12 Steps Beyond Prog #191
You thought prog was all gnomes and fairies...
Guess again, there is a reason this show is called 12 Steps Beyond Prog. (Yes, yes beyond the thinly failed reference to addiction issues.)
Let the smoke clear, get your mascara on and install your lid locks.
Ready? You now have this show to clear your mind of pleasantries and replace them with the dystopian rawness of the Van Der Graaf Generator. Tonights featured album is one of those I can count on to sweetly lull me into depression.
The album is called Pawn Hearts. Recorded by Genesis engineer David Hentschel and released on Charisma, this is a piece of recording history. The cover was created by Paul Whitehead also created many of the early Genesis covers. (All thru 74?)
The band broke up after this album and subsequent tour but that was not the end.
This truly was a masterpiece in 1971 and it as poignant now as it was then. You will hear it in its entirety. Just as you were required to when your super cool science teacher played it in class while you sterilized petri dishes for your ergot molds.
Sound good? Tonight at midnight on:
KXRY Portland 91.1 and 107.1
KXRW-LP Vancouver 99.9
And XRAY.FM wherever people are gathering and questioning authority.
- 12:05am Mad Man Moon by Genesis on Genesis (A Trick Of The Tail) (Atlantic, 1976)
- 12:10am On/Off by Stick Men on Deep (MoonJune, 2013)
- 12:14am Brief Encounter by Trey Gunn Band on Live Encounter (Self Released)
- 12:19am Somebody Special by Fish on Suits 1984 (Dick Bros Record Company, 1994)
- 12:24am The Chosen One by Brian Ferry on Boy's and Girls (EG)
- 12:29am Hate by Talk Talk on The Party's Over (EMI, 1982)
- 12:32am Closer by Anathema on A Natural Disaster (Music For Nations, 2003)
- 12:39am Goddess by The Watch on Vacuum (Lizard, 2004)
- 12:45am Fermented Hours by Wobbler on From Silence to Somewhere (KARISMA RECORDS, 2017)
- 1:02am Lemmings (Including Cog) by Van Der Graaf Generator on Pawn Hearts (Charisma, 1971)
- 1:18am Man-Erg by Van Der Graaf Generator on Pawn Hearts (Charisma, 1971)
- 1:24am A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers by Van der Graaf Generator on Pawn Hearts (Charisma , 2000)
- 1:49am Crumbling Teeth and the Owl Eyes by Lunatic Soul on Fractured (Kscope, 2017)
- 1:55am Keith (The Son Of Sun) by Rikard Sjoblom's Gungfly on On Her Journey To The Sun (Inside Out)