Mar 26

Rush – “Grace Under Pressure”

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Tracks:

  1. Distant Early Warning
  2. Afterimage
  3. Red Sector A
  4. The Enemy Within
  5. The Body Electric
  6. Kid Gloves
  7. Red Lenses
  8. Between the Wheels

Are you sick and tired of me talking about Rush? This is the fourth album in my “series”, which I have been stretching out over years now. “Grace Under Pressure” though holds a special place in my history with the band. It was the first album I bought of theirs at the time of...

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Mar 17

Weather Report – “Sweetnighter”

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Tracks:

  1. Boogie Woogie Waltz
  2. Manolete
  3. Adios
  4. 125th Street Congress
  5. Will
  6. Non-Stop Home

Not sure of my actual introduction to Weather Report, but I had known about them for years. Finally started buying some of their albums about 10 years ago. Though I know one of my co-workers helped fuel my interest in them even more, mostly by filling in the blanks of my collection digitally.

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Nov 28

King’s X – “Dogman”

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Tracks:

  1. Dogman
  2. Shoes
  3. Pretend
  4. Flies and Blue Skies
  5. Black the Sky
  6. Fool You
  7. Don’t Care
  8. Sunshine Rain
  9. Complain
  10. Human Behavior
  11. Cigarettes
  12. Go to Hell
  13. Pillow
  14. Manic Depression

Since this is the third time King’s X has shown up on my list, I will be brief. MTV introduced me to them, and I have been a huge fan every since.

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(From left): Ty Tabor (guitar, vocals), Doug Pinnick...

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Oct 23

The Red Masque – “Flesh for Feathers”

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Tracks:

  1. House of Ash
    1. Corridors
    2. Judgment
    3. The King’s Lament, Pt. 1
    4. The King’s Lament, Pt. 2
  2. Passage
  3. Yellow Are His Opening Eyes
    1. The Summoning
    2. Outscream
    3. Vacant
  4. Beggars & Thieves
  5. Scarlet Experiment

Again, here is another discovery through our friends at Progressive Ears. However, this one was from the actual artist. At the time of discovery, three of the members of the band...

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Aug 27

Zero One – “Ozone”

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Tracks:

  1. Malfunction
  2. Nano
  3. Affirmative
  4. Twilight
  5. Flashback
  6. Glitch
  7. Dreams
  8. Lifeforce
  9. Brainwave
  10. Future
  11. OK

About a year ago I bought a couple of electronica albums and as Amazon always does, it starts giving you recommendations of other material that you might like based on your purchases or rankings. Zero One came up. “Ozone” is the fourth album by the project, and was the last one I purchased. It is also the best.

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Jul 22

Rush – “Hold Your Fire”

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Tracks:

  1. Force Ten
  2. Time Stand Still
  3. Open Secrets
  4. Second Nature
  5. Prime Mover
  6. Lock and Key
  7. Mission
  8. Turn the Page
  9. Tai Shan
  10. High Water

It’s time for another Rush album. Not bad if you think about it. Three of the first 75 “favorite albums” are by Rush. Shows my very high interest in the band, but doesn’t make me out to be a total geek or fanboy (which is probably indeed the case). I usually mention in this section of how I came across the artist. A reminder to those reading is...

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Jul 12

Kiln – “Sunbox”

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Tracks:

  1. Royal Peppermint Forest
  2. Ghost
  3. Lux (RPF Rebuild)
  4. Hong
  5. Season

I don’t know how or why, but I came across Kiln one day. And then I bought this CD, which is actually an EP, for all the wrong reasons. The group/band is from the metro Detroit area. I thought the project name was very cool, and the album cover and album title were even cooler. I heard one 30 second sample of the first song and decided to buy the album. Thankfully the insides were as good, if not better, then the cover.

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Jun 21

Collective Soul – “Collective Soul”

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Tracks:

  1. Simple
  2. Untitled
  3. The World I Know
  4. Smashing Young Man
  5. December
  6. Where the River Flows
  7. Gel
  8. She Gathers Rain
  9. When the Water Falls
  10. Collection of Goods
  11. Bleed
  12. Reunion

This is the band’s second album, from 1994, but it was the single “Shine” from their debut album the year prior that brought Collective Soul into mine, and everyone else’s consciousness. I saw them twice for free before the release of this album. I liked...

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Apr 12

Tuatara – “Cinemathique”

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Tracks:

  1. The Melting Sun
  2. Love is a Calculated Risk
  3. Pimpin’ for the Muse
  4. Tumbleweeds
  5. A Thin Gray Pickpocket
  6. Action Thriller
  7. Falling Pianos
  8. The Hangover
  9. In the Passing Lane
  10. Walking in a Dead Man’s Shoes
  11. Farewell to the Hero

I stumbled onto this band because of the drummer, Barrett Martin. Martin was the drummer for the Screaming Trees during their heyday in the early 90′s (Seattle grunge scene), and then more importantly to me, was part of the “super group” Mad Season....

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Mar 13

King’s X – “Gretchen Goes to Nebraska”

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Tracks:

  1. Out of the Silent Planet
  2. Over My Head
  3. Summerland
  4. Everybody Knows a Little Bit of Something
  5. The Difference (In the Garden of St. Anne’s-on-the-Hill)
  6. I’ll Never Be the Same
  7. Mission
  8. Fall on Me
  9. Pleiades
  10. Don’t Believe It (It’s Easier Said than Done)
  11. Send a Message
  12. The Burning Down

Since I am missing many of my CD’s in my collection, I come up to the second appearance of King’s X in my series. As I mentioned in...

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