“Yodeadodoyodeadodoyodeadodoyodeadodo
yodeadodoyodeadodoyo-bab-baaaaa
Ahhhhhh-aaahhhh-aaaaaa-aaaaAAA!
Ohhhhhh-ooohhh-oooooo-oooOOO!”
“Hocus Pocus” by Focus. I’m misheard more often than not when I reference this song: “Hocus Pocus bifocals?” The confusion doesn’t end at the title — be prepared to listen to “Hocus Pocus” for a second time, it’s unlike anything you’ve ever heard. The genre is progressive rock, but don’t expect to hear any extraterrestrial [...]
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
For some random prog rock band, the Nice are sure getting some great representation on TBTV. Truth is: the Nice aren’t that random, there’s just a serious disconnect between my generation and progressive rock. Maybe it’s too cerebral. Maybe it’s too boring. Maybe it’s got too many alien references. Despite all that, progressive rock (and [...]
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Speak to me of summer, long winters longer than time can remember,
Setting up of other roads, travel on in old accustomed ways.”
It’s about time that I posted about Yes — you should know that I purposely dilute the amount of progressive rock on TBTV. Too much talk of space and parallel universes attracts the wrong [...]
Saturday, October 17, 2009
Ah, The Cheerful Insanity of Giles, Giles and Fripp — the first album I ever reviewed. Mr. Webb’s grade 11 English class.
I picked up this LP at an underground record store in the old Stockholm at the owner’s recommendation. The background he gave to me: GGF turned into King Crimson — a more playful band [...]
I feel some sort of obligation to write about Emerson, Lake & Palmer. Though I hesitate to label anything as “my favourite,” I can confidently call this 1970s trio my favourite band of all time — not in the sense that I am always in the mood to listen to them, but in the sense [...]
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Wednesday, September 30, 2009
So it seems like there’s still some jazz lingering in my system:
If you’ve heard of The Mahavishnu Orchestra, you’ve undoubtedly heard of John McLaughlin. I give to you “Dawn,” off of The Inner Mounting Flame: tamer than others (see “Birds of Fire”), but unquestionably representative of the group’s menacingly eclectic sound. An absolutely shredding guitar solo [...]
