The More You Live, The More You Love

Top 50 1980 - 1989 in no particular order: A nice e-mail conversation with an editor of the progressive rock magazine iO Pages, brought us to our lists of top albums from the decades of our youth. He is from the sixties, my roots lies in the eighties. I came with a top 50 of albums in no specific order. I know this is a list of the day created, at another place in time it for sure will look different. Already I noticed bands who are missing, albums overseen. But well it's the top 50 of today. artiest titel jaar van uitgave 10CC Windows In The Jungle 1983 Adventures, The Sea Of Love 1988 Berlin Count Three And Pray 1986 Big Country The Crossing 1982 Bush, Kate The Hounds Of Love 1987 Camel Stationary Traveller 1984 China Crisis Working With Fire And Steel 1983 Clan Of Xymox Clan Of Xymox 1985 Deacon Blue When The World Knows Your Name 1989 ...

After a while finally a new volume. volume 25 01. Peter Godwin - Emotional Disguise (extended) 02. Peter Coyle - Closer 03. Care - Whatever Possessed You 04. Freedom - Obsession 05. Ghostdance - Celebrate 06. Cava Cava - The Clown 07. The Kingfishers - David 69 08. The Weather Prophets - Why Does The Rain 09. Bradford - Gang Of One 10. Jazzateers - Black And White 11. After This - Fields (extended) 12. The Danse Society - Red Light (shine) 13. Les Enfants - Slipaway (single version) 14. Niagra Calla - All Your Love 15. Power - Sad Boy 16. McCarthy - Should The Bible Be Banned 17. Fatal Charm - King Of Comedy 18. B-Movie - Institution Walls 19. Kudos - Better Late Than Never Since several people were asking to resend some of the older volumes, here are volume 10 , volume 15 and volume 24 .

Already halfway through July and time to update my top 10 of the new releases of this year. 01. Unheilig - Lichter der Stadt 02. It Bites - Map Of The Past 03. Galahad - Battle Scars 04. DeeExpus - King Of Number 33 05. Mothlite - Dark Age 06. Rush - Clockwork Angels 07. Ultravox - Brilliant 08. Clock Opera - Ways To Forget 09. No-Man - Love And Endings 10. Squackett - a Life Within A Day

DEEEXPUS King Of Number 33 (EAR MUSIC / EDEL) From now on DeeExpus can count on the attention of a wider audience and their fame will only increase. Although I have to admit that their musical experience on King Of Number 33 also without the incorporation of Marillion keyboardist Mark Kelly would have succeeded. Multi-instrumentalist Andy Ditchfield and singer Tony Wright wrote the album which is centered around the 26 minute King Of Number 33. A six-piece Magnus opus on the downfall of a local eccentric from Tony Wright's youth, who was obsessed with buses and the English monarchy in the past. The pallet from which this beautiful musical landscape has been created, shows references to Porcupine Tree, Marillion, Dream Theater and Riverside, where one does not shun even the gothic grunge. Opener Me And My Downfall directly shows the Porcupine Tree / Marillion references. Great riffs and the familiar strumming guitars. With the me...

Unheilig, Lichter der Stadt tour Support by Staubkind & Andreas Bourani 30 juni 2012, MEP Arena, Meppen, Germany An evening in Meppen. Oh how hard it was to get to the stadion. The parkings turned to be full so in the end we parked our car along a road. From there it was a 1.8 kilometer walk. Since we had to wait so long in the traffic jam, we arrived when Staubkind was already playing. Unfortunately we hardly knew the songs, so no setlist. What I heard was a band sounding like a clone of Unheilig. Time to have a drink, which turned out to be a journey on itself. Nearly 15 minutes waiting to get two drinks, and a girl at the counter which showed to be a bitch. The way she was serving the customers, if I was her boss I kicked her out right away. The stress overtook her totally and she abreacted it on the customers. Beerglasses were put down on the counter with such force that the content overflowed the glass. She nearly threw the change to the customers, and ignored people...

The bill looked nice, although the Belgium bands were a mystery to me. So as a result we decided to enter the festival around half past three just before the start of Amy MacDonald. So we already missed The Scabs and 't Hof van Commerce. Amy MacDonald just released her third album this year, and the setlist was a cross section of all three albums. She has a strong voice, and most of the time the songs sounds like the studio versions. It is hard to get her out of her comfort zone, so the hour was filled with an Amy hidden behind guitar and microphone. She even played an acoutic version of the Bruce Springsteen classic Born To Run. Next on the bill was Kaiser Chiefs. They played an hour of mainly hits, and most of the tracks are from their recently released album Souvenir. Not bad music, a mixture of rock, ska and punk with some references to the Beatles. But it gets boring when their singer has the need to keep yelling "We are the Kaiser Chiefs" between ...

Sean Filkins War And Piece & Other Short Stories (Festival Music 201103) The debut of the former frontman of Big Big Train is one you shouldn't have missed in the past year. Over sixty minutes of pure progressive rock references to a very gala of predecessor, with a most striking reference to the second instrumental part Sirens Song of Epitath Of A Mariner, which sounds very familiar to the eighties work of Tangerine Dream. Sean Filkins was a member of Big Big TRain at the time of the albums Gathering Speed and The Difference Machine. Precisely during the period when the band decided to broaden their musical horizon. This can clearly be heard on his debut. Filkins is a storyteller, who performs his stories like Nick Barrett, although vocally he is much stronger and sounds like a crossover of early Phil Collins and Alan Reed, while ex- Galahad bassplayer Lee Abraham, responsible for the instrumental support, covers the production, assisted by Karl Groom and Filkins him...