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43. The Solid Time Of Change

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Installment #43 of the Solid Time of Change aired on Saturday July-8-2017 (c/o CiTR.FM.101.9).

Youtube playlist (not entirely accurate).

The Solid Time of Change is our overlong yet incomplete history of the so-called Prog Rock era – 661 selections 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 Forty-Three of the journey went as follows:

  1. Led Zeppelin – when the levee breaks
  2. Yes – roundabout
  3. Yes – Ritual [edit]
  4. Who – Dr Jimmy
  5. Who – the rock
  6. Who – love reign o’er me
  7. Gong – Radio Gnome Invisible
  8. Gong – Flying Teapot
  9. Gong – The Pot Head Pixies
  10. Gong – The Octave Doctors And The Crystal Machine
  11. Gong – Zero The Hero And The Witch’s Spell
  12. Gong – Witch’s Song/I Am Your Pussy

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 page.

33. The Solid Time Of Change

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Installment #33 of the Solid Time of Change aired on Saturday March-25-2017 (c/o CiTR.FM.101.9).

Podcast (Solid Time begins a few minutes in). Youtube playlist (somewhat inaccurate).

The Solid Time of Change is our overlong yet incomplete history of the so-called Prog Rock era – 661 selections 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 Thirty-Three of the journey went as follows:

  1. Jethro Tull – skating away on the thin ice of a new day
  2. David Bowie – starman
  3. David Bowie – moonage daydream
  4. Hawkwind – space is deep
  5. Jon Anderson – flight of the moorglade
  6. Jon Anderson – solid space
  7. Jon Anderson – Moon Ra
  8. Jon Anderson – song of search
  9. Yes – Remembering the Ancient
  10. Gong – psychological overture
  11. Gong – The Isle of Everywhere
  12. Gong – master builder

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 page.

979. “Remembering The Ancient”

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“It would probably be my favourite Yes album if they called it Tales From a Can of Worms instead of Topographic Oceans – this from old friend Motron who, like a stopped clock, isn’t always wrong. For me, it’s simple. I bought Tales From Topographic Oceans when I was fifteen immediately after seeing Yes live for the first time and having my mind (and soul) blown. And being a typically broke fifteen year old, I was stuck with it, the only new album I had for that summer. So I dove in, determined to love it whether I liked it or not. I ventured very deep indeed. So much so that it’s the two more difficult middle sides that engulfed me the most, even if I couldn’t have told you what any of it meant beyond EVERYTHING, and something to do with some ancient Hindu scriptures. This edit is something I felt compelled to put together back in the 1980s, trying to prove a point to a fellow DJ, failing.” (Philip Random)

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