h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

A quick bit of US Prog.

KANSAS - The Pinnacle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkkeY5Pl8Pk

Thanks to Dmitri U1590784 & Galaxy Babe U128652 for reminding me of him.

Norman Smith.
The Beatles and Pink Floyd sound engineer also had a couple of hits himself.
I can't remember how but I met him at a do in the early 80's, ( I was going out with a lass who worked for a record company at the time) a really interesting bloke to chat to.
Sadly no longer with us

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32IBF_RHAV8.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJdkCs5RdQg

Tries not to disturb the , slides this CSNY into the album stack...

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lc7rJ4aqaOU

The listing for this thread is getting long, I'm begining to forget what we have already posted.
Anyhow
Three tracks from a Peel session by Brian Eno and the Winkies
I had never heard of them until I picked this set off Youtube...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtF9edMVYzU

I can't remember hearing these sessions before
So chalk up another worthwhile album to obtain from somewhere.

Syd Barrett - The Radio One Session
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-BiOyHQWqM

An older album but a goodie


Love - Forever Changes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1L11Y0I5E0

*offers Witty one of her special brownies*

Nice Brownies Lil
But I'd better not as I have to drive

Colosseum - Live 1971
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QX9-56CkK2o

And staying with live recordings.
Caravan - Caravan & The New Symphonia
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-h5TSZHVhGE

Happy Barrymas
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GhYgwDJAMc

Looking at the photo on Google Barry seems to have overdone the face lifts / botox


I'll see that Mandy and Raise you
10cc - I'm Mandy fly me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XecgFm8V1I&feature=kp

Don't like the sound of this
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jun/17/youtube-indie-labels-music-subscription?CMP=twt_gu

And I can't resist following up with another bit of 10cc

10 cc - The Worst Band In The World
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99dWE01yC7I

The full version has a snippet of Clockwork Creep (from Sheet Music) in the intro, which I remember thinking at the time was a nice touch.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wv8N6zSzL7k

Clockwork Creep is another example of 10cc's clever use of words and musical inventiveness that all came together so well on Sheet Music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pffw5pbT03o

I think we were speaking a while back about events when you remember where you were. It might have been this conversation. Any road up. I can remember very clearly the first time I heard I'm Not In Love.

There was a group of five or six of us who used to hang out together, usually in one of three or four pubs. Four of us had already seen 10cc play at Reading I can never remember for sure if they were the headline band on the Friday, of Alex Harvey) and were bowled over by Sheet Music, which we all listened to until the grooves wore out.

We all met up at one of these pubs for a drink on a weekday night, and after I'd got myself a pint one of the friends I'd been at Reading said he was going to put something on the jukebox and asked if I could guess who it was. It was I'm Not In Love, and I couldn't.

I wasn't sure about it first, especially 'Big boys don't cry, big boys don't cry', but it grew on me real fast.

I first saw both Space Invaders and Galaxion in that pub too

You know what? I'm just going repost that, without all the typos, missing brackets, unnecessary secure links


The full version has a snippet of Clockwork Creep (from Sheet Music) in the intro, which I remember thinking at the time was a nice touch.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wv8N6zSzL7k

Clockwork Creep is another example of 10cc's clever use of words and musical inventiveness that all came together so well on Sheet Music.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pffw5pbT03o

I think we were speaking a while back about events when you remember where you were. It might have been this conversation. Any road up. I can remember very clearly the first time I heard I'm Not In Love.

There was a group of five or six of us who used to hang out together, usually in one of three or four pubs. Four of us had already seen 10cc play at Reading (I can never remember for sure if they were the headline band on the Friday, or Alex Harvey) and we were bowled over by Sheet Music, which we all went out and bought, and listened to until the grooves wore out.

We all met up at one of these pubs for a drink on a weekday night, and after I'd got myself a pint one of the friends I'd been at Reading said he was going to put something on the jukebox and asked if I could guess who it was. It was I'm Not In Love, and I couldn't.

I wasn't sure about it first, especially 'Big boys don't cry, big boys don't cry', but it grew on me real fast.

I first saw both Space Invaders and Galaxion in that pub too

I first saw both Space Invaders and Galaxion in that pub too

Were those the pub table versions,

Video game inside a glass topped table was always going to be a good idea not... Beer flying everywhere as someone tried to avoid the incoming spaceships.

http://www.ukrockfestivals.com/reading-74.html

No, they were cabinets. The first table version of a video game that I remember seeing was Missile Command. Which I was particularly bad at. But I was very good at Galaxion. Got the full 800 every time when those three bees came down in formation.

I just watched some Galaxion on YouTube. Gave myself a Proustian rush

and this week album cover quiz is up

I only got 6
http://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/quiz/2014/jun/17/can-you-recognise-new-wave-covers-sleeves-albums-best-top-album?CMP=twt_gu

I got nine, but I honestly don't know how, and I'd have got a perfect score if I hadn't thought number two was too obvious to be something called Parade.


1. Which album is this tropical artwork attached to?
Correct answer: Boys Don't Cry – The Cure (1980)
I knew it wasn't Outlandos D'Amour or Rio, so a 50-50 guess between the other two. ZING!

2. Which new wave album is this?
Correct answer: Parade – Spandau Ballet (1986)
You answered: Kings of the Wild Frontier – Adam and the Ants (1980)
A guess (wrong, as it turned out) based on elimination of the right answer. See above.

3. Which record is this?
Correct answer: Speaking in Tongues – Talking Heads (1983)
It just looks like a Talking Heads cover, doesn't it.

4. Which album belongs to this sleeve?
Correct answer: The Scream – Siouxsie and the Banshees (1978)
Well it definitely ain't Closer. Ocean Rain and Underwater Moonlight seem too oabvious, but that already caught me out on Q2.

5. This colourful artwork belong to which record?
Correct answer: Movement – New Order (1981)
Complete guess, but with a feeling of intuition.

6. Which record is this?
Correct answer: Age of Plastic – The Buggles (1980)
It's Trevor bloody Horn! How hard could it be?

7. Which album does this artistic sleeve belong to?
Correct answer: Synchronicity – The Police (1983)
There's Sting, Stuart and... the other one! How hard could it be?

8. Which Japan LP is this?
Correct answer: Quiet Life – Japan (1979)
Not Photos of Ghosts, a guess between the other three.

9. Which band does this sleeve belong to?
Correct answer: Entertainment! – Gang of Four (1979)
The wording around the images is very Gang of Four.

10. Which record from The Cars is this?
Correct answer: Candy-O – The Cars (1979)
Yep, I did actually know that one.