Classic Rock (Phil Collins lives, run for the hills)

mancity2012_eamo said:
I’ve a ton of stuff I could go with but I’ve gone for putting something together that hopefully nobody else would.

It would be tempting to cram great Zeppelin, Floyd, Genesis etc tracks together.

I’ve gone with a different feel and tried to make it an album.
Consequently, don’t expect many votes.


Oh and if @Saddleworth2 can get away with an intro as an eleventh track so can I.
That accounts for the two of Jon Anderson’s running into each other at the start.

I call this Album;
Irlande Null Point.


Hope you can all access this. I made it public.

Side 1:
Intro & track 1
Ocean Song/Meeting - Jon Anderson (Olias of Sunhillow)

2. Hold your head up - Argent (All together now)
3. Dreamer - Home (Home)
4. All I want to be - Peter Frampton (Wind of change)
5.El Doomo -Ellis (Riding on the crest of a slump)

Side 2.
6. Walk on hot coals - Rory Gallagher (Blueprint)
7. Funk #49 James Gang (James Gang rides again)
8. Horse with no name - America (America)
9. Guitar Man - Bread (Guitar Man)
10. Palm Trees(love guitar) - Steve Hillage (Green)
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Surely it should have been the live version of Walk on Hot Coals from Irish Tour?
 
blueparrot said:
Okay, I need to stop second guessing myself, I made my theme bed time to lie in it so here goes.
Not my favourite bands, or tracks necessarily. Just some songs through my life that pointed me in different directions to discover music. Could have done lots more.

Album name Signposts
1 Sweet Blockbuster.
Remember seeing this on TOTP as a 10 year old set me on my way

2 Thin Lizzy Boys are back in town 1976
Probably my first introduction to twin guitars

3 AC/DC RIff Raff, 1978
Remember sat revising tuning the radio and found a radio show presented from liverpool by Phil Easton and heard this and just had to find more, as well as other bands of the time Priest, Scorpions, UFO, Motorhead. Was this time I started going to gigs.

4 Deep Purple, Speed King 1978
Would have been about the same time, maybe Tommy Vance, or the same Phil Easton show, helped look back to Zeppelin, Sabbath Uriah Heep.

5 Def Leppard Getcha Rocks off 1979
Was reading Sounds at the time and the NWBHM was breaking this was one of if not the first thing I heard from it.

Side 2
1 Rush Circumstances. 1979
Think it was the first rush song I heard and bough Hemispheres.
Wasn’t like anything else I’d heard. Friends said if you like Rush try Yes, Genesis, Pink Floyd, ELP and other prog stuff, I did and didn’t like it, have gone back since though and like a fair bit of Yes and Genesis, Pink Floyd not so much.

2 Nightranger Nightranger 1982
Heard this on import , and suddenly went looking for lots of American rock, Boston, Sammy Hagar,

3 Metallica Master of puppets 1986
Wasn’t a fan of early thrash, until I heard Master of Puppets, then started listening to Anthrax , Megadeth, Armoured Saint.

4 Black Stone Cherry Rain Wizard 2008
I guess from the mid 90s I listened to a lot of what I had, went back listening to older stuff, got married, Children. Then in the 2000s started listening to a fair bit of Southern rock, Skynyrd, Allmans etc,
Then discovered some new southern music, Drive by Truckers, Blackberry Smoke Cadillac three etc,

5 Threshold The man who saw through time 2020
Okay this is where it gets tricky. My pandemic listening, I’ve listened to loads of new stuff Dream Theater, Transatlantic, Spocks Beard, and don’t yet have enough listens under my built to pick one track. So went for the underrated British band Threshold and their latest album.

So thats it, few bands I wanted to squeeze in so a bonus ep would include Van Halen and Magnum, Y&T, Fleetwood Mac, Billy Joel amongst other sign post bands for me
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Like the concept for your compilation. Sweet were definitely a signpost to the future for me, along with all those other glitter rockers.

I started to get into music when I started at Grammar school and Maggie Mae was the first song that I really loved. However, it was the bopping elf and his band that were my first favourite band. T.Rex of course grow out of Tyrannosaurus Rex, who were a kind of mystical folk rock duo but Bolan, just like Sweet, really wanted to be the next Led Zep (Zinc Alloy is blatant nod) but the commerciality of his electrified singles and prettiest star looks led to Bolanmania.

The first concert I ever attended was T.Rex at Belle Vue and, despite all the screaming teeny boppers down the front smashing each other limbs up, Bolan and his crew performed it like a rock band. Marc liked a guitar solo and was my first guitar hero.

So my musical progression was T.Rex (Sweet, Slade etc) to Bowie to Queen and The Who and then a multitude of hard rock and metal bands so I was always going to favour rock in its heavier forms and bands wearing make-up and spandex.
 
mancity2012_eamo said:
I’ve made it easy for ye’all.
Here’s where we’re at.










https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7JaPbJIJkkIYk0VL2oPqGP?si=4dE8ys8aTgWHOtyHVFa-Qw&dl_branch=1

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6Sv6MgWwFivYD8umcQOylA?si=AbuMaefzQSOV5Mr5r0W9AQ&dl_branch=1

And my own;
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0lM1rAEw92ZoWomxp7Q6AP?si=kEhAhHSPQTyYYA7v3INvRQ&dl_branch=1
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Cheers. Never used Spotify collaboratively, but was thinking it would come in useful here.

Don’t know if you get stats when we listen to your playlists, but if you see me skipping tracks it’s because I’m already familiar with the track in question! Getting through everybody’s list before close of play Wednesday may be tough going otherwise!
 
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  1. Rush - Spirit Of The Radio
  2. REM - What’s The Frequency, Kenneth?
  3. T-Rex - Telegram Sam
  4. The Beatles - Revolution
  5. Genesis - Firth Of Fifth
  6. Tom Petty - Free Fallin
  7. Slade - Cum On Feel The Noise
  8. Led Zep - Kashmir
  9. Oasis - Live Forever
  10. The Who - Baba O Riley
 
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BlueHammer85 said:
  1. Rush - Spirit Of The Radio
  2. REM - What’s The Frequency, Kenneth?
  3. T-Rex - Telegram Sam
  4. The Beatles - Revolution
  5. Genesis - Firth Of Fifth
  6. Tom Petty - Free Fallin
  7. Slade - Cum On Feel The Noise
  8. Led Zep - Kashmir
  9. Oasis - Live Forever
  10. The Who - Baba O Riley
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Dofs hat.
nice list sir.
extra points for what’s the frequency Kenneth.
 
Saddleworth2 said:
live albums were an important part of mine. Yes in particular are so much better live. Lou Reid wouldn’t have been close to my picks other than the live album highlighted.
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Don’t think I picked the version you wanted. Think I f@clef up the order on Blueparrot’s too and have a live acoustic version of The Eagles on RobMCFC’s as far as I remember,
but I was in s as rush.
The missus wanted to watch a movie on Netflix.

I managed to listen to a few of your albums too. I’m going to continue tomorrow before submitting my scores.

I’ve heard some decent tracks so far that I hadn’t heard before, across the spectrum of genres.
 
Brilliant Thread this.
I cannot just find a single Top Ten so I’m going to post five Top Tens with Various Categories.
Today is my Progessive Rock Top Ten with the emphasis on Melodic stuff

Side 1
Parallels-Yes
Dreamer -Supertramp
Black Light Machine -Frost
No Stranger -Saga
Turn of the Century Yes

Side 2
Spirit of Radio - Rush
The Only thing She Needs -UK
Pride -Magenta
Once Around the World -It Bites
Roundabout -Yes
 
Protein Junkie said:
Brilliant Thread this.
I cannot just find a single Top Ten so I’m going to post five Top Tens with Various Categories.
Today is my Progessive Rock Top Ten with the emphasis on Melodic stuff
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It is a brilliant thread, but I think if there is a listen/vote involved, some semblance of structure will need to be put in place. I can't do all the top 10s justice and listen to them all fully in the compressed time frame (whilst doing my day job). Plus we need to keep listening to an album a week on @BlueHammer85 's thread as well.

I'd suggest having one theme a week, everybody nominates one track (or maybe two or three depending on how many are participating), we built a playlist (aim for 20 tracks) and everybody votes on it by a specific point in the week.
Results are tallied, medals awarded and we're ready to go again next week.
Just a thought - this is similar to what happens with a group I am part of on Goodreads.
 
Protein Junkie said:
Brilliant Thread this.
I cannot just find a single Top Ten so I’m going to post five Top Tens with Various Categories.
Today is my Progessive Rock Top Ten with the emphasis on Melodic stuff

Side 1
Parallels-Yes
Dreamer -Supertramp
Black Light Machine -Frost
No Stranger -Saga
Turn of the Century Yes

Side 2
Spirit of Radio - Rush
The Only thing She Needs -UK
Pride -Magenta
Once Around the World -It Bites
Roundabout -Yes
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Interesting. Got a 3 cd Saga compilation for Xmas so just starting to get to know them. Singer reminds me of the guy in Zon. I did see Saga a couple of times many years ago supporting Styx.
 
OB1 said:
Interesting. Got a 3 cd Saga compilation for Xmas so just starting to get to know them. Singer reminds me of the guy in Zon. I did see Saga a couple of times many years ago supporting Styx.
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I remember they played UMIST back in the day too. Was just part of the regular Saturday night rock disco.
 
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OB1 said:
Interesting. Got a 3 cd Saga compilation for Xmas so just starting to get to know them. Singer reminds me of the guy in Zon. I did see Saga a couple of times many years ago supporting Styx.
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Tried Saga a few months ago, but it was Full circle, which apparently isn't a good one to start so will try again.
Whats reaaly intiguing thing about them are the Chapters, a concept released over many albums not in the right order. Then apparently there is eventually a live album with the whole thing played in the right order.
 
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