Author Topic: Spock's Beard Discography thread (Read 111354 times)

The Letter M · « **Reply #280 on:** January 06, 2016, 09:49:06 AM »

For anyone who wants them, Radiant Records has Snow and The Kindness Of Strangers Vinyl up for pre-orders! The limited edition clear vinyls are selling fast! I should know, i just bought both....my poor wallet. These will be out on the 8th so I assume they will ship tomorrow?

Beware Of Darkness and Day For Night will be up for pre-order in the 11th, released the 29th. After having just bought V on black vinyl for sale at Radiant, its weird how in one month, I'll have gone from 0 to 5 SB vinyl.

-Marc.

Mindflux · « **Reply #281 on:** January 06, 2016, 02:53:04 PM »

Quote from: The Letter M on January 06, 2016, 09:49:06 AM

For anyone who wants them, Radiant Records has Snow and The Kindness Of Strangers Vinyl up for pre-orders! The limited edition clear vinyls are selling fast! I should know, i just bought both....my poor wallet. These will be out on the 8th so I assume they will ship tomorrow?

Beware Of Darkness and Day For Night will be up for pre-order in the 11th, released the 29th. After having just bought V on black vinyl for sale at Radiant, its weird how in one month, I'll have gone from 0 to 5 SB vinyl.

-Marc.

They're sure charging a lot for shipping. My Snow and TKOS set cost over $20 to ship.

Mindflux · « **Reply #282 on:** January 11, 2016, 07:22:21 AM »

DFN and BOD Vinyls are up.

Mindflux · « **Reply #283 on:** January 18, 2016, 01:08:07 PM »

I'm told vinyls got held up in customs. I haven't gotten my SNOW and TKOS yet..

Cyclopssss · « **Reply #284 on:** February 23, 2016, 01:14:39 AM »

Don't know if this has been mentioned, but they are performing Snow in its entirety on Morsefest with past and present members....yes, with Neil. Took 'em long enough.....

DoctorAction · « **Reply #285 on:** February 24, 2016, 11:43:20 AM »

Love the Beard sooo much but they dropped off my radar after SB. Got a little tired of the NDV era nearly-but-not-quite awesomeness.

BUT! Feeling disappointed by The Astonishing made me search out some prog to move me and I got BNaES. Brilliant! So chuffed to have them back. Almost no band has moved me like classic Neal era Beard.

KevShmev · « **Reply #286 on:** February 24, 2016, 06:23:49 PM »

Yep, the Neal era is hard to beat when it comes to Spock's, but Brief Nocturnes and Dreamless Sleep is definitely a great one.

Did you ever hear X? I know you said you were tired of the NDV era, but they knocked it out of the park with that one.

DoctorAction · « **Reply #287 on:** February 25, 2016, 12:09:34 AM »

Hey, KevShmev. I didn't. Maybe I'll go there next. There are tracks i still spin from the NDV era. Thanks for the tip!

Kwyjibo · « **Reply #288 on:** February 25, 2016, 08:29:06 AM »

If you go into the NDV era of Spock's Beard then X is an absolute must. Clearly the best with NDV as lead singer and, for me, the second best overall.

hefdaddy42 · « **Reply #289 on:** February 25, 2016, 08:31:47 AM »

I agree that X is the best of the NDV era.

But for me, those are the bottom-ranked SB albums. None of them are as good as any of the Morse or Leonard albums.

Kwyjibo · « **Reply #290 on:** February 26, 2016, 03:04:21 AM »

If I would rank the studio albums it would be something like this:

1. V
2. X
3. Brief Nocturnes And Dreamless Sleep
4. The Light
5. The Kindness Of Strangers
6. The Oblivion Particle
7. Octane
8. Beware Of Darkness
9. Spock's Beard
10. Day For Night
11. Snow
12. Feel Euphoria

Mladen · « **Reply #291 on:** February 26, 2016, 10:27:43 AM »

To be honest, after the last three albums (especially X and BNADS), I no longer consider Neal era to be the essential period of the band. It's just a great era, but some equally great stuff followed.

KevShmev · « **Reply #292 on:** February 27, 2016, 12:46:17 PM »

I think it's better to say the Neal era was the more definitive. Six albums, and most of the material on the collective six is nothing short of great.

The NDV era was a bit inconsistent, with only one truly great album out of four, but it was still quite good overall.

The Leonard era has had only two albums, so it is too early to really compare it.

RoeDent · « **Reply #293 on:** February 27, 2016, 01:04:26 PM »

Quote from: KevShmev on February 27, 2016, 12:46:17 PM

The Leonard era has had only two albums, so it is too early to really compare it.

It's off to a great start though.

Nihil-Morari · « **Reply #294 on:** February 29, 2016, 02:43:03 AM »

Ranking time!

1. Snow
2. V
3. The Kindness of Strangers
4. The Light
5. Beware of Darkness
6. Day for Night
7. X
8. Brief Nocturnes
9. The Oblivion Particle
10. Octane
11. Spock's Beard
12. Feel Euphoria

Though I have to say that the latest two need some spinning. And that the first six (well, maybe the first 5) could be the other way around and I'd still be happy with the ranking.

DoctorAction · « **Reply #295 on:** March 04, 2016, 02:53:40 PM »

Spun X on Spotify a couple of times. Great stuff. Will be getting one of those in. Already sounds by far the best of the NDV era.

(Saw them on the Feel Euphoria tour in London. Such a fun gig. Gutted I never saw them with Neal.)

King Postwhore · « **Reply #296 on:** March 04, 2016, 04:51:20 PM »

Spock's replacing Riverside at RoSfest.

Nihil-Morari · « **Reply #297 on:** March 06, 2016, 02:25:38 PM »

Was listening to Snow for the millionth time, and finally decided to learn the piano bit in Love Beyond Words, I've always really loved that part, but tonight I've finally been studying it. Hope you guys enjoy it.

https://youtu.be/xPEz8XBIy8c

King Postwhore · « **Reply #298 on:** March 06, 2016, 02:36:20 PM »

Also NDV will be there with his new band so I'm expecting him to jump up on stage with SB.

devieira73 · « **Reply #299 on:** March 12, 2016, 09:03:33 AM »

E-mail from Radiant Records:

NIGHT OF THE PROG!

We have just received notice that Neal Morse and Spock's Beard have been invited AND have agreed to perform
'SNOW'
at Night of the Prog at Loreley, Germany, on July 15th!

Details are still being finalized and you will be able to get more info soon at the link below.

https://www.loreley-freilichtbuehne.de/programm-2016/15-17-07-2016-night-of-the-prog/

DoctorAction · « **Reply #300 on:** March 13, 2016, 01:35:04 AM »

Oh, my word. I hope they do something in the UK... Seeing as they'll have already travelled to Europe anyway!

Orbert · « **Reply #301 on:** March 13, 2016, 07:06:40 AM »

I listened to The Oblivion Particle yesterday. It was awesome. ♫♫

KevShmev · « **Reply #302 on:** March 13, 2016, 07:25:49 AM »

I haven't listened to it in a while; I need to change that.

Orbert · « **Reply #303 on:** March 13, 2016, 07:32:03 AM »

It was my first time since right after it came out. I thought it was good then, but have been busy that I just never got back to before yesterday. I think Spock's Beard my be my favorite "newer prog" band.

KevShmev · « **Reply #304 on:** March 13, 2016, 07:35:52 AM »

They're up there for me, too, although not my favorite.

The Oblivion Particle is interesting for me in that I like pretty much all of it, but nothing on it really wowed me to the point where I thought it was one of their better tunes. Still, not every album is going to be hit out of the park, and for being an album not close to one of their best, it is still pretty darn good.

Kwyjibo · « **Reply #305 on:** March 13, 2016, 07:56:58 AM »

I had it in my car for the past few weeks and it is a great album, very consistent with no really weak tracks.

It's amazing how they turned the loss of NDV into new energy and exciting new music.

King Postwhore · « **Reply #306 on:** March 13, 2016, 08:42:03 AM »

Quote from: Orbert on March 13, 2016, 07:06:40 AM

I listened to The Oblivion Particle yesterday. It was awesome. ♫♫

I'm hoping to hear a lot of songs from this album at RoSfest this year.

hefdaddy42 · « **Reply #307 on:** March 14, 2016, 08:21:29 AM »

Quote from: Orbert on March 13, 2016, 07:32:03 AM

I think Spock's Beard my be my favorite "newer prog" band.

This made me chuckle, since their first album came out in 1995.

When I think of "newer prog" bands, I think of groups like Haken.

But hey, perspective. And after all, Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson still call Neil Peart "the new guy."

Orbert · « **Reply #308 on:** March 14, 2016, 10:12:38 AM »

1995 was only 20 years ago. Okay, 21 now. That's still new, since prog has been around since the late 60's, early 70's, and most of it is still 40 years old.

KevShmev · « **Reply #309 on:** March 14, 2016, 07:53:57 PM »

I tend to think of newer prog as anything from the 90s till now. We have the first wave of prog in the late 60s and 70s, the 80s was mostly a wasteland for the genre, and the new prog in the 90s was the resurgence.

Orbert · « **Reply #310 on:** March 14, 2016, 08:51:15 PM »

Exactly. So The Beard is newer prog, as opposed to classic prog or whatever you call the original stuff.

hefdaddy42 · « **Reply #311 on:** March 15, 2016, 10:48:04 AM »

I know, it just sounds funny.

What would you call Haken? Or would that still be "new prog"?

Orbert · « **Reply #312 on:** March 15, 2016, 11:49:17 AM »

I guess, yeah. There's the original stuff, then everything after that is "new" or at least "newer". Just as Neil Peart will always be the "new guy" in Rush (mostly jokingly, but always at least partly true), there's the original, then anything which came after.

King Postwhore · « **Reply #313 on:** March 15, 2016, 11:55:17 AM »

Ah. When age shows on the internet.

I blink and 20 years just passed by. It happens so fast that the new prog generation that happened in the 90's are now 20 years into it but for us, it seems like yesterday.

The Letter M · « **Reply #314 on:** March 15, 2016, 12:26:40 PM »

I've read a lot of fans call the 90's resurgence of prog as part of the "Third Wave", which references the fact that 80's Neo-Prog was the 2nd wave (Marillion, IQ, etc. etc.), and that the "Third Wave" brought about a lot of non-British prog bands, mostly from the US and other parts of Europe.

As for bands that debuts in the 2000's, I guess they could be called "Fourth Wave", and anything in the 2010's to now would be "Fifth Wave"?

-Marc.

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