Category: Music

… Just Makes You Pass into a Dream.

The granddaddy of Progressive Rock is the Moody Blues’ Days of Future Passed, from the year of the Mellotron, 1967. I featured a copy of the album here a couple of months into the pandemic lockdown, as a sort of palliative.

That version was the remix made ten years after the album’s release, because by then the stereo master tapes had deteriorated. This transfer, made with top-notch gear, is from an original ’67 UK pressing.

A fantastic record you’ve never heard, called “I Cannot Stop You”, by a band you’ve never heard of, The Cherry Slush. Released on February 24, 1968, it was on the Billboard hit chart for only three weeks, stuck at #119.

The emotional roller coaster ride of Tchaikovsky’s Pathétique Symphony.

Another impressive Otto Klemperer turn at the podium, in this stereo recording from 1962. Even I, a casual appreciator of Classical music, can hear Mahler’s influence on Shostakovich.