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Helpless Dancer posted New Music - Progressive Rock | Feb 13, 2008
To some "progressive rock" expired in the mid to late 70's in the wake of punk rock and thereafter a return to the basic song structure of DIY indie rock, the days of 15min hammond organ'moog synths seemed over, the drum solo was confined to jazz and "rock" was in the "safe" hands of either poodle...
Sam posted prechious phfew thaoughts afther finnishing Shames Voyce's Finickey Wake | Feb 13, 2008
sum reflechtions and purseonale openonions on Choyce's monsterpiece So what shall we make of Finnegans Wake? Is it worth the time and trouble? Did Joyce squander his talent, let down his admirers, and renege on the promise of Ulysses? Critics have charged Joyce with irrelevance and pointless...
The Blue Frog posted Zakir, Bela Fleck, Edgar Meyer & Gang - 4th February, 2008 | Feb 5, 2008
(Thanks to Shekhar Ghosh for yet another blogging blog) A seminal moment at Blue Frog Among other seminal moments that Blue Frog will witness in the months to come, Monday’s gig was one such. Perhaps the first one. It was sudden billing. Zakir Hussain, the tabla wizard, had got in Bela Flek and...
Helpless Dancer posted The Q and HMV Poll For The Top 50 British Albums Of All Time | Feb 21, 2008
I have never been a fan of such polls as if it was me the choices I would make could very much depend upon my mood at the time or be biased towards music I had been listening to at the time. However, even making allowances for this I must, guven some of the results below, be well adrift from the...
