Papa's Official AYREON Appreciation thread

[Papa Josh]

Considering this project scored really well this year, let's talk about all that is Ayreon. I now have The Final Experiment, Into the Electric Castle, Universal Migrator 1 & 2 and The Human Equation. Also have Star One.

Personally, I think Arjen is a musical genius, these albums are beautiful soundscapes, awesome all star lineups, and I just keep getting into them more and more.

I need to get Actual Fantasy, it's the only one I'm missing. I downloaded all of the singles and rarities today, until I can get them all.

 

[Papa Josh]

Ignore non-poll thread. Hey Jaykeeley, since I don't have super mod powers, can you delete the other thread?

 

[Chromatose]

voted for Into the Electric Castle ........ gotta give props to FISH!

 

[Papa Josh]

voted for Into the Electric Castle ........ gotta give props to FISH!

Fish good, but I;ve always preferred Hogarth when it comes to Marillion.

 

[Chromatose]

Fish good, but I;ve always preferred Hogarth when it comes to Marillion.

........my opinions on that, and I'll leave it at that as to not derail the Ayreon thread , ha ha


and speaking of Ayreon ..

I gotta say, as much as I think arjen is such a genious, I don't listen to Ayreon nearly enough. It took me a long time to finally get into any of the albums, and the first one that I finally payed attention to all the way through was Into the Electric Castle, and it got me hooked... I haven't listened to any other than that or the newest in a while.. I know I also like one of the Universal Migrator discs, a lot, and the other......... not as much, I just can't remember which is which right now.

 

[IOfTheStorm]

Into The Electric Castle is the best musically, but all the vocal performances (plus some really great music parts) make "The Human Equation" better and my favourite. "Into The Electric Castle" is one of the most underrated prog rock/metal albums ever.

 

[JayKeeley]

I just wanna know one thing....which is the one with Bruce?

 

[Demonspell]

Universal Migrator part II, aka the name that power metal vocalist album, worth owning just for his appearance (Into The Black Hole) and Dawn Of A Million Souls.

Best album: Human Equation easily.

 

[Papa Josh]

I just can't bring myself to choose a favorite yet. They all have such stellar musicians. They are all like little movies. He has worked with so many good people... I had no idea he worked with Lenny Wolf from Kingdom Come.

 

[JayKeeley]

What did you lot think of Star One? I think it's highly overrated.

 

[Papa Josh]

I think you're mistaken.

I have the dvd... AWESOME!!