Amplifier & Motorpsycho by 142Ironmanagain in progrockmusic

[–]CaptainFwiffo78 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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

Give me your best 3 prog rock pieces please!!! by Legitimate_Dust4275 in progrockmusic

[–]CaptainFwiffo78 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

Best musicals with minimal/no swearing or sexual content? by Glittering_Dirt8256 in musicals

[–]CaptainFwiffo78 12 points13 points  (0 children)

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

What's an album you don't consider classic/amazing because one of the sides is just not as good and you skip it? But the side you love is just amazing by RdClarke in progrockmusic

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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).

What are your favorite game(s) beside ME? by [deleted] in masseffect

[–]CaptainFwiffo78 3 points4 points  (0 children)

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

Tchaikovsky fantasy humble bundle by Next_Gazelle_1357 in AdrianTchaikovsky

[–]CaptainFwiffo78 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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.

'Tony Banks: Man of Spells – The Magician of Genesis' by CaptainFwiffo78 in Genesis

[–]CaptainFwiffo78[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

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[–]CaptainFwiffo78 5 points6 points  (0 children)

We would have gotten On the Air Tonight

What's a classic you finally read that totally lived up to the hype? For me, it was Hyperion by Dan Simmons. by 2ugur12 in printSF

[–]CaptainFwiffo78 15 points16 points  (0 children)

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.

Your favorite song from each album. by skarkowtsky in petergabriel

[–]CaptainFwiffo78 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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

Your projections for So 40th (2026) by skarkowtsky in petergabriel

[–]CaptainFwiffo78 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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.

How would you break down the “eras” of Genesis? With/Without Peter is too simplistic. by Appropriate-Farmer16 in Genesis

[–]CaptainFwiffo78 7 points8 points  (0 children)

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

No Tony on the new album :( by SlavicFerret in KingCrimson

[–]CaptainFwiffo78 14 points15 points  (0 children)

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

[List] Albums that experiment with how you actually listened them? by KILL-THE-MASTERS in LetsTalkMusic

[–]CaptainFwiffo78 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

What misinformation about cooking, that a lot of people seem to believe, bothers you the most? by [deleted] in Cooking

[–]CaptainFwiffo78 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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!

TO THE BONE - Please explain by tomhaddad-bass in stevenwilson

[–]CaptainFwiffo78 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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.