Songs from the Master List Vol. V | Fan Favorites - Episode 27
Added 2024-06-26 02:00:20 +0000 UTCI'm pleased to present this month's Fan Favorites video. It's our next installment in our Songs from the Master List sub-series. These songs hit on a bit of many different styles of music. We've got some classic prog, pop, electronic, psychedelic, industrial metal, and space rock opera...all in one video!
As always, thanks so much for your support and participation. I hope you enjoy!
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I will go ahead and do that tomorrow, just had a long day of work and am absolute exhausted.
Rebecca Walsh
2024-07-31 23:45:37 +0000 UTCCheck out my Extended Play Lounge on their album The Snow Goose. It's beautiful music and a great story.
R. Douglas Helvering
2024-07-31 01:31:06 +0000 UTCFirst time ever fully listening to Camel. I had never got what they were about, but "Who We Are" is just a beautifully written song...is their any other songs by Camel that is like that one?
Rebecca Walsh
2024-07-30 04:11:08 +0000 UTCThat was cool. You can never go wrong with Sledgehammer and Games People Play 🎸
KellieE69
2024-07-06 18:45:19 +0000 UTCGreat to hear Kraftwerk here...I know you say it's quite repetitive Doug, but a lot of electronic music (not all) is based on a few bars of bassline with a simple melody looped over the entire track. If you notice closely though, they may not vary the key and chord structure the piece is in, but over the course of the track, the notation alters slightly with variations on that notation to build the piece up. With the variations on the theme they also add extra melody layers which are intertwined with one another to give more variation. This is how a lot of electronic music, particularly House, Techno, Trance and all those more modern electronic styles in Dance music work, and the producers of these styles were probably influenced by Kraftwerk and other pioneers of that ilk at the time, like JMJ and Vangelis!
Matt B
2024-06-30 14:01:58 +0000 UTCYes, Kraftwerk are one of the most influential bands in the history of modern music. Some critics think they have influenced more people than the Beatles.
Robert Thornton
2024-06-29 20:26:10 +0000 UTCIf you don't feel very familiar to electronic music, I think the best starting point is the classic album by Jean-Michel Jarre called Oxygène! I think that will be more your cup of tea. Of course comparing Jarre and Kraftwerk is like comparing apples to oranges, but still I strongly recommend you to give this album a listen!
Gerth
2024-06-28 14:23:49 +0000 UTCJust as you said, Doug--what fun! A whole lot of interesting stuff, most of which I'd never heard before. Big Big Train continues to impress, and that was a marvelous example of what they're capable of. There was a longer version of "Fire!" that had a little preamble that was mostly spoken words, to the best of my recollection (it's been well over fifty years since I've heard it). You aren't really missing that much; what you saw and heard was the important part. I think the Camel was my hands-down favorite. They are their own breed of Prog, and every time I hear them, they impress me immensely with the textures they weave in sound. Thanks, Doug, for hanging out with us for an hour-and-a-half! I already know what Summer song I want to nominate!
Bill Brinkmoeller
2024-06-28 07:31:43 +0000 UTCinteresting selection... where else could you find all of these nuggets? reacting very strongly to the Kraftwerk. musical fascism doesn't sound like Rammstein. it sounds like this.
ax o'lotl
2024-06-27 09:37:14 +0000 UTCI remember seeing this on TV here in the UK when I was about ten! It really scared me, and I remember my mother saying I should not be watching it! But it was also perhaps the first real rock song I ever heard, and I remember the organ making a huge impression on me. Like you, very pleasantly surprised to see it here!
Adrian Goodrich
2024-06-26 20:59:55 +0000 UTCAnother really varied selection - thanks again Doug! With a couple I had not heard before. I'm loving discovering Big Big Train, after Doug introduced me to them. I remember "Fire!" at the time - I was about ten, I think! And early in the next decade, realising how the organ sounded so like Jon Lord or Ray Manzarek. Not listened to that Camel Album for years - I must dig out the vinyl. And please, please, more Alan Parsons Project! One of my favourite bands - I would love to hear Doug's thoughts on their very first album, which just blew me away back in 1976.
Adrian Goodrich
2024-06-26 20:52:44 +0000 UTCWow, that's amazing. As I typed I feared he might be playing the great gig in the sky! Belated happy returns Mr. Brown!
Ralph Darvill
2024-06-26 18:03:02 +0000 UTCWas? Still is! He turned 82 on Monday. Touring busily - also occasionally appearing as guest vocalist with Hawkwind
Joe O'Farrell
2024-06-26 17:55:22 +0000 UTCAnother interesting show, covering a lot of ground! I was especially, and pleasantly surprised to hear you playing Arthur Brown...he was definitely a character. The long version of Fire is something of a "wig out".
Ralph Darvill
2024-06-26 16:39:51 +0000 UTCYes, "The Downward Spiral," for all its nihlism, is worthy of an EPL. Trent Reznor seems a very thoughtful person, but the music of the 1990s is indicative of disturbing cultural trends. As always, the thoughts/ideas of one era/generation will show up in its music/films/novels.
Allen
2024-06-26 13:06:41 +0000 UTCInteresting programme. I’m also less than enthusiastic about Kraftwerk from that era - after their early experimental stuff and the peak of Autobahn, Radioactivity and Trans-Europe Express, I feel they got bogged down in banality. Autobahn and Radioactivity are definitely better entry points.
Joe O'Farrell
2024-06-26 05:38:37 +0000 UTCI first heard NIN Head Like A Hole in college of 1992. That whole album is great. Though, I believe his masterpiece is The Downward Spiral. Interesting how you did a song from Gabriel's Passion soundtrack on the last DOD, then here you do Sledgehammer. And both came out relatively the same time. I wasn't familiar with the title of the Alan Parson's song, but once I heard the beginning, it sparked!
Andrew Marsh
2024-06-26 05:30:23 +0000 UTCI’m down. I’m curious to hear more from Trent.
R. Douglas Helvering
2024-06-26 03:48:50 +0000 UTCSuch an eclectic collection of songs. Love most of them - really enjoyed the whole session. Some new bands I need to check out!! Oh happy day.
The Nanny named Fran
2024-06-26 03:06:57 +0000 UTCAs much as I love the song, I don't think Head Like a Hole is the best introduction to NIN. It's one of their most commercial songs, and even as Trent said, didn't carry the weight, emotionally or musically, that the rest of the album did. I'd love to see Doug react to the next track Terrible Lie one day, and maybe eventually get to the whole Downward Spiral album.
Jack Brittle
2024-06-26 02:15:11 +0000 UTC
