Rubert Hine not good for Rush (if it is synthpop, he's good, otherwise, um, no).
Peter Collins good for everything that I know of that he's done and I've heard, especially Rush and Queensryche.

There, finally got my Pandora stations reworked and culled. Still some overlap, but not much, given the stations fall into moods as much as genre. Still doesn't cover all the genres that I listen to, but it's a good start anyway. *smirk*

So I now own a region-free DVD player that does SACD and has discrete 5.1 outputs and lots of other toys, the Pioneer DV600-AV-s. The reason for purchasing this wondrous little toy (because I don’t generally buy non-media things without a need) was that I finally found a non-import version of Peter Gabriel's Passion on SACD for sale. My old ( Read more... )

Bands that have released in the last month or so, or will release new music Real Soon Now (tm ( Read more... )

Okay, the more I dig into this band, the more there is.

The video for Fighting For Love was directed by JJ Abrams (yes *that* JJ Abrams) using playskool-type figures of all things.

The short called From One Single Acoustic Guitar Note in which Tony from the band shows building a full track using just one note. Really slick.

I created a YouTube ( Read more... )

So I decided that I was going to find more music that I like that I hadn't heard of, so I fired up Pandora and plugged in Björk, Army of Me from Post ( Read more... )

So, like many people, I usually wake up with some random song stuck in my head.

Today it started with Tool's Intension, but my brain started mixing in Rammstein's Du Hast and finally Jerry Reed singing Westbound and Down from _Smokey and the Bandit_, to create a rather interesting confluence of randomness. And I haven't seen the latter movie in ( Read more... )

So I heard a band on Philosomatika, a psytrance stream, and was quite interested in it. I thought it was Astral Projection at one point, but it was a band called Pleiadians (a psytrance offshoot I found, of the band Etnica). The albumn is IFO released in 1997 on DragonFly Records. The striking 100-145bpm psytrance with lots of melodic lines is ( Read more... )

I had forgotten how good the writing is from The Police. I was listening to Ghost in the Machine on the way in today and there is so much poignant prose in there that it made me really think about the time and place of its creation ( Read more... )

Wow, Kanno-san proves, yet again, that she is one of the preeminent composers and musicians in music today ( Read more... )