Classics of 1970s Italian Progressive Rock
I had a bit of a layoff there… posting a couple of times a week all year sure takes the stuffing out of a fella, what with real life to […]
Tag Archives: prog-rock
GENESIS – The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway (1974) The veritable apex of progressive music
Having just got back from seeing the exacting Genesis tribute band The Musical Box laying down the Selling England by the Pound Tour, I feel right ready for this one! […]
CAMEL – The brave musical journey of Andy Latimer
If you are really, really into the long history of rock music and want to explore what’s underneath the top layer of overexposed famous bands that everyone knows, there are […]
10 really good Canadian albums!
I’ve mentioned a few times that I’m from Canada, and that I maybe sometimes don’t show the necessary respect for the wealth of musical talent this country contains. Once Canada […]
The grandiose late seventies heyday of the all-star CONCEPT ALBUM
The late seventies are remembered primarily as the time when music tastes (at least for the average music consumer) changed drastically, as the pomp of prog, the boogie woogie of […]
STRAWBS – Hero and Heroine (1974) Straight talking prog
When I was about sixteen (oh, about twenty-something years ago), determined to find music I could call my own, I embarked on a voyage of vinyl discovery back to the […]
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