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The pretentious group name and album title cannot hide the fact that this is very pretentious music. It ranges from heavy pop music to musique concrete and absurdist drivel, but is very entertaining nonetheless. It’s quite unfortunate that there is only one album, because I would blindly buy their s...

Traffic is Steve Winwood. When the other musicians understood this, they left, the band fell apart and Steve Winwood needed a few years to get his act together and emerge as a white soul singer we’ve all come to hate, especially during the 1980’s. This album, their second, is completely different: f...

I like the name of the singer (composer, arranger, producer, he’s an early Prince, if you ask me). I also like the title of the album, wit that summer of love / Woodstock state of mind. Happy to report that I also like the music: it’s generally easy going rhythm ‘n’ blues with soul overtones. Lyrics...

If you buy one cd by The Rolling Stones you are crazy. If you buy 2 you are crazy. In fact, if you buy anything less than 6 or 7 cd’s by the Stones you’re way too selective and should not consider yourself a serious modern music collector. However, if you buy less than 20 cd’s by the Stones, and inc...

QMS is a (somewhat) famous name from the 1960’s. On posters advertising pop concerts, their name was mentioned along the Grateful Dead and Jefferson Airplane. They actually sound mostly like a Jefferson Airplane without a female singer. Their biggest problem is they were no great song writers ( Dino...

The Other ones are actually the last incarnation of The Grateful Dead, after Jerry Garcia, nominal leader, had died in 1995. The title may refer to the fact that with him the norma Dead members had all gone, but I doubt it. Old songs in somewhat new jackets and some new songs, of which Only the stra...

The Nice is the first group where Keith Emerson, later of Emerson, Lake and Palmer, found some fame. This is some very pretentious Dren, ranging from prog rock to neo-classical to, well, poppy. A few observations: 1. Prog rock did not really exist then (December 1968), usually one considers In the c...

Phish is a jam band. As you all know jam bands all have the following mission statement: 1. We cannot write good, catchy songs as such 2. We will play a lot of covers but give them our own unique twist, because of points 3 and 4 3. We don’t play our instruments too well either, and singing is rudime...

Hi Thomas, I could not reach the forum for a few weeks. Now I can, and I am actually halfway my second tour through the alphabet, just having finished Little village. Question: I noticed that my title format (artist, title of cd, year of release) was too long for our dear friend Frank Zappa. Do you ...

The Traveling Wilburys predated them, but this is the same kind of ad hoc band (actually with the same drummer, Jim Keltner). Other musicians are John Hiatt, Ry Cooder and Nick Lowe. Unlike the Traveling Wilburys, this band actually toured for some time, playing the album and selectend highlights fr...