The Overview features on no less than 4 public AlbumWhale lists - turns out all 4 are mine.

  • Neo Progressive
  • English Progressive
  • Steven Wilson

and

  • Surprises. In some ways not a surprise at all. Terrific album - but you do need it to marinate.

The Surprise? He has an 🔗🎵Orchestral version on YouTube …

From The Alterview boxset, all rights to Wilson/Fiction Records

The Overview by Steven Wilson

The Overview by Steven Wilson

This album is currently featured on 4 public lists on AlbumWhale - all mine!

BUT - this not exactly a reshare - but an opportunity for you to click on this link and hear the Orchestral Version of The Overview.

I am thinking of retiring the ‘Inspired By People’ Series

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But Then

I have just started an AlbumWhale collection

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AND

A Protest Collection

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🔗🎵💿 Odessey and Oracle - The Zombies

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🔗🎵💿 Odessey and Oracle - The Zombies

The List of Posts that start over on AlbumWhale albumwhale.com/albums/10…

🔗🎵💿 Odessey and Oracle - The Zombies

The List of Posts that start on AlbumWhale

A rock is featured prominently against a dark background with text reading the Cure and Songs Of A Lost World.A person wearing a cowboy hat holds a drink, with red and white text promoting Life, Death And Dennis Hopper by The Waterboys, released on April 4, 2025.An album cover for Pink Floyd The Early Years: 1965-1967 Cambridge St/ation, released on November 11, 2016, featuring abstract artwork.An album cover features colorful, psychedelic artwork with intricate designs, abstract figures, and bold text reading Odessey and Oracle by The Zombies.A barren, reddish landscape with distant mountains is accompanied by the text More and Pulp, with a release date of June 6, 2025.Enigma's album cover for MCMXC a.D features a cloaked figure standing before a radiant, cross-shaped light, with mystical and atmospheric artwork.

🔗🎵💿 Songs of a Lost World - The Cure

Hat Tip To @patrickrhone

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🔗🎵💿 Songs of a Lost World - The Cure

Hat Tip To @patrickrhone

The List of Posts that start on AlbumWhale

A rock is featured prominently against a dark background with text reading the Cure and Songs Of A Lost World.A person wearing a cowboy hat holds a drink, with red and white text promoting Life, Death And Dennis Hopper by The Waterboys, released on April 4, 2025.An album cover for Pink Floyd The Early Years: 1965-1967 Cambridge St/ation, released on November 11, 2016, featuring abstract artwork.An album cover features colorful, psychedelic artwork with intricate designs, abstract figures, and bold text reading Odessey and Oracle by The Zombies.A barren, reddish landscape with distant mountains is accompanied by the text More and Pulp, with a release date of June 6, 2025.Enigma's album cover for MCMXC a.D features a cloaked figure standing before a radiant, cross-shaped light, with mystical and atmospheric artwork.

Songs Of A Lost World by The Cure

Songs Of A Lost World by The Cure

Always loved The Cure. First studio in 16 years. My thanks to Patrick Rhone for highlighting this. As he writes

It’s fantastic. Both classic and modern at the same time.

For me - his voice is definitely not what it was - but that would be hard - he's still got it.

Another #AlbumWhale question @bjhess

If i see an album on someone else’s list I can add it to one of my lists. BUT can I do the same if I have an album on one of my lists? If I want to add it to another one of mine - or even move it. Doable? Cos I can’t see that I can. Looking to do some list sorting and consolidation.

A brand new 🔗🎵 Album Whale List that is three times as large as my 2nd largest list.

About AlbumWhale - @bjhess - any known issues today - a large number of covers don’t seem to be coming through on lists like this

🔗🎵💿 Life, Death And Dennis Hopper - The Waterboys

The List of Posts that start on AlbumWhale

A rock is featured prominently against a dark background with text reading the Cure and Songs Of A Lost World.A person wearing a cowboy hat holds a drink, with red and white text promoting Life, Death And Dennis Hopper by The Waterboys, released on April 4, 2025.An album cover for Pink Floyd The Early Years: 1965-1967 Cambridge St/ation, released on November 11, 2016, featuring abstract artwork.An album cover features colorful, psychedelic artwork with intricate designs, abstract figures, and bold text reading Odessey and Oracle by The Zombies.A barren, reddish landscape with distant mountains is accompanied by the text More and Pulp, with a release date of June 6, 2025.Enigma's album cover for MCMXC a.D features a cloaked figure standing before a radiant, cross-shaped light, with mystical and atmospheric artwork.

Life, Death And Dennis Hopper by The Waterboys

Life, Death And Dennis Hopper by The Waterboys

ALWAYS loved The Waterboys. This made me sit up - an entire album dedicated to Dennis Hopper - where the music itself moves through the years of Hopper’s life.

Back in January …

🔗🎵Announcing “Life, Death, and Dennis Hopper” from The Waterboys | Sun Records

The announcement wasn’t very clear …

“Life, Death, and Dennis Hopper” releases from The Waterboys on April 4th.

Today is the 4th. Not here. I guess it will be tomorrow - when it is the 4th in America.

🔗🎵💿 Cambridge St/ation - Pink Floyd

The List of Posts that start on AlbumWhale

A rock is featured prominently against a dark background with text reading the Cure and Songs Of A Lost World.A person wearing a cowboy hat holds a drink, with red and white text promoting Life, Death And Dennis Hopper by The Waterboys, released on April 4, 2025.An album cover for Pink Floyd The Early Years: 1965-1967 Cambridge St/ation, released on November 11, 2016, featuring abstract artwork.An album cover features colorful, psychedelic artwork with intricate designs, abstract figures, and bold text reading Odessey and Oracle by The Zombies.A barren, reddish landscape with distant mountains is accompanied by the text More and Pulp, with a release date of June 6, 2025.Enigma's album cover for MCMXC a.D features a cloaked figure standing before a radiant, cross-shaped light, with mystical and atmospheric artwork.

I’ve started a new AlbumWhale list (and I haven’t even finished the others! Still.) The new list is called ‘Formative Years’ …

I’m an ‘artist’ guy, then an ‘album’ guy and then a singles/track guy. I like my music ‘in context’ The lists in here are way behind what I see in my mind’s eye - BUT the topics provide a clue to how I relate them all.
This new list is all about albums that ‘formed me’ and contributed to the music world I am today. At the time I might not have recognised it - but in the rear view mirror - absolutely.

First Up: Odessey and Oracle By The Zombies

Odessey and Oracle by The Zombies

Odessey and Oracle by The Zombies

The Zombies were unto themselves. Colin Blunstone went on to great things - as did Rod Argent. This appeared at the end the Zombies run - but under THEIR creative control. Back in the mid to late 60s there was a sound that began to emerge combining Psychedelia, English Folk and Rock which in turn morphed into something I call ‘English Progressive’. This is not obviously a Prog record - but it has most of the characteristics of that genre. (I hate genres.)

Man cannot endure his own littleness unless he can translate it into meaningfulness on the largest possible level.

💬 Ernest Becker

… and then I thought of 🔗🎵 The Overview

🔗 Scripting News: Monday, March 24, 2025

Peter O’Toole starred in 🔗🎬The Ruling Class, a favorite when I was younger. The 🎵📼 last song in the movie is pretty freaking great.

💬 Dave Winer

I agree with Dave - ‘The Ruling Class’ was a good movie (not great - but good). ‘Favorite’? Not so sure, definitely not ‘in general- since it was pretty much panned at the time only time turning it into what we now call a ‘cult classic’. (But do watch the song - it has all the expected cheesiness of its time!)

Four years earlier was 🔗🎬 If - now THAT was a film and arguably did for McDowell what Layer Cake did for Craig.