2. What We Listened To This Week

We had a very music filled week! Let us know what you think of our picks and we look forward to chatting to ye in the comments!
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[@craigsandry6737]

Camel, Alan Parsons , Rainbow , Genesis , Hawkwind & Procol Harem . Sounds like an awesome week to me . Thanks guys 😎👌🎸

[@SpinninProg]

Thank you for taking the time to watch our video and comment. It's much appreciated. 👍

[@mythoflogic]

Wind & Wuthering is my very favorite Genesis album...

[@BrockwaysVinylBytes]

Yeah man that is a FANTASTIC album.

[@mythoflogic]

Yessongs T-shirt FTW!!

[@SpinninProg]

I apologise. The colour palette on the shirt is a bit off. 😂

[@mythoflogic]

@@SpinninProg - I love it!

[@josephgerard5473]

What I listened to this week - Unhalfbricking by Fairport Convention - Am Yisrael Chai, the new album by UNIT - Below The Salt by Steeleye Span - and Three Friends by Gentle Giant. Those 4 albums kept me amused and mentally engaged while I recovered from being made redundant from my job. I've booked a flight to Vietnam where I shall spend the next 3 weeks so you'll not hear from me until July, probably.

[@SpinninProg]

Sorry to hear about the job. But it sounds like you are doing the right thing in getting away from it all. Great choices you were listening to and I hope you can pop in on us even in Vietnam. Best of luck to you. 👍

[@BrockwaysVinylBytes]

And Dermot has the best shirt ever!!!

[@gileslesmith]

You played Can, that´s fantastic! As a German I really do love this Krautrock thing, early Can rules for sure!

[@SpinninProg]

A fantastic and underrated band. Hugely influential. 👍

[@BrockwaysVinylBytes]

You guys are the best. Great video!!!

[@joeg6222]

Great show! You two are always a lot of fun! My last week of listens were: Roedelius & Tim Story- Detroit- 12/6/02 (2nd show) Linda Perhacs- The Soul of All Natural Things Brian Eno, Holger Czukay, J.Peter Schwalm - Sushi. Roti. Reibekuchen Peter Green- Odds and Sods Steve Roden- The House Was Quiet and the World Was Calm Steve Roden- Speak No More About the Leaves Julia Holter- Ekstasis Steve Roden & Steve Peters- Not a Leaf Remains As It Was Steve Roden- Walking From Savoonga to Gambell Joni Mitchell- Archives, Volume 3: The Asylum Years 1972-1975 (Disc 1) Steve Roden- Stars of Ice Ronnie Lane- Just For a Moment (Music 1973-1997) (Disc 1) This week already the listens are a lot more Proggy: Camel (2023 3 cd remaster) Gentle Giant (the Steve Wilson remixes of Free Hand and Three Movements) and Gong- Live in Lyon, December 14th, 1972 (2 cd).

[@SpinninProg]

A great eclectic mix and a few new to us. Plenty to check out. Thanks. 👍

[@joeg6222]

@@SpinninProg Beware of the Steve Roden - his music is Minimalist Ambient music and may not be complex enough for such learned Progoholics. ;-)

[@kristoffer5771]

Can-Ege Bamyasi. Camel, Rainbow, Hawkwind, Gentle Giant, Marillion. Great stuff!

[@SpinninProg]

Thanks. It's just a random list of what we were listening to. 👍

[@melstercandies-ch2ml]

Like Tara I was listening to I Robot.Funky bass and tasty synths. Some very progy passages and a couple of non over played hits I enjoy. Dermot I found Chicago live at Carnegie Hall 4 LP set at a flea market for 5 bucks.I have been listening to that older Chicago live and I like it a lot.Great show guys!!take care!

[@SpinninProg]

Thanks a lot. I must get my hands on that live box set. 😱👍

[@davemurphy3275]

Last week I was listening to 10cc , Barclay James Harvest, Black Country communion and Hawkwind. Great video guys. Thanks

[@SpinninProg]

All good music. Great stuff. 👍

[@brianoakley980]

I was just thinking of those Light Switch moments..you know that split second when your musical journey just clicked into place.With me it was probably Cream Sunshine of your love is that 1967 or 68? Maybe Hey Joe, but I think it was Cream..Then I heard a single called Who Do You Love by Juicy Lucy, a proper WOW moment for me I have loved Wah wah ever since, of course We Used to Know By Tull became my favourite track by them and Prog wise it just has to be 21st Century Schizoid Man track 1 on the Island Sampler Nice Enough to Eat. Still one of my favourites

[@kevinputry5655]

Great picks with I Robot and Equinoxe! I Robot is my favorite Alan Parsons Project album and Jarre(along with Tangerine Dream and Kraftwerk) is definitely one of the most important pioneers of electronic music. I haven't spun anything yet today but yesterday I was in the mood for some serious metal and hard rock so I listened to some of my favorite tunes from Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath, Sweet, AC/DC and a more obscure band called Sorcery etc.

[@SpinninProg]

Great stuff. A good old school metal day was had yesterday. Nothing wrong with that. 👍

[@stevesmith3990]

Wind and Wuthering and Trick Of the Tail are my fave Genesis albums, that short era often gets overlooked sadly. Always fun to catch up with you two, keep up the great work.

[@SpinninProg]

Thanks. And yes. That was a period when Genesis produced two albums with unique atmospheres about them... If that makes sense. 😁

[@terrywalker8446]

Hi Spinnin' Proggers👋🏻 I enjoy these types of videos as you get to introduce some pretty eclectic albums that rarely get a mention. I like what I've heard by Can but have never seriously dived into their discography. I really need to check them out🤔. I've been 'revising' for the forthcoming Nick Mason gig by playing the live at the Roundhouse blu-ray. Couldn't resist watching Floyd in Pompeii and listening to Animals too. Hand Cannot Erase by Steven Wilson, Sehnsucht by Rammstein, and Bellum II by Aquilus have also been dusted off and blasted out over the past few days. Saw Gary Numan live last night. Absolutely fantastic. Those synths sounded massive and the lightshow was outstanding. I'd never consider Numan's music as progressive but I would argue that he has been influential in rock's evolution. While many 80s bands played plinky plonky synth melodies to produce nursery rhyme level pop music, Gary Numan produced an introspective, darker mixture of guitar driven rock and synths that somehow felt futuristic. Back in my schooldays we would stumble into class on Friday morning and discuss Thursday evening's Top Of The Pops. For sixteen year old me, Gary Numan performing Are Friends Electric was a 'did you see that guy last night' moment. I'd heard of cyborgs and androids but there on TOTP appeared to be an actual cyborg performing music from the future. 45 years later I finally got to see him live. I hope Nick Mason's mob are half as good next week🤞🏻

[@alexbillington6813]

Hi thank you for sharing the video The group Can is a group i know very lttle about, Barclay James Harvest is one of those groups that has taken me a while to like but i would recommend their 1978 Lp called Octoberon which is a good album, Genesis albums from the early to mid 1970s are great Albums. Only in the past week I have purchased Manfred Mann's Earth band 1978 album called Watch which i will look forward to listening to. Great group Horslips especially after watching their performance on the Old Grey Whistle Test....Great video

[@SpinninProg]

Thank you. We have Octoberon. So watch this space. It could be coming up. I hope you enjoy Watch. It's a strong album with some great moments. 👍

[@alexbillington6813]

@@SpinninProg Thank you i will look out for Watch, see if i can purchase it soon ....What are your thoughts on the German Prog band Eloy from the 1970's?

[@theasphaltworld849]

YAY, GENTLE GIANT! I agree about Interview. Many say that it's a sort of Free Hand part 2, but I actually think it's a weirder and less accessible record. "Design" is probably the most out there that they got. Giant for a Day, it ain't. Had to chuckle at Tara's Keith Flint impression 😆

[@SpinninProg]

Thanks. We're both massive Gentle Giant fans. We're both working on the impressions... But she is and will remain more talented than me. 👍😁

[@pauldoc5923]

Sorry late to this,great video. Love the horslips..being Irish.. .think they did an orange drink advert at one stage! 🍊

[@SpinninProg]

@@pauldoc5923 I think that was their initial job... Selling orange. 👍

[@arilderiksen5560]

Very good video, i wish you both can show your 10 best hard rock/metallalbum, keep up, fan from Norway😉😉😉

[@SpinninProg]

Good idea. We'll have a talk about that. It might be an idea for a future video. It's always good to meet someone from Norway. Our local city, Waterford, has many connections with your country. 👍

[@richard127gm]

I've often felt that the first few Cockney Rebel albums were full on Prog and Steve Harley never got the credit he more than deserved. I've been listening to The Human Menagerie this week and I'm absolutely loving it. And Yay! Horslips. Brilliant.

[@SpinninProg]

Yes. Steve Harley was an incredibly creative person and he should have been more recognised. 👍

[@51monalisa]

i hope you will do more like this

[@SpinninProg]

We plan to do it on a semi regular basis. 👍

[@johnbramley9037]

Some great albums there Guys. Loving this concept for your channel. Peter Gabriel still remains my cut off point for Genesis albums 😂

[@SpinninProg]

Can't blame you. It was the height of their creativity. 👍

[@MattCarter67]

I’ve been listening to Hatis Noit after seeing an amazing clip of her performing live recently on YT. Also a bit of Zappa in light of Ed Mann passing away. Plus Knife Party (dubstep)!

[@SpinninProg]

All great stuff. It's always good to discover the eclectic yet good taste of people. 👍

[@andygladwin2049]

Hi, can’t go wrong with a bit of Can. I saw Damo Suzuki play just before lock down, to be honest it was pretty hard going! This week Bowie’s Diamond dogs has been getting a good listening, as has the Magnetic Fields 69 Love Songs, the Cocteau Twins EPs and DAF’s Product der Deutsch Amerikanischen freundschaft, lots of instrumental cacophony, industrial banging and clattering but strangely very moreish. Keep up the good work. Andy

[@SpinninProg]

Sounds great. A list of wonderfulness no one could argue with. In our opinion, you can't beat a bit of banging and clattering. 😂👍

[@georgemathie8123]

Great fun show I love can definitely unique and does take a few listens to get into tago mago and saw delight are my favourites, Barclay James harvest took me a long time to get into but it's so rewarding every one is everybody else and gone to earth are worth checking out love the Manfred Mann's Earth band album and Alan Parsons project album to

[@SpinninProg]

Great. Thanks. I'm still on the journey with Barkley James Harvest, but really beginning to enjoy it. 👍

[@SpinninProg]

Should be Barclay. Predictive text and sausage fingers. 😂

[@georgemathie8123]

@@SpinninProg that's so funny also love that hawkwinds getting some love to Quark, strangeness and charm and sonic attack are two of my all time favorite albums as well ☺️

[@SpinninProg]

@@georgemathie8123 Great albums alright. We love Hawkwind. A unique sonic experience. 👍

[@georgemathie8123]

@@SpinninProg definitely

[@51monalisa]

great video again and now we know dermot is a dancer . great picks of course chicago 😂 how do you pick for me it is a mix between new buys and older stuff . this week a new one from the band arabs in aspic the magic of sin and the latest of the tangent. steve hillage L .robin trower bridges of signes . and a old one i just bought the nice -ars longa vita brevis.

[@SpinninProg]

Wow!!! A great mix of music there. 👍

[@richard127gm]

Love the Yessongs T-Shirt.

[@SpinninProg]

Thanks. 👍

[@craigherriot4026]

Tara's vest must be in the wash 🙂

[@danielmoore4693]

No kidding, Wind and Wuthering has been a perennial favorite of mine too, since hearing it at age 20. God why can't you get stuff like that in the cut-out bins anymore? I find it's for the darkly romantic moods, whereas the Lamb is more my speed for Saturday afternoon relaxation. (The Lamia - what a sweet tune that is! the 2nd disc is so chill and awesome.) And to think I didn't even get the depth of the Wuthering Heights connection until my 58th year of life, when I finally did read that novel. Holy sh*t. No wonder In That Quiet Earth / Unquiet Slumbers are so damn haunting

[@danielmoore4693]

Oh and, yes! YES! ... Interview is my favorite Gentle Giant as well. With 3 Friends a close second.

[@SpinninProg]

Great... I read the novel in school and when I was in my early 20s, I went to visit where the Bronte's lived in Yorkshire. There's a graveyard beside the parsonage they lived in and trees with the wind moving through them. That piece of music actually sounds like it. I think Interview is a late masterpiece of prog. It shows a movement from the bombast of the early 70s to something more trimmed down without losing its substance. 👍

[@markspooner1224]

I'd have gladly listened to all of those!

[@SpinninProg]

👍

[@chrisbrfm]

Listened to the Renaissance debut for first time after this. Tremendous, I interviewed Jim mccarty about 15 years ago re his soli album.

[@SpinninProg]

Great. I had the opportunity to meet Jim on a few occasions. He was always a gentleman with a real star quality about him. 👍

[@chrisbrfm]

Never got to meet him it was a half hour phone chat but he seemed very humble

[@shaynewest8757]

Donavons album Barabajagal with Jeff Beck on guitar is a forgotten gem.

[@SpinninProg]

Agreed, what a fantastic record!

[@PhilipRandall-sl2hi]

What a fun video again with Tara once more nailing Genesis post Gabriel but still with the great Steve Hackett. I loved the Barclay James Harvest mention (one of my favourite bands as a youngster) but would like to put in a word for Everyone Is Everybody Else and Octoberon, two great albums that I still listen to that seem to have been overlooked by many. Finally, following your Horslips comments, I was so pleased to see you had listened to Procol Harum as the late great Gary Brooker went to my old school and I will forever be proud of all that he and the boys put out for the world to listen to and enjoy. Thanks again for the great content and please keep doing what you’re doing as I for one enjoy every second of it. ❤

[@SpinninProg]

Thank you so much. Tara and I were just talking about Procal Harum before the video. Such a unique band and Gary Brooker's vocals were a major part of their sound. They deserve to be more recognised as the musical innovators they are. More Barclay James Harvest to come. 😁👍

[@Norshammar72]

I like Octoberon by BJH

[@SpinninProg]

A great album Pontus. A person of impeccable taste, as usual. 👍

[@brianoakley980]

So here I am a long haired Leather jacketted beer soaked Capstan full strength smoking Roister Doister..Well in my mind at least..I'm Black Sabbath Purple, Zep, Van Der Graaf to the core...but why do I love the sound of Karen Carpenters voice then? Or at a Party(I do remember them!) Tiger Feet by Mud just can't be beat..Guitar man Bread? EH? Sweet singles..Oh yes I have some rattly old skeletons in the cupboard!

[@SpinninProg]

Don't we all. 😂🤣😂 We must do a video on guilty pleasures. Wouldn't that be nice. Ah yes... Those happy days when you could buy a decent cigarette like a Capstan Full Strength. Forget the Marlborough Man... Now that's a testosterone soaked smoke. 😂🤣😂👍

[@51monalisa]

and just in de cd player storm corrison( the vinyl was sooo expensiv) .thanks to tara

[@SpinninProg]

Storm Corrosion... What an album. We only have it on CD too. Nothing wrong with that. It's a CD era album. 😁👍

[@51monalisa]

@@SpinninProg yeah i know those old fashion vinyl guys:

[@newdawnofprog]

Congratulations, another amazing episode, here are some of the albums that I listen to lately: Zopp - Dominion, Soft Power - Raw Bites, Sonus Umbra - A Sky Full of Ghosts, Hardscore- Monkey Trial, Dave Newhouse - Natura Morta, Ghost Rhythms - Arcanes, Zio Crocifisso - Campana di Legno, Ske - 1000 Autunni, Seven Impale - City Of The Sun, Psicomagia - Psicomagia, I Know You Well Miss Clara - Chapter One, Roz Vitalis - The Hidden Man of the Heart. All the best and prog on.

[@SpinninProg]

A few new names for us to check out there. Thanks. 👍

[@thomaswery3087]

I've been listening to Smokin' and Rock On by Humble Pie.Enuff z nuff Hardrock NiteJane Fire,Water Earth and Air,and Gong Unending Ascending.Have you ever heard of Beggar's Opera they were a Scottish prog band from 1969-76.Their first album Act 1 is a little weak but the next 3 are really good

[@SpinninProg]

Fantastic picks!

[@moc5022]

The Tain, brilliant! Have you both ever done a feature on exclusively Irish recordings you like. Great review of it Tara.

[@SpinninProg]

We're working on one on Horslips. But that's it, so far. 👍

[@moc5022]

Tasty, I bought the new boxset, something else

[@moc5022]

Frupp as well I suppose

[@richard127gm]

"Long Video"! No No No No No. More please.

[@SpinninProg]

Thanks. We plan to make this a semi regular thing. 👍

[@brianoakley980]

Well...did I mention that I've rinsed 45 quid on the new Rhino remaster Black Sabbath? God, but its good! Kaipa, Nothing new under the Sun, mind you the picture of them on the back makes you think that they're a bunch of right-on dodgy Music Teachers! Great lp though.This Winter Machine The Clockwork Man is a properly good CD in any age, hugely recommended as is Redemption by Mystery, Canadian proggers made this last year and its just genuinely fantastic. WHO I ASK YOU would spend 45 English Pounds on an LP that they already have 2 copies of then? Hello there!!

[@SpinninProg]

Oh I know. The products we're tempted with these days are so fantastic. 😱 How can we refuse. Great list of music you're listening to. Nice to see Kaipa in there. 👍

[@user-yh5jm3cw5p]

Each video you guys do never disappoints. I always learn something with each watch! I am thinking of picking up Interview. Do you think I should buy it?? Thanks in advance!

[@SpinninProg]

Definitely. It's a sparse but rhythmically very interesting album. If you like Gentle Giant, you'll like it. 👍

[@minsterhill]

Love you guys! But there is no bad Genesis albums just some that suck!

[@SpinninProg]

Same thing 🤣

[@jessem470]

Great week of listening So this is absolutely against everything you stand for its neither vinyl or prog. Im preparing for a trip and every time i do i delete all the music off my phone and reload it This time i decide to load 2 albums per artist by alphabet ( yep 52 Albums on your phone isn’t technology great ) Ok so the As i picked A.R.Kane : 69 The Avalanches : Since I Left You Thats what I’ve been listening to

[@dan65536]

Halt! Who goes there? Deathhhh…

[@SpinninProg]

Approach... Friend 💀