What Are You Listening To?

[Jerome]

A classic!

[Oceansoul]

^ Learning to Fly is a classic, for sure. :biggrin:

On now is Queen ft. David Bowie - Under Pressure

Love it.

[CRAZY-HORSE]

COLIN MASSON "the southern cross" cd,

some folky sounding tracks on here...
some start slow and folky and build to something not dissimilar to 'telegraph road'...
others are almost prog rock in nature...
you can feel the emotion in the guitar work like that projected from the frets of Knopfler/Gilmour, and im
not exaggerating in the slightest,
this guy should have been a musical legend, he has everything in his arsenal those guys have!
a very good, well recorded collection of songs from a guy who dabbles in music when not
being a school teacher!

Colin Masson in his own words re: the album.

I think the Southern Cross is guilty of being a concept album, the concept quite typical of someone in the first flush of youth. I had the rather melancholy idea of two ships separated by a thousand years in time, both of which came to a sticky end. Side one would be taken up with the adventures of the original Southern Cross, some time in the 18th century (Perhaps a little like the journeys of Captain Cook, but in a strange alternative universe). The second ship was a starship that had an unfortunate encounter with a black hole. This idea rattled around in my head about a year and during this time most of the material here was written. It has to be said that I do have an unfortunate habit of straying off the original subject and so by the end of it the concept is only fairly loosely adhered to. But this is how it all began.

I LIKE THIS ALBUM

worst track: ocean of storms
best track: South Australia

(sorry, no link for my favourite, but heres one for one of the beautiful instrumentals on the album)

[video=youtube;-Pdq0ECkdnk]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Pdq0ECkdnk&list=PL6PLmdVbQHCMuIRd5TnyZepwRRpzBs7M2 &index=2[/video]

tracks:

1...never come back ***
2...sails of silver ***
3...South Australia ***
4...the wreckers **
5...compass rose (instrumental) **
...."intermission with moon cycles"
6...the heart of the machine **
7...ocean of storms (instrumental") *
8...The Southern Cross (instrumental) **

3s=3
2s=4
1s=1

rating: 2.2

[bob_32_116]

^^ Why should anyone need to apologise for making a concept album? :happy:

Judging by that track, I'd say he has listened to a fair bit of Mike Oldfield in his time.

[Oceansoul]

What's wrong with concept albums? o.O

[Oceansoul]

Heart - Alone

[Ruby]

Jethro Tull - The Broadsword and the Beast. A lot of people seem not to love this album too much, but I do!

[video=youtube;yBZ6lTiPmgs]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBZ6lTiPmgs[/video]

[bob_32_116]

Jethro Tull - The Broadsword and the Beast. A lot of people seem not to love this album too much, but I do!

I like it - definitely one of the better of their later period albums.

[Ruby]

^It got largely poor to mixed reviews, which doesn't necessarily mean a thing!
It's all about what speaks to the individual.

[bob_32_116]

^It got largely poor to mixed reviews, which doesn't necessarily mean a thing!
It's all about what speaks to the individual.

Strangely, "Fallen on Hard Times", which got lots of radio airplay here and which I think was a single, is probably my least favourite track on the album.