Now we go back to the 1980's. This next album was published in the year 1982 and depicts in the cover the "SCUBA Diver" flag, meaning that "there was something going on that's not apparent to your eyes" according to David Lee Roth (lead vocal).
In this album there are many singles like (Oh) Pretty Woman, which in fact is a cover, though it aired in the first of January 1982 and was top of charts for some time.
On the other side, for me a natural highpoint of the album is the Intro of Little Guitars, which is one of those neat guitar solos that is quite easy to understand. The riff of Little guitars is as well quite soli.
This is a birth-of-the-millenium band, founded by twins. It's curious name came from the horror film Nightbreed. The debut of this band was in 2002 with the album The end of the Beginning.
This album was considered to be a music "photograph or snapshot of who we are in that moment of time" and the second track "From Dust to the Beyond" aired as a music video and had an airplay in the MTV.
The band only gathered a second work four years after, with an MP "A moment of Stillness" and the album "All Is Violent, All Is Bright".
This album gained again a huge support from MTV, which played the single "Fragile" in popular shows like "The Comedown".
From here on, God is an Astronaut became a trademark that was put a lot of effort and proliferated some new albums in the upcoming four years: "Far from Refuge", a self titled album "God is an Astronaut" and the "Age of the fifth Sun".
This last album was as well marked by the debut of Jamie Dean, a Guitarrist/Keyboardist which introduced a hitch of fantastic in the live performances with 4 band players and the reviews were explosive regarding the live concerts.
After the album "Origins", the band made an interview with Noisefull, which is very worth seeing here. Among other stuff, they talk about the name of the band and how it is not supposed to have any religious connotation, but rather a space-related connotation.
Their latest album, although I appreciate it a lot, was not well received by the fans and critics, and is not regarded among the best work from them.
This is one of the "superbands" from the late 90's: after the hipe from the charity supergroups from the 80's and the pop supergroups. This band was formed by well known men: of Neal Morse (ex-Spock's Beard), Roine Stolt ( The Flower Kings), Pete Trewavas (Marillion) and Mike Portnoy (ex-Dream Theater).
This was a project has started by 1999 and lasted as a project until 2002, when Morse stated that 'God wants me to do something else' - he then dedicated to Christian music - but they would reunite seven years after to launch their best album so far: The Whirlwind. This album consists of a plain single of 77 minutes, and aired on 2009.
The next album, 'Kaleidoscope', crushed all the previous works, and steamed to a winning of the 'Album of the Year' at the third annual Progressive Music Awards.
This album motivated a tour from the US and Europe, including a performance at "Progressive Nation at Sea" cruise with two shows featuring some guest names of the world of rock like Jon Anderson from Yes.
Well known at his age, and also recently when he commanded the London Olympic games opening ceremony in 2012. He showed some of his own electronic work to Richard Branson and Tom Newman, who owned "The Manor Studio" as were one of the many studio owners that received some of the Oldfield's work. He then was asked to use the studio freely for one week, when he composed the Part One of this album, in 1972
Part two was then composed months after and the full album was only published in May of 1973, featuring more that 20 different instruments, all played by Mike itself, completing a two-movement piece.
