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Episode 208 is Here! The wheel has spoken, and this time it’s throwing us into the debut album from White Tiger! 🐯
Find out if this tiger should’ve stayed in the cage. 😂
#RockRoulettePod #WhiteTiger #HairMetal #GlamMetal #80sRock #Podcast #MusicSky #Music
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Episode 208 is Here! The wheel has spoken, and this time it’s throwing us into the debut album from White Tiger! 🐯
Find out if this tiger should’ve stayed in the cage. 😂
#RockRoulettePod #WhiteTiger #HairMetal #GlamMetal #80sRock #Podcast #MusicSky #Music
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Episode 208 is Here! The wheel has spoken, and this time it’s throwing us into the debut album from White Tiger! 🐯
Find out if this tiger should’ve stayed in the cage. 😂
#RockRoulettePod #WhiteTiger #HairMetal #GlamMetal #80sRock #Podcast #MusicSky #Music
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Episode 208 is Here! The wheel has spoken, and this time it’s throwing us into the debut album from White Tiger! 🐯
Find out if this tiger should’ve stayed in the cage. 😂
#RockRoulettePod #WhiteTiger #HairMetal #GlamMetal #80sRock #Podcast #MusicSky #Music
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Episode 208 is Here! The wheel has spoken, and this time it’s throwing us into the debut album from White Tiger! 🐯
Find out if this tiger should’ve stayed in the cage. 😂
#RockRoulettePod #WhiteTiger #HairMetal #GlamMetal #80sRock #Podcast #MusicSky #Music
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Episode 208 is Here! The wheel has spoken, and this time it’s throwing us into the debut album from White Tiger! 🐯
Find out if this tiger should’ve stayed in the cage. 😂
#RockRoulettePod #WhiteTiger #HairMetal #GlamMetal #80sRock #Podcast #MusicSky #Music
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Episode 208 is Here! The wheel has spoken, and this time it’s throwing us into the debut album from White Tiger! 🐯
Find out if this tiger should’ve stayed in the cage. 😂
#RockRoulettePod #WhiteTiger #HairMetal #GlamMetal #80sRock #Podcast #MusicSky #Music
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Episode 208 is Here! The wheel has spoken, and this time it’s throwing us into the debut album from White Tiger! 🐯
Find out if this tiger should’ve stayed in the cage. 😂
#RockRoulettePod #WhiteTiger #HairMetal #GlamMetal #80sRock #Podcast #MusicSky #Music
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Episode 208 is Here! The wheel has spoken, and this time it’s throwing us into the debut album from White Tiger! 🐯
Find out if this tiger should’ve stayed in the cage. 😂
#RockRoulettePod #WhiteTiger #HairMetal #GlamMetal #80sRock #Podcast #MusicSky #Music
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Episode 208 is Here! The wheel has spoken, and this time it’s throwing us into the debut album from White Tiger! 🐯
Find out if this tiger should’ve stayed in the cage. 😂
#RockRoulettePod #WhiteTiger #HairMetal #GlamMetal #80sRock #Podcast #MusicSky #Music
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Episode 208 is Here! The wheel has spoken, and this time it’s throwing us into the debut album from White Tiger! 🐯
Find out if this tiger should’ve stayed in the cage. 😂
#RockRoulettePod #WhiteTiger #HairMetal #GlamMetal #80sRock #Podcast #MusicSky #Music
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Episode 208 is Here! The wheel has spoken, and this time it’s throwing us into the debut album from White Tiger! 🐯
Find out if this tiger should’ve stayed in the cage. 😂
#RockRoulettePod #WhiteTiger #HairMetal #GlamMetal #80sRock #Podcast #MusicSky #Music
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Episode 208 is Here! The wheel has spoken, and this time it’s throwing us into the debut album from White Tiger! 🐯
Find out if this tiger should’ve stayed in the cage. 😂
#RockRoulettePod #WhiteTiger #HairMetal #GlamMetal #80sRock #Podcast #MusicSky #Music
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Episode 208 is Here! The wheel has spoken, and this time it’s throwing us into the debut album from White Tiger! 🐯
Find out if this tiger should’ve stayed in the cage. 😂
#RockRoulettePod #WhiteTiger #HairMetal #GlamMetal #80sRock #Podcast #MusicSky #Music
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Key Lime Pie
#campervanbeethoven #keylimepie #80srock #rock #rockmusic #80smusic #music #musicsky #musiciansky #alternativerock #altrock #altcountry #neopyschelia The last from Camper Van Beethoven is released September 5, 1989. It's their most successful mainly due to the stellar remake of Status Quo's "Pictures of Matchstick Men." The band was known for their eclectic sound, which blended elements of folk, punk, country, and world music. Key Lime Pie was their most…
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Key Lime Pie
#campervanbeethoven #keylimepie #80srock #rock #rockmusic #80smusic #music #musicsky #musiciansky #alternativerock #altrock #altcountry #neopyschelia The last from Camper Van Beethoven is released September 5, 1989. It's their most successful mainly due to the stellar remake of Status Quo's "Pictures of Matchstick Men." The band was known for their eclectic sound, which blended elements of folk, punk, country, and world music. Key Lime Pie was their most…
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Key Lime Pie
#campervanbeethoven #keylimepie #80srock #rock #rockmusic #80smusic #music #musicsky #musiciansky #alternativerock #altrock #altcountry #neopyschelia The last from Camper Van Beethoven is released September 5, 1989. It's their most successful mainly due to the stellar remake of Status Quo's "Pictures of Matchstick Men." The band was known for their eclectic sound, which blended elements of folk, punk, country, and world music. Key Lime Pie was their most…
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Key Lime Pie
#campervanbeethoven #keylimepie #80srock #rock #rockmusic #80smusic #music #musicsky #musiciansky #alternativerock #altrock #altcountry #neopyschelia The last from Camper Van Beethoven is released September 5, 1989. It's their most successful mainly due to the stellar remake of Status Quo's "Pictures of Matchstick Men." The band was known for their eclectic sound, which blended elements of folk, punk, country, and world music. Key Lime Pie was their most…
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Key Lime Pie
#campervanbeethoven #keylimepie #80srock #rock #rockmusic #80smusic #music #musicsky #musiciansky #alternativerock #altrock #altcountry #neopyschelia The last from Camper Van Beethoven is released September 5, 1989. It's their most successful mainly due to the stellar remake of Status Quo's "Pictures of Matchstick Men." The band was known for their eclectic sound, which blended elements of folk, punk, country, and world music. Key Lime Pie was their most…
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I remember. He ended up a fan of Dolly. Gonna kick it in with JP here on deck. It’s Friday, after all.
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After a week like this one it’s not easy sittin here on deck without thinking there’s somewhere I gotta be tomorrow. But, I don’t so fuck it. A round of Bulleit Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey and a World Party tune I haven’t heard in ages. The footage used in the video from seven years ago (posted to YouTube on my birthday in 2018, I see) is still definitely appropriate although it could be updated just a smidge.
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Slow Turning
#JohnHiatt #slowturning #80srock #americana #folkrock #singersongwriters #rock #rockmusic #music #musicsky #musiciansky The 9th album from John Hiatt -- released on August 30, 1988. It is one of his most critically acclaimed and successful albums and is considered an Americana classic. John gets help from The Goners ... his frequent back-up band that includes guitarist Sonny Landreth, who helped craft the album's signature sound. Slow Turning ... it's like…
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Sentimental Hygiene
#warrenzevon #sentimentalhygiene #80srock #bobdylan #michaelstipe #neilyoung #peeterbuck #rem #rock #rockmusic #music #musicsky #musiciansky August 29, 1987 ~ Zevon's back after a 5-year hiatus and enlists some notables in the effort. Peter Buck, Bill Berry and Mike Mills, back up Zevon on this album and fellow R.E.M. alum Michael Stipe appears on the album providing vocals and harmony on the song "Bad Karma". Dylan and Neil Young are there, too;…
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Tattoo You
#TheRollingStones #tatooyou #classicrock #80srock #keithrichards #mickjagger #ronniewood #charliewatts #rock #rockmusic #music #musicsky #musiciansky #micktaylor On August 24, 1981, The Greatest Rock 'n Roll Band in the World releases an album largely made up of outtakes and songs that didn't make past albums -- some dating back 10 years. The album becomes one of their most successful and ends up at #213 on Rolling Stone Magazine's 500 Greatest Albums of All…
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Emotional Rescue
#rollingstones #emotionalrescue #80smusic #80srock #mickjagger #keithrichards #charliewatts #ronniewood #billwyman #nickyhopkins #ianstewart #bobbykeys #rock #rockmusic #music #musicsky #musiciansky The Stones release Emotional Rescue on June 20, 1980 ... the first after Keef is exonerated from those Toronto drug charges and, frankly ... a polarizing album at the time. I remember the title track was advance released and when you're playing hard rock at…
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There is no middle ground: you either aggressively air-keyboard to Europe's "The Final Countdown" or you’re lying to yourself.
1986 gave us peak hair metal, massive hooks, and a track that became the permanent soundtrack for theatrical exits and sports promos.
Where does that opening riff rank on your all-time hype list?
#EuropeBand #TheFinalCountdown #80sRock #HairMetal #ArenaRock #80sNostalgia #RetroMusic #VetTV
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There is no middle ground: you either aggressively air-keyboard to Europe's "The Final Countdown" or you’re lying to yourself.
1986 gave us peak hair metal, massive hooks, and a track that became the permanent soundtrack for theatrical exits and sports promos.
Where does that opening riff rank on your all-time hype list?
#EuropeBand #TheFinalCountdown #80sRock #HairMetal #ArenaRock #80sNostalgia #RetroMusic #VetTV
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Melissa Etheridge
Her debut album is released on May 2, 1988 and rock radio loves it. People started calling her the next Janis Joplin but, while the comparisons were inevitable, she forged her own sound over the years and has become one of the most respected blues/rock artists around. Listen to Melissa Etheridge on Amazon Music ... #melissaetheridge #debutalbum #80srock #rockmusic #80smusic #music #musicsky #musiciansky #bluesrock
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Nature Of The Beast
Canadian rockers April Wine release their 9th on January 12, 1981 -- and it's their biggest yet -- becoming their first and only studio album to be certified Platinum in the United States and double Platinum in Canada. Listen to Nature Of The Beast by April Wine on Amazon Music ... #aprilwine #natureofthebeast #80srock #rock #rockmusic #80smusic #music #musicsky #musiciansky #justbetweenyouandme
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¿Te imaginas a ZZ Top sin sus míticas barbas? En los años 80, la banda rechazó una oferta de un millón de dólares por miembro ...
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Stills.
( b. January 3, 1945) A generational song-writer but one of the most underrated guitarists around. Neil Young calls him a genius. Shakey is right. Happy birthday, Captain … Listen to my Stephen Stills playlist on Amazon Music ... #stephenstills #birthday #csn #csny #60srock #70srock #80srock #90srock #folkrock #americana #neilyoung #davidcrosby #grahamnash #rock #rockmusic #music #musicsky #musiciansky
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Pretenders
There are only a few albums of which you remember the first listen. I remember the first time I heard The Pretenders debut album, released on December 27, 1979. Track after track you knew this was -- well -- precious. Listen to Pretenders debut album on Amazon Music ... #ThePretenders #debutalbum #80srock #chrissiehynde #legends #rock #rockmusic #music #musicsky #musiciansky
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Just registered for this, it's tonight, Jim and Dennis of The Smithereens will be talking about their debut record Especially for You at the 'Tuesday Night Record Club' that the Springsteen Archives does via Monmouth University in New Jersey. It's free and there's an in person and Zoom option (I obviously grabbed a Zoom ticket). I've talked here before about how much I love this record - this'll be cool to hear.
https://springsteenarchives.org/event/tuesday-night-record-club-the-smithereens-especially-for-you
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Today (October 31) in 1980, The Smithereens released their debut 4 song EP 'Girls About Town'. The four songs were also included on 'Attack of the Smithereens', one of their compilations. Great bunch of songs here. It didn't have them in a playlist on YouTube, so I made one.
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUo1OYrFf_Nq2x6sKkKOUvuOPKqGolMD2&si=gYR1e76uXqttXk7Q
#80s #1980s #TheSmithereens #80sBands #80sRock #NewJersey #NewJerseyBands #Smithereens #PowerPop
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Finally watching this video of Jim Babjak of the Smithereens showing how he does various Smithereens riffs and solos from the Guitar World channel earlier this year. FUCK yes. Rad as shit 🔥
#PowerPop #80s #80sRock #Smithereens #TheSmithereens #JimBabjak #guitar #riffs #solos @brian
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Let It Be
The Mats release their third album on October 2, 1984. It's #241 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time and the opening track, "I Will Dare," has been inducted in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll. By the way .. that photo of the band takes place on the roof of Bob and Tommy Stinson's mom's home. Listen to Let It Be by The Replacements on Amazon Music ... #TheReplacements #themats #letitbe #80srock #altrock…
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The Smithereens anthology 'From Jersey it Came' was released in September 2004. In 2004 I was 24. The Smithereens had been my favorite band for a while at that point, so this was a treat for a megafan like me. If you ignore the roughness of their super early stuff here, this is a really good primer for some of the Smithereens' best songs. It starts off with ones from their early days like their first single "Girls About Town" and it also includes basically all their later hits, a Springsteen cover, and an INCREDIBLE instrumental version of their tune 'If You Want the Sun to Shine'. The version of the song with vocals is killer, but without them is SO wild. Powerful orchestration and arrangement: https://youtu.be/e9-2KtmHpwc
#TheSmithereens #Smithereens #80sRock #80s #80sBands #90s #90sBands #NewJersey #NJ #PopRock
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Today (and possibly tomorrow, if I don't finish it today) I'm listening to the full chronological discography of the Smithereens/Pat DiNizio solo records. Not including the cover records they/he did (Beatles, Buddy Holly, Who, etc) or the compilations - just EPs and full lengths. Also trying a couple live records of theirs (one is a bootleg) that I haven't heard yet. Even though the Smithereens are my favorite band, I'm notoriously averse to live records of any kind (although I love shows). But I'm gonna try em. The whole thing is like, 9.5 hours.
#TheSmithereens #PatDiNizio #80sRock #80sMusic #90sRock #90sMusic @wendigo
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Today (October 24) in 1989, one of the greatest records of all time was released. Today is the 35th anniversary of '11' by the Smithereens. Containing one of their biggest hits (A Girl Like You), I've listened to this countless times. I re-bought a CD copy once. I have it on vinyl. It's beyond fantastic. They're my favorite band for a reason. Records like this! 🔥
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3enOPsLfdrehNuOHyZhlCEuDBc1_xfKc
#PowerPop #TheSmithereens #1980s #80s #80sRock #80sMusic #PatDiNizio #80sRecords #80sAlbums #AGirlLikeYou
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Let It Be
The Mats release their third album on October 2, 1984. It's #241 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time and the opening track, "I Will Dare," has been inducted in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll. Listen to Let It Be by The Replacements on Amazon Music ... #TheReplacements #themats #letitbe #80srock #altrock #indierock #postpunk #paulwesterberg
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20 years ago today on September 7, 2004, my favorite band The Smithereens released this killer 2 CD set of some of their best songs. I was 24 and I bought it then despite having most of these songs from their records. And still have my copy, I just found it in my old CD book.
Definitely worth a listen, this has some classics and also some interesting covers - and you KNOW those Smithereens boys love (and are great at) covers, just as their inspirations the Beatles were before them.
RIP Pat DiNizio, one of the nicest, realest dudes I ever met. Looks like I'll be listening to some Smithereens this next week.
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBJowm4q7MUfNJHpAa53D0lSSWoI4E0fW&si=YzsRx389PMZuAQ8e
#Smithereens #TheSmithereens #NewJersey #NewJerseyBands #PatDiNizio #80s #80sMusic #80sRock
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A favorite in my collection. Got this probably close to 1999. It's traveled across the USA with me from Florida to New Hampshire to Arizona. I don't know Lisa or Lance, but I sure am glad they sold me this on eBay all those years ago.
July marks the anniversary of the first Smithereens LP Especially for You. It's a special record for me, I've loved it since I first heard it in the 90s. My old Hotmail account was even based on the title of the last track, Alone at Midnight (one of my favorite songs ever - check its bassline! 🤯)
Mike Mesaros was hugely influential to my own bass playing growing up in bands, he's my favorite bass player ever. So talented. In the pocket a lot, but he shines on every Smithereens record. He pulls out these effortless, outrageous licks and solos. And he's a joker, he's drawn a mustache on himself here. 😂
I can't imagine a world without this album. It's like Buddy Holly, Springsteen and the best parts of the British Invasion mixed.
FROM JERSEY IT CAME
Listen to the masterpiece that is Especially for You here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLy4u88AKUauLnSB9S1mLHPUn4ozBrsnR2&si=EMntXX3ytvEXvd7b
#TheSmithereens #JerseyBands #80sRock #80s #EspeciallyForYou #NewJersey #NJ #PatDiNizio #vinyl #records #PictureDiscs #VinylCollection #VinylCollectors #80sRecords #80sVinyl #RecordCollection #RecordCollectors
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I’ve been a Prog Rock fan since I first discovered Rush in 1981. I was 10 years old and most of what Prog bands did went way over my head, but there was something about Rush that clicked with me. Not long after it was Yes. Then Pink Floyd. Then Genesis. Then King Crimson. And so on and so on.
The 1980’s though, were a pretty dark time for Prog. First we had Asia, which included members of Yes, King Crimson, and Emerson Lake and Palmer, releasing their very commercial, radio friendly, MTV orientated first record which blew away the album and singles charts in 1982. Then a year later we had Yes releasing 90125 in similar financially friendly fashion. Genesis had descended into a hellish pop music abyss by then as well (though there was still good in them if you were able to look past the chart topping crap), and while it would take a few years for them to catch up, even Pink Floyd released a pretty radio friendly record. Rush and King Crimson both morphed into an 80’s sound without really caving into the pop music world, at least not to my ears. I get the impression that Robert Fripp was trying to bend pop music to his own personal will (if anyone could have done it, it was him) while Rush just kept making Rush sounding records that happened to embrace 80’s technology (arguably to their detriment, but also maybe arguably to their benefit).
In other words, prog rock in the 70’s was awesome. Prog rock in the 80’s was… less awesome (though still better than almost anything else… except for some specific Genesis songs [looking at you, Illegal Alien and Invisible Touch]).
But there was one question that I never asked myself, or anyone else for that matter… did I miss anyone? Were there any other bands that I should have been listening to that I wasn’t?
Apparently the answer is yes, yes there was.
Marillion.
Well, there were probably 20-30 bands that I should have listened to but never did (Gentle Giant and Camel come to mind, but not Jethro Tull. Fuck Jethro Tull. I can’t stand that friggin’ band), but I don’t know why Marillion never came up. I think it might be as simple as they were not very big in the United States. They apparently were huge in the UK for a little while at least, and I was actually paying attention to the industry as a whole at that time (their biggest record came out in 1985, the same year as Power Windows by Rush, which I bought the minute it hit the record store shelves). Was that the only reason I never listened to them?
I have been aware of them for ages, of course. Was I aware of them before the internet? If it really was a regional (US vs UK) thing that kept me from them, then the internet would have been what put them on my radar. Recently they have been showing up in a bunch of places online where I happened to have been looking. A few months ago I made a note to check them out on a streaming service somewhere. I don’t recall what made me want to do that, but it was something. I didn’t do it until this past weekend though. Their guitar player was a guest on That Pedal Show and I figured I should at least listen to their biggest record, Misplaced Childhood, before I watched it. I did. I liked it. I thought the record had a sort of 70’s Genesis vibe to it. It was very 80’s, but not in a bad way (and me calling something “very 80’s” is usually meant as a negative).
I thought they dated back to the early 70’s like all of the more important prog bands but no, their first album was in 1982 or 83 (according to the two minutes I spent digging around wikipedia). I think if I had known about them at that time I probably would have gone completely off the deep end for them. They would have been a legit prog band that wasn’t devolving into a commercial/pop shadow of their former selves the way most of the prog acts from the 70s did. I knew they had two singers and that the changing of singers sort of mark different eras of the band, but I didn’t realize the first singer left as quickly as he did (after the forth album).
Yesterday I googled “list of best albums by Marillion” and found one random site that ranked them from worst to best. I listened to the 4-5 “best” albums on the list during the work day and liked most of what I heard, though I have to admit I wasn’t listening all that closely because, ya know, work.
I guess the point of this post is to get myself to accept that while I am a total prog rock snob, there are still a lot of things I don’t know about. Maybe it’s time to start taking advantage of streaming music services (ick) and start digging into the catalogs of some of those bands. Just not Jethro Tull or Dream Theater. I fucking hate both of those bands.
https://robertjames1971.blog/2024/07/23/i-missed-them-completely/
#70SRock #80SRock #artRock #englishProgRock #englishProgressiveRock #englishRock #fandom #geekRock #genesis #KingCrimson #marillion #Music #musicFan #nerdRock #PinkFloyd #progRock #progRockMusic #progressiveRock #progressiveRockMusic #rockHistory #rockMusic #Rush #Yes
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25 Essential '80s Rock + Metal Albums to Pass on to Your Children
Are your kids missing out on the best rock and metal albums from the '80s? Check out this curated list of 25 essential albums to pass down.https://loudwire.com/essential-1980s-rock-metal-albums-pass-down-children/
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STEVEN ADLER: VINCE NEIL's 'Voice Is Rock 'N' Roll Gold'https://blabbermouth.net/news/steven-adler-vince-neils-voice-is-rock-n-roll-gold
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