Part four of The Solid Time of Change aired Saturday May-28, 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? Four programs in and sixty-five selections down and you’d think we’d have a solid answer to these questions, but like the proverbial zoom into an old photograph, the closer we look, the murkier things get. Which isn’t to say the music isn’t great and thus, here’s to the best kind of confusion and a year’s worth of radio to figure it all out.

Part four of our journey went as follows:

614. Focus – harem scarem
615. Frank Zappa + The Mothers – Inca Roads
616. Strawbs- tomorrow
617. Rick Wakeman – Catherine of Aragorn [+ excerpts]
618. Rick Wakeman – Anne of Cleves
619. King Crimson – moonchild (part 1)
620. Moody Blues – the word
621. Justin Hayward + John Lodge – nights winters years
622. Sweet – love is like oxygen
623. Procol Harum – Grand Hotel
624. Klaatu – prelude
625. Klaatu – so said the lighthouse keeper
626. Klaatu – hope
627. Gentle Giant – Mister Class + Quality
628. Gentle Giant – three friends
629. Steve Hillage – om nam Shivaya
630. Steve Hillage – hurdy gurdy glissando
631. Cream – as you said

Installment #5 of The Solid Time of Change airs Saturday, June 4th at 11 pm (Pacific time) c/o CiTR.FM.101.9, with streaming and download options available within twenty-four hours.