Great album trilogies, suing Madonna and "the pantheon of psychedelic heaviosity"

This week the conversational Super-Trouper of Enquiry lights up the following …
... why care when "rock critics get it wrong"?
... the dreadful death of the Allman brothers' dad.
... is there any other branch of entertainment where you can be two hours late onstage?
... has any show got worse reviews than Eddie Izzard's one-woman Hamlet?
... the unlikely tale of how Iron Butterfly changed the course of Atlantic Records.
... three, the magic number: the accidental album trilogies of Scott Walker, Steely Dan, Blur, the Beatles, Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Nick Lowe ...
... the Deadhead who saw them 1,000 times.
... U2, Coldplay, Radiohead, the Kings of Leon ... bands who've never changed their line-up.
... Yes, Thin Lizzy, the Hollies ... bands with no original members.
... why it's less demanding seeing bands than solo acts.
... and Madonna being sued for lateness, lip-syncing and a "pornographic stage-act that was emotionally triggering".
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[@ByronWerner-qw5sh]

Gong!! Flying Teapot, Angel's Egg, and You!

[@jackharriet4814]

You guys have mentioned Blood Sweat & Tears for the first time - which presses a button so here goes: for those who don't know, their first album - Child Is The Father To The Man - is one of the great US albums of the 60s. Band founder and visionary Al Kooper was only around for this groundbreaking multi-genre debut album then left, after which began BS&T's slow crawl towards the cabaret act with all those members (and has nothing to do with this album). Child Is The Father brings together soul, rock, jazz, psychedelic rock, Brill Building, folk and more - but in a way that's beautiful and highly listenable. Most of the songs were by Kooper, but it also included soaring covers of Randy Newman, Tim Buckley, Goffin/King and Harry Nilsson songs. This album brought all these strands together and almost invented a new style of American music. And the cover artwork is delightful as well. Plus by the way as BS&T wafted towards the middle of the road, Al Kooper did a series of amazing albums during the 70s which are arguably the true follow-on of Kooper's BS&T vision. Please discuss Al Kooper on your show guys, but don't dwell on Blonde On Blonde, because that's a relatively minor chapter for this musical genius.

[@user-ky6to4uq5m]

The Saints released their first 3 LPs all within a staggering period of 20 months. (I’m)Stranded- Feb 77, Eternally Yours -May 78, Prehistoric Sounds - Oct 78. And the progress of sound in that time is insane. Easily my favourite trilogy of albums.

[@SRDhain]

Great stuff as usual. 179 members of Blood, Sweat & Tears was 😂 On the album trilogies section, Depeche Mode's 'Berlin Triptych ' of Construction Time Again, Some Great Reward & Black Celebration were all recorded (one in part), & mixed at Hansa Studios by the band, Gareth Jones & Daniel Miller, and they consequently have a similar sonic vein (early organic use of samples, increasing use of reverb), running throughout them.

[@fretbuzz6893]

Neil Young- Freedom Tour gig 1989 at the Hammy O, Frank Sampedro came on for 'Crime in the City' if I recall correctly, if not that song he certainly played during the gig.

[@candelise]

It was also said that Led Zeppelin got signed through the help of Dusty Springfield putting in a word to Atlantic Records recommending the talent of Jimmy Page.

[@VonL]

That’s quite possibly true for I recall reading parts of the original contract that Atlantic offered Jimmy and it appears that the deal was signing Page seemingly as a solo artist. The contract excerpts may still exist on the internet. Then again I was long ago informed that Page was set to originally release thru Immediate and likely would have had the company not collapsed.

[@Voidoid77]

p.s. "The Fallen: Searching for the Missing Members of The Fall" - by Dave Simpson... a great read!

[@VonL]

I believe that decades before it became a popular topic Savoy Brown was made noteworthy for having had dozens of musos pass through.

[@Rosyglowofchristmas]

Face To Face, Something Else, Village Green Preservation Society............a Kinks triple whammy!

[@fretbuzz6893]

''Early is On Time, On Time is Late, Late, is totally inexcusable '' - Roy Keane.

[@candelise]

Laura Nyro: Eli And The Thirteenth Confession New York Tendaberry Christmas and the Beads Of Sweat. No argument!!!!

[@garyrigby21]

Electric Prunes is another name like that

[@honkynel]

Jimi Hendrix Experience! Come on Lads. And they were a trio... whatever that means?! I reckon Mark should go and see Hamlet so David can ask him about it but then David has to go and see it for himself.

[@jackharriet4814]

I have found that albums more easily go in pairs... Funnily enough for me this die was cast back to the days of C-90 cassettes, where you'd have pairs of albums back-to-back (quite literally)... So it was always... Rubber Soul - Revolver Sgt Peppers - Magical Mystery Tour (LP version) White Album obviously Abbey Road - Let It Be. With Joni it was: Court & Spark - Hissing Hejira - Don Juans Song For A Seagull - Clouds Ladies Of The Canyon - Blue For The Roses - never seems to fit into this... Other memorable C-90 pairings for me were always... Close To The Edge - Fragile All Mod Cons - Setting Suns Something Else - Village Green Preservation Society After The Goldrush - Harvest A Night At The Opera - A Day At The Races Katy Lied - Royal Scam / Pretzel - Countdown Goodbye And Hello - Happy Sad Innervisions - Talking Book Dark Side - Wish You Were Here But - honest officer - I owned all those albums on CD and vinyl - it was just to listen to them in the car...

[@markgadd3150]

Aja and Gaucho..?

[@markgadd3150]

Dire Straits and Communique..?

[@user-ky6to4uq5m]

I could be totally wrong here but on the subject of the Japanese girl idol group, I believe one of the reasons for the huge turnover of members would be that they will probably be discarded once they reach a certain age in a kind of musical Logan’s Run rule, but often disturbingly they will also be let go if they don’t meet body aesthetics too. Many of these groups are routinely monitored for things like weight and will be out if they don’t meet the metrics.

[@ozmonaut1]

Brian Eno's first three perhaps, Roxy Music's first three at a stretch

[@david-sn1yl]

The Stranglers - Rattus Norvegicus, No More Heroes, Black & White.

[@loratadine921]

Fairport's What We Did On Our Holidays, Unhalfbricking, and Liege & Lief are a terrific trilogy - and were ALL released in 1969. p.s. Crispy Ambulance.

[@Voidoid77]

Alice Cooper - "Killer" >> "School's Out" >> "Billion Dollar Babies" ?

[@matthewcoombs3282]

I was at that Neil Young gig at the Hammersmith Odean. Pure talent, amazing repertoire and charisma helped him cary it off. 1989 or 1990 I think. The only other artists I have seen pull off a solo gig with such aplomb were Richard Thompson and Roy Harper.I

[@johnbarry1965]

The first three Clash albums, except the second!!😂

[@francisanosissi1]

King crimson.. discipline,beat,3of a perfect pair...Dylan also considered love and theft,modern times and together through life as the trilogy..and time out of mind as stand alone..

[@foxbasealpha]

Spooky Tooth is another late 1960s band name with the adjective-noun combo.

[@foxbasealpha]

Belle And Sebastian’s trilogy of Tigermilk (1996), If You’re Feeling Sinister (1996) and The Boy With The Arab Strap (1998).

[@richardjames1939]

Great stuff chaps, I also have to agree with David re Dexys......

[@foxbasealpha]

“The Iron Butterfly Effect”: The music world is deeply interconnected, such that one small occurrence can influence a much larger complex system.

[@SubTroppo]

Butterfly Bleu is THE Iron Butterfly track for me; it has the voice tube thingy. I have my own theory that the drummer 'Animal' in the 'Muppets' was partly based on the Iron Butterfly drummer as can be seen on the Butter Fly Bleu video on German TV [KZbin; Beat Club].

[@selwyn77]

The whole album "Metamorphosis" is good, but rarely mentioned. Mind you, you had to have heard it back in the day !

[@SlowDazzle11]

Barclay james Harvest split in two- band fission.

[@kennethtaylor541]

Fear Of Music - Remain In Light - Speaking In Tongues.

[@corduroyempire]

The Cure - 17 Seconds, Faith, Pornography.

[@markgadd3150]

The first 3 Santana albums are a great trilogy..