Progressive music is a terrible name for a genre, isn't it? If we take the dictionary definition ("happening or developing gradually or in stages"), prog doesn't really live up to that. Instead, it's a series of long winded nerdy time signatures and modes: ideas repeated since the late 1960s. No, you stop being so petty minded.

This week, we tackle the prickly subject of only needing one album from a band. Some bands, you don't need an entire album of, with others, you're missing a journey. But, what about that band that's incredible for an album, and nothing else nears it again?

Of course, this is all tackled in a scatological-friendly approach. As it should be, right? And Sam reveals his deep love for documentaries on progressive bands and his deep mistrust of progressive bands actual output.

Leading us onto another subject: what bands would be better left as documentaries?

### Riffs of the week

#### Dr Sam's Riff

- Fantastic Negrito - In My Head (opening)

#### Andrew's Riff

- John Kongos - He's gonna step on you again (2:45)

### Dr Sam's track choices

1. Between the Buried and Me - Son of Nothing (opening)

Album - Colors

2. King Crimson - 21st Century Schizoid Man (3.56)

Album - In the court of the Crimson King

3. Slayer - Dead Skin Mask (opening)

Album - Abyss

4. Coheed and Cambria - Welcome Home (0.11)

Album - Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness

### Andrew's track choices

1. The Stone Roses - Elizabeth my dear (0:23)

Album - The Stone Roses

2. Santana - Hope you're feeling better (opening)

Album - Abraxis

3. Torche - Pirhaña (0:50)

Album - Meanderthal

4. Kiasmos - Looped (opening)

Album - Kiasmos

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What makes a great compilation album? Can they define a genre, or even a generation? How many of your favourite bands did you discover through compilation albums? Do you have a compilation album in your list of your most favourite albums? Do some of your fingernails grow much faster than others?

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Anybody can put out a classic album, yeah? Anybody. Like me. I've done it. Suck it. Anybody can put out two classic albums, yeah? Anybody. Like you. Or three. It's EASY. I'll tell you how. You can even ask ChatGBT to do it (but there'll be something inauthentic about it, so maybe not).

But, what does it take to make a career in it? To transcend the scene one emerges from, to continuously make good, interesting music that means people don't just want to hear stuff from your first two albums.

Maybe you can go down the tech death metal route, where stuff is just too complicated to digest and thus you can play anything you want. But ... I mean, who likes technical and progressive music, anyway?

Or you can go down the route where you take an artistic approach, and the music transcends its limitations.

So, this is how you can make a classic album: just copy Scott Walker. Or Robert Wyatt.

### Riffs of the week

#### Dr Sam's Riff

- The Rentals - Friends of P (opening)

#### Andrew's Riff

- Green Lung - Mountain throne (opening)

### Dr Sam's track choices

1. NoMeansNo - Heaven Is the Dust Beneath My Shoes (2.56)

2. Cannibal Corpse - Time To Kill Is Now (1.33)

3. Robert Wyatt - Just As You Are (0.48)

4. Scott Walker - The Old Man's Back Again (opening)

### Andrew's track choices

1. The Bluetones - My neighbours house (0:15)

2. Kyuss - Sandpiper (0:17)

3. Crowded House - Not the Girl You Think You Are (2:01)

4. Against Me - Rebecca (opening)

Andrew was going to choose Beatles but they get the video blocked worldwide!

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Sam swore 43:20

Comment from Callis

Hiiiirs!

Letter from Bowditch

Morning. Was listening to your podcast on the way to work and a couple of things about Cattle Decapitation. There is only one singer, Travis Ryan, who has an incredible range of styles. Plus, the band started out as having all vegan members and their position was that if we viewed what we do to animals as if we did the same to humans, its would be horrific. So that's what their songs are about. Plus now also about the unsustainability of the human race as a whole. One of my favourite metal bands 🤘🏼

Gonzo review of Green Lung and Lowen at Colchester Arts centre. Thanks to Roki End Times, Joe and Paul for getting involved.

Sounds bad, feels so good.

There's an abundance of tracks that sound jolly but have underlyingly bad lyrics. That's what we covered last week. WHAT ABOUT THE OTHER WAY AROUND, though? Why does angry stuff HAVE to be angry, and can it be something other than just dumb/wacky comedy if its not?

Neither of us went down the comic root, and both of us struggled. Along the way, we explore the deeper meaning of Otto, whether evolution may save us, and what the hell is going on with Billy Bragg? Is he truly the UK's answer to Bob Dylan?

As with every week, we also offer scatological advice and horrorscopes and riffs of the week. What does Husker Dü?

One world, one love. Why are they spending so much money on bombs, and not enough on health care?

### Riffs of the week

#### Dr Sam's Riff

- Folterkammer - Agolagnia (2.43)

#### Andrew's Riff

- Husker Du - I'll never forget you (opening)

### Dr Sam's track choices

1. Cattle Decapitation - Terrasitic Adaptation (1.35)

2. The Hirs Collective - XOXOXOXOXOX (opening)

3. Irreversible Entanglements - Our Land Back (3.17)

4. Billy Bragg - The Internationale (opening)

### Andrew's track choices

1. System of a down - Vicinity of obscenity (0:42)

2. Bjork - Hyperballad (1:54)

3. Dead Kennedys - Too drunk to fuck (opening)

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https://youtu.be/GUtQMfrhOeM?si=qfpukGNVbEbPSBSn

Happy Music, Dark Words

Your nan turns to you as you sit on the sofa, watching Tom Jones singing “Delilah” on the televised festival for OAPs (Glastonbury). “Isn’t that a wonderful song, darling. But I’m sure I heard something about a knife”, she says as she passes you the tin of Sainsbury own-brand non-alcoholic lager. You search the lyrics: aha. It’s a song about MURDER. But, it’s so much fun! HOW COULD THIS BE?

Lyrics, for lack of knowledge of a better word, tend to be somewhat onomatopoeic. As in, aggressive songs have aggressive lyrics, happy sounding songs have happy sounding music, and sad songs have sad sound music. How much this is project due to the lyrics, or projection on the lyrics due to the music, is no doubtful fascinating, but not for this discussion. What about when a song feels good, but the lyrics are telling you its not a good thing what is being sung about?

This week, Andrew and Sam are back spouting nonsense as they skip, hand-in-hand, though upbeat songs about murder, domestic disquiet, teenage prostitution, amongst other things. Mostly murder, though.

### Riffs of the week

#### Dr Sam's Riff

- Ekko Astral - baethoven (0.45)

#### Andrew's Riff

- Wormwitch - Rayonnant banners (2:53)

### Dr Sam's track choices

1. Hank Williams - Move It on Over (opening)

2. Sublime - Wrong Way (0:03)

3. The Cure - Close to Me (0.55)

4. Hall & Oats - Diddy Doo Wop (I hear the Voices) (1.48)

### Andrew's track choices

1. The Stone Roses - Bye Bye Badman (2:17)

2. The Beatles - Maxwell’s silver hammer (0:26)

3. Barry Manilow - Copacobana (1:04)

4. Lou Reed - Perfect day (1:46)

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Here's that Imperial Triumphant track with Kenny G on it:

https://youtu.be/ywcshfrpO3A?si=LL8RO_e_Y2nuQwpu

The Beatles put a copyright block on our video on these timestamps

0:39:38:29 to 0:40:16:15

0:40:24:29 to 0:40:40:13

"Watcha talkin' 'bout, Willis?" (Spelling as stylised by Google) Said Gary Coleman as his character Arnold Jackson in the sitcom Diff'rent Strokes. Far be it from us to analyse the racial and other identity-based issues bought up by the existence and popularity of that catchphrase and the related sitcom, rather it is a point of departure. It's about capturing attention, jarring you out of your complacent listening, about refusing to be put in the background. Sam is back from his endless holiday seeking, watch an April snowstorm out of his window, and needs something to capture his attention away from the question of how to get a child home. That is a strange line. That is a great one. That is a ponderous what. What ARE they talking about? Does Willis know? Join us, again, as we ponder some great opening lines. Ones that shriek "look at me", and ones that just jar. And for some Slayer-fan bating. 'Cos Slayer got back together, and WHO CARES? Get more Beat Motel at https://beatmotel.com/

### Riffs of the week

#### Dr Sam's Riff

- Iron Monkey - Concrete Shock (opening)

#### Andrew's Riff

- The Beastie Boys - Sounds of Silence (2:00)

### Dr Sam's track choices

1. Against Me - TSR (opening)

2. A Tribe Called Quest - Buggin Out (opening)

3. The Clash - Koka Kola (opening)

4. Slayer - Angel of Death (opening)

### Andrew's track choices

1. Against Me - Bourne on the FM waves of Love (opening)

2. Subhumans - Apathy (0:15)

3. Jesus and Mary Chain - Snakedriver

4. Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention - Billy was a Mountain (opening)

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Ever fallen in love with a band you shouldn't have fallen in love with? What bands do you really love, despite the fact that you know you should hate them. The reason you should hate the band could be ethics, aesthetics or gross incompetence. But when that band comes onto the radio, you fist pump the air and singalong like a wrongun.

For this episode Andrew is joined by special Guest Dan Callis, AKA DS Happy Boi.

### Riffs of the week

#### Dan's Riff

- LustSickPuppy - Horniest Song Ever (0:10)

#### Andrew's Riff

- Frankie Goes to Hollywood - Born to run (2:30)

### Dan's track choices

1. Millionaires - Just got paid lets get laid (1:50)

2. Motley Cru - Too Fast for Love (1:20)

3. Bilmuri -Never Better Thicc Boi (1:50)

4. NoFx - Dinosaurs will die (1:20)

### Andrew's track choices

1. Led Zeppelin - In my time of dying (6:25)

2. The Strokes - Juice Box (1:50)

3. Ed Sheeran - Castle on the hill (3:50)

4. Paramore - That's what you get

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BOOK

Our band could be your life - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Band_Could_Be_Your_Life

DS HAPPY BOI

https://dshappyboi.bandcamp.com/

https://www.instagram.com/callis1987/

ANARCHO SQUAT SAUNA!

What was that? Was that real? Is that just in my head? Where do you start with introductions to songs? Are they a part of the song, do they set the rest of it up, or are they just a side show, a distraction? Sure, there are many great introductions to songs, even if the rest of the song goes haywire, but what about those intros that stick out as a WTF?

In this episode, Andrew and Sam investigate the spooky but real world of random introductions to songs. These are introductions that either don't seem to fit, seem tagged on, or just unedited. They both had a bit of a challenge finding them, but they come up with the goods and run the trajectory from hip hop, drug-addled Madchester types to some quite grating 2000s UK indie.

So, once again, take up your pitch fork and join them in trying to burn down the Frankensteinian labs of corporate music culture that undermine the ties that bind us. Why pay for your music to be on spotify when they don't give you anything in return, and why vote Labour when they're promising to manage Tory policies slightly more professionally than the Tories? Lets take a note of Kevin Rowland's book and burn it down (not literally?).

### Riffs of the week

#### Dr Sam's Riff

- Joy of Fire - Thunderdome (intro)

#### Andrew's Riff

- Bob Vylan - He's a man (0:51)

### Dr Sam's track choices

1. Minutemen - This Ain't No Picnic (opening)

2. Franz Ferdinand - Take Me Out (0.40)

3. Of Montreal - Bunny Ain't No Kind of Rider (0.30)

4. Busdriver - Bliss Point (1.11)

### Andrew's track choices

1. The Stone Roses - Breaking into heaven (4:12)

2. Arctic Monkeys - I bet that you look good on the dancefloor (opening)

3. Wu Tang Clan - Gravel Pit (opening)

4. Soulfly - Tribe (0:58)

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https://youtu.be/kVY7-Ti77UQ?si=oo90fKn5mBI6jj1b