Comments on: 1000 albums to hear before you die?

By: Tim Hall

Tim Hall — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 23:28:55 +0000

They’ve completed the list now, complete with some pathetic excuses for not including enough prog (‘because none of us are prog fans’).

They managed to include King Crimson’s “In the Court of the Crimson King” and VDGG’s “Pawn Hearts”, but seem to prefer Rick Wakeman’s “King Arthur” to anything by Yes. I think they’re taking the piss.

And UFO are better than flash-in-the-pan Britpop also-rans Elastica. That’s just a fact.

By: Tim Hall

Tim Hall — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 21:12:36 +0000

>> Did they include Fish? What do *you* think? I'm surpised Iron Maiden, Metallica and Mastadon made the cut.

By: Serdar

Serdar — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 18:46:05 +0000

Marillion, but did they include Fish in the Fs? (“Vigil in a Wilderness of Mirrors” maybe?)

And if they don’t have at least one Merzbow in the Ms, aesthetics be damned, then they’re not being true to the label. Not everyone needs to hear all of Merzbow (except maybe a loon like me), but being exposed to something like Amlux at least once in your life seems like a good idea if you want to call yourself a musical (noiseical?) gourmand.

By: Tim Hall

Tim Hall — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 18:26:57 +0000

Serdar, you managed to out-obscure me as usual You’re making me look like a Coldplay fan.

Today, they’ve updated their list to include I,J,K,L,M. They’ve (naturally) ignored the mighty Marillion, but included … Level bloody 42. And as we all know, the only purpose of jazz-funk is to give prog rock something to look down on.

By: Serdar

Serdar — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 14:52:37 +0000

Fushitsusha Double Live (PSFD 15/16). I reviewed the earlier live album from their oeuvre (PSFD 3/4) – http://www.thegline.com/disc-of-the-week/2006/10-15-2006.htm – and this one is if anything even more astonishing. Japanese prog at its finest, and if you ask me it doesn’t deserve nearly that confining a description. Someone else called it “the marriage of 12th century Chinese opera, yogic breathing exercises and Blue Cheer”, which is awwright with me.

I’ve got tons of others I could probably throw into such a list.