Classical Composer Reacts to Milliontown (Frost*) | The Daily Doug (Episode 226)
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- Опубліковано 16 вер 2021
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In this episode of #TheDailyDoug, I'm reacting to Milliontown by Frost*. This is my first time hearing this band's music. I was quite impressed with their musicality, but I was a bit unsure about the song's overall message. I start out at my desk and transition to the keyboard for this extended listen. Enjoy!
Reference Video: • Frost* - Milliontown
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Oh hell yeah! This album is a prog masterpiece. Highly recommend checking out Black Light Machine sometime. Haven't heard this studio live version before.
Edit: Yeah, so this performance is fantastic. Frost* is incredibly underrated. This was one of my most played albums back in college. Thanks for some great nostalgia tonight. 🤘
Since this is new to you, let me recommend the full "Rockfield Files" DVD/CD this came from. Six live-in-studio tracks (including Black Light Machine), silly commentary about the songs from Jem Godfrey in between, and a few extra bits. Fun to see the interaction among them in studio (and see them actually DO this stuff live).
Funny you're here, I discovered this song through clon. Also Ne Obliviscaris through a Randy video so that game has done wonders for my musical taste
It makes sense why Frost* winds up with so much seemingly positive, peppy music sometimes. Jem Godfrey has written a bunch of commercial pop music for people over the years, and at least at first, used Frost* as a way to write more progressive music. So glad you reacted to this - Frost* is criminally underrated.
I read an interview with him a number of years ago that he said pop was like driving a Chevette, and every once in a while you want to drive a Ferrari (prog). He does it VERY well!!!
Hyperventilate from the Milliontown album is an awesome piece of music
You are correct sir!!
So is Black Light Machine!
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You spotted they all changed instruments for that last big ending crash? Of course you did.
Frost* is not only an excellent collection of musicians, as individuals and a band, they are hilarious. The dvd this came from us full of great music and fun. You really should dig into it. Milliontown, as has already been mentioned, from this dvd, is an absolute must see/hear. Jem Godfrey is the leader here. He’s also a songwriter for pop bands with several awards and hits under his belt. The bassist, Nathan King, is Mark Kings brother. He of Level 42 fame. Craig Blundell is now touring with Steve Hackett but also toured with Steve Wilson. A superb drummer. John Mitchell, producer and guitarist of note. Is also the front man for It Bites along with releasing his own albums. Great guitarist. They are stunning live. Heading out in tour April next year. Love em. Great reaction.
Doug: "I'm gonna play along with Jem Godfrey"
So... you have chosen death.
'you tried' star for efforts :^)
My favorite Frost song is probably Black Light Machine. I still remember being wowed by the instrumental parts, and listening to the song in a loop.
This is me and just Milliontown in general. The whole album is just *chefs kiss*
Snowman is one of my favorite tracks.
Love the solo at 2:55!!
Never expected you to react to Frost*. I love this song.
My suggestion: Spock's Beard - The Great Nothing.
Doug! Listen to this guy! He is right!
One of the beard's very best tracks
WHOA! :O
It makes sense no one is commenting yet. THIS is a band that needs SOO much more attention!
The "Milliontown" debut album from Frost* is a "perfect" album, the tracks, the production, the vocals and instrumentation. Each member (the line-up during that era of the band) plays at the top of their game, and Jem Godfrey is a creative, skilled composer, keyboardist and vocalist (along with John Mitchell from "It Bites", "Kino" and "Lonely Robot" on Guitar/Vocals). This will be a FEAST for the ears, and to watch them play it all :).
An AWESOME Progressive Rock band.
I had never heard of these guys. Thanks so much for bringing them to my attention. Great reaction and analysis as always. Thanks so much!
Ditto!
I cannot recommend them highly enough. Along with Steven Wilson, I'll talk about them in the same breath as the 70s prog giants.
@@SamRoads I just discovered Steven Wilson a year or two ago and heartily agree. Great work he does and great musicians around him to execute.
@@SamRoads AGREED. Wilson's Hand.Cannot.Erase album was my favorite of 2015... then Frost*'s album Falling Satellites notched it for 2016. Killer albums, start to finish.
YES!!! My suggestion (did some comments about it)! That’s awesome!! Great to see Frost* on the channel!!
Always great when said person picks an obscure GIANT of a band isn't it? :).
Maybe one day he will tackle different era's of . . . .
*Fates Warning* :).
Never heard of this group, nice surprise, thanks for reacting to this.
A little background, from wikipedia: _"Frost* are an English neo progressive rock supergroup, formed in 2004 by Jem Godfrey and members of Arena, Kino, and IQ."_ And then Jem Godfrey is: _"a British music producer, keyboardist and songwriter. Godfrey was responsible, with Bill Padley at Wisebuddah music, for many UK number one hits including Atomic Kitten's platinum-selling single, "Whole Again", which earned the pair two Ivor Novello Award nominations, and the production and remixing of the international hit version of "Kiss Kiss" by Holly Valance."_
... and many more accomplishments. Frost* was created because Jem wanted to stretch out a bit and do some progressive music in addition to all the pop music that he had worked on.
Milliontown.. is brilliant
Milliontown is a great album. You know Doug, it was Neil Peart’s birthday recently (September 12). Why not raise a glass of The Macallan and listen to the studio version of Rush’s Natural Science?
The fountain of Lamneth
@@sakis512 That would be awesome!
Oh yes, love early and recent Frost. In particular John Mitchel. I got to see him with his Lonely Robot project at the Marillion weekend in 2017.
It seems like every prog musician has like 10 different side gigs going on at once. All these guys seem to end up playing in a band together at somepoint which of course gives us a lot of content to listen to. It's pretty awesome.
It's been a few years since I listened to this album, but I'd forgotten how much I loved it. Thanks for bringing this one back to me.
Wow! Frost*! Heck yeah!
Absolute masterpiece!!!!!!! This is a song where you turn the volume up to 25 and just rock out ....just brilliant!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I stumbled across Frost by complete coincidence through a movie review show I listen to, and now I own all their albums. So glad you've covered them. If you decide to return to Frost, Falling Satellites is an incredible album and you can't go wrong with any track from it.
First listen to this song. I am a fan! Some awesome bass tones and playing.
Btw Doug - You missed out on noticing the little part _on_ the "Ironing Board Keyboard"! :D EVERYONE could use an ironing board keyboard, complete with a red shirt, and an electric iron! Maybe to . . . flatten the keys? :P
Hehe, you said; "That's the 1st time hearing Frost*" . . . I'm sure that it is for _most_ people tuning-in. They VERY much deserve new fans :). If I'm not mistaken, they have played the stages of "Cruise to the Edge" (which was co-founded by Mike Portnoy) on every cruise, or at-least most of them. I hope you checkout more on this fantastic album, and from their 4 albums (their 4th just dropped in May 2021).
One of my favorite albums of the entire 2000s, can't believe I haven't thought of suggesting it. Jem Godfrey is an absolute hoot.
I've never heard of this band before, but that's awesome musicianship and nice prog!
Doug, you’re my favorite reactor and you provide so much insight to your audience.
I respectfully offer one piece of constructive criticism: When you constantly try to guess where the chords are going when there’s so much movement in the music, sometimes it feels like the actual music going on within those chordal structures gets overlooked. That can be slightly frustrating for a fan like me who’s excited to watch you react to the musicianship as much as the songwriting.
That said, thank you for your amazing channel. Im always looking forward to the next reaction.
Awesome! One of my faves ever
i am friends with Jem Godfrey's brother Simon who lives in Philly. Great guy, great musician as well.
Frost has an incredible catalogue, Thanks for doing this video.
The keyboardist killed it! So cool. The lyrics almost seem like an afterthought amidst the whole instrumental awesomeness.
So stoked that you are doing Frost*!
This is a great album from Frost*. I still remember when I played Hyperventilate for the first time and just sat in my chair. I never knew they recorded this with an ironing board in the room.
Glad someone noticed! (Ironing Board Keyboard :p)
@@mvunit3 On some album (maybe this live-in-studio one, Rockfield Files?), Jem includes "DeLonghi Ironing Boards" among his equipment credits. Love his sense of humor.
Hi Doug, Craig Blundell was Steven Wilson's tour drummer on the last 2 (I think ) tours - since you're a SW fan, thought that tiny piece of trivia might be of interest.
Hi Doug, Excuse the intrusion but thought I'd drop by and let you know that after many a moons trying to catch this band on tour... it finally happened! Sunday 27th Nov at KK's Steel Mill in Wolverhampton in the UK... and they played 'Milliontown' in its full 26 minutes of progtastic glory... simply awesome to behold live, my life is now complete!! 😎👍
I like this band. I like the poppy aproach to the soundscape. Unique take on prog rock.
SO surprised to see Frost* on your channel. Pretty deep grab! Thanks again Doug!
I loveeeeee Frost so much. Their latest released (a few months ago) will most likely end up in my top 5 of 2021
Love Frost*. Love Milliontown. Enjoyed your take on this.
The level of this Band seems unlimited, but no wonder with these musicians, i lnoticed them several years back with now in this stage being familiar with most of their work, but also with the oeuvre from John Mitchell, it Bites, Lonely Robot, Kino and much more other sideways i totally adore this kind of Prog, Thanks alot Doug to use your expertise to make it more insightful musical and textual on this, Warm Greetz from Coevorden Holland.
The finest Neo-Prog band in existence right now. Check out "The Dividing Line" by Frost, nothing short of a masterpiece!
Glad you were able to review Milliontown. A very underrated band, and deserves so much more credit and air time. Truly great musicians and their whole debut album is amazing! Try reviewing their latest album that was just released (Day & Age) Track 1. They also released a music video for that one! Some interesting music again. Shorter in length but still great stuff. Thanks Doug.
At 31:20 that change is from the song “the revealing science of god..” from the album “tales from topographic oceans” from yes. The whole song reminds me yes. Like this song from frost yes have positive sound. I ‘d like to watch a reaction of “the revealing science...”.
Wooow so glad to see Frost* in the channel... I found the band because of Craig Blundell, when he started playing with Steven Wilson. Loved the sound of the band! A track that I really like is Towerblock, it's a much simpler song but with a twist.
Signs from the same album is a great song also!
been hearing a lot about this piece but never looked for it, so I'm happy to join you for this exploration
Listening to great music is one thing, but watching it being performed is priceless..
Frost*, a band that deserves more attention
Craig always gives you the groove you are looking for... nothing less, nothing more. Enjoyed his live work with SW!
Fun fact: Keyboard player and singer in Frost, Jem Godfrey is quite well known UK pop producer. He produced songs for many pop acts. That's why this upbeat, optimistic falvour is in this band.
also a hella keyboardist. Worth noting that he toured with Joe Satriani a while - and Joe in turn contributed a solo to Frost*'s Falling Satellites album (2016; wonderful album).
Monday, 28th November, 2022. Queens Hall, Edinburgh, Scotland. Jem and Co will be there. So, BE THERE! :)
Brilliant Doug. I love the band, and I love this album.
I always loved Jem's midi-ironing board work, he truly is one of the world's best ironing-boardists.
Doug. You should always play along with the music and explore it, this is the best aspect of your videos!!
I just love people being surprised how EFFING GOOD Frost are.
Nice introduction to the band. I enjoyed it. Compelling lyrics. 😎👍
Frost*!! It's about time!!!
I love this record. The studio version of this track is an all-time fave!
I've never heard of Frost before, so for me this has been a first listen to their music too!!! Really interesting piece of music, and I really like the piano sections a lot!!!
Will have to investigate their other stuff now!!! 😀
Great band, great song!
Milliontown, as an album, is a masterpiece and a great debut album. Great to see Frost* here 🥰
Fantastic and utterly underappreciated band. I'd love to see them tour with Marillion, I think they should appeal to much of the same audience.
100% !!!
Hi Doug! I'm a huge fan of Frost*, so really enjoyed this.
The book this is based on is quite tongue-in-cheek, which might help explain the up-beat music from such a dark story. Great stuff, cheers!
One of the most influential bands on the Prog rock rebirth of the 1990's was Sweeden´s Anglagard. They´ve recorded 3 studio albums and i suggest the piece Ur Vilande fron their album Viljans Oga. Don´t worry about being swedish, it´s an instrumental piece. Greetings from Monterrey, México.
Not quite sure how I discovered this but I’m glad I did. Absolutely fascinating and enjoyable. I’m a true prog fan but it was interesting to discover the creative chords and time signatures. I’ve followed Frost* Mitchell, et al and of course the excellent It Bites. IB have had ( for me) some of the most interesting chords, bridges and time signatures of any group ( check out once around the world or This is England).
Now subscribed and looking forward to watch all you other vids. Thank you.
Love this song, I think half the guys in Frost* are also in IQ the other Neoprog band that formed the same time as Marillion, less well known but excellent all the same. Best IQ album for me is Ever, Doug fading away is worth a listen they also did a long one on their first album called last human gateway it’s a bit of a “Suppers Ready” track. Back to Frost* they are a great band. On the album version of Milliontown there’s a quote at the start of the song which I think is out of a film called The Prophecy. Great reaction video again Doug thank you 👍
Oh yea, Doug definitely needs to react to IQ
Sorry to correct you Simon but none of the Frost* guys have ever been in IQ, and vice versa! Jem Godfrey is a pop song writer who loves prog, John Mitchell is a long-standing 'proglodyte' and Craig Blundell, fresh from a stint with Steven Wilson, is currently touring with a certain Mr Hackett!
@@ijmanchester The first formation of Frost* included John Jowitt at bass guitar and Andy Edwards on drums. At that time (first Frost* album, Milliontown) they were in IQ, but now they are not any more. So you are both right and wrong at the same time :D
@@andreamurazzi7723 You're absolutely correct, Andrea, and my apologies to Simon for incorrectly correcting him!! :-D
@@ijmanchester Yeah Ian I’m getting my players mixed up.
That melody you brought up is in Yes's Tales of Topographic Oceans. Frost is a great band. Blundell plays w King Crimson and Steven Wilson.
No, Blundell has never played with King Crimson (although he has played with Steven Wilson) You’re thinking of Gavin Harrison.
No way! My two fave bands are Yes and Frost and I never noticed the quote! :O :O :O :D Thanks for the comment!!!
Noticed the same thing.
Blundell is currently with Steve Hackett, after several years with Steven Wilson. He and Frost* parted company a couple years ago (amicably, because he was too committed elsewhere). No permanent replacement yet.
I was just going to point that out! (Re the motif from “The Revealing Science of God). Good catch!
I found out about Frost* around the time Blundell became Steven's drummer. Really solid band!
Fuuuuck, dude, I've been waiting for this one!
Frost is excellent...big fan
Got this Album on Spotify just now! Greetings From Sweden!
There is a hidden Prog band called Magellan, when you hear the compositions of Trent Gardner your mind will be blown, especially Leonardo the Absolute Man.
Very good band an very sound breakdown, thanks a lot Doug.
7:00 even he can't resist stopping and funking out to that god tier synth solo
Ending motif from Yes, Tales of Topographic Oceans
Thanks! I knew it, I knew it........ but you are faster!
The bass player, Nathan King is actually the lead guitarist in Level 42 and his brother, Mark, is the bass player. Craig Blundell also plays drums for Steven Wilson. Jem Godfrey won an Ivor Novello award for the song That's my goal by Shayne Ward
Nathan and Mark King are brothers.
@@Lance37a Apologies, my mistake, I've changed it now
Jem is one of the most successful pop music writers and producers from the UK, John plays in at least two other great bands, Nathan is a great underappreciated bass player and Craig plays with Steven Wilson and Steve Hackett. A true Supergroup in my eyes. And on top they are nice and funny guys with their fans. I am a big fan!
He doesn't notice that all the musicians change places the last seconds, the bassist on drums, the guitarist on keyboards, the drummer on guitar and the keyboard player on bass. Very funny to me.
This is one of my favorite songs ever.
Not as easy as it looks , all these guys in frost are stellar musicians and songwriters and i mean all of them.
Inspired music! Great musicianship.
Thanks so much for this review. When you get around to them again try from their new album Day and age. Just came out. Kill the Orchestra and Repeat to Fade are of the best songs on there😁
your mistake was going over to the keyboard ... ;) love your stuff Doug. you just weren't ready for what was to come. in fairness, none of us were when we first heard it.
please react, best collaboration prog rock in a decade "Neal Morse and Mike Portnoy"
1. The Neal Morse Band - The Great Medley
2. The Neal Morse Band - Beyond the Years
Doug, I recommend "Moviedrome" by Arena, which also has John Mitchell on guitar.
In my comment from 5 months ago I had the album on CD. I recently bought this album on vinyl and it sounds wonderful. Definitely a favourite of mine.
I'm a huge Frost* fan and, while not a composer, I often listen to music seated at my keyboard so I can noodle along. I was curious how well you'd handle all the unpredicatble changes in this tune. You did great, I enjoyed listening to your chord call-outs. You should check out the new Frost* CD, Day and Age. It's a masterpiece. BTW, this was my first time listening to one of your videos. I'll be sure to check out your others.
Hey Doug, It's Kevin
Like you this was a first time hearing of this band.
They seem to be pretty tight & musically this was cool.
I would have to agree with you about the lyrics/vocals
Didn't seem to fit the type of music they were playing but Hey this is why it's their tune & not ours Lol
Looking forward to see what you have in store for us next week...
Have a great weekend! Cheers from Western Canada.
John Mitchell, very underrated guitarist and singer, did a great job fronting It Bites for a while, another great band you should check out Doug 👍🏻😎
John Mitchell is God
John is brilliant and his wide catalogue of work is definitely worth checking out, but when it comes to It Bites, can I humbly suggest Doug checks out the original lineup of the band led by the maverick genius Francis Dunnery.
Frost is a Great Band I doscovered this year...! I have a list from 323 progressive bands that I never hear before!!! :) I reccomend you SIEGES EVEN and IONA
Milliontown is my all-time favorite song, by far. Traveled from Sweden to England twice only to see them perform live (they've never played in Scandinavia, as far as I know). The only band I've ever caught a flight to see.
One of the most musically talented bands that almost nobody knows about(nobody relative to the entire world). And their production is top notch, always. Thanks for doing this vid!
Frost* - the best sounding band in prog. You need to listen to their studio albums (start with Milliontown) - the production value is insane, it sounds amazing!
Thanks, great and highly enjoyable review. As for your ending comments, I'll give my own response (tapping into the general feel of Frost*'s work in general and this epic piece in particular): To me, this way of presenting the music seems like magical realism, that even in the dark, there's some humour, some gleam of light, a yin in the yang, hope - and is perhaps best represented by St. Augustine with his proposition that the world is fundamentally good. If I were to give you some movies to represent a similar sentiment expressed in a different medium, speaking of magical realism / larger than life but slightly tongue-in-cheek, I would say Snatch, or even better, Interstate 60, to give some poignant examples. The progressive rock and metal (moreso rock than metal) with a touch of fusion is the musical equivalent. Hence the seemingly quirky way of positioning that music to those lyrics - otherwise I do agree, if the words were to be understood in a more direct or strict way, rather than poetical and analogical, some other way of doing it would be more appropriate. Hey, I think some part in the latter part of the song made me think of Beatles' Eleanor Rigby.
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Excellent choice !!
I really like your videos, it's always great to see great bands while discovering new artits. You should listen to Lonely Robot too, it's a very good band, from John Mitchell. The track Sigma, from their album The Big Dream, has a very cachty chorus, it's a good song.
Lonely Robot is the solo project of John Mitchell, not really a band. I think the best albums are the first two: Please Come Home and The Big Dream
Tony Banks influence is all over the keyboard parts and Neil Peary rhythm patterns too but this really set the bar for progressive rock in the noughties - IMHO, a masterwork played by some of the best around right now. Think Suppers Ready meets La Villa Strangiata (in the studio where it was recorded for Hemispheres)
Masterpiece! 👍
Love the album. Hyperventilate always gets my blood pumping! They are certainly and unfortunately a somewhat hidden gem.
Black Light Machine (Frost*) is one of my top prog songs, highly recommend to listen
This is first time hearing Frost* but I know of guitarist John Mitchell from his playing with Arena. Perhaps you might like to listen to something by them. They've not done a bad album, so it's difficult to suggest just one thing by them, but I'll go with The Butterfly Man, as that was my introduction to Arena. B^)
It's a great song, but without a doubt the staple song of Arena is Solomon.
Arena is great. The only album I don't like that much is Pride. Unquiet Sky and Contagion are great albums but may need to be appreciated as a whole. Solomon is Outstanding (John Mitchell wasn't part of the band back then). The Legend of Elijah Shade and Bedlam Fayre are great suggestions I think
Mitchell is one of my fav artists ever. Check out something from Arena , i freakin love em :)
Perhaps the book is written tongue in cheek as in “The Best Years of our Lives”.
Maybe that is why it’s not darker.
I must read it now.