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Engineers – Three Fact Fader

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Three Fact Fader is the second full album and third overall release from the band Engineers.  The record is available as an import from the excellent U.K. label Kscope.  Although in a live setting, Engineers feature a typical vocals/guitar/bass/drums lineup, their studio creations offer exactly what their name describes — an engineering of sound. What they’ve engineered with this release is a beautiful rush of shoegaze audio drone, So Cal vocal harmony, and Cocteau Twins layering.  It’s a CD with few exact touch points, but it’s completely amazing in its refreshing and all-encompassing charm.  Let’s take a listen to a few choice tracks.

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25 Great Moments in Rock Drumming: Nick Mason, “Time”

Pink Floyd Dark Side Of The Moon 25 Great Moments in Rock Drumming: Nick Mason, Time

25 Great Moments in Rock Drumming – Day 13: Nick Mason, “Time,” from Dark Side Of The Moon by Pink Floyd

“Time” features an extended intro of tape effects and Nick Mason’s percussion. Mason pounds out a series of evolving patterns against Rick Wright’s dream-like keyboards, establishing a dark, brooding table for David Gilmour and Roger Waters to finally set. Beyond the classic introduction, Mason plays it by the book, leaving plenty of room for Gilmour’s soaring guitar passages. Ticking away, the moments that make up a great tune!

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Why vinyl records rule

Pink Floyd Dark Side Of The Moon

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Scariest rock and roll songs of all time

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In the spirit of the upcoming Halloween weekend, Grand Rapids Press Sound Check writer John Sinkevics has posted his list of scariest rock songs ever. Included are tracks from Pink Floyd, Iron Butterfly and the Velvet Underground. I would add Iron Maiden’s “Murders In The Rue Morgue,”Alice Cooper’s “Halo Of Flies” and Blind Melon’s “Skinned” – just plain disturbing.

What rock songs scare you or are just plain spooktacular?

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Beyond eBay and Amazon: 5 Great Websites for Rare and Hard-To-Find CDs and Records

The Internet has opened up a new world market for record and CD collectors, where one can search for any LP by U2, Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin, or import CDs by Bruce Springsteen, the Eagles or Grateful Dead. If you want it, chances are you can find it. Websites such as eBay, Amazon.com and Craigslist have made it easy for anyone to be a buyer or seller of music. The problem is, most “sellers” don’t really know what they’re peddling. A prime example arose today when I was searching through my local Craigslist for-sale section: I came across a woman with a copy of The Beatles, Introducing The Beatles. To her credit, she mentioned that it’s one of the most counterfeited records of all time but didn’t explicitly say whether or not this copy was real or fake. She didn’t know. A couple clues pointed clearly that it was a dupe, but here was one of hundreds of such cases of a “seller” not knowing the product. I emailed her to let her know what she had, just so someone wouldn’t be taken and spend hundreds of dollars on a fake.

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Parallel Or Ninety Degrees – “A Can Of Worms”

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With recent news that Yorkshire, England’s, unintentionally incognito prog-rock ensemble, Parallel Or Ninety Degrees have reformed for live gigs and studio skullduggery, it’s appropriate that we examine their 2008 collection, A Can Of Worms.  Released on the conveniently named Progrock Records, this double-CD serves as a compilation of highlights from PO90’s five studio albums with previously unreleased material from an aborted experiment named A Kick In The Teeth For Civic Pride.  Although not sequenced chronologically, Worms shows a band blending the best of Dark Side-era Pink Floyd, the least commercial elements of Supertramp, modern drum and bass techno, Radiohead’s dips into electronically enhanced rock, and straight up thrash metal.  It’s as tasty a meal as it reads and warrants not only opening this Can Of Worms but going back for repeated tastes.

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Plastic Crimewave Sound – “Plastic Crimewave Sound”

Plastic Crimewave Sound

Somewhere shy of the live feedback outbursts of Quicksilver Messenger Service and The Grateful Dead, yet heavier, more demented and sludgier than The MC5 or The Stooges, lays Chicago’s Plastic Crimewave Sound.  Named after their vocalist, Plastic Crimewave, the crew draws from ’60’s garage punk psychedelia, the stoned-out desert mirages of Kyuss and Fu Manchu, the mid-80s thunder of Volcanosuns, the “Who gives a fuck if it’s been done before?” attitude of Roky and the 13th Floor Elevators and the polar opposites of Pink Floyd’s “Careful With That Axe, Eugene” and “The Nile Song.”

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Progressive Rock Music Quiz with Steven Wilson & Mikael Akerfeldt

Think you know your prog rock? Do you remember the details of every Pink Floyd, Genesis, Jethro Tull, King Crimson, Yes, Marillion, ELP album? Well, play along with Steven Wilson of Porcupine Tree and Mikael Akerfeldt of Opeth, as they do battle in this prog trivia shootout, and see how you fare.

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