread's history. And people looking for the Twelfth Night discussion may not catch later posts addressing that album further down the pages of the thread. Just my 2 cents!
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10-15-2012, 05:55 PM | #130 (permalink) |
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Yeah, good point tore. So how should we do that? Can the TN review posts be moved and then linked, and the same for Spock's Beard? I don't think we can do that, O mod!
Anyway, as to the most logical beard in the galaxy, yes I concur. I had a bad time with SB for a while, but eventually got into some of their stuff, though it's all been through playlists so I couldn't say I've listened to an album all the way through. I'll dig this one out and start composing my reply. Oh, also as US says, best to leave any reaction/reviews till at least a week after the suggestion of the album, to give everyone enough time to form their own opinion and ideas... Thanks guys!
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