Jethro Tull’s Disaster Passion Animals + War

By way of hyping Randophonic’s next big deal series (The Solid Time of Change – aka the 661 Greatest Records of the so-called Prog Rock era) which is due to premiere this Saturday on CiTR.FM.101.9 (Vancouver, BC and thereabouts), here’s a little something which aired on last week’s program.

Being an attempt at imagining the Jethro Tull double album that was intended to come after Thick as a Brick, but became what are now known as the Chateau D’Isaster Sessions … comprised of various tracks that were only released many years after the fact, plus stuff from the Passion Play and War Child albums.

Podcast available here.

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1098. cowgirl in the sand

Come 1973, The Byrds were mostly past their sell-by (having even broken up for a while), but that didn’t stop them from taking a Neil Young + Crazy Horse monster jam and reinventing it as a spry country pop tune that, in a better world, might have topped the charts.

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1099. celebration

PFM (short for Premiata Forneria Marconi the name of a restaurant apparently) being the best damned prog rock outfit to ever come out Italy, Celebration being a playful rush of classically infused rock that’s so nimble and smart you don’t have time to realize how ridiculous it is.

1101. big apple dreamin’ (Hippo)

“The popular argument is that the Alice Cooper Band peaked with Killer in around 1971 and were pretty much finished after 1973’s Billion Dollar Babies. But f*** the popular kids. Muscle Of Love had a bunch of cool and sleazy and deftly conceived highlights, including this little love letter to NYC, which was no playground in the 1970s, unless you were a rat. No idea who or what Hippo is.” (Philip Random)

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