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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsWeekend music to chill by....Time Flowing Like a River Edition!
From the vinyl
"The Turn of a Friendly Card" by The Alan Parsons Project (1981). Alan Parsons started working at Abbey Road Studios when young and is a brilliant musician and engineer. I have the vinyls of "Turn of a Friendly Card" and "Eye in the Sky".
I think his stuff holds up well after more than 30 years!!!
Lead vocals by Eric Woolfson on "Time".
Turn off your mind, relax and float downstream..........
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(21,046 posts)Tuesday Afternoon
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(21,046 posts)I got the idea from the Great Minds of the Lounge:
SalmonChantedEvening's LOLCats and CTYankee's Friday Afternoon Art Challenge (I rarely get any answers right, but it's great fun to learn about art)!!!
Also got out my vinyls and listened to Eye in the Sky, Turn of a Friendly Card and Asia by Asia which was a supergroup in 1982 composed of guys from Yes, King Crimson, Roxy Music, and Carl Palmer of Emerson, Lake and Palmer.
My rant about nasty music critics (they live in classical-music land too):
Rolling Stone magazine are snobs who think that any rocker who can play classical music properly because he has the chops is "pretentious". I'm old enough to remember that EL&P recorded Pictures at an Exhibition, which is an orchestral suite by Modest Moussorgsky. "The Great Gates of Kiev" is a piece of that suite.
Some people just can't stand excellence in any field and will tear down people who are different and groundbreaking. I grew up playing and listening to classical music. I admire people who get bored with Bach and wander off into jazz (like Jean-Luc Ponty--graduate of the Paris Conservatory) or art-rock.
Zappa, who was a great fan of Edgard Varese, of course, had the definitive word on rock critics:
Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who can't read. --Frank Zappa