Hmm ,Supertramp's first and IMHOP an underrated album)

Many years ago I would go to an english public library to borrow vinyl records ;often scratched, dusty and crackly .Yet ,borrowing and taping was cheap!... It was the mid 80's and I was a latter generation prog rocker...or popper... ,and what follows are some tracks that still resonate with me as much now as they did then. The( Edits ) tracks below are melancholy and at least for me, deeply nostalgic. Yep , I do hear the Beatles hidden, only slightly , below surface.
Maybe some of you like them too.
Merry Christmas.


Shadow Song

Aubade and I am not like other birds of prey

Words unspoken

Home again

Surely (Reprise)

 thisbody wrote:

Tormato, if you gave it a cover like GFTO or combined them to make a double album, has some great moments., 

 Steely_D wrote:
Completely agreed. After their "Going For The One" album, much didn't happen anymore.

 thisbody wrote:

Awaken justifies the entire existence of Yes. People (including me) get gushy about the CTTE album, but it all peaked at the album version of Awaken.

Mental as Anything band featuring the late 'Greedy Smith' on vocals with 'Live it Up'

Go Lemmy...

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Well, I doubt almost nobody has heard this one.
It is about 5 years old.
And I just heard it on "It's A Jangle Out There".

Rarely? How about never?

 Proclivities wrote:
Oh yeah!
A Rickenbacker... that explains it all. 

 KurtfromLaQuinta wrote:
Bram Tchaikovsky was also in a band called The Motors in the late '70s - I still have their first album somewhere. I heard them on WNEW-FM in NYC, which - at that time - had some DJs who played new, obscure, and cutting edge stuff.

An old favorite for certain.  The entire album is a gem in my humble opinion of course. 

 Steely_D wrote: 
Underture from Tommy comes straight to my mind.  Many find this too long and boring.  I wish it was longer.

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 kcar wrote: KROQ-FM Los Angeles was my mainstay station from around '75- '89.
Nice New Wave, Cutting Edge and stuff nobody else was playing. It left a mark on me.

They featured Bram Tchaikovsky's first couple of LP's. I have those disc still. But I picked this up a few years ago which made listening a lot easier... https://www.amazon.com/Strange...
Great stuff that isn't played anymore.

Another one...

 maryte wrote: Love the Stan!

 maryte wrote:

Wow, thanks for that memory. Had it on VHS. I’ve been following Copeland recently on FB and he’s - no surprise - still…exuberant. I love how there’s the little break where he tries to re-establish his claim that he’s the one that wanted to make Roxanne into a reggae beat.
And the whole percussion bed sounds like it might be cobbled together in pieces, which is fine, allowing for more complexity. 

If I made my fictional Best Drummer it would certainly include Copeland on cymbals/hi hat, Moonie on toms, Simon Phillips bass, and Bruford on snare.

 KurtfromLaQuinta wrote:

Just saw/listened to your reply—that was quite good although I didn't catch a lot of the lyrics. How did you know about Bram? All I heard of him on FM radio back in the day was "Girl of My Dreams" and that was a minor hit.