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Loving the Green theme :)

Great selection of bands like Yes.
Thanks for posting music I'm not familiar with, like Can and S.O.S

My favs of the 80's(re: your earlier post) were mostly Blues based eg; SRV, George Thorogood, Dr Feelgood, Albert Collins, BB King, Muddy Waters, Howling Wolf, Magic Sam, Eric Clapton and so many others I discovered along the way.

Radio and T.V gave us Bowie, Talking Heads, U2, The Eurythmics, The Stranglers and so many others.

My prog rock discovery didn't come until the 2000's when I uncovered King Crimson, so much music!!! Woohoo!
 
Larks' tongues is really quintessential king crimson... perhaps their most famous work.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIDrvoI_hJ0
My old music teacher at school thought it was totally decadant... of course that made me like it even more. 😂

The full classic album is here, this is required listening!
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDyf0ofV5n4

I guess I was lucky, I grew up listening to all this stuff as a teenager. We used to sit around in the classroom at school listening to it on an old record player that someone had brought in :)
I had a paperback copy of the NME Book of Rock, sadly I don't know where it is now, lost in the mists of time, like my copy of the Hawkwind Log.
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This was another great album, from Spirit, another very inventive band; Future Games; I always thought this was one of Spirit's best albums.
I don't know if 'prog' really happened in the states, I always thought it was more of an English and German (Can, Nektar, etc) thing, but perhaps this Spirit album was about as close as it got in the US. Maybe American friends will correct me. The Dead never seemed to really be 'prog' to me, they had their own thing; hmm, maybe 'Terrapin Station', though. Well, I guess there was always Beefheart! I don't remember it being called 'prog', short for 'progressive rock', at the time either, it was all just 'rock music' to us. I think the 'prog' label got stuck on later.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcTZIBMfHm0
 
There's gotta be one more, Hawkwind's sci-fi space-opera masterpiece. This was when Simon House had joined them, he added a lot of classical elements to their music. I can't leave this one out of this little list. Another great band, brilliant record. The brits were really spoilt for great music around that time.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1B1Boj_QMM

This chap has made a good video that tells the story of how that album was made.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjVuAsEjJz0
 
OK, one more artist that I simply cannot leave out, Mr Steve Hillage. Hillage was interesting, he managed to keep going with a version of the 'prog' thing during the punk period. Classic Gong was long gone by then, of course. Both of these two albums, "L" and "Motivation Radio" are also required listening, in fact, everything I've posted today is. 😁

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKTpKG5jQIo&list=PLy4wFqpyLXkk79Ai_VnqJcL2RrpdzL2Xu


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJIMNOeLCzY

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSt2-vO4V1g

This short list just scratches the surface, of course. Right, I must stop there! 😂
 
Friday is party time.
My parties have been in the 80s in 90s. So if you like to join we do a time travel.
Fourty years back.
We start slowly
Phil Collins - In The Air Tonigh
Now a bit power with a tribute to Dusty Hill
ZZ Top - Sharp Dressed Man
The 80s were famous for the new music style Synth-Pop
Visage - Fade To Grey
..hypnotic rythms...
Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams
...and dancing...
Kate Bush - Running up That Hill
and since it was the time of Cold War also political
Depeche Mode - People are People
and a departure to an edujacted, mature, emancipated, liberated, free society - a better world
“Cyndi completely dismantled that sort of traditional arrangement and came up with something that was breathtaking and stark.” [Billy Steinberg]
Cyndi Lauper - True Colors
...or this more... basic way...
Bloodhound Gang - The Bad Touch
Short excursion into the 90s
No Doubt - Just A Girl
Back to the 80s. US Americans may notice, 'Nope. That's a bit too narrow for being the Mississippi.'
Culture Club - Karma Chameleon
We stay in Britain
Bronski Beat - Small Town Boy
Let's change the style for a moment
Bob Marley & The Wailers - Buffalo Soldier
Also the 80s were famous for the dawn of rap (The Beasty Boys' are beeped out. Sorry. Not allowed today anymore.)
RUN DMC - Walk This Way ft. Aerosmith
Back to Rock
ZZ Top - Double Back Again
...we stay in topic - or in time...
Michael J. Fox alias Marty McFly Plays "Earth Angel" and "Johnny B. Goode"
Not everything good came from the USA only, of course
U2 - Where The Streets Have No Name
OK, time to get you warm:
2CELLOS - Thunderstruck
The 80's have been the time of the King of Pop, of course:
Michael Jackson - Dirty Diana
And we loved to dance:
Prince - When Doves Cry
Even when it was hard to dance, like this one
Depeche Mode - World in My Eyes
And with this last one I'm out of here for tonight:
Dire Straits - Money For Nothing
I doubt if somebody made it til here, and not got lost in some playlists in between. 😁:beer::beer:
Well, since I cannot let you in bed so hot, and encores are mandatory today, here something from Germany to cool you down:
Scorpions - Wind Of Change
Last, but not least
Metallica - Nothing Else Matters
and finally
SineadO'Connor - Nothing Compares
🌹
 
Mativetsky, Amiri & Pagé - Metamorphose (March 2026)
[fav: pathos]
mativetskyamiripage.bandcamp.com

Metamorphose, by Mativetsky, Amiri & Pagé

7 track album
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Shawn Mativetsky, Amir Amiri, and Sarah Pagé have come together to forge a remarkable trio in which multiple musical traditions are recontextualized. Employing rhythmically imaginative tabla, a custom-built santur and processed concert harp, the group makes stirring music for emergent worlds. At the center of this creative collaboration is an intention to bring musical traditions into a contemporary context, seeking new sounds through a balance of study and experimentation. The resulting music is both intense and welcoming, appealing equally to fans of both traditional and non-traditional approaches.
 
bakul said:
Are there good German bands not known much outside of Germany?
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Sure, a lot many of course. But most are not known outside of Germany 'cause for the reason they sing in german. :cool:
Those shall be know well, of course:
Kraftwerk - Das Model
One of the greatest, perhaps not really not known outside Germany
Herbert Grönemeyer
Also very famous and after over fourty years also still big in business
Die Toten Hosen - Hier kommt Alex
Falco was Austrian, not German
Falco - Vienna Calling
One of the greatest in Germany's 80s
Marius Müller-Westernhagen - Lass uns leben
Very intelligent texts:
Stoppok - Learning by burning
Also intelligent, social critisizing texts, from Austria, not Germany
Erste Allgemeine Verunsicherung (EAV) - Küss die Hand schöne Frau
...and many, many more
 
Thanks! Feel free to draw our attention to more good German music (I don't have to know the language)! Kraftwerk (more generally "krautrock" was all the rage in '70s/'80s in some circles -- I have posted a few in the past). I still have a couple of their vinyl records (computer world & autobahn).
 
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