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In the 50s and 60s man approaching the stars inspired bandleaders to create space age pop. In the seventies the pop sci-fi boom brought us the golden age of space rock and the birth of space ambient and as the 90's approached nostalgia drove many alternative rock and jam bands to to borrow elements from the 70's peak and the adjacent neo-psych movement to redefine space rock for a new era.

So what the hell happened in the 80's?

Albums Discussed
Ra Can Row - Ra Can Row
The Ullulators - Share A Clam
Body - The Body Album
Lightdreams - Islands in Apace
Ego on the Rocks - Acid in Wunderland
Rockets - Galaxy
Melodic Energy Commission - Migration of the Snails
Cosmic Debris - While You're Asleep
Underground ZerØ - Never Reach the Stars
Lloyd-Langton Group - Night Air

Voyager - Colours in the Sun
Papangu - Papangu
Molten Chains - Torment Enshrined
Bark Psychosis - Hex
Will Desolve - Echoes
Manfred Mann’s Plains Music - Plains Music

10 Randomly Selected Albums

Dr John - Gris Gris
Honeymoon Suite - The Big Prize
Almagest - Under the Dome
Ritual Contrition - Hang the Moon
Warning - Warning
Wild Nothing - Indigo
Here Lies Man - No Ground to Walk Upon
Jaga Jazzist - Pyramid
Motorpsycho - Phanerothyme
Qrixkuor - Poison Palinopsia

A brief look into the highly productive and extremely incestuous Canterbury prog scene that held England in it's jazzy grip beginning in the late 60's and throughout the 1970's.

p.s. the album I couldn't think of midway through the episode was Carol Grimes and Delivery

Albums Discussed
Soft Machine - Volume II
Caravan - In the Land of Grey and Pink
Khan - Space Shanty
Gong - You
National Health - Of Queues and Cures
Hatfield & The North - The Rotters’ Club
Henry Cow - Unrest
The Keith Tippett Group - Dedicated to You, But You Weren't Listening
Matching Mole - Matching Mole
Egg - The Polite Force
Quiet Sun - Mainstream
Gilgamesh - Another Fine Tune You've Got Me Into

I had 20 albums picked for this list. The other ten will be a separate episode at some point down the line but I don't know exactly when. Also apologies for the bad audio on this one. This should be the last episode where this is an issue.

Albums Discussed
Osiris - Futurity and Human Depressions
Realm - Suiciety
Reverend - World Won't Miss You
Meliah Rage - Solitary Solitude
Morgana Lefay - Symphony of the Damned
Dofka - Toxic Wasteland
Forte - Stranger than Fiction
Taramis - Stretch of the Imagination
Mystik - The Plot Sickens
Mathias Steele - Haunting Tales of a Warrior's Past

This was a demo/equipment test we recorded last year. The format of the show evolved a lot between this and episode one. Also probably the most emotionally vulnerable we'll ever get on the show. We talked about 3 albums that meant a lot to us, and the impact they've had on our lives.

Albums Discussed
Pink Floyd - The Wall
Orville Peck - Pony
Purple Mountains - Purple Mountains.

An exploration into the highly influential but semi-ignored wave of Italian musicians who influenced dance and electronic music for decades to come. Albums range from the 70's-90's.

Selection - Selection
Ken Laszlo - Ken Laszlo
Pink Project ‎– Domino
Righeira ‎– Righeira
Koto - From the Dawn of Time
Sandy Marton ‎– Modern Lover
Hypnosis - Hipnosis
Gazebo - Gazebo
Fresh Color - Night Dreams
Tantra - Hills of Katmandu

We recorded this episode a few months ago. If you listen to the show regularly you may have heard us mention some of these albums in passing. I accidentally recorded this on my laptop mic and my audio sounded like shit. I've been trying to salvage it ever since. We lost probably 45 minutes of content, but this is the best I can do with it. Still a little rough but hopefully bearable.

Ayreon - Into the Electric Castle
Jeff Wayne - Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds
Dreams in the Witch House - Dreams in the Witch House: A Lovecraftian Rock Opera
Electric Light Orchestra - Time
Giraffe- The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
Mike Batt - The Hunting of the Snark
Randy Newman - Randy Newman’s Faust
Various Artists - Tommy The Motion Picture Soundtrack
Various Artists - Jesus Christ Superstar
Titus Andronicus - The Most Lamentable Tragedy

We discuss a few recent metal albums that we've been meaning to hear, and a few favorites from the recent past. Everything discussed was released in 2020 or 2021.

Albums Discussed
The Outsider - From Ancient Gods and Forbidden Books
Caelestra - Black Widow Nebula
Eternal Winter - Archaic Lore: Songs of Savage Swords and Dark Mysticism
mammothcaveburial - Wounds upon Wounds upon Wounds
Kraken Duumvirate - The Stars Below, The Seas Above
Cthulhu - Hallucinations At The Mountains of Madness
Helium Horse Fly - Hollowed
Pull Down The Sun - Of Valleys and Mountains

Afterbirth - Four-Dimensional Flesh
Dream Tröll - Realm of the Tormentor
The Ditch and the Delta - The Ditch and The Delta
Unto Others - Mana
Bedsore - Hypnagogic Hallucinations
Cryptic Shift - Visitations from Enceladus
Alarum - Circle's End
Humanity’s Last Breath - Välde

A look back to the turn of the 60's when Country and soul began to intersect.

Albums discussed

Larry Jon Wilson - Let Me Sing My Song to You
Dan Penn - Nobody’s Fool
Jim Ford - Harlan County
Bobbie Gentry - Ode to Billie Joe
Eric Quincy Tate - Eric Quincy Tate
Mike Finnigan - Mike Finnigan
Lonnie Mack - The Hills of Indiana
Don Nix - Living by the Days
Rob Galbraith - Nashville Dirt
Daniel Moore - Daniel Moore

Intro by Aries Beats
Background Music Courtesy Youtube Audio Library