EIGHT Albums from FOUR Bands with NO GENRE CONNECTION | MUSIC is not a GENRE - Episode #24
SUPPORT ME ON PATREON\n\nWATCH MUSIC is not a GENRE VIDEOS and MORE\n\nFollowing along with last week\u2019s housecleaning, this week is a smaller and less significant batch of albums. Their greatest commonality is they almost exactly span what would be considered my \u201cchildhood years\u201d. Other than that it\u2019s a damn eclectic mix of artists you\u2019d be hard pressed to find listed in the same genre, let alone the same playlist. It\u2019s how I roll. SO \u2026 off the top of my head:\n\nPsychedelic Furs\n--Mirror Moves \u2013 British post-punk Romanticism at its best. And a lead vocalist who doesn\u2019t for one second compromise or try to hide his origin \u2013 i.e. that\u2019s a THICK ACCENT! They\u2019re like The Cure without any Goth leanings. \u201cThe Ghost In You\u201d and \u201cHeaven\u201d are forever classics. \n--Midnight to Midnight \u2013 It made me slightly sad, because it was obvious they were shooting for more commercialism. It worked, with \u201cHeartbreak Beat\u201d their highest charting single in the US. But it lacked the quirky ambient heart of their previous works. Even Richard Butler agreed. They\u2019d pump out two more albums before disbanding, after which Butler formed the fairly great Love Spit Love. BUT NOW the Furs are back with their first album since 1991, and what I\u2019ve heard of it so far has been great.\n\nLou Reed\n--Walk on the Wild Side \u2013 The Best of Lou Reed \u2013 You can\u2019t hate or disrespect Lou Reed. His work with Velvet Underground alone merits legend status. THEN you have this collection, which showed the genius we all now know him to be. And this only covers up to 1976!\n--New York \u2013 This album is what made me buy the above album. I needed to know more about this dude who sounded like a New York version of Bob Dylan. I can only take his voice for about an album or so, so he\u2019s not one of my top faves. But I loved this album to death, especially the single \u201cDirty Blvd.\u201d The don\u2019t-give-a-shit vocals paired with sheer poetry show what an individual genius he was. It\u2019s dumb that he\u2019s dead.\n\nTalking Heads\n--Remain in Light \u2013 TH are slightly left field for me in terms of taste. Some of their stuff I fall over for. Others I find oddly removed from passion. But through no fault of theirs. This album will always be awesome because it was made during my all-time favorite era of production values, ca. 1978-82ish.\n--Little Creatures \u2013 It sucks to say this, but I preferred TH when they were shooting for commercialism, because they retained all their grit and quirkiness, but made an effort to really connect. This album and their next one (True Stories) were probably the high mark of that. The first and last tracks on here are golden.\n\nYes\n\n--The Yes Album \u2013 Yes was the best prog rock band. Critics may give that title to Genesis, and I 100% get why. But pound for pound, Yes was more consistent. Sure, they dipped into overindulgence in the mid-late 1970s, but what prog band didn\u2019t. I frankly find some of early Genesis unlistenable. But that\u2019s HIGHLY SUBJECTIVE, and for two reasons: A. I prefer Jon Anderson\u2019s voice to early Peter Gabriel (he\u2019d get way more mellifluous as he aged); and B. I\u2019m a Romantic, and while Genesis had their brief dabblings in Romanticism once Phil Collins took the helm, Yes was Romantic from start to finish. And their vocal harmonies kicked way more ass.\n--Classic Yes \u2013 It\u2019s weird this album existed, because it\u2019s NOT a greatest hits album, and it\u2019s NOT a to-date career retrospective. It\u2019s kind of the perfect prog compilation for those reasons, and the fact that Chris Squire compiled the selections explains pretty much everything. And makes it awesome.\n\nAre you into any of these artists? Would you listen to the playlist I created? Could you create an even more disjointed playlist? Discuss dammit!\n\n\n--- \n\nThis episode is sponsored by \n\xb7 Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app\n\nSupport this podcast: https://anchor.fm/musicisnotagenre/support\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices