The IQ Thread

[jammindude]

I only just found out that Terry Brown produced Are You Sitting Comfortably.

I’ve only heard that those two albums were a lot more commercial sounding. Is there one that is better than the other?

[Chris Hinton]

I haven't listened to the Menel-era albums, so I can't give you advice on those.  BUT, stop what you are doing now and get Subterranea.  Is it fantastically good.

[SwedishGoose]

Get all albums by IQ.... and also get the BlueRay Scrape Across the Sky

[RoeDent]

I definitely will get Nomzamo at some point. No Love Lost is a fantastic song!

[lonestar]

Both of the Menel albums have their highlights. From Nomzamo we got the title track, Human Nature, and Common Ground (one of my favorite IQ tracks). From AYSC, there's War Heroes, Nostalgia/Falling Apart at the Seams and Wurensh. There's also some very skippable songs of course, but both albums are worth some time.

[SwedishGoose]

I got my first CD player in 1987 and the first two CDs I bought were Dark Side of the Moon and Nomzamo.... so Nomzamo holds a special place in my heart.

[jammindude]

I’m so completely addicted to this band right now.

I just went to their site and bought the 2013 remix of Tales, the live CD/DVD of The Wake, Subterranea, and the newest live BluRay.

I honestly cannot get enough of these guys.

[SwedishGoose]

I’m so completely addicted to this band right now.

I just went to their site and bought the 2013 remix of Tales, the live CD/DVD of The Wake, Subterranea, and the newest live BluRay.

I honestly cannot get enough of these guys.

Very nice haul.... all of them fantastic releases there

[lonestar]

Love watching someone fall for my favorite band. I just did a full discography run in preparation for Progstock, and was pleased to realize I still know the words to almost every single song, even the Menel albums. Also just stunned at how good a run of albums that Ever-Subterrenea-Seventh House-Dark Matter-Frequency-Road of Bones it. There is nary a bad song in the lot, and only a few mediocre ones, yet each album has some serious masterpieces.

My dream set for this Saturday...

1- Ever
- The Darkest Hour
- Fading Sensed
- Out Of Nowhere
- Further Away
- Leap of Faith
- Came Down
-break-
2- Frequency
3- Closer
4- Guiding Light
5- Mome (new song, it's been on every set lately, so we'll be seeing it)
6- Failsafe
7- Until the End
8- Magic Roundabout
9- The Seventh House
Encore
10- Enemy Smacks

[jammindude]

Remember that there’s a lot I haven’t heard, and Frequency is my “first love”....that was the album that hooked me.   

Someone IRL from the MP forum was who made the recommendation at the Transatlantic concert in this area back in 2014 (the night the Seahawks won the Super Bowl)....but I feel bad that I can’t remember who it was.  I know his face...I even saw him again at a QR show about 2 years ago.  (And if you’re reading this please chime in because you changed my freakin life with that recommendation!!).

But even after everything that I’ve fallen in love with, my #1 favorite is still The Province.  That breakdown in the 2nd half just kills me every time.   And the crescendo “your final positive reward” into the moog chord, and then that amazing guitar solo that rivals Comfortably Numb for one of the greatest solos I’ve ever heard in my life.

After that, the title track from Road of Bones is right up there.  The Darkest Hour, Fading Senses, and Further Away are all climbing the charts really quick.  Last Human Gateway is quite a beast too.    The drum sound from The Wake is so dated that it’s almost distracting, but in spite of that, Widow’s Peak manages to floor me every time, and Headlong is an amazing closer.   

Can’t wait to delve deeper into this band.   I’m absolutely STUNNED.    Mostly just feeling like an idiot for not checking them out sooner.   

[SwedishGoose]

Can’t wait to delve deeper into this band.   I’m absolutely STUNNED.    Mostly just feeling like an idiot for not checking them out sooner.   

Don't.... just be glad that you found them now....
They have never got big enough to be on the radar which I believe to be part bad luck and part less exposure.
They have not been touring as much as they should to get there. Since a long time ago they all have day jobs (Mike Holmes says he is retired but he works with the label Giant Electric Pea) and just do a concert here and there.

Will you be seeing them live this autumn?

[SwedishGoose]

The first band released for Night of the Prog 2019 is IQ....

https://www.facebook.com/164296063622521/posts/2115458268506281/

[jammindude]

Nope. No way I have the resources for that kind of travel.

Even if they came to the west coast and did a show in LA my odds would be 50/50.

Guess I’ll have to live with live dvd’s.

[lonestar]

Based on how you talk about Province, you'd probably dig my favorite track of theirs, the title track from Seventh House. Both songs have similar structures and that same epic last six minutes or so.



On a side note, THREE FUCKING DAYS TILL I SEE THEM LIVE!!!!!!!!!

[Fritzinger]

Based on how you talk about Province, you'd probably dig my favorite track of theirs, the title track from Seventh House. Both songs have similar structures and that same epic last six minutes or so.



On a side note, THREE FUCKING DAYS TILL I SEE THEM LIVE!!!!!!!!!

The Province is probably my favourite song by IQ, so I'll have to check out Seventh House!

[lonestar]

Yeah, tons of similarities, and Province is probably a top 5 for me I'd imagine. Never actually done a list, might make a good time killer on the flight.

[lonestar]

Tonight's the night. After 24 long years, I will be seeing IQ live. I can barely contain myself.

[RoeDent]

Tonight's the night. After 24 long years, I will be seeing IQ live. I can barely contain myself.

Awesome! Hope you have a great time. Always exciting to see/hear your favourite band live, especially after such a long time.

I wonder if we'll have a new album in time for the Night of the Prog appearance next year. It will be five years since The Road of Bones, and the last few albums have come at five-year intervals: Dark Matter (2004) > Frequency (2009) > The Road of Bones (2014) > (2019?)

[lonestar]

I'd gather so, I think they're done with the recording of it already.

[Fritzinger]

I'd gather so, I think they're done with the recording of it already.

Wait waaaat

Where did you get this information?

[SwedishGoose]

I'd gather so, I think they're done with the recording of it already.

Wait waaaat

Where did you get this information?

Vocal sessions started on the 19th of September

https://www.facebook.com/73280092816/posts/10155897398347817/

[cramx3]

lonestar and others convinced me to check out IQ at ProgStock tonight.  Never listened to them before this week, but I definitely found some of their music that I really enjoy.  The song Road of Bones is really awesome.  I think that maybe the favorite I've heard of them.  Been listening to Ever, it's kind of hit or miss.  Like, I guess I'm more of a metal than prog fan so it's a bit more soft jammy than metal jammy that I typically like, but it's pretty enjoyable overall.  Some of the long instrumental sections have beautiful atmosphere. I love the production of this though, sounds so clear and crisp (and that's via youtube, I'm sure the CD is great)

[splent]

I’ll m ducking giddy for IQ

[jammindude]

lonestar and others convinced me to check out IQ at ProgStock tonight.  Never listened to them before this week, but I definitely found some of their music that I really enjoy.  The song Road of Bones is really awesome.  I think that maybe the favorite I've heard of them.  Been listening to Ever, it's kind of hit or miss.  Like, I guess I'm more of a metal than prog fan so it's a bit more soft jammy than metal jammy that I typically like, but it's pretty enjoyable overall.  Some of the long instrumental sections have beautiful atmosphere. I love the production of this though, sounds so clear and crisp (and that's via youtube, I'm sure the CD is great)

I would certainly say that recent releases are more metal-ish, while older stuff falls somewhere around Styx on the “heavy scale”. Please check out the epic Without Walls from the RoB album. That will probably convince you to at least get that album.

[RoeDent]

Ohh yeah! Another one to keep an eye out for in 2019!

[King Postwhore]

Well, they kicked all sorts of ass last night.

[jingle.boy]

Well, they kicked all sorts of ass last night.

That’s an understatement. I’m still trying to peel RJ off the ceiling the dude is on such a high.

[cramx3]

 

IQ - Out of Nowhere (Live at ProgStock)

[lonestar]

Needless to say, that was the best show I've ever seen. Here's the set...

Darkest Hour
From the Outside In
Fading senses
Road of Bones
Further away
Leap of faith
Frequency
Closer
Until the end
Failsafe
Out of nowhere
Widows peak

They were flawless, and meet and greet after was a treat. Getting to meet Peter Nichols and Mike Holmes was a bucket list moment. Was also able to get my 25 year old IQ/Enchant shirt signed by all of IQ and half of Enchant. Pics to come later...

IQ - Out of Nowhere (Live at ProgStock)

Very sweet man, did you get anything else? All my vids have me singing louder than Peter 

[KevShmev]

I wish I liked this band as much as some of you do. I tried...

Glad y'all had fun! 

[cramx3]

IQ - Out of Nowhere (Live at ProgStock)

Very sweet man, did you get anything else? All my vids have me singing louder than Peter 

I didn't get any more full songs, but I guarantee you'll enjoy the rest of the footage I've been reviewing this morning.  Got about 30 minutes of their set and other than a couple moments, the sound came out really well (well it sounded great in person so I expected that).   Also have 10 minutes of Tom Brislin and 20 minutes of Enchant.  This is an epic hour long video in the making right now.  Probably have it up later today, it's almost finished but will take a couple hours to encode and then upload to youtube since it's a long one.

What sucks is they cut 2 songs from the setlist.  In my prep for the show this week, I made a playlist on youtube of their set, but there was one song I could not find, "Mome" so was thinking maybe it's new or if not, I would capture that one so next time somoene youtubes for it, they'll get a hit.  But they didn't play it 

[lonestar]

Nome is a new one, there's a yt video out there if it but not under that name.

Very anxious to see your video man!!!

[jammindude]

What a great setlist!   The only one I’m not familiar with is Failsafe.   And it looks like they played everything from Ever except Came Down.   

It’s funny to me that I only own 5/8ths of the Nichols output, and yet their modern day set lists pretty much focus on those 5 albums.   

Looking forward to hearing Subterrenea.   Has anyone seen the movie?  Is it any good?

EDIT - Also....the Subterrenea OST is available through their website.   Is that worth getting?

[splent]

I told them I was mad they didn’t do awake and nervous becuase that’s the song that got me into iq. Their keyboardist said the same thing and the bassist said there a song that sounds better live, so I said that means they have to come back here. They said “we will release the new album first, then let’s focus on that.” so you never know...

[Chris Hinton]

Remember that there’s a lot I haven’t heard, and Frequency is my “first love”....that was the album that hooked me.   

Someone IRL from the MP forum was who made the recommendation at the Transatlantic concert in this area back in 2014 (the night the Seahawks won the Super Bowl)....but I feel bad that I can’t remember who it was.  I know his face...I even saw him again at a QR show about 2 years ago.  (And if you’re reading this please chime in because you changed my freakin life with that recommendation!!). 

Yeah, that was me.  Frequency was my first exposure to IQ as well.  It comes around though, because you got me hooked onto Odd Logic.