“Contrary to popular belief, Bob Dylan went electric as early as 1962 with this honest eruption of confusionism that I didn’t get to hear until the early 90s sometime when I stumbled across a cheap copy of the Biograph box set, back when everyone was doing what they were told by marketing, dumping all their vinyl, buying CDs. Thank you all for that.” (Philip Random)
Curious George were one of many solid (if messy) punk-hardcore-whatever bands slamming around Vancouver in those curious years of perpetual struggle (otherwise known as the 1980s), their cover of this rather tired Pink Floyd original driving home the point that it’s seldom the song that’s wrong, only the performance. There is nothing wrong with this performance.
The Buzzcocks being one of truer teenage bands ever formed, Orgasm Addict being one of the truer teenage records ever produced, short and sharp and spewing in all directions.
XTC were never quite punk; they were too pop savvy for that. Though they were there from the beginning, tearing up facades with the best of them. So maybe just call them a damned good band who, by 1982’s double-vinyl English Settlement, were taking off in a pile of different directions uniquely their own, with Ball and Chain reminding us that they still had the pop.
Part three of the Solid Time of Change aired Saturday May-21, 2016 c/o CiTR.FM.101.9.
Youtube playlist (possibly not the exact versions that were played). Podcast.
Also known as as the 661 Greatest Records of the so-called Prog Rock era, the Solid Time of Change is Randophonic’s latest countdown, an overlong yet incomplete history of whatever the hell happened between 1965 and 1979 – not in all music, not even in most of it, but definitely in a bunch of it.
What is Prog Rock? Is it different from progressive rock, or for that matter, rock that merely progresses? These may seem simple questions but they are in fact doors that open unto some of the most complex enigmas of this split-atomic age. And thus we are committed to exploring them in depth with a radio journey that shall likely take us a full year complete.
Part three of our journey went as follows:
Installment #4 airs Saturday, May 28 at 9pm (Pacific time) c/o CiTR.FM.101.9.
Bourbonese Qualk were early players in the so-called industrial scene, though Boggy Creek is mostly just odd. No doubt related to the movie Legend of Boggy Creek, which Philip Random never saw, but he does remember seeing the TV ad when he was a kid. “Creeped me right out.”
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