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151R Alice Cooper
The inventor of Shock Rock, traced from his early glam-rock sessions to today and his continuing career, slightly less gory now but still disreputable. But it’s all an act, and he’s a really nice guy, these days anyway.
Alice. Alice! Who the…
No, not that Alice. We’re talking about that band from Phoenix. You know, Alice Cooper? Well, anyway, that band with Vincent Furnier as frontman. Who later legally adopted the name of the band, Alice Cooper. But we’ll get to that in the show.
See you in the Cavern,
Malaclypse
276 Alan Hull
A show about the founder of Lindisfarne and one of the finest songwriters of rock with an English feel, Alan Hull. Lindisfarne and Hull are favourites of mine, which made the show hard work, as i had to narrow it down from a very wide list and then do the songs justice. Hopefully I’ve made him a little more widely known.
The Music of Alan
Well, Alan Hull, that is. The singer-songwriter and frontman of english folk-rockers Lindisfarne, whose influence has been compared to the likes of Richard Thompson and Ray Davies. We’ll cover both his band and solo careers.
See you in the Cavern,
Malaclypse
150R The Moody Blues
A band from Birmingham (the real one, in England) that made a big name for themselves worldwide with a series of concept albums, updating their sound to stay fresh up to the 2010’s.
Blues. Moody Blues.
Imagine starting a Blues band, having a major Beat hit, going into psychedelic, creating one of the first concept albums, going full Prog Fusion including a crossover classical/Rock album, taking a short break, and starting into the next decade with a major synthpop hit.
Sounds busy? Well… this week’s featured band did it all, and then some.
See you in the Cavern,
Malaclypse
275 Easy Listening
We tell you that we’ll have something different every week, and this was one of them 🙂 A fascinating delve into a corner of the music business that is sometimes belittled but was and still is hugely successful commercially. Tracks from Britain, the US and Germany covered a wide range of styles but still leaving many untouched. Up to 21 listener connections too, which was gratifying.
It’s Easy!
Well, it may not be easy being green, but this week it will be easy to listen as we take a shot at the somewhat wobbly-ly defined genre of Easy Listening. Often pigeonholed as “elevator music,” it actually really is not (the frequency-gated drizzle one hears in elevators and similar places is usually called Muzak, after the company that originally invented and marketed it), and can actually be fun to listen to.
See you in the Cavern,
Malaclypse
149R Free
A fine show, a personal favorite, being stuff from my formative musical years. Well attended too, despite it being Memorial Day in the US, so we were very pleased.
Free!
This week, we will have a look at the band that fell apart before parts of it fell into Bad Company. Well, it fell together again after its first falling apart, for a bit. It’s all a bit complicated. But feel Free to listen in!
See you in the Cavern,
Malaclypse
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