Posts Tagged ‘Dream Theater’

The Friday Mixtape: 6/12/09

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Editor’s note: This week’s mixtape has an inordinate amount of song edits. While the prog purists who prefer the full-length epics might take offense, we simply cannot post 12-or-so tunes at 13-plus minutes apiece (and two songs clocking in at a half hour each). We hope you’ll understand why we’ve done as we’ve done and then show your support to the bands below by buying their albums.

10cc – Une Nuit a Paris from The Original Soundtrack (1975)
Transatlantic – Duel With the Devil from Bridge Across Forever (2001)
Frost* – Milliontown (Ballad Edit) from Milliontown (2006)
Dream Theater – Finally Free from Metropolis Part 2: Scenes From a Memory (1999)
Kerry Livgren featuring David Pack – Ground Zero from Seeds of Change (1980)
GTR – When the Heart Rules the Mind from GTR (1986)
Fates Warning – A Pleasant Shade of Gray Part Six from A Pleasant Shade of Gray (1997)
Emerson, Lake & Palmer – Take a Pebble from Emerson, Lake & Palmer (1970)
Fish – A Gentleman’s Excuse Me from Vigil in a Wilderness of Mirrors (1989)
Genesis – Fading Lights from We Can’t Dance (1991)
King Crimson – Model Man from Three of a Perfect Pair: 30th Anniversary (1984)
Marillion – Whatever Is Wrong With You from Vol. 2—Happiness Is the Road: The Hard Shoulder (2008)
Wetton Downes – Let Me Go from Icon (2005)
Yes – Soon (from The Gates Of Delirium) from Relayer (1974)

“When you think cogs, think Cogswell Cogs!”

Dw. Dunphy On… Penguimania 2009, Set 2

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May is the unofficial start of the summer concert season, so to unofficially celebrate the shows of 2009, Popdose.com and internet radio station The Penguin have teamed up for Penguimania 2009. Tune in each Wednesday at 9:00 EST for Radioshow With Dw. Dunphy to hear the live performance megamix in full. Then each week we’ll present a downloadable MP3 of a set from the “concert.”

Set Two

The second set kicks off with Dream Theater covering the classic Elton John two-fer of “Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding.” As originally found on the ubiquitous Goodbye Yellow Brick Road album, Dream Theater stays faithful to the original.

Marillion has, over the years, amassed a cult following that has spawned a whole series of official live recordings, lavish deluxe releases of their new albums and fan convention concerts known as the Marillion Weekends. Here is their live version of the standout track from the This Strange Engine album, “Estonia.”

The grand finale of Joe Jackson’s ambitious Night and Day album is the slow-burning lullaby, “A Slow Song.” This live performance of the song manages to top the original with a fantastic, building climax.

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We’ll see you here next week for set three and, don’t forget: you can enjoy the entire mix over at The Penguin, Wednesday nights starting at 9:00 PM EST: find it at www.thepenguinrocks.com.

Dw. Dunphy On… Spring Cleaning

Mind if I freak you out here? Yes? Too bad; I have nothing else to write about. Well, that’s not entirely true. I have a lot to write about, judging by all the files I’ve put up on the handy-dandy Popdose FTP.

1) No, you cannot have access to the Popdose FTP.

2) I mean it, NO, you cannot have access to the Popdose FTP.

See, when you write for a forum such as this, you can overload yourself fairly early, clogging the works with all those notions you’d like to tackle, restraint be damned. Then life gets in the way and you find yourself getting all topical and current and, very quickly, your digital cabinets runneth over. So I think it is time to do a little spring cleaning, with an added bonus of providing outlet for democracy.

(Get to the point, damn it!)

There are a few candidates on my list that I’m just not going to get to. As much as I love the music from these artists, it just seems more and more unlikely that they’re going to get their day. That’s where you come in. Your petty little vote may not mean much when compared to a mighty Superdelegate, but it means something to me. I swear, and not just because I’m trying to get to second base with you. I’ve decided to give you a choice for whom I next tackle. Simply drop a comment with your choice from the following artists and the act with the largest popular vote gets an expanded column. It’s that simple, and you’ll respect yourself the morning after. And yes, you have lovely eyes.

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