11. The Solid Time Of Change

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Part eleven of the Solid Time of Change  aired Saturday July-30-2016 c/o CiTR.FM.101.9.

Podcast (Solid Time begins at around the 5 minute point). Youtube playlist (not completely accurate).

This continues to be Randophonic’s main focus, our overlong yet incomplete history of the so-called Prog Rock era (presented in countdown form) – 661 records from 1965 through 1979 with which we hope to do justice to a strange and ambitious time indeed, musically speaking.

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Part eleven of the journey went as follows:

  1. Frank Zappa – peaches in regalia
  2. Mothers of Invention – dog breath in the year of the plague
  3. Led Zeppelin – friends
  4. Bo Hansson – the sun [parallel or 90 degrees]
  5. Chicago – a hit by Varese
  6. Chicago- dialogue [part-2]
  7. Pink Floyd – take up thy stethoscope and walk
  8. Pink Floyd – biding my time
  9. Khan – Space Shanty
  10. Khan- hollow stone [including Escape of the Space Pirates]
  11. Yes – madrigal
  12. Genesis – a trick of the tail
  13. Genesis – entangled
  14. Genesis – Fountain of Salmacis
  15. Shawn Phillips – She was waiting for her mother at the station in Torino …
  16. Shawn Phillips – whaz’ zat [etc]

Fresh episodes air pretty much every Saturday night, starting 11 pm (Pacific time) c/o CiTR.FM.101.9, with streaming and download options available within twenty-four hours via our Facebook.

995. some velvet morning

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In which New York based sonic warriors Vanilla Fudge (discovered and managed by a reputed associate of the Lucchese crime family) take on Lee Hazelwood’s Some Velvet Morning with equal parts subtlety and a sledgehammer lack thereof. Not as good as the original and yet a journey worth taking regardless, because sometimes you just need to go further.

996. macho city

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“Nobody was paying much attention anymore to the Steve Miller Band come the 1980s, which means the spaced out analog synthetic bliss of 1981’s side long Macho City got mostly overlooked. Which is a pity. Because there has never been enough spaced out groove music, particularly during the 1980s. Ronald Reagan’s War On Drugs in full effect, the marijuana getting stronger and stronger. Something weird was going down. I’m still trying to figure out what.” (Philip Random)

997. the city drops into the night

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In which Jim Carroll (former teenage heroin poet eventually made famous by Leonardo DiCaprio) forms a band and makes good on an album of raw urban angst best exemplified by this epic chunk of dark glory. Because we’ve all been there with the daylight fading, the shadows laying their claim.  Let the strange times roll.

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998. blue water

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“As the story goes, when Keith Levene split Public Image Ltd, he had a few recent master recordings under his arm. Which is a good thing. Else we probably would never have heard the likes of Blue Water, which first showed up as a b-side in 1983. Deep and weird and exactly the kind of thing you wanted cranked to the nines on your ghetto blaster when the drugs were all kicking in and you had an abandoned industrial zone to explore, with a fog moving in from the harbour and twilight looming.” (Philip Random)

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999. made of stone

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The Stone Roses hit like a fresh breeze in 1989 with a self-titled debut album which they’d never come close to matching. The lyrics may have worked a dark edge but the sound was all cool light, a powerful pop that was also ethereal, expansive, exploding with the sort of complex colours that the decade in question had mostly forgotten even existed. The future looked vibrant, maybe even good.

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