Posting My Old ProgArchives Reviews #19: Three • Two

Posted on 2021-11-22

This review is gonna be a bit quicker than most of the other Soft Machine reviews because the old review got trashed by an internet crash and all that bad stuff and there were like 3 paragraphs so I don't really have the time and patience to make this the best it could be so sorry about that. Anyways this albums is very good. The live songs are honestly spot on. I loved the minimalistic tracks like Between and ... read more

Posting My Old ProgArchives Reviews #18: No Choice But Too Get Weird

Originally posted on 2021-11-21

After 4 albums, Soft Machine made it big in the Canterbury Scene. They started off with a more psychedelic sound with The Soft Machine and Volume Two. Then they experimented and became a more experimental, free form jazzy band with Third and Fourth. And now we see the fifth culmination of that, which so happens to be called 5. I had no idea where Soft would go after Third and after the more ... read more

Posting My Old ProgArchives Reviews #17: Third Times The Charm, Really!

Posted on 2021-11-21

The end of the first trilogy of albums by Soft Machine. We came a bit of a long way. The first album showing the band's sound, Volume Two improving on said sound, and now we have the ever beloved Third. An album I heard from many as one of Soft Machine's best albums. I was pretty stoked to hear why. Now after listening to it I can definitely get the love around this record.
Unlike the last 2 ... read more

Posting My Old ProgArchives Reviews #16: 2nd Times The Charm, Right?

Posted on 2021-11-21

After I listened to their first album, I was pretty interested in more Soft Machine. How will this Canterbury band improve on the sound they established in their first album. So I listened to Volume 2 to see how they'll do it. Did they improve the things that were wrong with the first record? I wanted to find out.
The album starts with an introduction. A prelude of sorts, introducing the album and ... read more

Posting My Old ProgArchives Reviews #15: A Machine Is Built

Posted on 2021-11-20

First albums are indeed really rocky for bands. While some hit it out of the park on the first try, some bands might wanna retake a test or two when they first start out. Pink Floyd started a little rocky with Piper but then soon became one of the biggest bands ever. Weather Report while still having a fusion sound, started off a tad rough around the edges with their debut self titled album. Now do I fault these ... read more

Posting My Old ProgArchives Reviews #14: The Legend, Never A Myth However

Originally posted on 2021-11-20

I have always loved some weird and more abstract music. Stuff like The Residents, Captain Beefheart, Frank Zappa, etc and etc. Avant Garde music is pretty neat to me on how they can blend both traditional and non traditional musical elements together to make a weird, hypnotic, or sometimes creepy experience. With that being said I won't call it my favorite genre of music, or Prog, ... read more

Posting My Old ProgArchives Reviews #12: The Early Tools

Originally posted on 2021-11-14

Metal is a genre I am fairly familiar with. Hard basses, slamming drums, shredding and hard guitars. However Metal and Rock co-exist together. One can balance itself onto another if so desired. Hard Rock - Hard Metal, Post Rock - Post Metal, Jazz Rock - Jazz Metal, the list goes on and on. This also applies to Prog Rock. There is Prog Rock bands and so there will be Prog Metal bands. One of the most ... read more

Posting My Old ProgArchives Reviews #11: The Art In Blinds

Originally posted on 2021-11-13

Art is a experimental world. Even the most commercial of art is built on at least some experimentations. I feel like before this night, I was blind too this thought process. Even when I have listened to other Avant Garde or experimental works, I haven't fully grasped the true purpose of art. But after listening to this album, I found what I have missed. A band in Japan taught me, that no matter how ... read more

Posting My Old ProgArchives Reviews #10: Passion Filled In One Play

Originally posted on 2021-11-11

In the late 1960s, Jethro Tull released their first album, 'This Was'. A folk rock album, not in the vain of Progressive Rock, however some of it's songs have a sort of experimental edge that differentiated them from the folk rock bands at the time. 3 years later, Jethro Tull released 'Aqualung'. A star stunning progressive rock record that both shaped the two worlds of ... read more

Posting My Old ProgArchives Reviews #9: A Very Cunning Stunt

Originally posted on 2021-11-10

The Canterbury Scene is not really a genre I listen to very often. Heck the only album I listened to from the whole genre is Fourth by Soft Machine and I only thought that album was just Ok. Nothing too special. This made me feel a little discouraged too check out any more albums from the Canterbury Scene, until I decided to listen to this album, and oh boy, I was missing out on some good, funky and ... read more

Posting My Old ProgArchives Reviews #8: First Come First Serve

For a first album, I say Jethro Tull at least got their folk sound across, not really their Prog sound. Debut records for Prog bands vary. For some bands, their first aren't gonna be like the records they'll make in the future, look at The Moody Blues, Pink Floyd, heck even King Crimson too some degree with Giles, Giles, and Fripp. With that being said, Jethro Tull at least started out with something pretty fine, if not ... read more

Posting My Old ProgArchives Reviews #7: 4 Of A Pretty Mediocre Pair

Originally posted on 2021-11-8

I have listened to a lot of records, a lot a lot of records. I have listened too a lot of good, and a lot of bad. This year alone I listened too uncountable amounts of records, each different from the last. Some of these records are by Yes, the famous Prog rock band. I listened to them all, the first LP, Close to the Edge, Relayer, Then and Now, Union, The Ladder, 90125, I have been too them ... read more

Posting My Old ProgArchives Reviews #6: Nonsensical Politics

Review originally posted on 2021-11-8

This is one of the best spoofs of rock and roll I have heard yet. The Residents isn't really what I call a band, but more of a art collective that makes music(?). With that, their first album 'Meet The Residents' showcased their Avant- Garde and experimental sound they were fully capable of, however here, they pulled out no stops and made something that I legit don't know how ... read more

Posting My Old ProgArchives Reviews #5: Adding To It

Originally posted on 2021-11-7

This is a pretty good EP from NIN. NIN then from now is very interesting. Then they were a very industrial, heavy hitting band that did not mess around, now they still are just more experimental, and with that I respect Trent Reznor a lot. He makes music he wants too and if he is going down the Experimental rabbit hole with his rock music, than sure, why not. I liked all the tracks on this EP, I thought Less ... read more

Posting My Old ProgArchives Reviews #4: When The Kraut Had Rocked Enough

Originally posted on 2021-11-7

I am gonna put this very simply, this is not my favorite Can album, heck it's my least favorite. It may be inoffensive at worst, but even then, this is not the Can I know and love. Some of the songs are alright, Don't Say No, Call Me, Fly By Night, all pretty good songs all around, however the album lacks that early Can feeling, that Krautrock vibe of their old works. Monster ... read more

Posting My Old ProgArchives Reviews #3: Smart Ambitions

Rush has got to be the smartest band in the 80s. While yes in the 70s to the 80s, their sound of course became a tad more synthy in a way, they still stayed true to their hard rock music, due to the fact that hard rock was big in the 80s, so why change it? I feel like this album perfectly encapsulates what hard rock was in the 80s and how Rush evolved with that decade.
Permanent Waves starts off with the amazing first track, The Spirit of ... read more

Posting Old ProgArchives Reviews #2: No More Love, Same Ol’ Pop
Originally posted on 2021-11-6

This was the biggest turning point for The Beatles. After 3 love focused pop songs, and 3 more albums that took the band in a bit of an experimental direction, here we see the cultivation of what the band can lead too and what will follow. While still retaining their early sort of flow, they knew that with a changing time, they knew love songs won't make them as big as they were in their ... read more

Posting Old Progarchives Reviews #1: Opening Their Eyes

Originally posted in 2021-11-6

After their let down of an album, Open Your Eyes, I feel like Yes ironically did just that with this album. It may not be a groundbreaking album like the albums in the 70s, but this time, it feels like they are straying away a bit from the sound they had in the 80s and early 90s and came through with something that combined the symphonic sounds of the 70s, the accessibility of the 80s, and the hard rocking ... read more

For many, obscurity and popularity are two things that never cross paths. For them, it’s either you never heard of them, or you’ve heard everything from them. I would like to break this process away from the status quo, since I fully believe that an album can be both obscure and very popular, as long as you know where to go. In online music communities, people can find and hear albums they never knew existed before, and that is generally how I discover most of my music. Music ... read more

With the advent of the internet, people have been able to find both new and old music much more easily. That is something I probably said a few times before, and really, it is a mere fact in the grand scheme of things. We constantly and consistently find new albums and artists to sink our teeth into, whether it be a new top album we saw on a chart, or by happenstance from a friend online. We see things, we hear things, and we find things 100 times quicker than 50 years ago. This can obviously ... read more