Category: Music

The Bomber by James Gang

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There are some songs that come along in your life and you’re like where have you been? The Bomber by James Gang is one of those songs. There’s too much to talk about this song and I don’t want to do that and bore you all. But I have to say that this 70s tune has been somehow not heard by me, until recently and I can’t stop listening to it.

Known for their great funk songs like: Walk Way, and Funk # 49, Bomber is special in its own right.  Joe Walsh is right up front in the James gang. A lot of people don’t realize he started out there before he was in the Eagles. He has amazing vocals and outstanding guitar chops.

This song starts out with this nice (I want to call it) dirty funk rock heavy guitar like many other songs by this band. The drums are amazing and the guitar riffs are exciting.

Then, in the middle of the song, it breaks off into a really beautiful rendition of Bolero by Ravel. Unexpected and beautiful such a nice surprise. 

Then after Bolero, the song comes back into its main theme and just rocks out until the end. I hope you enjoy it. I do every time I hear it.

Thank you for reading and listening…

-aaa

I’ll Cry Alone by The Flamin’ Groovies: Heartbreak Never Sounded So Cool

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There are so many sub genres of rock ‘n’ roll I’ve come to discover and find each unique and amazing. Adding so much more definition to music. 

Punk rock is no exception, as there are some bands that hit the scene just before Punk Rock’s first iteration did. They’ve been labeled as “Proto-Punk”.

These band set the foundation for what would become punk rock as well as Nee Wave in the years to come. Also, with their toe stepped in classic rock, it’s a very interesting mix of styles in between these generations of music. 

Some examples of Proto-Punk The Who (in my opinion the earliest), Velvet Underground, Television, and The Flamin’ Groovies to name a few. 

The song I’m going to share is called “I’ll Cry Alone” by The Flamin’ Groovies. It is a sad song we can all relate to. Heartbreak never sounded so cool and beautiful though. The main guitar riff is haunting and trust me, you’re gonna hear it in your head even after this song is over. Excellent harmonies and a touch of Beatles here and there you might hear as well.

It’s a beautiful heartbreaker with a little bit of edge. Check it out and thank you as always for reading and listening…

-aaa

Greensleeves Take 5 by The Vince Guaraldi Trio

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A couple of years ago I think it was in 2022, there was a new released version of the Charlie Brown Christmas album with a ton of studio outtakes included. I believe it’s called the super deluxe version or something to that effect.

For a music lover and nerd like myself, this offers a lot of very interesting different versions of the Christmas classics we’re accustomed to. I love hearing the outtakes and are some humor and all kinds of fun stuff on a lot of the other tracks too. It’s one of my favorite Christmas albums, and it has been ever since my young years. 

You truly get an idea of how good the musicianship is on this album is, and how good and talented all the musicians are, especially Vince Guaraldi. 

You can even hear the studio engineer giving instructions as they do this take and I think this version should’ve been released on the original album. I think it’s the coolest jazziest version of Greensleeves I have ever heard.

It’s very, very syncopated like jazz should be and just very unexpected and beautiful. Vince’s chops on the piano are absolutely insane. As he emotes such feeling into many of the sections.

Check it out I think it’ll really do something to you like it does to me and as is always thank you for reading and listening. 

-aaa

Good Only Knows by The Beach Boys

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I’d like to say that Pet Sounds by The Beach Boys is my number three or number four album ever and one that I would have on an island with me for sure. Many including the Beatles considered to be one of the most beautiful influential albums of the 60s that actually changed music and I agree.

There are two type of people in the world ones that know that Brian Wilson is a genius and the rest. The song God Only Knows is proof of that. 

He decided to let his brother Carl sing the leads on it and he did a great job. And the backing of the wrecking crew is nothing less than genius.

Such beautiful sad chords that grow up and up and up and never let you down. Great lyrics by Tony Asher, makes you wonder what Brian was trying to touch on.  Also to create those interesting sounds on the piano. He actually put pennies on the piano strings meticulously until he got that interesting staccato sound playing the piano. His experimentation in the studio can be found throughout the pet sounds album and there are many great songs on that album.

And of course you have the beautiful voices of the fellow Beach boys always on point creating these complex chords. 

Is it a love song to someone or a love song to music you decide. There’s a good reason why it’s tattooed on my left shoulder. 

Check it out most of you should probably know a but if not check it out it’s really special and thank you for reading and listening…

-aaa

Current Music, Just Isn’t The Same 

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How do people listen to auto-tuned junk 

Rather than the protest of hardcore punk

Or George Clinton and his Parliament funk

Modern music, far too easy to debunk.

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What would the youngsters do or say 

If they heard all the music I had to play

With unaided singer’s, all out on display

Non computerized instruments at the fray.

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Probably, they’d find me crazy but I’m not 

Just using these enormous ears I’ve got 

Knowing a difference between art and rot

It’s just the weirdo that I am believe it or not.

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Your music brain needs more to eat

Than loud bass and persistent beat 

Those songs feed my rapid retreat

Into my own music then I’m compete.

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Don’t give me static when I cringe and frown 

When I hear overuse of bass going down 

I’ll wear my headphones like my crown

Playing the best music that can be found…

-AAA 11/17/2024

John Lennon: Give Me Some Truth 

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After the Beatles ended, many of the Fabs took off in new directions with solo albums. John Lennon was no exception with the beautiful Imagine.

Loaded with amazing songs aside from its namesake, Imagine also has: Crippled Inside (some say a jab at Paul McCartney), Jealous Guy, Oh My Love, How Do You Sleep (possible jab at McCartney or John himself), Oh Yoko, and others.

My favorite aside from the namesake of the album is, Gimme Some Truth. A political lambast of lyrics by Lennon and some amazing music behind the song. 

With John Lennon on vocals and guitar, George Harrison on slide guitar and guitar, Session Legend Nicky Hopkins on piano, Klaus Voorman on bass, and Alan White on the drums. I’m sure Yoko was doing something too somewhere in there. I’m not sure what but probably was part of it too.

Complex filling blues chords and timely slide guitar riffs make this track catchy and hard to ignore.

Check out the lyrics as well, they’ll really blow your mind. I find them quite appropriate in today’s political/social climate as well.  

As always, thank you for reading and listening…

-aaa

Pink Floyd Lucifer Sam 

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Here is an early Pink Floyd track penned by Syd Barrett from the early days of The Floyd, where he was at the helm. Singing leads and playing lead guitar. A role that would be replaced by David Gilmour, later on after Barrett’s mental state unfortunately deteriorated, in 1968 on Saucerful of Secrets and subsequent albums after that. 

Lucifer Sam is about Syd’s Siamese Cat. 

       “Lucifer Sam, Siam cat.”

It’s far more psychedelic than the more known progressive songs by the band.  This is off there first LP, Piper at the Gates of Dawn. There’s definitely quite a few interesting tracks on this album, but Lucifer Sam is my favorite, and I think you’ll enjoy it. Check it out and as always, thank you for reading and listening…

-aaa

St Judy’s Comet by Paul Simon.

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Yes, I’m back with some more music. Oh boy here we go again lol. Another Paul Simon song, my other favorite by him. Again, not as well known as others, but it’s quite beautiful and lovely. It’s called Saint Judy’s Comet and is off the 1973 album release, There Goes Rymin’ Simon. 

It’s a simple little lullaby, written for his son and turned into a song.  Again, there’s something about the chords, the keys, the lyrics, and the direction of the song that touches my heart and soul.

I hope they do the same for you check it out.  Maybe you can try it before bedtime and it might put you into a real serene mood as well. As always, thank you for reading and listening…

-aaa

We Should All: Beware Of Darkness 

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All Things Must Pass is an amazing album and truly, one of the best of the post-Beatles  albums released by the Fabs (11/27/1970).

Released less than a year after their highly public break up. A veritable who’s who was in the studio helping out with this album’s creation, including at least a couple of the ex Beatles (Ringo, and John). Co-Produced (Wiyh George Harrison) by the (later highly troubled and controversial) the ‘wall of sound’man himself, Phil Specter.

There are many great songs on this triple LP:  Isn’t it A Pity,  Wah Wah, Let It Down, What Is My Life, All Things Must Pass, I Dig Love,  I’d Have You Anytime,  If Not For You, The Art Of Dying. They’ve been in numerous movie, soundtracks and get a lot of radio play. I highly recommended, checking out at least the first two sides of this triple album. Where the third side is just a series of jams and silly songs. 

My favorite is the song Beware Of Darkness. It really is a wonderful cautionary tale song. The guitars and everything else are just fantastic in this song with a lot of really great blues chords. 

The lyrics are very telling and very appropriate, even for today, especially the last verse set in my opinion, which rings true in today’s political climate in the Americas:

    “Watch out now, take care Beware of 

      greedy leaders, they take you where you 

      should not go, while Weeping Atlas 

      Cedars, they just want to grow, grow and 

      grow, Beware of darkness.”

Aside from the interesting music and poignant lyrics., I feel the song ends sort of on a non-resolved chord, and then there’s just a bit of a soft resolve by the keyboard and strings at the very end of the song. 

Covered by the great Leon Russell first on his self titled album with the shelter people and on the live Bangladesh album. 

Check it out I think you’ll enjoy it and as always, thank you for reading and listening…

-aaa

My Favorite Song

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It’s always an arduous task to try and come up with a favorite song when you love literally thousands of them as I do. 

I remember the first time I was introduced to this song by my favorite person in the world my godmother and aunt who passed away a little over 20 years ago.  I believe we’re listening to KLOS 95.5, on a Sunday afternoon, heading home from Whittier, California. 

This song comes on the radio and she identified it to me and said “just listen to this and tell me what you think”. I couldn’t have been more than 13 at the time not sure why I’ve never heard it before, but it just did something to me. I remember when it ended, I couldn’t even respond. My mind was still processing what I just heard, realizing it transformed me forever, at that moment.

It transformed me and showed me the beauty and simplicity in the world. That most of us often miss caught up in the everyday struggles and challenges. We all have to deal with. 

With her help and some sheet music and a ton of patience, I was able to learn and master the harpsichord part of the song and can play it to this day on the piano.

The song is Because by The Beatles.  It’s on my favorite album Abbey Road by the band which in itself has many fantastic songs, but this one to me is the centerpiece. And I know, most people love side two with McCartney’s rock, opera piece, and I do too. But this song has something beautiful and just so unusual about it. 

I read somewhere I think on some liner notes to some sheet music that it’s sounds a little like Beethoven’s fifth Symphony in reverse. The electric harpsichord and electric guitar provide the music itself. Along with a Moog Synthesizer taking over the main melody near the end, truly, spellbinding. It even ends on sort of a not quite resolution chord which is unusual. I kinda liked songs like that. They don’t quite end. They sort of go on forever. They feel like “hey isn’t there something missing here, one or two more notes?” 😂

Being a bit of a book/research nut, I did some research on the song I found that the band members had tracked themselves on vocals nearly 16 times over to accomplish the beautiful and haunting harmonies you hear. And obviously without the aid of an auto tuner or computer, like current artist use to make their vocals on pitch.

I’m going to share with you the original version as well as a brilliant cover, but I know that by another one of my favorite artists, the late great Elliott Smith. 

Please check them out and I hope you enjoy them as much as I did and still do. 

-aaa

The Late Great Johnny Ace by Paul Simon off of Hearts and Bones Circa 1983

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I posted this back on July 19 of this year and for whatever reason I’m just thinking of this song right now as we come close to the anniversary of the of the murder and subsequent death of John Lennon.

I was thinking of writing a post about this, and I forgotten that I already had. Just wanted to re-share it with many of you who may not have seen it before or may not be allowed to see it for other reasons I can’t control.

I hope you enjoy it again or for the first time and please listen to this song. It’ll really do something to you. It has everything like I mention in my brief article below.

This just does something to me every time I hear it. it’s got everything hope happiness, love, sadness, heartbreak, and this beautiful eulogy at the end in this lovely coda by Philip Glass. It’ll break your heart. A touching tribute to Johnny Ace and John Lennon.

Check it out below, I think a lot of you may not be familiar with it.

-aaa

The Late Great Johnny Ace

The Clash Police and Thieves

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I have come to appreciate many forms and off-shoots of Punk Rock. Protopunk, bands like the Flaming Groovies, Television, The Who, and Velvet Underground. Pioneer Punk bands like: The New York Dolls, The Stooges, The Ramones, and many others. These led to a movement in the late 1970s in England to bands like the Sex Pistols, The Damned, and The Clash. Will save hard-core punk bands from the early 80s for another discussion, but I love them too, as well as the modern Punk Rock bands of the 90s and beyond.

A truly remarkable cover of the Junior Murvin reggae classic.  This is my favorite song by The Clash and it’s off of their self titled debut album.

Released in 1977, I love how this song starts, I love the beat, and I love the bass line on the bottom.  The guitar riffs on 2s and 4s with syncopated drums. Something very different and interesting. Joe Strummer with his cool vocals that would become the standard for many of their albums to come. 

Great political lyrics just like many clash songs have.

Very unique and different and I think you’ll get a kick out of this cover like I do. Be sure to play it loud and put on some headphones for this bad boy!! 

And as always, thank you for reading and listening…

-aaa

Los Angeles by Frank Blank

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Let’s get into a magic time castle it’s 1993, I was in my third year of college and grunge music has really taken off. I love the music in the 90s very much reminding of how fun my 20s could be. 

Frank Black a.k.a. Black Frank of the famed band the Pixies who are amazing and fantastic in their own right, came up with this neat little ditty in his homage to the city of angels. 

Song starts out, kinda obscure with some low vocals almost bass on acoustic guitar and then this hella hard guitar and drums come with bombastic intensity. 

Remember, it was quite shocking. The first time I heard it. I loved it so many surprises and a lot of really interesting time signature changes and what not. Videos cool too I miss Alternative Nation and 120 Minutes that used to be on MTV back when it was a music channel.  See in Black Frank scooting around in a hovercraft is pretty surreal in itself. 

Check it out and enjoy it and as always, thank you for reading and listening,  my friends…

-aaa

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Gary Numan & The Tubeway Army: Me I Disconnect From You 

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Most people think of Gary Numan and think of his huge hit song Cars, which is a great song. 

But, the album he recorded with the Tubeway Army (Replicas) has a lot to offer. As it is a highly experimental album with really something for everybody. 

Aside from new wave and even some songs borderlining on Punk there’s some pretty good rock songs on Replicas as well. The album’s opening track though is still my favorite, Me I Disconnect From You.

This is truly a sonic explosion of music. Some of the earliest new wave ever recorded and it’s amazing and it’s really really intriguing.

The synth sound here is really different. I don’t think I’ve ever heard these notes together like this except in this song. Also, it has a really catchy beat and I really do enjoy the vocals on this song.  Definitely feel there might be a bit of a Kraftwerk influence here as well.

So ahead of its time 1979 this is what music would become in the early 80s when new wave really took off. 

I don’t know if there is a term such as Proto new wave, but that’s what this could be or postpunk.  I’m making a new words up here, everybody (lol). 

So please to check it out, Me I Disconnect From You off the replicas album by Gary Numan & Tubeway Army.  And if you get a chance, check out the rest of the album it’s really great. Has a lot of different stuff on it.  Great for listening to while you’re writing or while you’re reading.

As always, thank you for reading and listening… 

-aaa

I Just Wasn’t Made For These Times 

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This for me is definitely one of Brian Wilson’s Magnum, opus’s of a song. 

He wrote the brilliant stunning, goosebump music to this song along with the brilliant lyrics by the brilliant Tony Asher. 

It’s hard to pick a favorite on pet sounds because the whole album is absolutely brilliant and it’s one of the albums. I’d have with me if I was ever stranded on a desert Island. 

It’s probably my number three album of all time and this song to me, expresses the troubled, genius of Brian Wilson and how he had a hard time finding those that he could relate to and could relate to him. 

     “ I keep lookin’ for a place to fit in

        Where I can speak my mind

        And I’ve been tryin’ hard to find the   

        people That I won’t leave behind

        They say I got brains But they ain’t 

        doin’ me no good I wish they could”

Note, the interesting use of the theremin towards the end of the song that he’d later use on the masterpiece Good Vibrations as well. 

The Wrecking Crew is present here in full force, I love this staccato eighth notes, running up and down the bass guitar by the amazing bassist Carol Kaye. And the countermelody on the keyboards and stuff is absolutely very, very different and it makes you stop and take notice and then the lyrics are amazingly poignant and heartbreaking.

The great master percussionist and my hero Hal Blaine likely playing the wood blocks in the background, which I also love by the way.

And Brian Wilson singing the lead solo alone, echoing in the cold with only the warm harmonies of himself and his colleagues in the Beach boys, providing the background melodies. 

Please enjoy…

-aaa  

Instant Karma! It is real

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Instant Karma! Is a track off the Plastic Ono Band, a very catchy John Lennon song. Plastic on a band was sort of a super group of Lennon’s at formed in 1969 through 1970. He’s really talking about something here. 

     “Instant Karma’s gonna get you, gonna

knock you on the head. You better get 

       yourself together, darling. Are you soon 

       gonna be dead.”

This is so true karma is real and it does get ya. I always try to be positive and lead positive impacts on others. I think if you don’t, it comes back to you tenfold I’ve seen it happen. Do by others it’s just a natural thing and it feels right and then you know karma’s on your side. In the 90s I recall Nike did a really interesting ab campaign with this song and like the words popping at in 3-D was very powerful and I think it worked well.

Anyhow, enjoy this tune it’s very good, and you’ll find very interesting who was on hand to record this song in the studio:

John Lennon: lead vocal, acoustic guitar, backing vocals, piano

George Harrison: electric guitar, piano, backing vocals,

Klaus Voormann: bass guitar, electric piano, backing vocals

Alan White: drums, piano, backing vocals

Billy Preston: Hammond organ, backing vocals

Yoko Ono: backing vocals 

Mal Evan’s: chimes, hand claps, backing vocals

As always thank you for reading and listening 🎵🎶🎼😊

-aaa

Breathe / Eleanor Rigby The Beatles Vs Pink Floyd Mashup

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For all your folks out there, that don’t know what a mashup is, it’s two songs that are in the same key or most of the lyrics and the vocals are in the same key.  They can translate one onto to the other with surprising fitting results.

You’d be surprised how many songs actually can be smashed together. In fact, if I do recall, in Southern California, KLOS FM on Friday night dedicated three hours to these songs.

Anyhow, I’m going to share my favorite mashup that I’ve ever heard. This blew my mind because these are two songs I’ve always known, and I never realized how close they fit on each other. 

Breathe the second track on the dark side of the moon (if you’re counting the initial track) by Pink Floyd of Dark Side Of The Moon and Eleanor Rigby by The Beatles of the Revolver LP. Check this out I think it’ll blow your mind. It certainly blew mine the first time I heard it.

As always, thank you for reading and listening 🎼🎶🎵😊

-aaa

QOTD: #186

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What’s your all-time favorite album?

I love music questions and I cannot put one album on. I will put my favorite album and probably my top 9 other favorite albums are nine I guess.

He will be the type of things you’d wanna have on a desert island on the planet on the moon and orbit, etc. etc. you could listen to over and over and over.

I won’t digress on the content of the albums again or this will turn into a monster post. You don’t wanna read.

My all-time favorite album of all time by my favorite band as well is Abbey Road by The Beatles.

Another favorite of mine is Pet Sounds by The Beach Boys.

Another one of my top albums is the Dark Side Of The Moon by Pink Floyd. I mean anybody who doesn’t recognize this album cover is dead inside in my humble opinion.

I love Rumors by Fleetwood Mac.

A band that has stirred up plenty of controversy, Oasis, made a great album called. What’s the Story Morning Glory.

Kid A by Radiohead is a fantastic, Grammy award winning album.

Whatever and Ever Amen by Ben’s Fold Five, is yet another amazingly interesting album to check out.

Morrison Hotel is still my favorite Doors album.

I’ve posted about this one before, it’s the greatest Genesis album that I’ve never heard before that’s absolutely amazing and become my favorite, The Wind and the Wuthering.

And I could add like another thousand albums here I’m gonna end it with Replicas by Gary Numan’s Tubeway Army.

As always, thank you for reading and for listening 🎵🎼🎶😊

-aaa

Musical Innovation 

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I Feel Fine by was recorded by The Beatles in the Abby Road studios of EMI in London in 1964 as an A-side single. A great single by my favorite band, and not without the fab four’s innovations.

Always pushing the envelope in the studio, they incorporated “feedback” into the beginning of the song. Creating an unexpected raw surge at the song’s start.

This is how it happened. Paul McCartney strummed an A string on his bass, and John Lennon’s rhythm guitar which was leaning against the amplifier picked up the feedback in a brilliant “Nnnnnnwahhhhh….” sound. 

This is one of the earliest intentional uses of feedback on a rock and roll record. Bands like The Who and The Kinks experimented with feedback in their music as well. 

Who would’ve thought a happy accident would lead to what many bands would use thereafter even today.  As I can’t fathom grunge, hard rock, or heavy metal without feedback. As those raw sounds round out and punctuate solid guitar riffs. 

-aaa

Some Songs Say it All

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Originally Published 04/26/2024

Anyone who knows me well, understands that music is a part of my vocabulary in a way. It allows me to apply my pallet of preference to encapsulate volumes of information without the need for explanation as the music provides that.

The powerful imagery that can fill us when we hear a certain song, the flood of memories from sight, to, touch, to sound. Or a song may capture an idea very personal to us, better than we could ever say in our own words.

As is the trend after I experience live music I start to listen to the discography of that artist for a while. Needless to say, I’ve spent a lot of time listening to Billy Joel. A lesser known track of his is one of my favorites.

Where’s The Orchestra, (The closing track on side 2) expresses to me a perfect analogy for being, out of place. Unique, different, somewhat misaligned with status quo. This is truly a beautiful soft anthem to the misunderstood. The reprise of the song “Allentown” on the clarinet at the very end, offers a gentle reminder to the opening track. Enjoy 😉 ❤️❤️🎵🎶🎼

-aaa

17 Seconds Quite An Interesting Tune

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From the stellar anime series Cowboy Bebop which tops most lists and its music is phenomenal I share the song 17 Minutes.

This song comes from the soundtrack from the 2001 movie sharing good company with other great music.

It blends techno, rock, jazz, and even some fascinating chorale moments.

Yoko Kanno composes many or most songs and the house-band of the show Seatbelts performs. Enjoy…

-aaa

Genesis: One For the Vine

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This is most definitely the greatest Genesis song I have never heard before off an album I also hadn’t heard.

It’s pure Progressive Rock with a lot of great changes and odd time signatures.

Phil Collin’s vocals are very close to his predecessor’s Peter Gabriel.

This has become one of my favorite Genius songs and the Album The Wind And Withering as well.

Keep in mind this is progressive music. This is not the short poppy tunes. If you’re listening to the Genesis of the early to mid 80s (and beyond) this is a lot more complex sound.

As always thank you for reading…

-aaa

My Favorite Artists (A-Z) Part 3

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Audioslave, the alternative super band

Ben Folds Five, punk rock for sissies, very non-canned.

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Clash, punk Gods from Britain led by Joe Strummer

Deep Purple, who’s songs I’ll play this summer.

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Elder, a ProgMetal band I’ve seen live twice

Faith No More, I’ve loved since 1989, Mike Patton, their spice.

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Guess Who, the Canadian rockers

Hall & Oats, better singers than talkers.

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Iggy Pop, the punk rock king

Jeff Beck, and his guitar, covering blues, everything.

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Kings of Leon and their rocking jams

Little River Band, LRB to their fans

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Madness the fathers of SKA

Nine Inch Nails, and their industrial squawk.

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Oingo Boingo and their outrageous, defined sound

Public Image Limited with Johnny Rotten abound.

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Queens of the Stone Age, Alt/Emo supergroup

Radiohead, since 92, an amazing, experimental group.

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Sleep, doom and stoner metal thrashers

The Smiths, to some, new wave party crashers.

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Unicorns a crazy indi troop

Vandals another great punk rock group.

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Was not Was, walked the dinosaur

X-ray Spex, inside punk rock’s door.

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Yoko Kanno, Seatbelts Be-Bop composer

Zac Brown Band, now this list is over…

-aaa

My Favorite Artists (A-Z) Part 2

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Adam Ant, new wave at the forefront of the Goth flow

Beatles, my favorite band and one we all know.

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Cream the blues supergroup of their time

Doors of perception, with Morrison’s death a crime.

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Elton John, Aka Reginald Dwight

Flaming Groovies with their ProtoPunk plight.

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Granddaddy with their grunge light sound

Heatmiser where Elliot Smith can be found.

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INXS not the same since Michael Hutchins died

Jane’s Addiction even when Perry was fried.

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Killing Joke with their punk then New Wave

Led Zeppelin the mega supergroup the New Yardbirds gave.

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Muse with their sound so dark

New Order, even without Ian Curtis didn’t miss their mark.

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O.M.D., their influential sound caught on soon

Pink Floyd my favorite Progressive band with Dark Side of the Moon.

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Quasi, Scott Coomes and Janet Weis’s Portland juggernaut

Rolling Stones, and all the killer songs they’ve got.

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System of a Down from protest rock to punk

Talking Heads music with their eclectic trunk.

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U2, The Joshua Tree was my fave

Violent Femmes with their punk and new wave.

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Wings with Paul McCartney’s singing bass

X, my favorite punk band in the place.

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Yazoo with Alison Moyet and Vince

Zombies from the late 60s complete this list.

-aaa

My Favorite Artists (A-Z) Part 1

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Alice In Chains a great grunge band

Beach Boys and their roots in the sand.

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Chicago that originated as CTA

Depeche Mode, fathers of electronica in their own way.

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Electric Light Orchestra, progressive band of strings

Fleetwood Mac and the way Stevie sings.

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Genesis with Peter on leads and Phil the latter choice

Harry Nilsson with his harmonies and velvety voice.

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Incubus with Warning can be found

Joe Jackson with his many sounds.

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Kenny Loggins with his folksy country roots

Love and Rockets with their large gothic boots.

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Mothers of Invention with Frank Zappa as their boon

Nirvana with Curt Cobain who left us too soon .

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Oasis with the Gallagher brothers at each other’s throats

Police with Sting some say they’re the G.O.A.T.

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Queen with Freddy with his powerful vox

R.E.M. plays from their school of hard knocks.

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Steely Dan the studio Yacht Rock kings

Tears for Fears, the emotion their music brings.

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Umphreys McGee and their sound like Phish

Vince Guaraldi doing Charlie Brown if you wish.

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Wilco, Jeff Tweedy’s Alt Country Band

XTC, with a Brit PowerPop sound that’s grand.

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Yes is outstanding Progressive band my friend

ZZ Top with their rock roots brings my list to an end…

-aaa

Some Songs Say it All

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Anyone who knows me well, understands that music is a part of my vocabulary in a way. It allows me to apply my pallet of preference to encapsulate volumes of information without the need for explanation as the music provides that.

The powerful imagery that can fill us when we hear a certain song, the flood of memories from sight, to, touch, to sound. Or a song may capture an idea very personal to us, better than we could ever say in our own words.

As is the trend after I experience live music I start to listen to the discography of that artist for a while. Needless to say, I’ve spent a lot of time listening to Billy Joel. A lesser known track of his is one of my favorites.

Where’s The Orchestra, (The closing track on side 2) expresses to me a perfect analogy for being, out of place. Unique, different, somewhat misaligned with status quo. This is truly a beautiful soft anthem to the misunderstood. The reprise of the song “Allentown” on the clarinet at the very end, offers a gentle reminder to the opening track. Enjoy 😉 ❤️❤️🎵🎶🎼

-aaa

You Were Meant to be Right Here Right Now

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The olden times that we miss most.

If only we could have them back.

If we did that’d be quite a boast.

All one’s dreams in a velvet sack.

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But time marches forward.

Therefore so must we.

All goals we move toward.

On that eternal sea.

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Make the best of now.

Focus on the present.

It’s a gift with a bow.

Nothing to resent.

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Be true to yourself.

That is the best.

Lest you waste away health.

Hence failing a major test.

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Many lost themselves.

Pursuing the perfect love.

Now we are found, the wealths.

Self discovery fits like a glove.

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Take all the learnt lessons.

And let the revelations run wild.

Realizing they all were blessings.

As evolving to higher adult from a child…

-aaa ❤️