Revisiting old LPs

Listening to some Steve Hillage yesterday - cosmic guitars and "new age" dreaming.

I will still listen to stuff from my youth (prog mostly) it takes you back even though sometimes you put the music on and think "really, you thought this was... good? Oh dear!"

Not the estimable Mr. Hillage though(y)
I'm interested to know which albums were your Prog favourites that these days leave you cold. Faust? ELP? The Nice?
 
Been revisiting old albums that I hadn't played in ages.

Hammered Kings Of The Wild Frontier to death over the last few days in the car. People must have thought I was doolally Burundi drumming on the steering wheel ☺️🤣
Fantastic album... Marco's Link Wray/Spaghetti Western guitar, Terry Lee and Merricks Burundi drums, Adams bonkers lyrics.

Big Country -The Crossing next.

You have a record player in your car?
 
I skipped all of my LPs about ten years ago. Still listen to a lot of the old stuff but on CD or the computer. Yes, Sabbath, Atomic Rooster, Free, Deep Purple, Family, Pink Floyd....start listening for half an hour after a few beers, next thing you know it's 4am.
You actually binned your vinyl albums ? 😮🙈😔
 
It's a funny old world isn't it. Plugged in my the old B&O Beomaster 1200 and did exactly the same just recently. I know the the misses threw out a lot, but have a few to bring back memories. Free Story, Wishbone Ash Live Dates, Blind Faith and a bit of Ten.Years.After. Running a tad slow on the r.p.m's but once warmed up it was great. And give me a bit of a work out up & down flipping sides and switching off and on. Kids these days don't know there born :)
 
'Hammered Kings Of The Wild Frontier to death over the last few days in the car.'
Yeah I can still listen to that album as fresh. And See Jungle.. by Bowwowow. Both classics
 
I'm interested to know which albums were your Prog favourites that these days leave you cold. Faust? ELP? The Nice?
Late reply but yes, I can't listen to much ELP, I find Tangerine Dream and Vangelis too much like hard work, but the one standout for me was a band called "Renaissance" loved them back in they day, now just don't get it. The stuff I STILL love is Yes(70s), Genesis (Gabriel era), Hillage, Gong, Soft Machine, Gryphon, Mike Oldfield (TB1 and 2), Floyd, Camel, I could go on :)

Some modern "prog" rings the bell too. Mostly Autumn, Porcupine Tree, Steven Wilson, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, Psychedelic Porn Crumpets, Khruangbin; I hear a huge prog influence in artists like The Coral, Field Music and Michael Kiwanuka...

I do have to suppress a chuckle when people tell me that punk "killed" this genre. It did no such thing, even at the time sales of the genre "big dogs" was barely affected.
 
Late reply but yes, I can't listen to much ELP, I find Tangerine Dream and Vangelis too much like hard work, but the one standout for me was a band called "Renaissance" loved them back in they day, now just don't get it. The stuff I STILL love is Yes(70s), Genesis (Gabriel era), Hillage, Gong, Soft Machine, Gryphon, Mike Oldfield (TB1 and 2), Floyd, Camel, I could go on :)

Some modern "prog" rings the bell too. Mostly Autumn, Porcupine Tree, Steven Wilson, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, Psychedelic Porn Crumpets, Khruangbin; I hear a huge prog influence in artists like The Coral, Field Music and Michael Kiwanuka...

I do have to suppress a chuckle when people tell me that punk "killed" this genre. It did no such thing, even at the time sales of the genre "big dogs" was barely affected.
Was it Renaissance that did Northern Lights ?
 
I skipped all of my LPs about ten years ago. Still listen to a lot of the old stuff but on CD or the computer. Yes, Sabbath, Atomic Rooster, Free, Deep Purple, Family, Pink Floyd....start listening for half an hour after a few beers, next thing you know it's 4am.
Great music, apart from Yes, that is. I still think ‘Yes Songs’ precipitated the rise rise of punk, otherwise there would have been a quadruple concept album…
 
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