What Rock/Pop/Jazz-rock/Fusion/Prog/Experimental etc album are you listening to?

[teamsaint]

I trust you had the Zantacs to hand for such a masochistic ordeal?

I managed 6 songs before my car journey ended and i haven’t picked up from where I left off. Didn’t learn a lot. I might listen to Brighton Rock again, and you know, the rest was very Queeny. Fine if its your thing. Clever, slick, a certain kind of humour, but most of it is not for me. Killer Queen is a fine single, but I don’t think I’ll ever be a fan !!

[johncorrigan]

Really sad to hear this news earlier. I think it is true to say that almost nobody ever had a bad word to say about her. She remained very enthusiastic about new music to the end. The Sunday request show was surely a deserved career highlight. It was really enjoyable required listening, with a great connection to her audience with a shared love of music. And she just did radio so well.

Through her broadcasting,her spirit and influence will live on.

She has a special place in music history
.

Too true, ts. Mark Radcliffe said that when he was a young one starting as a producer in Radio 1, he was left alone to stew in Broadcasting House, and Annie was one of only two people who looked in on him regularly and said, 'Are you doing ok?' He said he never forgot her kindness to him.

[teamsaint]

Just about to listen to No Other, by Gene Clark.
i hope it lives up to the expectations built up in the sleeve notes , which it has to be said, are in ridiculously tiny font.

incidentally, Byrds fans will doubtless be excited to hear that I recently bagged a copy of the super deluxe edition of the recent 1964-67 photographic book, at something of a bargain price. It is a beautiful thing.

[teamsaint]

Turns out that No Other really is as good as its latter day advocates say. A really beautiful, epic , wonderful thing. Part of its magic I think is a combination of lyrics that look inside, with music that reaches out in all directions.
Do give it a listen , if you don’t know it.

[Serial_Apologist]

Turns out that No Other really is as good as its latter day advocates say. A really beautiful, epic , wonderful thing. Part of its magic I think is a combination of lyrics that look inside, with music that reaches out in all directions.
Do give it a listen , if you don’t know it.

Thanks, Teamy.

[Jazzrook]

FIDO plays Zappa’s ‘City of Tiny Lights’ with the great Bobby Martin(vocals):

https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=qwjPUGKblE0

JR

[anorak]

Asura - Oxygene

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWyayKmeGVY

[Roger Webb]

Jade Warrior: Kites.

I had no idea there was a thread covering these genres, several of which I have been a keen advocate....particularly the one now labelled 'Prog' - back when it all started I don't think we called it that!

[anorak]

Jade Warrior: Kites.

I had no idea there was a thread covering these genres, several of which I have been a keen advocate....particularly the one now labelled 'Prog' - back when it all started I don't think we called it that!

I agree. Back in the day me and my mates called it 'progressive rock' and in the music shops this type of music was often filed under 'progressive', or just 'rock'. Prog is probably an internet invention. I've never liked the word 'prog'. To me it sounds jokey and apologetic, as if those who like this genre have something to be ashamed of. We don't!!!

[Roger Webb]

I agree. Back in the day me and my mates called it 'progressive rock' and in the music shops this type of music was often filed under 'progressive', or just 'rock'. Prog is probably an internet invention. I've never liked the word 'prog'. To me it sounds jokey and apologetic, as if those who like this genre have something to be ashamed of. We don't!!!

Yep, it now is a term of derision - I think it immediately brings to mind Rick Wakeman in a silver cape....on ice. When in fact progressive music really was an interesting genre...or rather several influences blended in different proportion depending on band.

My first real brush with 'Prog' was King Crimson in Hyde Park, where I'd gone with a keen Stones fan in 1969. I was amazed at KC....not so with the Stones!

[anorak]

Yep, it now is a term of derision - I think it immediately brings to mind Rick Wakeman in a silver cape....on ice. When in fact progressive music really was an interesting genre...or rather several influences blended in different proportion depending on band.

My first real brush with 'Prog' was King Crimson in Hyde Park, where I'd gone with a keen Stones fan in 1969. I was amazed at KC....not so with the Stones!

I'm more than a tad embarrassed to admit that I attended one of those 'Wakeman on ice' spectaculars at Wembley. I saw Rick a few times during the 70s and he was always entertaining, an amusing raconteur, though I happily sold his concept albums to the second-hand shop before the decade was out. My first brush with progressive rock was a chance encounter in black and white with Edgar Winter playing 'Frankenstein' on OGWT in 1973 (footage now on YouTube). Alan 'Fluff' Freeman's Saturday Show was essential listening for me. I remember him playing Henry Cow which was pretty daring.

[Roger Webb]

I'm more than a tad embarrassed to admit that I attended one of those 'Wakeman on ice' spectaculars at Wembley. I saw Rick a few times during the 70s and he was always entertaining, an amusing raconteur, though I happily sold his concept albums to the second-hand shop before the decade was out. My first brush with progressive rock was a chance encounter in black and white with Edgar Winter playing 'Frankenstein' on OGWT in 1973 (footage now on YouTube). Alan 'Fluff' Freeman's Saturday Show was essential listening for me. I remember him playing Henry Cow which was pretty daring.

I've nothing against Rick Wakeman despite the cape...he was a talented 'keeper of the keys' in Yes and then solo. I was a fan of Henry Cow - had the 'sock' album, and consider Fred Frith an innovative guitarist..once! Like you I sold off much of my LP collection, keeping about 4 feet of self-space incl. all of Genesis up to Duke, most of The Enid, Crimson up to Red, - but later took them up again, and consider the 90s band with Adrian Belew some of the best stuff Fripp did.

Although my whole life has been connected with 'classical' music (I ran a specialist classical CD shop until I retired) I have a soft spot for 'prog'!

[Roger Webb]

Some very early National Health [sic] for other lovers of Canterbury Progrock.]

If you like that National Health Lp which has Dave Stewart (later with Annie Lennox in The Pretenders) on keys, try the first Bill Bruford solo album 'One of a kind'. Apart from Bruford and Stewart it features the now departed Alan Holdsworth, one of the truly innovative guitarists to come out of the Canterbury scene (ex Sort Machine) and amazing bassist Jeff Berlin.

Try this clip from Bruford 'Rock goes to college'

https://youtu.be/2GAnb2-lYuI?si=RFTz4Bry_xqBxAm-

[teamsaint]

If you like that National Health Lp which has Dave Stewart (later with Annie Lennox in The Pretenders) on keys, try the first Bill Bruford solo album 'One of a kind'. Apart from Bruford and Stewart it features the now departed Alan Holdsworth, one of the truly innovative guitarists to come out of the Canterbury scene (ex Sort Machine) and amazing bassist Jeff Berlin.

Try this clip from Bruford 'Rock goes to college'

https://youtu.be/2GAnb2-lYuI?si=RFTz4Bry_xqBxAm-

The Tourists, in fact, rather than the Pretenders , as I’m sure you meant to say.
before the Tourists, Annie Lennox was musical partner with the talented ex folk musician Peet Coombes, who wrote almost all of the Tourists original material, much of which was very good pop/rock , despite their lack of fashionable status.
I suspect that AL may at some point have had a helping hand from Elton John, both being ex RAM , but I can’t remember why I suspect this !!

Coombes must have found Lennox and Stewart’s stratospheric success with Eurythmics quite difficult to take, as his own career fizzled out, and he died too early.


edit : this Wiki article puts me right, a bit. Stewart and Coombes hooked up first, on Elton’s Rocket label, and the recruited Lennox as singer in a band called The Catch.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_To...%20pop%20music.

[teamsaint]

I agree. Back in the day me and my mates called it 'progressive rock' and in the music shops this type of music was often filed under 'progressive', or just 'rock'. Prog is probably an internet invention. I've never liked the word 'prog'. To me it sounds jokey and apologetic, as if those who like this genre have something to be ashamed of. We don't!!!

Prog is alive and well, and living in the metal scene.