The Mars Volta

Solo tengo
Una hora
Y me duermo
Terminado

Because they are awesome, and because Lolicat is starting to get into them.

L'Via L'Viaquez is a fucking chooon.

Artist: The Mars Volta
Album: Frances The Mute
Genre: Alternative Rock, Progressive Rock
MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/themarsvolta

Track Listing:
1. "Cygnus....Vismund Cygnus" – 13:02
2. "The Widow" – 5:51
3. "L'Via L'Viaquez" – 12:22
4. "Miranda That Ghost Just Isn't Holy Anymore" – 13:10
5. "Cassandra Gemini" – 32:32

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Porcupine Tree

Another Porcupine Tree album for you. This is their 2005 release Deadwing. It has Michael Åkerfeldt of Opeth and Adrian Belew of King Crimson (Download some of their albums from this blog, do it) making appearances on some tracks. It's proper good like.

Artist: Porcupine Tree
Album: Deadwing
Genre: Progressive Rock
MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/porcupinetree

Track Listing:
1. "Deadwing" – 9:46
2. "Shallow" – 4:17
3. "Lazarus" – 4:18
4. "Halo" – 4:38
5. "Arriving Somewhere But Not Here" – 12:02
6. "Mellotron Scratch" – 6:57
7. "Open Car" – 3:46
8. "The Start of Something Beautiful" – 7:39
9. "Glass Arm Shattering" – 6:12

Download: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=HV8U0X23

-Steel Lord

King Crimson

Frame by frame (Suddenly)
Death by drowning (from within)
In your, in your analysis.






















Artist: King Crimson
Albums: Discipline (Red), Beat (Blue), Three of a Perfect Pair (Yellow)
Genre: Progressive Rock
MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/officialkingcrimson

King Crimson is perhaps one of the most influential Progressive Rock bands in existence. Started by Robert Fripp in 1969 (Fripp has been the only member of the band to remain with the group through its entirety), the group's sound has evolved over its 35-year span from basic rock with heavy jazz influence in its early stages to an impressive experimental progressive rock group, flush with incredible musicians and improvisations. The three albums Discipline, Beat, and Three of a Perfect Pair were created from 1981 to 1984 using a line-up of Robert Fripp on guitar, Adrian Belew on vocals and guitar, Tony Levin on bass guitar and Chapman Stick, and Bill Bruford on drums and percussion, and is perhaps the group's best line-up. The material produced in these three albums with this line-up is the most experimental of the band's music, and is pure ear candy.

Album: Discipline
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Tracklist:
1. Elephant Talk – (4:43)
2. Frame By Frame – (5:09)
3. Matte Kudasai – (3:47)
4. Indiscipline – (4:33)
5. Thela Hun Ginjeet – (6:26)
6. The Sheltering Sky – (8:22)
7. Discipline – (5:13)

Album: Beat
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Tracklist:
1. Neal and Jack and Me – (4:22)
2. Heartbeat – (3:54)
3. Sartori in Tangier – (3:54)
4. Waiting Man – (4:27)
5. Neurotica – (4:48)
6. Two Hands – (3:23)
7. The Howler – (4:13)
8. Requiem – (6:48)

Album: Three of a Perfect Pair
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Tracklist:
1. Three of a Perfect Pair – (4:13)
2. Model Man – (3:49)
3. Sleepless – (5:24)
4. Man With An Open Heart – (3:05)
5. Nuages (That Which Passes, Passes Like Clouds) – (4:47)
6. Industry – (7:04)
7. Dig Me – (3:16)
8. No Warning – (3:29)
9. Lark's Tongues in Aspic Part III – (6:05)

Porcupine Tree

Let's sleep together, right now. Relieve the pressure, somehow. Switch off the future, right now. Let's sleep forever.

Review from drownedinsound.com -

"After forming two decades ago as an excruciatingly elaborate joke, Porcupine Tree have somehow become one of the most devastatingly poignant progressive rock bands around today. In what is essentially one continuous piece of music split into six movements, their ninth studio album holds a bleak perspective of modern society, telling a story of a desolate future through a teenager’s eyes.

Kicking off with the chaotic, mesmeric title track, their intent is apparent from the get-go. Carefully picked guitars give way to swirling synthesizers and irrepressible syncopations but ultimately the anxious candour of the lyrics cuts right through it all. The Hertfordshire-based four-piece have never been the cheeriest of souls but while a couple of more sanguine tracks were always hidden amongst the shadowy underworld they painted in recent tour de forces In Absentia and Deadwing. There is nothing like that here. There is no respite from this doom and gloom.

Some outstandingly gentle, string-laden melancholy can be found in ‘My Ashes’ and ‘Sentimental’ has delicate, otherworldly qualities to it, but the cornerstone of the album is the snarling beast that is ‘Anesthetize’. At nearly 18 minutes it manages to reach majestic peaks of devastating sonic grandeur shortly after the twinkling opening where Steven Wilson’s plaintive vocals intensify his brooding lyrics and add a cold frisson to the already menacing atmosphere. A rare cameo from Rush guitarist Alex Lifeson is lovely but easily missed with so many imposing and spectacular climaxes found here.

Fear Of A Blank Planet is a lonely and ambiguous tale fearing for the future, spoken softly against a complex arrangement of symphonic swirling guitars and absolutely watertight drumming. The result is an often crushingly heavy masterpiece that has true meaning with or without the music. It’s a rare thing these days but Porcupine Tree seem able to do it time and again. This album is no exception."

Fantastic album. Listen to it or I beat you, 'kay?

Artist: Porcupine Tree
Album: Fear Of A Black Planet
Genre: Progressive Rock
MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/porcupinetree

Track Listing:
1. "Fear of a Blank Planet" – 7:28
2. "My Ashes" – 5:07
3. "Anesthetize" – 17:42
4. "Sentimental" – 5:26
5. "Way Out of Here" – 7:37
6. "Sleep Together" – 7:28

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- Your Friendly Neighbourhood Steel Lord

Rush

Artist: Rush
Album: A Farewell To Kings
Genre: Progressive Rock
Band Webpage: http://www.rush.com

A Farewell To Kings is Rush's fifth album. It features a whole slew of epic tracks. The first and title track begins with an acoustic finger-picked intro followed by hard rock. Xanadu (the title is taken from Coleridge's Kubla Kahn. This track happens to be my favorite of the album) begins with a very epic intro with guitar harmonics, an E pedal tone, and drumming, but soon kicks into high gear. The lyrics are also taken from Kubla Kahn. Cygnus X-1 follows the fictional space voyage to Cygnus X-1, which is considered to be one of the most likely black hole candidates in the universe. The other tracks, while not quick as epic, help attribute to the whole album's feel.

Tracklist:
1. A Farewell To Kings (5:53)
2. Xanadu (11:07)
3. Closer To The Heart (2:53)
4. Cinderella Man (4:22)
5. Madrigal (2:36)
6. Cygnus X-1 (10:21)

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Jethro Tull

Sitting on a park bench, eyeing little girls with bad intent. Snot running down his nose, greasy fingers smearing shabby clothes. Drying in the cold sun, watching as the frilly panties run. Feeling like a dead duck, spitting out pieces of his broken luck.

Aqualung is the fourth, and best known, album by Jethro Tull. The music is a mixture of hard rock and folk melodies while the lyrics refer to some of societies seedier characters (Aqualung is about a homeless paedophile, Cross-Eyed Mary is about an under-age prostitute) and also presents some Pro-God but Anti-Church musings about faith and religion.

This is one of my favourite albums, so I deeply recommend it to everyone.

Artist: Jethro Tull

Album: Aqualung
Genre: Progressive Rock
Official Site: http://www.j-tull.com/

Track Listing:
1. "Aqualung" – 6:31
2. "Cross-Eyed Mary" – 4:06
3. "Cheap Day Return" – 1:21
4. "Mother Goose" – 3:51
5. "Wond'ring Aloud" – 1:53
6. "Up To Me" – 3:14
7. "My God" – 7:08
8. "Hymn 43" – 3:14
9. "Slipstream" – 1:13
10. "Locomotive Breath" – 4:23
11. "Wind Up" – 6:01

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