Caught In The Whirlwind
Archive for August 8, 2007
Vox Hunt: This Album Is All Good
01747 days
by Jason
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Audio: Share an album in your collection that's a classic from the first to the last cut (no need to use the skip button). Submitted by Cortadito.
This one I had to think long and hard about since I have so many albums that I enjoy from start to finish. But I think, the most classic album in my collection is…
Transatlantic had a very special sound and it carried across the feeling that these people loved to create music together. The album is classic and epic, and don't you dare skip a track since you'll miss 1/4th of the album if you do, considering there's only 4 tracks. The two main 30 minute epics, a short 15 minute piece and a ballad-ish song. Through the entire album, there's interwoven ideas, moving from song to song, connecting each piece to the one that came before it…
I can't say enough good stuff about Transatlantic or this album. Go check it out if you like progressive music, or if you like the later Beatles albums, as all 4 members of the band are huge Beatles fanatics and it shows.
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QotD: My Musical Influence
01747 days
by Jason
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Which friend or acquaintance most influenced your taste in music?
Submitted by Rev Stan.
To be honest, nobody really did. At least nobody that I know of.
It all started back when an internet radio station called Echo was around. This was before the days of broadband (mostly) in the dark days of the internet. Well…they were kinda like Pandora is now, where they would match up your tastes with other artists and songs that were similar. Occasionally they would throw in a random track, just in case you might like it and start you off on a completely new musical genre.
Well, one day, Echo spit out Dream Theater – Fatal Tragedy, which I liked. I downloaded it from napster (Bad!) and forgot about the band for a while. One day, a couple years later, I listened to it again and really "got" it. After that, I stumbled onto the Mike Portnoy forums and learned about all of this music that I didn't know about before from the forum-goers there. And the rest…is history.
So no one person really influenced my musical taste. It was done by group consensus.
Who Need Z Anyway?
01747 days
by Jason
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It appears that the Z key on my keyboard at home is no longer functional. I'm not sure how long it's been like this, but as far as I can determine…it's dead. The thing that's really weird about this is that I'm trying to weigh how much I actually use the Z key against the cost of a new keyboard
It's not like I really use the letter that much, exactly…but what if I suddenly have to type a message about Zebras or something? I'd be sunk!
Maybe it was just taking a vacation to a cooler area because of how hot and humid it's been recently. Yesterday wasn't terrible, but this morning it felt like you could swim through the air in my apartment.
Anyway, I'm off to continue contemplating my Z problem…
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