DISQUS

hemisphire · 5 months ago

Were the edits previously existing or did you make them?

DwDunphy · 5 months ago

Yup, my fault, so if you think the shortened versions lack a little something-something, that's on me.

hagen · 5 months ago

Marillion and Fish... nice touch. Might want to take something for the prog blockage, though.

DwDunphy · 5 months ago

I probably should have thrown up a Peter Gabriel too, to bookend the Genesis but, in a way, Hackett in GTR does that as well.

jon · 5 months ago

Marillion - Yay!
Fish - Yay!
Fates Warning/Dream Theater/Livgren...Yay!

And these 'yays' are from a power pop fan!

Old_Davy · 5 months ago

Transatlantic - a prog supergroup that actually makes great albums! I assume you are familiar with their first one, "SMPTe", which I prefer over "Bridge Across Forever"? But talk about a band that milks it for all they've got. Remixes, live albums and special editions galore. I just heard SMPTe will be reissued in two weeks but I'm not sure what the difference will be other than a simple remaster.

DwDunphy · 5 months ago

It's a matter of reintroducing the band to the prog world. They're back in the studio and will have a brand new album out by the end of the year. I'm psyched!

It bothered me to take the hatchet to "Duel With The Devil" - I love the way the original half-hour version builds, but there was no way I was putting up a half-hour song. A smarter man would have just not bothered with Transatlantic in that case. Now you know something damning about me.

Ted · 5 months ago

Seems we're groovin' on the same genre this week! I have to admit to not knowing much about Marillion, but after hearing "Whatever Is Wrong With You," I don't think they sound like Sylvan -- and someone said on the Mix Six comments thread. Maybe on other songs they do, but not this one.

DwDunphy · 5 months ago

When I saw your Mix Six earlier this week, I thought, "Cool! Theme week!" Yes hasn't had this much exposure on Popdose since, well, EVER.

"Whatever..." is off the new album Happiness Is The Road and is rockier than their usual sound, so the Sylvan comparison really isn't that far off the mark.

I already mentioned Transatlantic is working on an album set for winter release, but Marillion is going back into the studio for an all-acoustic album reinterpreting their older songs. Porcupine Tree is now on Roadrunner Records (Big mistake, Atlantic!) and their upcoming The Incident is set for fall. Frost* has a live album coming from their RosFest appearance from a month or so ago. Wetton Downes' Icon 3 just came out and Dream Theater's Black Clouds And Silver Linings is coming in two weeks.

Phew! Keeping up my reign as Mr. TMI is TOUGH!

DavidMedsker · 5 months ago

Don't forget my bit on Yes' "Rhythm of Love" for White Label Wednesday, and I plan on picking something from Drama for Pop Goes the World. I just can't decide which song, though I'm taking a long look at "Machine Messiah"...

DwDunphy · 5 months ago

Go for "Into The Lens" and you can also cover Horn & Downes' version as the Buggles, "I Am A Camera"

DavidMedsker · 5 months ago

That'd be great, if I had "I Am a Camera."

David_E · 5 months ago

You want? I have. Say word.

DavidMedsker · 5 months ago

Thanks, but I snagged it last night from a, um, Russian friend of mine. He had the 12" mix, too. :)

Ted · 5 months ago

Holy crap, Dw! With that list, you have a new feature: "Dw's Prog World"

DwDunphy · 5 months ago

Are you actively trying to get Jeff to shoot me in the head?

Ted · 5 months ago

If he tries, just say "Ni!"

DwDunphy · 5 months ago

But what if he produces a very nice shrubbery? Then I will have no recourse but to cower in the shadow of my oppressive nerdliness! I am undone!!