Bud the Baker

Just been rereleased on CD with bonus trax! Currently groovin' to Porcupine Tree - On The Sunday Of Lifea collection of early work (88-91) where you can really hear the band's (Wilson's) musical roots (in alphabetical order) The Beatles, Gong, Kraftwerk and Pink Floyd.

Howard, Regarding Nick Drake, his first two albums Five Leaves Left and Bryter Layter were recorded with a band containing guys like Richard Thompson (Fairport Convention) on electric guitar and Danny Thompson (Pentangle) on acoustic bass. If you like sensitive singer-songwriter stuff from the early 70's these albums are above average and contain some real gems like Hazey Jane. A lot of his stuff has been lifted for TV work and I'd be surprised if you haven't heard the instumental passages from at least half-a-dozen songs from these two albums. Pink Moon was recorded with just ND on acoustic guitar and occasionally piano and is very, very bleak. There is an album released posthumously Black Dog but it's for completists only. ************************************************** Steve Hackett - there's a guy who never courted popularity. His work is quite dense and not always an easy listen. His most accesible work is Spectral Mornings but an album I think you'd like is Genesis Revisited (released in '97) which is old Genesis tracks, not all from the SH era, revemped. He has released a lot of live material over the last few years, both recent and archive, always interesting never a guy to rest on his laurels. I always consider SH to be the most important member of the group musically as it was he who persuaded the group to invest in a Mellotron, prior to the Nursery Cryme album, which defined Genesis's sound up till And Then There Were Three and the Phil Collins era.

Nick Drake. Have to dig out one of his CD's probably Bryter Layter.

Do you know who that track's about?

Crusts - now yer talkin - Bud the Obsessed Baker! Currently listening to Steve Hackett - Live '90's

Not just any old Ozric's CD - but a collection of Remixes. John Martyn & The Eeels also regularly on BtB's playlist.

No other Porcupine Tree fans out there?

Gotta new batch of CD's today Apocalytica Porcupine Tree Ozric Tentacles and I'm currently listening to DNA Mutation. Chiiiiiiiiiiill out!

Zombies/Vampires and any other creatures that reanimate themselves to feast on your blood, brains and assorted gooey bits!

the new Dave Gilmour CD - On An Island. Another cracker.

Nick Drake - Bryter Layter

I too, was born in Ely! And like Howard says in a hospital!

Guy Pearce was born in the same place as me!

Dune is the best Science Fiction novel of all time and altho' opinions are split on the fillum (directed by David Lynch) I think it's an amazing work. The first four books in the trilogy are excellent altho' the fifth Chapter House: Dune is dissapointing. There are a number of prequels written by Frank Herbert's (Dune's author) son, but I've not read any of these. I've always been amazed at how many similarities there are between Dune and Star Wars, but IMO what makes Dune stand out amongst SF literature are the detail and logic in the novels. Dune also answers the BIG SCI-FI QUESTION: With technology having advanced so far why does control of the universe always boil down to a sword fight? Read the four books Dune, Dune Messiah, Children of Dune and God Emperor of Dune. Watch the movie. Be Awestruck!

Jacob's Ladder was a scary trip.

Metallica - Garage Inc.

The Best Band From Manchester Ever..............10CC

No! McB has already answered so I'll leave it except to say that the it also inspired the album cover of Houses of the Holy by Led Zeppelin.

..........and then there were three, Howard, santaponsa and me........ ******************************** Currently listening to Dial-a-Song - The Best Of....They Might Be Giants.

So many........but top of the list has gotta be the day we forgot to switch the oven on!

????? I thought you hated them!!! 245046[/snapback] And Then There Were Three - Six of the belt for santaponsasaint! ********************************************* J.J. Cale - Greatest Hits (I'll bet Mark Knopfler got one of these too!)

McB et al, 2001 was an unusual topic for Clarke who tends to focus on the hard aspects of SF. I guess it must've been Kubrick who wanted to explore the Starchild theme (altho' Clarke did tackle this topic in Childhood's End). Kubrick always insisted it was up to the individual to make their own interpretation. I found this site which IMO is mindboggling, 2001 explained. I think the music at the start of Part IV is Echoes by Pink Floyd. ************************************************ Genesis (Watcher of the Skies), Iron Maiden and Van Der Graff Generator have all recorded songs inspired by Childhood's End.

Two versions of this film, the original and a Director's Cut - Highlander II: The Renegade Version. Director Russell Mulcahy tried to have his credit changed to Alan Smithee in the original version after it was edited however he backed down when threatened with legal action.

Is being a SF nut and having read the original novella Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? cheating? Philip K. Dick is one of my favourite authors- The Kafka of SF! Other Dick adaptions (Ooooh err missus) include Next - Adaption of short story The Golden Man - in production. A Scanner Darkly - Release Date July 2006 Paycheck Minority Report Impostor Screamers Total Recall

He was!