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Over 100GB of live Genesis bootlegs and unreleased studio material dating from 1973 through 2007 has just been leaked. If you're interested, grab them ASAP as the torrent has already been shut down.

EDIT: now that link has been shut down too. Bugger. Will keep my eyes open for another link.

EDIT EDIT: there's a playlist on YouTube featuring all the bootlegs. Grab those while you can.

EDIT EDIT EDIT: now that YT playlist is gone too. Am kicking myself for not PreserveTubing that shit. I don't remember seeing such heavy-handed attempts by (((rightsholders))) to shut an artist's bootlegs down. Unless it's on Soulseek or someone uploads it to Rutracker (bless those Russians and their attitude to copyright), these could prove challenging to find.
 
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Pee Cola said:
Over 100GB of live Genesis bootlegs and unreleased studio material dating from 1973 through 2007 has just been leaked. If you're interested, grab them ASAP as the torrent has already been shut down.

EDIT: now that link has been shut down too. Bugger. Will keep my eyes open for another link.

EDIT EDIT: there's a playlist on YouTube featuring all the bootlegs. Grab those while you can.

EDIT EDIT EDIT: now that YT playlist is gone too. Am kicking myself for not PreserveTubing that shit. I don't remember seeing such heavy-handed attempts by (((rightsholders))) to shut an artist's bootlegs down. Unless it's on Soulseek or someone uploads it to Rutracker (bless those Russians and their attitude to copyright), these could prove challenging to find.
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Yeah the Genesis Gigaleak debacle is a total clusterfuck. There is a lot of golden material in there (the full Glasgow 1976 soundboard from the Trick of the Tail tour being a prime example, plus all the soundboard recordings of the 1982 Encore tour which was the last to feature Supper’s Ready played in full) but for whatever reason this one caused a massive crackdown from Concorde despite Genesis having a massive freely-circulating bootleg system through sites like Genesis Movement for years.
 
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Yeah the Genesis Gigaleak debacle is a total clusterfuck. There is a lot of golden material in there (the full Glasgow 1976 soundboard from the Trick of the Tail tour being a prime example, plus all the soundboard recordings of the 1982 Encore tour which was the last to feature Supper’s Ready played in full) but for whatever reason this one caused a massive crackdown from Concorde despite Genesis having a massive freely-circulating bootleg system through sites like Genesis Movement for years.
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Yep and sites like Genesis Movement became collateral damage as a result of Concorde's Nintendo-like heavyhandedness in shutting it down.

Not sure if you (or any other Farmers) are aware, but the torrent is still online via a magnet link. To get the link, you'll need to use an online magnet link generator and paste 26c8170ad8afea5bb877c8c07f1c4906c41f6c09 into the infohash box. Open the generated magnet file in your BT client and there you are.

Plenty of seeders on there at the moment (myself included), so grab it while you can as it probably won't be seeded forever.
 
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Fuck it’s been six two whole months since anyone has posted in this thread.

Fuck you, this genre whose heyday was four years from 1969 to 1973 was the peak of pop music. Teenagers 1000 years from now will still be getting into Yes and Rush and Kansas and there’s no amount of Grunge or Rap or Country that can change this. This stupid fucking genre that blows jazz and blues out of the water has been the sole vector with which I have associated with other people for a reason: it’s fucking interesting and takes a medium people usually relegate as background to the forefront.
 
I’m double posting fuck you.

Double albums were a hallmark of Prog during it’s financial height. All of them suck, they’re bloated messes that could stand to lose 20-30 minutes of music save for a single exception: Focus III by Focus. That albums is perfect and the only time a double album has been justified (looking at you, Metropolis part 2: Scenes from a Memory by Dream Theater).

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Prog is quality slop, we only like it because it’s good.
 
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My favorite thing to do as a progfag is sending my friends various tracks and immediately seeing them get filtered by the song lengths.
"THE FUCK YOU DOIN' SENDIN' ME A 10-20 MINUTE SONG"

Also just now started listening to Porcupine Tree/Steven Wilson, very good stuff.
 
Korpon said:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=2qSPD_h0KQ4My favorite thing to do as a progfag is sending my friends various tracks and immediately seeing them get filtered by the song lengths.
"THE FUCK YOU DOIN' SENDIN' ME A 10-20 MINUTE SONG"

Also just now started listening to Porcupine Tree/Steven Wilson, very good stuff.
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I have a friend who is exactly like this, lol.
Also, Porcupine Tree is kino, I recommend all the albums from Lightbulb Sun to Fear of a Blank Planet, you really can't go wrong with those albums.
 
Helping Friendly Book said:
I have a friend who is exactly like this, lol.
Also, Porcupine Tree is kino, I recommend all the albums from Lightbulb Sun to Fear of a Blank Planet, you really can't go wrong with those albums.
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I've gotten around to listening to all them, absolutely exquisite stuff. "Lightbulb Sun" and "Russia on Ice" were my favorites from Lightbulb Sun, "Blackest Eyes" and "Trains" were my favorite two from In Absentia, "Arriving Somewhere but Not Here" (of course), "Start of Something Beautiful" and "Glass Arm Shattering" were my favorites from Deadwing.

But I'd say Fear of a Blank Planet was my overall favorite of the albums, I enjoyed seeing the Frippster have a collaboration with them by providing the soundscape to "Way Out of Here", along with Rush's Alex Lifeson having a solo on "Anesthetize". Reminds me of the old days of prog where many band's members would appear on other band's albums and they all seemed to know each other. It was also cool seeing the album was influenced by the novel Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis, one of my personal favorite authors. Such a kino band indeed, Steven Wilson is very underrated, I did also enjoy finding out he collabed with Opeth, his contributions to "Windowpane" by them is very good, one of my favorite songs from them. I'll be sure to listen to more of their discography, thank you!
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It's ruined me forever. I can no longer listen to music as background noise, it's something I have to consciously be focusing on.
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Whenever I first listen to an album I always make sure to give it my full focus, preferably by turning the lights out and wearing a good pair of headphones and fully focusing on the music. I feel it's giving the proper respect to the artists by doing it this way and helps properly appreciate and experience the album for the first time. Whenever I want to reflect on something or have a long thinking session I do this as well, it's practically therapeutic. Repeat listens I can have it as background noise while working or relaxing, but the music should be fully appreciated first. It frustrates me whenever I see someone listening to a new band/album and they just half listen to it on a speaker while doing other bullshit and go "oh it's alright I guess" and don't even know what any of the song names are, may as well be a wall of noise to them.
 
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Have you checked out any of his solo albums? I love Raven That Refused to Sing.
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I have not yet. I have listened to "Luminol" from it though when it got recommended to me on YouTube and loved it. I try not to listen to too many isolated tracks because I want to listen to all them properly on a album during my first listen. I see Alan Parsons also engineered it which is really cool, I love the guy. I'll be sure to give it a listen, thanks.
 
Korpon said:
I've gotten around to listening to all them, absolutely exquisite stuff. "Lightbulb Sun" and "Russia on Ice" were my favorites from Lightbulb Sun, "Blackest Eyes" and "Trains" were my favorite two from In Absentia, "Arriving Somewhere but Not Here" (of course), "Start of Something Beautiful" and "Glass Arm Shattering" were my favorites from Deadwing.

But I'd say Fear of a Blank Planet was my overall favorite of the albums, I enjoyed seeing the Frippster have a collaboration with them by providing the soundscape to "Way Out of Here", along with Rush's Alex Lifeson having a solo on "Anesthetize". Reminds me of the old days of prog where many band's members would appear on other band's albums and they all seemed to know each other. It was also cool seeing the album was influenced by the novel Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis, one of my personal favorite authors. Such a kino band indeed, Steven Wilson is very underrated, I did also enjoy finding out he collabed with Opeth, his contributions to "Windowpane" by them is very good, one of my favorite songs from them. I'll be sure to listen to more of their discography, thank you!
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Porcupine Tree was the first modern prog rock band I really got into, and seeing someone essentially fall in love with their music the same way I did is really heart-warming to me. And while my music taste has changed over the years, more recently to jam bands like Phish and Grateful Dead, my love for progressive rock has never went away, and PT stands as one of my favorite bands in the genre to this day. You're welcome for the recommendation, and thank you for listening. People usually shrug off my music recommendations, so it surprised me when I received this reply lol.
 
I've had a bad day and got absolutely destroyed by this song. Crying my damn eyes out.
Its about an old man who becomes convinced that the raven that visits his house is the reincarnation of his dead sister, He desperately wants the bird to give a sign that he's right and that it really is his sister that's come back, but it never comes.
 
Sugriva said:
I've had a bad day and got absolutely destroyed by this song. Crying my damn eyes out.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=n8sLcvWG1M4Its about an old man who becomes convinced that the raven that visits his house is the reincarnation of his dead sister, He desperately wants the bird to give a sign that he's right and that it really is his sister that's come back, but it never comes.
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This was the first song I heard from Steven Wilson as a whole and it also hit me just as hard. Convinced me to hear the whole album in one go.
 
Sugriva said:
I've had a bad day and got absolutely destroyed by this song. Crying my damn eyes out.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=n8sLcvWG1M4Its about an old man who becomes convinced that the raven that visits his house is the reincarnation of his dead sister, He desperately wants the bird to give a sign that he's right and that it really is his sister that's come back, but it never comes.
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Is this really what’s considered Prog these days? I mean, it’s a serviceable ballad, but not only does the music not progress between themes, it’s literally backed by the same two-bar piano chord progression throughout.
 
McMitch said:
Is this really what’s considered Prog these days? I mean, it’s a serviceable ballad, but not only does the music not progress between themes, it’s literally backed by the same two-bar piano chord progression throughout.
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That's just one song off the album. It's more about emotion than it is about being an interesting, evolving prog song. Luminol, off the same album, is a lot better in that regard.
 
Sugriva said:
It's ruined me forever. I can no longer listen to music as background noise, it's something I have to consciously be focusing on.
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I find most prog rock very distracting. Listen to background music in the background, and foreground music in the foreground.


Most people skip tracks on albums, or even listen to a single song by an artist at a time. Can you imagine? The "perfect albums" thread on this very forum is full of posts marveling about albums that are possible to sit all the way through, beginning to end. This is how impoverished normies are.
 
Calandrino said:
This is how impoverished normies are.
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Part of the appeal of sharing Prog with people is explaining the common trait across the genre of bands putting out, not just perfect albums and not just multiple perfect albums, but three consecutive perfect albums.
 
Five pages into prog rock discussion and no mention of Max Webster?
 
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