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24 A History of Rush, part 2

Published July 26, 2015 | By Alan DJ

Covering the band from Power Windows in 1985 to the present day

	Title	Artists	Album	Year
101	Mystic Rhythms	Rush	Power Windows	1985
102	Force Ten	Rush	Hold Your Fire	1987
103	Driven	Rush	Test for Echo	1996
104	Show Don’t Tell	Rush	Presto	1989
105	Secret Touch	Rush	Vapour Trails	2002
106	Dreamline	Rush	Roll the Bones	1991

The Show

201	Marathon	Rush	Power Windows	1985
202	Grand Designs	Rush	Power Windows	1985
203	Second Nature	Rush	Hold Your Fire	1987
204	Mission	Rush	Hold Your Fire	1987
205	War Paint	Rush	Presto	1989
206	Available Light	Rush	Presto	1989
207	Roll the Bones	Rush	Roll the Bones	1991
208	Where’s My Thing?	Rush	Roll the Bones	1991
209	Between Sun And Moon	Rush	Counterparts	1993
210	The Speed of Love	Rush	Counterparts	1993
211	Totem	Rush	Test for Echo	1996
212	Limbo	Rush	Test for Echo	1996
213	Ghost Rider	Rush	Vapour Trails	2002
214	Peaceable Kingdom	Rush	Vapour Trails	2002
215	How It Is	Rush	Vapour Trails	2002
216	Heart Full of Soul	Rush	Feedback	2004
217	Shapes of Things	Rush	Feedback	2004
218	We Hold On	Rush	Snakes & Arrows	2007
219	Malignant Narcissism	Rush	Snakes & Arrows	2007
220	Spindrift	Rush	Snakes & Arrows	2007
221	The Anarchist	Rush	Clockwork Angels	2012
222	Wish Them Well	Rush	Clockwork Angels	2012

Postshow

301	Stick It Out	Rush	Counterparts	1993
302	Far Cry	Rush	Snakes and Arrows	2007
303	Test for Echo	Rush	Test for Echo	1996
304	The Big Money	Rush	Power Windows	1985
305	Workin’ Them Angels	Rush	Snakes and Arrows	2007
306	Headlong Flight	Rush	Clockwork Angels	2012

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23 A History of Rush, part 1

Published July 12, 2015 | By Alan DJ

Covers this Canadian rock band from the eponymous first album up to 1984’s ‘Grace Under Pressure’. Rush veer from Prog Rock almost to Metal and back again, with some very original influences.

	Title	Artists	Album	Year
101	Distant Early Warning	Rush	Grace Under Pressure	1984
102	Subdivisions	Rush	Signals	1982
103	Entre Nous	Rush	Permanent Waves	1980
104	Here Again	Rush	Rush	1974
105	Tom Sawyer	Rush	Moving Pictures	1981
106	New World Man	Rush	Signals	1982
107	The Spirit Of Radio	Rush	Permanent Waves	1980

The Show

201	Finding My Way	Rush	Rush	1974
202	Before and After	Rush	Rush	1974
203	Fly by Night	Rush	Fly by Night	1975
204	Rivendell	Rush	Fly by Night	1975
205	I Think I’m Going Bald	Rush	Caress of Steel	1975
206	Bastille Day	Rush	Caress of Steel	1975
207	Lessons	Rush	2112	1976
208	The Twilight Zone	Rush	2112	1976
209	Something For Nothing	Rush	2112	1976
210	Xanadu	Rush	A Farewell To Kings	1977
211	Cinderella Man	Rush	A Farewell To Kings	1977
212	Madrigal	Rush	A Farewell To Kings	1977
213	The Trees	Rush	Hemispheres	1978
214	Circumstances	Rush	Hemispheres	1978
215	Natural Science	Rush	Permanent Waves	1980
216	Vital Signs	Rush	Moving Pictures	1981
217	YYZ	Rush	Moving Pictures	1981
218	Losing It	Rush	Signals	1982
219	Countdown	Rush	Signals	1982
220	Afterimage	Rush	Grace Under Pressure	1984
221	Kid Gloves	Rush	Grace Under Pressure	1984

Postshow

301	The Camera Eye	Rush	Moving Pictures	1981
302	The Necromancer	Rush	Caress of Steel	1975
303	2112	Rush	2112	1976
304	Cygnus X-1	Rush	A Farewell To Kings	1977
305	Cygnus X-1 Book II : Hemispheres	Rush	Hemispheres	1978
306	By-Tor and the Snow Dog	Rush	Fly by Night	1975

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22 Prog Folk

Published June 28, 2015 | By Alan DJ

And what is Prog Folk, you ask? Well, there are a few definitions, but the one I worked with is Folk, but with a tendency towards modern instrumentation (“Electric Folk” if you like), placing a high value on good musicianship, a certain whimsicality in titles and in execution, often straying far from traditional tunes, but still retaining an overall “folk” feel.

Very hard to cut down the mass of tracks, even after putting some in the preshow and more in the postshow. We may revisit this subject

	Title	Artists	Album	Year
101	Autumn: Heroine’s Theme/Deep Summer’s Sleep/The Winter Long	The Strawbs	Hero and Heroine	1974
102	The Storm	Davy Spillane Band	Out of the Air	1988
103	Elgeebar	Davy Spillane	A Place Among The Stones	1994
104	Road To Kingdom Come	Lindisfarne	Nicely Out Of Tune	1970
105	Rock And Roll Away	Decameron	Third Light	1975

The Show

201	Meet Me On The Corner	Lindisfarne	Fog On The Tyne	1971
202	A Glimpse of Me	Decameron	Mammoth Special	1974
203	Lady Fuschia	Strawbs	Bursting At The Seams	1973
204	Letters From Home	Horslips	The Man Who Built America	1978
205	On the Border	Al Stewart	On the Border	1999
206	Atlantic Bridge	Davy Spillane Band	Out of the Air	1988
207	Seascape	Amazing Blondel	England	1972
208	On Reflection	Gentle Giant	Free Hand	1975
209	Promised Rain	Davy Spillane	A Place Among The Stones	1994
210	Solid Air	John Martyn	Solid Air	1973
211	Toye	Amazing Blondel	Fantasia Lindum	1971
212	Couldn’t Love You More	John Martyn	Glorious Fool	1981
213	Les Sept Jours De Mai	Malicorne	Le Bestiaire	1979
214	Music In The Glen	Bothy Band	Old Hag You Have Killed Me	1976
215	The Advent Of Panurge	Gentle Giant	Octopus	1972
216	Queen Of Dreams	Strawbs	Grave New World	1972
217	Saturday	Decameron	Third Light	1975
218	Estampie	Gryphon	Midnight Mushrumps	1974
219	Boy Of Bedlam	Steeleye Span	Please To See The King	1971
220	Clear White Light – Part 2	Lindisfarne	Nicely Out Of Tune	1970
221	Female Drummer	Steeleye Span	Please To See The King	1971
222	Soldat de la République	Malicorne	Balançoire en Feu	1981
223	Old Hag You Have Killed Me	Bothy Band	Old Hag You Have Killed Me	1976

Postshow

301	Late on Lady Day	Decameron	Mammoth Special	1974
302	Landscape	Amazing Blondel	England	1972
303	The Runaway	Gentle Giant	In a Glass House	1973
304	Playing The Game	Gentle Giant	The Power and The Glory	1974
305	Hero and Heroine	The Strawbs	Hero and Heroine	1974
306	Three Seasons Almaine	Amazing Blondel	Fantasia Lindum	1971
307	Year Of The Cat	Al Stewart	Year of the Cat	1976

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21 Rarities and What-Ifs 3

Published June 14, 2015 | By Alan DJ

Another selection of rarities and what-ifs with contributions from the whole team.

	Title	Artists	Album	Year
1	Joy To The World	Three Dog Night	Naturally	1970
2	She Blinded Me With Science	Thomas Dolby	The Golden Age of Wireless	1982
3	Wild Honey	The Beach Boys	Wild Honey	1967
4	Oh Well	Fleetwood Mac	Then Play On	1969
5	Who Made Who	AC/DC	AC/DC Live	1992
6	Silver Machine	Hawkwind	single	1972
7	Walking The Ghost Back Home	The Bible	Walking The Ghost Back Home	1986
8	Summertime	Love Sculpture	Blues Helping	1968
9	Herr von Ribbeck auf Ribbeck im Havelland	Achim Reichel	Regenballade	1977
10	Resurrection Shuffle	Ashton, Gardner & Dyke	Ashton, Gardner & Dyke	1971
11	Here Comes The Night	The Beach Boys	L.A. (Light Album)	1979
12	I Apologize	Link Wray	Indian Child	1993
13	Milk and Alcohol	Dr. Feelgood	Private Practice	1978
14	Rant	Shawn Phillips	Spaced	1977
15	Journey Of The Sorcerer	Eagles	One Of These Nights	1975
16	Shine On You Crazy Diamond	Zither Manä	Endzeit für Götter	1998
17	Blue Suede Shoes	Carl Perkins	Single	1956
18	Old Black Joe	Crazy Cavan	Live At The Rainbow	1978
19	She’s Mine	Carl Wilson	Youngblood	1984
20	Hot Blooded	Foreigner	Double Vision	1978
21	Ich Steh Dir Bei	Heinz Rudolf Kunze	Richter-Skala	1996
22	Stay With Me	The Faces	A Nod’s As Good As A Wink…	1971
23	Phoenix Rising	Annihilator	Set the World on Fire	1993
24	The Best Is Yet to Come	Scorpions	Sting In the Tail	2010
25	Break Away	The Beach Boys	Single	1969
26	House Of The King	Focus	In and Out of Focus	1971

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20 Rock Humour

Published May 31, 2015 | By Alan DJ

We assembled some tracks of rock music that have some funny element to them, and hope to amuse. There was also be some dancing 🙂

	Title	Artists	Album	Year
201	Good Morning Judge	10cc	Deceptive Bends	1977
202	Your Cash Ain’t Nothin’ But Trash	Steve Miller Band	The Joker	1973
203	Money For Nothing	Dire Straits	Money For Nothing	1988
204	Breakdown of the Song	Decameron	Mammoth Special	1974
205	Have A Cigar	Pink Floyd	Wish You Were Here	1975
206	Dupscheck	Otto Waalkes	Otto – Die CD Das Allerbeste	1973
207	Those Feat’ll Steer Ya Wrong Sometimes	Little Feat	Representing the Mambo	1990
208	Places to Go	Tony Levin	Resonator	2006
209	Taxi Driver	The Hamsters	Open All Hours	2004
210	Manic Mechanic	ZZ Top	Degüello	1979
211	Big Balls	AC/DC	Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap	1981
212	It Came Out Of The Sky	Creedence Clearwater Revival	Willy and the Poor Boys	1970
213	Behind You	Caravan	Better by Far	1977
214	Would You	Touch & Go	I Find You Very Attractive	2000
215	Nice Legs Shame About Her Face	Monks	Bad Habits	1979
216	Reasons To Be Cheerful	Ian Dury and The Blockheads	single	1979
217	Do The Strand	Roxy Music	For Your Pleasure	1973
218	The Lone Ranger	Quantum Jump	Quantum Jump	1977
219	Fat Man	Jethro Tull	Stand Up	1969
220	No One’s More Important Than the Earthworm	Stackridge	Extravaganza	1975
221	Sample The Dog	Timbuk3	Espace Ornano	1993
222	Werewolves of London	Warren Zevon	Stand in the Fire	1980
223	Elephant Talk	King Crimson	Discipline	1974
224	Saturday Night Fish Fry	Vince Weber	Boogie On A Blue Song	1987
225	Bring It To Jerome	Bo Diddley	Greatest Hits
226	Take It Back	Cream	Disraeli Gears	1967
227	Say Man	Bo Diddley	Greatest Hits
228	I’d Love Just Once To See You	The Beach Boys	Wild Honey	1967

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19 Celebrations

Published May 17, 2015 | By Alan DJ

A set of tracks to celebrate – well whatever is important. There are several D’ni holidays around this time, but why should we wait for a big event in any case?

Ed was away on business so AlanDJ broadcast the show with Mal helping on the plaza.

	Title	Artists	Album	Year
101	Here Comes The Weekend	Dave Edmunds	Get It	1977
102	Wind Of Change	Scorpions	Crazy World	1990
103	There’s Gonna Be Some Rockin’	AC/DC	Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap	1981

The Show

201	It’s Only Just Begun	Solution	The Best of Solution Live	1991
202	Welcome The Day	Caravan	Cunning Stunts	1975
203	Celebration Day	Led Zeppelin	Led Zeppelin III	1970
204	Don’t Stop	Fleetwood Mac	Rumours	1977
205	Hearthammer	Runrig	The Big Wheel	1991
206	Feelin’ Alright	Dave Mason	Headkeeper	1972
207	Meet Me On The Corner	Lindisfarne	Fog On The Tyne	1971
208	Sunshine Day	Osibisa	Welcome Home	1975
209	Jive Hoot	Bob Brookmeyer	Bob Brookmeyer & Friends	1964
210	You’ve Got A Friend	Carole King	Tapestry	1971
211	Fantasia Lindum – Celestial Light	Amazing Blondel	Fantasia Lindum	1971
212	Let’s Dance	Chris Rea	Dancing With Strangers	1987
213	Lunatic Dancing	Passport	Move	1998
214	Birdland	The Manhattan Transfer	Extensions	1979
215	I’m a Believer	The Monkees	single	1966
216	Perfect Timing	Kiki Dee	Perfect Timing	1981
217	The Future’s So Bright I Gotta Wear Shades	Timbuk3	Greetings From Timbuk3	1986
218	Listen to the Music	The Doobie Brothers	Live at the Wolf Trap	2004
219	Celebration	Kool & The Gang	Celebrate!	1980
220	Here Comes The Sun	The Beatles	Abbey Road	1969
221	Have A Drink On Me	AC/DC	Back In Black	1980
222	Raise Your Glasses	KISS	Psycho Circus	1998
223	Lookin’ for the Heart of Saturday Night	Dion	Return of the Wanderer	1992
224	Almost Saturday Night	John Fogerty	John Fogerty	1975
225	Party	Paul McCartney	Run Devil Run	1999
226	Celebrate The News	The Beach Boys	Singles	1969
227	Celebration Day (Live)	Led Zeppelin	The Complete Led Zeppelin	2007

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18 Funny and Strange

Published April 19, 2015 | By Alan DJ

This is a set of tracks put together for us by our friend Boywhith, who joined us on the plaza (as he often does) to discuss his choices in chat. He left us to do the talking 🙂

	Title	Artists	Album	Year
1	Popcorn	Hot Butter	Single	1972
2	Clown feet	David O’Brien	Doug (2 Minute Brownie in a Mug)	2013
3	Surfin’ bird	The Trashmen	Single	1963
4	Dance Cleopatra dance	Prince Buster	Single	1972
5	Bonnie and Clyde	Serge Gainsbourg & Brigitte Bardot	Single	1968
6	Je t’aime … moi non plus	Jane Birkin & Serge Gainsbourg	Single	1969
7	Speedy Gonzales	Pat Boone	single	1962
8	Pluto the dog	Manfred Mann’s Earth Band	Solar fire	1973
9	Antistar	Massive Attack	100th Window	2003
10	2000 Light years from home	The Rolling Stones	Single	1967
11	Big six	Judge Dread	Single	1972
12	Pi	Kate Bush	Aerial	2005
13	You know my name (look up the number)	The Beatles	Single	1970
14	Tip toe thru’ the tulips with me	Tiny Tim	Single	1968
15	Fool’s overture	Supertramp	Even in the Quietest Moments	1977
16	They’re Coming to Take Me Away Ha-Haa!	Napoleon XIV	single	1962
17	Careful with that axe, Eugene	Pink Floyd	Ummagumma	1969
18	Johnee Jingo	Todd Rundgren	A Capella	1986
19	Are you that somebody?	Aaliyah	Single	1998
20	Regiment	Brian Eno and David Byrne	My Life in the Bush of Ghosts	1981
21	Elyme et les spheres d’Ahnonay	Olivier Maurey	L’Age des Sons	2010
22	The thing	Phil Harris	Single	1950
23	The box	Orbital	Single	1996
24	Popcorn	The Muppets	Single	2010

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17 Rarities and What-Ifs 2

Published April 4, 2015 | By Alan DJ

A second helping of Rarities and What-ifs.

	Title	Artists	Album	Year
1	Rockin’ the Man in the Boat	Mike Love	Looking Back with Love	1981
2	King Of The New York Streets	Dion	Yo Frankie	1989
3	Don’t Talk to Me	Dave Edmunds	Closer to the Flame	1989
4	Swamp Music	Lynyrd Skynyrd	Second Helping	1973
5	You Got Me Rocking	The Rolling Stones	Forty Licks	1994
6	Nice Legs, Shame About The Face	Monks	Bad Habits	1979
7	Venus	Shocking Blue	At Home	1969
8	Faust Auf Faust (Schimanski)	Klaus Lage Band	Heisse Spur’n	2003
9	The Wizard	Black Sabbath	Black Sabbath	1970
10	Working Man	Rush	Rush	1997
11	Iwiwal	Loudon Wainwright III	Grown Man	1995
12	Safety dance	Men Without Hats	Rhythm of Youth	1983
13	50 Ways To Leave Your Lover	Paul Simon	Still Crazy After All These Years	1975
14	Brand New Woman	Dave Edmunds	The Early Years	1991
15	Lonesome Crow	Scorpions	Lonesome Crow	1972
16	Pop Musik	M	single	1979
17	Old Man Hank	Jellybread	Sixty-Five Parkway	1970
18	Whatever Happened To Benny Santini?	Chris Rea	Whatever Happened To Benny Santini?	1978
19	Best Years of our Life	Iron Butterfly	Metamorphosis	1970
20	Mary	Take 6	Take 6	1988
21	Louisiana Sunset	Passport	Blues Roots	1991
22	Mama	Zucchero	Zucchero	1990
23	L. A. Woman	Billy Idol	Charmed Life	2000
24	Whatever Turns You On	Gene Simmons	Asshole	2004
25	Drinking Wine Spo-De-O’Dee	Jerry Lee Lewis	London Sessions	1973
26	Phoenix Rising	Annihilator	Set the World on Fire	1993
27	Thirteen Days	J.J. Cale	5	1979

Postshow

28

Echoes

Pink Floyd

Meddle

1971

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16 Brit Prog 4, The Yes-No Interlude, maybe

Published March 22, 2015 | By Alan DJ

Some tracks from Yes, and from individual Yes members’ solo albums or other groups. I made no attempt to cover a history of the group, partly because they have a habit of making very long tracks and partly because they have been going for a very long time. So this was be a few favourite tracks. Pre and post show consisted of more tracks that we couldn’t fit in to the show space.

Yes, I know the last Brit Prog show was show 2. There was a reason why, but I can’t remember it now.

	Title	Artists	Album	Year
101	Sweet Dreams	Yes	Time And A Word	1970
102	Astral Traveller	Yes	Time And A Word	1970
103	Starship Trooper (a. Life Seeker b. Disillusion c. Würm)	Yes	The Yes Album	1971

The Show

201	No Opportunity Necessary, No Experience Needed	Yes	Time And A Word	1970
202	Then	Yes	Time And A Word	1970
203	Yours Is No Disgrace	Yes	The Yes Album	1971
204	I’ve Seen All Good People (a. Your Move b. All Good People)	Yes	The Yes Album	1971
205	Siberian Khatru	Yes	Close To The Edge	1972
206	Total Mass Retain (Single Version)	Yes	Close To The Edge	1972
207	Roundabout	Yes	Fragile	1972
208	Five per Cent for Nothing	Yes	Fragile	1972
209	Long Distance Runaround	Yes	Fragile	1972
210	The Fish (Shindleria Praematurus)	Yes	Fragile	1972
211	Wheel of Fortune	Badger	One Live Badger	1973
212	Lucky Seven	Chris Squire	Fish Out Of Water	1975
213	Alaska	UK	UK	1978
214	Time To Kill	UK	UK	1978
215	State Of Independence	Jon And Vangelis	The Friends of Mr Cairo	1981
216	Only Time Will Tell	Asia	Asia	1982
217	Turbulence	Steve Howe	Turbulence	1991
218	I Would Have Waited Forever	Yes	Union	1991

Postshow

301	Hold Out Your Hand	Chris Squire	Fish Out Of Water	1975
302	In The Dead Of The Night	UK	UK	1978
303	The Friends Of Mr. Cairo	Jon And Vangelis	The Friends of Mr Cairo	1981
304	Here Comes the Feeling	Asia	Asia	1982
305	Shock To The System	Yes	Union	1991
306	Angkor Wat	Yes	Union	1991
307	Dangerous (Look In The Light Of What You’re Searching For)	Yes	Union	1991
308	Take The Water To The Mountain	Yes	Union	1991

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15 A History of ZZ Top

Published March 8, 2015 | By Alan DJ

Another history of a group with a long career and many albums. Pre and post show take the overspill, as usual.

	Title	Album	Year
101	Stages	Afterburner	1985
102	Gimme All Your Lovin’	Eliminator	1983
103	Sure Got Cold After The Rain Fell	Rio Grande Mud	1972
104	I’m Bad I’m Nationwide	Degüello	1979
105	Dipping Low (In The Lap Of Luxury)	Afterburner	1985
106	Francine	Rio Grande Mud	1972
107	Tush	Fandango!	1975

The Show

201	Salt Lick	Chrome, Smoke & BBQ	2003
202	Squank	ZZ Top’s First Album	1970
203	Old Man	ZZ Top’s First Album	1970
204	Mushmouth Shoutin’	Rio Grande Mud	1972
205	Apologies To Pearly	Rio Grande Mud	1972
206	Beer Drinkers & Hell Raisers	Tres Hombres	1973
207	Thunderbird	Fandango!	1975
208	Balinese	Fandango!	1975
209	Pan Am Highway Blues	Tejas	1976
210	She’s A Heartbreaker	Tejas	1976
211	Manic Mechanic	Degüello	1979
212	Dust My Broom	Degüello	1979
213	Don’t Tease Me	El Loco	1981
214	I Wanna Drive You Home	El Loco	1981
215	I Need You Tonight	Eliminator	1983
216	If I Could Only Flag Her Down	Eliminator	1983
217	Planet Of Women	Afterburner	1985
218	2000 Blues	Recycler	1990
219	Breakaway	Antenna	1994
220	Lizard Life	Antenna	1994
221	Black Fly	Rhythmeen	1996
222	Trippin’	XXX	1999
223	Sinpusher	XXX	1999
224	Alley-Gator	Mescalero	2003
225	Stackin’ Paper	Mescalero	2003
226	Chartreuse	La Futura	2012
227	Flyin’ High	La Futura	2012
228	Heartache In Blue	La Futura	2012

Postshow

301	Jesus Just Left Chicago	Tres Hombres	1973
302	I Gotsta Get Paid	La Futura	2012
303	Just Got Paid	Rio Grande Mud	1972
304	Doubleback	Recycler	1990
305	Legs (Edit Version)	Eliminator	1983
306	My Head’s in Mississippi	Recycler	1990
307	Me So Stupid	Mescalero	2003
308	Can’t Stop Rockin’	Afterburner	1985

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