STCBM044: Bank Holiday Acoustic Special

Tonight’s Sounds That Can Be Made playlist:

Marillion - Runaway (acoustic) (from Brave - remaster)
Threshold - Fragmentation (acoustic version) (from Wireless - Acoustic Sessions)
Arena - (Don't Forget To) Breathe (live acoustic) (from Radiance)
The Reasoning - The Thirteenth Hour (from Acoustically Speaking)
Green Carnation - The Burden is Mine… Alone (from The Acoustic Versions)
Saul Blease - Falling (piano version) (from Falling (piano version))
Joey Eppard - Been to the Future (from Been to the Future)
The Pineapple Thief - Light Up Your Eyes (from More Wars - The Acoustic Sessions)
Frost* - Black Light Machine (acoustic Session) (from The Rockfield Files)
Pendragon - Unspoken Words (from Acoustically Challenged)
Shadow Gallery - Alaska (from Carved in Stone)
Spock's Beard - Looking For Answers (live acoustic) (from Snow)
Porcupine Tree - Nine Cats (acoustic version) (from Insignificance)

The Eighties at 8: 
Guns’n’Roses - Patience (from G’n’R Lies)
Jethro Tull - Under Wraps #2 (from Under Wraps)

Tiger Moth Tales - Invisible Touch (from Pete Jones Plays Genesis - Seven Stones Turned (Charity Release))
Anathema - Flying (from Hindsight)
Savatage - When The Crowds Are Gone (acoustic version 2011) (from Dead Winter Dead 2011 reissue)
Black Label Society - Chupacabra (from Order of the Black)

Hope you enjoyed it…
(repeats on Progzilla.com Friday at 1.30pm)

Next week’s edition of Sounds That Can Be Made on Progzilla.com will feature music by The Darkness, Napier's Bones, Messenger - Band, Anekdoten, Fractal Mirror, Paradigm Shift, British Theatre, Hedfuzy, Iamthemorning, Erudite Stoner, Amplifier and Konchordat with our Eighties at 8 tracks from Yes and Red Rider…

STCBM043: The Dawn of Man

Tonight’s Sounds That Can Be Made playlist:

La Chinga - The Dawn of Man (from Freewheeling’)
Amplifier - Outsider (from Residue)
Kingbathmat - Book of Faces (from Truth Button)
OSI - Cold Call (from Fire Make Thunder)
Also Eden - The Test (from [REDACTED])
The Mute Gods - Praying to a Mute God (from Do Nothing Till You Hear From Me)
MAGNUM - Twelve Men Wise and Just (from Sacred Blood “Divine” Lies)
HAKEN - 1985 (from Affinity)

The Eighties at 8: 
Jethro Tull - Farm on the Freeway (from Crest of a Knave)
Jon & Vangelis - The Friends of Mr. Cairo (from The Friends of Mr. Cairo)

Nine Stones Close - Leaves (from Leaves)

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Next week’s edition of Sounds That Can Be Made on Progzilla.com will be a chilled out Bank Holiday acoustic special featuring music by Marillion, Threshold, Arena, The Reasoning, Green Carnation, Saul Blease, Joey Eppard, The Pineapple Thief, Frost*, Pendragon, Shadow Gallery, Spock’s Beard, Porcupine Tree, Tiger Moth Tales, Anathema and Savatage with our Eighties at 8 tracks from Jethro Tull and Guns & Roses…

STCBM042: Live For Today

Tonight’s Sounds That Can Be Made playlist:

Lee Abraham Band - Live For Today (from The Seasons Turn)
Paradigm Shift - An Easy Lie (from Becoming Aware)
Parzivals Eye (PE) - Hiding Out (from Defragments)
Dreamscape - Short Time News (from End of Silence)
Riverside - Discard Your Fear (from Love, Fear and the Time Machine)
Lonely Robot - The Boy in the Radio (from Please Come Home)
Mr. So & So - Apophis (from Truth, Lies & Half Lies)
Spock's Beard - The Good Don’t Last (from The Kindness of Strangers)

The Eighties at 8:
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - Enola Gay (from Organisation)
Fischer Z - Cruise Missiles (from Red Skies Over Paradise)

Asia - The Day Before the War (from Arena)
Gazpacho Official (the Norwegian band) - Defense Mechanism (from Missa Atropos)
The SKYS - When the Western Wind Blows (from Colors of the Desert)

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Next week’s edition of Sounds That Can Be Made on Progzilla.com will feature music by Ninth Moon Black, Amplifier, Kingbathmat, O.S.I., Also Eden, MAGNUM, HAKEN, The Mute Gods and Nine Steps Close with our Eighties at 8 tracks from Jethro Tull and Jon & Vangelis…

STCBM041: A Boy in Darkness

Tonight’s Sounds That Can Be Made playlist:

Big Big Train - A Boy in Darkness (from English Electric Part One)
Marillion - Three Minute Boy (from Radiation)
Fractal Mirror - Universal (from Slow Burn 1)
British Theatre - Blue Horror (from Mastery)
IQ - You Never Will (from Dark Matter)
Fruitcake - On the Edge (from Man Overboard)
Mystery - The Sailor and the Mermaid (from Beneath The Veil Of Winter's Face)
Oktopus - Eyes Open (from Worlds Apart)
Amplifier - The Octopus (from The Octopus)

SWMBO’s The Eighties at 8: 
Electric Light Orchestra - Ticket to the Moon (from Time)
Twelfth Night - Love Song (from Fact & Fiction)

Niall Mathewson - Left it Behind (from Eclectic Electric Volume 1)
Messenger - Dear Departure (from Illusory Blues)
Sylvan - Turn of the Tide (from Force of Gravity)

Hope you enjoyed it…
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Next week’s edition of Sounds That Can Be Made on Progzilla.com will feature music by Paradigm Shift, Dreamscape, Lee Abraham, Parzivals Eye, Riverside, Lonely Robot, Asia, Gazpacho, Mr. So & So, Spock’s Beard and The Skys with our Eighties at 8 tracks from OMD and Fischer Z…

Be Aware!

I must confess I know nothing about Paradigm Shift, other than they are signed to Bad Elephant and their debut album, Becoming Aware, is released in June. As to what they sounded like I hadn't a clue so I had absolutely no expectations when BEM sent me a pre-release copy to play tracks from on STCBM especially give the eclectic and varied nature of Bad Elephant's releases...

The album opens with the nearly fifteen minute long track; A Revolutionary Cure (yep, it's prog!) with news soundbites over synths before a wonderfully heavy guitar kicks in. I'm hooked. This rocks!

With the addition of news and documentary soundbites it put me in mind of Galahad's excellent Empires Never Last, though maybe recorded by HeKz! :-) In parts the album is very heavy and may have veered into prog metal territory with a more traditional metal drum sound, instead the percussion borders on being slightly funky, maybe even a little jazzy. Whatever it works and Paradigm Shift have produced a wonderful debut album with lots to recommend it. My only criticism is maybe the vocal could do with a little more oomph in a traditional rock style.

It's a hard album to label. It's definitely prog, but although the guitar wigs out and has some great chunky riffs it is not metal. Whilst I made reference to Galahad, it isn't neo-prog either (not that Galahad are really that anymore). It's modern prog, with a seventies classic rock vibe, some wonderful musicianship (there is some lovely piano throughout) and well written songs that have something to say.

Overall this was a big surprise and both and album and a band that deserve attention.

STCBM040: This Is Not A Prog Song

Tonight’s Sounds That Can Be Made playlist:

RPWL - This Is Not A Prog Song (from The RPWL Experience)
The Broken Oak Duet - Edward the Astronomer (from Terrain)
The Fierce & The Dead - And The Bandit (from Spooky Action)
Parzivals Eye - Chicago (from Fragments)
The Room - Full Circle (from Beyond The Gates Of Bedlam)
Shaolin Death Squad - Farewell (from Five Deadly Venoms)
Sieges Even - The Lonely Views of Condors (from The Art of Navigating By the Stars)
Mike Kershaw - The City Revealed (from What Lies Beneath)
Konchordat - Statement of Intent (from Rise to Order)
Phideaux - Helix (from Snowtorch)
Cut_ - Shoot the Moon (from Millionairhead)

The Eighties at 8: 
Faith No More - Epic (from The Real Thing)
Pink Floyd - Sorrow (from A Momentary Lapse of Reason)

3 - One With the Sun (from The Ghost You Gave to Me)
Frost* - Heartstrings (from Falling Satellites)

Hope you enjoyed it…
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Next week’s edition of Sounds That Can Be Made on Progzilla.com will feature music by Big Big Train, Marillion, Fractal Mirror, British Theatre, IQ, Fruitcake, Mystery, Oktopus, Amplifier, Niall Mathewson, Messenger - Band and Sylvan with our Eighties at 8 tracks celebrating SWMBO’s birthday from ELO and Twelfth Night…

STCBM039: ANZAC Day Special

Tonight’s Sounds That Can Be Made playlist:

Voyager - Hyperventilating (from V)
Arcane - Keeping Stone: Water Awake (from Known/Learned)
Caligula's Horse - Bloom (from Bloom)
Acolyte - The Message (from Shades of Black)
Jakob - Malachite (from Solace)
Look To Windward - Dwell (from Kepler)
Toehider - Meet the Sloth (from What Kind of Creature Am I?)
Aronora - Set to Fail (from Escapology)
Ben Craven - Last Chance to Hear Part 2 (from Last Chance to Hear)

The Eighties at 8:
Men at Work - Down Under (from Business As Usual)
Split Enz - I Got You (from True Colours)
Aragon - The Cradle (from Don’t Bring the Rain)

Unitopia - Don’t Give Up Love (from The Garden)
Anubis - Hitchhiking to Byzantium (from Hitchhiking to Byzantium)

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Next week’s edition of Sounds That Can Be Made on Progzilla.com will feature music by RPWL, The Broken Oak Duet, The Fierce and the Dead, Parzivals Eye, The Room, Shaolin Death Squad, Phideaux, Mike Kershaw, Konchordat, Sieges Even, Cut_, 3 and Frost* with our Eighties at 8 tracks from Faith No More and Pink Floyd…

STCBM038: Sleeping Giants

Tonight’s Sounds That Can Be Made playlist:

Touchstone - Sleeping Giants (from The City Sleeps)
Kingbathmat - Rejected (from Fantastic Freak Show Carnival)
Maze of Time - Ocean of Dreams (from Tales From the Maze)
Mike Kershaw - Terracotta (from Ice Age)
Alcest - Autre Temps (from Les Voyages de L’Âme)
Coheed and Cambria - The Light & The Glass (from In Keeping Secrets Of Silent Earth: 3)
Porcupine Tree - Arriving Somewhere But Not Here (from Deadwing)
Masakichi - Papercuts (from Hummingbird)
Marriages - Part the Dark Again (from Kitsune)

The Eighties at 8:
Barclay James Harvest - Berlin (from Berlin: A Concert For The People)
Marillion - Berlin (from Seasons End)

Hedfuzy - When I Come Back Down (from Hedfuzy)
Red Bazar - Sunset For a New World (from Tales From the Bookcase)

Hope you enjoyed it…
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STCBM037: Bouncing Dot

Tonight’s Sounds That Can Be Made playlist:

The Algorithm - Bouncing Dot (from Polymorphic Code)
Panic Room - Screens (from Skin)
Sieges Even - Lighthouse (from The Art of Navigating By the Stars)
Konchordat - Save Me From The Rain (from Rise To The Order)
IQ - Sacred Sound (from Dark Matter)
Ray Wilson - Propaganda Man (from Propaganda Man)
Knifeworld - Secret Words (from Bottled Out of Eden)
Galahad - Termination (from Empires Never Last)
The Pineapple Thief - Snowdrops (from Little Man)

The Eighties at 8: 
Asia - Sole Survivor (from Asia)
It Bites - You’ll Never Go to Heaven (from The Big Lad in the Windmill)

Kula Shaker - Sound of Drums (from Peasants, Pigs & Astronauts)
Also Eden - For Bumble (from About Time)

Hope you enjoyed it…
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STCBM036: Crossfire

Tonight’s Sounds That Can Be Made playlist:

Grey Lady Down - Crossfire (from Star-Crossed)
The Room - As Crazy As It Seems (from Beyond the Gates of Bedlam)
Jadis - Hear Us (from Somersault)
Lonely Robot - Airlock (from Please Come Home)
Kino - Perfect Tense (from Kino)
Times Up - When Kings Fall (from Sea of Schemes)
Martin Orford - Take It To the Sun (from The Old Road)
Von Hertzen Brothers - Prospect For Escape (from Nine Lives)
Messenger - Piscean Tide (from Illusory Blues)

The Eighties at 8: 
Ultravox - We Stand Alone (from Rage in Eden)
Pink Floyd - Two Suns in the Sunset (from The Final Cut)

Nine Stones Close - One Eye on the Sunrise (from One Eye on the Sunrise)
Muse - United States Of Eurasia / Collateral Damage (from The Resistance)

Hope you enjoyed it…
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