The Gates of Delirium: Show 41, "My Favorites, A through J"

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My Favorites?

Caitlin is away at a school camp, so it's just me this week. As such, I started at the top of the alphabetical list and picked songs that I like. It's really that simple (or boring, depending on your bent).

Diversions

Every show, I try to diverge a little bit and expose some music that is tangentially-related to progressive rock and electronic music. Typically, this is something that my prog friends also like, so my hope is that I might turn you on to something you've not heard before.

Jellyfish: He's My Best Friend, from Spilt Milk. Jellyfish were a power pop band from San Francisco. The core members were drummer/singer/songwriter Andy Sturmer, keyboard player/multi-instrumentalist Roger Joseph Manning Jr., and guitarist/songwriter/vocalist Jason Falkner. Although their career was short, Jellyfish influenced many bands who formed shortly after including The Merrymakers, Ben Folds Five, The Hutchinsons, and The Excentrics, among others. Studio musicians (including Jon Brion) were brought in to help record their second album, Spilt Milk in 1993. The album was a far more elaborate affair than their first album, Bellybutton, incorporating a significant amount of overdubbing and complex song arrangements.

Colourbox: Just Give 'Em Whisky, from Colourbox. Colourbox were an English electronic outfit on the 4AD record label in the 1980s. They attempted an electronically-tinged reggae and soul-influenced pop music, constrained by the technology they had access to at the time. They released a number of records from 1982 until 1987. The band was formed by brothers Martyn and Steve Young, with guest singers until Lorita Grahame joined as a permanent member in 1983. The band finally had an international hit in 1987 with "Pump Up The Volume" (see 1987 in music), a collaboration with A R Kane under the name M/A/R/R/S. The song was notable for being constructed almost entirely from samples of other records, a novelty for a popular record at that time. The pressures of sudden success and the long running litigation caused by the use of samples ended up causing the band never to record again.

PlayList

• Christopher Ambler - Gates of Delirium Show Intro
• Colourbox - Just Give 'Em Whiskey
• Jellyfish - He's My Best Friend
• Alan Parsons Project - The Raven
• Alan Parsons - A Recurring Dream Within a Dream
• Alex Lifeson - Shut Up Shuttin' Up
• ELP - Lucky Man
• Ayreon - The First Man On Earth
• Bel Canto - Continuum
• California Guitar Trio - Classical Gas
• Dave Stewart, Barbara Gaskin - 8 Miles High
• Echolyn - A Little Nonsense
• Genesis - In the Cage
• Adrian Belew - Big Electric Cat
• Focus - Hocus Pocus
• Banco del Mutuo Soccorso - Traccia II
• Jethro Tull - Living in the Past
• Herbie Hancock - Rockit
• Electric Light Orchestra - I'm Alive
• Jean-Luc Ponty - Computer Incantations for World Peace
• Jean Michel Jarre - Equinoxe, Pt. 6
• Jean-Michel Jarre - Revolutions
• Jeff Wayne - Eve of the War