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General => General Music Discussion => Topic started by: jingle.boy on May 09, 2014, 03:21:04 PM
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So, there seems to be enough interest to make this a regular thing. There's no shortage of music fans here that know an entire band's discography, and no shortage of DTF'rs looking to find a reason to absorb new music. I'm happy to have this be a 'sign-up' or tracker thread. Couple of suggestions to keep in mind:
- the artist/band should have a minimum of 5 albums
- If you sign up to lead a discussion, please have it for a band who's discography you that you truly "know"
- give the forum about a week to listen to, digest, and discuss the album
- give your DTFrs a reason to follow... tell us why you're doing the band, why you're uniquely qualified to do it, why you're a huge fan, share stories/anecdotes/experiences etc...
- if anyone has any other suggestions or guidance, feel free to offer them up
Completed:
Orbert/Yes (https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=32530.0)
Orbert/Chicago (https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=38009.0)
Orbert/Genesis (https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=34467.0)
Orbert/ELP (https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=35522.0)
KevShmev/The Flower Kings (https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=40941.0)
Podaar/Blue Oyster Cult (https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=41614.0)
Ultimatalhead/Devin Townsend (https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=41621.0)
GentlemanofDread/Pink Floyd (https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=41622.0)
jingle.boy/Led Zeppelin (https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=41957.0)
Scorpion/Symphony X (https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=42178.0;topicseen)
KevShmev/Rush (https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=42273.0)
KevShmev/U2 (https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=43297.0)
hefdaddy42/Kansas (https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=43061.0)
?/Anathema (https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=44037.0)
James Mypetgiress& Fluffy Lothario/The Mars Volta (https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=43845.0)
KevShmev/Spock's Beard (https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=44537.0)
The Dark Master/Savatage (https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=44324.0)
Stadler/Kiss (https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=46880.0)
Orbert/Gentle Giant (https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=47640.0)
Samsara/Queensrÿche (https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=50337.0)
Mosh/Iron Maiden (https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=50220.0)
Kattelox / Avantasia (https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=11589.msg2504003#msg2504003)
TAC/Riot (https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=54957.0)
Orbert / Jethro Tull (https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=55247.0)
TAC/UFO (https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=55669.0)
DragonAttack / Queen (https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=57201.0)
Metropolaris / Devin Townsend v2 (https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=58218.0)
Lethean & LithoJazzoSphere / Katatonia (https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=57875.0)
In Process:
Evermind/Arjen Lucassen Projects (https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=48422.0)
Scuttled
darkshade/Pat Metheny (https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=50060.0)
GentlemanofDread/Radiohead (https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=43836.0)
ASacrificedSon/Opeth (1) (https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=45778.0)
Scar/Opeth (2) (https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=48875.0)
Nihil-Morari/Frank Zappa (https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=44650.0)
Coming Soon (allegedly):
The Letter M/The Neal Morse Band
Sacul/Ulver Everything Steven Wilson
Elite/Pain of Salvation
lonestar/IQ
ProgSnob/King Crimson
GentlemanofDread/Coheed & Cambria
The Silent Cody/Helloween
Mosh/Extreme
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Original OP:
Now that we're coming to the end of Kev leading the discussion around The Flower Kings' discography, how many people would be interested in making this a regular thing? People 'sign up' for a band, and then lead a thread and discussion on their discography? Bob had a ton of interest in the ones he led, and I'm up for following more bands, using it as reason to explore etc... There's no shortage of music fans here that know an entire band's discography.
Thoughts? Anyone interested in following these kinds of threads? Anyone interested in leading these kinds of threads?
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I'll follow!!!
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I'd follow, not sure if I'd want to do one. I need to do a top 50 really.
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The more music the merrier I guess.
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I'd follow that Led Zeppelin one.
Maybe up for doing a System of a Down one, don't know how much interest that would generate though. Or Trivium.
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Zep would be really good because people are so opinionated and sometimes emotional over their output. I'd follow that.
Also, the Original Post maybe a good place to have links to the other threads. I know Orbert did Chicago, Yes, ELP and Genesis? Maybe more?
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I've thought about doing one for Spock's Beard/Neal Morse/Transatlantic and related albums from SB members. It would have to wait a couple more weeks before I begin so that work calms down a bit and summer comes around.
-Marc.
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Also, the Original Post maybe a good place to have links to the other threads. I know Orbert did Chicago, Yes, ELP and Genesis? Maybe more?
Great idea. If this continues to gain interest, I could make this a 'tracker' thread, maybe get a mod to sticky it, and then see who signs up for what.
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I too would be interested in this, as a follower. :corn
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Another :tup for a Led Zeppelin discussion.
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I'd follow a Led Zep one, but my experience with my top 50 thread (what? It's been ten days since I did a post?!) pretty much proves I'd have no business doing a discography thread. :lol
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I think it's an interesting idea for a thread and something that would be fun, but I doubt any of the bands people would write about would be of much interest to me personally.
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I think it's an interesting idea for a thread and something that would be fun, but I doubt any of the bands people would write about would be of much interest to me personally.
There's a group of fans on the board that likely would ... Reaper, DC, LieLow... plenty of others have interest in bands (eg, Gojira) I would have zero interest in. Just like the Top 50 and Roulette 'games', all tastes are welcome, and produce all different kinds of followers.
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I call dibs on doing Rush's. :biggrin:
I think other naturals for this forum would be Opeth, Floyd and Porcupine Tree, all of which are hugely popular here.
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I've thought about doing one for Spock's Beard/Neal Morse/Transatlantic and related albums from SB members. It would have to wait a couple more weeks before I begin so that work calms down a bit and summer comes around.
-Marc.
I'd do them separately, instead of lumping them all together. SB deserves their own, as does solo Neal; Transatlantic doesn't have enough albums to do one for them, and we've discussed them all ad nauseam in the TA thread anyway. Lumping them all together would result in a thread that takes too long and would see interest jump up and down, since you'd have people who maybe don't listen to all of those projects.
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I'd like to do a Dream Theater one.
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Put me in the "follow but not host" column.
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I call dibs on doing Rush's. :biggrin:
Not sure if serious. I think with the number of Rush fans on the forum, the depth of their discography, perhaps two people could share the responsibilities, and split it? Just thinking out loud.
I've thought about doing one for Spock's Beard/Neal Morse/Transatlantic and related albums from SB members. It would have to wait a couple more weeks before I begin so that work calms down a bit and summer comes around.
-Marc.
I'd do them separately, instead of lumping them all together. SB deserves their own, as does solo Neal; Transatlantic doesn't have enough albums to do one for them, and we've discussed them all ad nauseam in the TA thread anyway. Lumping them all together would result in a thread that takes too long and would see interest jump up and down, since you'd have people who maybe don't listen to all of those projects.
You took the the words right off my keyboard Kev. I think we collectively should come up with some 'guidelines' on how to run these. My initial thoughts are:
- the act should have a minimum of 5 albums. Doing a Circus Maximus discog discussion would be over in 2 weeks.
- whoever leads the discussion should truly know the band and the albums.
- like the top 50 and roulette 'games', I don't think there should be more than 3 of these running at any given time.
- give the forum about a week to listen to, digest, and discuss the album. Especially if there's 3 running simultaneously, giving updates every couple of days won't allow the followers that are new to the band/albums the chance to listen and participate. I think Kev's pacing was great for TFK (though I fell behind because of work).
Any other thoughts? I'll update the OP before the end of the weekend, and we can use this as a 'sign up' thread.
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Even though I am a total Rush Nut Ytserush is the go to on all things Rush
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I call dibs on doing Rush's. :biggrin:
Not sure if serious. I think with the number of Rush fans on the forum, the depth of their discography, perhaps two people could share the responsibilities, and split it? Just thinking out loud.
I've thought about doing one for Spock's Beard/Neal Morse/Transatlantic and related albums from SB members. It would have to wait a couple more weeks before I begin so that work calms down a bit and summer comes around.
-Marc.
I'd do them separately, instead of lumping them all together. SB deserves their own, as does solo Neal; Transatlantic doesn't have enough albums to do one for them, and we've discussed them all ad nauseam in the TA thread anyway. Lumping them all together would result in a thread that takes too long and would see interest jump up and down, since you'd have people who maybe don't listen to all of those projects.
You took the the words right off my keyboard Kev. I think we collectively should come up with some 'guidelines' on how to run these. My initial thoughts are:
- the act should have a minimum of 5 albums. Doing a Circus Maximus discog discussion would be over in 2 weeks.
- whoever leads the discussion should truly know the band and the albums.
- like the top 50 and roulette 'games', I don't think there should be more than 3 of these running at any given time.
- give the forum about a week to listen to, digest, and discuss the album. Especially if there's 3 running simultaneously, giving updates every couple of days won't allow the followers that are new to the band/albums the chance to listen and participate. I think Kev's pacing was great for TFK (though I fell behind because of work).
Any other thoughts? I'll update the OP before the end of the weekend, and we can use this as a 'sign up' thread.
All good advice! I figure you guys would suggest to do them separately, and upon thinking about it, I agree. I guess I mean to say I would start with SB, do the band's albums, then branch off to some member's solo albums, and move on through Neal's solo albums, all in separate threads. Give the complete SB/NM experience. I'd have to do a bit of research and work on some things, but if there's a bigger SB/NM fan out there who wants to do one, go right ahead! I don't mind! Heck, I've only been a fan of them since 2003/2004, so I've only known them for half of their career! I'm sure there are a few older/long-time fans here that know more about the band.
Also, in addition to Chicago, Yes, Genesis, ELP, and The Flower Kings, wasn't there also one for The Beatles?
-Marc.
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I think so, but IIRC, it was abandoned and never finished.
I think it would make sense that these should be done only by regular posters, meaning people that post regularly. You don't want people to get interested in the thread and then have to sit around waiting weeks for updates because the person running it only shows up once in a while. That would kill the fun of it. If you aren't around to do updates every 5-7 days, what is the point?
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I searched "discography" for thread titles, and there were a few. I'll link those.
Agree on premise of what you're saying Kev... though so long as someone stays committed and provides regular updates, I don't think leading a discussion should be limited to just 'regular posters'. IMO, the purpose of 'leading' the thread/discussion (WHOEVER does it for a given band) is simply to foster the discussion with some anecdotes, insights, experiences and/or stories etc.. ytserush might not even be interested in committing to lead the discussion on Rush, but actively participate.
My suggestion was just to ensure whoever leads it does as good a job as Kev/Bob have done in their discog threads.
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Even though I am a total Rush Nut Ytserush is the go to on all things Rush
I appreciate the vote of confidence, but I think not being around everyday probably disqualifies me.
Besides, the anal level of detail would likely crush any good that would come from it if I do it.
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OP updated. I won't be able to do the Zeppelin one for at least another month, so if someone else wants to start, knock yourself out.
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I'll follow. May even go for a discog too. I'll have a think. If I like a band I usually get the whole discog. Until they start to become shit.
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I'll follow most, and if nobody else really wants to do it, I'll do Pink Floyd discography discussion at some point if that's good?
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I'll follow most, and if nobody else really wants to do it, I'll do Pink Floyd discography discussion at some point if that's good?
You're on the list. Given there's only a few on the 'coming soon' list, I suggest anyone start whenever they're ready. If this grows like the Roulette and Top 50 series', then we'll start using a first come/first serve method.
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We'll see how much a SoaD discussion generates. If not many people follow, it'll be over quickly, at least :lol.
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You know I'll be all over that crap dawg
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I was considering doing an Anathema discography thread, but I don't know anything about their doom/death albums.
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I think I'd rather do a Trivium thread, instead of SoaD. I think that would generate more discussion.
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The only bands I could think of that I could lead a discussion with are Shadow Gallery, Pain of Salvation and Haken. Unfortunately Haken is off limits, due to having only 3 albums and the Haken thread seems to be flowing nicely anyway. I would like doing a thread on Shadow Gallery, but given the marginal interest on these forums, I'm not sure whether that's a good option (and Doc and Nick would hate me for taking the band probably ;) ), so I could do a Pain of Salvation one if people are interest. I could line it up up to have it run with the Survivor I plan on doing again as well. They have 8 studio albums and some other stuff, as well as a very interesting development as a band. If that's all right with you, I'll gladly do it when there's room.
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I'd love to see someone do one on Queen, although I am not sure I am the one to do it. There has to be someone here who knows a lot of the ins and outs of every Queen album, to where they could do them justice.
I wouldn't mind doing a U2 one eventually, but I am not sure how high the interest would be for that one.
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I was considering doing an Anathema discography thread, but I don't know anything about their doom/death albums.
I like all Anathema albums, so I can do it if nobody else volunteers.
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I thought about doing Queen, and also Rush. Both are bands I've followed for a long time, pretty rabidly at first and then less enthusiastically later, and doing a discography would have given me a good reason to dig more into their later material. I have each band's entire catalogue. But there are probably people more knowledgeable about each of them than I. Well, probably not Rush. But there's a lot more work involved, there, so I'll just let someone else do it.
I'm in as a follower for pretty much anything, though.
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I wouldn't mind doing a U2 one eventually, but I am not sure how high the interest would be for that one.
I'd be all over U2, but to tell you the truth, I'd be more interested in you doing Kansas.
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The problem there is I am not familiar at all with the inner workings of the band and whatnot, so I wouldn't be able to offer any inside information, so to speak. Not saying I wouldn't do it, but just saying, it'd be pretty vanilla. And I am not familiar with much of the 80s stuff, outside of Audi-Visions and a few songs from the other albums.
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It might not be everyone's bag, but you could do what I did: augment your own knowledge of the band by doing some research prior to each installment. I learned a lot about each of the bands for which I did discographies that way. Even just hitting Wikipedia, AMG, and the band's website often yielded a lot of good information. I'd mull it over for a day or two, then synthesize some kind of writeup.
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I mentioned in one of the FK threads about people doing this discography thing for other bands, and the one I was hoping for was Spock's Beard. I see that's in the "future" list, so I shall definitely be following that one with interest when/should it happen.
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Blue Öyster Cult could be a decent discography thread too. I know that Kev certainly has a great deal of knowledge of their output (not to volunteer him, but :biggrin:) People are often surprised at the breadth of their music and the history of contributors/producers is quite fascinating. Just a thought
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I'm along, I love these things. Not sure I could really "lead" one as good as the ones already done for any band other than DT, but I love reading them.
Well, maybe the Allman Brothers Band, but that seems outside the norm of listening habits around here.
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I was considering doing an Anathema discography thread, but I don't know anything about their doom/death albums.
I like all Anathema albums, so I can do it if nobody else volunteers.
You can write about the doom albums and I can do the rest from Alternative 4 to Weather Systems or Distant Satellites.
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I was considering doing an Anathema discography thread, but I don't know anything about their doom/death albums.
I like all Anathema albums, so I can do it if nobody else volunteers.
You can write about the doom albums and I can do the rest from Alternative 4 to Weather Systems or Distant Satellites.
I don't know if two people can run the same discography thread, but I'd be ok with that.
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We can do anything we want to do.
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I was considering doing an Anathema discography thread, but I don't know anything about their doom/death albums.
I like all Anathema albums, so I can do it if nobody else volunteers.
You can write about the doom albums and I can do the rest from Alternative 4 to Weather Systems or Distant Satellites.
I don't know if two people can run the same discography thread, but I'd be ok with that.
Sure... Why not. Anything to foster musical discussion and discovery.
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Hey jingle.boy
If there's no objection, and enough interest, I'd like to do the discography for Blue Öyster Cult. Within the next month I expect to have a great deal of time on my hands so regular updates shouldn't be a problem for me.
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Good band, looking forward to it. :tup
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Awesome. I'll definitely be following that and contributing big time. :tup :tup
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I had Some Enchanted evening, Fire Of Unknown Origin, and ET Live as a kid, but never really followed them
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I'd love to do a Devin Townsend one, but that fucker has a ton of albums, even more if we include his time with Strapping Young Lad. I know way more about Devin's work than I should, so I'm not worried about making it interesting to follow.
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I had Some Enchanted evening, Fire Of Unknown Origin, and ET Live as a kid, but never really followed them
Knowing your taste in rock that surprises me a bit. Well, maybe you'd find something to like during the discussion. Interested?
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I'd love to do a Devin Townsend one, but that fucker has a ton of albums, even more if we include his time with Strapping Young Lad. I know way more about Devin's work than I should, so I'm not worried about making it interesting to follow.
I thought about doing a Devin one, but I figured You'd want him. Plus, I know like a fraction of what you know about him. Sefinitely following though.
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I had Some Enchanted evening, Fire Of Unknown Origin, and ET Live as a kid, but never really followed them
Knowing your taste in rock that surprises me a bit.
Yeah, right? I know.
I'll definitely follow the discussion.
From that time period, I just gravitated to UFO, Thin Lizzy, Aerosmith, Kiss.
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I had Some Enchanted evening, Fire Of Unknown Origin, and ET Live as a kid, but never really followed them
Knowing your taste in rock that surprises me a bit.
Yeah, right? I know.
I'll definitely follow the discussion.
From that time period, I just gravitated to UFO, Thin Lizzy, Aerosmith, Kiss.
I feel the same. I feel like I should like BOC more than I do. Following the discog might change that maybe. I do love the Marshall Plan track from Cultosaurus.
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I had Some Enchanted evening, Fire Of Unknown Origin, and ET Live as a kid, but never really followed them
Knowing your taste in rock that surprises me a bit.
Yeah, right? I know.
I'll definitely follow the discussion.
From that time period, I just gravitated to UFO, Thin Lizzy, Aerosmith, Kiss.
I feel the same. I feel like I should like BOC more than I do. Following the discog might change that maybe. I do love the Marshall Plan track from Cultosaurus.
:tup
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Hell, sign me up for Devin Townsend and various assorted projects based on whichever ones I feel like covering (I'll try to keep it under 20). My one request is that someone let me jump up several slots so I can do it over the summer rather than have to worry about it during school.
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I had Some Enchanted evening, Fire Of Unknown Origin, and ET Live as a kid, but never really followed them
Just got the box set! Can't wait to dive in to BOC again! I just saw them a few weeks ago!
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I'd love to do a Devin Townsend one, but that fucker has a ton of albums, even more if we include his time with Strapping Young Lad. I know way more about Devin's work than I should, so I'm not worried about making it interesting to follow.
I think it would make the most sense to feature his albums he has done primarily as a solo artist (whether it was called Devin Townsend, Devin Townsend Band or Devin Townsend Project). Strapping Young Lad is a whole other animal and shouldn't be included, IMO.
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I'd love to do a Devin Townsend one, but that fucker has a ton of albums, even more if we include his time with Strapping Young Lad. I know way more about Devin's work than I should, so I'm not worried about making it interesting to follow.
I think it would make the most sense to feature his albums he has done primarily as a solo artist (whether it was called Devin Townsend, Devin Townsend Band or Devin Townsend Project). Strapping Young Lad is a whole other animal and shouldn't be included, IMO.
I feel like all of the SYL albums are counterparts to whatever he was doing as a solo artist at the time (Heavy = Punky Bruster, City = Ocean Machine, SYL = Accelerated Evolution, Alien = Synchestra, and The New Black kind of sits on its own), but you're probably right. There's just way too much shit. By my count, there's the 6 DTP albums (if we're counting Casualties), and 7 solo albums, so 13 really isn't all that bad.So, I'm willing to start whenever, but I'd really really like it if I could jump ahead in the line to at least first or second so I have a fighting chance of getting it done over the summer. If not, that's cool too but I might have to back out if shit gets too hectic.
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I think including the SYL albums would be pretty neat. But if it's too much work, don't bother.
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I think including the SYL albums would be pretty neat. But if it's too much work, don't bother.
Oh, don't get me wrong. I'd absolutely love to, but that would bring it up to 18 albums and that's kind of crazy.
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I'm a Fripp newbie, and right now there's nothing I want more than a King Crimson thread. I would go to sllep at night dreaming of the next one.
Also...and understand it would be daunting...but also INCREDIBLY popular... Uncle Frank himself. The only problem would be that you may have to assign decades to people...and that would suck.
We should just have Wey and Debra hold a "Zappa Class"....we could start with "Understanding the mighty Zappa 101...in which there is heresy." Think you guys would be up to teaching a class? Maybe Debra could do Zappa while Rai does The Dead. It would all make a BIG HUGE BOWL OF AWESOME SAUCE. :coolio :hat :xbones :yarr
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At this point, I think priority is whoever is ready. As I mentioned, I won't be able to anytime soon. I have no opposition to a few of these running at the same time - as we do for roulette's and top 50s. So, someone get this thing going.
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Just say the word and I'll fire it up tomorrow.
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Word.
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I'll do the Rush one, but I'll probably wait till sometime this summer to start it. That way, we don't have too many starting at once.
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I'm gonna be ready to start the Pink Floyd one either today or tomorrow, though I can hang back a bit so we're not all starting at once.
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I think it should be fine to start Floyd immediately as well. Assuming the Devin one is up and going here soon, too, that'd be three, and since they all come from different styles - Devin is metal, Floyd is psychedelic/prog, and B.O.C. is rock/hard rock - it's a good mixture of ones running at the same time. Thats my two cents. :coolio
I'm curious to see how you start off the Floyd one, since Piper is their first disc, but they had a bunch of singles that pre-dated the first album, which I'd like to see addressed and discussed. Time will tell. :)
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Working on the Devin OP in 5 minutes. :metal
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I had Some Enchanted evening, Fire Of Unknown Origin, and ET Live as a kid, but never really followed them
I guess this shouldn't be a surprise by now, but I prefer Blue Oyster Cult's live stuff over the studio material. Just a fan of the live experience I suppose.
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I'd be ready as well, though I'll probably wait with mine until the first one of the recent batch is done. Three is quite enough, I should think.
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I would smile my everything if Nihil-Morai did a Zappa thread.
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I would smile my everything if Nihil-Morai did a Zappa thread.
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Now that we have 3 underway, let's do the next batches in order of priority from who signed up. With a dozen+ albums from each of the existing acts, and a week or so per album... well it'll be deep into the summer before myself, Scrop and Marc are up. So, no reason why the three of us shouldn't start to build our content over the next few months, so that we're all ready to go when the current three are done.
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I would smile my everything if Nihil-Morai did a Zappa thread.
Oh my god I'd love to do that. It would, like Jammin said earlier, take a couple of years, however.
If I can write up one album a week, ánd there would be enough interest, I'd totally do it though. Would be an awesome way to do a new Zappathon again. I did one about 2 years back, listen to as many Zappa as possible, following his album list, but even that took me about 5 months. And there's been at least 5 new albums since then.
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I wouldn't care if it took the rest of my life. I'll take any excuse I can get to read your thoughts on Zappa.
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Any chance we can get this thread pinned?
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Any chance we can get this thread pinned?
Good idea. :tup
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I'm surprised nobody is doing Porcupine Tree.
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I'm surprised nobody is doing Porcupine Tree.
As am I, though I think they've almost fallen out of style here. Maybe it's just because they haven't done anything since 2009.
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I wouldn't care if it took the rest of my life. I'll take any excuse I can get to read your thoughts on Zappa.
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I wouldn't care if it took the rest of my life. I'll take any excuse I can get to read your thoughts on Zappa.
I take it there are small number of people who can discuss every album with me, (I don't know every release inside out either) but if there are a couple of people interested in listening to every single official release the man has done, I'll do it. Seems like a daunting task, but it'll be fun. Put me on the list!
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I wouldn't care if it took the rest of my life. I'll take any excuse I can get to read your thoughts on Zappa.
I take it there are small number of people who can discuss every album with me, (I don't know every release inside out either) but if there are a couple of people interested in listening to every single official release the man has done, I'll do it. Seems like a daunting task, but it'll be fun. Put me on the list!
I already had!
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I wouldn't mind doing something with Kansas, but it will be a while before I would be ready, so everyone else can get their stuff together first.
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I wouldn't mind doing something with Kansas, but it will be a while before I would be ready, so everyone else can get their stuff together first.
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Awesome... was really wanting someone to lead them. Given the list ahead of you, it's prolly not gonna be until 2015 that you'll be up. You're on the list though.
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I wouldn't care if it took the rest of my life. I'll take any excuse I can get to read your thoughts on Zappa.
I take it there are small number of people who can discuss every album with me, (I don't know every release inside out either) but if there are a couple of people interested in listening to every single official release the man has done, I'll do it. Seems like a daunting task, but it'll be fun. Put me on the list!
I'm in the category of, "I own about 4 or 5 albums, and I love them all, but the catalog is so overwhelmingly huge that I don't know where to go next."
Strictly Commercial was my very first Zappa album. From there I picked up Joe's Garage. I also own Hot Rats, Bongo Fury, Overnite Sensation, and a copy of 200 Motels that I haven't even listened to yet. Just last week, I decided to start from the beginning and pick up Freak Out! and I'm hoping to pick up Absolutely Free within the next month or so. Mostly, I just want to hear from someone who knows more about it than I do.
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I wouldn't care if it took the rest of my life. I'll take any excuse I can get to read your thoughts on Zappa.
I take it there are small number of people who can discuss every album with me, (I don't know every release inside out either) but if there are a couple of people interested in listening to every single official release the man has done, I'll do it. Seems like a daunting task, but it'll be fun. Put me on the list!
I'm in the category of, "I own about 4 or 5 albums, and I love them all, but the catalog is so overwhelmingly huge that I don't know where to go next."
Strictly Commercial was my very first Zappa album. From there I picked up Joe's Garage. I also own Hot Rats, Bongo Fury, Overnite Sensation, and a copy of 200 Motels that I haven't even listened to yet. Just last week, I decided to start from the beginning and pick up Freak Out! and I'm hoping to pick up Absolutely Free within the next month or so. Mostly, I just want to hear from someone who knows more about it than I do.
I had the same problem, I'd lent Stage 3 from my uncle, and then downloaded everything at once. But that was way too much to handle. So I started with Freak Out too and worked my way through his discography. The 60's and 70's became instant favourites, but the 80's stuff is still not really among my favourites.
Well, I'm looking forward to this.
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If you did it, I would try as hard as humanly possible to listen and at least say something for every album. Might be tough for other people who didn't already download everything to get in on the action because I don't think much of his stuff is on Spotify, and that's how people tend to follow discog threads, I think.
Totally with you on the overall progression of his music, as well. Everything up to Joe's Garage (that I've heard) is pure sex, but the stuff that followed hasn't done too much for me.
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Now that it is June (har har), I'll be starting my SB thread sometime soon. I'll probably get a head start on my own write-ups over the next week as I do some research and compile my thoughts on the band's albums. If you guys want me to wait, I can, but I'd like to start sometime within the next two weeks, but I can wait til one or two of the existing Discography Discussion threads have finished.
-Marc.
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If you did it, I would try as hard as humanly possible to listen and at least say something for every album. Might be tough for other people who didn't already download everything to get in on the action because I don't think much of his stuff is on Spotify, and that's how people tend to follow discog threads, I think.
Totally with you on the overall progression of his music, as well. Everything up to Joe's Garage (that I've heard) is pure sex, but the stuff that followed hasn't done too much for me.
I believe that most of his official releases are on spotify, I'll check that out.
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If you did it, I would try as hard as humanly possible to listen and at least say something for every album. Might be tough for other people who didn't already download everything to get in on the action because I don't think much of his stuff is on Spotify, and that's how people tend to follow discog threads, I think.
Totally with you on the overall progression of his music, as well. Everything up to Joe's Garage (that I've heard) is pure sex, but the stuff that followed hasn't done too much for me.
I believe that most of his official releases are on spotify, I'll check that out.
That would certainly help a lot.
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Now that it is June (har har), I'll be starting my SB thread sometime soon. I'll probably get a head start on my own write-ups over the next week as I do some research and compile my thoughts on the band's albums. If you guys want me to wait, I can, but I'd like to start sometime within the next two weeks, but I can wait til one or two of the existing Discography Discussion threads have finished.
I would say go ahead and start it then. I can't see it being an issue. Obviously, we don't want 10 of them going at once, but the current three should all be around the midway point by then.
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I've thought about this for a while, and I just noticed an omission on the list of the bands that I find quite striking, given their popularity on this forum: Symphony X. So if everyone's cool with it, I'd probably rather do an SX discussion than a Trivium one, as I'm pretty sure the former would attract more attention. Probably.11
Sorry for switching around so much, I guess. Last time, I promise.
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I'm personally not that into Trivium at all. SX is someone I at least have a passing interest in. I own V and found it a bit too cheese whiz for my taste, but then again, I've been told there are better albums, so I'd be at least curious about an album by album analysis.
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Yeah, I know quite a few guys that would probably think similarly - hence my wish to do SX instead. I honestly thought that someone else was already doing them, given how popular they are on this forum.
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I'd be interested in a SX one rather than a Trivium one too.
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I'd be interested in a SX one rather than a Trivium one too.
Indeed
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Count me in as interested in SX as well. I get the feeling that this is a band I should be way more familiar with and a Discog thread would be a great excuse.
Also, I'd like to chime in my EXTREME interest in Zappa (obviously) although I'm sure that I've heard all of the official releases at one point or another and about 1/4 of it doesn't interest me much. Sure, I recognise the brilliance of all of his output yet some of it just isn't my glass of gin.
I'm looking forward to Kansas and Rush as well.
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Count me in as interested in SX as well. I get the feeling that this is a band I should be way more familiar with and a Discog thread would be a great excuse.
Also, I'd like to chime in my EXTREME interest in Zappa (obviously) although I'm sure that I've heard all of the official releases at one point or another and about 1/4 of it doesn't interest me much. Sure, I recognise the brilliance of all of his output yet some of it just isn't my glass of gin.
I'm looking forward to Kansas and Rush as well.
It isn't like I love all of his work (earlier today I gave my thoughts on Thing Fish in the Zappa Thread), but I'd be happy if there's a number of people trying to comment on every single album. Add in a few who comment only on the albums they're interested in, and it'll be a perfectly healthy thread!
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Count me in as interested in SX as well. I get the feeling that this is a band I should be way more familiar with and a Discog thread would be a great excuse.
I'm looking forward to Kansas and Rush as well.
Ditto on all of this. I'm super familiar with Rush already, and Kansas I used to be pretty familiar with when I was getting in to prog about a decade ago, and I ended up getting their whole discography. I really enjoy their first 8 albums or so.
As for Symphony X, I have all of their studio albums, but I really only listen to four or five of them. A discography thread of them will definitely help me flesh out their work for me since I've never given them their due attention.
-Marc.
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Count me in as interested in SX as well. I get the feeling that this is a band I should be way more familiar with and a Discog thread would be a great excuse.
Also, I'd like to chime in my EXTREME interest in Zappa (obviously) although I'm sure that I've heard all of the official releases at one point or another and about 1/4 of it doesn't interest me much. Sure, I recognise the brilliance of all of his output yet some of it just isn't my glass of gin.
I'm looking forward to Kansas and Rush as well.
It isn't like I love all of his work (earlier today I gave my thoughts on Thing Fish in the Zappa Thread), but I'd be happy if there's a number of people trying to comment on every single album. Add in a few who comment only on the albums they're interested in, and it'll be a perfectly healthy thread!
It turns out that I completely overestimated my knowledge of the man. I looked up the Zappa discography on Wikipedia today and I calculated that I own eight albums and am familiar enough with another four albums that I could sing along with every moment. There are roughly another ten albums, prior to the 1990's, that I've heard up to two times but have not heard in years and can't recall more than impressions. That means that prior to his death, I'd consumed a whopping 36% of his music... :omg: :lol
I'd say I could actually use a discography thread but I may not live that long!
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Zappa produced so much music I'm not even sure HE heard all of it before he died.
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Now that it is June (har har), I'll be starting my SB thread sometime soon. I'll probably get a head start on my own write-ups over the next week as I do some research and compile my thoughts on the band's albums. If you guys want me to wait, I can, but I'd like to start sometime within the next two weeks, but I can wait til one or two of the existing Discography Discussion threads have finished.
-Marc.
Personally, I think we should only have three running at a time. I know it doesn't seem too hard to be listening to three albums every few days, but not everyone is here every single day, life gets in the way preventing people from really digesting the albums. If we are to use this outlet to not only discuss a discography, but attract new fans, I think three at a time is the right number.
Also, Now that we have 3 underway, let's do the next batches in order of priority from who signed up. With a dozen+ albums from each of the existing acts, and a week or so per album... well it'll be deep into the summer before myself, Scrop and Marc are up. So, no reason why the three of us shouldn't start to build our content over the next few months, so that we're all ready to go when the current three are done.
By all means, start your research and writeuos, but my vote is to hold off on actually starting the discussion until 1 of the current guys is done.
And Scrop... I'd be all over a SX discussion. Way more so than Trivium. Shall I modify your chosen band?
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Yeah, go ahead and put me down for SX. Also, just say the word and I'm starting, I've already listened to their debut a few times in the last week or so, so I just need to do some quick reading and I'm good to go.
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j.b, you're probably right about keeping it to three at a time, but I guess it all depends on what bands are going. Not everyone is gonna be interested in each discography thread.
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This ^
Personally I am obsessively participating in the Pink Floyd thread... but only skimming through the BOC and DT threads when I have spare time. Not a whole lot of interest in them.
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However if people are getting into one or more of the artists through these threads, having more than 3 could be overkill. It my discourage someone from following or getting into an artist.
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Yep, that's the thing. For example, if someone wanted to do a 4th one right now, it being a band very different from those currently being featured, I'd say go for it. You just don't want too many similar-type artists going at the same time.
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I know I'm not the only one following all three. While I already know the PF albums, BOC and Devy are new to me. Even stacking on SB (whom I know) I do want to listen while participating, so a fourth will be a little taxing.
I guess the question is this... Are we more concerned with giving people enough to be interested in (for example, Jay's only following 1, so one more isn't a big deal), or are we more concerned about overloading people (eg, me and Hef)?
The latter potentially limits participation more so than the former. That's my only point.
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I'd say we wait. Three are quite enough - what's the rush?
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I'm probably not the best example (laid up with a busted leg and also working on my own Top 50/ following others....) but i'd appreciate it be kept to three at a time - not finding the time I'd like to participate as it is :-\ Either way they'll make a great reference but maximising participation has to be good..
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Yeah, any more than three and I think we run the risk of defeating at leas part of the purpose of these threads.
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Listening through Kansas's first album getting ready for starting my writeups. So good!
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Oh man, I will be going hog wild in that one! Love me some Kansas. :coolio
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Oh man, I will be going hog wild in that one! Love me some Kansas. :coolio
:metal
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Oh man, I will be going hog wild in that one!
Me too, but for different reasons. Kansas slipped under my radar back in the day, so this will be my exposure to them.
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Oh man, I will be going hog wild in that one!
Me too, but for different reasons. Kansas slipped under my radar back in the day, so this will be my exposure to them.
You'll be in for a treat.
But it will most likely still be a while. Time is not on my side.
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^ I've got patience.
Also, I just added myself to the bottom of the list with Arjen Lucassen and all his projects.
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Chatter seems to have died down here, so I thought I'd throw out a couple of requests to see if there are any takers?
Ozzy
Dio
Rainbow
Those are a few of the acts that I just never explored for some unknown reason.
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About Rainbow, I'm a big fan and I bloody love Dio era and Stranger In Us All album, but I actively dislike almost everything they've done with Turner, so I'm not the person you would look for this job. However, if anyone hosts this one, I promise I'll be down to discuss everything.
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There must be someone interested in doing a Steven Wilson discography thread. Including the best albums of all his projects. Discussing all of his releases would be way too much, but a couple of albums per band... I'd be interested in discussing!
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There must be someone interested in doing a Steven Wilson discography thread. Including the best albums of all his projects. Discussing all of his releases would be way too much, but a couple of albums per band... I'd be interested in discussing!
The problem with that would be that there is little consensus on what his best albums are, especially when it comes to PT, so leaving any of them out would seem weird. I think someone doing just PT makes the most sense. He only has three solo albums and all three have been discussed a ton in the SW thread over the last few years as each has been released, so it's probably too soon for those. Someone doing a PT discography thread makes the most sense, at this point.
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There must be someone interested in doing a Steven Wilson discography thread. Including the best albums of all his projects. Discussing all of his releases would be way too much, but a couple of albums per band... I'd be interested in discussing!
The problem with that would be that there is little consensus on what his best albums are, especially when it comes to PT, so leaving any of them out would seem weird. I think someone doing just PT makes the most sense. He only has three solo albums and all three have been discussed a ton in the SW thread over the last few years as each has been released, so it's probably too soon for those. Someone doing a PT discography thread makes the most sense, at this point.
This.
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There must be someone interested in doing a Steven Wilson discography thread. Including the best albums of all his projects. Discussing all of his releases would be way too much, but a couple of albums per band... I'd be interested in discussing!
The problem with that would be that there is little consensus on what his best albums are, especially when it comes to PT, so leaving any of them out would seem weird. I think someone doing just PT makes the most sense. He only has three solo albums and all three have been discussed a ton in the SW thread over the last few years as each has been released, so it's probably too soon for those. Someone doing a PT discography thread makes the most sense, at this point.
Yeah, I see your point. Other SW projects aren't as loved at PT around here. I love No-Man and Bass Communion, I like IEM, but I don't see much discussion about those bands around here.
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I'm probably going to start zipping through the balance of BÖC's discography so we can clear a space for a more popular group. Come on Kansas!! :tup :tup Besides, we've pretty much skimmed the cream off even if there are a few surprise highlights left.
Get ready!
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I'm probably going to start zipping through the balance of BÖC's discography so we can clear a space for a more popular group. Come on Kansas!! :tup :tup Besides, we've pretty much skimmed the cream off even if there are a few surprise highlights left.
Get ready!
Whoa whoa there Tex. Kansas is at the bottom of the list I've been starting my Zeppelin writeups, and I think Marc and Tommy Boy have been as well. Now that we're underway, I think it's only fair we do things on a first come, first serve basis - unless otherwise stated by the person who signed up. I'm still probably two weeks away from being far enough along to really start, so I'll defer to Spock's or S-X, and do Zeppelin when the Floyd or Devy discussions are done.
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Yeah, Kansas is not ready anyway.
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Oh, okay :blush
Was much excite but I can wait...
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Yeah, Kansas is not ready anyway.
You don't have a feeling your in Kansas anymore?
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I should be ready for Spock's Beard in a couple weeks. Work has kept me plenty busy but it'll lighten up soon so I'll start my write-ups shortly.
- Marc.
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I'd be ready for some Symphony X discog as well, just say the word.
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Still hoping for a Zappa discussion. I'm SO COMPLETELY HOOKED on Absolutely Free at the moment. :xbones
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Still hoping for a Zappa discussion. I'm SO COMPLETELY HOOKED on Absolutely Free at the moment. :xbones
It's on the list! I guess it'll be my turn at the end of summer. I better start preparing :lol
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I don't post a lot here, mainly lurk..but would there be interest in an Iron Maiden discog discussion? They're my favorite band and I know their catalog inside and out, would love to host it.
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Sounds like you just volunteered.
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Great! Can't wait.
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Hasn't Iron Maiden already been done? I mean... I could have sworn...
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Hasn't Iron Maiden already been done? I mean... I could have sworn...
There's been lots of IM discussion...it's thread, people did their Top 20 IM songs, survivors... I don't think there's been a specific discography discussion.
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I swear there was one around a year ago. It was the first one I read through before I discovered Orbert's threads... And Bosk was a big participant... I just can't find any evidence of it now besides Bosk mentioning it in a couple posts in the IM thread last year. Or I might be crazy :lol
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Well... the only thing I can think of is that Bosk started running through all the albums in the official IM thread as he started discovering them... prompting (essentially) a discography discussion?
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Now that Gregg is finished the BOC discography, I'll load up the Led Zeppelin discussion in a couple of days. I'm traveling for work, back on Friday, so I'll give his final entry a few days of discussion, then fire up the Zeppelin thread before the end of the week
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I'm really looking forward to it! See ya there. :biggrin:
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Now that Gregg is finished the BOC discography, I'll load up the Led Zeppelin discussion in a couple of days. I'm traveling for work, back on Friday, so I'll give his final entry a few days of discussion, then fire up the Zeppelin thread before the end of the week
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I'll load up the Led Zeppelin discussion in a couple of days.
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I'd consider doing an Alice Cooper one, but it'd be a lot of work and prep, and I don't think there'd be any interest in it.
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I don't know if it warrants a mention here or not, but both Yes and Chicago have recently released new albums, and I plan to update their discographies in the near future. I'm pretty sure I'm one of maybe five people in the world who still listen to either of those bands, but at this point, I'm a completist. I have to get the new albums just because it wouldn't make sense not to.
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I was actually intending to ask you about the new Chicago album. :lol
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I picked it up the other night, and am on my third listen. I figured it would be "easier" than starting with the new Yes album. I need to finish this listen, maybe do one more, make a few notes, then I'll update the Chicago Discography thread.
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I used your Yes writeups a sort of guide when listening to all their albums recently, would love to see your take on the new album. :tup
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Yep, that one's coming, too.
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Orbert's discographies are the gold standard for sure! I've read them all and I've used the Genesis thread several times while trying to get into the band. His insights are invaluable for pointing out things I would miss on my own. It's about time to attempt my annual Genesis trek so I'll be using it again.
I wonder...I suppose we should have checked with Orbert before we started this project. I mean it was his idea for sure and some of these discographies could have been in his plans. For instance, Pink Floyd.
Hey, Orbert, if we stole your thunder with any of these bands, I'm truly sorry! A little after the fact, yes?
Also, I'd like to apologize for not doing your tradition justice with my BÖC discography--it's pretty embarrassing for me to go back and read it in comparison to, say, your Yes thread. :blush Still, I did about the best I could, which is about all I can expect I suppose.
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I picked it up the other night, and am on my third listen. I figured it would be "easier" than starting with the new Yes album. I need to finish this listen, maybe do one more, make a few notes, then I'll update the Chicago Discography thread.
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Orbert's discographies are the gold standard for sure! I've read them all and I've used the Genesis thread several times while trying to get into the band. His insights are invaluable for pointing out things I would miss on my own. It's about time to attempt my annual Genesis trek so I'll be using it again.
I wonder...I suppose we should have checked with Orbert before we started this project. I mean it was his idea for sure and some of these discographies could have been in his plans. For instance, Pink Floyd.
Hey, Orbert, if we stole your thunder with any of these bands, I'm truly sorry! A little after the fact, yes?
Also, I'd like to apologize for not doing your tradition justice with my BÖC discography--it's pretty embarrassing for me to go back and read it in comparison to, say, your Yes thread. :blush Still, I did about the best I could, which is about all I can expect I suppose.
No worries. I don't "own" the discography concept or anything. I just wanted to do something a little more in-depth, and share some of the trivia that's been accumulating in my head for the past 40 years. This place has kept me sane through some tough times, and I felt like I needed to give something back. Also, I'm a teacher and a writer, so I figured if I was going to do it, it had to be well-structured and consistent from the start or I myself wouldn't be happy with it. The Yes Discography was first, as they're still my favorite band, but you can see how the discography goes through a few tweaks in format and approach at first. But there's no set format; the forum might have certain expectations, but each writer has to do it in a way that suits them.
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I really need to plow through those Yes and Genesis threads. I casually followed as they were happening, but should go all in with them. I love both bands, but don't 'know' either of them very well.
Led Zeppelin will be up by tomorrow morning, maybe later today.
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There was a time (about 15 years ago) when my two favorite bands in all the world were Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin, and now (for a while anyway) there are current discography threads on both of them. So I am in a state of nostalgic music heaven. Kudos!
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I feel like we should probably have a Radiohead discography discussion sometime.
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I feel like we should probably have a Radiohead discography discussion sometime.
sounds like you're volunteering.
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I might be
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Can someone give me a week's heads-up when I'm up-to-bat for my SB Discography Discussion? I've been a bit busy with work this summer and haven't had a chance to hunker down and get to an introduction, let alone an album or two. I'd like a week in advance just so I can get the first few write-ups done and be on top of everything. I'm sure i was close to being next but I wanted to make sure I wasn't stepping on anyone's tails with it.
-Marc.
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Can someone give me a week's heads-up when I'm up-to-bat for my SB Discography Discussion? I've been a bit busy with work this summer and haven't had a chance to hunker down and get to an introduction, let alone an album or two. I'd like a week in advance just so I can get the first few write-ups done and be on top of everything. I'm sure i was close to being next but I wanted to make sure I wasn't stepping on anyone's tails with it.
-Marc.
Will do. It should be soon though - within 3-4 weeks I suspect. I suspect UMH will be done with Devy next (2 albums I think), then Scrop will go with Symphony X. When the Gentlemen is done with Floyd (only 3 albums to go + some solo work potentially), you're up with either SB or Morse - your choice. I would suggest/recommend that you only do one at a time, and we push the other one further down the list? That would give you and your followers a break.
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Can someone give me a week's heads-up when I'm up-to-bat for my SB Discography Discussion? I've been a bit busy with work this summer and haven't had a chance to hunker down and get to an introduction, let alone an album or two. I'd like a week in advance just so I can get the first few write-ups done and be on top of everything. I'm sure i was close to being next but I wanted to make sure I wasn't stepping on anyone's tails with it.
-Marc.
Will do. It should be soon though - within 3-4 weeks I suspect. I suspect UMH will be done with Devy next (2 albums I think), then Scrop will go with Symphony X. When the Gentlemen is done with Floyd (only 3 albums to go + some solo work potentially), you're up with either SB or Morse - your choice. I would suggest/recommend that you only do one at a time, and we push the other one further down the list? That would give you and your followers a break.
So almost a month from now? I'm good with that. That'll give me the rest of this month to prepare a bit, then after my busy weekend at Otakon (August 7-10), I'll have time to finish initial preparations for my first few write-ups.
As for my Discography, I'm going with Spock's Beard, and at the point where Neal leaves (between Snow and Feel Euphoria), I'll make a note about his departure and plan to discuss his relevant solo career in another thread at another time. Since both SB and Neal are working on new albums for this/next year, it'll be a good time to do these discographies to get people interested in them as SB's 12th album is in recording, and Neal is about to release a new singer/songwriter album, then possibly a new prog album next Spring/Summer (and given the rate of these discussions, I'm sure my SB one will go well into October, then I'll hope to start the Neal Morse one sometime in the Winter (January would be good) to help gear up for whatever he has coming out in 2015.
-Marc.
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I'll definitely be all over the SB discussion. I've really only heard The Light (love that album to death), and definitely need to explore further.
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I'll be all over it too. Have the discog, but always up for listening and learning. Neal on the other hand, will be much more informative. I've listened to a few of his albums once each, but never went any further.
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I'll be all over it too. Have the discog, but always up for listening and learning. Neal on the other hand, will be much more informative. I've listened to a few of his albums once each, but never went any further.
I believe I know most that Neal mas put out, but still I'd love to listen to it all in a row.
On a sidenote, out of enthousiasm, fear of not being able to keep up the pace and lack of other work to do, I've already started writing on Zappa. Could be 6 months till the discussion starts, but what the hell.
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It's probably a great idea to write while the mood strikes you and have them banked away...especially with how many you'll be asked to do.
I was thinking about that the other day and thought, "If I was Nihil, I think I'd try and figure out a way to do write-ups by years." You'd have some write-ups that would encompass two or three records per post but if you gave them a week or ten days for discussion it might work. Still, you'd be hosting the discussion for a year even by doing that! :)
Of course, the problem with that is Frank's output could vary radically from one album to the next so that wouldn't make it conducive to a single post.
Either way, I'm looking forward to it!
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It's probably a great idea to write while the mood strikes you and have them banked away...especially with how many you'll be asked to do.
I was thinking about that the other day and thought, "If I was Nihil, I think I'd try and figure out a way to do write-ups by years." You'd have some write-ups that would encompass two or three records per post but if you gave them a week or ten days for discussion it might work. Still, you'd be hosting the discussion for a year even by doing that! :)
Of course, the problem with that is Frank's output could vary radically from one album to the next so that wouldn't make it conducive to a single post.
Either way, I'm looking forward to it!
That's an interesting idea. I could stitch albums together in a single post. Not by year per-se, but by similar albums right before or after. (Absolutely Free and We're Only In It and Mothermania come to mind. Lumpy Gravy sits in between but has nothing to do, stylistically, with those albums)
Thanks for your input nonetheless!
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I don't think there's a single thing related to Zappa that could qualify as "simple" or "efficient," let alone a thorough analysis of his entire discography. It's going to be a hell of a slog, no matter how it's done. I'll be there though. I swear on my life I will try as hard as I possibly can to at least contribute SOMETHING to every discussion.
It's a very good idea to start writing now though. I've had several times where I realize "oh fuck me it's been a week" and I have to rush through the write-ups.
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Sorry if this has been addressed already but is the Zappa discog going to include posthumous albums?
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Sorry if this has been addressed already but is the Zappa discog going to include posthumous albums?
I'll follow the official Zappa discog. So that's 99 albums so far. Other releases are not officially discussed, but I'll mention those that could be relevant.
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99 albums :lol Will you be doing 3 per day or something?
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Haha, it's quite a lot... I don't think I'll be doing more than one a week, or maybe two or three that fit together in a single post. I simply won't think of how long it'll take me, I just can't :lol
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Sorry if this has been addressed already but is the Zappa discog going to include posthumous albums?
I'll follow the official Zappa discog. So that's 99 albums so far. Other releases are not officially discussed, but I'll mention those that could be relevant.
Are you fucking shitting me!?!?! :lol when everyone was gushing over how many albums I was figuring 30-40 tops. NINETY-FUCKING-NINE!?!?!
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Some artists are crazy when it comes to putting out many albums. There's a Japanese musician called Merzbow who has put out 274 studio albums, and a guitarist like Buckethead who has almost 100 studio albums (40 of them are probably for 2014 alone).
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Some artists are crazy when it comes to putting out many albums. There's a Japanese musician called Merzbow who has put out 274 studio albums, and a guitarist like Buckethead who has almost 100 studio albums (40 of them are probably for 2014 alone).
Oh yeah, and Klaus Schulze has a crazy discog too.
Are you fucking shitting me!?!?! :lol when everyone was gushing over how many albums I was figuring 30-40 tops. NINETY-FUCKING-NINE!?!?!
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lol I've already started on the write-ups for the Kansas discography, and that is only 15 or so studio albums (and I guess 4 or 5 live albums, and a few compilations), and I'm already freaking out.
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Same... I've only done the first 3 Zeppelin + the touring moments in between releases, and I've been at it for two weeks!
Nihil... you're wise to start writing now. :lol
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Devy's going to be done on the 10th. Whoever's next can start getting fired up.
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After a few days of thinking it, I've realized that I may not be the most indicated person to do the Anathema discography thread. Maybe ? or Zantera are better than me for this, since they have known the band for much longer time.
By the way, there are some bands I'd love to make some discog threads but they aren't so well-known here.
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Devy's going to be done on the 10th. Whoever's next can start getting fired up.
I'm probably posting the first update of the SX discussion on the tenth, because I then leave until the 15th, which is when I will be posting the second one, which should work out nicely.
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Go ahead, I'm not quite ready for my SB discography yet. Work and life have kept me busy, but rest assured, I WILL get to it this month. Then I'll try to update once a week from there on out. I just need a solid day to start my first couple write-ups, and I really wanted to read through some of Neal's biography first to get some info ont he beginnings of the band.
-Marc.
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After a few days of thinking it, I've realized that I may not be the most indicated person to do the Anathema discography thread. Maybe ? or Zantera are better than me for this, since they have known the band for much longer time.
Sure, I can do it. :)
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Will be start SX on the next Sunday, 'cause I'm leaving tomorrow and the Devin thread isn't wrapped up yet. Plus, I can't find the file where I already did the write-up for the first album and the introduction. :(
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Devy's all done.
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Floyd thread will be done Saturday. Gonna do PULSE, Live 8 and On an Island this week.
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And I am done.
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And an incredible job it was. :tup
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Now to furiously write notes down for the Radiohead one.
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And I am done.
But.... Gdansk...
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So with Symphony X going now, there's still an open spot by my calculations. Who's taking it?
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So with Symphony X going now, there's still an open spot by my calculations. Who's taking it?
I'd like to, but work has been tiring lately and I haven't had a solid chance to really sit down and do any of my preliminary write-ups. So someone can go ahead of me if they'd like. The SB thread will have to wait until the next available slot is open, but I will likely start my write-ups next week when I finally have a few days off work.
Unless no one else is ready or willing to go, I can start next week.
-Marc.
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If I'm reading the OP correctly, that would put Kev up with Rush?! That, potentially, would be a lot of fun in your stead, M. I love Caress of Steel so I'm sure to get teased mercilessly. :lol
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Surprised that nobody's doing Opeth.
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I vote for floyd
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Surprised that nobody's doing Opeth.
You volunteering?
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Surprised that nobody's doing Opeth.
You volunteering?
Sounds like a great idea to me. :tup
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Nah, I don't have all their albums. :lol Just figured someone here would have claimed 'em.
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Whomever wants to lead it, I would follow.
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If I'm reading the OP correctly, that would put Kev up with Rush?! That, potentially, would be a lot of fun in your stead, M. I love Caress of Steel so I'm sure to get teased mercilessly. :lol
Gimme a week and I can start the Rush one.
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If I'm reading the OP correctly, that would put Kev up with Rush?! That, potentially, would be a lot of fun in your stead, M. I love Caress of Steel so I'm sure to get teased mercilessly. :lol
Gimme a week and I can start the Rush one.
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:metal
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The Rush one is coming soon, folks. Fear not... :hat
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I do not fear.
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I do not fear.
The reaper.
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Well, anything, really.
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I would love to run a thread like this, because I've been following the others (even if I don't listen to the artist) and they are all very fun and enlightening. You learn a lot. But I thought a bit about who I would do it with, because it's not fun if the discography is too small. So I thought maybe I could do one for Neil Young, if there's any interest by others to follow a thread about him. He has a huge discography though, I think 35-36 albums (and that's not counting his outside work with Buffalo Springfield or Crosby, Stills, Nash), but I know I'm good at keeping a steady pace and keep frequent updates, so I feel confident I would do a good job with it. Only his "solo" stuff though, so not albums released under other names or other bands. But again, only if people are interested in following it. Because a list with 35-36 albums (or more) is quite huge, and if there's only 2 people interested it might be a waste. :P
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I'll be honest, and it pains me to say this as a Canadian, but I personally cannot stand Neil Young.
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As an honorary Canadian/Australian I can only support this sentiment.
I'll be honest, and it pains me to say this as a Canadian, but I personally cannot stand Neil Young.
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I will be completely honest: I would probably not follow a Neil Young discography thread.
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It was a long shot. I know there are some fans on the forum who enjoy the classic albums, but I don't know if there are many other than myself who checked out his middle albums/the weird ones.
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Hey Jimmy, have you thought about doing Agalloch? I'm pretty sure there'd be quite a following, and their discography is not that small, but not impossibly large either.
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I personally think like 10-15 albums is the sweet spot for being enough that a) the band has a following, b) there might be some albums not every fan knows, and c) isn't too onerous to lead/follow. Anything more than 20 could get highly repetitive. Rush is probably the only exception, and only get up to 20+ with all the live and DVD releases.
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I agree, although I should mention that as I go through Rush's catalogue, I will only briefly feature the live albums. In other words, while the studio albums will get 5-7 days for discussion and whatnot, the live albums I'll probably only give a day or two.
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I agree, although I should mention that as I go through Rush's catalogue, I will only briefly feature the live albums. In other words, while the studio albums will get 5-7 days for discussion and whatnot, the live albums I'll probably only give a day or two.
That's how I will approach Kansas, as well.
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Live albums are more important with some band's history than other, i.e., BÖC and Rush but I completely agree. I prefered to just touch them lightly and move on.
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I personally think like 10-15 albums is the sweet spot for being enough that a) the band has a following, b) there might be some albums not every fan knows, and c) isn't too onerous to lead/follow. Anything more than 20 could get highly repetitive. Rush is probably the only exception, and only get up to 20+ with all the live and DVD releases.
Yea I'm wondering how Zappa will go because of that. :lol I'm going to try and follow as much as I can, but there are some albums here and there that I'm not too familiar with/don't like enough to care. I imagine a lot of fans are the same way, so it'll be interesting to see how that will turn out.
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Yeah, for Zappa I'm going to try my absolute damndest to comment on everything, even if it's as meager as "hate this one. move on", which would really only apply to Thing-Fish and some of the especially heady synclavier stuff.
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Yeah, for Zappa I'm going to try my absolute damndest to comment on everything, even if it's as meager as "hate this one. move on", which would really only apply to Thing-Fish and some of the especially heady synclavier stuff.
I personally think like 10-15 albums is the sweet spot for being enough that a) the band has a following, b) there might be some albums not every fan knows, and c) isn't too onerous to lead/follow. Anything more than 20 could get highly repetitive. Rush is probably the only exception, and only get up to 20+ with all the live and DVD releases.
Yea I'm wondering how Zappa will go because of that. :lol I'm going to try and follow as much as I can, but there are some albums here and there that I'm not too familiar with/don't like enough to care. I imagine a lot of fans are the same way, so it'll be interesting to see how that will turn out.
Oh you betcha that my write-ups won't be too long for every album either. I'll try my best to keep it somewhat short on the albums I love, and I'll have to try to write something interesting on albums I don't like. I'm already done with an introduction, and most of Freak Out, so I'm getting there. I'm looking forward to seeing how it all goes, I get the idea that a lot of people here are interested, so that's nice :)
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I'd love to lead an Ulver discussion, if there's enough people to follow it.
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Yeah, for Zappa I'm going to try my absolute damndest to comment on everything, even if it's as meager as "hate this one. move on", which would really only apply to Thing-Fish and some of the especially heady synclavier stuff.
I personally think like 10-15 albums is the sweet spot for being enough that a) the band has a following, b) there might be some albums not every fan knows, and c) isn't too onerous to lead/follow. Anything more than 20 could get highly repetitive. Rush is probably the only exception, and only get up to 20+ with all the live and DVD releases.
Yea I'm wondering how Zappa will go because of that. :lol I'm going to try and follow as much as I can, but there are some albums here and there that I'm not too familiar with/don't like enough to care. I imagine a lot of fans are the same way, so it'll be interesting to see how that will turn out.
Oh you betcha that my write-ups won't be too long for every album either. I'll try my best to keep it somewhat short on the albums I love, and I'll have to try to write something interesting on albums I don't like. I'm already done with an introduction, and most of Freak Out, so I'm getting there. I'm looking forward to seeing how it all goes, I get the idea that a lot of people here are interested, so that's nice :)
In a weird way, I'm almost most excited for some of the lesser talked about albums. Stuff like Francesco Zappa, Man From Utopia, some of the posthumous albums. I love Overnite Sensation but we all know how great that album is already. :biggrin: It'll be interesting to get discussion going on some underexposed stuff.
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I have another band I'd like to do but I don't know if I should maybe wait until after my Radiohead one.
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Is there going to be some method in place to archive these threads like song roulettes and top 50s? I don't necessarily want mine gone yet because I want to do a write up on Z2 by the end of the year, but it would really suck to lose it.
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Should be easy enough.
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The Symphony X thread is now finally done. I'd give it a few more days to wrap up any potential discussion on that one and then we can (finally!) move on to the next one.
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The Symphony X thread is now finally done. I'd give it a few more days to wrap up any potential discussion on that one and then we can (finally!) move on to the next one.
Ditto on Zeppelin. Who's ready to go now?
Marc?
Lucas?
Rich?
One of you stand up and be counted.
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I haven't written anything yet, but if you give me a few days, and if there's enough following, I can start the Ulver discography thread this Monday. Won't complain if someone starts theirs sooner.
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Ulver? Thought you signed up for Anathema?
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Yeah, but changed that since, at the moment I decided it was better not to do it, I wasn't too familiar with band's earlier stuff. And ? seems to know those albums way better than me. I'm a bit more familiar with them now, and wouldn't mind doing a two-person discography thread along with him, with both our opinions on all the albums, because he prefers their earlier stuff, and I'm a sucker for the later albums. I don't know, it could be interesting, and it would leave Ulver to another person.
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I can start with the Pain of Salvation one later today, if that's wanted, but there's a couple of people in front of me still. Let me know!
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ZAPPA COME ON LETS DO IT :hat
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Yeah, if the Zappa one gets going soon, it should be finished by 2020. :lol :lol :lol
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What about Letter M with something Morse related?
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What about Letter M with something Morse related?
Well work will be a lot lighter for me in a couple of weeks, so I may start mine up around or after the 17th of December. I work at a university and the semester has been hectic, so once it's over, I can dedicate some time to reading up and writing some stuff for my planned Spock's Beard Discography thread.
-Marc.
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:tup
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Yeah, if the Zappa one gets going soon, it should be finished by 2020. :lol :lol :lol
The longer we wait, the more his wife will release anyway, so it'll take even longer if I wait longer :lol
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Would anyone be interested in an IQ one? That's the only band I could do justice to...
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Would anyone be interested in an IQ one? That's the only band I could do justice to...
I would!
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Would anyone be interested in an IQ one? That's the only band I could do justice to...
I recently ordered pretty much all their discography and haven't listened to the albums yet, so it'd be a cool way to get to know the band better - count me in!
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You won't be disappointed!
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Would anyone be interested in an IQ one? That's the only band I could do justice to...
Was wondering when the fuck you would offer. I'd be all over this like a cougar on a wounded chicken.
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Would anyone be interested in an IQ one? That's the only band I could do justice to...
Probably my favourite discovery of this year, so I would definitely follow this.
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Someone gonna go???
Also, any mod that might be following this, can we (eventually) archive these so as they don't get inadvertently deleted?
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With the roulette and some things that popped up recently, I can't do anything now. So if anyone else wants to go...
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Would anyone be interested in an IQ one? That's the only band I could do justice to...
I would be all over it, too. Haven't spun their pre-Ever albums for quite a long time, so this will be quite helpful. And I might learn some new interesting things about the band too, so that should be great.
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Someone gonna go???
Also, any mod that might be following this, can we (eventually) archive these so as they don't get inadvertently deleted?
Anyone can go. If no one jumps by the end of the week, I can start Kansas.
And the threads are safe, jingle.buddy.
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Someone gonna go???
Also, any mod that might be following this, can we (eventually) archive these so as they don't get inadvertently deleted?
Anyone can go. If no one jumps by the end of the week, I can start Kansas.
And the threads are safe, jingle.buddy.
jingle.giddy.up
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As said, I can start the Pain of Salvation one any time, but now I'm not sure whether there would be enough interest in that, with all you people drooling over Zappa, Kansas and IQ :lol
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Actually, out of those four I would probably only follow Kansas.
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As said, I can start the Pain of Salvation one any time, but now I'm not sure whether there would be enough interest in that, with all you people drooling over Zappa, Kansas and IQ :lol
I'd follow the PoS discussion, and give them one last kick at the can. Zappa interests me about as much as a ghost pepper enema.
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I'd be all over that PoS discussion.
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As said, I can start the Pain of Salvation one any time, but now I'm not sure whether there would be enough interest in that, with all you people drooling over Zappa, Kansas and IQ :lol
I think there is a lot of interest here in Pain of Salvation. Go ahead, Kansas can percolate a little longer (which would be my preference, anyway).
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Well crap, looks like I'm committed to IQ then :p
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Well crap, looks like I'm committed to IQ then :p
:tup
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I am kind of looking forward to that, especially coming from such a big fan. It will be a discovery thread for me. I hope they don't suck! ;D
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OK, is anyone ahead of me, or anyone else (RJ with IQ) ready to go? The only current one happening is Kev's Rush thread, which just ended.
If no one else is ready, I can start Kansas. I'm not as far ahead as I would have liked, but I guess I'm in a decent spot.
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I just started my warm up listening for it, gonna be at least a few weeks for me since there a few albums I haven't spun in ages, and I would like to have my write-ups ready to go before starting.
On a side note, Tales from the Lush Attic is so frikkin killer. :biggrin:
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I would like to have my write-ups ready to go before starting.
Yeah, me too, but I've got 8 written up so far, so I could conceivably go ahead and start, and finish up the rest sometime in the next 8 weeks lol
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OK, is anyone ahead of me, or anyone else (RJ with IQ) ready to go? The only current one happening is Kev's Rush thread, which just ended.
If no one else is ready, I can start Kansas. I'm not as far ahead as I would have liked, but I guess I'm in a decent spot.
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ZAAAAAAAAAAPPAAAAAAAAAAA
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OK, is anyone ahead of me, or anyone else (RJ with IQ) ready to go? The only current one happening is Kev's Rush thread, which just ended.
If no one else is ready, I can start Kansas. I'm not as far ahead as I would have liked, but I guess I'm in a decent spot.
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lol
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ZAAAAAAAAAAPPAAAAAAAAAAA
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Seriously. I'm dying to dive back in and (finally) (SERIOUSLY) (I'M GOING TO DO IT) listen to his whole discography, and this would be a fantastic excuse.
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Alright, since no one else is jumping, I will try to get Kansas started tomorrow with an introduction, then the first album by Friday.
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Update on my Spock's Beard discussion:
I am *still* going to do this, despite delays and such. I really want to read Neal's Testimony book first, at least, up to where he departs from SB and the Snow sessions, just so I can include his personal insight into the formation and his duration with the band.
I am also delaying myself a bit more so I can start the discussion and time it with the release of the band's 12th album, although at the rate they're going, I'm sure the final album won't be Rich-mixed until later NEXT month (or even March), which means a summer release date...so if I start sooner, I guess I'd have to revive the thread once we finish the discussion on BNADS.
I also want to do another SB Survivor, so I was hoping to time the Survivor to go in tandem with the discussion, so as to encourage people following the thread to participate in the Survivor.
If I get around to read the book soon, I'm hoping to start the discussion and Survivor by the end of the month, which will give me plenty of time to read and start my write-ups for the albums to discuss. Hopefully by then, we'll have more information on the next SB album!
-Marc.
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OP corrected.
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OK, I'm the only one doing one of these at the moment and I'm getting lonely.
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If people will follow and no one else has already offered, I'd like to run through the King Crimson discography.
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If people will follow and no one else has already offered, I'd like to run through the King Crimson discography.
That's a fantastic idea.
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Ok, I'm pretty far back in the list, but give me a bit of time and I can probably start. I just want to make sure I have a few written up already so I can keep a good pace.
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Ok, I'm pretty far back in the list, but give me a bit of time and I can probably start. I just want to make sure I have a few written up already so I can keep a good pace.
Whenever you're ready, dude.
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Add me to the list when you get a chance. Give me a couple of weeks to get a couple of write ups going though. King Crimson have so much stuff out there so I want to make sure they get the proper attention in my reviews.
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I would get started with Radiohead but I'm on a mandatory work placement that's just eating my life up. (I'd also like to do a Coheed and Cambria one in the future too)
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If people will follow and no one else has already offered, I'd like to run through the King Crimson discography.
Yes.
Also Zappa oh my god I need it
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I'd follow both King Crimson and Radiohead threads.
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If people will follow and no one else has already offered, I'd like to run through the King Crimson discography.
I would enjoy this very much. I need more KC in my life.
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I need more KC in my life.
here you go
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I need more KC in my life.
here you go
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:lol
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If people will follow and no one else has already offered, I'd like to run through the King Crimson discography.
Yes.
Also Zappa oh my god I need it
Starting next week, I'll have a week off, one of my goals is to write 3 or 4 albums. And then I'll be able to start. :D
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I need more KC in my life.
here you go
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Thanks!
:blush
:lol
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That's the way (uh-huh uh-huh)
I like it (uh-huh uh-huh)
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If people will follow and no one else has already offered, I'd like to run through the King Crimson discography.
Yes.
Also Zappa oh my god I need it
Starting next week, I'll have a week off, one of my goals is to write 3 or 4 albums. And then I'll be able to start. :D
YESYESYESYESYESYESYESYES
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Since no one seems to want to step up and do another one of these, I might just get the U2 one going sometime in the next week. :coolio
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THANK YOU
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I'm working my way through the King Crimson discography. As soon as I'm ready with a few write-ups, I'll let you know. If I get a good response with KC, I might decide to do others.
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When you feel froggy, jump.
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I may have gotten confused somewhere along the way, but Sacul is listed in the OP as doing Ulver. Originally I think he offered to do Anathema, along with ?, but he then decided not to. He later offered to do Ulver, but then more recently said that he wouldn't be able to do anything (due to roulettes and other things popping up).
I'm only bringing this up so that if ? is still interested, he isn't forgotten. I'm chomping at the bit to follow and discuss Anathema's discography :lol
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I'm only bringing this up so that if ? is still interested, he isn't forgotten. I'm chomping at the bit to follow and discuss Anathema's discography :lol
I'd follow as well :P .
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Well, we currently have two Discog threads going, but they aren't all that high traffic. If someone wants to go ahead and start another, feel free.
And I'd be down with Ulver or Anathema. Bring it on.
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I'll start the Wham! one. :P
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I'll start the Wham! one. :P
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I'll start the Wham! one. :P
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I was thinking how much would people be interested in an Incubus disco thread? I'm a huge fan and I know a ton of history with the band.
I was also thinking of dredg but there isn't enough material IMO.
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I was thinking how much would people be interested in an Incubus disco thread? I'm a huge fan and I know a ton of history with the band.
I was also thinking of dredg but there isn't enough material IMO.
I don't follow Incubus, but if anyone else is interested, go for it.
I love dredg, but yeah, it wouldn't take long.
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I'd follow Incubus. Loved Make Yourself/Morning View/Crow back in the day and liked bits and pieces of SCIENCE, and still listen to some songs every so often. I never did give Fungus much of a chance though, and other than a single listen of Light Grenades when it came out I haven't explored anything beyond Crow.
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Oh god yes I'd love an Incubus thread.
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OK, guys, Kev's U2 thread is pretty much done, and my Kansas thread is winding down. We need fresh blood to step up.
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I'm too busy to lead the Ulver one :( (by now), but I'd follow any of these:
Sigur Ros
Radiohead
King Crimson
BTBAM
NIN
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Anybody else?
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Anybody else?
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Screw it, if no one else starts one by Monday, I'll do a Van Halen one. VH has always been a summer band for me, so it'd be fun to go through it during June and July, and talking about them in the hard rock thread has me listening to them this morning already. :lol
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Screw it, if no one else starts one by Monday, I'll do a Van Halen one. VH has always been a summer band for me, so it'd be fun to go through it during June and July, and talking about them in the hard rock thread has me listening to them this morning already. :lol
Sounds good. I will be able to participate with most of it.
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I can start Radiohead on Wednesday.
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I can start Radiohead on Wednesday.
Dude, that will be awesome.
FWIW, I will finish out Kansas some time in the coming week.
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I can start Radiohead on Wednesday.
Will that include the EPs? Or just the main albums?
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Not all the EPs, but some of them. (Example, I won't do Itch)
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I can start Radiohead on Wednesday.
:tup :tup
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I was re-reading this thread trying to get some idea of a discography that I could do when I saw this.
I thought about doing Queen, *snip*
I think everyone has done a great job of presenting these discographies and it's been a lot of fun but I must say, Orbert is really the gold standard with his original threads. I re-read them on occasion just for the entertainment value or when I try (again) to get into Genesis. I'd be very interested if he picked up his professors coat, stood on the lectern and took us through the Queen discography.
Any interest, Orbert?
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I can do The Mars Volta, if anyone's interested. I went to see them live a couple of times, and they're my biggest bootleg collection (as well as being one of the few bands I own every album of)
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I think everyone has done a great job of presenting these discographies and it's been a lot of fun but I must say, Orbert is really the gold standard with his original threads.
I agree, he is the mark we all strive for.
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I was re-reading this thread trying to get some idea of a discography that I could do when I saw this.
I thought about doing Queen, *snip*
I think everyone has done a great job of presenting these discographies and it's been a lot of fun but I must say, Orbert is really the gold standard with his original threads. I re-read them on occasion just for the entertainment value or when I try (again) to get into Genesis. I'd be very interested if he picked up his professors coat, stood on the lectern and took us through the Queen discography.
Any interest, Orbert?
I could give it a shot. I'd have a bit of research to do prior to the initial startup, but it's doable. What are we talking, a week or two from now?
Also, thanks for the compliment! :)
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I'm gonna state right here, right now, that I'll start my Zappa discography thread after this new round has finished. I'll be close to having summer holiday then, and could work my way through the holiday for the first couple dozens of albums or so, and next (school) year is looking to be way less busy, so I'd actually have time to continue the thread.
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I could give it a shot. I'd have a bit of research to do prior to the initial startup, but it's doable. What are we talking, a week or two from now?
That would be great, but my $.02 is take as much prep-time as you need. Two-weeks, three, a month. It's all good to me.
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Even better. I wasn't sure how much "demand" there was.
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I can do The Mars Volta, if anyone's interested. I went to see them live a couple of times, and they're my biggest bootleg collection (as well as being one of the few bands I own every album of)
I would follow the shit out of that.
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I can do The Mars Volta, if anyone's interested. I went to see them live a couple of times, and they're my biggest bootleg collection (as well as being one of the few bands I own every album of)
I would follow the shit out of that.
Mars Volta would be cool too!
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I dig The Mars Volta. Proceed.
Orbert, take all the time you need, Queen would be awesome.
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I'll be all over the Queen one. :coolio
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Wasn't expecting all the support :lol
How do I do this, exactly? Do I just create a thread?
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Wasn't expecting all the support :lol
How do I do this, exactly? Do I just create a thread?
The prior Discography threads are linked to in the first post in this thread. Skim through a few of them to see how different people have done it. Then proceed likewise.
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Just ask yourself: What would Orbert do?
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Just ask yourself: What would Orbert do?
I do that every morning when I wake up.
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:lol
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:orbert:
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:orbert:
Why are things like this and :zydarscouch: even on DTF?
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Because some regulars have reached legendary status.
:jingleboy:
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:lol Didn't know that was a thing
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:shadowninja:
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Because some regulars have reached legendary status.
:jingleboy:
Some have done so multiple times.
:hefdaddy
:djhef:
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Indeed.
:zydar:
:zydarscouch:
:riskybiz:
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Indeed.
:zydar:
:zydarscouch:
:riskybiz:
Oh, man :riskybiz: that made me laugh
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:sacul:
:sadpanda:
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On the topic of how to get an emote:
(https://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i238/hefdaddy42/DTF/emotes.jpg)
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Yes. Important safety tip.
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Because some regulars have reached legendary status.
:jingleboy:
Some have done so multiple times.
:hefdaddy
:djhef:
:lonestar:
:RJ:
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I know of one that is available.
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I know of one that is available.
Will you tell us :soon:?
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You don't want to see it. Seriously.
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it's Winger, isn't it?
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:JayOctavarium:
I'd follow a Queen thread so hard...
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:JayOctavarium: :JayOctavarium: :JayOctavarium:
:JayOctavarium: :| :JayOctavarium:
:JayOctavarium: :JayOctavarium: :JayOctavarium:
Has any one made a joke about being "trapped inside this JayOctavarium? If not, I'm sad, if yes, to be honest, I'm still sad...
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I'm sure Kotowboy has.
He likes surrounding emotes in other emotes.
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Someone has too much free time :lol
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I'd like to start an Anathema discography discussion. :) Looks like there are only two discography threads going on at the moment, so I'd be ready to start within the next couple of days, unless someone else wants to start their own thread first.
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I'd like to start an Anathema discography discussion. :) Looks like there are only two discography threads going on at the moment, so I'd be ready to start within the next couple of days, unless someone else wants to start their own thread first.
:metal
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I'm gonna state right here, right now, that I'll start my Zappa discography thread after this new round has finished. I'll be close to having summer holiday then, and could work my way through the holiday for the first couple dozens of albums or so, and next (school) year is looking to be way less busy, so I'd actually have time to continue the thread.
YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
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Can never keep up with this board. Has anyone done any of Porcupine Tree, Death, Opeth, Metallica, King Crimson, Dire Straits, Mark Knopfler, Gentle Giant or Van Der Graaf Generator?
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Can never keep up with this board. Has anyone done any of Porcupine Tree, Death, Opeth, Metallica, King Crimson, Dire Straits, Mark Knopfler, Gentle Giant or Van Der Graaf Generator?
Check the OP
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I didn't see them in the OP, is the OP accurate?
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I didn't see them in the OP, is the OP accurate?
Of course it's accurate.
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PT was sort of done a while back in the main PT thread, I think, but it was kind of disguised as a "let's talk about each album in order" discussion. Clever. :lol :lol
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I didn't see them in the OP, is the OP accurate?
Of course it's accurate.
The thread for official band threads isn't accurate so I figured I'd ask.
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I don't know if there would be any interest in a Pain of Salvation discussion thread at the moment, but I could start it whenever one the previous threads has finished. (Though it's probably a good idea to postpone it until I return from my holidays in august.)
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I don't know if there would be any interest in a Pain of Salvation discussion thread at the moment, but I could start it whenever one the previous threads has finished. (Though it's probably a good idea to postpone it until I return from my holidays in august.)
As I recall, there was at one point a rabid following here. I think it's a good idea, but yeah, if you already know about a time away, you may want to wait until then.
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I'm not sure how much it matters, but I finally finished going back over my discographies and updating links to all the album covers and other images. Basically, I was using Facebook as a poor-man's Imgur, but Facebook apparently changes the links every once in a while, probably to prevent people from doing what I was doing, so most of the links were broken.
I ended up re-reading a lot of them, and the ensuing discussions. Holy shit, I write a lot!
Anyway, I think I got them all, and now I feel better about life in general. :)
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Great job Orbert :tup
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Thanks for the hard work, my man!
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I don't know if there would be any interest in a Pain of Salvation discussion thread at the moment, but I could start it whenever one the previous threads has finished. (Though it's probably a good idea to postpone it until I return from my holidays in august.)
I am interested and would try to participate, so yeah, start one :metal
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I am in for Pain of Salvation.
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I'm down with that.
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So yeah, I scuttled the Radiohead thread. Let me know if someone would like to restart it.
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Finally started my FZ discography thread, right here!
https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=44650.0
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Finally started my FZ discography thread, right here!
https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=44650.0
:tup
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I would smile my everything if Nihil-Morai did a Zappa thread.
We are in need of an update on this situation.
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:lol
Put that in a PM please. I'm not sure I wanna read that ;)
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Well, that's the Mars Volta discography thread over with. It took a worryingly long time, so in future, I'll only take up the task of a discography thread when I have lots of free time AND reliable internet.
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Free time with an upcoming half term approaches me. If there's any interest, I've been listening to a lot of Van der Graaf Generator recently. I can do that over the coming weeks if anyone wants it. It won't end up like the Mars Volta one. I promise.
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OK, we have one thread recently completed (Spock's Beard), one I think is close to being done (Savatage), and one which may last forever (Frank Zappa).
Anyone else ready to jump on a new one? Or maybe wait until after the holidays?
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In th coming weeks, I want to start a Neal Morse Discography thread, off the heals of my Survivor. It'll also be nice to have one after the SB thread. If there's a lot of support for the discussion, I'll start it sooner.
-Marc.
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I can do a Rick Wakeman one, if people would like to see that. Would probably start middle of next week if people are interested.
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Whoa, seriously? You realize that Wakeman has like 100 solo albums, right?
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Whoa, seriously? You realize that Wakeman has like 100 solo albums, right?
Yeah and I have a lot of free time coming up. I wouldn't necessarily say I'll do every single Rick album ever in the history of Wakeman, (i.e. the collaborations and stuff with Strawbs and stuff pre-musical noteworthiness) but I'd certainty do the main body of his work.
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Okay then, if you're writing, then I'm reading.
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Okay then, if you're writing, then I'm reading.
Cool. I'm thinking it'll probably start Thursday, or Friday at the latest.
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In th coming weeks, I want to start a Neal Morse Discography thread, off the heals of my Survivor. It'll also be nice to have one after the SB thread. If there's a lot of support for the discussion, I'll start it sooner.
-Marc.
I'd love that!
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Is anyone on the hook for a Gentle Giant discography? They're another band I've been listening to forever, and I didn't see them in the OP list. I could probably do one.
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That would be interesting. I am (sadly) not very familiar with them, so it would be an interesting read, and a good introduction, I'm sure.
Other classic bands that would be neat to see covered would be Camel or Caravan.
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They (Gentle Giant) are on my "to-listen-to-sometime-in-the-future" list, as I've heard a lot of good things. Maybe such a thread could help in moving them further up my list.
And then, an Orbert discography thread is always worth reading.
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I would be excited to explore Gentle Giant both because I've always wanted to get deeper into their discography and because I love reading Orbert's posts.
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You guys are too kind. :blush Okay, I'll start up a GG discography sometime soon, maybe after New Year's. Gotta do some listening and some research.
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Just got a request from OnTheBacksofAngela for her and Train of Naught to lead an Avenged Sevenfold discussion. Also added Orbert to do the GG discussion. Since there are only a couple underway (and Savatage is finishing up), anyone on the list can go at anytime.
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Yes, currently trying to figure out what the best approach would be with two people but it should be fun :tup
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Oh shit, I'm supposed to doing that, aren't I?
:soon:
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Oh shit, I'm supposed to doing that, aren't I?
:soon:
I'd love to participate. I thought I was getting close to owning their entire discography, but I still miss about 5 albums. Plus: they're a band that I'm really interested in to know more about. Get on with it! :D
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They only had 11 studio albums and one live album during their official run. Everything else is posthumous.
I'll get on this.
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Hi. I was wondering if any of you are interested in greenday?
If there are people who are interested, can you please reply so that I'll know if there are enough people? Thanks.
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I'll get on this.
I'll be watching.
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ASacrificedSon has been added for Opeth.
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Hi. I was wondering if any of you are interested in greenday?
If there are people who are interested, can you please reply so that I'll know if there are enough people? Thanks.
Sorry to reply so late (I joined the forum just two weeks ago). I'm not a fan, but when I was 14/15, my best friends listened to a lot of Kerplunk!, Insomniac and Warning:, so I got to know and like a lot of their songs. Nimrod features some cool music too! And I used to play all of American Idiot on guitar with a friend, so I know that album very well.
I'm not too familiar with other albums, though, so to answer your question: yes, I'm interested. :)
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If there's enough interest, I'd be glad to start a thread for Soda Stereo, a band from my country (I talked a bit about them here: https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=45968.msg2099969#msg2099969 (https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=45968.msg2099969#msg2099969)). They have 7 studio albums (and some live stuff and EPs), so it wouldn't be too long. I was in a huge phase in my early teens, so I know their discography inside out.
As their career progressed, their albums sounded extremely different from each other, and they had a vast amount of influences (hard rock, ska, new wave, electronic music, britpop, grunge, funk). I think you might enjoy getting to know them.
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Okay folks, I done did it. I started The Gentle Giant Discography.
I'm not sure how to link to another thread. This might work. (https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=47640.new#new)
Cool, it looks like it worked.
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WOOOOOOHOOOOOO !
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Would anybody be interested in a Toto discography?
If enough people are interested I could try and start one. I don't know all the inside stories but know all their records by heart and could probably give some information at least.
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I would follow mate. Make sure to include all the other albums they have appeared on too ;D
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Toto is a band I don't know much from, but I like what I know. I would definitely follow.
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I would follow mate. Make sure to include all the other albums they have appeared on too ;D
That would take up more time than I have, I'm already in my mid-40s. :biggrin:
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I'd like to start Iron Maiden soon, are these going in a certain order or is it a free for all with who goes next?
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Would anybody be interested in a Toto discography?
If enough people are interested I could try and start one. I don't know all the inside stories but know all their records by heart and could probably give some information at least.
Count me in big time!
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Okay, someone (jingle?) can add me for a Toto discography, but it will probably be late summer/early fall before I can begin.
Do I just start when I feel like it (and not too many other disco-threads are running), or is there some kind of order?
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I should say that A7X can be removed from the 'currently running' list. Angela talked me into collaborating with her on this, she would lay down the basics and I would fill in the blanks but she completely abandoned this website shortly after and there wasn't really anyone interested in it anyway apart from maybe one or two people, which was my main reason not to do one in the first place.
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I should say that A7X can be removed from the 'currently running' list. Angela talked me into collaborating with her on this, she would lay down the basics and I would fill in the blanks but she completely abandoned this website shortly after and there wasn't really anyone interested in it anyway apart from maybe one or two people, which was my main reason not to do one in the first place.
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Alright, so as some of you guys know already, I'm planning to run a big Arjen Lucassen-related Survivor in Polls / Survivors section in 2017, which will include all Ayreon albums and most of his side project albums (not counting the various spin-off survivors and some other content I'll need to check with mods about before I'm going to get into details). I'm laying the schedule for it right now and it looks like it will take the whole year with threads popping up on daily basis.
The thing is, 2017 is more than four months away, and I'd like to get as many people as I can on board, so it seems reasonable to run Ayreon and Arjen Lucassen-related projects Discography Thread to maybe get some people into Arjen's music, nudge people into discovering some Arjen albums they've never bothered with or just to enjoy relistening to some great records Arjen has put out over the years. And after it's done, maybe I'll get more people in the P/S section for the survivor thing. Or maybe not, but it's worth it in any case.
I've checked with Chad about this (since he called dibs on Arjen's discography thread earlier) and he gave me a green light. I'll need about two weeks to prepare enough material so that I don't fall behind but manage to maintain decent pace instead. With more or less one album a week schedule, I'm planning to finish this right before Christmas.
Is there enough interest in this?
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So much yes! I wanted to check other Ayreon albums and Arjen's projects since forever but I couldn't make myself to do it :P Right now I know only The Human Equation and The Diary. I think I listened to The Theory of Everything and Space Metal once and 01011001 few times (about 5 years ago, I think :D).
Also, you should link or copy your post in Arjen Thread, not many people open this thread (I wouldn't if I didn't see it was last post in GMD)
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So much yes! I wanted to check other Ayreon albums and Arjen's projects since forever but I couldn't make myself to do it :P Right now I know only The Human Equation and The Diary. I think I listened to The Theory of Everything and Space Metal once and 01011001 few times (about 5 years ago, I think :D).
Also, you should link or copy your post in Arjen Thread, not many people open this thread (I wouldn't if I didn't see it was last post in GMD)
Thank you and done.
I've found these threads really help to get you into the band / artist if you have some time each week to listen to the respective album and if you have enough dedication. I've followed Anathema Discography thread and really enjoyed it, not to mention discovered some great albums along the way.
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That'd be great, Ruslan. I'm not really familiar with any of it, save for J Boy's Planet Of The Apes song.
I'll try and follow along as best as I can.
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Can someone change mine to Marillion? Thanks.
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I will participate in the Ayreon discography.
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Awesome, I'll read the Ayreon discography with interest and participate info where I can. :hefdaddy
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Between this and official Arjen's thread, looks like there is indeed enough interest. As I said, I need some time to prepare and do a few writeups in advance so I won't fall behind the schedule later. With that, I think we'll begin September 5th, give or take.
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Not exactly the September 5th, but everything is ready and set and the thread is up:
https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=48422.0
The first writeup is going live in an hour or two.
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Well, we've kinda discussed this through PM shortly and I still wouldn't be able to tell you what a single song sounds like apart from "Betrayed" (the one Parama sent me) but the magnitude of this whole Ayreon project has got me intrigued and I might join the ride somewhere along the way.
On another note, I just decided I want to do a discography discussion thread for Novembre. Would fire it up a few months from now (maybe in November? :lol) if there's a spot left.
I'd like to know if anyone would be interested in this, regardless of whether they're familiar with the band. I know one or two DTF members who are into this band but haven't fully explored them, but I feel like a lot of you would like some of their output and could use this thread to check them out. I don't want to do a discog thread for only one or two people.
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Well, we've kinda discussed this through PM shortly and I still wouldn't be able to tell you what a single song sounds like apart from "Betrayed" (the one Parama sent me) but the magnitude of this whole Ayreon project has got me intrigued and I might join the ride somewhere along the way.
Yeah. The song is called Betrayal, by the way (or even Day Fifteen: Betrayal if you want to get all technical) :P
You can also just read the plot sections and joke about them without doing any actual listening, so there's that.
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Would anyone be interested in Opeth Discography? I'm already running a survivor for them, so why not the discog?
If not, Metallica or Between the Buried and Me?
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Didn't you already have an Opeth Discography thread from like a few months ago?
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I guess I'll get started with the Opeth discography for real and hopefully many of you are interested in joining. If we have time, and you are willing, we can host this on plug.dj just like Evermind is doing it. I'll be sure to finish this and will have the introduction updated this week.
If there is enough interest.
If this is illegal, than I'll stop it until approval.
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I like the plug.dj listening sessions and I like Opeth so I'm in :metal
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So I've been doing the Pat Metheny discography thread. I did not see this thread, I should pay more attention to the sticky threads. :facepalm:
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I think Hef is following your discography, maybe you can ask him to put you on the OP list.
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Ok... since Hef gave up trying to track this in my absence, I've cleaned it up a little - I think/hope accurately. I believe that the Zappa one is still progressing, but Opeth seems to have died a second time.
If I've messed up or missed any from the last 12 months or so, feel free to point it out.
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wow, Scar tried to do an Opeth discography twice :lol
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I think I was supposed to post in here that I'm doing a Queensryche one. Sorry.
https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=50337.0
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We noticed. :biggrin:
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There's a rumour of Stadler/Barto starting a Judas Priest discussion. I'm super pumped since JP was slightly off my listening tastes back in the day. But.... and I don't know how anyone else feels about this .... there are already two immense and very active metal discussions underway in QR and IM. Perhaps wait until one of those is wrapping up before starting a 3rd?
Thoughts?
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Digression... Tim, you referenced (and we all know) your love for UFO. I'd love for you to do a discussion thread on them.
Thanks Chad! UFO is an important band. Lots of great material, and also lots of not so great material. Their impact can be seen across so many bands.
No need to add me to the list yet, but I think I will do this. As I said, I'm pretty laid up this week. I feel like if I can get a good intro down, and knock off the pre Schenker era this week, then I will be happy. I'll quietly try and put this together over the next few months.
I just did the writeup for the first album, and have the next two outlined.
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Digression... Tim, you referenced (and we all know) your love for UFO. I'd love for you to do a discussion thread on them.
Thanks Chad! UFO is an important band. Lots of great material, and also lots of not so great material. Their impact can be seen across so many bands.
No need to add me to the list yet, but I think I will do this. As I said, I'm pretty laid up this week. I feel like if I can get a good intro down, and knock off the pre Schenker era this week, then I will be happy. I'll quietly try and put this together over the next few months.
I just did the writeup for the first album, and have the next two outlined.
:caffeine:
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Anybody out there with the knowledge to do one on DIO (solo) or Fates Warning? I'm a fan of DIO solo, and a huge fan of Fates Warning, but I'm not versed enough with the history to do justice to either...
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Anybody out there with the knowledge to do one on DIO (solo) or Fates Warning? I'm a fan of DIO solo, and a huge fan of Fates Warning, but I'm not versed enough with the history to do justice to either...
I'd follow the shit out of both of those.
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Helloween would be a great one as well, if anybody has enough knowledge about them...
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Helloween would be a great one as well, if anybody has enough knowledge about them...
I suspect TAC is your man for them too. Maybe Wolfking.
And yeah, I'd follow the shit out of that one too.
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Helloween would be a great one as well, if anybody has enough knowledge about them...
I suspect TAC is your man for them too.
Not at all. After Kiske left, I gave up on them. Over the past few years, I have pretty much gotten the rest of their discog. But I honestly haven't paid any attention to the Deris Era.
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Helloween would be a great one as well, if anybody has enough knowledge about them...
You're talking about making a Helloween discography thread? I'm familiar with Their discography very well, I'm fan since I was Young kid and heard Walls Of Jericho. But, I don't know if I could managed it, I would have to remember some most important parts of Their history which is quite complicated especially in Hansen/Kiske era. I could give it a try soon...I think so.
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Helloween would be a great one as well, if anybody has enough knowledge about them...
You're talking about making a Helloween discography thread? I'm familiar with Their discography very well, I'm fan since I was Young kid and heard Walls Of Jericho. But, I don't know if I could managed it, I would have to remember some most important parts of Their history which is quite complicated especially in Hansen/Kiske era. I could give it a try soon...I think so.
Cool! Please do!
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Helloween would be a great one as well, if anybody has enough knowledge about them...
You're talking about making a Helloween discography thread? I'm familiar with Their discography very well, I'm fan since I was Young kid and heard Walls Of Jericho. But, I don't know if I could managed it, I would have to remember some most important parts of Their history which is quite complicated especially in Hansen/Kiske era. I could give it a try soon...I think so.
Cool! Please do!
I'm thinking about a form of it, but I think I'll go with a normal album by album runthrough with some insides in the band. Have to prepare it, but I want to do this. I love Helloween since I was kid, when I heard Guardians it took from the first time :) And I bought (to be precise, my Father did ;) )that album on cassette, only because of the cover ;) From then, Helloween is one of my favourite bands of all times.
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Too lazy to look for it, but is there an Iced Earth discography thread? And if no, why not? :biggrin:
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Too lazy to look for it, but is there an Iced Earth discography thread? And if no, why not? :biggrin:
No, and probably because no one has volunteered for it.
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Too lazy to look for it, but is there an Iced Earth discography thread? And if no, why not? :biggrin:
No, and probably because no one has volunteered for it.
I've considered it, but I just don't have the time to really sit down and do it, and I certainly can't compete with the quality of the Maiden and Queensryche discography threads.
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Too lazy to look for it, but is there an Iced Earth discography thread? And if no, why not? :biggrin:
No, and probably because no one has volunteered for it.
I've considered it, but I just don't have the time to really sit down and do it, and I certainly can't compete with the quality of the Maiden and Queensryche discography threads.
If everyone felt they had to top Mosh/Samsara, there would never be another discography discussion.
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After reading Mosh's great great great detailed posts regarding everything related to Iron Maiden so far and seeing how descriptive the Bruce stuff has been so far, I would like to see a discography thread of Chris Cornell being made covering his entire music life that ranges from his early days to Temple of the Dog to Soundgarden to Audioslave to his solo stuff (yes, including Scream as well).
I know I can't do this justice, since I wasn't even born yet when he did Temple of the Dog and everything pre-Badmotorfinger, and I'm a casual fan at best, but I always like what I hear from Chris Cornell from all of his stuff, and I would like to see a thread of his stuff being thoroughly discussed. Can anyone here do it after the Iron Maiden discography is done?
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I'd love that!
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Instead of Ulver, I think in a couple of months I'll be ready to start making a full Steven Wilson discography thread, covering all his body of work, that is: PT, Solo, No-Man, Blackfield, Storm Corrosion, and even I.E.M., Bass Communion, Karma and Altamont if there's enough interest. I'd cover main albums, EPs and live releases, and also rare EPs, singles, collabs, etc. only if people request it :P I'd also revive the survivor along the way, maybe even start it over if necessary or just following it.
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I would be so down to read that thread Sacul
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Great! I've been planning it a bit and was thinking about going from each project in the following order, from most popular to least known: Porcupine Tree -> Solo -> Storm Corrosion -> Blackfield -> No-Man -> Bass Communion/Continuum -> I.E.M. -> Altamont -> Karma. And maybe Pride of Passion if I can find a rip or something, shit's so obscure :lol .
I'd review every official release under each project and classifying every entry in one of three categories: Essential, Optional, Obsessive. Essential is just main albums, not counting live ones nor EPs nor anything else, perfect for the newcomers. Optional includes most EPs, live records, and even a compilation or two of discarded material/outtakes. Obsessive would focus on obscure releases, such as Japan-only tracks, rare singles, demos, collaboration and production work with other artists, etc.
This would enable me to chronologically go through all releases and tie up all the writeups better. Essential releases would be posted one per week to let people have time to digest them, as usual, and was thinking of assigning less time for the other categories, like 5 days for Optional and only 3 for Obsessive, as those will include shorter writeups and would likely incite less debate than the rest. I will provide streaming and purchase links for each release when available. I would also consider hosting a listening session on plug.dj each week.
This project will take a long time but I hope it will help folks get into some of his wonderful work. Any feedback and suggestions are welcome :D
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That sounds great! I'm familiar with a lot of SW stuff but some stuff I never checked out like Bass Communion and IEM.
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I'd totally follow. I'm really getting into SW's solo work at the moment. Plus I've only heard about 4 Porcupine Tree albums. All the rest will be new to me so I'd dive headlong into all of it :tup
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I'm curious, why are there two links to the Gentle Giant Discography thread, labeled (1) and (2), but they both go to the same thread? First post of this thread, the "master list".
Also, the master list needs a bit of updating.
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I'm curious, why are there two links to the Gentle Giant Discography thread, labeled (1) and (2), but they both go to the same thread? First post of this thread, the "master list".
Also, the master list needs a bit of updating.
Looking into the GG links, I mis-interpreted some posts by you to think that there were two. I've removed one of them.
What needs to be updated (other than Sacul / Steven Wilson in the "coming soon")?
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Queensrÿche is done now. I thought there was at least one more, but there are a few that haven't had updates in a while, so I think that threw me off.
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I know this past summer, I discussed doing a UFO Discog Thread, but I'm actually contemplating an Alice Cooper one first. Any interest?
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I know this past summer, I discussed doing a UFO Discog Thread, but I'm actually contemplating an Alice Cooper one first. Any interest?
In UFO.
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I would follow either, but would prefer UFO.
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I know this past summer, I discussed doing a UFO Discog Thread, but I'm actually contemplating an Alice Cooper one first. Any interest?
Totally down for it, I've heard every single album he's done :metal I can talk both Welcome To My Nightmare and Dada! ;D
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So, I guess I allegedly was going to start a Neal Morse Discography thread at some point, but life got busy. I'm not sure if anyone would want one at this point, or if I would even be the most qualified to start one, but if there's any interest, I may start some write-ups in my spare time and start it this fall once I've gotten most of my write-ups done ahead of time. I've been spinning a lot of Neal Morse(-related) albums in my commutes lately, so the albums are fairly fresh in my mind and I wouldn't be opposed to doing a discography thread in the coming weeks.
-Marc.
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So, I guess I allegedly was going to start a Neal Morse Discography thread at some point, but life got busy. I'm not sure if anyone would want one at this point, or if I would even be the most qualified to start one, but if there's any interest, I may start some write-ups in my spare time and start it this fall once I've gotten most of my write-ups done ahead of time. I've been spinning a lot of Neal Morse(-related) albums in my commutes lately, so the albums are fairly fresh in my mind and I wouldn't be opposed to doing a discography thread in the coming weeks.
-Marc.
Do it. You will receive my full participation. :tup :tup
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I'm in. :tup
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I'd check it out, I think the discography threads are some of the best content on the forums. I love reading along and listening to the albums.
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I'd follow it fiercely.
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I lost track of this thread for a while.
TAC: would love either UFO or Alice. If I had to pick, I'd say... UFO, but only because the latter day Alice doesn't grab me, though truth be told the latter day UFO doesn't either.
I'm still game to do the Priest discography, and would tackle a Dio one as well, though I have a couple Dio records I'd have to brush up on.
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Would love to read a Priest one...
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I'll update the OP to include what Kattelox is starting in the core Avantasia discussion thread.
Also... Ruslan. Any chance you want to pound out The Source to finish off the Ayreon/Arjen discussion?
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Thanks fam :tup
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I'll update the OP to include what Kattelox is starting in the core Avantasia discussion thread.
Also... Ruslan. Any chance you want to pound out The Source to finish off the Ayreon/Arjen discussion?
I actually wanted to do it when it came out and somehow I kept putting it off and forgot. :lol Sure, I'll do a writeup on holidays.
Edit: or, well, yeah, not on holidays but I'll do it.
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So, I guess I allegedly was going to start a Neal Morse Discography thread at some point, but life got busy. I'm not sure if anyone would want one at this point, or if I would even be the most qualified to start one, but if there's any interest, I may start some write-ups in my spare time and start it this fall once I've gotten most of my write-ups done ahead of time. I've been spinning a lot of Neal Morse(-related) albums in my commutes lately, so the albums are fairly fresh in my mind and I wouldn't be opposed to doing a discography thread in the coming weeks.
-Marc.
No pressure, but this would be awesome.
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Haken is eligible for this now, having reached the five-album threshold.
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So, I guess I allegedly was going to start a Neal Morse Discography thread at some point, but life got busy. I'm not sure if anyone would want one at this point, or if I would even be the most qualified to start one, but if there's any interest, I may start some write-ups in my spare time and start it this fall once I've gotten most of my write-ups done ahead of time. I've been spinning a lot of Neal Morse(-related) albums in my commutes lately, so the albums are fairly fresh in my mind and I wouldn't be opposed to doing a discography thread in the coming weeks.
-Marc.
No pressure, but this would be awesome.
I've thought about it a bit more since seeing you quote my 4-month old post about an idea I had over a year ago... I have been in a very Neal-Morse-mood lately, so I may try doing some write-ups, but I feel the pressure of trying to do something as great as Orbert has for his own discography discussion threads. I really wanted to do a lot more prep-work for mine, like read Neal's Testimony book (which I actually own... I've just never gotten around to reading it), to gain more insight into the history and musical background of the man himself. I'd also like to re-watch any and all DVD documentaries he's release, from his SB days, to the stuff with his solo albums, all the way through TA, FC and NMB. It would be a huge under-taking, but if there's a lot of excitement for it, I will honestly give it a go this year. I may not start it until closer to the summer (when work dies down for me), but that gives me plenty of time (3-4 months) to prep and do what I can to make my write-ups and discussion-primers really good.
If anyone else has been waiting on me for doing this, thank you for your patience. I know there are several others on here who are probably as big, if not bigger fans of Neal than me (looking at you, Kev), who could probably do a discography thread some justice, but if you're willing to wait for me just a bit longer, I'll begin working on one in earnest.
-Marc.
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So, I guess I allegedly was going to start a Neal Morse Discography thread at some point, but life got busy. I'm not sure if anyone would want one at this point, or if I would even be the most qualified to start one, but if there's any interest, I may start some write-ups in my spare time and start it this fall once I've gotten most of my write-ups done ahead of time. I've been spinning a lot of Neal Morse(-related) albums in my commutes lately, so the albums are fairly fresh in my mind and I wouldn't be opposed to doing a discography thread in the coming weeks.
-Marc.
No pressure, but this would be awesome.
I've thought about it a bit more since seeing you quote my 4-month old post about an idea I had over a year ago... I have been in a very Neal-Morse-mood lately, so I may try doing some write-ups, but I feel the pressure of trying to do something as great as Orbert has for his own discography discussion threads. I really wanted to do a lot more prep-work for mine, like read Neal's Testimony book (which I actually own... I've just never gotten around to reading it), to gain more insight into the history and musical background of the man himself. I'd also like to re-watch any and all DVD documentaries he's release, from his SB days, to the stuff with his solo albums, all the way through TA, FC and NMB. It would be a huge under-taking, but if there's a lot of excitement for it, I will honestly give it a go this year. I may not start it until closer to the summer (when work dies down for me), but that gives me plenty of time (3-4 months) to prep and do what I can to make my write-ups and discussion-primers really good.
If anyone else has been waiting on me for doing this, thank you for your patience. I know there are several others on here who are probably as big, if not bigger fans of Neal than me (looking at you, Kev), who could probably do a discography thread some justice, but if you're willing to wait for me just a bit longer, I'll begin working on one in earnest.
-Marc.
Still no pressure, but this will still be awesome if/when if it ever gets done. :metal
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Yeah that would be really interesting, since I've only just started listening to his solo stuff.
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I really want to go through Rhapsody and/or Stratovarius sometime this year. They're not the most popular around these parts but dang it I have a lot to say about each and every one of their albums. :lol
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Since I actually had enough Strato/Rhapsody albums on my top 50 I think I'll abstain from the aforementioned idea for a while :biggrin: However I am wanting to write about Twilight Force - I might do that soon...
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Chad, if you get a chance, you may wish to add Orbert's new Jethro Tull Discography to the OP. Thanks, mang.
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Chad, if you get a chance, you may wish to add Orbert's new Jethro Tull Discography to the OP. Thanks, mang.
Copy that.
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Any of the “in progress” ever get completed? iirc, Ev never did get to The Source. Katt, did you finish Avantasia?
Any Coming soon bastards wanna go?
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Any of the “in progress” ever get completed? iirc, Ev never did get to The Source.
I really should do it some time tbh, but I also said this like four times already :lol
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I'm available if needed to read/edit stuff.
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When Orbert finishes his Jethro Tull thread...
..The UFO Discography And Listening Party will commence. Get your stories ready fogeys!
23 studio albums.
Countless live albums
The Michael Schenker Group
Waysted
All covered.
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I got no stories, but I’ll try to do a better job following this one. I did spin more than a few of the Riot albums, but fell behind in the discussion.
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The UFO thread will be the Riot thread on steroids. So get training!!!
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Any of the “in progress” ever get completed? iirc, Ev never did get to The Source. Katt, did you finish Avantasia?
Any Coming soon bastards wanna go?
I didn't write up Moonglow because it had just come out (and then I wrote about it for my top 50 albums thread incidentally) but technically yeah.
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Just looked at this thread for the first time and saw that a Helloween one from Silent Cody is coming soon! :rollin er....I won't hold out for that one.
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I updated the OP... scuttling Zappa since it's been 2 years without an update. Also added TAC/Riot and moved Katt/Avantasia to completed.
Also, I'll give Darkshade and Evermind until the end of the year to revive Pat Methany and Ayreon.
As for the "Coming Soon" list, if anyone that 'signed up' to do these still wants to, then get off ur ass and do so. Kade... were you serious in your comment to do one for W.A.S.P.? Didn't someone recently also suggest doing Accept?
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I updated the OP... scuttling Zappa since it's been 2 years without an update. Also added TAC/Riot and moved Katt/Avantasia to completed.
Also, I'll give Darkshade and Evermind until the end of the year to revive Pat Methany and Ayreon.
As for the "Coming Soon" list, if anyone that 'signed up' to do these still wants to, then get off ur ass and do so. Kade... were you serious in your comment to do one for W.A.S.P.? Didn't someone recently also suggest doing Accept?
Yeah, I think we were talking next year that I'd be up? If that's the case I'd serious be keen on doing it.
If not WASP, King Diamond was another I'd be keen on.
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Do the King Diamond one!
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Do the King Diamond one!
No! Do W.A.S.P.!!
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both!
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Hath, you have been conspicuously absent from the UFO Discography Thread. I know I've seen UFO in your album drops in the Listening Thread.
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I realize everyone is flocking to the Rhapsody thread but if it's not too much trouble I would like to begin pontificating on the Rhapsody [of Fire] discography (excluding Luca's solo/side projects, including Luca Turilli's Rhapsody and Turilli/Lione Rhapsody). Even if nobody reads it, I just really really want to write about their albums especially since I'm marathoning their albums currently for the umpteenth time
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I realize everyone is flocking to the Rhapsody thread but if it's not too much trouble I would like to begin pontificating on the Rhapsody [of Fire] discography (excluding Luca's solo/side projects, including Luca Turilli's Rhapsody and Turilli/Lione Rhapsody). Even if nobody reads it, I just really really want to write about their albums especially since I'm marathoning their albums currently for the umpteenth time
#Would(tryto)Follow
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I realize everyone is flocking to the Rhapsody thread but if it's not too much trouble I would like to begin pontificating on the Rhapsody [of Fire] discography (excluding Luca's solo/side projects, including Luca Turilli's Rhapsody and Turilli/Lione Rhapsody). Even if nobody reads it, I just really really want to write about their albums especially since I'm marathoning their albums currently for the umpteenth time
I'd have a crack at following it mate.
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I realize everyone is flocking to the Rhapsody thread but if it's not too much trouble I would like to begin pontificating on the Rhapsody [of Fire] discography (excluding Luca's solo/side projects, including Luca Turilli's Rhapsody and Turilli/Lione Rhapsody). Even if nobody reads it, I just really really want to write about their albums especially since I'm marathoning their albums currently for the umpteenth time
I'd have a crack at following it mate.
You mean you'd show it your ass?
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I realize everyone is flocking to the Rhapsody thread but if it's not too much trouble I would like to begin pontificating on the Rhapsody [of Fire] discography (excluding Luca's solo/side projects, including Luca Turilli's Rhapsody and Turilli/Lione Rhapsody). Even if nobody reads it, I just really really want to write about their albums especially since I'm marathoning their albums currently for the umpteenth time
I'd have a crack at following it mate.
You mean you'd show it your ass?
Depends on the first album or two. :lol
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I tend to marathon Rhapsody's discog every year anyway so even if nobody cares I'll have something to read in '21 :lol
EDIT: on second thought maybe not. I already covered all the early ones in my top 50 thread from last year and I could give a lot of info on how they were influenced and other trivia but idk. I could just link them and start with Triumph or Agony. But I might just do a different band entirely
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Hey Jingle, you can update the OP. The Jethro Tull Discography is (finally!) done. We're just lingering in the bloody aftermath at this point.
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Hey Jingle, you can update the OP. The Jethro Tull Discography is (finally!) done. We're just lingering in the bloody aftermath at this point.
Roger that, Heavy Horse.
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Just looked at the OP for the first time and wondered why I haven't seen or been following Ruslan's Arjen one. :lol
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Well I have no idea, we had listening parties and stuff. It was fun!
I still have ~50 days to get back to it according to Chad too. :lol
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Plenty of time to catch up then. :lol
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Well I have no idea, we had listening parties and stuff. It was fun!
I still have ~50 days to get back to it according to Chad too. :lol
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I have one vacation day in December, that's when I plan to do it. :P
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I'm planning on starting the AC/DC album discussion/listening party thread later on tonight.
Still not sure if I'm going to have the pre-album days as its own discussion, or just include it as a prologue for High Voltage '75. There is some interesting beginnings. Even a TV appearance with a different lead singer before Bon Scott joined. But I'll ponder over it and make up my mind later.
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Oh man!!! Another one I’d definitely want to follow, but will invariably fall behind.
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Bands I would do a discography thread for if there's any interest:
Gateway
The Tangent
Phish
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I would follow Phish (good luck, brave soul!) but I don't know the other two, so I guess that makes them each a Maybe.
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I would follow Phish (good luck, brave soul!) but I don't know the other two, so I guess that makes them each a Maybe.
Phish currently has 17 traditional studio albums, 2 traditional live albums, 3 live-only albums of original material, two non-official studio albums, and of course, the band has released dozens and dozens of other full show live releases, sound check jams, secret sets, every one of their shows from the last 19 years is officially released on the band's websites, and recordings in various quality of roughly 90% of all the shows they played from the 80s and 90s easily circulate for free to download online.
Considering they are known as a live band, and since many of their songs can only be found in live performances, I thought about going through the studio albums, with a corresponding live album/show every few releases that best represents the time period, but also includes as many live-only compositions as possible. I wouldn't start that until we got up to the band's first official live album, which was released after the band's 5th album. I would find it interesting as I haven't listened to the band's studio efforts in many years.
The Tangent are similar in some ways to The Flower Kings, proggy, hard, heavy riffs, mixed with loud synths but they have a jazzier edge and British vocals, not unlike Canterbury scene like The Soft Machine or Caravan.
Gateway was the jazz trio band of John Abercrombie, Dave Holland, and Jack DeJohnette. Technically they have only 4 albums, but the trio appears on 3 other albums so that beefs it up to 7 albums. So that wouldn't be the longest discography thread.
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Gateway was the jazz trio band of John Abercrombie, Dave Holland, and Jack DeJohnette.
I'm in. I have some jazz, and consider myself slightly above novice level, though always looking to gain some points. I'm kinda proud of myself for recognizing all three of those names.
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Chad, you can put the UFO Discography And Listening Party down as Completed. :(
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Chad, you can put the UFO Discography And Listening Party down as Completed. :(
That was a beastly thread.... which I'm still working thru, and will resurrect it at some point in the coming weeks and months.
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Chad, you can put the UFO Discography And Listening Party down as Completed. :(
I do not accept this.
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So I'm thinking about listening through a bunch of albums I haven't listened to in a bit, and I thought I'd get DTF in on it.
Basically, I'll do a "duel" discography thread: a Mike Portnoy discography thread that merges with a Neal Morse discography thread. So no post-Neal Spock's Beard, or post-Portnoy Dream Theater. Also not trying to go through every album Portnoy has ever played on, just sticking to Dream Theater related studio albums and Neal Morse related studio material, and only prog-related albums for Neal.
Chronologically going back and forth (based on release date) between:
* Dream Theater's first 3 albums
* 1990s DT, Liquid Tension Experiment (including the 2 Trio albums), Neal era Spock's Beard + his first solo album
* 2000s DT, Neal solo, and Transatlantic
* 2010s NM solo, The Neal Morse Band, Flying Colors
* 2020s Transatlantic, JP solo, and LTE3
Who's down?
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I'd be down for that. There is so much of Mike's work I haven't listened to outside of DT that I think it'd be fun to explore.
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I've always wanted to do one of these threads but I'm not sure if anyone would be interested in the bands that I think I'm qualified to write about.
Would anyone be interested in a dredg, incubus, or Kaki King discog thread?
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I've always wanted to do one of these threads but I'm not sure if anyone would be interested in the bands that I think I'm qualified to write about.
Would anyone be interested in a dredg, incubus, or Kaki King discog thread?
All I know is I've heard of this artist "Kaki King" twice in one day after never having heard of him/her before.
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She is a very talented guitar player that does a lot of solo acoustic stuff (similar to Preston Reed's music), she also dabbled in some post-rock music as well. If you've listened to the Foo Fighters song "The Ballad of the Beaconsfield miners" she is playing on there; she also did a couple of songs for August Rush (those are her hands that are playing in the acoustic scene). Here are a couple of good songs that represents a large chunk of her work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eo2mLu306w0 and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1U_prRNXG4w
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DragonAttack is currently doing the QUEEN discography (https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=57201.0).
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Hopefully people will notice this thread has been bumped. Lethean and I are interested in co-hosting a Katatonia discussion thread. I've never done or even read one before, so I'll have to glance at a few to get the gist of things, but it sounds like it's an album a week, which would be a good 2-3 month immersion in Katatonia, which I'm sure fans of theirs would enjoy, and in a few other threads there were a few people who indicated that they were curious about them, so this might be a way to dive in headfirst.
As to my qualifications, I've been listening to them for over two decades, they're arguably my favorite band, I've seen them live, and I've heard all of their material, including EPs and B-sides, the meat of it countless times so I know it fairly well. Lethean hopefully will pipe in at some point, and I'll see if this thread gets many responses. If not, he or I can just start a new dedicated thread for it and see what interest it receives.
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I have been listening for less time than LithoJazzoSphere, but around 13 years total and ten years of obsession. I've also seen them live and have all of the studio albums, b-sides, EP material (mostly as part of album rereleases or compilations), and live albums/dvds.
This would be a lot of fun for me to do, hopefully existing fans would enjoy participating and maybe some new listeners can come along for the ride.
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I thought Lethean had sent me their entire discography in my roulettes already, but I'd follow.
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I thought Lethean had sent me their entire discography in my roulettes already, but I'd follow.
:lol
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I would definitely be interested in a Katatonia discussion thread. I love all of their output, and the diversity in their catalog should lead to some good discussion.
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I'd be up for listening along with this. They are a band that I probably would really enjoy/love but the little I've heard never really connected. I liked that one from a few years ago, with the bird on it :lol
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So between this thread and the normal Katatonia chat thread we have so far have Kwyjibo, nick_z, TAC, twosuitsluke, and The Realm interested in listening along. Hopefully more to come, but already is probably enough interest to give this a whirl. With the discography split, Lethean would be up to bat first for Dance of December Souls. How soon do we want to start the first week of listening?
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So between this thread and the normal Katatonia chat thread we have so far have Kwyjibo, nick_z, twosuitsluke, and The Realm interested in listening along.
I'm in. Are you guys going to dive into some background of the band, personal changes if any? Live stuff? Like, I would like to learn something about the band while doing this.
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I certainly plan to. I'll probably even touch on the EPs, rarities and such, though they probably won't be part of the "required" listening. I'll probably touch on some of their side projects and such as well.
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I certainly plan to. I'll probably even touch on the EPs, rarities and such, though they probably won't be part of the "required" listening. I'll probably touch on some of their side projects and such as well.
Awesome! :tup
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I will as well.
I was thinking we time it to end by January 20th when Sky Void of Stars is released, and everyone who's been following can listen to the new album. With 11 studio albums, we should be able to take a couple weeks off as well if needed for holidays and stuff.
I'll try to start Monday if I can, but it might be a little later than that.
Technical question - how do I post album covers? (Or any pictures really) :)
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Find the URL source of the image you want (something like right clicking and selecting "open image in new tab" might work). Click "reply" to the bottom right of the last post for the full set of controls, click on the icon right under the B icon (for bold), which should say "insert image" if you hover the mouse over it. Copy and paste the URL into the pop-up box and you should be good to go.
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Testing:
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OK, that's simple enough. In the past I'd tried to somehow upload my own pictures but didn't need to enough to really try to figure out how. But for album covers I can just use existing images.
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And so it begins. :) I was going to wait until Monday but that'll be a busy day for me, so why not now? :)
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Finally updated the OP to include Katatonia's. I don't know if Darkshade is still around much to finish his - hasn't posted since May. Evermind's now has a few Arjen to catch up on. You gonna pick that one up again Ruslan?
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Sometime next year (after I finish my roulette and my top 50 albums thread) I think I might want to do Nevermore. I'll be looking for a co-host if possible, that has seemed to make the Katatonia one much easier.
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Finally updated the OP to include Katatonia's. I don't know if Darkshade is still around much to finish his - hasn't posted since May. Evermind's now has a few Arjen to catch up on. You gonna pick that one up again Ruslan?
Man, apparently I've been promising to get back to it for a while now. I should get my shit together, even though this year it's more difficult than ever to do it.
I wrote a long pretentious post saying how I'll get back to it and then deleted it. It's holidays here soon (from Dec 31st to Jan 8th). I'll get back to it around the holidays or right after them barring any IRL complications. I'll post an update here and in the thread in a couple of weeks.
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Finally updated the OP to include Katatonia's. I don't know if Darkshade is still around much to finish his - hasn't posted since May. Evermind's now has a few Arjen to catch up on. You gonna pick that one up again Ruslan?
Man, apparently I've been promising to get back to it for a while now. I should get my shit together, even though this year it's more difficult than ever to do it.
I wrote a long pretentious post saying how I'll get back to it and then deleted it. It's holidays here soon (from Dec 31st to Jan 8th). I'll get back to it around the holidays or right after them barring any IRL complications. I'll post an update here and in the thread in a couple of weeks.
:tup
No obligation... just fire it back up if you have the will and desire to do so.
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So as two months of 2023 have already passed, here's the promised update: ~15 listens to The Source and three valiant attempts to do a write-up later, my heart isn't in it at all. I don't want to do a half-assed job, and I'd rather the thread didn't end up in "scuttled" section (after all, it was up to date at some point :) ), so if anyone's interested in picking the Ayreon thread up from The Source onward, go for it.
If not, I guess you can put it in "scuttled" for now, but then my conscience will probably nag at me enough so at some point I'll half-heartedly cobble something together for the next writeup.
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Would anyone be interested in a redo of the Devin Townsend discography discussion thread? Ultimetalhead did one back in 2014-2016 covering most of his major releases up to Z2, seen here: https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=41621.0
Ultimetalhead did a great job, but he left out a lot, and Dev's been busy since then. I'd love to do my own take on this starting from the beginning and covering EVERYTHING. And I do mean EVERYTHING.
I'm talking Grey Skies, Noisescapes, Strapping Young Lad, guest appearances, bonus discs, live albums, Contain Us. You name it.
I made a list of everything I'd like to cover and it's a whopping 62 releases. Not everything warrants its own post of course, and some stuff would be lumped together. For example: Epicloud/Epiclouder/The Retinal Circus would all be one post, all of the Quarantine-era stuff would be one post, etc.
It's a heavy undertaking I'm prepared to undertake, but obviously if there's no interest, then I won't waste my time.
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I don't have time to listen along with every release, but I'm a fairly big fan of his, so I'd definitely read along and chime in here and there on the more major releases.
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I'd definitely follow along. I will have heard the majority of those 62 releases, but there will be plenty I've never gotten to, out of the more obscure ones.
Bring it on!
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I'll follow along! I don't think I'll listen to every release if there are 62 of them but I really enjoy the discography threads.
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Would anyone be interested in a redo of the Devin Townsend discography discussion thread? Ultimetalhead did one back in 2014-2016 covering most of his major releases up to Z2, seen here: https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=41621.0
Ultimetalhead did a great job, but he left out a lot, and Dev's been busy since then. I'd love to do my own take on this starting from the beginning and covering EVERYTHING. And I do mean EVERYTHING.
I'm talking Grey Skies, Noisescapes, Strapping Young Lad, guest appearances, bonus discs, live albums, Contain Us. You name it.
I made a list of everything I'd like to cover and it's a whopping 62 releases. Not everything warrants its own post of course, and some stuff would be lumped together. For example: Epicloud/Epiclouder/The Retinal Circus would all be one post, all of the Quarantine-era stuff would be one post, etc.
It's a heavy undertaking I'm prepared to undertake, but obviously if there's no interest, then I won't waste my time.
Devin Townsend's one of quite a lot of artists I've been meaning to listen to more of, so I'd be interested in reading and listening along!
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Updates ...
Moved Devy v2 to completed
Moved Queen to completed
Darkshade hasn't logged in since Jun '22, so I scuttled his
Lethean/Litho... is Katatonia finished?
Evermind ... dude, are you going to carry on with the Source and subsequent other releases Arjen has had?
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See my post above except scratch the last sentence I guess.
So as two months of 2023 have already passed, here's the promised update: ~15 listens to The Source and three valiant attempts to do a write-up later, my heart isn't in it at all. I don't want to do a half-assed job, and I'd rather the thread didn't end up in "scuttled" section (after all, it was up to date at some point :) ), so if anyone's interested in picking the Ayreon thread up from The Source onward, go for it.
If anyone wants to carry that torch, you guys go for it, if not, put it in scuttled for now.
Katatonia shouldn't be finished, there's still Sky Void of Stars.
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See my post above except scratch the last sentence I guess.
So as two months of 2023 have already passed, here's the promised update: ~15 listens to The Source and three valiant attempts to do a write-up later, my heart isn't in it at all. I don't want to do a half-assed job, and I'd rather the thread didn't end up in "scuttled" section (after all, it was up to date at some point :) ), so if anyone's interested in picking the Ayreon thread up from The Source onward, go for it.
If anyone wants to carry that torch, you guys go for it, if not, put it in scuttled for now.
Katatonia shouldn't be finished, there's still Sky Void of Stars.
Copy that. Anyone brave enough to take on The Source, Transitus, and Star Three?
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I am prepping the Enslaved Discography and Listening Party thread. I should be ready to start that pretty soon.
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Definitely in.
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Actually I could probably get the thread started tonight.
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Ho boy!
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Ho boy!
(https://media.tenor.com/djLZO8IvlG4AAAAM/got-off-dennis.gif)
And you should do a Coheed and Cambria one. :corn
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Ho boy!
(https://media.tenor.com/djLZO8IvlG4AAAAM/got-off-dennis.gif)
And you should do a Coheed and Cambria one. :corn
I often think about it, but it's a big commitment. Also I feel I'd need to educate myself on certain parts of the bands history before doing it.
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Enslaved thread is live! :metal
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The Katatonia thread is completed. I'm sure Lethean and others will be chiming in over the new few days with various thoughts on the latest album, but the primary release posts are now done.
I may send out feelers about the possibility of another artist(s) later in the year (maybe next year depending on how long things take and if I wind up running a second roulette later this year or not), but I have another big project to get through soon first.
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The Katatonia thread is completed.
Thank God! :lol
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I should say not technically until you've listened to and commented on it. :p I'm particularly curious about your opinion on "Austerity" and "Birds", two of the faster and more high-energy songs they've ever done. "Colossal Shade" is also partially inspired by KISS.
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I'm particularly curious about your opinion on "Austerity" and "Birds, two of the faster and more high-energy songs they've ever done.
Let it go, dude. :lol
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I could have said the same thing about his completely gratuitous post. ;) But he liked "Behind the Blood" on the previous album more than the others for a similar reason, so I don't see why bringing attention to them hurts, it's the only time I've done so other than in the writeup itself.
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I could have said the same thing about his completely gratuitous post. ;) But he liked "Behind the Blood" on the previous album more than the others for a similar reason, so I don't see why bringing attention to them hurts, it's the only time I've done so other than in the writeup itself.
It's all good. I'll give it a spin!
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Litho, you'll be glad to know that on my re-rank of 2023 albums, the new Katatonia has shot up the rankings. It's now sat at #78!
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Litho, you'll be glad to know that on my re-rank of 2023 albums, the new Katatonia has shot up the rankings. It's now sat at #78!
:facepalm:
You don't wanna know where King Gizz finished.
:ontome:
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Litho, you'll be glad to know that on my re-rank of 2023 albums, the new Katatonia has shot up the rankings. It's now sat at #78!
:facepalm:
You don't wanna know where King Gizz finished.
:ontome:
Which one we talking about?
Hey, that was a significant jump for Katatonia by the way :rollin
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Well, both, though PetroDragonic is a fair amount better.
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Well, both, though PetroDragonic is a fair amount better.
This we can agree on.
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I've never clicked on this thread before. I've seen the individual band stuff but never clicked here for some reason. So I go to the first post and see this:
Coming Soon (allegedly):
GentlemanofDread/Coheed & Cambria
So I think, "Hell year, lets do it". Only to see this was posted in 2015, and the person hasn't even been online since 2015 :lol
I would get started with Radiohead but I'm on a mandatory work placement that's just eating my life up. (I'd also like to do a Coheed and Cambria one in the future too)
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I've never clicked on this thread before. I've seen the individual band stuff but never clicked here for some reason. So I go to the first post and see this:
Coming Soon (allegedly):
GentlemanofDread/Coheed & Cambria
So I think, "Hell year, lets do it". Only to see this was posted in 2015, and the person hasn't even been online since 2015 :lol
I would get started with Radiohead but I'm on a mandatory work placement that's just eating my life up. (I'd also like to do a Coheed and Cambria one in the future too)
So you're volunteering?
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I would, but I wouldn't be able to fully commit until June the earliest :corn