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Faith No More – The Real Thing
Agnostic Front – Victim In Pain
Redd Kross – Annette's Got The Hits
Quicksand – Slip
Girls Against Boys – Cruise Yourself
Gorilla Biscuits – Start Today
Helmet – Meantime
Targets – Massenhysterie
The Jesus Lizard – Down
Lemonheads – Lick
The Movement – Move!
The Thermals - The Body The Blood The Machine
Turbonegro – Apocalypse Dudes
Uniform Choice – Screaming For Change
Unsane – Unsane
Victims Family – The Germ
Tumor Circus - Tumor Circus
Duh – Blowhard
Steel Pole Bath Tub – Scars From Falling Down
Angeschissen – Angeschissen
Misfits – Walk Among Us
Angry Samoans – Back From Samoa
Dropkick Murphys – Do Or Die
Siouxsie & The Banshees – Through The Looking Glass
Ween – Chocolate And Cheese

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Markov - rain inside
Celeste- on pendra les femmes et les enfants en premier
Maps & Atlases- you & me & the mountain
Smith Westerns- weekend
Busdriver- computer cooties
The Mars Volta- cotopaxi
Caravels- dream beaver
SexA- tidamja
Smith Westerns- smile
Now, Now- neighbors
Gorilla Biscuits- stand still
Optimus- thousand
Cheveu- ice, ice baby
Teenage Panzerkops- german reggea
Quicksand- head to wall
Matt Pryor- i'm sorry stephen
Golden Axe- sexual angel
Four Tet- and they all look brokenhearted
Super Furry Animals- run-away
La Femme- sur la planche
Rival Schools- travel by telephone
Toxic Holocaust- war is hell
Mihai Edrisch- naatre
The Girls at Dawn- it's getting cold
Frontier(s)- von veneer
Mogwai- cody
Vitamin X- watcha gonna do
Sonny Vincent- i don't care anymore

When rating Prog albums I try to do so in a historical context, that is how an album compares against the musical ancestry. This means that the best album for any given year, which most people would rate with top marks may not receive the same rating in my charts as only the best albums of all time should get the highest ratings... This chart includes compilations, live albums and also any non-Prog albums I buy.

My Ratings:
Note: I vote on a bell curve, anything above 6 is really good, anything much below 4 really isn't :D
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1. (=) Finch - Glory of the Inner Force (1975) - 8.00
2. (=) Steven Wilson - Grace for Drowning (2011) - 7.96
3. (=) Gentle Giant - Free Hand (1975) - 7.77
4. (=) Phideaux - Snowtorch (2011) - 7.75
5. (=) Gentle Giant - In A Glass House (1973) - 7.67
6. (=) Marsupilami - Marsupilami (1970) - 7.61
7. (=) Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells (1973) - 7.61
8. (=) Gentle Giant - The Power And The Glory (1974) - 7.57
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This week, my Tuesday Ten is a bit later than usual, but still on a Tuesday. It's all about bands you probably haven't heard of. Of course, there are some of you that have. Hence the probably. Then again, if you know me well enough, you might well have heard me carp on about a few of these bands at least once.

Still, maybe you might find something new that you like here. If not, maybe I'll do this with another ten bands sometime. And I'd love to know your suggestions for something I might like (see the end).

Acumen Nation
Listen to: Gun Lover, Parasite Mine

A Chicago industrial band that have remained a somewhat underground band throughout their career, which has always remained something of a mystery to me. Perhaps it's the sheer aggression, or the fact that their sound frequently falls between the two stools of industrial and metal. Calling their latest album Psycho the Rapist probably didn't help, either. Despite the apparent lack of name recognition (at least outside of the US)…

Drummer or someone to program beats (18+) on a sequencer or laptop needed in the Birmingham (specifically Walsall) area for a punk/post-hardcore band. Influences:
At the Drive-In
Blood Brothers
Bad Brains
Fugazi
Drive Like Jehu
Hot Snakes
Mogwai
Fucked Up
The Mars Volta
That Fucking Tank
Rolo Tomassi
Hot Water Music
The Plot To Blow Up The Eiffel Tower
Quicksand

Right, that's enough whoring for hits, you get the general idea. Just drop me a message if you're interested!

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Deftones – Diamond Eyes

What are Deftones famous for? Well, primarily it’s all about simple metal riffs crossed with epic refrains and fronted with the spectacular voice of Chino Moreno. It all comes soaring back in Diamond Eyes. Whereas with their previous album ‘Saturday Night Wrist’, the album was recorded separately by each member and in doing so formed a distanced and inorganic record, this time the album was recorded as a unit. Tragically without the input of their bassist Chi Cheng (who was involved in a car accident in 2009 and is recovering from a coma) they instead recruited Quicksand bassist Sergio Vega to fill in (and in doing so shelved ‘Eros’, an album written with Cheng). The first single from Diamond Eyes, ‘Rocket Skates’ was a phenomenal return to form – fusing the enigmatic lyrics of Moreno with soaring synth lines and dirty metal riffs. The screaming chorus of “Guns! Razors! Knives!” is breathtaking. The title track ‘Diamond Eyes’ followed with a slightly softer and expansive sound. …

Mixtape Vol. VII – Not Quite Punk

It’s been a while since the last tape, but who’s counting?
I like “punk music” (I think?) And so by default I should like some things that sound punk, but I don’t always. So here are some bands that I’ve always considered “punk” bands despite the fact that they don’t sound or look like the generic punk. I was tempted to chuck in stuff like Oingo Boingo, The Cramps, Communiqué even Cold Cave for some reason, stuff that have/has/had ties to punk but haven’t been co-oped and exist in their own right.
But this tape came mainly from my favouritism for the Replacement’s sound and everything in-between.

A Side
01. The Replacements – Alex Chilton
02. Guided By Voices – Unleashed! The Large Hearted Boy
03. Husker Du – Green Eyes
04. The Pixies – Here Comes Your Man
05. The Lemonheads – Luka (Suzanne Vega cover)
06. The Posies – What Little Remains
07. Violent Femmes – Kiss Off
08. The Gun Club – Black Train
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