Thursday January 12, 2006

Old favourites

Every so often I think of the music I used to listen too. I took a strange route to the music I listen to know, Heavy Rock, then Progressive, Soul/Funk and then the stuff I have been writing about over the last year . The problem I find is the names of the bands are becoming fuzzy and I wanted to remember the progressive stuff. As usual a Google did the business. I set a benchmark that any site should have Van der Graf Generator and Tangerine Dream in the band listings to be worth looking through their A-Z lists.

These folks fitted the benchmark.

So who did I find?

The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown, Amon Duul III, Fairport Convention, Gentle Giant, Gong- Pierre Moerlen's, Matching Mole, Henry Cow, Barclay James Harvest, Camel, Rundgren, Todd Pendragon, Pentangle, Weather Report; I just about remember them.

Caravan, the crazy titles of their albums had to be carefully rehearsed and I remember "Cunning Stunts" "If I Could Do It Again I'd Do It All Over You" "The Land of Grey And Pink" "Waterloo Lily" "For Girls Who Grow Plump In The Night", I bought several of these.

Deep Purple, strangly my favourite album of theirs is a compilation called "24 carat purple" that I still have but I used to have others of theirs too.

Emerson, Lake and Palmer another favourite, "Brain Salad Surgery " and "Welcome Back My Friends to the Show That Never Ends"

Jarre, Jean Michel with albums of Oxygene and Equinoxe

Parson's Project, Alan " Tales of Mystery and Imagination ", "I Robot", Pyramid" and "Turn of a Friendly Card"

Supertramp "Crime of the Century ", "Crisis? What Crisis?" and "Even in the Quietest Moments"

Tangerine Dream "Cyclone" and "Force Majeure".

Traffic [UK] "Mr. Fantasy (67)", "Traffic (68)", "Last Exit (69)", "Best Of (69)", "John Barleycorn Must Die (70)", "Welcome To The Canteen (71)", "The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys (71)", "Shoot Out At the Fantasy Factory (73)", "On the Road (73)", "When The Eagle Flies (74)", "Smiling Phases (91) ".

Uriah Heep "Very 'Eavy ... Very 'Umble (70)", "Salisbury (71)" and "Look At Yourself"

Van der Graaf Generator "The Least We Can Do is Wave to Each Other (70)" and "H to He Who Am the Only One"

There were also some really odd names bands like Capability Brown, Khazad Doom, Mad curry, Pork pie.

Bands I did not find:

Dr feelgood, Hawkwind and Little Feat (although these are not really progressive bands...

Must look at some other sites soon. Wether I re-purchase any of these again - well that remains to be seen.