"There's a time in life for Hoagy Carmichael. There's a time in life for Claude Debussy. There's a time in life for Jerry Lee Lewis. There's a time in life for Destiny's Child. All these things have their moment." ~Elvis Costello
21 Sep 2026 Leave a comment
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in Songs You May Have Missed Tags: genesis, ripples
Genesis: “Ripples” (1976)
Gesesis’ first album without front man Peter Gabriel accomplished two things: First, it proved to critics that the band could still produce quality music without Gabriel seemingly at the helm. (I say “seemingly” because the band had always been more of a songwriting democracy than Gabriel’s front man status would lead one to believe.)
Second, the album was a bit of a re-set after The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway, which had told a modern-day tale with America as its backdrop.
Although Genesis would of course soon take a more modernistic, straight-ahead approach in the Collins era, A Trick of the Tail was at least a temporary return to the more fanciful, pastoral, and English-sounding progressive rock of the band’s first half-decade.
The audio file of the 8-minute Rutherford-Banks composition “Ripples” is just what you’d expect 70’s long-form prog to “look” like: two dynamic peaks (choruses) within the first half of the song, then several minutes of progging about before a climactic final chorus. The tried-and-true formula of 70’s Classical-influenced prog.
One thing that separated the great prog rock bands from the lesser ones was the quality of the ensemble playing during those “progging about” bits. And with Steve Hackett and Mike Rutherford on guitar, Tony Banks on keyboards and Collins on drums, this was just what Genesis excelled at.
The reason Genesis didn’t miss a beat with the departure of Gabriel is that they were never about their individual parts. They were about being a great band.
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20 Sep 2026 Leave a comment
in General Posts Tags: the proclaimers
(via The Observer)
My guess is that a lot of people have a fairly simple version of the Proclaimers in their minds. Twins, big glasses, belting out (I’m Gonna Be) 500 Miles in the 1980s. But that’s like thinking the Beatles are just those four nice young men with fringes singing: “She loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah.” Or that all Olivia Colman has done is play the girlfriend in Peep Show. Or that Andy Burnham is our fresh-faced new health secretary.
I’d love to convince you to put aside 45 minutes and catch up on one of the truly great bands of our time. Who never went away. Because for the past 39 years, the Proclaimers have powered on magnificently: 13 albums of cracking songs and countless tours of crackling intensity. If you stopped communicating with the Reid brothers after 1987’s Letter from America, you’ve got a lot of exciting catching up to do.
On stage live – they’re touring now – they remain vocally ferocious, incredibly efficient and not especially friendly, whipping through 25 short songs like a proper punk act. There is no doubt that there is a special alchemy when family members sing together: the Everlys, Haim, the Bee Gees, the Beach Boys, the McGarrigle sisters, the Roches. Craig and Charlie Reid are living proof of that magic. In every song, you just wait for the voices to start to blend; for those extra gears and harmonies as they ramp up the raw volume…
Read more: Richard Curtis: the Proclaimers are the soundtrack to my …
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in Video of the Week Tags: but it is, proclaimers
We say that’s not who we are but it is
Injustice rising, de-civilising
We say that’s not who we are but it is
Our collective conscience
Is proven nonsense every minute of the day
I’ve watched these years of decline
Now I’m an old man
I’d like to say things would get better
I don’t think that I can
We say that’s not who we are but it is
When did we decide to aid a genocide?
We say that’s not who we are but it is
Causing hunger
Following warmongers to the deepest pits of Hell
We talk of barbarism
Like we left it in the past
While we elect malignant scoundrels
Each one as bad as the last
We lecture others on morality
While wi’ the de’il we sup
We say we face down terror
Just hold a mirror up
Well, we say that’s not who we are but it is
Injustice rising, de-civilising
We say that’s not who we are but it is
Our collective conscience
Is proven nonsense every minute of the day
Nonsense every minute of the day
13 Sep 2026 Leave a comment
in General Posts Tags: most famous bands
(via Business Insider) by Max Kalnitz and Amanda Geffner
Great music isn’t just found in a few iconic cities — it thrums through every corner of the United States. Each state has produced many bands that helped define its sound and leave a lasting mark on music history.
To figure out the most famous band from every state, Business Insider weighed reputation, record sales, and awards. Crucially, each act was judged in the context of its own era because today’s chart-toppers don’t necessarily eclipse the legends of decades past.
We focused exclusively on groups — no solo acts — but took a flexible approach to what counts as a “band,” including any musical act made up of more than one person. While we primarily looked at where each band was formed, we also considered where their music took off and the hometowns that shaped them.
So, which band puts your state on the map? Let’s find out.
Emmie Martin and Christi Danner contributed to a previous version of this article.
One of the most successful bands of all time, Alabama has sold over 56 million records, per the The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), and has scored 43 No. 1 hits. It also has 11 multi-platinum albums and two Grammys. The band, which formed in Fort Payne, Alabama, sold more records during the ’80s than any other band. Not only is their success impressive by any measure, but they also did a lot to make country music popular in the mainstream.
Alaska was far away from the rock ‘n roll scene that defined the late 1960s and continued into the ’70s in the continental United States, and rarely have any bands found success beyond the state’s borders. That is, until Portugal. The Man exploded into the alt/indie rock scene.
Since releasing its debut album “Waiter: You Vultures!” in 2006, the band from Wasilla, Alaska, has become an indie-rock phenom, hitting major stops on the festival circuit and collaborating with artists including “Weird Al” Yankovic, Tom Morello, and Danger Mouse.
The band’s biggest claim to fame is its 2017 hit single “Feel It Still,” which dominated the airwaves and earned the group its first and only Grammy Award for best pop duo/group performance.
The first of the many shock-rock bands of the ’70s, Alice Cooper kept fans entranced with their gender-bending outfits and dark onstage theatrics — concert-goers could expect performances to include stunts like Cooper’s faux-beheading via guillotine.
But it’s the music that kept fans coming back for more, and their riff-heavy brand of hard rock produced a string of hits, including “School’s Out” and “Be My Lover.” Alice Cooper was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2011.
Read more: Most Famous Band From Every State – Business Insider
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in Songs You May Have Missed Tags: charlie puth, reply to this
Charlie Puth: “Reply to This” (2026)
“Reply to This” has been teased by Charlie Puth for 6 years.
Originally titled “Reply 2 This”, an incomplete earlier version was heard during a July 2020 Instagram live stream then shared by Puth on TikTok in August of that year with the message “Tell me to drop it and I will…”
Another TikTok in 2023 featured a snippet of a higher-quality take of the song, with Puth asking “Should I?”
Fans responded in the affirmative of course, but it took until the second half of 2026 when, as part of the expanded edition of his Whatever’s Clever! album, Puth finally gave the song its official release–to a chorus of “Finally!” and “I’ve waited 6 years for this!” but also lots of “The earlier version was better” comments.
So we include the earlier take, preferred by some fans, and let you be the judge.
Whichever your preference, this song has more hooks and lures than a fisherman’s tackle box.
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