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Per Un Amico by Premiata Forneria Marconi (PFM): jaw dropping musical acrobatics with ease which never lose the pace of a sophisticated graceful poetic dance of sounds

Apr 18 min read

Per Un Amico by Premiata Forneria Marconi (PFM): jaw dropping musical acrobatics with ease which never lose the pace of a sophisticated graceful poetic dance of sounds

With Understanding Comes Appreciation While the big bang of progressive rock was only a few years old, it is astonishing how so many...

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Roxy Music by Roxy Music: from an art school project to the most adventurous rock band of the early '70s

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Mar 318 min read

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Roxy Music by Roxy Music: from an art school project to the most adventurous rock band of the early '70s

With Understanding Comes Appreciation Roxy Music debut with the eponymous album was epochal. There had never been any pop songs with such...

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Over-Nite Sensation by Frank Zappa: the art of blending humour, elaborated song-writing & complex scores

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Feb 47 min read

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Over-Nite Sensation by Frank Zappa: the art of blending humour, elaborated song-writing & complex scores

With Understanding Comes Appreciation This was the watershed album in Frank Zappa’s career in late 1973. The avant-garde, experimental...

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Selling England by the Pound by Genesis: everything is firing on all cylinders on this genre-defining & hallowed record

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Feb 46 min read

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Selling England by the Pound by Genesis: everything is firing on all cylinders on this genre-defining & hallowed record

With Understanding Comes Appreciation Okay: You're all alone on the desert island with your ten essential prog albums. The solar-powered...

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Discipline by King Crimson: reinventing progressive rock music; a smart blend of cerebral art rock and post-punk, catchy and with almost pop sensibilities

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Feb 44 min read

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Discipline by King Crimson: reinventing progressive rock music; a smart blend of cerebral art rock and post-punk, catchy and with almost pop sensibilities

With Understanding Comes Appreciation Unless you were a youngster in 1981, you have zero idea what it was like to buy this vinyl and be...

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