Some 'easy' listening King Crimson. King Crimson does a lot of improv and experimental stuff and so many of their tracks are ridiculously cacophonic, but once in a while they hit some unique lovely melody that just takes you places.
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I've listened to their first 2 albums now: Chicago Transit Authority and Chicago II. It's not quite the usual stuff I listen to, but I think I'll learn to like it a lot. My impression is that pretty much everything they produce is good, but simultaneously it's bit hard to pick highlights because I'm not that attuned to it yet. They're a little bit hard to put down as they seem to produce anything from rock to almost classical I guess a bit like a less experimental King Crimson...
Here are some of the tracks I've like the most.
Introduction First track on Chicago Transit Authority. This kind Jazz Rock seems to be their bread and butter.
Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is? This feels a bit familiar for some reason. Is it used frequently in movies?
Listen Bread and butter stuff.
Poem for the People First track on Chicago II to catch my attention.
25 or 6 to 4 (25 or 26 minutes to 4 o'clock) Coming off the classic rock train right now, this is the only real highlight for me so far. I don't remember where I heard it, but this is what introduced me to Chicago in the first place. It's part of the Chicago II album. It's mainly due to the very similar guitar riff, but it feels like a 'Big Band' take on Led Zeppelin's Babe I'm gonna leave you.
Memories of Love A little mini classical/jazz/blues/opera thing (Is that a thing??). One of 3 'operas' on the album. In reality this piece is credited as 4 separate tracks: Prelude, A.M. Mourning, P.M. Mourning, Memories of Love. It fits kind of nicely next to King Crimson's Bolero
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For some reason I'm binging some non-English tracks.
Bulgarian:
German:
Dutch:
Spanish:
I wish Nena - Irgenwie,irgendwo,irgenwann would get a proper remaster/remake. The audio quality just isn't there and I feel like it would benefit from a little bit of modernization. I basically want something like that version with Kim Wilde, but without the Kim Wilde...
edit: Bonus German:
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Great Album, Awesome Energy! I don't think there's a single bad song on there
Biggest highlights for me:
Brain of J. Awesome energetic catchy start to the album. That "Whole world will be different soon" loop is just such an earworm.
Faithfull Not too much to say here. It's simply a well-rounded track.
No Way I like that guitar riff.
Do the Evolution The centerpiece of the album. Surely this has to be one of the most legendary music videos out there, right? The song is so angry, but it's with the accompanying clip that it truly shines! Also Death is hot
Low Light A bit of softer rock, to balance out the album after all the angrier tracks that preceded it.
All Those Yesterdays + Hummus A 'two for one' deal. first a bit more of the 'soft' rock (relatively speaking), and then hidden bonus track in the form of Hummus: A weird little out of place medley, but not unpleasant at all.
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Not sure how I found this artist anymore, they don't play 'em on the radio on this side of the globe, but AJR seems to have some really great songs sometimes.
World's Smallest Violin
I Won't
Maybe Man
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I can't get over how amazing the OST is for Heroes of the Storm's Hanamura stage.
It's so epic D:
And on a sidenote... How is the real Hanamura track from Overwatch so terrible!? It starts off well enough, but then the percussion arrives and it just becomes dreadful... like some sort of production error with 2 separate tracks playing through one another... WTF?
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