Four Hours
From Rumblings and Rantings comes this challenge:
...Win 2 hours on XM radio, where, if you win, they play your music. And that got me to thinking what I would program. So, here without much ado, is the challenge. Program roughly two hours of music that you would have played on the radio station, and either as a group, or individually explain why you choose the songs you did.
Challenge accepted. And I have two lists. First, the easy one. For this list, each entry must meet these two criteria:
1. From a progressive band (or having a progressive feel) and
2. No less than eight minutes (8:00) long.
Here is the Epic Prog Mix:
1. Rush: 2112 (20:33)
2. Genesis: Home by the Sea / Second Home by the Sea (11:15)
3. Rocket Scientists: Escape (10:03)
4. Kansas: Distant Vision (8:47)
5. Dream Theater: A Change of Seasons (23:06)
6. Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe: Order of the Universe (9:05)
7. Illuvatar: Late of Conscience (8:58)
8. Singularity: Lenses (15:55)
9. Spock's Beard: At the End of the Day (16:28)
Total run time: 2:04:10 (Or so says WinAmp)
Okay, so that was pretty easy. Now for a more challenging list. This one, like Curtis' list, is made up of little-known artists whose music I enjoy. This list wanders even further abroad than his does, though. Pretty much everyone should find at least a few songs they like here.
Michael's (Seemingly) Random Music Mix:
1. Pallas: Arrive Alive
2. Ahmet & Dweezil Zappa: Baby One More Time
3. Jason Boland and the Stragglers: Backslider Blues
4. Dem Brooklyn Bums Big Band: Baseball Bat Boogie
5. HB Radke & the Jet City Swingers: Coffee and Pepto
6. Lana Lane: The Dream that Never Ends
7. Jimmy Buffett: Elvis Imitators
8. Clint Black: A Good Run of Bad Luck
9. Plato's Halo: In the Pink
10. Roger Clyne & the Peacemakers: Jack vs. José
11. The Al Di Meola Project: Kiss My Axe
12. After Forever: Leaden Legacy
13. Candy Dulfer: Lily Was Here
14. Gary Hoey: Linus and Lucy
15. Diana Krall: Love Me Like a Man
16. Robert Earl Keen: Mariano
17. Girls from Mars: Never Too Told to Swing
18. John Hiatt: Perfectly Good Guitar
19: Nitty Gritty Dirt Band: Ripplin' Waters
20: Marillion: Seasons End
21: Micky & the Motorcars: Shaft
22: The Start: Shakedown!
23: Todd Snider: The Talkin' Seattle Grunge Blues
24: Cowboy Troy: Texas
25: Chet Atkins & Mark Knopfler: There'll Be Some Changes Made
26: Cross Canadian Ragweed: Wanna Rock & Roll
27: The New Morty Show: White Wedding / Rebel Yell Medley
Total run time: 2:02:58
There, that ought to freak out a few XM listeners.
...Win 2 hours on XM radio, where, if you win, they play your music. And that got me to thinking what I would program. So, here without much ado, is the challenge. Program roughly two hours of music that you would have played on the radio station, and either as a group, or individually explain why you choose the songs you did.
Challenge accepted. And I have two lists. First, the easy one. For this list, each entry must meet these two criteria:
1. From a progressive band (or having a progressive feel) and
2. No less than eight minutes (8:00) long.
Here is the Epic Prog Mix:
1. Rush: 2112 (20:33)
2. Genesis: Home by the Sea / Second Home by the Sea (11:15)
3. Rocket Scientists: Escape (10:03)
4. Kansas: Distant Vision (8:47)
5. Dream Theater: A Change of Seasons (23:06)
6. Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe: Order of the Universe (9:05)
7. Illuvatar: Late of Conscience (8:58)
8. Singularity: Lenses (15:55)
9. Spock's Beard: At the End of the Day (16:28)
Total run time: 2:04:10 (Or so says WinAmp)
Okay, so that was pretty easy. Now for a more challenging list. This one, like Curtis' list, is made up of little-known artists whose music I enjoy. This list wanders even further abroad than his does, though. Pretty much everyone should find at least a few songs they like here.
Michael's (Seemingly) Random Music Mix:
1. Pallas: Arrive Alive
2. Ahmet & Dweezil Zappa: Baby One More Time
3. Jason Boland and the Stragglers: Backslider Blues
4. Dem Brooklyn Bums Big Band: Baseball Bat Boogie
5. HB Radke & the Jet City Swingers: Coffee and Pepto
6. Lana Lane: The Dream that Never Ends
7. Jimmy Buffett: Elvis Imitators
8. Clint Black: A Good Run of Bad Luck
9. Plato's Halo: In the Pink
10. Roger Clyne & the Peacemakers: Jack vs. José
11. The Al Di Meola Project: Kiss My Axe
12. After Forever: Leaden Legacy
13. Candy Dulfer: Lily Was Here
14. Gary Hoey: Linus and Lucy
15. Diana Krall: Love Me Like a Man
16. Robert Earl Keen: Mariano
17. Girls from Mars: Never Too Told to Swing
18. John Hiatt: Perfectly Good Guitar
19: Nitty Gritty Dirt Band: Ripplin' Waters
20: Marillion: Seasons End
21: Micky & the Motorcars: Shaft
22: The Start: Shakedown!
23: Todd Snider: The Talkin' Seattle Grunge Blues
24: Cowboy Troy: Texas
25: Chet Atkins & Mark Knopfler: There'll Be Some Changes Made
26: Cross Canadian Ragweed: Wanna Rock & Roll
27: The New Morty Show: White Wedding / Rebel Yell Medley
Total run time: 2:02:58
There, that ought to freak out a few XM listeners.
posted by Michael at
4:07 PM
1 Comments:
Yeah, I just kind of went through my hard drive and picked out anything that made me say, "If not for Curtis, Derek, or Sam, I would never have heard of this."
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September 21, 2005 7:09 AM
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