High Tide's mix of acid rock and hard rock is an island unto itself. Nostradamus ;) breaks down the song "Blankman Cries Again" with an apparent mixed verdict in this listening/analysis video:
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High Tide's mix of acid rock and hard rock is an island unto itself. Nostradamus ;) breaks down the song "Blankman Cries Again" with an apparent mixed verdict in this listening/analysis video:
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Zaragon profiled that track recently on his listening/commentary channel. It aroused some discussion of that credit:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqlcwEdiij8
The top comment on that video cuts like a knife.
"Great video and a succinct takedown of YouTube's most algorithmically over-promoted charlatan.
Beato doesn't know what he's talking about in...
Here's an expert's view on the Beato syndrome that summarizes the man perfectly:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AHt7nh_sSo
Two songs interspersed with vintage indents. The first number (begins at 1:50) sounds straight out of 1971:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGJZfH6KKf0
It does have a really lovely song sung by Annie Haslan, "Reaching Out."
Zaragon did a listening/commentary video on the track. Supposedly, it's about a 10th generation intergalactic colony adrift...
Here's a very thoughtful, eloquent, and researched video debunking Beato's claims about perfect pitch (something anyone can learn at any age):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HORXRnOSC20
Here's...
Thanks for a great life of music, Chick. RIP.
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Zaragon did a recent feature on this topic. He's also profiled Ange, Atoll, Carpe Diem, Art Zoyd, Zao, and several others in his older pause format.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6q1be_lM98Y
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Sad news. It's too bad she never made amends with Diana Ross. She could/should have been part of that 2000 reunion tour.
Zaragon recently did a Canterbury profile with Hatfield, Quiet Sun and Isotope:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnu3TESlek0
BTW, subscribe to his channel if you haven't already. He's been doing...
The man behind two of the most beautiful ballads of the British Invasion. I especially love "Don't Let the Sun Catch You Crying," the song that made his restless woman turn around and marry him.
Ouch, that's really gotta' hurt.:lol
He's tearing him a new one, that's for sure.:lol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbN2RfZgRGE
He can't have much to say if he's already out of titles.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgwJUoxqj-4
Zaragon profiled two tracks on it months ago as part of his #50YearsSince1970 series:
https://youtu.be/jnKhmHIG6Kk
I've always loved his Magic Band-like work on Blank Generation, particularly these tracks:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vT_2d2Mn3E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIvf_eOUjVA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cudlr_ZMmBY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZr8iReEqMQ
Zaragon did a theatrical breakdown of "Invaders from Mars" from Crack the Sky's Animal Notes album, which is placed high on his Top 100 albums of 1976:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWEPObmh6WE
Interesting to see his name come up at this time. Xerf Xpec just made one of his classic albums available:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ej5a0sqVZ0o
Funny enough, Zaragon seems to think that "All the Way" is an elongated reinvention of "My Love" by Paul McCartney and Wings with different lyrics.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CTO-RlShJY
Sad news. He had a sporadic yet rewarding career. His late-period homeland comeuppance (a UK #2 in 2001) is a rarity in rock.
Zaragon profiled them a while back. He describes them as a mix of minimalism and the Berlin school.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8U6Xkbyexq4
Apparently, Twisted Sister are so embarrassed by their career-ending video that they've now blocked all four YouTube uploads of "Leader of the Pack." To think, some of those uploads had been on YT...
Hmmm, this video suddenly got blocked on YouTube despite having been on there for years.
The instrumental tracks are moving and well-recorded, particularly the Mellotron (?) and guitar. I'd redo the vocals because he comes off muffled and off-key at times. The addition of a female voice...
Zaragon featured two cuts from Switch on his listening/commentary channel a while back:
https://youtu.be/95bB8sATlxo
The cringe-fest no one wants to talk about:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wza2pCjJC8E
Billy Squier has nothing on Dee and the boys.
Very good. Your tribute is indeed faithful to Ant's style.
I remember her from those Avengers reruns that aired on A&E during the early '90s, as well as the mini-series she did (1991, thereabouts) with David McCallum. RIP.
ZT did a listening party/commentary vid on one of Gary's better deep cuts:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpJiH_UVj9k
He's also featured a Spooky Tooth track.
Just think of all the great, productive things you could have done during the past eight years instead.:roll
He did an interview for Trouser Press in 1978 during promotions for Long Live Rock 'n' Roll. When asked what he thought about the "heavy metal" tag, he said "it's a lot better than punk, which means...
I had the Atari 400. I got it for Christmas in 1982 and never understood why it didn't have actual buttons. I saw the Atari 800 in stores and wondered my grandparents didn't buy me that instead (more...
YouTube is flooded with Led Zep listening videos (reactions from kids and whatnot) but there are only a few listeners who go in knowing the music, who can break it down and illuminate its qualities...
Great stuff. I'm a sucker for that mid-'70s jazz-rock sound. They were profiled a while back by that '70s guy on YouTube. Warning: he does pause the track here and there for commentary:
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Really sad news. I love that Trader Horne album.
Do you regret losing contact with Dave Biro and letting the Birotron project fall through the cracks?
Any recollections of the 1980 "I'm So Straight I'm a Weirdo" video shoot and your interactions...
As one of the first and few bands to incorporate xylophones and vibraphones into rock, Gentle Giant had virtually no stylistic forebears. What musician/composer inspired this feature in the band's...
Any recollections about recording The Road with Quiet World? Have you or John (Hackett) kept in touch with the other pair of brothers in that band, playwrights/filmmakers John and Lea Heather?
1979:
Renaissance - "Golden Key"
Brand X - "Don't Make Waves"
Angela Bofill - "I Try"
The Human League - "Austerity/Girl One (Medley)"
Saga - "Hot to Cold"
1987:
Esquire - "To the Rescue"
Icehouse - "Heartbreak Kid"
Bourgeois Tagg - "Waiting for the Worm to Turn"
The Style Council - "Heavens Above"
Swing Out Sister - "Blue Mood"
Don't tell me the best PE thread of all-time is running out of steam. 1978:
Japan - "Television"
The Jam - "Down In a Tube Station at Midnight"
The Stranglers - "Toiler On the Sea"
Steve...
Great track. You have to really dig for good music from the '90s.
Going back to better times, here's five tracks I'm really digging from 1985:
Loose Ends - "Hangin' on a String...
The great thing about this thread is how you can double-click on any song title, then right-click "search" and a YouTube video for the song comes up in a second tab 9/10 times. If you don't see it...
Does it matter? I discovered most of my favorite songs years after the fact. If you had asked me IN 1981 what my favorite current songs were, I would have said "Private Eyes" and "Turn Your Love...
1981:
Bette Bright - "Hold On"
New Musik - "Churches"
Fischer-Z - "Battalions of Strangers"
Dramatis - "I Only Find Rewind"
Eurythmics - "Your Time Will Come"
They nailed "The Endless Enigma."
These year-by-year directories are a great source:
https://rateyourmusic.com/list/Zaragon/1977___and_it_feels_like_heaven_/
There's almost 1,700 albums on the 1976 and 1977 pages. Of the '77 reds...
This hits me like a slap in the face. He produced so many of the albums that I love. One of the great musical architects of the late '70s and early '80s.
Toyah's first four albums are good but I'm not sure she's known for her best songs in the territories where she charted. That song she does in this video, "I Want to Be Free," is the worst song off...
I like this better than the Art Bears. Lindsay Cooper brings in her chamber/cabaret influences, so it's more tuneful and perky than what Frith and Cutler did in her absence. It seems that Cutler took...
Starstruck (Australia, 1982), featuring Phil Judd and the Swingers:
https://youtu.be/KQHyuJtQKqs
Zaragon / Joni Mitchell - "Furry Sings the Blues" and "Black Crow" (1976)
https://youtu.be/N03y0nX7LKs
Great stuff.
Amazing they still got it. Same trademark vocals and imaginative titles. To think they're both in their seventies.
I agree that TMR is overrated. Even if trimmed to a single album it wouldn't be my favorite. I like Beefheart better when he keeps a balance between avant garde and classic blues. I also agree that...
This is heartbreaking. She did a comeback a few years back and reverted to her '70s-era 'fro look in the process.
Thirty-four years ago, I ran this question by my maternal uncle (born 1956). He said, "personally, I like the Stones better." It struck me as one of the most unique positions I'd heard in my nascent...