I just posted a video about Brand X, and will hopefully get to videos on Colosseum, Tempest, and Gary Moore when time allows. My first, this past weekend, was a video on Genesis b-sides. To avoid...
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I just posted a video about Brand X, and will hopefully get to videos on Colosseum, Tempest, and Gary Moore when time allows. My first, this past weekend, was a video on Genesis b-sides. To avoid...
Yes, I've just started a channel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaoZ7JAyRGQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyHvLaUCpFI&t=4s
Paul Morley, who appropriated Bangsian notions for a UK readership in the pages of NME. A major theme of his thesis on the 1970s — published in the UK rock/fashion essay-collection Cool Cats: 25...
Outdated Morleyite narrative drivel, though one has to admire the tenacity and dedication of the punk77 site creators. I'm not even sure how many PCs it's been since my binge-read of their site some...
A musically diverse and technically masterful band with an accomplished recorded legacy. Three unique sides of Sad Café are heard in the Moog explosive "Black Rose," the acoustic angularity of...
Kayak were consistently excellent throughout their original run of eight studio albums. The next place to go after Royal Bed Bouncer would be See See the Sun from 1973, followed by the remainder of...
So many fingers on that pie... Trevor Horn, Geoff Downes, Bruce Woolley, Hans Zimmer, Tina Charles, Virginia Hey... by extension, Thomas Dolby, since he plays on the Camera Club version. A dear old...
Based on soundbites and his famous food war with Paula Dean, my fleeting impressions of Bourdain were that of a hard-headed, at-times curmudgeonly straight talker. As such, I imagined he'd have a...
What matters, though, is not the nomenclature of "prog" but the principle of cross-idiomatic musical expansion. I recently elaborated on my own disuse of genre sub-labels in favor of the four or five...
Throughout much of the interview he talks at length to define what can basically be summarized as the maximalist paradigm, particularly in the following section:
"in the metal world, there’s... a...
I suppose I'd file the title in the nation of the project's main composer. If there are several composers, one of who's the front-person, I'd chose the nation of that individual. If the project...
The nation in which the project is based, with the solo works of individual members filed under their own respective nations. For example, I have Mahavishnu Orchestra filed in the states; Jerry...
Same here. For each year of TriMax (1969–84), I've made m3u playlists that contain every album on my discogs top 10%–12% shortlists, which are linked to their corresponding years in my RYM...
About nine years ago, I did away with genres in my musical filing system and grouped everything in a continent>nation>alphabet hierarchy. The move reflected my growing disillusionment with genre...
In MSM/SJW speak, any commentator who is not a Soros/Bezos puppet is a "[blank] supremacist." Candace Owens and Diamond & Silk are perfect examples.
As do all critically thinking people in today's propaganda-addled, liberally indoctrinated world.
The MSM in a nutshell. Corporate mouthpieces like Joy-Ann Reid and Rachel Maddow peddle...
Very colorful and pretty. The fourth resembles a crumpled chiffon scarf. The fifth resembles tie-dyed crushed velvet.
Exactly. Most of these victim-mentality/groupthink types are merely leaching off the resources — buildings, vehicles, mediums of communication (television, Internet, smartphones, etc.) — conceived...
Post-factualism is a socio-political symptom of postmodernism — the philosophy and aesthetic where up is down, left is right, broken is operable, smart is stupid, and stupid is smart. Hence,...
Mler Ife Dada is among the things I've had lying around but haven't yet worked through, along with Né Ladeiras, Sétima Legião, and a few others. Time to rectify that matter. Thanks.
Vicky sang on...
A critique of postmodern art and architecture from a commentator whose world-class knowledge and eloquence have made him one of the fastest-rising intellectual figures on social media.
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The 1–20 shortlist at the top — roughly the top 6% of the 283 titles on the list — is not limited to progressive rock. Minorisa was once on that shortlist, but was bumped after I assimilated Dolores.
It has taken me about 32 years, but I'm a very focused individual, which is typical among INTJ/high-functioning aspies. Some people strive to climb the highest mountains or walk the greatest...
I know, the word "woke" rarely applies to humanities professors, most of whom are blue-pilled SJWs. I regret that Boghossian wasn't around during my time at PSU.
I can hand you the links but I can't scroll down the pages for you.
"Ear-traveled" means listening experience with hundreds of albums from around the world between the late 1960s and late 1980s,...
According to the world's most ear-traveled trimaximalist, Valle del Pas is one of the two greatest Iberian albums out of nearly 300 qualifying titles, and also the 17th best album of 1978 out of more...
Here's a discussion on postmodernism between Dave Rubin and woke academic Peter Boghossian, a professor of philosophy at my alma mater, Portland State University.
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Here's another eloquent and erudite commentary on postmodernism from one of today's leading intellectuals:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGe_uPzozNo
He breaks the subject down and provides...
An enlightening breakdown on postmodernism from an esteemed commentator.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGP7bDr8Ito
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGP7bDr8Ito
Camille Paglia has been a huge influence on my way of thinking over the past 20 years. Many of my life choices and ambitions are indebted to her observations and insights. Jordan Peterson I've slowly...
Competent if not exceptional. Horslips were more about collective interplay than featured soloing.
Five of the seven Hoople albums are color-coded on the last two M pages of the Albums from England directory. Going by red-count, 1974 seems to be the band's creative highwater mark.
There are 40-some-odd TriMax-era Mexican longplayers on this directory of albums from the Spanish Americas — ctrl+f "Mexico" on each page for specific bands/releases.
The most densely red-marked...
Back in the '90s when ABBAmania resurfaced, it was said that the four could never reunite because Frida had married into royalty and this precluded her involvement in the pop scene.
I wonder if...
I type this as I listen to Kayo Dot for the very first time...
My initial impression is Heaven Up Here-era Echo & the Bunnymen in spacier mode. The voice resembles Ian McCulloch, as does the...
Ready an' Willing has a generous share of standout cuts.
The song "Almost Lucy" was going through my head like crazy last night. Haunting number. Anyway, I've been a fan of Al Stewart's TriMax-era output for 20 years. All the rubies are recommended...
All of the many thousands of red-listed songs on the pages linked in my signature.
The ironic thing about Neil Finn replacing Buckingham is that 41 years ago, just as Rumours was coming out, Finn replaced Phil Judd — a songwriter/mandolinist with a similarly warped cleverness as...
Some interesting bands that should have been accounted for on vinyl, but were not for various reasons. Hopefully, some of this music will be released digitally.
Funny enough, when I clicked on...
In other words, the forward conceptualizes a disparity between maximalism and minimalism, yet falls short of recognizing the antithetical starting principles between the two with respect for musical...
It will be 20 years ago this May that I saw Numan on the Portland stop of his 1998 comeback tour. A friend of mine at the time — a fellow maximalist and huge Numan fan — interviewed him for Plasm...
To mark the 20th anniversary of my initial honeymoon with the band, I did a Kansas binge last month. Though I was never much of a concertgoer, I now regret having not seen them when they came to...
Regarding the '76 Brand X vs. Pistols controversy — Genesis won the 1977 reader's poll in Melody Maker. When asked about this accolade inspite of the newer wave of bands, Phil remarks in this Oct....
Every song is a different style, but the track most pertinent to this thread is the lengthy "Nevergreen," which alternates between classical piano and synth/piano jazz-rock passages.
Indeed. At Home and the surrounding singles made 1969 SB's banner year.
Both albums are singular in vision. The debut is a sonic vortex of the spacey hard rock of Mahogany Rush*, the percussive electro-classical experimentation of the Yamashta/Shrieve Go project, and...
Two tracks from the 1970 Mad Curry album that reflect the style in question here: the brisk, off-metered, scat-sung sections in "Music, the Reason of Our Happiness" and the chromatic bass/organ...
Pazop, Mad Curry, and the Moving Gelatine Plates immediately spring to mind.
A mix of several different m3u8 lists — Belgium1969-1973, Belgium1974-1978, Norway1969-1973, Norway1974-1979, Finland1969-1972, Quebec1972-1979 — in randomized order. The following tracks have played...
The concept of "pure rock" is rooted in the principle of bare-bones music-making — i.e. foundationalism. As a style borne from the rudiments of blues, R&B, and folk, rock has been built upon...
Anyone who would like to watch the intriguing Tide documentary without the irritating snark can do so right here. The first few numbers bear the mesmerizing hallmarks of mid-'70s instrumental...
You can make an educated guess based on the red-count from each EJ album on this list, which includes the man's entire 1969–89 output barring Victim of Love and Leather Jackets.
In short, his...
The following section of a 445-hour randomized m3u list of rubies and sapphires from 1977. Hopefully, I can finish my PCB article before the last-mentioned song plays:
John Tropea - a4 you cant...
This thread has put me on a Spandau focus these last few days. Here are four songs that highlight their musical breadth:
"Mandolin" — Here, Martin Kemp and John Keeble lay a propulsive rhythmic...
Here is the guest-reviewer column that Gary Kemp wrote for the Singles section of the May 1983 issue of Smash Hits. The erudite Spandau guitarist proves knowledgeable in the evolution of American R&B...
No. Spandau Ballet had their own identity. While certain elements of the Roxy sound — "Out of the Blue" in particular — were an influence on Spandau, the latter also drew from plenty of sources that...
Each of her first six albums has a healthy share of standout cuts. Welcome to the Cruise is in this listener's top 1% of 1979 — rated #10 out of 1,051 albums assimilated from that year. Sportscar and...