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King Crimson 21st Century Schizoid Man In the Wake of Poseidon Emerson, Lake and Palmer The Barbarian Lucky Man Jethro Hull Cross Eyed Mary Thick as a Brick YES Roundabout (Seinfeld Song) we will be right back....... album was called Fragile Fragile...

King Crimson 21st Century Schizoid Man In the Wake of Poseidon Emerson, Lake and Palmer The Barbarian Lucky Man Jethro Hull Cross Eyed Mary Thick as a Brick YES Roundabout (Seinfeld Song) we will be right back....... album was called Fragile Fragile was the first to feature keyboardist Rick Wakeman And You And I Chimes in the background are very apparent. Tales From Topographic Oceans During the tour, the keyboardist Rick Wakeman announced his intention to leave the group at the tour’s conclusion Genesis Peter Gabriel – vocals, flute Phil Collins- Drums Firth Of Fifth - song has heavy keyboard when it starts. Peter Gabriel flute melody now played by an electric guitar with full band During The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway tour, Peter Gabriel told the band he would leave at its’ conclusion Phil Collins took over as Lead Singer Dance On A Volcano Phil Collins Vocals Instead on this track PINK FLOYD OG LINEUP Richard Wright - Keyboard Syd Barrett – vocals,guitar, songs Roger Waters - Bass – Ends up becoming the main songwriter Nick Mason - Drums Syd Barrett is replaced by David Gilmour Dark Side of The Moon Went to #1 on the Billboard Charts and remained on the charts for 741 weeks from 1973 to 1988 Time – Starts with the clocks going off and then beep boop beep boop and then transitions to TICKING AWAY Wish You Were Here – syd barrett is gone and band misses him Sounds like a acoustic folk guitar at low volume at the start, then goes into louder guitar strings. Sounds like singer is upset and emotional Comfortably Numb Hello is there anybody in there??? FRANK ZAPPA – Genius songwriter,rythhm creator, producer. Wrote EVERYTHING for his songs. Very unique sound Conceptual Continuity: everything that he releases is a part of one big piece of work, one project Leader of The Mothers of Invention 1966-1969 10 albums During the first shows encore, Frank is pushed off the stage into the orchestra pit. He broke his neck,wrist, and leg. Wheel chaired for 9 months Ruth Underwood –master musician, played every percussion instrument Montana, 1973 The Mothers of Invention + Frank Zappa Tina Turner and The Ikettes were the backing vocals, but her husband wouldn't allow her to get credit for it Frank talks for a while, and then badass guitar solo,Tina Turner fast, high pitched singing The Black Page #2 Frank Zappa You can hear the bells/xylophone very clearly Watermelon In Easter Hay Joe’s Garage Deftones type whisper at the start. Then, slow, melodic guitar, no singing G-Spot TornadoThe Yellow Shark was Frank’s 62nd album Lots of orchestra sounds, bells, wind instruments, and percussion throughout song Performed by Ensemble Modern in 1992, Frank worked until he passed away along with them. He conducted the performance despite health problems Frank Zappa DIES December 4, 1993 Don Van Vliet-Captain Beefheart Trout Mask Replica 1969 Producesd by Frank Zappa Steal Softly Through Snow-Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band Very all over the place, hard to understand, but supposedly many believe its the best album ever Bat Chain Puller-Captain Beefheart-Shiny Beast Starts with the loud slow talking that they do, continues with that talking style. Has some weird galaxy sound effect Nico (Christa Paffgen) - vocals The Velvet Underground & Nico Nico - Frozen Warnings Produced and arranged by John Cale, also an ex member of The Velvet Underground Opera sounding girl singing, long and loud siren sound plays whole time while she sings Kinda sounds like sade in that yeat/drake song Brian Eno In Dark TreeesAnother Green World Sounds echoey, odd percussion, Eno previously was a member of Roxy Music. Eno plays all insturments He did in studio composition: just getting in the studio and making music. No rehearsals, no written lyrics, just free balling that shit Ambient Series- ENO Music For Airports 1978 –first of 4 albums in the series Low listening levels, but so you can hear others things in your environment. Every listen is different because of the other sounds around you Very slow, piano, no lyrics, sounds like minecraft music VOCODER – synthesizer, marries together your singing voice with the sounds of the keyboard Laurie Anderson O Superman Sounds robotic, repeats O O O over and over again, kinda scary sounding, I have heard this shit on tiktok MINIMALISM – few notes, few instruments, little as possible, so you can notice changes in sound KRAUTROCK- German youth music that were dealing with the burden of their country’s past CAN – HALLELUHWAH 1971 NEU! Was formed by Klaus Dinger and Michael Rother after their split from KraftWerk in the early 70s HALLOGALLO Motorik Beat Constant quack sound from guitar, wacka,wacka, wacka Kraftwerk – Autobahn 1974 Autobahn is a european highway, so there's a car starting at the start Kraftwerk – Trans Europe Express 1977 ALL ELECTRICAL INSTURMENTS Kraftwerk - The Model 1978 Defined new early wave ELECTRO POP Tangerine Dream – RUBYCON Features Tangerine Dreams classic Sequencer-driven sounds DAVID BOWIE GLAM ROCK Mick Ronson – guitar and Tony Defries – Manager Hunky Dory 1971first release with RCA. Went to number 3 in the UK CHANGES (1971) Ziggy Stardust (1972) - A CONCEPT ALBUM BERLIN TRIOLGY LOW 1977 , Heroes 1977, Lodger 1779 Heroes 1977 Robert Fripp- Guitar 3 Vocal Mics 9,20, 50 feet away from David Bowie TYRANNOSAURUS REX Glam rock, psychedelic Marc Bolan vocals, guitar songs, LEADER OF GROUP, Died in car crash 1977 BANG A GONG (GET IT ON) MOOT THE HOOPLE ALL THE YOUNG DUDES Written by David Bowie and background vocals ALL THE WAY FROM MEMPHIS MOOT THE HOOPLE ROXY MUSIC Bryan Ferry – vocals Brian Eno Virginia Plain The True Wheel (1974) ENO QUEEN Freddie Mercury – main guy vocalist Killer Queen – reached #2 in UK #12 in US Bohemian Rhapsody – 1975 YOU KNOW THIS SONG Crosby, Stills, & Nash David Crosby – The Byrds Stephen Stills – Buffalo Springfield Graham Nash – The Hollies Suite: Judy Blue Eyes NICK DRAKE River Man (1969) Nick died from an overdose. He was a very reserved and interesting person Syd Barrett 1946-2006 - Pink Floyd member who crashed out cuz of the acid Dark Globe Wouldn’t you miss me??? He sounds very mad and upset John Lennon Mother (1970) James Taylor James’ first album was produced by Peter Asher, who was A&R head for The Beatles newly formed label Apple Records The album was released by Apple Records in December1968 in the UK James Taylor first album was released on Apple Records Sweet Baby James – Fire and Rain (1970) Peter Asher produced this Joni Mitchell Little Green (1971) Song is about her daughter that she put up for adoption when she was poor. Help Me (1974) #2 Hit on the billboard charts. HELP ME I THINK IM FALLING IN LOVE AGAIN Neil Young Harvest (1972) - was the best selling album of 1972 in the US Member of Buffalo Springfield in the 70s alongside Stephen Stills Needle And The Damage Done OLD MAN Carole King Wrote alongside her husband Gerry Goffin - Tapestry So Far Away Tapestry was #1 on the billboard charts for 15 weeks and held the record for most weeks at #1 by a female solo artist for over 20 years until Whiteney Houston Elton John & Lyricist Bernie Taupin Your Song #4 on the billboard charts Elton John scored seven consecutive #1 albums in the US Randy Newman Sail Away ITS GREAT TO BE AN AMERICAN Paul Simon Mother and Child Reunion Recorded in Jamaica with Jimmy Cliff’s backing group. Simon will later record albums featuring the music and musicians of South Africa and Brazil Janis Ian Between The Lines went #1 on charts AT Seventeen Jackson Browne The Pretender Kate Bush The Man With The Child In His Eyes Her demo recorded at David Gilmour’s expense Bush was the first female artist in pop history to have written every tracl on a million selling debut album. After touring in 1979, Kate would not perform live concerts again for 35 years. Rickie Lee Jones Last Chance Texaco Tracy Chapman Fast Car Tori Amos Me And a Gun Blood, Sweat, and Tears SPinning Wheel Chicago Does Anyone Really Know What Time It Is? Right Off by Miles Davis Miles Davis - trumpet John McLaughlin – electric guitar Billy Cobham – drums Herbie Hancock – Organ Steve Grossman – saxophone Mahavishnu Orchestra Birds of Fire John McLaughlin – leader, songwriter, guitarist McLaughlin met drummer Billy Cobham during the Bitches Brew Sessions POLYRHYTHM Celestial Terrestrial Commuters John McLaughlin UNUSUAL TIME SIGNATURES Billy Cobham Quadrant 4 Billy came up in the late 60s and early 70s with trumpeter Miles Davis and then with Mahavishnu Orchestra Herbie Hancock Chameleon From 1963-1968 Herbie was the pianist in Miles Davis Quintet Brand X Phil Collins – Drums Running On Three Weather Report Joe Zawinul – keyboard Wayne Shorter – sax Jaco Pastorius – bass Joe Zawinul and Wayne Shorter appeared on Miles Davis Bitches Brew Terms and names to know (in addition to the complete highlighted sentences and info about the specific artists on your listening list). Progressive pop Concept album Conceptual continuity Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band Recording studio as instrument Use of classical instrumentation Tommy Rock opera Use of classical forms Progressive rock Robert Fripp Greg Lake Stylistic eclecticism Mellotron Keyboard-based power trio Bela Bartok Mussorgsky, Tchaikovsky, Copland, Ginastera Moog synthesizer Ian Anderson Works of symphonic duration Rick Wakeman Peter Gabriel Phil Collins Syd Barrett Roger Waters David Gilmour Dark Side of the Moon Frank Zappa / The Mothers of Invention Ensemble Modern Don Van Vliet The Velvet Underground John Cale In-studio composition Ambient music Vocoder Minimalism Krautrock Klaus Dinger, Michael Rother Motorik beat Sequencer Mick Ronson Tony Defries Berlin Trilogy – Low, “Heroes,” Lodger Marc Bolan “All the Young Dudes” – David Bowie Bryan Ferry, Brian Eno Freddie Mercury The Byrds, Buffalo Springfield, The Hollies Peter Asher Apple Records Harvest Gerry Goffin Tapestry Bernie Taupin Paul Simon – Jamaica, South Africa, Brazil Bitches Brew John McLaughlin, Billy Cobham, Herbie Hancock Polyrhythm Unusual time signatures Joe Zawinul, Wayne Shorter, Jaco Pastorius