Scale of 1-10, with 1 being worst, 10 being the best. Only the field blank if you have heard, no. Genesis – Trespass? Can – Tago Mago? Robert Wyatt – Rock Bottom? Guru Guru – Kanguru? Yes – Tales From Topographic Oceans? Van Der Graaf Generator – Godbluff? Renaissance – Prologue? Gentle Giant – In a Glass House? Gong – Angel's Egg? Faust – IV? Hawkwind – Space ritual? Amon Düül II – Wolf City? Can – soon over Babaluma? Hatfield & The North – Rotter's Club? The Move – Message from the Country? Nektar – Remember the Future? Klaus Schulze – Mirage? Gentle Giant – Playing the Fool? Renaissance – Ashes are Burning? King Crimson – Larks Tongues in Aspic? Amon Düül II – Yeti? Hawkwind – Hall Of The Mountain Grill? Magma – Mekanik Destruktïw Kommandöh? Genesis – Selling England by the Pound? BQ: Favorite album off this list? BQ2: Favorite song off of one of these albums?
OMG! I think I had one …. ! Wait a minute … I'm still dizzy … Okay, then – The 10s – 1 Genesis – Selling England By The Pound – "Cinema Show" 2 Robert Wyatt – Rock Bottom – "Sea Song" (my all-time favorite song) 3 Genesis – Trespass – "stagnation" (ha ha, you thought I would say, "The Knife" eh?) 4 Hatfield & The North – Rotter Club – "The Yes No Interlude / Fitter Stoke has a Bath / didn 't Matter Anyway" 5 Hawkwind – Space Ritual – "Space is Deep" 6th Klaus Schulze – Mirage fave (Schulze Album – Great to take a bath in order!) – "Velvet Voyage / Crystal Lake" 7 Magma – Mekanik Destruktïw Kommandöh – "Since Wortz Mekanik Zeuhl "8 Gentle Giant – Playing The Fool -" Variations on the album, Octopus "The 9s – 1 Van Der Graaf Generator – Godbluff -" Sleepwalkers "2 Gentle Giant – In a Glass House – "The Runaway" 3 King Crimson – Larks Tongues in Aspic – "The Talking Drum" (depends on my mood:) 4 Gong – Angel's Egg – "Oily Way" 5 Guru Guru – Kanguru (perhaps their best!) – "More Fun" 6 Renaissance – Ashes Are Burning – "Can you understand" and "Ashes Are Burning" 7 Can – Tago Mago – "Mushroom" 8 Amon Düül II – Wolf City nice (! Overlooked album!) – "Surrounded by the Stars" The 8s – 1 Amon Düül II – Yeti – "Soap Shop Rock" 2 Can – soon over Babaluma (another nice pick!) – "Chain Reaction" (Have You ever heard, "Landed"? ) 3rd Nektar – Remember the Future "(entire album)" 4 Yes – Tales From Topographic Oceans "Tracks 1, 2, & 4, as "5 Faust – IV (Faust fave album) -" (entire album) "6 Hawkwind – Hall Of The Mountain Grill (a transitional album for them) -" You should Believe It "and" Paradox "7 The Move – Message from the country (one of the founding fathers of prog) -" Ella James "8 Renaissance – Prologue – "Rajah Khan" will be back with comments and other explosions! Edit – BQ: Favorite album from this list – "Selling England" BQ2: Favorite Song None of these albums – the top listed in "quotes" Edit 2 – HEY! "There are no thumbs down in prog!" Knock-it-off, Toad:)) lol
Disc 1:DISC 1:IntroductionAstral ManRemember The Future, Pt. 1Marvelous MosesIt`s All Over/Good DayThat`s LifeShow Me The WayDisc 2:DISC 2:A Day In The Life Of A Pre…
Featuring material from albums including A Tab in the Ocean, Remember the Future, Recycled and Down to Earth, this live performance is from the 2002 Nearfest, at Patriots Theatre, New Jersey. The original line-up of the band perform classic songs with the aid of visual effects designer Mick Brockett. Also included is behind the scenes footage and interviews with the band members.
2011 collection from the German/British Prog Rock band. Nektar formed in Hamburg, Germany in 1969, members included Englishmen Roye Albrighton on guitars and vocals, Allan “Taff” Freeman on keyboards, Derek “Mo” Moore on bass, Ron Howden on drums, and Mick Brockett on lights, special effects and other miscellanea. Songwriting was always considered a group effort. The band’s early albums such as Journey to the Centre of the Eye, …Sounds Like This and A Tab in the Ocean were obscure psychedelic rock albums that won the band a small but growing cult following, based largely on word of mouth. The last of those albums was the first Nektar album to be released in the U.S., on the small Passport Records label. It was Nektar’s second U.S. release, Remember the Future (1973), that propelled the band briefly into mass popularity.
Featuring material from albums including A Tab in the Ocean, Remember the Future, Recycled and Down to Earth, this live performance is from the 2002 Nearfest, at Patriots Theatre, New Jersey. The original line-up of the band perform classic songs with the aid of visual effects designer Mick Brockett. Also included is behind the scenes footage and interviews with the band members.
Disc 1:DISC 1:RainbowsNew Day DawningPreludeAstronaut`s NightmareDream Nebula, Part 1, TheDream Nebula, Part 2, TheIt`s All In the MindBurn Out My EyesDo You Believe In MagicA Tab In the OceanCryin` In the DarkKing of TwilightGood DayNew Day DawningCast Your FateDisc 2:DISC 2:WingsRemember the Future, Part 2Astral ManNelly the ElephantFidgety QueenRecycleCybernetic ConsumptionRecycle CountdownAutomation HorrorscopeMarvellous MosesIt`s All OverAway From AsgardToo Young To DieTelephoneMan In the Moon
The first album from the prog rock Brits that found success in Germany at The Star Club. Performers: Allan Freeman – Keyboards; Derek Moore – Bass, Vocals; Ron Howden – Drums; Roye Albrighton – Guitar, Vocals
This is, as its title suggests, a companion to the Live in New York release. But for reasons known only to the record label, four of the nine tracks here were already covered on the previous album. Only “That’s Life” is improved enough in this performance to warrant the repetition, and it’s hard not to feel a bit cheated as a result. Still, the performaces are solid, and the material from the Down to Earth album is generally tighter than before; Albrighton provides some pleasingly amp-crunching guitar in the conclusion of “Fidgety Queen.” The inclusion of a live (if abbreviated) “Remember the Future” will satisfy those fans who would otherwise be stuck with the horribly mangled mix on Bellaphon’s CD reissue of the studio version. ~ Paul Collins, Rovi Performers: Allan Freeman – Keyboards; Dave Nelson – Guitar, Vocals; Derek Moore – Bass, Vocals; Ron Howden – Drums
Among Nektar fans, there are many who consider Remember the Future to be the band’s creative peak. The album certainly creates the grounds for making that argument. Indeed, it is an ambitious work that is essentially one composition divided into two parts
Disc 1:DISC 1:IntroductionAstral ManRemember The Future, Pt. 1Marvelous MosesIt`s All Over/Good DayThat`s LifeShow Me The WayDisc 2:DISC 2:A Day In The Life Of A PreacherDesolation ValleyRemember The Future, Pt. 2 (Tomorrow Never Comes)Remember The Future, Pt. 2 (Recognition)Crying In The Dark/King Of TwilightWhat Ya Gonna Do?Johnny B. Goode/Sweet Little Rock & Roller/Blue Suede Shoes/Whole Lotta Shakin` Goin` OnFidgety Queen
Disc 1:DISC 1:Crying In The Dark/King Of TwilightDesolation Valley/WavesA Day In The Life Of A Preacher (including The Birth Of Oh Willy)Summer BreezeCast Your FateDisc 2:DISC 2:Remember The Future, Part 1Odysee (Ron`s On)1-2-3-4Remember The Future, Part 2 (Let It Grow)What Ya Gonna Do?
The re-release of Nektar’s U.S. breakthrough album, Remember the Future, was issued after the band had been slogging it out on the road for years — most notably with Hawkwind. Remember the Future is a sprawling, gargantuan work that is essentially one co
Among Nektar fans, there are many who consider Remember the Future to be the band’s creative peak. The album certainly creates the grounds for making that argument. Indeed, it is an ambitious work that is essentially one composition divided into two parts. The whole is performed in a very seamless and competent manner. Still, many critics just plain didn’t get it. The juxtaposition of the two opinions makes this album to Nektar much like what Tales From Topographic Oceans was to Yes. The truth is probably somewhere between the two points, as it usually is. It truly is a very entertaining, well-written, and well-performed disc that showcases a very underrated band at the top of their game. Although this album isn’t one of their best, it definitely is not a slouch. It does have a few elements that detract from it a bit, though. First, there is a ’70s funk sound prevalent on the album that tends to date it a bit. Second, it can get to feel a bit repetitive. The final detriment is that the production quality sometimes feels a bit AM radio-ish and flat. All of these things only go so far in removing the album from the “masterpiece zone,” though. The bottom line is that this is a fine progressive rock release that should please not only fans of the band, but fans of groups like Yes and Genesis equally well. ~ Gary Hill, Rovi Performers: Allan Freeman – Keyboards, Vocals; Derek Moore – Bass, Vocals; Ron Howden – Drums, Percussion, Vocals; Roye Albrighton – Guitar, Vocals
NTSC/Region 0. The DVD features the original members of Nektar performing a live show (2002) which was filmed in the Pariot’s Theatre in New Jersey. EMI. 2005.
Psychedelic-influenced progressive rockers Nektar bring their innovative and highly visual stage show to the Harmonie Club in Bonn, Germany for a 2005 concert staged to celebrate thirty-five years of music and featuring thirteen fan favorites including “Cast Your Fate”, “Show me the Way”, “Recycled”, and “Fidgety Queen”. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
The production on the Iditarod’s 1998 debut is sparser than it would evolve into by the time of their The Ghost, the Elf, the Cat, and the Angel four years later. Yet the approach is the same: minimal, spooky folk-psych-pop featuring Carin Wagner’s tremulous vocals, mystically tinged words suggesting a fragile pastoralism, and overall establishing the mood of walking through an enchanted but haunted forest. Though the backing is dominated by acoustic guitar, it’s augmented by weird touches such as violin-like drones, eerie slide, disconsolate tambourine rattles, effects that sound like wind and dog barks through a white-noise filter, thunderstorm prattles, and chirping birds. It’s music for the slow hours and solitary places, for sure, Wagner’s voice sometimes faltering as though she’s afraid of waking the neighbors. On one of the more disquieting cuts, “Boat,” her quivering lead is doubled by another voice (hers?), faintly in the background, that sounds like a woman on the verge of a low-key nervous breakdown. The 2003 CD reissue adds nine bonus tracks from out of print singles and outtakes, similar to those on the proper album but sometimes a little more lo-fi (and occasionally live, if the low-volume crowd noise on some tracks is an accurate indication). Most of the bonus material presents songs not on the album in any form, with the exception of a live version of “Boat” and an “original version” of “Garden”; also among the bonus cuts are covers of Donovan’s “The Lullaby of Spring” and Brian Eno’s “The Fat Lady of Limbourg.” ~ Richie Unterberger, Rovi
The re-release of Nektar’s U.S. breakthrough album, Remember the Future, was issued after the band had been slogging it out on the road for years — most notably with Hawkwind. Remember the Future is a sprawling, gargantuan work that is essentially one composition in two parts — issued on vinyl, it’s split almost in the middle to accommodate the format. In many ways, and despite its length and wild excesses, it is the most accessible album Nektar ever released. One can hear the knotty, overdriven prog lines in most of it, but there is also pop and even traces of funk, and the boogie rock à la the Grateful Dead in parts. The disc drove critics nuts because they didn’t get it. It is as ambitious as Tales From Topographic Oceans and has vocal harmonies that are akin to both the Beach Boys and the Doobie Brothers in it! If this sounds like a mess, that’s because it is, but it’s a wonderful mess, one full of airy textures, loopy instrumental interludes, and gently psychedelic tropes. The tough, metallic-edged guitar and basslines are almost absent here, but that’s okay, too; because what is in its place is one of the most unique records ever to come out of the 1970s. The remastered version is a 5.1 surround sound remix and includes a SACD layer. The sound is breathtaking, crystalline, and warm. Also, the new issue includes three bonus track, an abridged version of the “Remember the Future” suite that, at nine-minutes-and-51-seconds, was a kind of hit on West German radio, and two radio promo single edits of the “Let It Grow,” and “Lovely Roads” sections. Complete lyrics and bio are also present in the liners. ~ Thom Jurek, Rovi Performers: Alan Taff Freedman – Vocals, Keyboards; Derek Moore – Vocals, Bass; Ron Howden – Percussion, Drums, Vocals; Roye Albrighton – Guitar, Vocals
The long-running British prog-rock band Nektar present one of their trademark stage extravaganzas with a concert recorded at the 2004 Rockpalast music festival. In addition to the full-length live performance, the program also includes interviews and a four-track acoustic set.
