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Zaragon profiled two highlights from this album a while back. He gets really into the technical details and member backgrounds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gAX4_DqWCA

Good band, especially their first three albums. Zaragon featured parts of their "Flight" suite in this episode:

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

The first song in ZT's latest video, by Kandahar, is very Canterbury-influenced.

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

Apparently, there's quite a bit of yacht rock/prog rock crossover. Here, ZT breaks down three examples:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wndA-jUk4So

Like Finch, Blakula or Modry Efekt. Basically, Yes meets Deep Purple. Zaragon profiled some tracks from their first album.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMyAWwk-yFo

ZT recently profiled the title-track, along with cuts by Doug Hammond and Eddie Henderson.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yK2ED-lNto

It's sad to think that '80s-era rockers are reaching their mortality. Zaragon just posted a four-song tribute of deep cuts from their 1985 album.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvqn6mi4Fsg

Tribute profile on Kerslake's pre-Uriah Heep years in The Gods, Head Machine, and Toe Fat.

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

I just can't pull myself away from 1970, an enormous start to the best musical decade.

Dance In the Smoke: Argent
The Sun Is Bored: Bill Fay
Persephone's Jive: Neil Ardley/Ian Carr/Don Rendell...

Mythos - TMWSTW is from 1970. Speaking of, here are my faves for today from '70.

Why Is Mary So Nervous: Michael Naura Quartett
Devil Lady: Dreams
Mine Eyes Have Seen: Fat
Captain Supernatural:...

I've been on an unstoppable 1970 binge since that Zaragon video.

For Michael Collins, Jeffrey and Me: Jethro Tull
Aeroplane Head Woman: Pete Brown & Piblokto
Broken Hours: Blonde On Blonde
Port...

I recall some people blabbing about that site back in 2005-2006. I didn't know it still existed. There was this one guy, Bruce Grossberg, who used to blab about it so much that I suspected he made...

In this video, one of the world's leading experts on '70s music discusses the exceptional premieres and releases of 1970 (90 minutes long). Toward the end of the video, he gives viewers a tour of the...

I would imagine that a lot of CDs from the 90s have rotted, just like laser discs. There was so much hype behind the technology back then, but CDs hadn't yet endured the test of time.

Acres Wild
Cup of Wonder
Protect and Survive
Watching Me, Watching You
Astronomy

I love their first three albums, and the fourth and fifth have some great moments. I don't like that new single, but I'll reserve my judgement until I've heard the entire album. There's a good...

The first two Ultravox albums also come before Drastic Plastic. Tracks like "My Sex," "Dangerous Rhythm," "Hiroshima Mon Amour," and "The Man Who Dies Everyday"... those are the first aesthetically...

The Real Music Observer has a good breakdown of this interview in the following segment:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhe8qDRi93Y

He wrote the song "Seagull (The West Coast Oil Tragedy)" for Love Sculpture and co-sang with Elkie Brooks in the brass-rock band Dada. They recorded one album in 1970 before he left. His replacement,...

I hope this is over before July 4th. I'd hate to have all the fireworks celebrations get cancelled.

As predicted, the Real Music Observer has been taking this topic apart from all angles. In the following clip, he gets personal on a few matters, including Valory's financial situation:
...

Sad new. The Trimaximalist has touted Tyner in several segments, including this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=869aJL_00uQ

There's a review of that album here:...

Glad to say that I ignored the '80s derangement craze when it was all the rage among rock rubes back in the late 2000s. I've always had a proportionate liking for Zappa's '80s era, particularly his...

Wow. This will set the Real Music Observer's channel on fire. Expect a nonstop flood of speculation videos on this topic.

ZT did a listening/commentary segment on two tracks from their debut EP. Dig those vintage ARP sounds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSy7xjyclfg

The Bacharach/David composition "(They Long to Be) Close to You" originally appeared as the b-side on the 1963 Richard Chamberlain single "Blue Guitar," seven years before it became a hit for the...

I first heard Drastic Plastic 30 years ago, just before I got into Gary Numan, John Foxx/Ultravox and the like. "Electrical Language" seemed to be the start of that whole style, so the album became a...

Great album, very misty. Two songs are featured on a listening/commentary installment by the Trimaximalist:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPwRrqG4kbw

Walter Egan: the lyric "with you I'm not shy" in the song "Magnet and Steel" from the album Not Shy.

Culture Club: the lyric "I'm never really sure if you're just kissing to be clever" in the song...

I hope that Mick and Slick never crossed that line. I would like to think that she maintained a more motherly role to the other members of the Starship.

The quote, sourced from memory, appeared in a Feb. 1987 issue of Rolling Stone. My first exposure to Vera occurred weeks earlier when his band mimed their hit on an episode of Dancing to the Hits,...

Zaragon the Trimaximalist recently did a listening party/commentary video on this artist:

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

Vera wrote the song "Don't Look Back," a 1966 regional hit for Bostonian garage-rockers The Remains. In 1967, he teamed with soul singer Judy Clay. As America's first racially integrated duo, they...

Bingo! My next round of clues would have been the following:

Interracial '60s male/female soul-pop duo
Family Ties
Into the Night Starring Rick Dees

He was briefly successful during the late '60s, 20 years before his one big hit.

Hint: a singer/bandleader who was briefly popular in 1987 and somewhat resembled Collins.

"I may be older than Phil Collins, but I'm a lot better looking.":cool

Zaragon just posted a listening party/real-time review of two rubies from the album:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ruqt_N8inN0

Here's a listening party/commentary video on two of the highlights from their first album:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFF1UocbZ6w

This year marks the 50th birthday of all the albums featured in the two collages at the following link:
https://rateyourmusic.com/board_message?message_id=7503239

Here's a listening party/commentary video on a cut from his 1974 superproject Kunstkopfindianer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4X79vg-CSDg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJWvZwRa4KA


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZN54zbh1y8

The following video contains analysis of a Wham deep-cut, perhaps their finest:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RhSKuMXa1U

Beautiful song with instrumental backing by Elliott Randall, Will Lee, and the Brecker Brothers.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wc2vBHSzfmA

Misleading to use a 1979/80 photo of the band for a 1989 track that didn't involve drummer Terry Chambers (far right) who left the band after 1982's English Settlement.

This band has some of that sound:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1UYJW0xe3w

Split Enz' 14-minute epic, performed live in 1976 but never recorded:

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

There are a few moments on ATTWT where it sounds as if Steve is still there, such as the climax of "Burning Rope."

Has Weird Al Yankovic gotten in yet? Oh wait, I don't care.

Here's another great hard-rock instrumental that I came across on the Trimaximalist channel. Zaragon breaks it down:

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

He has a playlist for all his...

Thumbs up for the Ronnie Montrose, Iron Maiden, and Angel recommendations. "The Speed of Life" is an interesting choice; I never would have thought of it in this context.

"The Rock" and "Guitar and Pen" illustrate that point perfectly.

The Edge from 1980 with Glyn Havard (Jade Warrior), Jon Moss (Culture Club) and Lu Edmonds (The Damned, PIL).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=be_B4o0cCPo
http://jazzrocksoul.com/artists/the-edge/

Hits compilations are dead because they're for the general consumer, not the dedicated listener. Consumers long ago purchased all the comps that would fit their narrow interest range and the pool of...

He did some electrified jazz-funk albums during the mid-1970s, so he was inching close for a time.

Another one of rock's greatest drummers is now jamming in that big band in the sky with Jon Hiseman, Keith Moon, John Bonham, Buddy Rich, and all the rest. The Trimaximalist recently did a...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBjmBU4Gj_E

A great organ-psych/hard-rocker from 1970 with commentary by Zaragon:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oKmr4VVW-4

I like some of the spinoff projects (Gillan, Paice Ashton Lord, Roger Glover's Elements) better than what they did collectively as Deep Purple.

Two of her songs were recently the subjects of a listening party/commentary segment on this channel:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwrTrc-s36I