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Pink Floyd, Echoes, Live at Pompeii
Pink Floyd has some lengthy songs. I think most of the time, it sounds like they rode in on a long traveling cosmic wave from Neptune. They made sure to reflect the journey accurately with long gentle harmonized verses and guitar solos that surge and bend like celestial orbits. “Echoes,” from the 1970 album Meddle,…
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AC/DC Week, Highway to Hell
AC/DC week won’t stop, but Bon Scott’s contributions will. Highway to Hell was released in 1979, and it would be the last album to feature the legendary front man. Ten days after the video below was created, Bon Scott died from choking on vomit. Whether it was his vomit or not, no one knows, because…
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The Kinks, You Really Got Me
Welcome to part 57 of my never ending youtube countdown. Today, I present another one of England’s best, this time, The Kinks! I start off this blog with an understatement, the Kinks are an interesting group. Led by lead singer/songwriter and all around musical genius, Ray Davies, the Kinks are the all time kings of…