HW: Best Prog Rock Album in the World

[Alan Taylor]

Matthew Wright is a journalist who used to work for the Mirror in the UK. He
has a radio show in London and a daily morning TV show on Channel 5.

He has an entry in the guestbook on PhilmFreax's site from 1999 I think,
about being at Stonehenge in 1984.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Henderson Keith" <keith.henderson at PSI.CH>
To: <BOC-L at LISTSERV.ISPNETINC.NET>
Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2003 2:20 PM
Subject: RE: HW: Best Prog Rock Album in the World


> BH enquired...
>
> > Best Prog Rock Album In The World Ever
>
> Van Der Graaf Generator - Theme 1
> Genesis - Dancing With The Moonlit Knight
> Yes- Roundabout
> Manfred Mann=B9s Earthband - Joybringer
> Curved Air - Back Street Luv
> Hawkwind - Silver Machine
> Jethro Tull - Locomotive Breath
> Focus - Hocus Pocus
> Emerson, Lake and Palmer - Hoedown
> Atomic Rooster - Tomorrow Night
> Deep Purple - Child In Time
> Colosseum - Valentyne Suite
> Peter Gabriel - Here Comes The Flood
> Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells (Part 1) (Edit)
> Caravan - Winter Wine
> Kevin Ayers & The Whole World - May I?
> Rare Bird - Sympathy
> Procol Harum - A Salty Dog
> Barclay James Harvest - Mocking Bird
> Anthony Phillips with Mike Rutherford & Phil Collins - Which Way The Wind
> Blows
> Emerson, Lake And Palmer - Lucky Man
> Roxy Music - In Every Dream Home A Heartache
> Electric Light Orchestra -10538 Overture
> Hatfield & The North - Mumps
> Frank Zappa - Peaches En Regalia
> Camel - Rhayader (From The Snow Goose)
> Gentle Giant - Pantagruel=B9s Nativity
> Egg - Germ Patrol
> Matching Mole - O Caroline
> Greenslade - Bedside Manners Are Extra
> Steve Hillage - Meditation Of The Snake
> Steve Hackett - Spectral Mornings
> Be Bop Deluxe - Ships In The Night
> Man - Keep On Crinting
> Van Der Graaf Generator -Plague Of Lighthouse Keepers
>
> > Anyone know what HW track(s) are included?
>
> The usual...did you expect anything different?  :)
> Not that Silver Machine represents the most "prog" effort
> by Hawkwind ever...by quite some distance mind you.
>
> Grakkl (FAA)
>
> P.S.  Who can tell me exactly who Matthew Wright is?
>
> P.P.S.  BBC-Prime has been showing episodes of Red Dwarf
> here in der Schweiz recently.  At first I was rather
> disappointed, as the humor didn't seem to be much connected
> to the Sci-Fi aspect of the show's presumed setting (a la
> Galaxy Quest)...but rather more like 'Blackadder goes Forth
> into Outer Space' with the characters just making fun of
> the relative failings of each other.  But then I saw the
> episode where they put on virtual reality helmets and
> keep stepping on each others' fantasies, and then last
> week was the 'alternate (female-dominated) universe'
> episode, and these were quite funny and gave me some more
> faith in the virtue of this series.  Does it get better
> from here on out, or worse, or what?
>
> P.P.S.  I've just seen (and 'toured with' briefly) Circle
> in Bern & Zuerich...Jyrki Laiho (one of the guitarists),
> has (at-least-temporarily), split from the band, and so
> they played almost all brand new music with the remaining
> four (as before).  Some interesting stuff in the works,
> not so unlike other recent efforts.  They now go to visit
> Faust's new home in Bayern (where they will build a new studio
> soon) and then off for a few more dates in Germany.  And
> then soon will start to record this new material, with or
> without Jyrki (Jussi says "We need to talk first...").
> The new Pharaoh Overlord is out (on a US label), as is
> another Ektroverde and another spinoff with Jussi & Mika
> Ratto.
>
>