🎵 I have been working my way through Breaking Bad. Last night this was played with one of the characters singing along.
I had to look it up. Never heard it before. Didn’t know the artists. Superb.
The comments seem to be all related to the show, I guess it’s not just me.
🎛️ English Progressive Redux
🔗 Andrew Hickey’s ‘500 Songs’ includes a good and interesting summary of why the UK and US musicians who ‘arrived’ in the 60s sounded so different, emerging, he argues, from significant social differences and country histories.
What do you think?
🎵 More thoughts on what I call English Progressive
The Full Podcast: 🎙️ 500 Songs - ‘See Emily Play’ by The Pink Floyd
🎵 Transatlantic are set to release a new concert set. I just watched a video.
BRILLIANT (not the performance … the idea.)
Many artists complain about cell phones in their concerts and the ensuing distractions for them and the audience.
Portnoy has clearly solved the problem.
Get everybody to use their phones like an old fashioned lighter and get those batteries drained to zero!
🎵 Apparently
HAKEN are set to release their seventh studio album ‘Fauna’ on the 3rd March 2023.
… and they celebrated Valentine’s Day with the launch of their latest single ‘Lovebite’.
I guess Valentine’s Day is not what it used to be?
🎵One more example amongst the millions of examples that people don’t read.
There is a thread on Reddit talking about genres. I commented that I used a personal genre that I call 🔗 ’English Progressive’ adding the specific words that “an artist didn’t need to be English for me to classify them in that genre”. I then gave three example … Dream Theater, PFM and Focus.
This morning I have been informed that Dream Theater are American.
Thankyou - thankyou very much!
If you know Charley’s, this is not new news.
If you don’t know Charley’s - then why should you care?
This just in from my good friend Randall Rospond … number 25 in the image below, right beside …
🎵 Musical Muscle Memory.
Listening to an 🔗 awesome album from my youth.
Back in the day, vinyl - of course AND as ‘well played vinyl’ the middle of one track jumped.
It never bothered me because I automatically compensated.
Listening without the jump just felt wrong.
🎵 Despite my initial resistance to the 500 song podcast narrated by 🔗 Andrew Hickey .. I am now moving into my third … first ‘The Monkees’, then ‘Love’, now ‘The Move’. The depth of information flying …
During their two weeks in New Zealand, they caused so much outrage in the media that the New Zealand Parliament addressed the issue of granting entry permits to musicians such as the Pretty Things.
Who knew they were so ‘badass’?
I always had 🎵 BrandX as ‘Jazz/Fusion’ - but they are sometimes classified as ‘Progressive’. That’s why 🔗 ’genres’ are so hard - if not to say meaningless. Whichever they are - a great listen - delivered courtesy of The Old Grey Whistle Test.