Album Of The Week #2

by **Mr.Rock** » Wed Sep 01, 2004 3:41 am

Vauxdvihl

How do you pronounce that?

My album that I have played over and over again this week is the S/T album by 'Manic Eden', not as bad as I was told. :wink:

by **doggy** » Wed Sep 01, 2004 9:38 am

Which Vauxdihl cd have you,Tali, got ? I got their 1st cd, after that they change their sound. Stacy, the vocalist on 1st cd, was part of choir of Jesus Christ Superstar show a couple years ago.
Good call on "Manic Eden", Mr Rock. I wonder what they sound like if they kept their 1st singer, James Christian.
ATOW for me this week is "Letters" by Butch Walker.

by **Serendipity** » Wed Sep 01, 2004 9:08 pm

Mr.Rock wrote:My album that I have played over and over again this week is the S/T album by 'Manic Eden', not as bad as I was told.

When I first heard that album I was expecting to hear a band in the vein of Vandenberg... it's way more bluesy, but it doesn't sound like Whitesnake either though. I didn't know what to think of it really.

My AOTW is Fates Warning - Parallels; they sound more like Queensryche on this album than Queensryche themselves these days. :shock:

by **Taliwakker** » Wed Sep 01, 2004 9:45 pm

My AOW is Mike Keneally-Wooden Smoke/Wooden Smoke Asleep. Definately a underplayed gem in my collection.

I listened to the new Threshold cd a fair bit this week too.....i found it to be very 'safe' sounding...wasn't that impressed at all. I blame the dutch chicks for overhyping it.

Doggy the Vaudxvihl cd i have is called 'To Dimension Logic'

by **Serendipity** » Wed Sep 01, 2004 9:54 pm

Taliwakker wrote:I listened to the new Threshold cd a fair bit this week too.....i found it to be very 'safe' sounding...wasn't that impressed at all. I blame the dutch chicks for overhyping it.

I liked the safe sound of it... and yet everytime I listen to it I still hear new things... That is what impressed me most about them.

by **Kenny** » Wed Sep 01, 2004 10:00 pm

Taliwakker wrote: I blame the dutch chicks for overhyping it.

My AOTW is Toto - 'Mindfields' . (AOR week this week)

by **Serendipity** » Wed Sep 01, 2004 10:13 pm

Kenny wrote:
Taliwakker wrote: I blame the dutch chicks for overhyping it.

Thanks, for the first time in a long time I hear a CD that I just want to play over and over, and I get laughed at.... :cry:

I already had to go through that at home as well. :cry:

The only thing that consoles me is the prospect of going with SnakeLady to... the Threshold concert next week.

by **Kenny** » Wed Sep 01, 2004 10:44 pm

Hey, you know I love ya baby!!! :lol:

It was just the way he said it, that's all.....

by **Bobbi Flekman** » Thu Sep 02, 2004 12:00 am

Taliwakker wrote: I blame the dutch chicks for overhyping it.

Serendipity wrote:The only thing that consoles me is the prospect of going with SnakeLady to... the Threshold concert next week.

Have fun!

Mine. Jimi Hendrix - Axis: Bold As Love

by **Take me home** » Thu Sep 02, 2004 1:41 am

MY AOTW is Skillet - Collide

by **Jonny B** » Thu Sep 02, 2004 3:49 am

AOTW for me is Lullacry "Crucify My Heart."

Here's my spin list for the past 7 days (excluding today):

Lullacry "Crucify My Heart" (5 spins)
Nightwish "Once" (3 spins)
Shiva "Desert Dreams" (3 spins)
Fiona "Beyond the Pale" (reissue) (2 spins)
Joe Lynn Turner "Rescue You" (reissue) (2 spins)
Rick Wakeman "The Masters" (2 spins)
Axe "Nemesis" (reissue) (1 spin)
Fiona "S/T" (reissue) (1 spin)
(the rest of the Nightwish catalog got 1 spin each)

by **Jonny B** » Thu Sep 02, 2004 3:49 am

I think this topic is one post off because the first post of the new page keeps disappearing...

by **Kenny** » Thu Sep 02, 2004 10:19 am

Taliwakker wrote:I listened to the new Threshold cd a fair bit this week too.....i found it to be very 'safe' sounding...wasn't that impressed at all. I blame the dutch chicks for overhyping it.

I'll tell you this......I listened to some clips of the 'Subsurface' album last night, and I really like this band. I'll be getting it this weekend hopefully.

by **Taliwakker** » Thu Sep 02, 2004 10:30 am

Kenny....you should check out some of the older Threshold stuff like 'Extinct Instinct' with Damien Wilson (Star One) on vocals.

by **Kenny** » Thu Sep 02, 2004 2:14 pm

Taliwakker wrote:Kenny....you should check out some of the older Threshold stuff like 'Extinct Instinct' with Damien Wilson (Star One) on vocals.

Yeah...probably will. We're off to Perth again for the weekend.

by **Taliwakker** » Thu Sep 02, 2004 2:38 pm

Good luck tracking down cds you want.
I've actually got a shitload of cdrs for you if you want them......mainly stuff i had copies of and have since bought the originals.
If you want them i can send you a list of what they are and you can say yay or nay to what you want and what you don't.

by **SnakeLady** » Thu Sep 02, 2004 5:20 pm

Tali wrote:

I blame the dutch chicks for overhyping it.

Maybe you didn't listen to well to the new cd :wink:

...... Oh well we can't allways like the same bands or cd's.

Serendipity wrote:

The only thing that consoles me is the prospect of going with SnakeLady to... the Threshold concert next week.

Yes it would be fun if we can go :wink:

At this moment I have Saxon - Heavy Metal Thunder in the cd player ...... looking forward to the concert aswell :wink:

by **Serendipity** » Thu Sep 02, 2004 6:57 pm

Kenny wrote:
Taliwakker wrote:I listened to the new Threshold cd a fair bit this week too.....i found it to be very 'safe' sounding...wasn't that impressed at all. I blame the dutch chicks for overhyping it.

I'll tell you this......I listened to some clips of the 'Subsurface' album last night, and I really like this band. I'll be getting it this weekend hopefully.

My tears have gone...

Tali, sorry for overhyping the Subsurface CD... SnakeLady is right, we can't always have the same favorite music, but everytime that does happen, it makes me feel so happy.

That's what got me carried away a little, I guess...

by **Kenny** » Thu Sep 02, 2004 7:54 pm

Taliwakker wrote:
Good luck tracking down cds you want.
78 records in Perth have a pretty good metal section mate.....i have seen Threshold there before.....

I've actually got a shitload of cdrs for you if you want them......mainly stuff i had copies of and have since bought the originals.
If you want them i can send you a list of what they are and you can say yay or nay to what you want and what you don't

Feel more than free to e-mail me the list dude.

by **Kenny** » Thu Sep 02, 2004 7:56 pm

Serendipity wrote:
Kenny wrote:
Taliwakker wrote:I listened to the new Threshold cd a fair bit this week too.....i found it to be very 'safe' sounding...wasn't that impressed at all. I blame the dutch chicks for overhyping it.

I'll tell you this......I listened to some clips of the 'Subsurface' album last night, and I really like this band. I'll be getting it this weekend hopefully.

My tears have gone...

Oh my lord, no crying!!
I think we all have more similarities in our taste than differences......

by **Serendipity** » Fri Sep 03, 2004 12:20 am

Kenny wrote:I think we all have more similarities in our taste than differences......

Of course! That's why I love to come to this place!

by **Taliwakker** » Fri Sep 03, 2004 10:39 am

I like Threshold...just thought the new album isn't mind blowing great. I'm getting harder to please as i get older......and to be honest the only music that is appealing to me right now is stuff that is musically challenging in some way (not technical wankery). I like the elment of suprise and i didn't get that when i heard Subsurface....i just heard the same old Threshold....Has anyone else got Ayreon-The Human Equation yet? Please do.

by **Serendipity** » Fri Sep 03, 2004 5:41 pm

Taliwakker wrote:Has anyone else got Ayreon-The Human Equation yet? Please do.

I listened to some soundbytes a few weeks ago, and was pleasantly surprised with them... The last Ayreon I bought was Flight Of The Migrator, but haven't played it very much; I want to give that one another chance before buying the Human Equation though.

by **Taliwakker** » Wed Sep 08, 2004 11:55 am

S-Dip...just buy The Human Equation...fuck listening to other Ayreon stuff...it is all irrelevant now. Nearly everyone i know who has heard it has said it is either the album of the year, decade or best of all time. Big Hype but its unbelievable.

by **Serendipity** » Wed Sep 08, 2004 8:16 pm

Taliwakker wrote:S-Dip...just buy The Human Equation...fuck listening to other Ayreon stuff...it is all irrelevant now. Nearly everyone i know who has heard it has said it is either the album of the year, decade or best of all time. Big Hype but its unbelievable.

I've listened to the other album the past week. There were some really good songs on it... So I will be a good girl and get myself a copy of The Human Equation.

*Edit: The Human Equation is in the CD player now! So far all I can say it's quite Floydian, and big and mellow at the same time. I like it!

by **Bobbi Flekman** » Wed Sep 08, 2004 9:08 pm

Doro - Love Me In Black!

by **Serendipity** » Thu Sep 09, 2004 12:49 am

Tali, I've heard the entire Human Equation by now... I will need to listen to it many more times to absorb it all. It is a great album, that's for sure!

Day two, seven, fourteen (cool riff!) and the beginning of eighteen and the ending of twenty stood out at first listen. Day sixteen is quite a weird song,because of the mix of the didgeridoo with the mandoline. I like it though.

It's really unbelievable that this album was written by the same person who once was part of a partyrock band called Vengeance. (The kind of band where the entire audience throws beer around) I find it really hard to lose the prejudices I have towards him because of that past. I've seen him play with that band a couple of times, and it's nothing like Ayreon at all. :shock:

by **Jonny B** » Thu Sep 09, 2004 1:15 am

How do the female singers perform on Human Equation?

AOTW is Lullacry "Crucify My Heart" for the second week in a row. I've always been attracted to simplicity with a catchy hook and a killer voice. Not since Alyson Avenue's "Prescence of Mind" have I overplayed a cd as much as I have Lullacry.

by **Serendipity** » Thu Sep 09, 2004 2:53 am

Jonny B wrote:How do the female singers perform on Human Equation?

Very well, I'd say, especially Irene Jansen and Marcela Bovio. There are some parts where Heather Findlay has to sing a little louder than she usually does, that didn't suit her voice very well. The other songs were perfect for her. She really has a sweet voice.

by **Taliwakker** » Thu Sep 09, 2004 9:48 am

S-Dip wrote

It's really unbelievable that this album was written by the same person who once was part of a partyrock band called Vengeance. (The kind of band where the entire audience throws beer around) I find it really hard to lose the prejudices I have towards him because of that past. I've seen him play with that band a couple of times, and it's nothing like Ayreon at all.

Its a world of difference...i remember discusing this with Bobbi a while ago before THE came out...and i think Bobbi was suggesting that he'd jumped on the prog band wagon and discarded his hard rock roots.

Keep playing the album and in 5 or 6 listens things just seem to make more sense. Devin Townsend kicks so much ass.

MY AOW is Disarmonia Mundi-Fragments of D-Generation.
Melodic Death metal with Strid from Soilwork on vox...fuck yeah. The guitarist also plays keys, drums and sings clean vocals..talented guy....sounds heaps like Soilwork.

MR

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