Joni Mitchell
Court and Spark/The Hissing of Summer Lawns/Hejira
Joni Mitchell
Court and Spark/The Hissing of Summer Lawns/Hejira
When I am in the vortex I try to remember that this is an observer dependent universe and it is only pointless is you decide it to be so. Alternatively, in the words of Chris Judge Smith in “Four Pairs” and immortalized by Peter Hammill:
All the wonders Man achieves
Emerge from cerebral tissue.
Chemical reactions' ebb and surge
Form that Thing that is you....
It's a sad philosophy,
But better sad than wrong.
Time for a puff...
Jethro Tull - 1977 - Songs from the Wood
Jethro Tull - 1978 - Bursting Out (Live)
Jethro Tull - 1978 - Heavy Horses
UK - 1978 - UK
UK - 1979 - Danger Money
UK - 1979 - Night after night
Yes - 1972 - Close To The Edge
Yes - 1973 - Tales From Topographic Oceans
Yes - 1974 - Relayer
Journey - 1975 - Journey
Journey - 1976 - Look Into The Future
Journey - 1977 - Next
Todd Rundgren - 1973 - A Wizard, A True Star
Todd Rundgren - 1974 - Todd
Todd Rundgren - 1974 - Utopia
Egg - 1970 - Same
Egg - 1971 - The Polite Force
Egg - 1974 - The Civil Surface
Gong - 1971 - Camembert Electrique
Gong - 1973 - Angels Egg
Gong - 1973 - The Flying Teapot
Soft Machine - 1970 - Third
Soft Machine - 1971 - Fourth
Soft Machine - 1972 - Fifth
French TV - 2004 - Pardon our French
French TV - 2005 - This is what we do
French TV - 2010 - I Forgive You For All My Unhappiness
Univers Zero - 1977 - 1313
Univers Zero - 1979 - Heresie
Univers Zero - 1981 - Ceux Du Dehors
Karmakanic - 2003 - Entering the Spectra
Karmakanic - 2004 - Wheel of Life
Karmakanic - 2008 - Who's The Boss In The Factory
Samla Mammas Manna - 1971 - Samla Mammas Manna
Samla Mammas Manna - 1973 - Måltid
Samla Mammas Manna - 1974 - Klossa Knapitatet
Samla Mammas Manna - 1976 - Snorungernas Symfoni
Well, I couldn't possibly add Revolution By Night over Mirrors, (No Albert? No me!) but you could make one great album out of the 2 of them.
Honestly, I'd prefer to do a Cheat & Skip like some others here have done, and go with Spectres.
My next trilogy of Trilogies:
Black Sabbath
- Vol.4
- Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
- Sabotage
This was a life-changing era for the little kid version of me, and I still go back to these albums over just about anything else that old. SBS and Sabotage especially... just fantastic, thought-provoking, daring, imaginative and crushingly heavy music. Two all time top 10 LPs for me.
Oingo Boingo
- Only A Lad
- Nothing To Fear
- Good For Your Soul
I would also include the Mystic Knights/ Forbidden Zone OST if I wasn't such a disgusting rule-follower. This period, before they lost bassist/ phenom Kerry Hatch and keyboardist/ future film score guy Richard Gibbs, was a creative peak for this amazing band. The chemistry was just right here, and was never the same afterwards. Some of the best music of the mistakenly-maligned 80s, right here my dudes.
Alice Cooper
- Killer
- School's Out
- Billion Dollar Babies
This was an equally life-changing era for the even littler kid version of me, mostly thanks to my older sister, whom I've sorely missed since we lost her very suddenly in 2017. Stacey was my musical guiding light during childhood: first the Partridge Family, then Elton, then Zeppelin, Yes & Genesis.. until the day I honed in on her LP collection and located a certain SNAKESKIN album cover. That was the end of that, little me was an Alice fan for life! Later, her boyfriend corrupted me even further with Sabbath, Nugent, etc. These 3 are by far, to this day, my favorite AC -- with this as probably my favorite track:
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"You have the option to drill additional holes in the label,
causing the record to rotate off the side of the turntable"
-Tom Ellard - Severed Heads
I just came across this, and I feel the need to post it for any Alice fans in the house.
Dennis Dunaway of the original Alice Cooper Band gives a great little interview here, talking about the early days and more.
What an articulate & easy-going guy, with such a agreeable, common sense outlook on things.
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"You have the option to drill additional holes in the label,
causing the record to rotate off the side of the turntable"
-Tom Ellard - Severed Heads
Gary Burton
- Ring
- Dreams So Real
- Passengers
Eberhard Weber
- The Colours Of Chloe
- Yellow Fields
- The Following Morning
and for good measure...
- Fluid Rustle
Frank Zappa
- Grand Wazoo
- Waka/Jawaka
- Over-Nite Sensation
and for good measure...
- Apostrophe
I'll chime in with Gavin Harrison's history in England's two PT's
IN ABSENTIA
DEADWING
FEAR OF A BLANK PLANET
WHAT WE HAVE SOWN
TIGHTLY UNWOUND
SOMEONE HERE IS MISSING
Day dawns dark...it now numbers infinity.
Deep Purple:
Fireball
Machine Head
(skipping Passages and live album)
Who Do We... (have to include this having songs like Woman, Super, Smooth)
Yes:
Ctte
Tales
Relayer
"She said you are the air I breathe
The life I love, the dream I weave."
Unevensong - Camel
As long as ECM is running in this field...
Whenever I seem to be far away
Odyssey
After the rain
- Terje Rypdal
Dammit, did we miss this?
Mwandishi
Crossings
Sextant
Why is it whenever someone mentions an artist that was clearly progressive (yet not the Symph weenie definition of Prog) do certain people feel compelled to snort "thats not Prog" like a whiny 5th grader?
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