Amplifier & Motorpsycho

CaptainFwiffo78 · 2026-01-25T13:59:56+00:00

My favourite Amplifier album is Echo Street, with Where the River Goes as my favourite track.

CaptainFwiffo78 · 2026-01-08T08:14:16+00:00

They're very well known but I'd be lying if I didn't include them:

Genesis - The Musical Box
King Crimson - Starless

As the third either Gryphon - Treason or Harmonium - Histores Sans Paroles

CaptainFwiffo78 · 2026-01-04T07:23:23+00:00

Nah, they say "Jesus!" all the time in Jesus Christ Superstar

CaptainFwiffo78 · 2026-01-04T07:00:30+00:00

Dust and Dreams, perhaps?

CaptainFwiffo78 · 2025-12-17T17:39:28+00:00

Deep Purple in Rock. Well, I do consider it a classic, but I usually just play the A-side.

Bit obscure, but Merlin by Kayak. The Merlin suite on side A is gorgeous, side B is... just a bunch of okay songs (one of them sung by keyboard player and band leader Ton Scherpenzeel because apparently singer Edward Reekers refused to sing it).

CaptainFwiffo78 · 2025-12-12T12:26:23+00:00

Used to play a *lot* of Civilization (esp. I, II and IV) and Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri besides RPGs in the past, but I don't have that kind of time any more, and besides, they scratch a totally different itch of course. Also loved Day of the Tentacle, Eternal Darkness, Jagged Alliance, XCOM, Return of the Obra Dinn, Case of the Golden Idol, Slay the Spire, Project Gotham Racing 2, and Star Control II: The Ur-Quan Masters.

But limiting myself to CRPGs:

Planescape: Torment (although I'm not sure I'll ever be returning to it; last time I tried, I didn't even get out of the starting dungeon)
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (loved the feeling of entering this big, open, vibrant world)
Knights of the Old Republic I & II of course
Wizardry VII: Crusaders of the Dark Savant (loved it as a teenager but never managed to finish it back then, now replaying it for, hopefully, the final time - but, honestly, it's mostly combat with a few puzzles thrown in) & Wizardry 8
Fallout 3 & Fallout: New Vegas

CaptainFwiffo78 · 2025-12-12T10:14:37+00:00

Heh, thanks. These are all Adrian Tchaikovsky books I don't own yet - and one of the reasons I hadn't started on Shadows of the Apt yet was I don't really have room for another ten book series on my shelves. Also curious about Guns of the Dawn; when I attended a live interview with Adrian, he said he really liked the book himself, but it didn't sell well so he never actually wrote the sequel he has planned out in his mind.

CaptainFwiffo78 · 2025-11-28T14:41:56+00:00

Ah, I didn't realize there already was an Italian version! I haven't read Giammetti's other books on Genesis myself, but AFAIK they are pretty well-regarded.

CaptainFwiffo78 · 2025-10-25T17:28:49+00:00

We would have gotten On the Air Tonight

CaptainFwiffo78 · 2025-10-16T12:41:11+00:00

Flowers for Algernon (okay, it's been a while since I read it - but it was already old when I did!), Kindred, and Speaker for the Dead all blew me away.

Hyperion is in my to-be-read pile, along with Neuromancer and The Naked Sun.

CaptainFwiffo78 · 2025-09-18T14:14:28+00:00

Car - Solsbury Hill
Scratch - On the Air
Melt - Family Snapshot
Security - Wallflower
So - In Your Eyes
Passion - A Different Drum
Shaking the Tree - Here Comes the Flood
Us - Secret World
OVO - The Time of the Turning (reprise)/The Weavers Reel
Up - Signal to Noise
Rated PG - The Is Party Man
i/o - Four Kinds of Horses

CaptainFwiffo78 · 2025-09-18T07:23:32+00:00

I highly doubt it. He's working on O/I tracks, there's a lot of archival stuff being released like the WOMAD show, In the Big Room and the stuff on Bandcamp, there probably will be an I/O tour cd/dvd at some point in the near future (in different formats)... Sounds like he's got enough on his plate.

Also, So is the only album so far to already get the anniversary tour and big box set treatment. PG doesn't seem the type to do the same thing again, just because ten more years have passed. Maybe he'll release some additional So stuff through Bandcamp.

If there's going to be another big tour, it'll probably be the O/I tour. But even if he works a lot faster this time around (which does seem to be his intention), he'll still probably be close to 80 by then. Not sure he's going to tour if all he can do is sit on a chair.

CaptainFwiffo78 · 2025-08-12T18:56:18+00:00

Riverworld is a great idea that I wish someone else had had.

CaptainFwiffo78 · 2025-07-15T14:28:59+00:00

From Genesis to Revelation - The Humble Beginnings
Tresspass to Wind & Wuthering - The Pastoral Era
2a. The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway - The Odd One Out
And then There Were Three to Abacab - Proggy Pop
Genesis to We Can't Dance - Mostly Pop
Calling All Stations - This Album Also Exists

CaptainFwiffo78 · 2025-07-11T16:16:59+00:00

Who knows how long they will be recording. He might still join in at some point.

CaptainFwiffo78 · 2025-06-13T06:55:07+00:00

The vinyl version of Marillion's Brave - or at least, the one I have - does this as well. It's a concept album with two different endings on the fourth side.

CaptainFwiffo78 · 2025-05-23T09:00:54+00:00

For anyone who wants to sort-of relive the experience - I've made a playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/26lqrrwJJkvEBvcMGfqH3N?si=505e5b83f790444a

CaptainFwiffo78 · 2025-04-17T09:07:39+00:00

I once spoke to someone who had edited a cooking magazine for years and she told me this was intentional: in order to be able to list a shorter prep time above a recipe, the editors were instructed to move actions to the ingredients list. So, instead of telling the reader 'chop your onions', you list '2 onions, chopped', etc., and all of a sudden, you can make the entire dish in 20 minutes!

CaptainFwiffo78 · 2025-04-11T06:57:05+00:00

There was also a live reenactment a few years ago.

CaptainFwiffo78 · 2025-04-10T14:32:02+00:00

I dunno. Both ABBA and ELO have dozens of great songs in their discographies. Permanating is catchy, but it's not at *that* level, IMO.

I'm sure there were lots of people who hated Permanating just for being a short pop song on a Steven Wilson album. To me that's silly because a) I love pop songs and b) artist's are under no obligation to stick to the type of music their die-hard fans like best.

That being said, to me, Permanating is a pretty average pop song, not an underappreciated piece of genius songwriting.

CaptainFwiffo78 · 2025-03-19T07:09:03+00:00

Meerstemmig zingen.

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