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I thought this forum deserved a 'Currently Listening To...' topic, so here it is!

Now Playing: Octavarium by Dream Theater (24 minutes of sheer genius!)
 
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Second collection of choice off-cuts from between '67 and '69 released in the wake of the Mothers' first disbandment.

 
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I've been watching some episodes of Monty Python and The Sweeney on TV. A wave of 1970s nostalgia came over me. You see, I left England in the mid 70s two months before my tenth birthday. I remember England well, and it's 1970s England I remember, that's how I remember England to be. To compliment my 1970s television I've been listening to the following five albums this week.

Emerson, Lake and Palmer debut album released six days before my fifth birthday
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Pink Floyd Meddle released thirteen days before my sixth birthday
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Led Zeppelin 3 released one month after I started pre school
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Genesis Selling England by the Pound released two years before we emigrated
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Yes Close to the Edge released while I was in Mrs Appleby's class.
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Excentrifugal Forz is on the original album, Apostrophe. It's the short tune where Frank is playing fretless guitar on the intro. Energy Frontier is an alternate title for Down In De Dew, of which a short version was released on the Lather album. And it also encompasses the instrumental title track. Anyway, if you get the CD, Simon Prentis explains everything in his excellent liner notes.
 
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Love the cover photo on this one! I don't listen to this band much, but I like a few of their albums. Too bad the record company thinks loud, bright and brittle is the way to master albums that sounded great on vinyl.
 
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Love the cover photo on this one! I don't listen to this band much, but I like a few of their albums. Too bad the record company thinks loud, bright and brittle is the way to master albums that sounded great on vinyl.
Nice cover.

I don't know any of their albums but when bands like ELO and Supertramp hit the charts and became popular in our discotheque is when I said goodbye to rock/pop music for several years. Supertramp was known in our circles as Super-ramp (in Dutch; it means Superdisaster in English). Not long after that popular culture was dominated by the Eagles and Gerry Rafferty over here, which confirmed my choice. Of course this is my 16 year old self speaking. As I said I haven't listened to any of their albums.
 
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Got my tickets to see these, when they play Manchester in November

A strange mixture: Finnish group, playing bluegrass covers of heavy rock
Sounds as though it wouldn't work, I think they are great, as well as good fun
 
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I've been watching some episodes of Monty Python and The Sweeney on TV. A wave of 1970s nostalgia came over me. You see, I left England in the mid 70s two months before my tenth birthday. I remember England well, and it's 1970s England I remember, that's how I remember England to be. To compliment my 1970s television I've been listening to the following five albums this week.

Emerson, Lake and Palmer debut album released six days before my fifth birthday
View attachment 88289

Pink Floyd Meddle released thirteen days before my sixth birthday
View attachment 88290

Led Zeppelin 3 released one month after I started pre school
View attachment 88291

Genesis Selling England by the Pound released two years before we emigrated
View attachment 88292

Yes Close to the Edge released while I was in Mrs Appleby's class.
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Five seminal albums....from my teenage years...
 
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