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Mariska Veres of Shocking Blue deserves a mention.
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Spotify is a channel where you can find loads of music and stream whole albums. Almost every artist who ever had an official release is featured there, not counting bands like Metallica, U2 and a couple of other giants that has refused to be available there (but who cares about them anyway). You can choose to sign in for free and have commercial every 20 to 30 minutes or have premium and pay an amount every month without commercial breaks.
Think I'll try it out but like with last.fm I'll stick with the free account.
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I have never really checked out music at rateyourmusic.. I might have to do that.. I have recently signed up for Spotify, which also is a great source for music.
User reviews can be helpful sometimes so to is just browsing through sub-genres and then youtubing the bands. Is Spotify similar to Last.fm? Thats what I use.
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With last.fm you can stream music and get recommendations based on what you listen to or listen to an artists/bands radio which is streaming music from similar artists/bands.
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Btw, since 2000 at least 5200 contemporary folk albums have been released. Not all of those by new artists but many of them yes.
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I agree that Ian Anderson is an amazing and unique flute player still (his voice, however is shot) but as a flutist myself, I'd have to say Jean Pierre Rampal and James Galway would take the title
Can you post links to both artists, please. I like the sound of the flute when it makes appearences in some music I have.
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I posted a live version of this song earlier in the thread but the audio wasn't very good here it is again, the studio version that is with a music video to go with it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_DmUDxtbpY
Band Fred and Toody Cole formed after Dead Moon.
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Whose modus operandi?
Want a prime example of a board member attempting to "force" their opinion on others and then, if they don't agree, proceeding to "attack" them? Then, look no further than silvermedalists' posts. Some folks obviously aren't as fond of the Who as others. It doesn't make one person right and another wrong, it means your opinion differs from theirs. You're certainly not going to change opinions by going apeshit on everyone that disagrees with you but it surely does seem to be your modus operandi.
Silvermedalist
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Allmusic.com review of The Final Frontier.
3.5/5
http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:azfoxzedldje~T1
When Iron Maiden's classic lineup famously reunited in the year 2000, their first new album, the quite excellent Brave New World, neatly reconnected both musicians and fans with the band's heritage, while simultaneously promising a prosperous future still to come.
However, their next two efforts didn't fare quite as well, and whether Maiden was choosing to repeat the same moves without as much imagination or consistency on 2003's Dance of Death, or becoming bogged down in tiresome prog rock excess on 2006's desultory A Matter of Life and Death, it seemed that neither playing it safe nor taking risks was a surefire recipe for success anymore. And so the heavy metal icons took an extra year — for them, a record-breaking four — to work on their fourth post-reunion opus, and 15th career studio album overall, 2010's The Final Frontier, which, like many of their original mid-'80s classics, was recorded at legendary Compass Point Studios in the Bahamas, and aimed to reestablish an ideal balance of past and future, familiarity and freshness, complexity and immediacy.
By and large, this is accomplished, and we're not just saying that because of the futuristic themes spread across these songs, either — nor the science fiction imagery used throughout the album's artwork, including the latest metamorphosis of the band's inseparable mascot, Eddie, this time into a hulking, green alien predator. No, there really is an unquestionable freshness about the futuristic themes and novel sonics explored by the intriguing percussive warm-up, "Satellite 15," which leads straight into the anthemic, arena-friendly opening title track; the muscularly riffed "Mother of Mercy," which recalls Bruce Dickinson's better mid-'90s solo efforts; and the remarkable "Coming Home," which is easily Iron Maiden's most convincingly executed semi-ballad since Fear of the Dark's "Wasting Love," and probably better to boot. The album's first half is rounded out by the surprisingly complex and cerebral first single "El Dorado," which was clearly written with "2 Minutes to Midnight" as a template (but isn't that good), before finally striking out with the efficient but ultimately somewhat forgettable speedster "The Alchemist," yet, all in all, this is a very impressive start. Too bad The Final Frontier's second half doesn't hold up so well, being stacked in worrisome fashion with five straight, longish compositions ranging from eight to eleven minutes in length. Even by Maiden standards, this is a tall order for fans to cope with (again!), and, sure enough, top marks are only deserved by the evocative Arthurian fantasy "Isle of Avalon," which is first out of the gate and captures all of the majesty and power you'd expect of an Iron Maiden epic, despite being no "Hallowed Be Thy Name" or "Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner" — a "Paschendale," maybe. The remaining five-song monoliths produce only isolated moments of excellence and, amazingly, all begin in suspiciously similar fashion: via quietly plucked, déjà vu-inducing melodies framed by synthesizers before heading off on their individual, long-winded journeys.
The "moments" include a strikingly aggressive riff sequence and reminisces of Somewhere in Time contained on "Starblind," and the vaguely psychedelic harmonies nestled somewhere deep within "The Man Who Would Be King," whereas "The Talisman" and Gaelic-inspired "When the Wild Wind Blows" merely recycle spare parts, for the most part, cherry-picked and reassembled from across the Maiden canon. This late dip in quality at the mercy of the band's more-is-more philosophy definitely leaves one pining for the days when heavier, punchier, and just plain shorter songs held equal appeal for Steve Harris and company; but, in good ways and bad ways, by hook or by crook, The Final Frontier still brings Iron Maiden closer to their aesthetic legacy and triumphant year 2000 rebirth than its two predecessors. And, at this stage in their career, Iron Maiden knows that nothing is more important than giving fans — of all stripes — what they want and expect. Why mess with a winning team, after all? [The Final Frontier's special — aka "Mission" — Edition was delivered with bonus content in a deluxe package outfitted to resemble a spaceship porthole.]
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I'm really loving two purchases I made recently of members of ABB. One is HIghway Call By Dickey Betts and Duane Allman: An Anthology.
Came with this nice picture of Duane, ha.
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Ordered this from Amazon.com today.
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Was lucky enough to find Graveyard's debut album on vinyl while I was checking some records stores this weekend. I was afraid the vinyl edition would be out of stock at this time..
Graveyard - s/t (2008)
Fine purchase if may say so myself. I also have it on vinyl. Kind of a shame Truls didn't stay with the band as in the two songs he sings in they are my favorites from the album but Joakim does a great job singing them live.
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I wanted to take a moment and thank a lot of you on this thread. I have finally listened to all of the music here that I had never heard before. I have found new music through a lot of you and just wanted to say thank you for sharing the music!!
Sentiments shared except it's not with this thread but the Other Bands/Music section of the message board in general. My music horizons have broadened significantly since joining this site.
Here's what I'm listening to right now.
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7/15 @ ZanZilla Ventura, CA
Radio Moscow w/Night Horse, The Fucking Wrath
Will be my second time seeing them this time at a rather local show.
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On vinyl:
Duane Allman - An Anthology
Richard "Dickey" Betts - Highway Call
The Allman Brothers Band - Brothers and Sisters
Alice Cooper - Welcome To My Nightmare
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Thanks Rock N' Rollin' Man!!
My favorite personally from Rarezas is Apuesta Por El Rock and Roll
That sounds really good I think I'll have to check them out more.
I'm kind of big on these Argentine bands as well.
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For the moment I'm taking a break from my Thrash Metal and Hard Rock, and listening to "Rarezas" by a Spanish band called Héroes del Silencio (Heroes of the Silence for non-Spanish speakers).
Starbreaker if you like music in Spanish you might like these two bands.
First band Dias de Blues is from Uruguay second one Pappo's Blues is from Argentina. Both great bands.
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^ The security was probably due to Dweezil's dad being pushed off the stage, and nearly breaking his neck, at The Rainbow back in '71 by some nutball who said Frank was eyeing his girl too much during the show!!
He was some overtestosteroned futbol fan!!
I recently saw ZPZ and it was just amazing. How 'underknown' by the masses, while other's get such high praise, the vegetable doesn't far fall from the vine as Dweezil plays with the chops of his dad.
I read about that incident in Frank Zappa's autobiography another story the guy told was he felt they hadn't given him the value for his money.
The rest of the ZPZ band is also very talented.
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