tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-80020322702229247612024-03-07T03:21:53.157+07:00Soul and Sound ProgressiveEltoro234http://www.blogger.com/profile/06318880925761518647noreply@blogger.comBlogger31125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8002032270222924761.post-61289744020924425082019-10-14T13:53:00.003+07:002019-10-14T14:13:33.543+07:00URBAN ASPIRINES: Free : Fire and Water : 26 June 1970 / Remastered ...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Pure and unadulterated , "Free" emerged as keepers of the flickering flame of the British Blues in a quartet of a beautiful balance . Paul Rodgers's huskily yearning vocals , clothes courtesy of the small ads in Melody Maker . Paul Kossoff streching his timeless guitar licks with his Les Paul's sustain , teenage Andy Fraser's mile-wide bass , rock-steady Simon Kirke 4/4'ing the whole together . Their manifesto was nowhere better proclaimed than on "All Right Now" .</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">1973's "Wishing Well", Free's final single , was a heartfelt plea from Rodgers to Kossoff - he failed to heed the song's message , and was dead within three years . "Fire and Water" is the third studio album and became the band's breakthrough hit, reaching #2 in the UK charts and #17 in the US , making it the most successful Free album.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Rodgers formed his next band , "Bad Company", founded in 1973 , with Mick Ralphs, former guitarist of "Mott the Hoople". Rodgers said: "Mick and I were trying to come up with names for the band . When I called him and said 'Bad Company', he dropped the phone."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">1960: The Liverpool group the Beatle</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: large;">s changed their name to the Silver Beetles. The group, which included Stu Sutcliffe on bass and drummer Tommy Moore, along with John Lennon, Paul McCartney, and George Harrison, auditioned to be the backing group for Billy Fury, Johnny Gentle or Duffy Power at the Blue Angel (formerly known as the Wyvern Social Club), a club owned by manager Allan Williams. Fury, Gentle, and Power were all looking for bands, and four other groups, including Gerry and the Pacemakers, auditioned the same day. Moore was late, so the group used Johnny Hutchinson, the drummer from the group the Casanovas, another auditioning group. Despite the fact that the drummer had never practiced with them, the Silver Beetles were still the class of the five. Fury indicated that this was the band for him. Moore then came staggering through the door and took over on drums. Not too long afterward, Fury abruptly decided that he didn't need a band, and the Silver Beetles were subsequently assigned to back Gentle on an upcoming tour of Scotland. (Note: some websites claim that the group changed their name to the Silver Beetles on May 20, but according to the book 'The Beatles As Musicians: The Quarry Men Through Rubber Soul' by Walter Everett, the name change occurred on May 10. Some websites say that the group changed their name from Johnny & the Moondogs to the Silver Beetles on this date. According to 'The Beatles Bible', the group stopped using the name Johnny & the Moondogs in January, and briefly called themselves the Beatles before switching to the Silver Beetles.)</span><br />
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Eltoro234http://www.blogger.com/profile/06318880925761518647noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8002032270222924761.post-75501676385854727622017-12-25T16:17:00.000+07:002017-12-25T16:17:13.333+07:00Forthcoming New York City PopSpots http://www.popspotsnyc.com/forthcoming_new_york/Eltoro234http://www.blogger.com/profile/06318880925761518647noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8002032270222924761.post-56389104207343919252014-04-10T14:42:00.001+07:002014-04-10T14:53:14.274+07:00What Prog-Rock albums should politician listen to?<h2 style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Newsnight presenter Gavin Esler has travelled the globe interviewing politicians and cultural icons. He's also a big fan of progressive rock. "I had a Jethro Tull album under my arm – and, I'm afraid, wore flares," he confesses of his past. We asked him to recommend the prog-rock albums that various political figures might appreciate.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Pink Floyd's The Piper at the Gates of Dawn</b> was the first album I ever heard and it was just so different. I think they might similarly guide Bill Clinton, although it would have to be Dark Side of the Moon for Bill. He can light up a room like a shining orb in the sky, but he has another side. In the White House press corps we talked of "Sunday-morning Bill", a contrite, Christian southern guy, and "Saturday-night Bill", who got up to various things with Monica Lewinsky. I never discussed music with him, but he had Aretha Franklin, Bob Dylan and Wynton Marsalis at his inauguration and he once had Kid Creole and the Coconuts playing on the White House lawn. He seemed very interested in the Coconuts.</span></div>
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He was a rock'n'roll prime minister who cheered people up, but his reputation changed after the Iraq war. <b>Jethro Tull's 1968 debut This Wasis</b> a reflective album about change. I was 13 when my parents allowed me to go and see Tull and I think they thought they were harmless folkies. But what I like about prog is that it's never one category – sometimes Tull are jazz, folk or fairly head-on rock of the kind Blair likes. I think he would relate to the wonderful [frontman] Ian Anderson as an amazing survivor rather than a man in a codpiece playing flute on one leg.</div>
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The German chancellor is into German opera but Wagner could almost fit into a prog category, so she might like <b>Van Der Graaf Generator's ALT</b> album. It's German for "OLD" and has a track called Colossus. Like Blair, Clinton and Thatcher, she's head and shoulders above everyone else in politics. She speaks perfect English but has interview questions translated for her into German. I asked her why and she chuckled: "Those extra two seconds give me time to think."</div>
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Clegg's a fully paid-up member of the human race with a family and regular pursuits, but I can't quite imagine him listening to <b>King Crimson</b>. Their early stuff is pretty eccentric and berserk, but<b> 21st Century Schizoid Man from the album In the Court of the Crimson King </b>sums up his situation perfectly. For the next election he's got to be loyal to the coalition agreement while distancing himself from the Conservatives. Maybe all politicians are a bit Schizoid Man now, because compared with the cold war days, solutions to problems such as Syria aren't as clear as they once were.</div>
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I'm not sure Mrs. Thatcher really liked music apart from the odd showtune and<b> Strauss</b>. <b>Peter Hammill </b>can be quite dark, formidable listening, but she might have understood the point of his 2012 album Consequences<br />
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because everything she did had consequences. The Falklands war gave her a huge majority, which empowered her to make big changes to British society, which led to the poll tax, which cost her job. I was interviewing her once when a Sky reporter was pinned in the room, so he crawled out behind Thatcher but below the camera. She said, "What I fear about the world economy is … do get up you stupid boy!"</div>
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Gavin Esler presents the second annual Progressive Rock Awards at Kew Gardens on 3 September. His new book, Lessons From The Top, is published by Profile.</div>
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Eltoro234http://www.blogger.com/profile/06318880925761518647noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8002032270222924761.post-91437097361968904552013-03-09T19:29:00.001+07:002013-03-09T19:35:58.191+07:00Dirty Funky Situation: Alvin Lee - On the Road to Freedom (Classic Album ...<h3>
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Eltoro234http://www.blogger.com/profile/06318880925761518647noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8002032270222924761.post-47561909924075934542013-03-09T07:37:00.001+07:002013-03-09T19:37:02.546+07:00Alvin Lee goes home<h2>
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different from that of what we "old timers" who remember how it was
in the sixties, seventies and eighties? I would daresay that many of us who
grew up listening to the likes of King Crimson, Yes, Pink Floyd, Jethro Tull, Genesis,
ELP, etc. consider that era to be the "Golden Age" of this
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would really be interested in hearing from some of my younger colleagues on the
forum who are more conversant than myself with the latest offerings in this field
as to their feelings vise verse how this era stacks up against the previously
cited one, especially in terms of musical innovation, creating "concept
albums", or whatever other criteria one might wish to use in making an
assessment of this topic. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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I guess if one wishes to opine on which time period is "better" or
"superior" to the other employing these criteria or others that would
be really interesting as well. {Even better would be if the opinions could be
buttressed by concrete examples and arguments.}.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Today progressively involves
more technical virtuosity rather than the concept of composition and harmony.
Former progressive bands in the present, the modern reincarnation, aren’t
progressive-they are alternative.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">In
my opinion, after King Crimson, Yes... etc (and bands that you've counted)
ensure the glory of that rock direction and after the label
"progressive" at that time attracted a huge number of music lovers,
began in the late eighties transition in subgenres of which is the only
progressive metal had real value. Combination with other, generally more
commercial directions did not give anything spectacular. Metallica,
Queensryche, DT are great bands in the progressive period (metal), and showed
how the concept of progressive music lives in nineties and today, but with a
combination of extraordinary virtuosity. Progressive classical music is under pop
& commercial assault (by me) disappears into the background and if we say
that Muse is a progressive, then I conclude that what I say about alternative.
It's not progressive; it's just flirting with progressive.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">In
my theory the musicians of yesterday's bands like Yes were more unique then
modern progressive musicians. In the days of Yes the audience and the public
opinion were not so after technical skills and they focused more on the overall
result as a band, not so on the single musicianship. Now often the songs are a
vehicle to show a circus of virtuosity. I guess, if Yes would be a newcomer-band,
a guitarist like Steve Howe would be accused for his "limited" style.
But his style is very unique, because of its limitations. Today’s musicians are
forced not only to be a virtuoso. Especially in the genre of Progressive Rock
they are also forced to handle all musical styles at ease. In an interview
Steve Howe said once, that he wanted to play "like nobody else
before". He was searching for a new language of the guitar. Today the
impression is, that the musicians want to show, that they can recreate all
styles and techniques and melt them into a song. DT in my opinion is melting
Metallica, Yes, Pink Floyd, Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin and the Mahavishnu
Orchestra. I really dig DT, but are they unique like YES? I don't think so…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Commonly
like our ages, The best music, progressive or otherwise was from the 60/70/80s.
Cause that’s when we were young. No not just that but there were more
apprentice served musicians. More opportunities for playing in clubs, pubs etc
in the days when they did not need a license to play live music. More chances
to hone your skills and find out what the people liked. You only have to look
at groups like the Beatles to realize how relevant these factors were. I have
recently re visited SHORT STORIES worth a listen by anyone. A mini masterpiece.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Many
questions concerning the generation of the 70's music, such as a fan of Yes,
Genesis, Gentle Giant, The Nice or ELP, etc. Are there any bands playing today
that can equal those?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">It
all depends on what you're looking for. Are you looking for bands that sound
like these bands or for progressive rock bands that are blazing their own
trail?, and all back to your musical tastes, but now you need to know,
reference that represents progressive rock music today, it is;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Porcupine
Tree (Up The Downstairs, Dead wing, The Incident, Lightbulb Sun for a good
representation of different phases of the band and maybe Coma Divine a good
live album.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Transatlantic:
A prog "supergroup" made up of members from Dream Theater (ex drummer
Mike Portnoy actually), Spock's Beard (ex leader, now solo artist Neal Morse),
Pete Trewavas of Marillion and Roine Stolt of The Flower Kings. They have put
out three excellent albums over the years and some great live material too. I
would also recommend any of the aforementioned bands, Spock's Beard, Marillion,
Dream Theater (progressive metal) or The Flower Kings. Also:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">After the Dream Theater Live rocked Jakarta to hold a
concert on the beach carnival, Ancol, last Saturday, 21 April, they were a
great success and very satisfying for lovers of progressive rock music,
especially in Indonesia.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Jakarta was rocked again by the legendary British Live Concert Group, Yes, in
the Ballroom of the Ritz Carlton Hotel, with personnel Yes for now, are: Steve
Howe (guitarist), Chris Squire (bassist) , Geoffrey Downes (keyboardist) and
the last; Jon Davidson of new members and the youngest, most of them is
over 60 years, while Jon Davison age reached 42 years old next month (May 9,
1970), as a vocalist.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Before Jon Davison joined, Yes already have a lead
singer, Benoit David, but in december last year, he abruptly resigned, because
his health is quite alarming, whereas at that time the band already have a timetable for the month of
April-May 2012 will hold a concert of the world Spring Tour , to the country
New Zealand, Australia, Japan, Indonesia and Hawaii, as well as major cities
among these countries.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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was elected to the nomination fell to a talented young vocalist, Jon
"Juano" Davison is an American
singer who was lead vocalist of American progressive/symphonic rock band Glass
Hammer <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">At first I personally pessimistic than the results of
their decisions, (Steve, Chris, Alan), because they are the leaders and
founders of Yes, especially Chris Squire, he was one of the eldest who have
contributed to the Yes of the initial set up in 1968 to the present, The founder were, He and the vocal Maestro
Jon Anderson, Peter Banks (keyboard), Tony Kaye (guitar) and Bill Bruford
(drummer), Steve Howe, joined Yes, was
replacing guitarist Tony Kaye, at the mid-1971, and position Peter Banks was replaced
by Rick Wakeman as the keyboardist,
this formation line-up was the
culmination of their glorious career of the band, the best of their albums,
"Fragile" (1971), "Close to the Edge" (1972), Yes Songs
(live, 1973), the album is half the drum section has been filled by Alan White,
"Tales from Topographic of The Ocean", Alan White replaced Bill
Bruford and joined for the album "relayer" (1974), Patrick Moraz replaces Rick position for a while, he worked
on solo career in his album projects: "The Six Wives of Henry VIII
"(1974)," Journey to the Center of the Earth "(1974)" The
Myths and Legends of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table "(1975),"
Liztomania "(1975). And in 1980 Geoffrey Downes replace Rick Wakeman and
participate in released the album
"Drama" (1980). This group continues to have ups and downs with the
flurry of respective personnel in released their solo albums, but this band
still exist and formidable.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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figure who always become a trade mark, namely Jon Anderson, had already proved
on the album Yes, Drama (1980), which Jon was absent didn't participate in this
album, vocals filled by Trevor Horn, and almost of the true fans are not too
appreciative, sounded mediocre, but then on the
Album 90125 (1985), Jon rejoined Yes, try to give new color to the
arrangements of the music goes to pop, quite successfully, follow the trend of
the time, where Genesis succeed with The
Abacab<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Yes dismiss Anderson in 2008 and he maintains They did it Because he was too ill to tour, and David Benoit took his place. Later the band also treat Benoit David with the same thing with Jon Anderson first time, and Jon was offered to return as the singer, but he refused, because he too had had a schedule for a gig solo career collaborating with Rick Wakeman. Therefore forced to recruit Jon Davison. Apart from the arrogance or the saturation of the band with Jon Anderson relationship, This statement footage directly in the interview he was.</div>
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"Yours is No Disgrace", the band, the which performed with Jon
Davison from Glass Hammer on vocals, he was perfect in the song is. My
pessimism disappear instantly, by
estimate the audience that night about
1,000 people, many give applause for Jon Davison and other Yes personnel.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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show support this band be wonderful for watched, after that, "Tempus"
follow by the song "I've Seen All Good People", "Live on a movie
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the song "Solitaire" and "The Clap", Chris Squire, tapped the bass still fierce as ever, he's
the best bassist progressive rock world player. Allan White and Geoffrey Downes no
less great. "It's amazing That They still have that precision and power
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Trevor Horn, the 6 songs were sung by Jon Davison reliable sing the songs with
vocals that sound almost similar to Jon Anderson's voice, as well as the theme
song from the show, " wonderous Stories "," Into The Storm
"," Heart of the Sunrise ". The audience more enthusiastic again
when the song "Owner of a Lonely Heart", the audience singing along,
some dancing, followed by "Starship trooper". Recently closed by the
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is really astound that night, That
Legendary progressive rock band from England, was able to prove that they are
still to be reckoned through the action of a duration of 2.5 hour spectacular. Yes is still great, </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Flawless, Fabulous and Fantastic! </span></div>
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"Celebrating 44 Years of YES in One Wonderous Night", Ritz <st1:city w:st="on">Carlton</st1:city> Ballroom, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Jakarta</st1:city></st1:place>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>1. <a href="http://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/yes-63d6bef7.html?song=Yours+Is+No+Disgrace">Yours Is No Disgrace</a> <br />2. <a href="http://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/yes-63d6bef7.html?song=Tempus+Fugit">Tempus Fugit</a> <br />3. <a href="http://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/yes-63d6bef7.html?song=I">I've Seen All Good People</a> <br />4. <a href="http://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/yes-63d6bef7.html?song=Life+on+a+Film+Set">Life on a Film Set</a> <br />5. <a href="http://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/yes-63d6bef7.html?song=And+You+and+I">And You and I</a> </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>6. <i>Acoustic: Steve Howe </i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b> <a href="http://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/yes-63d6bef7.html?song=Solitaire">Solitaire</a></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/yes-63d6bef7.html?song=Solitaire"></a>7. <a href="http://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/steve-howe-1bd6b500.html?song=The+Clap">The Clap</a> (<a href="http://www.setlist.fm/setlists/steve-howe-1bd6b500.html">Steve Howe</a> song) <br />8. <a href="http://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/yes-63d6bef7.html?song=Fly+From+Here+-+Overture">Fly From Here - Overture</a><br />9. <a href="http://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/yes-63d6bef7.html?song=Fly+From+Here+-+Pt+I+-+We+Can+Fly">Fly From Here - Pt I - We Can Fly</a> <br />10. <a href="http://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/yes-63d6bef7.html?song=Fly+From+Here+-+Pt+II+-+Sad+Night+at+the+Airfield">Fly From Here - Pt II - Sad Night at the Airfield</a> <br />11. <a href="http://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/yes-63d6bef7.html?song=Fly+From+Here+-+Pt+III+-+Madman+at+the+Screens">Fly From Here - Pt III - Madman at the Screens</a> <br />12. <a href="http://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/yes-63d6bef7.html?song=Fly+From+Here+-+Pt+IV+-+Bumpy+Ride">Fly From Here - Pt IV - Bumpy Ride</a> <br />13. <a href="http://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/yes-63d6bef7.html?song=Fly+From+Here+-+Pt+V+-+We+Can+Fly+%28Reprise%29">Fly From Here - Pt V - We Can Fly (Reprise)</a> <br />14. <a href="http://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/yes-63d6bef7.html?song=Wonderous+Stories">Wonderous Stories</a> <br />15. <a href="http://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/yes-63d6bef7.html?song=Into+the+Storm">Into the Storm</a> <br />16. <a href="http://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/yes-63d6bef7.html?song=Heart+of+the+Sunrise">Heart of the Sunrise</a> <br />17. <a href="http://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/yes-63d6bef7.html?song=Owner+of+a+Lonely+Heart">Owner of a Lonely Heart</a> <br />18. <a href="http://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/yes-63d6bef7.html?song=Starship+Trooper">Starship Trooper</a> <br />19. <i>Encore: </i><br /> <a href="http://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/yes-63d6bef7.html?song=Roundabout">Roundabout</a> </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">It took nearly 25 years for the progressive metal band Dream Theater to stop by to Jakarta since releasing their first album. Their performance for approximately two hours at the Eagle Eye Indoor Stadium (MEIS), Carnival Beach, Ancol, Saturday (04/21/2012) evening quench the thirst of the fans as fanatical.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">After bringing '6: 00 ', the vocalist James LaBrie was greeted and chatted a bit about the delight he finally set foot in Indonesia, to complaints about the traffic congestion of Jakarta.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">"Finally we're here. It may take some time to meet you, so tonight we have to have fun," said James, who looked relaxed in a black T-shirt clad in jeans.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">All seemed answered when the 49-year-old drummer's solo showcase game. Mangini drum set sits in a frame resembling a bird cage full of cymbals. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Not only Mangini and John Peter Petrucci which each skill performance on stage. John Myung's the bassist not want to miss. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Not to mention a touch of Charles Jordan Rudes on the keyboard is thick with progressive flow. In addition to the keyboard, Jordan also uses the iPad to produce musical instruments. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">The concert continued with the song "A Fortune in Lies",''Out Cry", "'The Silent Man", and the song "Beneath The Surface 'is taken from their latest album "A Dramatic Turn of Events". Almost all of the audience sing along in the song of the most eagerly awaited, "The Spirit Carries On".</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Build Me Up, Break Me Down</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Surrounded</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The Root of All Evil</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">A Fortune in Lies</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Outcry</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The Silent Man</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Beneath the Surface</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">On the Backs of Angels</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">War Inside My Head</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The Test that Stumped Them All</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The Spirit Carries On</span></li>
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</span></div>Eltoro234http://www.blogger.com/profile/06318880925761518647noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8002032270222924761.post-35034526220180158702012-04-03T08:54:00.002+07:002012-05-02T06:43:07.081+07:0010 Great Prog Rock Guitarists and 10 Guitarist of All Time<div style="text-align: right;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Category for the history of rock music genre prog rock, art rock, or rock orchestra, represented by the 10 musicians of the most innovative guitarists of our time. And for the category of genre of rock & roll, blues and hard rock of all time is represented by, among others;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Few guitarists have incorporated as many styles as <a href="http://stevehowe.com/">Steve Howe</a> has. Drawing upon influences that range from Django Reinhart to Barney Kessel to flamenco legend Carlos Montoya, the Yes guitarist used his trusty<a href="http://www2.gibson.com/Products/Electric-Guitars/ES/Gibson-Custom/ES-175/Features.aspx"> ES-175 </a>to propel such classics as “Your is No Disgrace” and “Heart of the Sunrise.” His solo composition, “Mood for a Day,” from the Fragile album, showed that classical music could be cool.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Jagged, angular, and sonically adventurous, <a href="http://www.gibson.com/en-us/Lifestyle/Features/bowie-bolan-ronson-and-fripp/">Robert Fripp’s</a> playing sets a high standard with such early King Crimson classics as “21st Century Schizoid Man” and the two-part opus “Larks Tongue in Aspic.” His work with <a href="http://www.gibson.com/en-us/Lifestyle/Features/The%20Essential%20David%20Bowie%20Albu/">David Bowie</a>, especially on “Heroes” and Scary Monsters, laid the bedrock for some of the latter’s finest albums.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Martin Barre (Jethro Tull) </span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Ian Anderson may be the face of <a href="http://www.gibson.com/en-us/Lifestyle/Features/Flashback%2078_%20Jethro%20Tulls%20M/">Jethro Tull</a>, but the band’s Celtic-inspired folk rock gets most of its energy from Martin Barre’s aggressive six-string work. On songs such as “Bungle in the Jungle” and “Aqualung,” Barre showed a sense of economy and melody that sometimes eluded his prog-rock peers. His solo in “Aqualung” is often cited as one of rock guitar's greatest moments.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Characterizes <a href="http://www.rush.com/">Rush’s</a> best work can be traced to the versatility of Alex Lifeson. A melodic soloist, Lifeson is also capable of subtle rhythm playing that elegantly serves the song at-hand. In the group’s early years, he often used a 1976 <a href="http://www2.gibson.com/Products/Electric-Guitars/ES/Gibson-Custom/BB-King-Lucille/Features.aspx">ES-355</a> to craft the band’s ambitious soundscapes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Greg Lake (Emerson, Lake & Palmer) </span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Though he’s better known for his songwriting and bass skills, <a href="http://www.greglake.com/">Greg Lake</a> used his superb fingerpicking talents to provide ELP with some of its best moments. Acoustic pieces such as “From the Beginning” and “Still …You Turn Me On” have become standards in the prog pantheon. The lesser-known piece “Daddy,” from ELP’s overlooked 1994 album, In the Hot Seat, is nearly as good.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Peter Banks (Yes, Flash) </span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Before there was Steve Howe, there was Peter Banks. Artistic differences between Banks and singer Jon Anderson prompted Banks’s departure from Yes in 1970, but in his little-known ‘70s band, <a href="http://www.psychosync.info/">Flash</a>, Banks used an <a href="http://www2.gibson.com/Products/Electric-Guitars/ES/Gibson-Custom/BB-King-Lucille/Features.aspx">ES-355</a> to create several should-have-been prog rock classics. “Lifetime,” from Flash’s In the Can album, is his tour-de-force.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Jan Akkerman (Focus) </span></h3>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Had he done nothing more than serve as the driving force on the 1973 hit “Hocus Pocus,” <a href="http://www.janakkerman.nl/">Jan Akkerman’s</a>place in progressive guitar history would be assured. Following his departure from Focus in the mid ‘70s, the Dutch guitarist went on to release several acclaimed solo albums. Readers of Britain’s Melody Makermagazine voted him “Best Guitarist in the World” in 1973. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">John Petrucci (Dream Theater) </span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Prog-metal greats Dream Theater would hardly be the same without the virtuosic six-string work of <a href="http://www.johnpetrucci.com/">John Petrucci</a>. Counting Steve Vai, Alex Lifeson, and Steve Howe among his influences, Petrucci is one of prog’s most technically gifted artists. Through the years he’s added emotive qualities to his soaring talents as a shredder. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">In addition to bringing an overt blues influence to the genre, <a href="http://www.gibson.com/en-us/Lifestyle/Features/how-to-capture-david-gilmours/">David Gilmour</a> is one of progressive rock’s most melodic lead players. While his solos often build to operatic proportions, he’s always kept Pink Floyd’s spaciest excursions tethered to earthbound traditions. </span></div>
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Steve Hackett’s work in Genesis tended to fly under the radar. During his ‘70s tenure with the band, however, his subtle six-string work helped shape the group’s art-rock sound. In addition to being a pioneer of two-handed tapping, Hackett was among the first rock artists to view the guitar as an ensemble, symphonic instrument.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The guitar, as an instrument, has never sounded as angry as when played by Pete Townshend. Listen to “Young Man Blues” on Live at Leeds or “The Real Me” on Quadrophenia, and you will hear the sound of a man on the edge, abusing his instrument as the only means of expressing his repressed rage. Punk was born from this. Heavy metal. Hard rock, in all its various forms, can be traced back to the London kid with the big nose windmilling like his life depended on it. The genius of Townshend, though, is that this is just one facet of his playing. I dare you to find a more sincere, emotional solo than the one Pete takes in “Love Reigns O’er Me.” Or hillbilly glee to match “Squeeze Box.” Too iconoclastic to conform to the Mods, too musical to be a true punk, Pete Townshend stands in a category all his own. – Michael Wright</span></div>
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Rock’s sorcerer supreme, Jimmy Page took the blues, rockabilly and folk and fired it out of a cannon with the release of Led Zeppelin’s eponymous debut in 1969. Years of teeth-cutting in London studios and a short, but eventful, tenure in the Yardbirds only served to sharpen Page’s incomparable skills. Not content to rest on an already winning formula, Page took quantum leaps forward in songwriting, producing and playing on every Zeppelin album. After an initial period of silence following the band’s split, Page re-entered the rock scene as Guitar God Emeritus with The Firm, on solo albums and in collaborations with The Black Crowes, David Coverdale and his old partner in crime, Robert Plant. Page remains one of the most influential and revered guitarists of all time. For case in point, watch The Edge and Jack White, in the film It Might Get Loud, turn into fawning schoolboys when the master launches into the opening chords of “Whole Lotta Love.” – Michael Wright.<br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">With roots in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blues-rock">blues-rock</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychedelic_rock">psychedelic rock</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garage_rock">garage rock</a> the bands that created heavy metal developed a thick, powerful sound, characterised by overt rhythmic basslines, highly amplified <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distortion_(guitar)">distortion</a>, extended guitar solos, emphatic beats, and overall loudness. Heavy metal lyrics and performance styles often incorporated elements of fantasy and science fiction, and are generally associated with masculinity and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machismo">machismo</a>. The three pioneering heavy metal bands, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Led_Zeppelin">Led Zeppelin</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Sabbath">Black Sabbath</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Purple">Deep Purple</a>, the other was <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uriah_Heep_(band)" target="_blank">Uriah Heep</a>, although they include progressive genre, they are categorized Heavy Metal Fusion, were all British and, while gaining little critical acclaim, they and the next generation of metal groups, which included American, Australian and continental bands beside British acts Judas Priest, Motörhead and Rainbow, attracted large audiences and record sales.Rainbow moved heavy metal into stadium rock while Motörhead introduced a punk rock sensibility and an increasing emphasis on speed. After a decline in popularity in the late 1970s Judas Priest discarded most of the genre's blues influences, particularly on their 1980 album British Steel, which opened the door for the New Wave of British Heavy Metal including Iron Maiden, Vardis, Saxon and Def Leppard, and a return to popularity in the 1980s.</span></div>
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When the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame holds its annual induction ceremony April 4, there once again won’t be any progressive rock artists amongst its five honorees. The Rock Hall’s snubbing of the once-popular genre hasn’t gone unnoticed by its supporters.</div>
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The Hall began honoring performers in 1986, starting with pioneers like Chuck Berry, Little Richard and Elvis Presley. More recently, pop acts like Billy Joel, the Bee Gees and Madonna have made the cut, but Rush, Yes, the Moody Blues, Jethro Tull, the Electric Light Orchestra, Genesis, Emerson, Lake and Palmer and Soft Machine have not. Beyond Pink Floyd, the closest the Hall gets to prog is Queen (who flirted with the genre) and Police drummer Stuart Copeland, who played in Curved Air.</div>
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Prog rock (as it’s colloquially known) will especially be conspicuous in its absence at this year’s induction. Jeff Beck was already inducted with the Yardbirds (the Rock Hall has honored over a dozen musicians twice), while Little Anthony and Bobby Womack are artists with limited influence. Metallica and Run-DMC have leapfrogged over the classic prog bands with their nominations, since members of both groups were still in school when progressive rock ruled.</div>
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Rock critics, who comprise a portion of the nominating committee, have historically held prog rock in low regard, as Chicago Sun-Times music critic and author Jim DeRogatis noted in a 1998 Guitar World essay. Critics used to complain that prog’s grand-scale flourishes and European influences were too far removed from early rock ’n’ roll’s immediacy. But as DeRogatis presciently notes, prog is now ignored instead of insulted.</div>
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Slideshow: Rock Hall 2009 class “That’s something that’s actually been addressed, especially at this past meeting,” Peresman admits. “We look at things and see where there are some areas that we feel were kind of blighted — things that should be addressed. Last year was the first year that they did something different. They actually created some subcommittees within the major committee to say ‘Come up with a recommendation of a progressive act. Come up with a recommendation of some of the older R&B groups.’</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Well, there are approximately 260 inductees currently listed in the Rock Hall. Three are considered Progressive Rock bands…Pink Floyd, Genesis and Traffic. That’s about one percent.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Genesis was a Progressive Rock band under the wing of Peter Gabriel, then became a hit making machine when Gabriel left and Phil Collins took over lead vocals. I never thought of Traffic as a Progressive Rock band, but they are listed on several Progressive Rock websites, so what do I know? Pink Floyd certainly makes the grade.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">But several Progressive Rock mammoths – the already profiled Moody Blues, Rush and Jethro Tull, for instance – have received the coldest of shoulders from the Rock Hall’s nominating committee, thus far. As has the band atop many Progressive Rock band lists…Yes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">But even the compliments are tinged with disparagement. Anything progressive seems to carry the same label from most critics…pretentious, bombastic etc. If Lou Reed had been around in the 1700s or 1800s, today’s critics probably would have favored him over Beethoven and Bach.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Anderson, of course, served as the group’s distinctive lead vocalist from its formation until just recently when ill health forced him to step down. He was replaced by Canadian Benoit David, who sings lead on the group’s upcoming release “Fly From Here.” Though Yes has survived a ton of personnel changes over the years, replacing its figurehead may prove the group’s final gasp, no matter how good David is.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The classic lineup remains the group that gave us “The Yes Album,” “Fragile” and “Close To The Edge” classics in 1971 and 1972. The key was the addition of guitarist Steve Howe, who can play rings around almost any other rock guitarist. Howe joined Anderson, keyboardist Tony Kaye, bassist Chris Squire and drummer Bill Bruford for “The Yes Album,” which helped the band turn the corner after two so-so LPs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The next change came for “Fragile,” when keyboard whiz and showman extraordinaire Rick Wakeman took over for Kaye and that five also gave us “Close To The Edge.” Alan White replaced Bruford for “Tales From Topographic Oceans” with only Anderson and Squire remaining constants over the years. But even Anderson stepped aside for “Drama,” on which Trevor Horn served as vocalist.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Basically, the inductees should include Anderson, Squire, Howe, Wakeman, Bruford, White, Kaye and Trevor Rabin, who contributed guitar and keyboards on various albums.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">One thing I find with Progressive Rock recordings – and particularly those of Yes – is that no matter how many times I’ve listened previously, each hearing brings something new thanks to the virtuosity of the players.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The players in Yes are great musicians and this should not be held against them. Great musicians often put their heart and, yes, their soul into their playing. I won’t be around to have the last laugh, but I would almost guarantee that 50 years from now, the music of Yes will have endured while the recordings of several of the artists already inducted into the Hall of Fame will have been long forgotten.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Responses to “Rock Hall of Fame Stop Saying ‘No’ To Yes”</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /><img src="http://1.gravatar.com/avatar/b2d2c63687d61c9d0dc0eb1bfb39d041?s=48&d=http%3A%2F%2F1.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fad516503a11cd5ca435acc9bb6523536%3Fs%3D48&r=G" />Jill says:<br />June 17, 2011 at 8:02 pm<br /><br />I can’t agree that all progressive rock bands (nebulous as that term can be) were pretentious and bombastic mostly due to many long songs. One could put Led Zeppelin’s long songs in that category. If they were so pretentious then I at 10/11 years-old oddly loved ‘Fragile’ to death, listening to it continuously over and over for years. I was even much younger liking the Moody Blues’ ‘On A Threshold Of A Dream’.<br /><br />Clearly YES’s music has endured, no less the musicianship was great and still is. They were also able to make a successful transition into the ’80s with their 90125 album which many ’70s bands couldn’t quite do. It doesn’t make sense to me when there are ’60s bands such as Cream, Buffalo Springfield, etc. were together for only a few years. I agree with those but YES lasted much longer. Doesn’t seem right. Thank you, I agree.<br /><br /><img src="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/81259b4d0d3c23160401f084da29082d?s=48&d=http%3A%2F%2F0.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fad516503a11cd5ca435acc9bb6523536%3Fs%3D48&r=G" />conrad stinnett says:<br />June 17, 2011 at 9:08 pm<br /><br />Genesis got in, which was an essential step the movement to get more prog groups in the Hall. I’d look for King Crimson next, then Yes.<br /><br /><img src="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/436778b32dbfab57c7697210faf81d40?s=48&d=http%3A%2F%2F0.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fad516503a11cd5ca435acc9bb6523536%3Fs%3D48&r=G" />Phill says:<br />June 17, 2011 at 10:01 pm<br /><br />King Crimson may show up in this series one of these weeks…if I can ever figure out all the guys who have been in the group besides Robert Fripp…just listing the group members may require a two-part series !!<br /><br /><img src="http://1.gravatar.com/avatar/167e32f6a785a258e7c86a27f336fbfc?s=48&d=http%3A%2F%2F1.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fad516503a11cd5ca435acc9bb6523536%3Fs%3D48&r=G" />Ian Joyner says:<br />June 18, 2011 at 8:05 am<br /><br />Don’t really follow who’s in the HoF, but I assume the Beatles are. They are one of the biggest prog groups. Whenever some bore tells me how they hate ‘prog’ (as a derogatory term – ‘progressive’ should not be derogatory), I ask if they like the Beatles. Usually it’s ‘yes’ and I can point out that the Beatles were very progressive with George Martin, lush orchestrations, themed albums, electronic sounds reminiscent of Stockhausen (hey, I finally got a copy of Kontakte the other day, must visit HMV London more often!).<br /><br />As for TfTO, one should read the Bagavad Gita, Upanishads, Vedas and general Indian philosophy. Jon’s lyrics do have an underlying theme to them. I think only Rick’s criticism of TfTO can be allowed – that there was too much filler, whereas CttE they thought about every note.<br /><br />Still, if not being admitted to the HoF is a mark of uniqueness in the rock world, maybe Yes should never get in!<br /><br /><img src="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/477ec1205a4bde445ef1266134ea3144?s=48&d=http%3A%2F%2F0.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fad516503a11cd5ca435acc9bb6523536%3Fs%3D48&r=G" />Tyler says:<br />June 18, 2011 at 3:34 pm<br /><br />Like the series Phil. You really show why these bands deserve induction. Can’t wait to hear what you say about Styx, Pat Benatar, REO Speedwagon, Kansas, Supertramp, Meat Loaf, Cheap Trick, Judas Priest, ELP, Boston, and so many other deserving acts.<br /><br /><img src="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/436778b32dbfab57c7697210faf81d40?s=48&d=http%3A%2F%2F0.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fad516503a11cd5ca435acc9bb6523536%3Fs%3D48&r=G" />Phill says:<br />June 18, 2011 at 11:05 pm<br /><br />Tyler -<br /><br />Thanks…I hope I live that long !<br /><br /><img src="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/2a79cf0c8ef814b48a65b450ce0343f5?s=48&d=http%3A%2F%2F0.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fad516503a11cd5ca435acc9bb6523536%3Fs%3D48&r=G" />Matt says:<br />June 28, 2011 at 5:58 pm<br /><br />The so-called Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is a joke, and not a funny one. It celebrates record sales and notoriety; considerations such as musicianship, artisitc integrity and influence are, at best, utterly secondary. All former and current members of Yes should take great pride in the fact they haven’t been chosen to receive this “honor.”<br /><br /><img src="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/e31af34f0b4bff7f6edb7d4cdc509a2a?s=48&d=http%3A%2F%2F0.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fad516503a11cd5ca435acc9bb6523536%3Fs%3D48&r=G" />Adrian says:<br />June 29, 2011 at 1:25 am<br /><br />If some yahoo came along and invented an author’s hall of fame and decided to leave out, say, Hemingway, does that mean Hemingway’s writing is bad compared to those who have been inducted into the “hall of fame”? Of course not! I don’t know why people seem to think that just because Jann Wenner created a museum for his favorite bands and called it a “hall of fame,” being invited into the museum imparts some kind of magical validation on the inductee. The point being, getting into Jann Wenner’s little club doesn’t validate your favorite band; it just means Jann Wenner likes them.<br /><br />So who cares who’s in the RRHoF? If Yes someday gets in, fine. If they don’t, it won’t make me love their music any less than I do.<br /><br />I just don’t get why their non-inclusion seems to bother people so much. The notion that you can have a hall of fame for an artistic pursuit is ridiculous anyway.<br /><br />For the record, this isn’t just sour grapes — my second favorite band, Pink Floyd, is in the RRHoF, and I couldn’t care less.<br /><br /><img src="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/63633a696c0c55e86b5afdd939ea82f6?s=48&d=http%3A%2F%2F0.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fad516503a11cd5ca435acc9bb6523536%3Fs%3D48&r=G" />Yesspaz says:<br />July 1, 2011 at 4:39 am<br /><br />I’ve long held that the RnR HoF should be ignored and superceded by a new Rock Hall of Fame. Unless there’s some law disallowing a competitor, then a monopoly exists. I used to gripe about my favorite band not being in there, but after they started putting rap in, it stopped being a Rock and Roll Hall to me.<br /><br />I say someone starts a “Rock Hall” or “The Pantheon of Rock” and do it right. Let the RnR HoF devolve into the joke it is becoming.<br /><br /><img src="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/8c1c98a6d94fa241ba4374b7000ad65a?s=48&d=http%3A%2F%2F0.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fad516503a11cd5ca435acc9bb6523536%3Fs%3D48&r=G" />John Chivers says:<br />July 1, 2011 at 7:23 am<br /><br />“Pink Floyd certainly makes the grade.”<br /><br />I never got why Pink Floyd are classed as Progressive Rock. They seem more regressive to me. OK, I expect a barrage of insults for that comment, so let’s just take them as read. I’m not saying that they’re not great musicians/writers/people, but please point me in the direction of some of their work you would consider Progressive. My overriding impression of them is lots of slow 4/4 rock songs. I can see why the stoners liked them so much. I just feel that I must be missing an album by them somewhere!<br /><br /><img src="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/436778b32dbfab57c7697210faf81d40?s=48&d=http%3A%2F%2F0.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fad516503a11cd5ca435acc9bb6523536%3Fs%3D48&r=G" />Phill says:<br />July 1, 2011 at 10:46 am<br /><br />Classifications of any type to me are unnecessary. To me, music is music.<br /><br /><img src="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/436778b32dbfab57c7697210faf81d40?s=48&d=http%3A%2F%2F0.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fad516503a11cd5ca435acc9bb6523536%3Fs%3D48&r=G" />Phill says:<br />July 1, 2011 at 10:48 am<br /><br />Yesspaz -<br /><br />I’ve been trying to convince editor Pat Prince that Goldmine should start its own Hall of Fame…He’s been trying to convince me to keep quiet…As you can see, neither of us is having much success !!<br /><br /><img src="http://1.gravatar.com/avatar/334f87a0d721bc9f45d33eac2e61a650?s=48&d=http%3A%2F%2F1.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fad516503a11cd5ca435acc9bb6523536%3Fs%3D48&r=G" />Malcolm says:<br />July 1, 2011 at 12:18 pm<br /><br />Who gives a rat’s %$^? Yes should wear this like “a badge of honor”, which is what Alex Lifeson once said when asked how he felt that Rush—who made, like, 30 gold and platinum albums— had never graced the cover of ROLLING STONE. The RRHF, like ROLLING STONE, is more of a political and cultural institution than a musical one. All this crap—halls of fame, ROLLING STONE, award shows, etc. mean NOTHING. They are commercial enterprises run by people looking to make a buck and they will go with whomever has the widest commercial appeal. Yes is still selling records and playing arenas 40 years on. Their music will leave a lasting legacy and continuing to inspire people who love music more than fashion and “attitude.” All the other stuff is just so much bs. Don’t get sucked into believing it actually means *anything*. It’s a corporate version of a high school popularity contest, and we all know how meaningful those are.<br /><br /><img src="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/436778b32dbfab57c7697210faf81d40?s=48&d=http%3A%2F%2F0.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fad516503a11cd5ca435acc9bb6523536%3Fs%3D48&r=G" />Phill says:<br />July 1, 2011 at 12:33 pm<br /><br />Malcolm -<br /><br />I do believe if the HOF went with whoever has the most commercial appeal, Yes & Rush would already be in. After all, your comment points out how popular both bands are. Certainly, they have a lot more commercial appeal than inductees such as Dr. John and more I’ll name in future weeks. Seems to me, the choices are made based on the personal preferences of a select few and not on commercial appeal (read who the public likes). To me, that’s the problem. And rather than throwing up my hands in surrender, I’m going to keep yelling about it whether anyone’s listening or not.<br /><br /><img src="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/0116f286b8849492a06a60c3741ae205?s=48&d=http%3A%2F%2F0.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fad516503a11cd5ca435acc9bb6523536%3Fs%3D48&r=G" />Damon says:<br />July 1, 2011 at 1:40 pm<br /><br />I’m surprised that no comment has yet mentioned the fact that, in essence, if Jann Wenner and his buddies don’t like a band, it ain’t getting in. That’s why a one hit wonder like Percy “When a Man Loves a Woman” Sledge gets in (he didn’t even write the song!) and all the other bands and artists you mention don’t. A more accurate name for the organization/museum is The Hall of Music That Jann Likes.<br /><br />The Sex Pistols have the right idea – refusing to attend their own 2006 induction, calling the museum “a piss stain”.<br /><br /><img src="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/af623e297cd1f2686831c9da579c289f?s=48&d=http%3A%2F%2F0.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fad516503a11cd5ca435acc9bb6523536%3Fs%3D48&r=G" />Steven Sullivan says:<br />July 1, 2011 at 3:38 pm<br /><br />It’s interesting that critics slag on ‘Tales’ so much for ‘overindulgence’, when both Soft Machine and Tangerine Dream had already release 4 side/4 tracks albums before them?<br /><br />(and neither “Third” nor “Zeit’, both fine albums in their own rights, reached the top ten in any sales charts.)<br /><br /><img src="http://1.gravatar.com/avatar/77cdacc1970e0a35e87fae9066dfa3a7?s=48&d=http%3A%2F%2F1.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fad516503a11cd5ca435acc9bb6523536%3Fs%3D48&r=G" />jon says:<br />July 1, 2011 at 7:59 pm<br /><br />Yes also pioneered techniques in recording and live presentation that are used still. Truly, Yes is too hip for the RRHOF. People will be listening to “Close To The Edge” for years to come. People won’t be listening to Jann Wenner for much longer.My “hall of fame” is my music collection, of which Yes reigns supreme!<br /><br /><img src="http://1.gravatar.com/avatar/bfc9be851d0a996214434109299843c7?s=48&d=http%3A%2F%2F1.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fad516503a11cd5ca435acc9bb6523536%3Fs%3D48&r=G" />Wendell R. Wiggins says:<br />July 2, 2011 at 12:47 am<br /><br />This is simply silly and ridiculous. YES should been admitted 30 years even though I don’t feel the the RRHOF deserves to have a band as great as YES but to make sure their amazing legacy stays alive in the future, I must demand that the RRHOF get their stupid act together and include one of the greatest modern bands of all time, finally!<br /><br /><img src="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/c64f301b405575ea568e49bc883335f3?s=48&d=http%3A%2F%2F0.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fad516503a11cd5ca435acc9bb6523536%3Fs%3D48&r=G" />PeterG says:<br />July 2, 2011 at 4:28 am<br /><br />RRHOF is a farce and run by a bunch of arse&%$£* who decide who get’s accepted based on popularity, record sales and public exposure through live shows, media etc. You can also add the ‘committees’ own choice and preference. If it was based purely upon musicianship, music, length of time (years) producing albums etc. you would literary have thousands of names and groups up there.<br />Getting back to ‘Yes’…yes, they should have been up there a long time ago but who gives a frig about that! There are many other progressive bands that should also have their name included but RRHOF means zilch to me…they’re all in my own ‘hall of fame’ and that’s all that matters.<br />Watch RRHOF’s space…soon you’ll see the likes of Britney Tears and Justin Pieper up there!<br /><br /><img src="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/436778b32dbfab57c7697210faf81d40?s=48&d=http%3A%2F%2F0.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fad516503a11cd5ca435acc9bb6523536%3Fs%3D48&r=G" />Phill says:<br />July 2, 2011 at 12:49 pm<br /><br />Peter -<br /><br />You forgot Pariah Carey and Clay Bacon. And what about Lady GooGoo (she’s a real doll).<br /><br /><img src="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/a24a90dce5fbdd9e57d2048f81e80bf6?s=48&d=http%3A%2F%2F0.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fad516503a11cd5ca435acc9bb6523536%3Fs%3D48&r=G" />12-string Frank says:<br />July 2, 2011 at 12:51 pm<br /><br />The people who do the inductions into the RnR Hall of Shame often cite whether or not a band or artist was “influential”. It’s not always about albums sales. But idiots like Jann Wenner should realize that YES not only sold lots of albums and charted well over years, they also were definitely influential to so many bands that perform progressive rock today. If you have guitarist friends, I’d bet $$ that that person has wanted to learn “Mood For a Day”.<br /><br />Another concern is who would actually get the award if YES is inducted. We know that Anderson, Wakeman, Squire, Howe, and White would receive it. What about Bruford, Peter Banks, Tony Kaye, Patrick Moraz? YES had only 2 drummers in its career, but way too many keyboardists.<br /><br /><img src="http://1.gravatar.com/avatar/3366e7baa4c3e1e638b296c793359835?s=48&d=http%3A%2F%2F1.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fad516503a11cd5ca435acc9bb6523536%3Fs%3D48&r=G" />gmuny2002 says:<br />July 2, 2011 at 4:38 pm<br /><br />I gave up on the R&RHOF years ago when they started inducting Rap and hip-hop acts! Since when is rap and hip-hop considered rock & roll? Let them have their own HOF for crying out loud! Note to all you trolls out there, call me racist all you want cause sticka and stones……..<br /><br /><img src="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/84f0dec60582a6a28fe6d503863f4f40?s=48&d=http%3A%2F%2F0.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fad516503a11cd5ca435acc9bb6523536%3Fs%3D48&r=G" />Charles says:<br />July 5, 2011 at 6:22 pm<br /><br />As “gmuny2002″ implied, the R&RHOF inducted Rap-Crap and “**it-slop” instead of talented musicians like Yes and others who should have been inducted. I agree with many of you who said it depends on Jann “Weiner” likes, whether they have talent or not. I believe there hasn’t been any talent in the studios (rap-crap or girl singers who have to be “sweetened up” technically) for many years. There probably is talent out there, but it isn’t being recorded by the major labels. Online, there is a movie called “Before the Music Ends” I think it is documenting the demise of good, talented people, and promoting rap-crap, lousy “singers” and those who have to have their voices “electronicized.” ELO and The Alan Parsons Project did a better version of that with the Vocoder back in the ’70′s than that plastic crap which is out there now.<br /><br /><img src="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/e9262a676ea78d95b0d678a0453c834f?s=48&d=http%3A%2F%2F0.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fad516503a11cd5ca435acc9bb6523536%3Fs%3D48&r=G" />Roberta says:<br />July 13, 2011 at 5:29 pm<br /><br />Procol Harum not in? What a joke the HOF is!<br /><br /><img src="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/8dd89376fa7b880d4dd63fd53439e332?s=48&d=http%3A%2F%2F0.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fad516503a11cd5ca435acc9bb6523536%3Fs%3D48&r=G" />Dangle says:<br />July 14, 2011 at 4:43 pm<br /><br />I know these dudes aren’t “Progressive”, but anybody out there have any pious words to say about my Herefordshire heroes, Mott the Hoople? Just wonderin’…<br /><br /><img src="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/23d1c49daabafeabcfd427b92f955684?s=48&d=http%3A%2F%2F0.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fad516503a11cd5ca435acc9bb6523536%3Fs%3D48&r=G" />Marc says:<br />July 26, 2011 at 11:43 pm<br /><br />The Hall of Fame is a joke. Imaging ignoring T.Rex all these years.<br />But yeah, Yes has definitely a right to be there! Love ‘em…<br /><br /><img src="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/295c14e6e59a644a63e9a08e2c55a080?s=48&d=http%3A%2F%2F0.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fad516503a11cd5ca435acc9bb6523536%3Fs%3D48&r=G" />Kevin says:<br />July 30, 2011 at 2:07 pm<br /><br />This is my thoughts on the RnR HoF … Madonna is in – why would any self-respecting RnR band want to be there? It’s a joke. The list of bands (Yes, Moody Blues, etc) and people (Stevie Ray Vaughn, Dick Dale, etc …) show it for what it is – a PR outlet for the music industry. I’m surprised they haven’t pressed for a change in the 25 year rule, so they can stuff it full of American Idol “winners.”<br /><br />“I don’t care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members.” – Groucho Marx<br /><br /><img src="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/4efc31ec9e3c72591752fbe53d888c2d?s=48&d=http%3A%2F%2F0.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fad516503a11cd5ca435acc9bb6523536%3Fs%3D48&r=G" />John says:<br />August 6, 2011 at 4:14 am<br /><br />From the RRHoF website:<br /><br />Eligibility<br /><br />“To be eligible for induction as an artist (as a performer, composer, or musician) into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the artist must have released a record, in the generally accepted sense of that phrase, at least 25 years prior to the year of induction; and have demonstrated unquestionable musical excellence.<br /><br />We shall consider factors such as an artist’s musical influence on other artists, length and depth of career and the body of work, innovation and superiority in style and technique, but musical excellence shall be the essential qualification of induction.”<br /><br />So why aren’t Yes, Rush et al not in yet?<br /><br /><img src="http://1.gravatar.com/avatar/51c47fdda3b900cc83135d0d20b61cb0?s=48&d=http%3A%2F%2F1.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fad516503a11cd5ca435acc9bb6523536%3Fs%3D48&r=G" />Ross Garside says:<br />August 16, 2011 at 1:22 am<br /><br />Or make another just for Prog:<br />http://www.progressiverockhalloffame.com/<br /><br /><img src="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/436778b32dbfab57c7697210faf81d40?s=48&d=http%3A%2F%2F0.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fad516503a11cd5ca435acc9bb6523536%3Fs%3D48&r=G" />Phill says:<br />August 16, 2011 at 9:48 am<br /><br />Check out the Prog Hall of Fame website at the above link. You’ll love it !!<br /><br /><img src="http://1.gravatar.com/avatar/782af64a554bac2247d46db0c9c19eb1?s=48&d=http%3A%2F%2F1.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fad516503a11cd5ca435acc9bb6523536%3Fs%3D48&r=G" />Mike44 says:<br />October 8, 2011 at 4:55 am<br /><br />Didn’t think Alice Cooper would ever get in, but he finally did. After all, look at all the “shock rock” bands that have gotten in under the influence of the first shock rocker.<br /><br />Now, a quick list of those deserving to get in, but are being held back by a small pompous group of “deciders”, who have a hand-crafted agenda of how “their” RRHOF should be….<br /><br />The Moody Blues, Yes , Emerson Lake & Palmer, Rush, Jethro Tull. I could name a few more, but it’s late and I gotta go to work in the morning.<br /><br /><img src="http://1.gravatar.com/avatar/330a192964463f78c113444e2e2bc15f?s=48&d=http%3A%2F%2F1.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fad516503a11cd5ca435acc9bb6523536%3Fs%3D48&r=G" />elfe22 says:<br />October 12, 2011 at 11:07 am<br /><br />King Crimson, even Yes supreme to pink floyd, Emerson Lake& palmer, also like mike comentend Jethro Tull and I don’t have the time to name more.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">At the end of 2008, the journalist Jerry Ewing pitched an idea for a new magazine to a publishing company. His idea was a magazine dedicated entirely to progressive rock, long reviled in the critical mainstream as the apotheosis of the musical excess of the pre-punk 70s, a largely forgotten realm of concept albums, difficult time signatures and extraordinary instrumental virtuosity. Ewing says he wasn't surprised when his publishers agreed to the idea – "there was a tidal shift in favour of prog; the BBC had done that Prog Britannia documentary, which seemed a kind of acceptance" – but even he seems taken aback by the success of Classic Rock: Prog. It currently sells around 22,000 copies an issue, half the circulation of the NME: not bad, given that Ewing is surely the first editor in four decades to utter the sentence: "Our best-selling issue had Jethro Tull on the cover."</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">There seems little doubt Ewing is right about the tidal shift. Not every new band tarred with the prog brush seems overjoyed about the label – when I mention it to Mike Vennart, of Manchester's Oceansize, he responds with a groan about "musical masturbation" – but you can see prog rock's influence on mainstream rock in Coheed & Cambria's concept albums topping the US chart; in Muse and Pendulum, who collaborated with nu-prog stalwarts Porcupine Tree on their current album Immersion. This weekend, the High Voltage festival in east London will not only boast a headlining performance by Emerson Lake & Palmer – whose first British live show in 15 years seems to have been greeted with widespread delight, rather than the yell of horror it would once have provoked – but a dedicated prog stage, playing host to Marillion, Asia, Pendragon and Transatlantic. The latter, a latterday prog supergroup featuring members of Marillion, Spock's Beard and Dream Theater drummer Mike Portnoy, are what you might call the full Roger Dean-designed triple gatefold sleeve; in contrast, Muse look like the Dead Kennedys. Transatlantic's current album, The Whirlwind, features just one song, which runs to 78 minutes. "The sound of Transatlantic is very purposefully stuck in the 70s," says Portnoy, proudly. "All of us in Transatlantic are huge fans of [the Yes double album] Tales from Topographic Oceans and all the excesses that prog was infamous for. That stuff appeals to us! We miss that! Tremendously long, challenging pieces of music! We have no problem embracing that!"</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Elsewhere, the digital radio station Planet Rock – on which Rick Wakeman hosts a Saturday morning programme, and former Marillion frontman Fish once fronted a Sony Award -winning prog show – now boasts more listeners than BBC 6 Music. You can currently see a TV advert for a 33-track compilation album named after the Yes track Wondrous Stories – "Two CDs chock-full of prog! The cream of prog rock! The cream that never went sour!" bellows the voiceover, defiantly – and one for Nike sportswear improbably soundtracked with Hocus Pocus, Focus's cheeringly ridiculous 1973 collision of heavy riffing and yodelling. Meanwhile, Beyond the Lighted Stage, a documentary about the deathless Canadian prog trio Rush, deservedly won the audience award at this years' Tribeca film festival. If it can't make a non-believer like their music, it does a brilliant job of explaining why people do. Rather surprisingly, drummer Neal Peart emerges from the film as a kind of Morrissey for the Dungeons and Dragons set: aloof, mysterious, considered a poet by his fans and a rightwing crank by his detractors (he's famously a fan of the conservative's novelist of choice, Ayn Rand), he is given to writing songs about misfits getting a rough time from the cool kids in school.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">One hesitates to say prog is back in fashion only because prog was never really in fashion in the first place. There was a brief period in the late 60s – between Jethro Tull upstaging everyone but the Who on the Rolling Stones' scrapped Rock and Roll Circus TV show and the release of King Crimson's debut album In the Court of the Crimson King – when it must have seemed like the coming thing, but its critical honeymoon period was probably drawn to a swift conclusion by Emerson Lake & Palmer's performance at the 1970 Isle of Wight festival, famously decried by John Peel as "a waste of electricity". Ever since, prog has existed apart from fashion, perhaps even apart from the rest of rock music. "It grew out of rock music and that's why it was written about in the rock press, but it's a shame it ever became regarded as part of rock'n'roll, because it's not, the ethos is completely different," novelist and prog fan Jonathan Coe memorably told the Prog Britannia programme. "If you judge it by the criteria of rock'n'roll, then it fails."</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Accordingly, there's a sense that prog has always been with us. The perceived wisdom is that it was utterly swept away by punk, but that doesn't account for the string of British prog bands signed by major labels in the early 80s – not just Marillion, but IQ, Pendragon and Pallas – nor for the continued chart success of Yes, Rush and Genesis, although whether those bands' 80s oeuvres could truly be considered prog is a matter of some debate: "They were all doing poppy, keyboard, kind of shorter-song music," sniffs Portnoy, with the unmistakable air of a man who thinks that sort of thing isn't really on. Nor does it account for the way prog hung over vast tranches of 80s pop. You can hear its influence in the long, serpentine songs found on David Sylvian's Brilliant Trees, Thomas Dolby's The Flat Earth and Talk Talk's The Colour of Spring, or in Ultravox's penchant for writing side-long tracks split into sections. Classic Rock: Prog runs a monthly feature called It's Prog Jim, But Not As We Know it, which picks out "albums that are very obviously prog by bands you would never have associated with the word". Its most recent candidate was Frankie Goes to Hollywood's debut, Welcome to the Pleasuredome, which, Jerry Ewing points out, not unreasonably, was a double concept album in a gatefold sleeve, featuring an 18-minute-long title track inspired by Coleridge's poem Kubla Khan, produced by an ex-member of Yes and featuring Steve Howe on guitar. Another feature in the magazine encourages unlikely musicians to reveal their love of prog: you apparently can't move for 80s pop stars desperate to fess up to a secret passion for the likes of Gnidrolog. "We've had Nik Kershaw, who was a massive Gentle Giant fan," says Ewing. "Morten Harket from a-ha, he was in there raving about Uriah Heep. Siobhan Fahey from Bananarama – huge Pink Floyd fan."</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">But if it didn't happen quite when the history books suggest, prog definitely had its doldrums. In the mid-90s, Mojo magazine published a prog special: alongside the feature on Yes and the reminiscences of someone who'd had the misfortune to start a prog band called Gypp in 1977, confident that "punk would blow over" ("Was I a prat? I fear so"), it ran a piece on new prog bands. The author was sympathetic, but there was no getting around the fact that the bands in question were having a thin time of it. None were able to make a living from their music. One had lost its drummer "because he couldn't bear living at subsistence level any longer". All were slogging around a tiny scene that had become dementedly insular: "We're influenced by everything from Genesis to Marillion," explained one musician, entirely without irony.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">"In the early 80s, there was a new prog boom, but most of those bands managed one or maybe two albums on a major label before it was all over," says Ewing. "The late 80s, early 90s was a period when it battened down the hatches, became a cottage industry just pandering to itself."</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Bryan Josh remembers that era only too well. He formed Mostly Autumn in 1995. With respect to the members of Gypp – clomping around the Marquee stage in their clogs on the nights said venue wasn't being headlined by the Jam or 999 – the height of Britpop may have been the worst point in musical history to launch a prog band with Celtic folk overtones and a fondness for releasing albums inspired by The Lord of the Rings. "People enjoyed what we were doing from the off," Josh says. "But we were just playing in pubs. For a while, there was a lot of dreadful progressive music out there. People ripping off the wrong bits of Genesis. The thing about Genesis, they wrote songs, they had spirit, but people watered it down, they missed the point, it got a bad name and it almost disappeared. They'd take the bit where Genesis maybe went off on a tangent which was relevant to the song itself, but forget the song. You'd get the tangent without having the spirit and the body of a song to work from. People were just emulating riffs, thinking they were clever because they were doing a 9/8 time change, noodling around on a load of classic Moogs or whatever. It bores a lot of people to tears. I heard a lot of that."</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The question of what changed to revive prog's popularity is an intriguing one. Josh just thinks the music got better, and that his band slowly built a following to its current level – next year, they're headlining the 2,000-capacity Shepherd's Bush Empire in London – by the simple expedient of gigging hard. Ewing suggests the rise of the internet helped propagate and spread the prog scene and that attitudes softened as a result of the passing of time: "The journalists who naturally despised the whole genre because it completely went against the grain of punk, something they inherently believed in, had moved on out of that area into different forms of journalism and other media, or else they just didn't have that sort of attitude any more, so the hangover had gone."</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And, a few months after the massed ranks of nu-proggers poured out their woes to Mojo, Radiohead released OK Computer. The kind of prog fan that prefers their bands influenced by everything from Genesis to Marillion may recoil a little at the very mention of its name; indeed, Mike Portnoy points out that "in those days, Radiohead would totally put down the term prog", and thinks its success had little impact on how Transatlantic were received "because we're doing something that's more pure, retro prog: we're trying to take those classic prog sounds and make new music with it, but not necessarily make a new sound". Even so, it's hard to see how its multi-platinum success can have done the prog scene anything but good by reawakening a public interest in long, episodic songs, retooling the gloomy mein of Dark Side of the Moon for a new decade. Around the same time, metal – traditionally progressive rock's best mate, with its emphasis on musicianship, partiality for excess and inability to resist a bit of lyrical sword and sorcery – began to rekindle its friendship with prog in the aftermath of grunge. Opeth, Coheed & Cambria, then later Mastodon and the Mars Volta emerged, recording – yes – concept albums packed full of – yes, again – difficult time signatures and extraordinary instrumental virtuosity. Their rise, Ewing claims, changed prog's traditionally male fanbase: "Loads of girls like heavy metal.".</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Quite aside from the music, prog's enduring appeal may lie in its very awkwardness. At a time when indie music has become mainstream, prog still repels major labels, because it resists commodification and they don't know how to market it – Mike Portnoy points out that even when Dream Theater were selling half a million albums a year, they were constantly locked in battles with their label, which demanded shorter, radio-friendly songs. Nike's dalliance with Focus notwithstanding, you hardly ever hear it on adverts or film soundtracks: the songs are just too long, too uncommercial. Ewing doesn't see any punk-style backlash in the immediate future. "It's forever evolving. Progressive bands constantly change their sound." Furthermore, he asserts, "the current new prog bands have learnt from the excesses of the past". But one looks at Muse's preposterously overblown live shows, or Transatlantic's hour-long songs and thinks: no, they haven't. They haven't at all. People just don't seem bothered any more.</span></div>
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Yes I know, lists are easy and tired, but it is with good reason that I have decided to list what I see as the ten biggest mistakes The Beatles made. For it is 43 years ago, this very day, that they were recording guitar overdubs for 'Your Mother Should Know', which is well worth celebrating, I’m sure you’ll agree. And just to clarify, by mistake I am meaning a ‘musical’ mistake, so I’m not to include silly things like getting Magic Alex to build a studio or the whole Apple Corp enterprise. It’s also worth noting that almost everything here relates to the second half of their career. This isn’t due to some preference for their earlier material – I am very much a ‘Blue Album’ person; it’s just that having made their mistakes early on, learning on the way, the expectation was so much higher 1965 onwards. I’m not here to criticise mistakes made due to lack of experience or naivety; more those that were pure misjudgement and often led the path towards, or exemplified, their ultimate demise. But criticism cannot be that harsh, for it was often their ‘mistakes’ that brought out their character (s) in the most effective style.<br />
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<strong>1.‘Her Majesty’</strong><br />
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How to conclude the final album by the greatest band in the history of forever? How about a song called ‘The End’ featuring Ringo’s first ever drum solo, and 3 electrifying guitar solos featuring Lennon, McCartney and Harrisons differing styles? And a final lyric that declares ‘And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make’?<br />
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And so it should have been, ‘Abbey Road’ closing with an exciting, positive and collaborative final effort. But, with the album pretty much put to bed, Second Technician John Curlander decided to tag on ‘Her Majesty’, a left over segment from the albums ‘Long Medley’ idea, to the end of ‘The End’ and, unbelievably, The Beatles allowed it. As such, the ‘final thought’ we are left with from their unmatched series of albums and singles is a throw away ditty, featuring just Paul McCartney and his acoustic guitar making bland and meaningless sentiments about the Queen. Perhaps more a sign of their complete disregard for The Beatles as a band at that time, its still a disappointing mistake to have made, and always annoys me when I forget to quickly turn the album off after ‘The End’.<br />
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<strong>2. Eric Clapton</strong><br />
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Getting Eric Clapton to join the band in recording ‘While My Guitar gently Weeps’ wasn’t a disastrous decision for The Beatles. But, come on, Eric Clapton? Not very cool is it. One of only two professional musicians to collaborate on a Beatles record (the other being Billy Preston), it unfortunately places his turgid, showy, ‘muso’ guitar playing on a much higher pedestal that it deserves. Harrison was struggling for a long time with the solo passages to this song (including trying to record it all backwards to sound like ‘weeping’) and recruited his good friend to help out. How did Clapton repay him? Nicked his wife, naturally. Poor George. Should never have got Clapton involved.<br />
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The majority of what became the ‘Let It Be’ album was recorded between The White Album and their swansong, ‘Abbey Road’. Yet it didn’t see release until after the latter. The idea behind the album was for the band to get back to its ‘roots’, that is, a more rock and roll, less experimental approach that focussed on the band working, and playing together as a four piece. After the disjointed approach to recording The White Album, this certainly made sense. However, in the end, it only served to stretch the already strained relationships between the group and the resulting recordings where left on the shelf.<br />
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The songs were later given to Phil Spector to pick through, and he ended up producing the album ‘Let it be’. With his signature production techniques all over, it flew in the face of the ‘warts and all’, ‘no overdubs’ approach of the original idea. McCartney in particular was upset with the treatment his ‘The Long and Winding Road’ had received. But since the band had just split, no one seemed to care, and history came to see ‘Abbey Road’ as the bands actual swansong, so its place as a failed experiment (that at least produced the legendary rooftop concert) was secured, no one really minding either way.<br />
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Except McCartney couldn’t let it go. And as such, 33 years after its initial release, it was made available in its ‘intended’ form as ‘Let It Be…Naked’. Gone are the swirling choirs and over the top orchestration and instead we are left with some simple and direct run thru’s of the same set of songs (plus Lennon’s fantastic ‘Don’t Let me Down’). So what’s the problem?<br />
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Well, the initial sessions were a mess. Utter misery, and probably the low point of inter Beatle relations. The hours and hours of tape betrayed the fact they had completely lost their focus and direction, and that at least 50% of the band weren’t interested anymore. The second attempt by Spector to rectify it was a hit and miss affair, and completely disregarded the ‘honest’ approach they had attempted, though he had chosen to leave in various false starts, between song ad-libs and conversations, which at least gave an impression of what it was meant to be.<br />
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But now, the third attempt at ‘getting it right’ was just as flawed. The between song banter was removed and placed on a bonus disc (22 minutes of random conversation – why?) and instead we are left with the bare bones of the songs. Admittedly, the remastered tracks sound fresh…but by meddling with history McCartney has taken the soul out of the music, the character. Even the original premise of it being ‘as was’ in the room was betrayed - an out of tune Lennon note was corrected digitally. What was this meant to be? Not to mention the album is now suspiciously McCartney heavy. At least the original album and accompanying film were interesting documents, showing the decline and dissolution of a great band. ‘…Naked’ added nothing to this, only took away from it.<br />
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But the big thing McCartney has missed is that, well, the songs just aren’t very good. It’s not a good album in the first place, and no amount of remastering and altering the order of the tracks is going to change that. ‘Get Back’, ‘Let it Be’ and ‘The Long and Winding Road’ withstanding (but I cant really stand the last 2 in that list) there’s nothing here that approaches The Beatles best, by some stretch. After THREE botched attempts to get something worthwhile out of the sessions, you cant help but feel that perhaps the whole thing would have been best left in the vaults, earning a reputation as being the ‘great lost tracks’. If McCartney’s interfering had revealed a real gem, then fine, but it doesn’t. It was all there in the title, all along. Why didn’t you just ‘Let it Be’ Paul?<br />
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<strong>4. ‘Wild honey pie’</strong><br />
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Its well known that a large amount of The White Album was written during their stay in Rishikesh, and, as such, many songs were either acoustic based (at least in origin) and / or throw away in-jokes. And whilst I will discuss this in further detail later, special attention must be drawn to the track ‘Wild Honey Pie’, which is quite possibly the worst song they ever released. Perhaps (though only ‘perhaps’) other songs were more trite, more disposable, more careless, more ill thought-out, more misguided, but was ever a song so bloody annoying? Mercifully not much longer than a minute, its inclusion as track 5 on The White Album is utterly befuddling. From the nauseating group vocal to the horrible wobbly guitar, it simply recreates the feeling of being very, very ill.<br />
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On a wider level, it showed The Beatles instincts had been well and truly blunted. The belief, formed with their discovery of LSD, that ‘random’ elements and ideas were as equally valid as those well thought out ones had brought them some amazing success: ‘Tomorrow Never Knows’, ‘I am the Walrus’ etc but had also led to more self indulgent, less focussed work such as ‘All Together Now’ and ‘You Know My Name (Look Up The Number)’. Though ‘clean’ during their trip to India, this belief had clearly stuck around, hence the release of utterly inferior work like ‘Wild Honey Pie’.<br />
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<strong>5. Run For Your Life (little girl!)</strong><br />
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A constant theme running through The Beatles work was ‘Love’; from the simplistic teenage infatuations’ of ‘She Loves You’ et al, to the more universal, hippy messaging of ‘All You Need Is Love’ it was the one constant in a diverse career. So fitting the lyric ‘I’d rather see you dead, little girl, then be with another man’ into this theory is a little difficult…<br />
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But worse than the nasty bitterness of this Lennon penned number is the pure hypocrisy. By the time it was released on ‘Rubber Soul’ in 1965, Lennon had long tired of his loveless marriage to Cynthia, and was openly engaging in affairs and one night stands with a vast amount of ladies. ‘Norwegian Wood (this bird has flown)’, also from ‘Rubber Soul’ tackled this very subject, but its ambivalent ending was due to some late lyrical changes, to avoid Cynthia finding out. Not that she wasn’t at least partly aware; Lennon would often brag openly in her company of his various conquests. It was his feeble way of rebelling against the gentle bourgeois hole he had found himself in. But how could he sing ‘If I find you with another man, it’s the end – little girl’ with any sincerity what so ever?<br />
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‘Rubber Soul’ saw the band developing greatly as songwriters, and the aforementioned ‘Norwegian Wood’ shows a more thoughtful and complex approach to dealing with personal issues. ‘Nowhere Man’ deals with a similar feeling of isolation and ‘In My Life’ is a beautiful and mature expression of love and melancholy. All Lennon numbers, and all fantastic.<br />
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Which makes it all the more surprising that ‘Run for Your Life’ sits along side them, as the albums closing number, no less. Later, older and wiser, and under the influence of Yoko Ono, he expressed utter regret at the song and its misogynist views. It’s hard to think of a bigger misstep in The Beatles catalogue, purely in terms of mood and intent and its bizarre that no-one, especially Brian Epstein or George Martin thought to point out the bitter taste it leaves. For The Beatles themselves, it would be the last bit of ‘filler’ they committed to tape until the LSD come down of Magical Mystery tour and the passing of tracks of this inferior calibre would see the onset of their imperial phase: Revolver and Sgt Pepper.<br />
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<strong>6. Quality Control, and The White Album</strong><br />
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Now, let’s be clear; The White Album (some weeks) is my favourite Beatles album. Not because it has the best songs. Far from it. But because it has a unique atmosphere, a seemingly relaxed approach, once described as the ‘lazy afternoon’ of their career. The fact that most of the band were working in different studios on their own songs, mean it is incredibly diverse, and sways wildly from straight on ‘rock’ to twinkly folk, to mesmerising 9 minute soundscapes, each of the composers letting their personalities shine – even Ringo, with his first ever self penned composition. The 30 tracks show a huge range, and though there is a self indulgent element to it, it’s utterly fascinating if given the time.<br />
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That said, and as mentioned previously, it does contain some duff tracks. It’s an interesting exercise to try break the two discs down to one album, especially if you throw ‘Hey Jude’ and ‘Revolution (single version)’, recorded at the same time, into the pot.<br />
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The aforementioned ‘Wild Honey Pie’, whilst atrocious, does at least fit in with the Rishikesh sing-a-long starting point for the album. But the decision to release a 30 track double album resulted in crap like ‘Savoy Truffle’ and ‘Honey Pie’ being forced upon the world. And these weren’t quickly recorded throw away tracks – they were planned, thought out pieces that simply showed their authors to be, in the first instance, out of ideas and inspiration (a song about Eric Clapton eating chocolates – him again!) and in the second, literally going through the paces of recreating some awful dance hall pastiche, which can only leave the question – why? ‘Honey Pie’ in particular was an early sign of McCartney turning into the insufferable smug ‘entertainer’ role he later seemed to relish in.<br />
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A slight bit of trimming could have left us with an exceptional 26 track double album, or even, with a bit more work could have seen the inclusion of later solo tracks (Lennon’s ‘Child of Nature’, McCartney’s ‘Junk’ or Harrison’s ‘Not Guilty’) or even the wonderful ‘Hey Bulldog’, still at that time in the vaults, seeing eventual release on the ‘Yellow Submarine’ soundtrack a year later. But the problem was the egos, and the disintegrating relationships, no one writer willing to give up his space on the album. And whilst the track listing itself is a pretty awesome effort in creating a flow throughout its hour plus, the ‘kitchen sink and all’ approach sadly leaves some pretty big cracks. Some of these ‘cracks’ in the façade are fascinating. But some are beyond redemption.<br />
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<strong>7. Never toured past ‘65</strong><br />
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When Beatles Manager Brian Esptein died in 1967, the band effectively lost their ‘rudder’, the man who had guided them through the turbulence of ‘Beatlemania’ and beyond. Since they had ceased touring in 1966, his role had become more perfunctory, yet his death still had a huge effect on the band. After the high of Sgt Pepper, McCartney stepped up to suggest a film project in order to keep them focussed, which became ‘Magical Mystery Tour’. The band then went on their Indian adventure, resulting in another album. But at the dawn of 1969, with Lennon and Harrison pulling in different, non-Beatle directions, McCartney dreamt up another idea, one that, he hoped, would bring them all closer together.<br />
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Sadly, and as already discussed, it pretty much tore them apart. The ‘Get Back / Let it Be’ project was, however, a good idea in principle; to re-engage the band by playing live, rehearsing carefully as a four piece after the separation of The White Album sessions.<br />
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Its yet another symptom of The Beatles malaise at this time that, after brainstorming ideas for the location of the ‘one-off’ gig to conclude the ‘Get Back’ sessions, which included an Atlantic Sealiner and a Tunisian Ampitheatre, they eventually settled on the roof of the apple building where they ‘worked’. Similarly, their final album was to be called ‘Everest’, until they realised that involved them all flying to said mountain for a photoshoot. They promptly changed it to ‘Abbey Road’ meaning they could step outside the door and be done in 20 minutes.<br />
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The result of all this being that we will never be able to hear The Beatles greatest songs performed live by the band themselves. Giving up live performance was undoubtedly one of the finest (and bravest) decisions they made. It allowed them to explore and experiment beyond the limits of sound and pop in the mid sixties. But, with the exception of ‘Revolution 9’ which isn’t ‘pop’ anyway, their last ‘pushing of the boundaries piece’ was probably ‘I am the Walrus’ in 1967. The trick they missed was performing all that 65-68 material in concert. Instead they pushed forth with the performance angle but instead tried to ‘get back’ to their Hamburg roots, a final attempt to reinvent themselves that ultimately failed<br />
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Sadly, after the split, Lennon only ever performed 3 of his Beatles songs live (Come Together, Yer Blues and Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds) and McCartney’s modern day touring band unfortunately polish the essence out of what were quirky as well as seminal recordings (I can barely listen to Hey Jude or Back in the USSR without seeing his wrinkled face backed by 20 plus session musicians)<br />
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Common belief is that it just wasn’t possible to create the sounds of their Pshycedelic peaks, but existing demos and alternate versions of ‘Strawberry Fields’, 'Tomorrow Never Knows', ‘I am The Walrus’ et al would suggest otherwise. Stripped back, with different elements to the fore, certainly, but how exciting would a live album have been, seeing all these classics reinterpreted by the band themselves? Live albums are often the nadir of any bands back catalogue; in this instance The Beatles could have revolutionised that concept too.<br />
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<strong>8. ‘The Ballad of John and Yoko’</strong><br />
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Forget ‘Strawberry Fields’ or ‘Eleanor Rigby’, this has to be the most ‘un-Beatles’ single the band ever released. For one, it only features Lennon and McCartney, Paul only really agreeing to the whole enterprise in a doomed attempt to keep Lennon interested in being a Beatle. But Lennon’s mind was elsewhere, and in many ways, this could be argued to be his first ‘solo’ single.<br />
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Describing his recent run ins with the law, his bed in for peace and the medias treatment of Yoko, it is an interesting document of what was happening at the time, without being a great song. Its hard to tell whether its chorus refrain of ‘Christ, you know it aint easy, you know how hard it can be / The way things are going, they’re gonna crucify me’, is a tongue in cheek reference to his early (misquoted) suggestion that ‘The Beatles are bigger than Jesus’ or the onset of a messianic complex. Likely, it was a bit of both. Either way, as a song and a proposition, it raised questions about what a Beatles song could, and should be; the problem was it raised it in a way that only really offered one answer…<br />
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And so, featuring a lyric that no one in the world could relate to, bar Yoko Ono, ‘The Ballad of John and Yoko’ was Lennon at his most self obsessed, and self interested and further signalled the end for the band. Musically it is pleasant enough, in the style of the ‘Get Back’ sessions around which it was recorded, but is certainly no classic, and had any other band recorded it, it would have been long forgotten.<br />
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<strong>9. Anthology of disinterest</strong><br />
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Anthology was a big deal. An opening of the vaults, a chance to hear unreleased Beatles material, all those lost classics that had been the subject of speculation for decades. A chance to tell a different story, reveal the secret history behind the worlds biggest band. But they kind of bottled it.<br />
Whilst relations between the surviving members and Yoko had certainly improved by the mid nineties, in that they could at least talk fairly reasonably about things, the unsteady peace resulted in any member being able to veto any inclusions, for whatever reason. It wasn’t a case of majority vote, if someone wasn’t happy they could just walk away. They were a Beatle, they didn’t need this stress. They certainly didn’t need the money.<br />
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And so, what could have been an essential purchase, became a bloated run of backing tracks and uninteresting alternate takes. Yes, some tracks were excellent insights, but at 3 double disc sets,why no legendary 28 minute take of ‘Helter Skelter’? Or more of the White Album demos recorded at George Harrison’s house? Or what about ‘Carnival of Light’, a free form 20 minutes SGT Pepper era experiment that bridges the gap between ‘Tomorrow Never Knows’ and ‘Revolution 9’? Nah, an instrumental version of ‘Eleanor Rigby’ is what we get. Cheers Beatles.<br />
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<strong>10. Come Together / Fall Apart</strong><br />
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From 1965 to 1970 The Beatles output of singles and albums was phenomenal. Up until the release of ‘Come Together / Something’ in 1970, the only singles they released from albums were ‘Help!’ and ‘Eleanor Rigby / Yellow Submarine’. They tended to usher in new albums and directions with standalone singles; ‘Paperback Writer / Rain’ for ‘Revolver’, ‘Strawberry Fields / Penny Lane’ for Sgt Pepper, ‘Hey Jude’ for The White Album. It’s an astounding record, both from the perspective that whilst pioneering the idea of what an album could be, they were still producing ‘hit’ singles, that were equally pioneering and that so many of their well known tracks are simply really good album tracks. This consistent high quality is part of what makes them a great band; buying their albums is never a case of getting 4 hit singles and 8 fillers.<br />
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Which is why it’s sad, and symptomatic of their falling apart, that they released the split ‘Come Together / Something’ single from ‘Abbey Road’ AFTER the album was released. Not only were they both album tracks (and tracks 1 and 2 at that) but it was the only time they released a single after the album. That might not sound odd now, as that is generally common practice these days, but back in 1970 it was lazy and showed utter disinterest. Lennon’s typically dismissive comment was that they’d released it so people could hear the 2 decent songs off the album, without having to bother with the rest. Whilst clearly not true, to show such contempt for his own work spoke volumes and not long after The Beatles were no more.<br />
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One positive upshot was that the release of this single saw Harrison get his first Beatles A-Side and may well have been a goodwill gesture from Lennon / McCartney, both of whom praised ‘Something’ highly. But, regardless, the release of this single ended an unparalleled run of singles and albums that went: ‘I Feel Fine’, ‘Ticket To Ride’, ‘Help!’, ‘Day Tripper/We Can Work It Out’, ‘Rubber Soul’, ‘Paperback Writer’, ‘Eleanor Rigby’, ‘Revolver’, ‘Strawberry Fields’, ‘Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’, ‘All You Need Is Love’, ‘Hello, Goodbye’, ‘Lady Madonna’, ‘Hey Jude’, ‘The Beatles (White Album)’, ‘Get Back’, ‘The Ballad of John and Yoko’, ‘Abbey Road’.</div>
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What Stuart Sutcliffe fan hasn’t wished to learn as much as possible about the fascinating young artist and Beatle? His time with us was short yet incredibly creative; every surfacing artwork, picture, letter or anecdote is pored over with relish by admirers. But some things Sutcliffe-lovers were sadly certain they would never get to know: for instance—his voice.</div>
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B005XLZTAC/daytrippinmagazi" style="color: #8a3207; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img alt="" class="alignright size-full wp-image-1230" src="http://daytrippinmag.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/stuart-sutcliffe-mp3.jpg?w=510" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; display: inline; float: right; margin-bottom: 2px; margin-left: 7px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 4px;" title="stuart-sutcliffe-mp3" /></a>That’s why the digital release of “<a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B005XLZTAC/daytrippinmagazi" style="color: #8a3207; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Love Me Tender</a>“, sung by Stuart himself, is an astonishing event generating stunned excitement and questions about the song’s origin and authenticity.</div>
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“Love Me Tender” was Stuart’s signature song; a ballad he performed so well in Hamburg it received the best applause during the Beatles’ sets at the Kaiserkeller and Star Club. Sutcliffe also performed Carl Perkins’ “Matchbox” and Elvis Presley’s “Wooden Heart”. But “Love Me Tender” is the song most associated with his name.</div>
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His newly-released song, now available to the public for the first time in 50 years, is compelling listening: Stu’s voice strains just slightly ending the first refrain, and he gives us a very sexy exhale at the end of another. In between, the notes are confident, strong, on pitch and melodic. Sutcliffe has made this version of Presley’s tune unabashedly his own.</div>
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In fact the track is so good, some listeners maintain they don’t even care if it is Stuart (though they hope it is) and skeptics are accusing the Sutcliffe family of overdubbing the voice of a professional singer. (One might point out that as a paid member of a hard-working rock band, Stuart <em>was</em> a professional singer).</div>
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Another quick discrediting attempt claimed the song originated from a 1979 American movie—that version has none of the soft nasality indicative of Liverpool accents, clearly evident in Stuart’s singing. Noting this, listeners say Stuart sounds like John or George. David Bedford, author of “Liddypool: Birthplace of the Beatles”—and a life-long Liverpudlian—confirms, “Yes, nasal talking is a scouse thing for sure. As Stuart’s parents were Scottish, his accent was different to John’s and would sound different too – it differs on where in Liverpool you are from.”</div>
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So—where has such a sensational piece of musical history been hiding for the past 50 years?</div>
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Stuart’s sister Pauline says, “I never expected to receive this recording of Stuart singing ‘Love Me Tender’ because I was told the only recording which existed was locked away forever by a private collector.”</div>
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But quite unexpectedly in 2009, Stuart’s Estate became aware that a copy was available through another source. Once they’d obtained it, a substantial effort of time and money was spent trying to trace its provenance. “As far as we know for certain, Stuart’s ‘Love Me Tender’ track was recorded in Hamburg, probably 1961—after Stuart officially left the Beatles to pursue his art, ” says Pauline. “On one occasion we were told that it was a one-sided German Polydor acetate. Another source tells us that we have a copy from a reel-to-reel recording. We’ve also been advised that new instrumentation has been overdubbed.”</div>
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Though gaps in the history remain, one thing is unequivocally certain: it <em>is</em> Stuart. Says Pauline, “The family do know Stuart’s voice when they hear it – and this is Stuart’s voice.”</div>
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Those who are surprised that Sutcliffe could sing suffer from the same myopic misconception that had them believing he couldn’t play bass guitar. David Bedford reminds us that as a young lad in Liverpool, Stuart was head chorister for St. Gabriel’s church in Huyton, leading the singing for Sunday services and weddings. The former choirboy still sounds youthful and earnest—some say his voice on “Love Me Tender” is “angelic”—some say “haunting”—while others are reminded of Phil and Don Everly’s sweet harmonies.</div>
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In a recent phone conversation, Pauline revealed that once the Estate possessed the recording, they were just “trying to get comfortable with it”. One can only wonder what it was like for a sister to hold in her hands an object containing a special voice from so very long ago . A missing piece had at last come home.</div>
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In time, those responsible for overseeing Stuart’s Estate were curious to know whether the tape could be cleaned up. Help came in the form of Dan Whitelock-Wainwright, Pauline’s techno-expert great-nephew, currently at University and a member of the rock band Groan. Dan’s cousin Alex Whitelock-Wainwright (at University in Liverpool) also possessed a copy of the original tape and he wrote in his blog: “The original I have has a constant hiss throughout; that’s all that has been modified with the released version and the sound levels are higher. Talking to my cousin, who first tried to clean the track up, (he) believes that the noise frequencies have been totally cleaned out which has removed some instruments and they have been overdubbed back onto the track.”</div>
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It was the 24/7 division of IODA that finished the mastering, leaving Stuart’s voice unmanipulated, only louder. [<strong>Correction</strong> (11/3/2011): "<a href="http://24hourdistribution.com/" style="color: #8a3207; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">24 Hour Service Station Distribution</a>" and not "24/7 division of IODA" handled the cleaning up of the track. Marshall Dickson contacted us and explained: "I personally coordinated the sonic recovery, and also have strong reason to believe the original recording comes from an acetate, since the source file we possess has the sound of a needle sliding across a record after the music ends."]</div>
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There was never any doubt that the voice was Stuart’s. But the Estate has another reason to know the tape is genuine: they know Stuart.</div>
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The young bohemian led an accelerated life, traveling incredibly far in a very short time. And his time in Hamburg was likely his most innovative. Eduardo Paolozzi, Stuart’s art instructor at the School of Fine Arts in Germany, wrote: “He (Stuart) had so much energy and was so very inventive.”(1) Musician and artist Klaus Voorman said, “Every second of Stuart’s short time he was doing something. His imagination was fantastic.”(2) Everybody was aware of and amazed by Stu’s energy and the ease with which he was able to work in a variety of artistic areas. It was completely in character for Stuart to have made this recording.</div>
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And the family’s got it in Stuart’s own writing that he planned to do just that.</div>
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Some of his Hamburg letters, reproduced here, reveal Sutcliffe’s interest in a new art project: his desire to make a movie with an accompanying soundtrack. The text reads:</div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">“</span><span style="font-size: x-small;">Yes! Tomorrow comes Paolozzi and Tuesday we go once</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">more to that ship-breaking yard which we visited last semester. I</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">will have with me a film camera I borrowed of Theo, Astrid’s</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">cousin. I’m very quickly trying to learn the technique as I’m</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">enthralled by the possibilities but it’s so expensive. He has many</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">films including some of Astrid from a few years ago, very sweet</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">as you can imagine. I’ll have to take advantage of the few days</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">I’ll have it; I’ll probably tire of it all the more quickly because of</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">the complete inaccessibility of all the equipment required.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">‘I made a film last week when I was at the ship-breaking yard</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">and I have really caught a feeling for filming, the desire that is.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">I made another today and wish to make a long film <em>accompanied</em></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><em>by a tape-recording.</em>“</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">“Thank you for your letter and the catalogues. I should have</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">written before but have been busy with various odds and ends.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">We started the week very tired after working all weekend making</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">photos, or rather Astrid worked while I grew tired looking on. She</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">was working on a commission for Polydor making photos of this</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">singer Sheridan and made some marvelous ones in black and</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">white and color.”</span></div>
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Stuart was well acquainted with Tony Sheridan. While performing in Hamburg between 1960 and 1963, Sheridan employed various backup bands, most of which were really “pickup bands”, or simply an amalgam of various musicians, rather than a group proper.(3) It was Polydor’s A&R (Artists and Repertoire) man, Bert Kaempfert, who arranged in 1961 for the Beatles to back Sheridan for an LP called “My Bonnie”. The standard (and decidedly incomplete) story is that Stuart was present during this session, but did not participate. But both John Lennon and Tony Sheridan swore that there were several other Beatle tracks that were recorded during the two-day session, and that either they were not preserved OR something else happened to them.(3)</div>
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Another group recording for Polydor was a German band called The Bats. “They (the Bats) went through the usual Star Club routine…(they) recorded mainly for Polydor. Drummer Toni Cavanaugh came from the circle of musicians connected with Tony Sheridan (and) also played drums for Sheridan’s Beat Brothers/Star combo. The band’s crew changed…once in a while ex-Beatle Stuart Sutcliffe joined in.”(4)</div>
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Hamburg’s music scene in ’61 was open and inclusive, with musicians intermingling on stage and in the studio. Astrid was there with her camera, recording visual tracks while the bands made musical ones. Stuart was right in the midst of it. He’d been to the studio, played with the bands, knew Kaempfert, had all the right connections. It’s not implausible to think that at some time during that year his voice was captured on “a German Polydor acetate”.</div>
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Or perhaps Stu recorded his own voice, and instruments were tracked in later. The fact is that Sutcliffe intended to make a recording. Since “Love Me Tender” was the cool bassist’s spotlight song, one he’d sung a hundred times or more and was the ballad he’d dedicated to his darling Astrid, it was the natural choice.</div>
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Those free Hamburg days were unparalleled—a pivitol time for art and music. Timing can be so deadly crucial—why did Stuart’s Estate choose to release “Love Me Tender” now?</div>
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It wasn’t a decision made lightly. Pauline has balanced two missions for nearly 50 years: working determinedly to ensure her talented brother’s legacy, and striving to protect his image from harm. In the documentary “The Lost Beatle” she reminisces that Stuart “used to be my elder brother. But now he’s my kid brother…I want to take care of him…to protect him.” Regarding “Love Me Tender”, she was wisely aware of those who would cry foul even if the Sutcliffes presented a recording contract with Stuart’s signature at the bottom.</div>
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But recent events: a partnership with promotional agency CMG Worldwide; the successful stage production of Backbeat, now showing in London’s West End; the launch of Stuart’s Official Fan Club (<a href="http://www.stuartsutcliffefanclub.com/" style="color: #8a3207; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">www.stuartsutcliffefanclub.com</span></span></a>); and next year’s world tour art exhibition “Conversation With Stuart Stucliffe”, convinced the Estate there was no better time to release Stuart’s song than now.</div>
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There has been a shift in perspective regarding the Beatle who left the band because he loved art and Astrid Kirchherr. The media is now far less likely to depict Sutcliffe shoved aside in his shades to an obscure corner…the reluctant, incapable bassist. Commentaries adhering to that badly-sketched-in picture show their inaccuracy and age. With every unexpected and exciting new event, the remarkably talented Sutcliffe is now receiving the worldwide accolade he deserves.</div>
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Some things are worth waiting for—even if it takes 50 years. “Love Me Tender” was definitely worth the wait. Thanks, Stu, for making certain we’d hear your voice.</div>
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<em>[Editor's Note: Those in Beatles history who knew Stuart at the time this song was believed to be recorded, (i.e., Astrid Kirchherr, Klaus Voormann, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr) have not yet commented on their personal knowledge of the existence of this recording.</em> ]</div>
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Update: More in-depth analysis on this recording has been done by David Bedford, author of <em>Liddypool: Birthplace of The Beatles</em>. You can read his article here:<br />
<a href="http://www.stuartsutcliffefanclub.com/lovemetenderdb.html" style="color: #8a3207; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://www.stuartsutcliffefanclub.com/lovemetenderdb.html</a><br />
<a href="http://www.stuartsutcliffefanclub.com/lovemetenderdb.html" style="color: #8a3207; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><br /></a>Update (Nov. 4, 2011): <a href="http://www.examiner.com/beatles-in-national/exclusive-mystery-continues-for-song-linked-to-former-beatle-sutliffe-part-2" style="color: #8a3207; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">The Beatles Examiner</a> has obtained quotes from Klaus Voormann, Tony Sheridan and Bill Harry concerning their opinions on the recording.</div>
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<strong><em>References:</em></strong></div>
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(1) John Willett 1967 <em>“Art In The City”</em></div>
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<em></em>(2) The Beatles In Hamburg/Bill Hillman Tracks (<a href="http://hillmanweb.com/" style="color: #8a3207; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">hillmanweb.com</a>)</div>
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(3) Tony Sheridan <em>Wikipedia</em></div>
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(4) Discogs/The Bats (<a href="http://discogs.com/" style="color: #8a3207; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">discogs.com</a>)</div>
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Shy and withdrawn, hardly able to play a chord, so unsure of his ability he hid behind dark glasses and turned his back to the audience—if this is your portrait of Stuart Sutcliffe, you’ve got the wrong rock bass guitarist.</div>
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B004TR160S/daytrippinmagazi" style="color: #8a3207; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img alt="" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-1125" height="300" src="http://daytrippinmag.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/stuart-sutcliffe-poster1.jpg?w=207&h=300" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; display: inline; float: right; margin-bottom: 2px; margin-left: 7px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 4px;" title="stuart-sutcliffe-poster" width="207" /></a>Stu has been described as gentle, delicate, a boy of beautiful heart. But he was funny enough to be on par with Lennon. He was an original thinker, highly intelligent, responsible and mature beyond his young years, “vulnerable on the surface but extremely strong underneath”. He was innovative (painting in Hamburg with metallic car paint and charcoal) and daring—art master Arthur Ballard remembered in the Beatles biography, <em>Shout</em>, that against college rules, Stuart painted on massive canvasses and was a sartorial trendsetter even before Hamburg. Klaus Voorman said Stu could “see 10 times more than other people”—he was “miles ahead of everybody”, especially regarding the intensity of his life, his art, and his cutting-edge perception of style and imagery. An amazing profile for a kid barely out of his teens.</div>
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But could he play the guitar?</div>
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The contention that Stu was “a bad bass player” is a piece of historical hokum that has no substantiation– meaning no factual evidence backs it up. Stuart had basically only two detractors: the statements of one have been shown to be blatantly false—the remarks of the other are inconsistent and less than impartial. Yet years of media repetition from these two sources have been accepted as truth.</div>
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Let’s start at the end of 1959 when teenaged Lennon, McCartney and Harrison were actively searching for a bass guitarist. As is well known, they persuaded 19-year-old art student Sutcliffe to purchase a Hofner electric bass. George Harrison said it was “better to have a bass player that couldn’t play than to not have a bass player at all.” (1) Stuart straightaway recruited Dave May of the local Silhouettes to teach him Eddie Cochran’s “C’mon Everybody”.</div>
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000R0JBQM/daytrippinmagazi" style="color: #8a3207; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img alt="" class="size-full wp-image-1133 alignright" src="http://daytrippinmag.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/quarrymen-rehearsals-cd.jpg?w=510" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; display: inline; float: right; margin-bottom: 2px; margin-left: 7px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 4px;" title="quarrymen-rehearsals-CD" /></a>The Forthlin Road rehearsals at Paul’s house, some of which were taped on Rod Murray’s (Stu’s flatmate) tape recorder, took place that March. In a 2007 article, Murray said, “Stu would borrow the recorder and go to Paul’s house to record…but he had to buy his own tapes as they were so expensive.” The audio quality is poor, but listening to these tapes makes clear that the entire band at this point was very rudimentary. (<em>Note: Of the 16 songs known to have been recorded at the Forthlin Road rehearsals, three were released on 1995’s Anthology 1: “Cayenne”, “Hallelujah” and “I Love Her So”. You can hear these on Youtube</em>).</div>
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Finding gigs in Liverpool was tough and everybody was still going to school; not having played much together “for months”, on May 10 the group found themselves before London musical scout Larry Parnes, who was looking for a group to back one of his stars, Billy Fury. Photos of this audition do show Stuart playing with his back turned, perhaps attempting to hide his fledgling ability. Paul McCartney said, “If anyone had been taking notice, they would have seen that when we were all in A, Stu would be in another key. But he soon caught up and we passed that audition to go on tour.” (2)</div>
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These photos are the <em>only </em>ones of Stuart playing turned around—and this is where one of the sources of the “bad bass playing” got its start.</div>
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The idea sprang from the lips of one Allan Williams, a colorful man of dubious veracity who called himself the Beatles manager when he was, in fact, a booking agent for various bands in Liverpool.</div>
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Bill Harry, art school classmate of Sutcliffe and Lennon and creator of <em>Mersey Beat</em>magazine, sets the record absolutely straight: “Allan Williams always comes out with the story that Stuart Sutcliffe played with his back to Larry Parnes at the Wyvern Club audition because he couldn’t play the bass, and that Parnes said he would take the group as Billy Fury’s backing group if they got rid of Stuart. This story first appeared in Williams’ book, ‘The Man Who Gave the Beatles Away’. Williams’ allegation is untrue. Parnes himself was to say that he had no problem with Stuart, that his objection was to drummer Tommy Moore, who turned up late for the audition, was dressed differently than the other members and was a lot older than them. When we used to book the group for the art school dances there seemed to be no problem with Stuart’s performanc<em>e. In fact I never heard any criticism of Stuart as a musician until the publication of Williams’ book (</em>which came out in<em> </em>1977).” (3)</div>
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<a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B001J8DUSQ/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=daytrippinmag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=B001J8DUSQ" style="color: #8a3207; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img alt="" class="alignright size-full wp-image-1136" src="http://daytrippinmag.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/stuart-lost-beatle1.jpg?w=510" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; display: inline; float: right; margin-bottom: 2px; margin-left: 7px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 4px;" title="stuart-lost-beatle" /></a>After returning home from their tour, the band played some twenty-odd venues around Liverpool before August 1960. At this time, one of Liverpool’s best, established groups was Derry and the Seniors. Seniors’ Howie Casey remarked for the ‘Beatles Anthology’, “they were a nothing little band.” When he heard the Beatles were soon to play in Germany, Casey complained, “They might destroy the [emerging German rock] scene. I said send a band like Rory Storm or the Big Three. When they did turn up, they were vastly improved…the improvement was like night and day.”</div>
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Arriving in Hamburg, the Beatles (whose current playlist of songs could barely fill an hour) were shocked to learn they were expected to play close to eight hours nearly every night. They had to expand their repertoire, and fast.</div>
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George: “We had to learn millions of songs. We’d be on for hours…Saturday would start at three or four in the afternoon and go on until five or six in the morning.”</div>
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John: “We got better and got more confidence. We couldn’t help it, with all the experience, playing all night long.”</div>
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Paul: “We got better and better and other groups started coming to watch us.”</div>
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Is it credible to think that all this learning, experience, confidence and improvement affected every Beatle except Sutcliffe—the others were roaring along, but Stu was still just plunking? Stuart himself wrote home: “We have improved a thousand-fold since our arrival.”</div>
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These “savage young Beatles” were now playing loud, thrashing, primeval and pumping proto-punk rock—a throbbing nightly musical orgy. Lennon would say these Hamburg performances were the Beatles at their rock and roll best.</div>
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“Backbeat” director Ian Softley, after researching extensively and talking to bands and others who attended the German clubs, told the <em>Los Angeles Times</em>: “he (Stu) was very punk, very insistent. He would turn up his bass really loud… it was dominant and driving.”</div>
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Howie Casey said in the same <em>Times</em> piece that Stu “had a great live style”. He would know…while the recently-arrived Beatles were still playing the Indra, Bruno Koschmider (owner of both clubs) wanted continual music at the Kaiserkeller. So he split up the Seniors and the Beatles–in effect, creating a third band. Says Casey, “I was given Stuart Sutcliffe along with Derry and Stan Foster and we had a German drummer.” If Stuart couldn’t play, a professional like Casey certainly wouldn’t have tolerated him very long. Casey never complained about Stu’s ability. And this temporary split actually made Sutcliffe the first Beatle to play the sought-after Kaiserkeller gig.</div>
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In ‘The Beatles History’, Rick Hardy of the Jets confirmed: “Stu never turned his back on stage. He certainly played to the audience and he certainly played bass. If you have someone who can’t play the instrument properly, you have no bass sound. There were two rhythm guitarists with the Beatles and if one of them couldn’t play, you wouldn’t have noticed it—but it’s different with a bass guitar. I was there and I can say quite definitely Stuart never did a show in which he wasn’t facing the audience.”</div>
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Renowned artist and bassist Klaus Voorman says, “Stu was a really good rock and roll bass player, a very basic bass player, completely different. He was, at the time, my favorite bass player…and he had that cool look.” In a 2006 documentary, Voorman’s opinion was<em>, “The Beatles were best when Stuart was still in the band. To me it had more balls, it was even more rock and roll when Stuart was playing the bass and Paul was playing piano or another guitar. The band was, somehow, as a rock and roll band, more complete</em>.”</div>
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Interviewed on radio, Beatles drummer Pete Best revealed “what a good bass player Stuart was.” Pete has said, “I’ve read so many people putting him down for his bass playing. I’d like to set that one straight. His bass playing was a lot better than people give him credit for. He knew what his limits were…what he did was accept that and he gave 200%. He was the smallest Beatle with the biggest heart.”</div>
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Stu, who had stayed in Hamburg after the others had gone back to Liverpool, received a letter from George that read in part: “Come home sooner, as if we get a new bass player for the time being, it will be crumby as he will have to learn everything. It’s no good with Paul playing bass, we’d decided, that is, if he had some kind of bass to play on!”</div>
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And not long before his death, after he’d left the Beatles, Stuart was asked to play with a German group, the Bats. He borrowed back his bass from Voorman (to whom he’d sold it), and played the Hamburg Art School Carnival and the Kaiserkeller. The “James Dean of Hamburg” was obviously respected for his bass work.</div>
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There is no record of anyone commenting negatively about Stuart’s playing the entire time the Beatles were actually performing in Liverpool or in Hamburg…except for one. At last we come to Stuart’s other detractor: Paul McCartney.</div>
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Paul has knocked Stu’s bass playing– remarks he made while working with Stu were perhaps spawned by their “dead rivalry” (at least that’s how Paul saw it), and are therefore open to question. But many of Paul’s negative comments have been in retrospect. In 1964, much closer to when he’d actually been playing with Sutcliffe, Paul said in a <em>Beat Instrumental</em> interview: “Not that I’m suggesting that every bass player should learn on an ordinary guitar. Stuart Sutcliffe certainly didn’t, and he was a great bass man.”</div>
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Stuart was clear-eyed and candid about his musicianship. He put it all out there and made no apologies. He had the nerve to audition when he’d barely begun to play—that took guts. He worked hard and grew in expertise along with the rest of the band in Liverpool. Having to quickly master new material in Germany, Stu could rely, if not on deep innate talent, then on his very high IQ to memorize the “millions” of new songs. Voorman gets the last word on the result: “It sounded amazing, fantastic. I loved it from the first moment. The other bands that played in the clubs were good, but none were as good as them.”</div>
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By all reliable accounts, Sutcliffe’s bass put down a hard-driving, rock and roll sound. It wasn’t fancy…his attack was pretty basic. But when it came to playing raw, exciting, sex-drenched rock and roll that hit you in the chest, electrified your limbs, made you want to dance all night and kept you coming back to the Top Ten Club for more, the band to see was Stuart Sutcliffe and The Beatles.</div>
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Sources:</div>
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(1) ‘<a href="http://webspace.webring.com/people/cu/um_4922/beatles.html" style="color: #8a3207; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">A Brief History of the Beatles’</a> online<br />
(2) ‘<a href="http://www.beatlesbible.com/1960/05/10/live-%20audition-for-larry-parnes/" style="color: #8a3207; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">The Beatles Bible’</a> online<br />
(3) ‘<a href="http://www.the-beatles-history.com/stu-sutcliffe.html" style="color: #8a3207; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">The Beatles History</a>’ online</div>
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Note: Additional references for this article include: <em>The Life of John Lennon </em>and <em>Shout</em> by Philip Norman; quotes by Astrid Kirchherr for Boston 90.9 WBUR and <em>How Stuff Works</em>; <em>Liddypool: Birthplace of the Beatles </em>by David Bedford; <em>The Beatles in Hamburg</em> by Hillman; <em>Art by Lennon, McCartney, Sutcliffe and Starr</em>; interviews by Garry James; <em>British Youth Culture</em>-Shapers of the 80’s; <em>The Quarrymen Through Rubber Soul </em>by Everett; Pete Best interview/terrascope; <em>Komm, Gib Mir Deine Hand </em>by Knublauch, Korinth and Muller; Stuart Sutcliffe letters; Voorman/<a href="http://tripod.com/" style="color: #8a3207; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">tripod.com</a> Quotes; and <em>John, Paul, George, Ringo and Stu</em>-Los Angeles Times/Movies</div>
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An in-depth exploration of how John Lennon’s love for Yoko<br />
filled the void left by Astrid and Stu</div>
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<em>by Josh Kennedy</em></div>
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000PIATEE/beatles-history-20" style="color: #8a3207; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img alt="" class="alignright size-full wp-image-1089" src="http://daytrippinmag.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/astrid-kirchherr-stuart-sutcliffe.jpg?w=510" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; display: inline; float: right; margin-bottom: 2px; margin-left: 7px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 4px;" title="Astrid-Kirchherr-Stuart-Sutcliffe" /></a>It split the Beatles, this affair of the heart. She was an artist from an upper class family. She came from a foreign country that the previous generation in Britain had fought an all-out war to defeat. One Beatle was besotted with her, ready and willing to forsake the band for his new romance. She was always at his side; the intense couple even began dressing and wearing their hair alike. Paul McCartney was jealous, venting his frustration in petty ways that boiled over into the group’s professional work. The name of this lady was… Astrid Kirchherr.</div>
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It would happen again, and eerily so, when Yoko Ono appeared on the scene six years later. The personalities involved were different, but a similar stew of forces was present in both situations. When the Beatles story is examined as a whole, Yoko can be seen as an amalgam, combining the earlier roles of Astrid – the influential, foreign artistic woman – and of Stuart Sutcliffe – the brilliant but musically limited force who occupied much of John’s attention at the group’s expense. These striking parallels are worth exploring for any light they may shed on the eventual breakup of the Beatles.</div>
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When the Beatles met Astrid in Hamburg, there is no doubt they were impressed. As Cynthia Lennon wrote in her 1978 memoir, “John’s letters were full of Astrid… particularly her way of dress, her avant-garde way of life, and her marvelous photography.” John even went so far as to call her the “German Brigitte Bardot.” This comparison is illuminating. Bardot was the icon of John’s adolescent fantasies, to the point where he encouraged Cynthia to dye her own hair blonde in emulation. Very shortly before taking up with Yoko in 1968, Lennon would meet the real Bardot in person. He showed up stoned for the appointment, and had what he later described as a “fucking terrible evening – even worse than meeting Elvis.” Any illusions he still harbored about Bardot as the ideal woman were then shattered, and with them, perhaps, some regard for his own wife’s dyed-blonde image.</div>
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Yet Bardot was not John’s only ideal. As he recalled in a posthumously published reminiscence, “I’d always had a fantasy about a woman who would be a beautiful, intelligent, high-cheek-boned, free-spirited artist a la Juliette Greco.” He went on to say that this ideal morphed slightly during a Beatles visit to Asia, becoming an artistic<em>oriental</em> woman. But back in Hamburg, “oriental” was not yet part of the idea. Astrid was not only a “beautiful, intelligent, high-cheek-boned, free-spirited artist” but was also, like Greco, a continental European.</div>
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As Kirchherr later told BBC radio:</div>
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“We got inspired by all the French artists and writers, because that was the closest we could get. England was so far away, and America was out of the question. So France was the nearest. So we got all the information from France, and we tried to dress like the French existentialists. … We wanted to be free, we wanted to be different, and tried to be cool, as we call it now.”</div>
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Small wonder that Cynthia felt intimidated about meeting her.</div>
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Of course, Astrid fell in love with Stuart Sutcliffe, the most bohemian Beatle, with his dark sunglasses and brooding James Dean image. “I fell in love with Stuart that very first night,” Astrid told author Philip Norman. “So pale, but very, very beautiful. He was like a character from a story by Edgar Allan Poe.” ‘They were the big love,” Paul McCartney says of this period, and Pete Best remembers the couple as being “like one of those fairy stories.”</div>
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Before long, according to Norman, Astrid was employing her own artistic talents “to model him (Stuart) into an appearance echoing and complementing her own.” Much has been made of Astrid’s visual influence on the Beatles’ haircut and fashion, and as an early band photographer. More overlooked is the impact all of this had on John’s ideal of a relationship. John may have joined his band mates in ridiculing Stuart at times, but as he later admitted to biographer Hunter Davies, “I used to explain afterwards to him that we didn’t dislike him.” Privately John admired his friend, and the intense partnership of Stu and Astrid might be seen as something of a model for John’s later, all-encompassing infatuation with Yoko.</div>
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Certainly the two situations produced some similar outcomes, for in both cases, Paul McCartney reacted badly. Lennon noted the cause of an onstage fistfight between McCartney and Sutcliffe: “Paul was saying something about Stu’s girl, and he was jealous because she was a great girl, and Stu hit him on stage.” Later, when John found his own soul mate in Yoko, Paul tried to accept it, even inviting the couple to live in his house during the summer of 1968. This was a time when Paul was in a fragile state, having recently broken with his fiancée Jane Asher. As reported by Paul’s summer girlfriend Francie Schwartz, Paul’s true feelings of envy slipped out in a cruel jest. A note left on the mantle warned John: “You and your Jap tart think you’re hot shit.” Paul admitted leaving the note as a joke, but the dark underpinnings of this incident were crystal clear.</div>
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Indeed, jealousy was at the heart of the other Beatles’ relationships with both Stuart and Yoko. Stuart was a formidable presence in his own right.</div>
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Cynthia Lennon recalled:</div>
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“It was a very beautiful friendship John had with Stu. John, even though he’d gone into the music end of the art world and left his art behind, he still desperately wanted to be a painter, and Stuart was a fantastic and dedicated artist. They totally understood each other and gave to each other what they knew, what they had to offer.”</div>
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Stuart was hardly a musician, but joined the group because John liked having him around. “When he came into the band… we were a little jealous of him; it was something I didn’t deal with very well,” Paul admitted years later in <em>The Beatles Anthology</em>. “We were always slightly jealous of John’s other friendships… when Stuart came in it felt as if he was taking the position away from George and me. We had to take a bit of a back seat.”</div>
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George agreed, saying “..with all the stress we were under, a little bitching went on and Paul and he (Stu) used to punch each other out a bit.”</div>
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“We’d had a few ding-dongs, partly out of jealousy for John’s friendship, and Stuart, being his mate from art school, had a lot of his time and we were jealous of that,” Paul continued. “Also, I was keen to see the group be as good as it could be, so I would make the odd remark. Oh, you don’t play that right.” Here was evidence of the strict perfectionism which Paul would later direct towards George and Ringo in the studio.</div>
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Curiously, John would never lose his taste for inviting musically limited friends to join his band simply because he liked them. This trend had begun with John’s boyhood friend Pete Shotton scraping a washboard in the Quarrymen.</div>
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“Thus continued the pattern that had begun with me in 1956, and would once again manifest itself with Yoko Ono in the late sixties. Since music came so naturally to John, it simply never occurred to him that anyone to whom he felt especially close could not also participate.”</div>
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<a href="http://affiliates.allposters.com/link/redirect.asp?aid=1029779776&item=4931592" style="color: #8a3207; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img alt="" class="alignright size-full wp-image-1090" src="http://daytrippinmag.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/john-yoko-poster.jpg?w=510" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; display: inline; float: right; margin-bottom: 2px; margin-left: 7px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 4px;" title="john-yoko-poster" /></a>Philip Norman’s 2008 biography <em>Lennon</em>shrewdly probes John’s decision to bring Yoko to Beatles recording sessions in 1968:</div>
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“Whatever John’s inner thoughts, he remained a fully paid-up Beatle, subject to the remorseless manufacturing cycle, which, in late May, had summoned them back to Abbey Road Studios… at the back-to-school session on May 30, his initial intention became clear: not to break up the old gang, but to augment it. ‘He wanted me to be part of the group,’ Yoko says. ‘He created the group, so he thought the others should accept that. I didn’t particularly want to be part of them… I couldn’t see how I would fit in, but John was certain I would. He kept saying, ‘They’re very sensitive … Paul is into Stockhausen… They can do your thing…’ He thought the other Beatles would go for it; he was trying to persuade me.’”</div>
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Lennon confirmed this remarkable notion himself, in his 1970 <em>Rolling Stone</em> interview:</div>
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“Yoko played me tapes I understood. I know it was very strange and avant-garde music is very tough to assimilate… but I’ve heard the Beatles playing avant-garde music when nobody was looking for years. But they’re artists, and all artists have fuckin’ big egos… and when a new artist came into the group, they were never allowed. Sometimes George and I would like to bring somebody in like Billy Preston, that was exciting, we might have had him in the group. We were fed up with the same old shit… and I would have expanded the Beatles… she came in and she would expect to perform with them like you would with any group…”</div>
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In his 2006 memoir, recording engineer Geoff Emerick noted a shift in Yoko’s role as the White Album sessions dragged on: “I could see that she (Yoko) was gaining confidence. She seemed to feel she was part of the group now. In her mind, and in John’s mind, she had become the fifth Beatle.” Lennon later expressed indignation when scenes of Yoko vocalizing to a Beatles jam were cut from the <em>Let it Be</em> movie. Clearly, he took Yoko’s presence as a quasi-band member seriously.</div>
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Furthermore, John sought to enforce these wishes at a time when he was trying to reassert himself as leader of the Beatles. It was a role John had occupied during the early days, when Stuart had joined the group. By contrast, many Beatles ideas in 1967 had originated with Paul. Privately, Lennon simmered, as he told <em>Rolling Stone</em>: “When Paul felt like it, he would come in with about twenty good songs… and I suddenly had to write a fucking stack of songs. <em>Pepper</em> was like that. And <em>Magical Mystery Tour</em> was another.” Perhaps, following the critical panning which greeted the <em>Magical Mystery Tour</em> film, John felt it was time for a change. Or perhaps, being with Yoko simply gave him renewed confidence.</div>
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“Bit by bit over a two-year period, I had destroyed me ego. I didn’t believe I could do anything. I just was nothing. I was shit… and she (Yoko) made me realize that I was me and that it’s all right. That was it; I started fighting again, being a loudmouth again and saying, “I can do this. Fuck it. This is what I want,” you know. “I want it, and don’t put me down.”</div>
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With Yoko, John felt he had reawakened his own crucial sense of personal authenticity. Years later, he gave this assessment of the Beatles’ split:</div>
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“…That’s how the Beatles ended. Not because Yoko split the Beatles, but because she showed me what it was to be Elvis Beatle and to be surrounded by sycophants and slaves who were only interested in keeping the situation as it was. She said to me, you’ve got no clothes on. Nobody had dared tell me that before.”</div>
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Nobody, perhaps, except for Stuart Sutcliffe. In the early sixties, John wrote long, honest letters to Sutcliffe, sharing John’s inner thoughts, as he would later do with Yoko. Tellingly, in 1967, John remembered Stu with these words: “I looked up to Stu. I depended on him to tell me the truth.”</div>
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Feeling he was once more being true to himself, John was furious when Paul got the credit for announcing the Beatles’ split to the press in 1970. Lennon would continue to try to set the record straight for the rest of his life. It seems ironic that John’s wife has been lambasted for years for supposedly splitting the group up, an act for which John himself publicly sought credit. Those who blame Yoko Ono for breaking up the Beatles may have a hard time facing the truth: that John Lennon broke up the Beatles. As he confidently wrote in the late seventies, “I started the band. I disbanded it. It’s as simple as that.”</div>
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John elaborated on his decision to leave in a 1980 interview with <em>Playboy</em>: “What I did… in my own cowardly way was <span style="text-decoration: underline;">use</span> Yoko… it was like now I have the strength to leave because I know there is another side to life.” This other side to life included a host of different artistic projects, many of them employing John’s latent art school talents. He collaborated with Yoko on a whirlwind of films, lithographs, and art shows, just as Stu had resumed his dedication to painting once the distraction of the rock band was removed. Yoko, then, became the escape from the Beatles that John had already been looking for. The template for this particular kind of escape had been established years before. We must remember that John was barely 29 years old when he told the other Beatles he was quitting the group in September 1969. For John, the best example of an appealing alternate life had been seen a mere eight years before, in the bohemian path of art and love chosen by his close friend Stu.</div>
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Pete Shotton remembers John describing his new romance with Yoko: “It’s just like how we used to fall in love when we were kids.”</div>
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John certainly remembered “when we were kids.”</div>
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He remembered Stu and Astrid.</div>
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By Shelley Germeaux, Daytrippin’ West Coast Correspondent</div>
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<em>[Editor's note: This article, originally published on Daytrippin's site in 2006, is one of our most popular articles on John Lennon. We decided to re-post it today in remembrance of John Lennon on the anniversary of his death.]</em></div>
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Now that the pay-per-view show entitled <em>The Spirit of John Lennon</em> has made its television debut, grossing over $8 million in one night, my in-box has been full of emails dismissing the show outright for its sensationalist production.</div>
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The show claims to have contacted John’s spirit during seances, psychic readings, EVP’s (electronic voice phenomena) and through channeled music by an Indian guru. The manner in which this show was produced, through scary background music and a narrator who sounds like the guy from the Twilight Zone, shot down any chance of the show being taken seriously. The best part of the show was the Indian guru who channeled a beautiful song from John on a sitar. When translated into an American style, it did sound like something John might have written. But most of the show reminded me of an over-produced magic show.</div>
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This tells me it is a good time to talk about the serious side of John’s spirit communications, for those having a penchant for the “other side.” To be honest, I’m a closet spiritualist myself and am definitely a believer in the paranormal because of my own experiences. Many years ago I began having profound dreams, strange coincidences and paranormal occurrences about John Lennon and I couldn‚Äôt deny his presence in my personal life.</div>
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I haven’t really talked about it openly as of yet. But one thing I can say for sure is that the feeling of his presence with me caused me to do the writing and research I have done about his life and the Beatles, which led me to Daytrippin’ Magazine. So to that end, if I’ve done something positive for his memory, then perhaps I’m fulfilling a worthwhile purpose on his behalf.</div>
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There are other people braver than I, who have published their experiences with John Lennon’s spirit, and this is the subject of this article.</div>
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A couple of weeks ago I received an email from a friend of mine, Linda Keen, asking if<em>Daytrippin’</em> readers would be interested in a review of her book, Across the Universe With John Lennon. First published in 1994, I had loved the book, and the similarity in my experiences inspired me to write to Linda and form a friendship that has lasted over 10 years. I remember reading it at that time with rapt interest, shocked into realizing that I had not been imagining John’s presence after all. There was a lot more going on here than any of us understood. It changed my life and helped me to accept the profound spiritual guidance that John seemed to be offering. But would fans take the information seriously?</div>
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The same week that Linda wrote me, I had, coincidentally, just finished reading Jewelle St. James’ book called <em>All You Need Is Love</em>, about her discovery of a past life with John in England in the 1700s. I had assumed that this book would simply be a discussion of her dreams, past life regressions, and things like that, that wouldn’t necessarily prove anything. Imagine my surprise when I could not put the book down, reading into the wee hours of the morning until I had reached the very last word.</div>
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She had actually backed up her dreams and psychic readings with genealogical type research, including traveling to England, finally uncovering documents that proved the existence of the lifetime in question. It provided an element of proof of reincarnation that was stunning.</div>
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Later that week, the advertisement for the John Lennon seance on TV appeared, and I thought, well it’s time to separate the wheat from the chaff.</div>
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Here is a discussion of the books that have already been out there, hiding on bookshelves and on Amazon all these years, without too much excitement or publicity. These authors have really compelling, truthful and loving stories to tell, without giving a hoot about their own fame. They just want to get their stories out there, and have had to go to considerable personal expense to do it. The courage to do this, as I have myself discovered, is hard to come by. One has to go beyond the fear of ridicule from others, but also their own doubts.</div>
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Here are the books that are available should you want to pursue this subject:</div>
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<strong><em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0935699007/daytrippinmagazi" style="color: #8a3207; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img alt="" class="alignright size-full wp-image-490" src="http://daytrippinmag.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/peace-at-last-book.jpg?w=510" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; display: inline; float: right; margin-bottom: 2px; margin-left: 7px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 4px;" title="peace-at-last-book" /></a>Peace At Last: The After-Death Experiences of John Lennon</em></strong></div>
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This was the first book that was published, from all I can tell, about John’s afterlife. Jason is a clairaudient who wrote The Death of the Prophet in 1979, the channeled works of Kahlil Gibran, who died in 1931. John came to Jason three nights after he died, only to say he was being kept strongly on the earth plane because of all the people who were grieving for him. He says he has a lot of adjustments to make to his new form, and that he needs to heal, but that he would be in contact.</div>
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Throughout 1981, John related what he experienced when he died, and what he was seeing and feeling. Jason describes John’s reaction at seeing his mother Julia waiting for him, and all she tells him.</div>
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After explaining the seven different heavenly realms, she explains that since John was such a powerful spokesman for the world, he is being asked to continue his work with humanity. She assures him that the world will listen. He learns that the earth is about to awaken, but that first, humanity must awaken and arise. He will be one of the spirit beings to interact with people on earth to get this message across.</div>
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He describes the various dimensions he is introduced to, and the realization that his thought alone can take him to a different place. He learns that Heaven is what you imagine it to be, and is as good as you can allow it. He talks about his wish to stay on the earth plane to help humanity. That he will be here as the planet goes through immense shifts and changes in the coming years.</div>
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The transmissions include many metaphysical terms about frequency changes, heightened awareness, and electromagnetic changes within our DNA that must occur in order to successfully accommodate the required growth.</div>
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More information about Jason is at <a href="http://www.kahlil.org/" style="color: #8a3207; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">www.kahlil.org</a>, and <a href="http://www.kryon.com/inspiritmag/" style="color: #8a3207; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">www.kryon.com/inspiritmag/</a></div>
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1571741372/daytrippinmagazi" style="color: #8a3207; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img alt="" class="alignright size-full wp-image-483" src="http://daytrippinmag.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/acrossuniversebk.gif?w=510" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; display: inline; float: right; margin-bottom: 2px; margin-left: 7px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 4px;" title="acrossuniversebk" /></a><em><strong>Across the Universe with John Lennon</strong></em></div>
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First self-published under the name John Lennon in Heaven in 1994, it was reissued in 1999 under the new title, along with her 2nd book, Intuition Magic. Linda and her husband owned and operated an Intuition school in Holland, and before John came along, Linda was teaching many techniques to help people develop their psychic and intuition skills to better their own lives.</div>
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When John suddenly appeared in a profound dream in 1986, her life began to change. Quoting from the introduction, where Linda describes the dream, she says, “I am visiting a woman who is planning to write a book entitled John Lennon in Heaven. She is going to converse with John about what it is like to exist after death, and apparently, he is very eager to participate–in fact, he has organized the whole thing himself . . .as I awaken, the quality of it lingers in my whole body and mind, leaving me inspired yet perplexed.”</div>
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Despite her efforts to dismiss the dream, John began popping up in her mind regularly; laughing at something she said, or giving her some advice. She couldn’t get him out of her mind, and she began searching for anything having to do with John Lennon and the Beatles. She became a Beatle fan all over again. The dreams began to increase. One night she dreamt that she was lifting John out of a grave, whereupon he got up on his feet and put her jeans on. In March of 1987 she made the decision to try and contact him directly.</div>
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From there on, the book describes her conversations with him, the spiritual lessons he taught her, the realizations about God, and the lessons he learned about his life. She helped him through his own grief, and he helped her through her doubts. He finally convinces her to get a computer (remember it was the early 90’s!) and begin writing a book, so she could communicate what he was teaching her to the world. It was a friendship based on spiritual guidance that grew and continues to this day.</div>
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It is a fantastic journey through the soul’s growth and through spiritual teachings. As John always believed during his lifetime, he teaches her that reality extends way beyond what we can see. There is much more to the ultimate truth.</div>
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Since the publication of her book in 1994, many people have contacted Linda to tell her about their own connection to John. Linda has a website at <a href="http://www.keenintuition.com/" style="color: #8a3207; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">www.keenintuition.com</a> .</div>
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Published in 1995 as Imagine: A Past Life with John Lennon, this edition continues the story and adds photos. Jewelle was a Canadian housewife and begins her story with the morning after John was murdered, December 9, 1980. She had not been a Beatle fan at all. She hadn’t even listened to the album, Imagine. But for some reason unknown to her, news on the television of his death caused a tidal wave of grief she could not recover from or explain.</div>
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Over the coming weeks, her embarrassment at the torrent of sadness and uncontrollable tears caused her to employ extreme efforts to get over it, to save face in front of her concerned family and friends, but it was futile. She would get in the car with the kids only to hear Starting Over on the radio, and suddenly burst into sobs. No one understood why she was obsessing over a dead rock star that she had never really cared for while he was alive. Neither did she. And now she was becoming a Beatle fan, collecting everything she could on John’s life.</div>
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She had the luck of being born into a psychic family, and after about three years of struggling emotionally, she approached her mother and sister, at separate times, with her problem. She wanted an explanation that perhaps transcended current day reality. They told her such specific information about a lifetime that her and John shared, down to the names, that she began a search to discover whether any of it was true.</div>
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From there Jewelle discovers that her grief in this lifetime was a result of unhealed grief from the prior lifetime. John, in a prior life as the love of her life, John Baron, had died suddenly of illness, and she herself had died of a broken heart soon after.</div>
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She travels to England, where she eventually discovers records that actually document the existence of the two people she and John were. Soon she understands the unhealed emotions that needed to now be allowed expression. This is a story of karmic healing that is inspiring and fascinating, especially when it is realized that healing a prior lifetime also heals the current lifetime, and the soul for the rest of eternity.</div>
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John Edward is internationally acclaimed as a psychic medium. He has hosted his own television show Crossing Over with John Edward, been a frequent guest on Larry King Live and many other shows. He also was featured in the HBO documentary Life After Life.</div>
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I immediately bought the book, and as I read through it I discovered a chapter called “Legends of Rock”. I turned to it instantly and began to read about how Carl Perkins’ daughter had wanted to have a reading with John Edward in 1998 after her dad died. A friend set the reading up, only saying what the daughter’s first name was. The reading was significant because John did not know who her father was, until, befuddled, he said “Elvis is with your dad..who was your dad?” Amazed, the daughter then admitted that Carl Perkins was her father and that he was the one who wrote Blue Suede Shoes.</div>
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Following the full description of this reading, which is fully outlined in the book, to my surprise Mr. Edward then recounts a story about John Lennon that I had been familiar with in part, from the 1998 video (VHS) called Paul McCartney and Carl Perkins: My Old Friend. I had no idea the story was in the book, and I learned some details that had not been on the video.</div>
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In 1981, just after John Lennon died, Paul and Linda invited Carl to stay with them in Montserrat. Paul wanted Carl’s help recording a song called Get It for his new album, Tug Of War. Carl spent eight days with them, and George and Ringo had been there to help out as well. It was a great time between old friends who had shared such a legendary musical past.</div>
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The night before he left, a song came to Carl that summed up his warm feelings about the visit, and he couldn’t get it out of his mind. It was so strong that Carl didn’t even write it down, which was strange for him. He usually always wrote his songs down immediately.</div>
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In the morning, Carl Perkins sang the song, which he named My Old Friend, for Linda and Paul, saying it was his gift for having him as a guest. Half way through the song, after singing “if we never meet again this side of life, in a little while, over yonder, where there’s peace and quiet, my old friend, won’t you think about me every now and then?” tears streamed down Paul’s face and he stood up and stepped outside.</div>
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Not knowing what the matter was, Carl stopped and Linda put her arms around him, thanking him for helping Paul to connect with his grief over John Lennon’s death. Now this next part was not in the video, but according to the book, Linda explained that the last time Paul talked to John, he had said the same line to Paul, “think of me every now and then, my old friend.”</div>
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Carl had no doubt that the song was from John Lennon, as a gift to Paul.</div>
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The story doesn’t end there. The only reason this story is known publicly is because Carl told the story while being filmed in 1997 for what would later become part of the video I mentioned above. When he got done telling the story on camera, sitting in his studio, and sang the refrain, his wife buzzed in on the intercom, and said, “Carl, Paul McCartney just called.” Carl was so stunned at the coincidence he turned to the camera, speechless, and said “you tell me this boy has not got a connection to the spirit world!”</div>
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Carl Perkins coincidentally died exactly one year to the day later, after suffering two strokes. If he had not been inspired to do a video in 1997 on his musical career, and recounted this experience, we would never have known the story.</div>
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<em>Shelley Germeaux is a John Lennon expert in her own right. She has done extensive research on Lennon including interviews with May Pang and Lennon’s half-sister, Julia Baird. Shelley is also an independent publishing consultant with Heritage Makers. Visit her website at<a href="http://www.shelleys-memory-books.com/" style="color: #8a3207; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">www.shelleys-memory-books.com</a></em></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In popular music, a cover version or cover song, or simply cover, is a new performance or recording of a contemporary or previously recorded, commercially released song or popular song. It can sometimes have a pejorative meaning implying that the original recording should be regarded as the definitive or "authentic" version, and all others merely lesser competitors, alternatives or tributes (no matter how popular). Originally, Billboard and other magazines which track the popularity of the musical artists and hit tunes measured the sales success of the published tune, not just recordings of it. Later, they tracked the airplay that songs achieved, for which some cover versions are the more successful recording(s) of the particular song(s).Cover versions of well known, well liked, tunes are often recorded by new artists to achieve initial success when their unfamiliar original material would be less likely to be successful. Prior to the onset of Rock 'n' Roll in the 1950s, songs were published and several records of a song might be brought out by singers of the day, each giving it their individual treatment. Any singer who appeared to be copying an already successful version of the song would be viewed with disfavor. The trend, however, became for records to be produced, usually with particular background noises, and no other group would attempt a version. <i>(From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)</i></span></div>
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<td class="xl69"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">A Groovy Kind Of Love</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Diane And Annita (1965)</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Mindbenders (1965)</span></td>
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<td class="xl69"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Abracadabra</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Steve Miller Band (1982)</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Sugar Ray (1999)</span></td>
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<td class="xl69"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Achilles Last Stand</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Led Zeppelin (1976)</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Dream Theater (1995)</span></td>
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<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">4</span></td>
<td class="xl69"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">After Midnight</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">J. J. Cale (1970)</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Eric Clapton (1970)</span></td>
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<td class="xl69"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">After The Gold Rush</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Neil Young (1970)</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Harris / Parton / Ronstadt (1999)</span></td>
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<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">6</span></td>
<td class="xl69"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Alabama Song (Whiskey Bar)</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Kurt Weill (1930)</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Doors (1967)</span></td>
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<td class="xl69"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">All Along The Watchtower</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Bob Dylan (1967)</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Jimi Hendrix (1968)</span></td>
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<td class="xl69"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">All I Really Want To Do</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Bob Dylan (1964)</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Cher (1965)</span></td>
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<td class="xl69"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">America</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Simon and Garfunkel (1968)</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Yes (1972)</span></td>
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<td class="xl69"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">American Woman</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Guess Who (1970)</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Lenny Kravitz (1998)</span></td>
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<td class="xl69"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Astronomy</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Blue Oyster Cult (1974)</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Metallica (1998)</span></td>
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<td class="xl69"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Babe I'm Gonna Leave You</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Joan Baez (1962)</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Led Zeppelin (1969)</span></td>
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<td class="xl69"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Baby It's You</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Shirelles (1961)</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Smith (1969)</span></td>
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<td class="xl69"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Backdoor Man</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Howlin' Wolf (1960)</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Doors (1970)</span></td>
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<td class="xl69"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Back in N.Y.C.</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Genesis (1974)</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Jeff Buckley (1998)</span></td>
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<td class="xl69"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Back In The High Life Again</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Steve Winwood (1987)</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Warren Zevon (2000)</span></td>
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<td class="xl69"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Battle of Evermore</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Led Zeppelin (1971)</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Heart (2003)</span></td>
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<td class="xl69"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Because the Night</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Patti Smith (1978)</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">10,000 Maniacs (1993)</span></td>
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<td class="xl69"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Big Yellow Taxi</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Joni Mitchell (1970)</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Counting Crows (2002)</span></td>
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<td class="xl69"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Billie Jean</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Michael Jackson (1982)</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Chris Cornell (2007)</span></td>
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<td class="xl69"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Black Magic Woman</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Fleetwood Mac (1968)</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Santana (1970)</span></td>
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<td class="xl69"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Blinded By The Light</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Bruce Springsteen (1973)</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Manfred Mann's Earth Band (1976)</span></td>
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<td class="xl69"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Blue Bayou</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Roy Orbison (1963)</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Linda Ronstadt (1977)</span></td>
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<td class="xl69"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Blue Suede Shoes</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Carl Perkins (1955)</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Elvis Presley (1956)</span></td>
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<td class="xl69"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Blueberry Hill</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Gene Autry (1941)</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Fats Domino (1956)</span></td>
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<td class="xl69"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Born Under a Bad Sign</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Albert King (1967)</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Cream (1968)</span></td>
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<td class="xl69"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Break on Through (to the Other Side)</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Doors (1967)</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Stone Temple Pilots (2000)</span></td>
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<td class="xl69"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">California Girls</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Beach Boys (1965)</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">David Lee Roth (1985)</span></td>
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<td class="xl69"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">California Sun</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Joe Jones (1961)</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Rivieras (1964)</span></td>
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<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">30</span></td>
<td class="xl69"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Can't Find My Way Home</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Blind Faith (1969)</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Electronic (2001)</span></td>
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<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">31</span></td>
<td class="xl69"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Cat Scratch Fever</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Ted Nugent (1977)</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Pantera (2003)</span></td>
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<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">32</span></td>
<td class="xl69"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Chains</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The Cookies (1962)</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Beatles (1963)</span></td>
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<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">33</span></td>
<td class="xl69"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">China Girl</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Iggy Pop (1977)</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">David Bowie (1983)</span></td>
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<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">34</span></td>
<td class="xl69"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Cinnamon Girl</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Neil Young (1969)</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Matthew Sweet & Susanna Hoffs (2006)</span></td>
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<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">35</span></td>
<td class="xl69"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Cocaine</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">J. J. Cale (1976)</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Eric Clapton (1977)</span></td>
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<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">36</span></td>
<td class="xl69"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Come Dancing</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Kinks (1983)</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Matchbox 20 (2007)</span></td>
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<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">37</span></td>
<td class="xl69"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Come On (let the good times roll)</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Earl King (1960)</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Jimi Hendrix (1968)</span></td>
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<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">38</span></td>
<td class="xl69"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Come On Eileen</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Dexy's Midnight Runners (1983)</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Save Ferris (1997)</span></td>
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<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">39</span></td>
<td class="xl69"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Come Together</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Beatles (1969)</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Aerosmith (1978)</span></td>
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<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">40</span></td>
<td class="xl69"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Crossroads</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Robert Johnson (1936)</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Cream (1968)</span></td>
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<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">41</span></td>
<td class="xl69"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Cruise Control</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Dixie Dregs (1977)</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Dream Theater (1995)</span></td>
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<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">42</span></td>
<td class="xl69"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Crying In The Chapel</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Darrell Glenn (1953)</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Elvis Presley (1965)</span></td>
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<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">43</span></td>
<td class="xl69"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Cum On Feel The Noize</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Slade (1973)</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Quiet Riot (1983)</span></td>
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<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">44</span></td>
<td class="xl69"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Dancing In The Moonlight</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Thin Lizzy (1977)</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Smashing Pumpkins (1993)</span></td>
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<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">45</span></td>
<td class="xl69"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Dancing In The Street</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Martha & the Vandellas (1964)</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Van Halen (1982)</span></td>
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<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">46</span></td>
<td class="xl69"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Day Tripper</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Beatles (1965)</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Otis Redding (1966)</span></td>
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<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">47</span></td>
<td class="xl69"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Dedicated To The One I Love</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"5" Royales (1957)</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Mamas & Papas (1967)</span></td>
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<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">48</span></td>
<td class="xl69"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Der Kommissar</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Falco (1981)</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">After the Fire (1982)</span></td>
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<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">49</span></td>
<td class="xl69"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Dizzy Miss Lizzy</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Larry Williams (1958)</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Beatles (1965)</span></td>
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<tr height="18" style="height: 13.5pt; mso-height-source: userset;">
<td class="xl79" height="18" style="height: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">50</span></td>
<td class="xl70" style="width: 194pt;" width="259"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 229pt;" width="305"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Nina Simone (1964)</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 200pt;" width="266"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The Animals (1965)</span></td>
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<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">51</span></td>
<td class="xl69"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Downtown Train</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Tom Waits (1985)</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Rod Stewart (1990)</span></td>
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<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">52</span></td>
<td class="xl69"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Dreams</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The Allman Brothers Band (1969)</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Molly Hatchet (1978)</span></td>
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<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">53</span></td>
<td class="xl69"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Drift Away</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Doby Gray (1973)</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Uncle Kracker (2003)</span></td>
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<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">54</span></td>
<td class="xl69"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Drive My Car</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Beatles (1965)</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Humble Pie (1975)</span></td>
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<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">55</span></td>
<td class="xl69"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Drown In My Own Tears</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Lulu Reed (1954)</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Ray Charles (1956)</span></td>
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<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">56</span></td>
<td class="xl69"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Everybody Plays The Fool</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Main Ingredient (1972)</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Aaron Neville (1991)</span></td>
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<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">57</span></td>
<td class="xl69"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Feelin' Alright</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Traffic (1968)</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Joe Cocker (1970)</span></td>
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<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">58</span></td>
<td class="xl69"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Fire</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Jimi Hendrix (1967)</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Red Hot Chili Peppers (1989)</span></td>
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<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">59</span></td>
<td class="xl69"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">For Once in My Life</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Jean DuShon (1966)</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Stevie Wonder (1968)</span></td>
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<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">60</span></td>
<td class="xl69"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Get Ready</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Temptations (1966)</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Rare Earth (1969)</span></td>
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<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">61</span></td>
<td class="xl69"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Ghost Riders in the Sky</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Vaughn Monroe (1949)</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Johnny Cash (1979)</span></td>
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<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">62</span></td>
<td class="xl69"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Good Golly Miss Molly</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Little Richard (1958)</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Creedence Clearwater Revival (1969)</span></td>
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<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">63</span></td>
<td class="xl69"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Good Morning Little School Girl</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Sonny Boy Williamson (1937)</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Ten Years After (1969)</span></td>
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<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">64</span></td>
<td class="xl69"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Green Manalishi</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Fleetwood Mac (1972)</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Judas Priest (1979)</span></td>
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<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">65</span></td>
<td class="xl69"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Hallelujah</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Leonard Cohen (1985)</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Jeff Buckley (1994)</span></td>
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<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">66</span></td>
<td class="xl69"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Hanky Panky</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Raindrops (1963)</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Tommy James & the Shondells (1963)</span></td>
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<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">67</span></td>
<td class="xl69"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Hard To Handle</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Otis Redding (1968)</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Black Crows (1989)</span></td>
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<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">68</span></td>
<td class="xl69"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Havana Affair</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Ramones (1976)</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Red Hot Chili Peppers (2003)</span></td>
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<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">69</span></td>
<td class="xl69"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Have a Cigar</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Pink Floyd (1975)</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Primus (1992)</span></td>
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<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">70</span></td>
<td class="xl69"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Hazy Shade Of Winter</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Simon & Garfunkel (1968)</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Bangles (1987)</span></td>
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<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">71</span></td>
<td class="xl69"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Heard It Through The Grapevine</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Gladys Night & the Pips (1967)</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Creedence Clearwater Revival (1970)</span></td>
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<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">72</span></td>
<td class="xl69"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Heart Shaped Box</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Nirvana (1993)</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Evanescence (2003)</span></td>
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<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">73</span></td>
<td class="xl69"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Helter Skelter</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Beatles (1968)</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Aerosmith (1991)</span></td>
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<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">74</span></td>
<td class="xl69"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Here Comes the Sun</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Beatles (1969)</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Richie Havens (1971)</span></td>
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<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">75</span></td>
<td class="xl69"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Hey Hey What Can I Do</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Led Zeppelin (1970)</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Hootie & the Blowfish (2000)</span></td>
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<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">76</span></td>
<td class="xl69"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Hey Joe</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The Leaves (1965)</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Jimi Hendrix (1966)</span></td>
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<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">77</span></td>
<td class="xl69"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Higher Ground</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Stevie Wonder (1973)</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Red Hot Chili Peppers (1989)</span></td>
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<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">78</span></td>
<td class="xl69"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Honey Don't</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Carl Perkins (1956)</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Beatles (1964)</span></td>
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<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">79</span></td>
<td class="xl69"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Honey Hush</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Joe Turner (1953)</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Johnny Burnette Trio (1956)</span></td>
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<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">80</span></td>
<td class="xl69"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Hooked On A Feeling</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">B. J. Thomas (1968)</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Blue Swede (1974)</span></td>
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<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">81</span></td>
<td class="xl69"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Hound Dog</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Big Mama Thornton (1953)</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Elvis Presley (1956)</span></td>
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<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">82</span></td>
<td class="xl69"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Hurt</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Nine Inch Nails (1994)</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Johnny Cash (2003)</span></td>
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<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">83</span></td>
<td class="xl69"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Hush</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Billy Joe Royal (1967)</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Deep Purple (1968)</span></td>
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<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">84</span></td>
<td class="xl69"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I Can Hear Music</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Ronettes (1966)</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Beach Boys (1968)</span></td>
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<tr height="19" style="height: 14.25pt; mso-height-source: userset;">
<td class="xl79" height="19" style="height: 14.25pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">85</span></td>
<td class="xl70" style="width: 194pt;" width="259"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 229pt;" width="305"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Rolling Stones (1965)</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 200pt;" width="266"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Otis Redding (1965)</span></td>
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<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">86</span></td>
<td class="xl69"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I Just Want To Make Love To You</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Muddy Waters (1954)</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Foghat (1977)</span></td>
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<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">87</span></td>
<td class="xl69"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I Fought The Law</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The Crickets (without Holly) (1961)</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The Clash (1978)</span></td>
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<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">88</span></td>
<td class="xl69"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I Put a Spell on You</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Screamin' Jay Hawkins (1956)</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Creedence Clearwater Revival (1968)</span></td>
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<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">89</span></td>
<td class="xl69"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I Shot the Sheriff</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Bob Marley (1973)</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Eric Clapton (1974)</span></td>
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<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">90</span></td>
<td class="xl69"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I Thank You</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Sam & Dave (1968)</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">ZZ Top (1980)</span></td>
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<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">91</span></td>
<td class="xl69"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I Wanna Be Sedated</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Ramones (1978)</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The Offspring (2003)</span></td>
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<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">92</span></td>
<td class="xl69"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I Want Candy</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The Strangeloves (1965)</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Bow Wow Wow (1982)</span></td>
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<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">93</span></td>
<td class="xl69"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I Will Survive</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Gloria Gaynor (1978)</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Cake (1996)</span></td>
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<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">94</span></td>
<td class="xl69"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">If You Don't Know Me By Now</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Harold Melvin & Blue Notes (1972)</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Simply Red (1989)</span></td>
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<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">95</span></td>
<td class="xl69"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">(I'm A) Road Runner</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Jr. Walker & the All Stars (1965)</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Humble Pie (1973)</span></td>
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<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">96</span></td>
<td class="xl69"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I'm Gonna Be A Wheel Someday</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Bobby Mitchell (1957)</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Fats Domino (1959)</span></td>
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<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">97</span></td>
<td class="xl69"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I'm A Man</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Spencer Davis Group (1967)</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Chicago (1969)</span></td>
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<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">98</span></td>
<td class="xl69"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">In the Flesh?</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Pink Floyd (1979)</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Dream Theater (1995)</span></td>
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<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">99</span></td>
<td class="xl69"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">In the Midnight Hour</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Wilson Pickett (1965)</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The Young Rascals (1966)</span></td>
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<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">100</span></td>
<td class="xl69"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">It Ain't Me Babe</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Bob Dylan (1964)</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The Turtles (1965)</span></td>
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<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">101</span></td>
<td class="xl69"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">It's My Life</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Talk Talk (1984)</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">No Doubt (2004)</span></td>
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<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">102</span></td>
<td class="xl69"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">It's My Party</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Lesley Gore (1963)</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Bryan Ferry (1973)</span></td>
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<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">103</span></td>
<td class="xl69"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Jailhouse Rock</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Elvis Presley (1957)</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Jeff Beck Group (1969)</span></td>
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<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">104</span></td>
<td class="xl69"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Jolene</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Dolly Parton (1974)</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The White Stripes (2004)</span></td>
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<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">105</span></td>
<td class="xl69"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Journey To The Center Of The Mind</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The Amboy Dukes (1968)</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Ramones (1994)</span></td>
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<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">106</span></td>
<td class="xl69"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Kansas City</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Little Willie Littlefield (1952)</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Wilbert Harrison (1959)</span></td>
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<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">107</span></td>
<td class="xl69"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Kashmir</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Led Zeppelin (1975)</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Jeff Buckley (2001)</span></td>
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<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">108</span></td>
<td class="xl69"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Keep a Knockin'</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Louis Jordan (1941)</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Little Richard (1957)</span></td>
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<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">109</span></td>
<td class="xl69"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Kentucky Woman</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Neil Diamond (1967)</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Deep Purple (1968)</span></td>
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<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">110</span></td>
<td class="xl69"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Kick Out The Jams</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">MC5 (1969)</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Rage Against The Machine (2000)</span></td>
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<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">111</span></td>
<td class="xl69"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Kid A</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Radiohead (2000)</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">John Mayer (2001)</span></td>
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<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">112</span></td>
<td class="xl69"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Knockin' On Heavens Door</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Bob Dylan (1973)</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Guns N' Roses (1991)</span></td>
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<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">113</span></td>
<td class="xl69"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">La Bamba</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Ritchie Valens (1958)</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Los Lobos (1987)</span></td>
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<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">114</span></td>
<td class="xl69"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Landslide</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Fleetwood Mac (1975)</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Smashing Pumpkins (1994)</span></td>
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<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">115</span></td>
<td class="xl69"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Last Kiss</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Wayne Cochran (1961)</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Pearl Jam (2003)</span></td>
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<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">116</span></td>
<td class="xl69"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Let's Spend the Night Together</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Rolling Stones (1967)</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">David Bowie (1973)</span></td>
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<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">117</span></td>
<td class="xl69"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Light My Fire</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Doors (1967)</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Jose Feliciano (1968)</span></td>
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<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">118</span></td>
<td class="xl69"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Little Wing</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Jimi Hendrix (1967)</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Derek & The Dominos (1970)</span></td>
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<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">119</span></td>
<td class="xl69"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Live And Let Die</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Paul McCartney & Wings (1971)</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Guns N' Roses (1991)</span></td>
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<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt; mso-height-source: userset;">
<td class="xl79" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">120</span></td>
<td class="xl70" style="width: 194pt;" width="259"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Long Tall Sally</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 229pt;" width="305"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Little Richard (1956)</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 200pt;" width="266"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Beatles (1964)</span></td>
</tr>
<tr height="22" style="height: 16.5pt; mso-height-source: userset;">
<td class="xl79" height="22" style="height: 16.5pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">121</span></td>
<td class="xl70" style="width: 194pt;" width="259"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Look At Little Sister</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Hank Ballard & The Midnighters (1959)</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 200pt;" width="266"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Stevie Ray Vaughan (1985)</span></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt; mso-height-source: userset;">
<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">122</span></td>
<td class="xl70" style="width: 194pt;" width="259"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Louie Louie</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 229pt;" width="305"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Richard Berry (1957)</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 200pt;" width="266"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The Kingsmen (1963)</span></td>
</tr>
<tr height="18" style="height: 13.5pt; mso-height-source: userset;">
<td class="xl79" height="18" style="height: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">123</span></td>
<td class="xl70" style="width: 194pt;" width="259"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Love Hurts</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 229pt;" width="305"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The Everly Brothers (1960)</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 200pt;" width="266"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Nazareth (1975)</span></td>
</tr>
<tr height="22" style="height: 16.5pt; mso-height-source: userset;">
<td class="xl79" height="22" style="height: 16.5pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">124</span></td>
<td class="xl70" style="width: 194pt;" width="259"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Love in Vain</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 229pt;" width="305"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Robert Johnson (1938)</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 200pt;" width="266"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Rolling Stones (1969)</span></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt; mso-height-source: userset;">
<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">125</span></td>
<td class="xl70" style="width: 194pt;" width="259"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Love Potion #9</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 229pt;" width="305"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Clovers (1959)</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 200pt;" width="266"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Searchers (1964)</span></td>
</tr>
<tr height="22" style="height: 16.5pt; mso-height-source: userset;">
<td class="xl79" height="22" style="height: 16.5pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">126</span></td>
<td class="xl70" style="width: 194pt;" width="259"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Love Song</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 229pt;" width="305"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The Cure (1989)</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 200pt;" width="266"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">311 (2004)</span></td>
</tr>
<tr height="23" style="height: 17.25pt; mso-height-source: userset;">
<td class="xl79" height="23" style="height: 17.25pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">127</span></td>
<td class="xl70" style="width: 194pt;" width="259"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Lucille</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 229pt;" width="305"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Little Richard (1957)</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 200pt;" width="266"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The Everly Brothers (1960)</span></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">128</span></td>
<td class="xl69"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Lucy In the Sky With Diamonds</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 229pt;" width="305"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Beatles (1967)</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 200pt;" width="266"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Elton John (1974)</span></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">129</span></td>
<td class="xl70" style="width: 194pt;" width="259"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Mad Worlds</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 229pt;" width="305"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Tears For Fears (1982)</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 200pt;" width="266"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Gary Jules (2001)</span></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">130</span></td>
<td class="xl70" style="width: 194pt;" width="259"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Maggie's Farm</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 229pt;" width="305"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Bob Dylan (1965)</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 200pt;" width="266"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Rage Against the Machine (2000)</span></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">131</span></td>
<td class="xl70" style="width: 194pt;" width="259"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Me And Bobby McGee</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 229pt;" width="305"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Kris Kristofferson (1970)</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 200pt;" width="266"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Janis Joplin (1971)</span></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">132</span></td>
<td class="xl70" style="width: 194pt;" width="259"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Mony Mony</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 229pt;" width="305"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Tommy James (1968)</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 200pt;" width="266"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Billy Idol (1987)</span></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">133</span></td>
<td class="xl70" style="width: 194pt;" width="259"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Move It On Over</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 229pt;" width="305"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Hank Williams Sr. (1947)</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 200pt;" width="266"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">George Thorogood (1978)</span></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">134</span></td>
<td class="xl70" style="width: 194pt;" width="259"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Mr. Tambourine Man</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 229pt;" width="305"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Bob Dylan (1964)</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 200pt;" width="266"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The Byrds (1965)</span></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">135</span></td>
<td class="xl70" style="width: 194pt;" width="259"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Mustang Sally</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 229pt;" width="305"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Sir Mack Rice (1965)</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 200pt;" width="266"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Wilson Pickett (1966)</span></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">136</span></td>
<td class="xl70" style="width: 194pt;" width="259"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">My Back Pages</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 229pt;" width="305"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Bob Dylan (1964)</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 200pt;" width="266"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The Byrds (1967)</span></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">137</span></td>
<td class="xl69"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">My Blue Heaven</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Gene Austin (1928)</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Fats Domino (1956)</span></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">138</span></td>
<td class="xl69"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Night Time (Is The Right Time)</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Nappy Brown (1957)</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Ray Charles (1959)</span></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">139</span></td>
<td class="xl70" style="width: 194pt;" width="259"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">No Quarter</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 229pt;" width="305"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Led Zeppelin (1973)</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 200pt;" width="266"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Tool (2000)</span></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">140</span></td>
<td class="xl70" style="width: 194pt;" width="259"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Not Fade Away</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 229pt;" width="305"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Buddy Holly (1957)</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 200pt;" width="266"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Rush (1973)</span></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">141</span></td>
<td class="xl70" style="width: 194pt;" width="259"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Nothing Compares to U</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 229pt;" width="305"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Prince (1984)</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 200pt;" width="266"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Sinead O'Connor (1990)</span></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">142</span></td>
<td class="xl70" style="width: 194pt;" width="259"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Oh Girl</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 229pt;" width="305"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The Chi-Lites (1972)</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 200pt;" width="266"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Paul Young (1990)</span></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">143</span></td>
<td class="xl70" style="width: 194pt;" width="259"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Oh Pretty Woman</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 229pt;" width="305"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Roy Orbison (1964)</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 200pt;" width="266"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Van Halen (1982)</span></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">144</span></td>
<td class="xl70" style="width: 194pt;" width="259"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Once Bitten Twice Shy</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 229pt;" width="305"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Ian Hunter (1975)</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 200pt;" width="266"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Great White (1990)</span></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">145</span></td>
<td class="xl70" style="width: 194pt;" width="259"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">One Bourbon, One Scotch, One
Beer</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 229pt;" width="305"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">John Lee Hooker (1967)</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 200pt;" width="266"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">George Thorogood (1977)</span></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">146</span></td>
<td class="xl70" style="width: 194pt;" width="259"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Only You</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 229pt;" width="305"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Cues (1954)</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 200pt;" width="266"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Platters (1954)</span></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">147</span></td>
<td class="xl70" style="width: 194pt;" width="259"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Paranoid</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 229pt;" width="305"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Black Sabbath (1970)</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 200pt;" width="266"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Megadeth (1994)</span></td>
</tr>
<tr height="30" style="height: 22.5pt;">
<td class="xl79" height="30" style="height: 22.5pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">148</span></td>
<td class="xl70" style="width: 194pt;" width="259"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Piece Of My Heart</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 229pt;" width="305"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Erma Franklin (1967)</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 200pt;" width="266"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Big Brother & Holding
Company (1968)</span></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">149</span></td>
<td class="xl70" style="width: 194pt;" width="259"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Please Mr. Postman</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 229pt;" width="305"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The Marvelettes (1961)</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 200pt;" width="266"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Beatles (1963)</span></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">150</span></td>
<td class="xl70" style="width: 194pt;" width="259"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Proud Mary</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 229pt;" width="305"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Creedence Clearwater Revival
(1969)</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 200pt;" width="266"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Ike & Tina Turner (1971)</span></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">151</span></td>
<td class="xl70" style="width: 194pt;" width="259"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Quinn The Eskimo</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 229pt;" width="305"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Bob Dylan (1967)</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 200pt;" width="266"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Manfred Mann's Earth Band (1968)</span></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">152</span></td>
<td class="xl70" style="width: 194pt;" width="259"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Real Wild Child (Wild One)</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Johnny O'Keefe & The Deejays (1958)</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 200pt;" width="266"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Iggy Pop (1986)</span></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">153</span></td>
<td class="xl70" style="width: 194pt;" width="259"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Reason to Believe</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 229pt;" width="305"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Tim Hardin (1966)</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 200pt;" width="266"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Rod Stewart (1971)</span></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">154</span></td>
<td class="xl70" style="width: 194pt;" width="259"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Red Red Wine</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 229pt;" width="305"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Neil Diamond (1968)</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 200pt;" width="266"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">UB40 (1984)</span></td>
</tr>
<tr height="30" style="height: 22.5pt;">
<td class="xl79" height="30" style="height: 22.5pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">155</span></td>
<td class="xl70" style="width: 194pt;" width="259"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Redemption Song</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 229pt;" width="305"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Bob Marley (1980)</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 200pt;" width="266"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Joe Strummer & the
Mescalaros (2003)</span></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">156</span></td>
<td class="xl70" style="width: 194pt;" width="259"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Refugee</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 229pt;" width="305"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Tom Petty (1980)</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 200pt;" width="266"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Melissa Etheridge (2005)</span></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">157</span></td>
<td class="xl70" style="width: 194pt;" width="259"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Respect</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 229pt;" width="305"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Otis Redding (1965)</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 200pt;" width="266"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Aretha Franklin (1967)</span></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">158</span></td>
<td class="xl70" style="width: 194pt;" width="259"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Revolution</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 229pt;" width="305"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Beatles (1968)</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 200pt;" width="266"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Stone Temple Pilots (2001)</span></td>
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<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">159</span></td>
<td class="xl70" style="width: 194pt;" width="259"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Rhythm of the Rain</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 229pt;" width="305"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The Cascades (1963)</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 200pt;" width="266"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Dan Fogelberg (1990)</span></td>
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<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">160</span></td>
<td class="xl70" style="width: 194pt;" width="259"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Rocking In The Free World</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 229pt;" width="305"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Neil Young (1989)</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 200pt;" width="266"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Pearl Jam (live) (2003)</span></td>
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<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">161</span></td>
<td class="xl70" style="width: 194pt;" width="259"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Roll Over Beethoven</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 229pt;" width="305"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Chuck Berry (1956)</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 200pt;" width="266"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Beatles (1963)</span></td>
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<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">162</span></td>
<td class="xl70" style="width: 194pt;" width="259"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Rollin' And Tumblin'</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 229pt;" width="305"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Muddy Waters (1950)</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 200pt;" width="266"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Cream (1966)</span></td>
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<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">163</span></td>
<td class="xl70" style="width: 194pt;" width="259"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Ruby Baby</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 229pt;" width="305"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Drifters (1956)</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 200pt;" width="266"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Dion (1963)</span></td>
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<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">164</span></td>
<td class="xl70" style="width: 194pt;" width="259"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Sabbra Cadabra</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 229pt;" width="305"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Black Sabbath (1974)</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 200pt;" width="266"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Metallica (1998)</span></td>
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<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">165</span></td>
<td class="xl70" style="width: 194pt;" width="259"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">School Day</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 229pt;" width="305"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Chuck Berry (1957)</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 200pt;" width="266"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">AC/DC (1975)</span></td>
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<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">166</span></td>
<td class="xl70" style="width: 194pt;" width="259"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Sea of Love</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 229pt;" width="305"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Phil Phillips (1959)</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 200pt;" width="266"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The Honeydrippers (1984)</span></td>
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<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">167</span></td>
<td class="xl70" style="width: 194pt;" width="259"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Shake Rattle & Roll</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 229pt;" width="305"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Big Joe Tuner (1954)</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Bill Haley & the Comets (1954)</span></td>
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<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">168</span></td>
<td class="xl70" style="width: 194pt;" width="259"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Shakin' All Over</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Johnny Kidd & the Pirates (1960)</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 200pt;" width="266"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The Guess Who (1965)</span></td>
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<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">169</span></td>
<td class="xl70" style="width: 194pt;" width="259"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Shapes Of Things</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 229pt;" width="305"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The Yardbirds (1966)</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 200pt;" width="266"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Gary Moore (1983)</span></td>
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<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">170</span></td>
<td class="xl70" style="width: 194pt;" width="259"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Signs</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Five Man Electical Band (1970)</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 200pt;" width="266"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Tesla (1990)</span></td>
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<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">171</span></td>
<td class="xl70" style="width: 194pt;" width="259"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Simple Man</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 229pt;" width="305"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Lynyrd Skynyrd (1973)</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Shinedown (2004)</span></td>
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<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">172</span></td>
<td class="xl70" style="width: 194pt;" width="259"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Sleep Walk</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 229pt;" width="305"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Santo & Johnny (1959)</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Brian Setzer Orchestra (1998)</span></td>
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<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">173</span></td>
<td class="xl70" style="width: 194pt;" width="259"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Smokestack Lightning</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 229pt;" width="305"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Howlin' Wolf (1956)</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Quicksilver Messenger Service (1968)</span></td>
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<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">174</span></td>
<td class="xl70" style="width: 194pt;" width="259"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Smokin' In The Boys Room</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 229pt;" width="305"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Brownsville Station (1974)</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 200pt;" width="266"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Motley Crue (1985)</span></td>
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<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">175</span></td>
<td class="xl69"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">So You Want To Be A Rock 'n' Roll Star</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 229pt;" width="305"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Byrds (1967)</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 200pt;" width="266"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Tom Petty (1986)</span></td>
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<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">176</span></td>
<td class="xl70" style="width: 194pt;" width="259"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Somebody To Love</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 229pt;" width="305"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The Great Society (1966)</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 200pt;" width="266"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Jefferson Airplane (1967)</span></td>
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<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">177</span></td>
<td class="xl70" style="width: 194pt;" width="259"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Spoonful</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 229pt;" width="305"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Howlin' Wolf (1960)</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 200pt;" width="266"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Cream (1966)</span></td>
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<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">178</span></td>
<td class="xl70" style="width: 194pt;" width="259"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Stand By Me</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 229pt;" width="305"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Ben E King (1961)</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 200pt;" width="266"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">John Lennon (1975)</span></td>
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<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">179</span></td>
<td class="xl70" style="width: 194pt;" width="259"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Statesboro Blues</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 229pt;" width="305"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Blind Willie McTell (1928)</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 200pt;" width="266"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Allman Brothers Band (1971)</span></td>
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<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">180</span></td>
<td class="xl70" style="width: 194pt;" width="259"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Stay</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Maurice Williams and The Zodiacs (1964)</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 200pt;" width="266"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Jackson Browne (1977 - Live)</span></td>
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<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">181</span></td>
<td class="xl70" style="width: 194pt;" width="259"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Summertime Blues</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 229pt;" width="305"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Eddie Cochran (1958)</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 200pt;" width="266"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The Who (1970)</span></td>
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<tr height="30" style="height: 22.5pt;">
<td class="xl79" height="30" style="height: 22.5pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">182</span></td>
<td class="xl70" style="width: 194pt;" width="259"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Susie Q</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 229pt;" width="305"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Dale Hawkins (1957)</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 200pt;" width="266"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Creedence Clearwater Revival
(1968)</span></td>
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<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">183</span></td>
<td class="xl70" style="width: 194pt;" width="259"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Sweet Dreams</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 229pt;" width="305"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Eurythmics (1983)</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 200pt;" width="266"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Marilyn Manson (1995)</span></td>
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<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">184</span></td>
<td class="xl70" style="width: 194pt;" width="259"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">T for Texas</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 229pt;" width="305"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Jimmy Rodgers (1928)</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 200pt;" width="266"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Lynyrd Skynyrd (1976)</span></td>
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<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">185</span></td>
<td class="xl70" style="width: 194pt;" width="259"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Take Me To The River</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 229pt;" width="305"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Al Green (1974)</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 200pt;" width="266"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Talking Heads (1978)</span></td>
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<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">186</span></td>
<td class="xl70" style="width: 194pt;" width="259"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Tainted Love</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 229pt;" width="305"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Gloria Jones (1964)</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 200pt;" width="266"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Soft Cell (1981)</span></td>
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<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">187</span></td>
<td class="xl70" style="width: 194pt;" width="259"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Taxman</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 229pt;" width="305"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Beatles (1966)</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 200pt;" width="266"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Franz Ferdinand (2005)</span></td>
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<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">188</span></td>
<td class="xl70" style="width: 194pt;" width="259"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The Air That I Breathe</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 229pt;" width="305"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Albert Hammond (1972)</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 200pt;" width="266"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Hollies (1974)</span></td>
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<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">189</span></td>
<td class="xl70" style="width: 194pt;" width="259"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The Crying Game</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 229pt;" width="305"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Dave Berry (1964)</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 200pt;" width="266"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Boy George (1992)</span></td>
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<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">190</span></td>
<td class="xl70" style="width: 194pt;" width="259"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The First Cut Is The Deepest</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 229pt;" width="305"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Cat Stevens (1967)</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 200pt;" width="266"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Sheryl Crow (2004)</span></td>
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<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">191</span></td>
<td class="xl70" style="width: 194pt;" width="259"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The Letter</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 229pt;" width="305"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Box Tops (1967)</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 200pt;" width="266"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Joe Cocker (1970)</span></td>
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<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">192</span></td>
<td class="xl70" style="width: 194pt;" width="259"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The Loco-Motion</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 229pt;" width="305"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Little Eva (1962)</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 200pt;" width="266"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Grand Funk (1974)</span></td>
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<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">193</span></td>
<td class="xl70" style="width: 194pt;" width="259"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The Man Who Sold The World</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 229pt;" width="305"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">David Bowie (1971)</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 200pt;" width="266"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Nirvana (1993)</span></td>
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<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">194</span></td>
<td class="xl70" style="width: 194pt;" width="259"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The Tracks of My Tears</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 229pt;" width="305"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The Miracles (1965)</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 200pt;" width="266"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Linda Ronstadt (1967)</span></td>
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<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">195</span></td>
<td class="xl70" style="width: 194pt;" width="259"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Think</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 229pt;" width="305"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The "5" Royales (1957)</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 200pt;" width="266"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">James Brown (1961)</span></td>
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<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">196</span></td>
<td class="xl70" style="width: 194pt;" width="259"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">This Magic Moment</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 229pt;" width="305"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The Drifters (1960)</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 200pt;" width="266"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Jay & The Americans (1969)</span></td>
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<td class="xl70" style="width: 194pt;" width="259"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Time Is On My Side</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 229pt;" width="305"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Irma Thomas (1964)</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 200pt;" width="266"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Rolling Stones (1964)</span></td>
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<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">198</span></td>
<td class="xl70" style="width: 194pt;" width="259"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Tom Sawyer</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 229pt;" width="305"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Rush (1981)</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 200pt;" width="266"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Deadsy (2002)</span></td>
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<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">199</span></td>
<td class="xl70" style="width: 194pt;" width="259"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Train Kept A Rollin'</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 229pt;" width="305"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Tiny Bradshaw (1951)</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 200pt;" width="266"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Yardbirds (1965)</span></td>
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<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">200</span></td>
<td class="xl70" style="width: 194pt;" width="259"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Tuesday's Gone</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 229pt;" width="305"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Lynyrd Skynyrd (1973)</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 200pt;" width="266"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Metallica (1998)</span></td>
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<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">201</span></td>
<td class="xl70" style="width: 194pt;" width="259"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Turn The Page</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 229pt;" width="305"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Bob Seger (1976)</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 200pt;" width="266"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Metallica (1998)</span></td>
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<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">202</span></td>
<td class="xl70" style="width: 194pt;" width="259"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Turn, Turn, Turn</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 229pt;" width="305"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Pete Seeger (1962)</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 200pt;" width="266"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The Byrds (1966)</span></td>
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<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">203</span></td>
<td class="xl70" style="width: 194pt;" width="259"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Twist And Shout</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 229pt;" width="305"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Top Notes (1961)</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 200pt;" width="266"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Beatles (1963)</span></td>
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<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">204</span></td>
<td class="xl70" style="width: 194pt;" width="259"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Up Around the Bend</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Creedence Clearwater Revival (1970)</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 200pt;" width="266"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Hanoi Rocks (1989)</span></td>
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<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">205</span></td>
<td class="xl70" style="width: 194pt;" width="259"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Voodoo Child (slight return)</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 229pt;" width="305"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Jimi Hendrix (1968)</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 200pt;" width="266"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Stevie Ray Vaughan (1984)</span></td>
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<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">206</span></td>
<td class="xl70" style="width: 194pt;" width="259"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">War</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 229pt;" width="305"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Edwin Starr (1970)</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 200pt;" width="266"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Bruce Springsteen (1985)</span></td>
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<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">207</span></td>
<td class="xl70" style="width: 194pt;" width="259"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">War Pigs</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 229pt;" width="305"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Black Sabbath (1976)</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 200pt;" width="266"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Faith No More (1989)</span></td>
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<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">208</span></td>
<td class="xl70" style="width: 194pt;" width="259"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">We Can Work It Out</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 229pt;" width="305"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Beatles (1965)</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 200pt;" width="266"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Stevie Wonder (1970)</span></td>
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<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">209</span></td>
<td class="xl70" style="width: 194pt;" width="259"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">We've Gotta Get Out Of This
Place</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 229pt;" width="305"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The Animals (1965)</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 200pt;" width="266"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Blue Oyster Cult (1978)</span></td>
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<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">210</span></td>
<td class="xl70" style="width: 194pt;" width="259"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">What'd I Say</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 229pt;" width="305"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Ray Charles (1959)</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 200pt;" width="266"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Jerry Lee Lewis (1961)</span></td>
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<td class="xl79" height="30" style="height: 22.5pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">211</span></td>
<td class="xl69"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love, and Understanding</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 229pt;" width="305"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Nick Lowe (1974)</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 200pt;" width="266"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Elvis Costello & The
Attractions (1979)</span></td>
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<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">212</span></td>
<td class="xl69"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">While My Guitar Gently Weeps</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 229pt;" width="305"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Beatles (1968)</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 200pt;" width="266"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Jeff Healey Band (1999)</span></td>
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<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">213</span></td>
<td class="xl70" style="width: 194pt;" width="259"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Whiskey In The Jar</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 229pt;" width="305"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The Dubliners (1967)</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 200pt;" width="266"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Metallica (1998)</span></td>
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<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">214</span></td>
<td class="xl70" style="width: 194pt;" width="259"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Who Do You Love</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 229pt;" width="305"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Bo Diddley (1956)</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Quicksilver Messenger Service (1969)</span></td>
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<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">215</span></td>
<td class="xl70" style="width: 194pt;" width="259"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Whole Lotta Love</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 229pt;" width="305"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Led Zeppelin (1969)</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 200pt;" width="266"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">King Curtis (1971)</span></td>
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<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">216</span></td>
<td class="xl70" style="width: 194pt;" width="259"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 229pt;" width="305"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Big Maybelle (1955)</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 200pt;" width="266"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Big Star (1978)</span></td>
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<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">217</span></td>
<td class="xl70" style="width: 194pt;" width="259"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Wild Night</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 229pt;" width="305"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Van Morrison (1971)</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 200pt;" width="266"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">John Mellencamp (1994)</span></td>
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<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">218</span></td>
<td class="xl70" style="width: 194pt;" width="259"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Wild Thing</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 229pt;" width="305"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Wild Ones (1965)</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 200pt;" width="266"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The Troggs (1966)</span></td>
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<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">219</span></td>
<td class="xl70" style="width: 194pt;" width="259"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Wish You Were Here</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 229pt;" width="305"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Pink Floyd (1975)</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 200pt;" width="266"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Widespread Panic (2000)</span></td>
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<td class="xl69"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">With A Little Help From My Friends</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 229pt;" width="305"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Beatles (1967)</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 200pt;" width="266"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Joe Cocker (1969)</span></td>
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<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">221</span></td>
<td class="xl70" style="width: 194pt;" width="259"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Without You</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 229pt;" width="305"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Badfinger (1970)</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Harry Nilsson (1971)</span></td>
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<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">222</span></td>
<td class="xl70" style="width: 194pt;" width="259"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Woodstock</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 229pt;" width="305"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Joni Mitchell (1970)</span></td>
<td class="xl72"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (1970)</span></td>
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<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">223</span></td>
<td class="xl70" style="width: 194pt;" width="259"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Wonderwall</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 229pt;" width="305"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Oasis (1995)</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 200pt;" width="266"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Ryan Adams (2004)</span></td>
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<td class="xl79" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">224</span></td>
<td class="xl70" style="width: 194pt;" width="259"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">You Can't Always Get What You
Want</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 229pt;" width="305"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Rolling Stones (1969)</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 200pt;" width="266"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Rusted Root (1998)</span></td>
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<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">225</span></td>
<td class="xl70" style="width: 194pt;" width="259"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">You Keep Me Hangin' On</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 229pt;" width="305"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Supremes (1966)</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 200pt;" width="266"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Vanilla Fudge (1967)</span></td>
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<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">226</span></td>
<td class="xl70" style="width: 194pt;" width="259"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">You Really Got A Hold On Me</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 229pt;" width="305"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The Miracles (1963)</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 200pt;" width="266"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Beatles (1963)</span></td>
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<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">227</span></td>
<td class="xl70" style="width: 194pt;" width="259"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">You Really Got Me</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 229pt;" width="305"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Kinks (1964)</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 200pt;" width="266"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Van Halen (1978)</span></td>
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<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">228</span></td>
<td class="xl70" style="width: 194pt;" width="259"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">You Shook Me</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 229pt;" width="305"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Muddy Waters (1962)</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 200pt;" width="266"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Led Zeppelin (1969)</span></td>
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<td class="xl79" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">229</span></td>
<td class="xl70" style="width: 194pt;" width="259"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">You're No Good</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 229pt;" width="305"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Betty Everett (1963)</span></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 200pt;" width="266"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Linda Ronstadt (1974)</span></td>
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<td class="xl80" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt; width: 34pt;" width="45"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">230</span></td>
<td class="xl71" style="width: 194pt;" width="259"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">You've Got A Friend</span></td>
<td class="xl74" style="width: 229pt;" width="305"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Carol King (1971)</span></td>
<td class="xl74" style="width: 200pt;" width="266"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">James Taylor (1971)</span></td>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I quote this article from Dream Theater FAQ written by Alexandre Mantovani. </span><span style="font-size: large;">On this song analysis I'll try to draw parallels between DT's<i> </i><b><i>"In The Presence Of Enemies"</i> </b>(ITPOE) and a manhwa (Korean comic book) called Priest. I'd like to begin explaining some points:</span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"> <span style="font-size: large;">About Priest: The comic book has 16 volumes and tells the story of humanity's battle against 12 fallen angels, led by an archangel called Temozarela. Despite having fought by God's side in the battle against Lucifer, Temozarela and his allies realize that God had lost interest in them, turning His attention to humanity. They then decide to rebel against God in light of God's favoritism towards the human race, descending upon Earth to 'play God' among the humans who build a temple and statues for them. For their rebellion and acts against humanity, God destroyed their temple and their statues were cast underground, with their souls being trapped within the statues. The story begins when preacher Ivan Isaacs (the hero) make a terrible mistake: unleashes Temozarela from a prison of hundreds of years. Ivan is then cast onto a cross after witnessing his only love Gena die in his arms. To end this eternal suffering, Ivan denounces God and sells half of his soul to a demon called Belial. By doing this, he gains a second chance of life and reborn as an immortal in the service of Belial, devoting himself for vengeance against Temozarela and his followers.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The song starts similar to the comic book: a narrator telling his memories from the past...<br /><i><b>"I saw a white light shining there before me<br /> And walking to it, I waited for the end<br /> A final vision, promising salvation<br /> A resurrection for a fallen man"</b></i>
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</span><span style="font-size: large;"><br /> page 6<br /><img src="http://www.dtnorway.com/itpoe/Priestv01c001p006.jpg" /> </span><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><br /><i><b>"I can free you from this Hell and misery<br /> You should never be ashamed, my son<br /> I can give you power beyond anything<br /> Trust me you will be the chosen one"</b></i> </span><span style="font-size: large;"><br /> page 7<br /><img src="http://www.dtnorway.com/itpoe/Priestv01c001p007.jpg" /> </span><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><br /> page 7 is also related to the following lines: </span><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><br /><i><b>"I can lead you down the path and back to life<br /> All I ask is that you worship me<br /> I can help you seek revenge and save yourself<br /> Give you life for all eternity"<br /><br /> let's continue...</b> <b><br /> "I was forgotten, a body scorned and broken<br /> My soul rejected tainted by his blood<br /> Beyond redemption, a sinner not worth saving<br /> Forever taken from the one I loved"</b></i> </span><span style="font-size: large;"><br /> page 8<br /><img src="http://www.dtnorway.com/itpoe/Priestv01c001p008.jpg" /> </span><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><br /><i><b>"Servants of the fallen fight to pave the way<br /> For their savior's calling, on this wicked day<br /> Through a veil of madness, with a vicious blade<br /> One man rises up standing in their way<br /> Redemption, redemption for humanity"</b></i> </span><span style="font-size: large;"><br /> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This part I'd like to link with the events that happen on the next pages of the comic book. Ivan Isaacs is fighting an undead legion sent by Jarbilong, the eleventh fallen angel. Ivan, armed with a gun full of silver bullets, destroys the undead legion and has his first encounter with Jarbilong:<br /> page 10, 11<br /><img src="http://www.dtnorway.com/itpoe/Priestv01c001p010-011.jpg" /> </span><span style="font-size: large;"><br /> page 12<br /><img src="http://www.dtnorway.com/itpoe/Priestv01c001p012.jpg" /> </span><span style="font-size: large;"><br /> page 13<br /><img src="http://www.dtnorway.com/itpoe/Priestv01c001p013.jpg" /> </span><span style="font-size: large;"><br /> page 14<br /><img src="http://www.dtnorway.com/itpoe/Priestv01c001p014.jpg" /> </span><span style="font-size: large;"><br /> page 15<br /><img src="http://www.dtnorway.com/itpoe/Priestv01c001p015.jpg" /> </span><span style="font-size: large;"><br /> page 17<br /><img src="http://www.dtnorway.com/itpoe/Priestv01c001p017.jpg" /> </span><span style="font-size: large;"><br /> page 18<br /><img src="http://www.dtnorway.com/itpoe/Priestv01c001p018.jpg" /> </span><span style="font-size: large;"><br /> page 19<br /><img src="http://www.dtnorway.com/itpoe/Priestv01c001p019.jpg" /> </span><span style="font-size: large;"><br /> <br /> entering ITPOE pt. 2...<i><b><br /> "Welcome tired pilgrim, into the circle<br /> We have been waiting<br /> Everyone's gathered for your arrival<br /> All the believers"</b></i><br /> page 20<br /><img src="http://www.dtnorway.com/itpoe/Priestv01c001p020.jpg" /> </span><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><br /> <i><b>"Angels fall all for you, heretic<br /> Demon heart, bleed for us"<br /> </b></i>There are no direct references with this lines (they illustrate Ivan Isaacs' burden told throughout the book). </span><span style="font-size: large;"><i><b><br /><br /> "I've been waiting for you, weary preacher man</b> <b><br /> You have been expected, now we can begin<br /> Let this hallowed day of judgment reign<br /> I have known you father, and your sacred quest<br /> Blessed soldier fighting, you shall never rest<br /> I have known you but do you know me?"</b></i><br /> page 21<br /><img src="http://www.dtnorway.com/itpoe/Priestv01c001p021.jpg" /> </span><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><br /> <i><b>"Angels fall all for you, heretic<br /> Demon heart, bleed for us<br /> (My soul is yours Dark Master, I will fight for you)"</b></i> </span><span style="font-size: large;"><br /> Again, no direct references with volume #1... This last line is interesting though, it's a piece of Ivan Isaacs' oath made when he sold half of his soul to Belial. The oath continues:<br /> <b><i>"Dark Master within, I will fight for you<br /> Dark Master of sin, now my soul is yours<br /> Dark Master my guide, I will die for you<br /> Dark Master inside"</i></b><br /><br /> The lyrics seem to keep focus on Jarbilong, although the comic book will show him again only at page 113: </span><span style="font-size: large;"><br /> <b><i>"I cannot see his face<br /> But I could feel his spite<br /> A presence from the dead<br /> Abandoned by the light"</i></b><br /> page 113<br /><img src="http://www.dtnorway.com/itpoe/Priestv01c005p113.jpg" /> </span><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><br /> <b><i>"This shadow will consume him from within<br /> This power that I sense<br /> The rage behind those eyes<br /> Is just a shrouded ghost<br /> A spirit sealed inside<br /> The body and the soul both threats<br /> For they are one"</i></b> </span><span style="font-size: large;"><br /> page 148<br /><img src="http://www.dtnorway.com/itpoe/Priestv01c007p148.jpg" /> </span><span style="font-size: large;"><br /> page 149<br /><img src="http://www.dtnorway.com/itpoe/Priestv01c007p149.jpg" /> </span><span style="font-size: large;"><br /> Jarbilong is talking to Armandiel, one of the 12 fallen angels. Armandiel is probably the most powerful angel, he helped Temozarela in the battle against Belial centuries before Ivan Isaacs' pilgrimage.<br /><br /> The hiatus between page 21 and page 113 shows a situation where undead servants of Jarbilong are awaken inside a train. This train carried some caskets, Ivan, and federal marshals that had the boss of a criminal group called Lizzie. She becomes important because of her resemblance with Gena, Ivan's lost love. A series of happenings take place, but an important moment occurs when the demon Belial takes control of Ivan's actions (who fights the undead). Links with ITPOE? Check this out: </span><span style="font-size: large;"><br /> <b><i>"Don't bother trying to find them<br /> They will be coming to you<br /> Fight, fight and destroy<br /> Until you can't take anymore"</i></b><br /> page 35<br /><img src="http://www.dtnorway.com/itpoe/Priestv01c002p035.jpg" /> </span><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><br /> <i><b>"Stay, spill the blood of the rebels<br /> They are the children of hell<br /> Flesh of the undead<br /> Stopping at nothing to kill<br /> Sin, caught in a moment of weakness<br /> Committed the greatest of all"</b></i> </span><span style="font-size: large;"><br /> I couldn't find direct references in volume #1... =/<br /><br /> <b><i>"Sold half of my soul<br /> And now it's too late for you"</i></b> </span><span style="font-size: large;"><br /> page 65<br /><img src="http://www.dtnorway.com/itpoe/Priestv01c003p065.jpg" /> </span><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><br /> <b><i>"I judge as my eyes see<br /> I judge and I am just<br /> For I speak of the beast<br /> That lives in all of us<br /> Unwelcome once, your time has come"</i></b> </span><span style="font-size: large;"><br /> page 111<br /><img src="http://www.dtnorway.com/itpoe/Priestv01c005p111.jpg" /> </span><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><br /> The following is a reference to Psalm 23: </span><span style="font-size: large;"><br /> <i><b>"Lord, You are my god and my shepherd<br /> Nothing more shall I want<br /> Walk through the abyss into the shadow of death<br /> Fear, there is no evil to fear now<br /> For I know you are with me<br /> My cup overflows with my enemies blood<br /> I decay in the house of the lord forever, amen<br /> Death will follow me all the days of my life"<br /> Ivan Isaacs reads psalm 23 when he is about to save Lizzie for the 1st time.</b></i><br /> page 100<br /><img src="http://www.dtnorway.com/itpoe/Priestv01c004p100.jpg" /> </span><span style="font-size: large;"><br /> page 101<br /><img src="http://www.dtnorway.com/itpoe/Priestv01c004p101.jpg" /> </span><span style="font-size: large;"><br /> page 102, 103<br /><img src="http://www.dtnorway.com/itpoe/Priestv01c004p102-103.jpg" /> </span><span style="font-size: large;"><br /> page 106<br /><img src="http://www.dtnorway.com/itpoe/Priestv01c004p106.jpg" /> </span><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><br /> <i><b>"Servants of the fallen fight to pave the way<br /> For their savior's calling on this wicked day<br /> Through a veil of madness, with a vicious blade<br /> One man rises up standing in their way"</b></i> </span><span style="font-size: large;"><br /> </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Narrative of some happenings. No direct references...<br /> <b><i>"(It's time for your reckoning)"</i></b> </span><span style="font-size: large;"><br /> </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">page 86<i><b><br /> "My soul grows weaker<br /> He knows and he waits<br /> He watches over me<br /> Standing at the infernal gates<br /> In the hour of darkness<br /> The moment I feared has passed<br /> The moment I lost my faith<br /> Promising salvation<br /> My soul is my own now<br /> I do not fight for you, Dark Master"</b></i><br /> Ivan Isaacs is again tormented by Belial. A moment of revolt fills up Ivan's feelings because Belial have had tormented him with what happened to Gena. This happens before Ivan Isaacs save Lizzie for the 2nd time and blow up the train.<br /> page 128<img src="http://www.dtnorway.com/itpoe/Priestv01c006p128.jpg" /><br /> page 129<img src="http://www.dtnorway.com/itpoe/Priestv01c006p129.jpg" /><br /> page 130<img src="http://www.dtnorway.com/itpoe/Priestv01c006p130.jpg" /><br /><br /> The song ends, but the manhwa continues for 15 more volumes telling Ivan Isaacs story and his pilgrimage seeking revenge from Temozarela. Thank you for reading this analysis, and thank you DTFAQ/DTNorway for hosting it, you guys rock! </span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">King Crimson are a rock band founded in London, England in 1969. Often categorised as a foundational progressive rock group, the band have incorporated diverse influences and instrumentation during their history (including jazz and folk music, classical and experimental music, psychedelic rock, hard rock and heavy metal, new wave, gamelan, electronica and drum and bass). They have been influential on many contemporary musical artists and have gained a large cult following, despite garnering little radio or music video airplay. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">The band's music was initially grounded in the rock of the 1960s, especially the acid rock and psychedelic rock movements. The band played Donovan's "Get Thy Bearings" in concert, and were known to play The Beatles' "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" in their rehearsals. However, for their own compositions, King Crimson (unlike the rock bands that had come before them) largely stripped away the blues-based foundations of rock music and replaced them with influences derived from classical composers. The first incarnation of King Crimson played the Mars section of Gustav Holst's suite The Planets as a regular part of their live set and Fripp has frequently cited the influence of Béla Bartók. As a result of this influence, In the Court of the Crimson King is frequently viewed as the nominal starting point of the symphonic rock or progressive rock movements. From its earliest years King Crimson also initially displayed strong jazz influences, most obviously on its signature track "21st Century Schizoid Man". The band also drew on English folk music for compositions such as "Moonchild" and "I Talk to the Wind".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">The 1981 reunion of the band brought in even more elements, displaying the influence of gamelan music and of late 20th century classical composers such as Philip Glass, Steve Reich, andTerry Riley. For its 1994 reunion, King Crimson reassessed both the mid-1970s and 1980s approaches in the light of new technology, intervening music forms such as grunge, and further developments in industrial music, as well as expanding the band's ambient textural content via Fripp's Soundscapes looping approach.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">the use of a gradually building rhythmic motif. These include "The Devil's Triangle" (an adaptation and variation on the Gustav Holst piece Mars played by the original King Crimson, based on a complex pulse in 5/4 time over which a skirling melody is played Mellotron), 1972's "The Talking Drum" (from Larks' Tongues in Aspic), 1984's "Industry" (from Three of a Perfect Pair) and 2003's "Dangerous Curves" (from The Power to Believe and the Level Five EP).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">an instrumental piece (often embedded as a break in a song) in which the band plays an ensemble passage of considerable rhythmic and polyrhythmic complexity. An early example is the band's initial signature tune "21st Century Schizoid Man", but the Larks' Tongues in Aspic series of compositions (as well as pieces of similar intent such as "THRaK" and "Level Five") go deeper into polyrhythmic complexity, delving into rhythms that wander into and out of general synchronisation with each other, but that all 'finish' together through polyrhythmic synchronisation. These polyrhythms were particularly abundant in the band's 1980s work, which contained gamelan-like rhythmic layers and continual overlaid staccato patterns in counterpoint.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">King Crimson has had 18 musicians pass through its ranks as full band members. Many others have collaborated with the band at various points in lyric-writing, the studio and in live performance. Most of the musicians who have been members of King Crimson had notable musical careers outside the band, to the extent that it has been calculated that there are over fifteen-hundred releases on which members and former members of King Crimson appear.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Robert Fripp has been the sole consistent member of King Crimson throughout the group’s history. He has stated that he does not necessarily consider himself the band's leader and instead describes King Crimson as "a way of doing things".</span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"> Fripp has also noted that he never originally intended to be seen as the head of the group.</span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"> However, Fripp has strongly dominated the band’s musical approach and compositional approach since their second album (albeit with other members tending to write the more song-oriented elements, to the point where other members have left the band because of creative frustration – notably Ian McDonald, Gordon Haskell and Mel Collins).[citation needed] Trey Gunn, who played with the group between 1994 and 2003, has stated that "King Crimson is Robert’s vision. Period."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">King Crimson is currently on hiatus, and the lineup of the band when they return is unknown. The most recent lineup was:</span></div>
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<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Adrian Belew — lead vocals, guitars, guitar synthesiser/MIDI guitar, electronic percussion (1981–2009)</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Tony Levin — bass guitars, Chapman Stick, upright bass, synthesiser, backing vocals (1981–1999; 2003–2009)</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Pat Mastelotto — acoustic and electronic drums and percussion (1994–2009)</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">These musicians were part of the most recent proper King Crimson formation, which went on hiatus in 2009, but only Fripp is listed as a formal part of the latest ProjeKct – Jakszyk/Fripp/Collins, featuring former 21st Century Schizoid Band frontman Jakko Jakszyk (vocals, guitars, keyboards), early-1970s King Crimson/21st Century Schizoid Band saxophonist and flautist Mel Collins, and Fripp on guitar and Soundscapes (Levin and Harrison perform as the guest rhythm section). Historically, absence from a ProjeKct has not precluded a musician from continued participation in the next proper formation of King Crimson, although a ProjeKCt member or two typically drops off before the next formal King Crimson line-up is announced. Therefore it is, at current, unknown as to who will be in King Crimson if/when they regroup, and whether it will be a continuation of the last known King Crimson lineup or the current ProjeKct.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">1969 Fripp, Giles, Lake, McDonald, Sinfield</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">1970 Fripp, Giles, Lake, Collins, Sinfield</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">1970 Fripp, Haskell, Collins, McCulloch, Sinfield</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">1971 Fripp, Burrell, Wallace, Collins, Sinfield</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">1972 Fripp, Wetton, Bruford, Cross, Muir, Palmer-James</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">1974 Fripp, Wetton, Bruford, Cross, Palmer-James</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">1974 Fripp, Wetton, Bruford, Palmer-James</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">1974 (hiatus)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">1981 Fripp, Belew, Levin, Bruford</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">1984 (hiatus)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">1994 Fripp, Belew, Levin, Bruford, Gunn, Mastelotto</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">1998 (hiatus)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">2000 Fripp, Belew, Gunn, Mastelotto</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">2008 Fripp, Belew, Mastelotto, Levin, Harrison</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Peter Sinfield — lyrics, synthesiser (1969–1971)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Michael Giles — drums, vocals (1969–1970)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Ian McDonald — saxophone, clarinet, flute, mellotron, vibes, vocals (1969; 1974)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Gordon Haskell — bass guitar, vocals (1970)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Andy McCulloch — drums (1970)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Boz Burrell — bass guitar, vocals (1971–1972)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Ian Wallace — drums, percussion, vocals (1971–1972)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Bill Bruford — acoustic and electronic drums and percussion (1972–1998)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">John Wetton — bass guitar, vocals, occasional electric guitar and piano (1972–1974)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Richard Palmer-James — lyrics (1973–1974)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">David Cross — violin, viola, flute, mellotron, electric piano, keyboards (1972–1974)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Jamie Muir — percussion, allsorts (1972–1973)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Trey Gunn — Warr guitar, Chapman Stick, baritone guitar, Ashbory silicone-string bass, "talker" (1994–2003)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Jon Anderson — guest lead vocals on Lizard (from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yes_%28band%29">Yes</a>)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Margaret Belew—source text for "Indiscipline" (on Discipline) and lyrics for "Two Hands" (on Beat). (Margaret Belew was an artist and was also Adrian Belew's wife during the time of King Crimson line-up 4).</span></span></div>
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<tr><td><b>Formation</b></td><td colspan="3" style="border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: medium; text-align: center;"><b>I</b></td><td style="border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: medium; text-align: center;"><b>II</b></td><td colspan="3" style="border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: medium; text-align: center;"><b>III</b></td><td colspan="3" style="border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: medium; text-align: center;"><b>IV</b></td><td style="border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: medium; text-align: center;"><b>V</b></td><td style="border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: medium; text-align: center;"><b><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ProjeKct_One" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="ProjeKct One">P1</a></b></td><td style="border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; text-align: center;"><b><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ProjeKct_Two" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="ProjeKct Two">P2</a></b></td><td style="border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; text-align: center;"><b><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ProjeKct_Three" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="ProjeKct Three">P3</a></b></td><td style="border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; text-align: center;"><b><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ProjeKct_Four" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="ProjeKct Four">P4</a></b></td><td style="border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; text-align: center;"><b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ProjeKct_X" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="ProjeKct X">PX</a></b></td><td colspan="2" style="border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: medium; text-align: center;"><b>VI</b></td><td style="border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: medium; text-align: center;"><b><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ProjeKct_Six" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="ProjeKct Six">P6</a></b></td><td style="border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: medium; text-align: center;"><b>VII</b></td><td style="border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: medium; text-align: center;"><b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ProjeKcts#Jakszyk.2C_Fripp_and_Collins_-_A_King_Crimson_ProjeKct_.282010.E2.80.93present.29" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="ProjeKcts">P7</a></b></td></tr>
<tr><td><b>Album</b></td><td style="border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: medium; text-align: center; width: 55px;"><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_The_Court_Of_The_Crimson_King" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="In The Court Of The Crimson King">Court</a></td><td style="border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; text-align: center; width: 42px;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_Wake_of_Poseidon" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="In the Wake of Poseidon">Wake</a></td><td style="border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; text-align: center; width: 65px;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lizard_%28album%29" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Lizard (album)">Lizard</a></td><td style="border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: medium; text-align: center; width: 44px;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islands_%28King_Crimson_album%29" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Islands (King Crimson album)">Islands</a></td><td style="border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: medium; text-align: center; width: 41px;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larks%27_Tongues_in_Aspic" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Larks' Tongues in Aspic">Larks</a></td><td style="border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; text-align: center; width: 46px;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starless_and_Bible_Black" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Starless and Bible Black">Starless</a></td><td style="border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; text-align: center; width: 41px;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_%28King_Crimson_album%29" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Red (King Crimson album)">Red</a></td><td style="border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: medium; text-align: center; width: 55px;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discipline_%28King_Crimson_album%29" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Discipline (King Crimson album)">Discipline</a></td><td style="border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; text-align: center; width: 42px;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beat_%28King_Crimson_album%29" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Beat (King Crimson album)">Beat</a></td><td style="border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; text-align: center; width: 42px;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_of_a_Perfect_Pair" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Three of a Perfect Pair">Pair</a></td><td style="border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: medium; text-align: center; width: 56px;"><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/THRAK" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="THRAK">THRAK</a></td><td style="border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: medium; text-align: center; width: 39px;"></td><td style="border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; text-align: center; width: 43px;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Groove" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Space Groove">Space</a></td><td style="border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; text-align: center; width: 41px;"></td><td style="border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; text-align: center; width: 42px;"></td><td style="border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; text-align: center; width: 43px;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaven_and_Earth_%28ProjeKct_X_album%29" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Heaven and Earth (ProjeKct X album)">Heaven</a></td><td style="border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: medium; text-align: center; width: 78px;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_ConstruKction_of_Light" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="The ConstruKction of Light">ConstruKction</a></td><td style="border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; text-align: center; width: 43px;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_to_Believe" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="The Power to Believe">Power</a></td><td style="border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: medium; text-align: center; width: 40px;"></td><td style="border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: medium; text-align: center; width: 48px;"></td><td style="border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: medium; text-align: center; width: 42px;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Scarcity_of_Miracles" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="A Scarcity of Miracles">Scarcity</a></td></tr>
<tr><td><b>Guitar</b></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: maroon; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: medium; color: white;">Fripp</td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: maroon; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; color: white;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: maroon; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; color: white;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: maroon; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: medium; color: white;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: maroon; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: medium; color: white;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: maroon; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; color: white;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: maroon; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; color: white;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: maroon; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: medium; color: white;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: maroon; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; color: white;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: maroon; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; color: white;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: maroon; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: medium; color: white;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: maroon; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: medium; color: white;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: maroon; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; color: white;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: maroon; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; color: white;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: maroon; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; color: white;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: maroon; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; color: white;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: maroon; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: medium; color: white;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: maroon; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; color: white;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: maroon; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: medium; color: white;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: maroon; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: medium; color: white;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: maroon; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: medium; color: white;"></td></tr>
<tr><td><b>Drums/Perx</b></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f0f0f0; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: medium; color: white;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f0f0f0; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; color: white;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f0f0f0; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; color: white;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f0f0f0; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: medium; color: white;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #ff6600; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: medium;">Muir</td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f0f0f0; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; color: white;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f0f0f0; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; color: white;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f0f0f0; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: medium; color: white;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f0f0f0; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; color: white;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f0f0f0; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; color: white;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #ccffcc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: medium;">Mastelotto</td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f0f0f0; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: medium; color: white;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f0f0f0; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; color: white;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #ccffcc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #ccffcc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #ccffcc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #ccffcc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: medium;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #ccffcc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f0f0f0; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: medium;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #ccffcc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: medium;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f0f0f0; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: medium;"></td></tr>
<tr><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><b>Drums/Perx</b></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #3366ff; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: medium; color: white;">M. Giles</td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #3366ff; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; color: white;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #ffcc99; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin;">McCullough</td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #ff99cc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: medium;">Wallace</td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #339966; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: medium; color: white;">Bruford</td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #339966; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #339966; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #339966; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: medium; color: white;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #339966; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #339966; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #339966; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: medium; color: white;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #339966; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: medium; color: white;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #003366; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; color: white;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f0f0f0; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; color: white;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f0f0f0; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; color: white;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f0f0f0; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; color: white;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f0f0f0; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: medium; color: white;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f0f0f0; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; color: white;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #003366; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: medium; color: white;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rosybrown; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: medium;">Harrison</td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rosybrown; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: medium;"></td></tr>
<tr><td><b>Words</b></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #ccffff; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: medium;">Sinfield</td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #ccffff; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #ccffff; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #ccffff; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: medium;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #99ccff; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: medium;">James</td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #99ccff; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #99ccff; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #003366; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: medium; color: white;">Belew</td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #003366; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; color: white;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #003366; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; color: white;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #003366; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: medium; color: white;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f0f0f0; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: medium; color: white;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f0f0f0; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; color: white;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f0f0f0; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; color: white;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f0f0f0; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; color: white;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f0f0f0; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; color: white;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #003366; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: medium; color: white;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #003366; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; color: white;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f0f0f0; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: medium; color: white;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f0f0f0; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: medium; color: white;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f0f0f0; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: medium; color: white;"></td></tr>
<tr><td><b>Guitar</b></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f0f0f0; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: medium;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f0f0f0; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f0f0f0; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f0f0f0; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: medium;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f0f0f0; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: medium;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f0f0f0; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f0f0f0; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #003366; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: medium; color: white;">Belew</td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #003366; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; color: white;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #003366; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; color: white;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #003366; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: medium; color: white;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f0f0f0; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: medium; color: white;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f0f0f0; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; color: white;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f0f0f0; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; color: white;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f0f0f0; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; color: white;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #003366; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; color: white;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #003366; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: medium; color: white;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #003366; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; color: white;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f0f0f0; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: medium; color: white;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #003366; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: medium; color: white;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #ff2200; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: medium;">Jakszyk</td></tr>
<tr><td><b>Vocals</b></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #003300; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: medium; color: white;">Lake</td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #003300; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; color: white;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #993300; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; color: white;">Haskell</td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #cc99ff; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: medium;">Burrell</td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: olive; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: medium; color: white;">Wetton</td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: olive; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; color: white;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: olive; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; color: white;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #003366; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: medium; color: white;">Belew</td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #003366; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; color: white;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #003366; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; color: white;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #003366; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: medium; color: white;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f0f0f0; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: medium; color: white;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f0f0f0; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; color: white;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f0f0f0; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; color: white;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f0f0f0; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; color: white;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f0f0f0; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; color: white;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #003366; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: medium; color: white;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #003366; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; color: white;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f0f0f0; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: medium; color: white;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #003366; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: medium; color: white;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #ff2200; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: medium;">Jakszyk</td></tr>
<tr><td><b>Bass/Stick</b></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #003300; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: medium; color: white;">Lake</td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: purple; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; color: white;">P. Giles</td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #993300; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; color: white;">Haskell</td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #cc99ff; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: medium;">Burrell</td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: olive; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: medium; color: white;">Wetton</td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: olive; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; color: white;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: olive; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; color: white;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #ffff99; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: medium;">Levin</td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #ffff99; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #ffff99; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #ffff99; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: medium;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #ffff99; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: medium;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f0f0f0; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f0f0f0; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #ffff99; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f0f0f0; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f0f0f0; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: medium;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f0f0f0; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f0f0f0; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: medium;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #ffff99; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: medium;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #ffff99; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: medium;"></td></tr>
<tr><td><b>Warr Guitar</b></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f0f0f0; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: medium;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f0f0f0; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f0f0f0; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f0f0f0; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: medium;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f0f0f0; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: medium;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f0f0f0; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f0f0f0; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f0f0f0; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: medium;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f0f0f0; 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<tr><td><b>Keys/Mellotron</b></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #666699; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: medium; color: white;">McDonald</td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #33cccc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin;">Tippett</td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #33cccc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #33cccc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: medium;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #993366; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: medium; color: white;">Cross</td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #993366; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; color: white;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f0f0f0; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; 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<tr><td><b>Violin</b></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f0f0f0; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: medium;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f0f0f0; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f0f0f0; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f0f0f0; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: medium;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #993366; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: medium; color: white;">Cross</td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #993366; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; color: white;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f0f0f0; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f0f0f0; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; 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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">In the Court of the Crimson King</span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"> (1969)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"><span style="font-size: large;">bassist Chris Squire, guitarist Steve Howe, drummer Alan White, and keyboardist Geoff Downes. Yes have sold close to 50 million albums worldwide, including 13.5 million certified units in the </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">United States</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"><span style="font-size: large;">.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"><span style="font-size: large;">Formed in 1968 by Squire and singer Jon Anderson, the first line-up also included guitarist Peter Banks, keyboardist Tony Kaye and drummer Bill Bruford, who released two albums together to lukewarm reception and sales. Yes began to enjoy success after the release of The Yes Album (1971) and Fragile (1971), which featured new arrivals Howe and Rick Wakeman. They achieved further success with Close to the Edge (1972) and Tales from Topographic Oceans (1973), the latter of which featured White on drums. Wakeman was replaced by Patrick Moraz, who played on Relayer (1974). Wakeman returned on Going for the One (1977) and Tormato (1978). Anderson and Wakeman left the group due to musical differences amongst the band in 1980. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"><span style="font-size: large;">Yes reformed in 1982 after Squire and White were joined by the returning Anderson and Kaye, with the addition of guitarist Trevor Rabin. They adopted a pop rock sound and released the number one single "Owner of a Lonely Heart" and 90125 (1983), their best-selling album to date, followed by Big Generator (1987). <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Anderson</st1:place></st1:city> left and co-formed the side project Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe with the named members in 1989. Following a legal battle amongst both Yes groups, they formed an eight-man band to perform on <st1:place w:st="on">Union</st1:place> (1991) and its supporting tour. Rabin and Kaye featured on Talk (1994) before leaving, while the "classic" line-up reformed with Keys to Ascension (1996) and Keys to Ascension 2 (1997). Wakeman was replaced by Igor Khoroshev, who featured on Open Your Eyes (1997) and The Ladder (1999) along with guitarist Billy Sherwood. The release of Magnification (2001) marked the second album since 1970 to feature an orchestra.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">In 2002, Wakeman returned for the band's 35th anniversary tour. The band ceased to tour in 2004, partly due to health concerns regarding Anderson and Wakeman. Following a hiatus, Yes re-started in 2008 with keyboardist Oliver Wakeman and David The band released Fly from Here (2011), which marked the return of Downes on keyboards and Horn as producer. Yes continue to perform to this day, more than 40 years since their formation</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">.</span>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Far and away the longest lasting and the most successful of the 1970s' progressive rock groups, Yes has proved one of the lingering success stories from that musical genre. The band, founded in 1968, has overcome a generational shift in its audience and the departure of its most visible members at key points in its history to reach the end of the century as the definitive progressive rock band. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Where rivals such as Emerson, Lake & Palmer withered away commercially after the mid-'70s, and Genesis and King Crimson altered their sounds so radically as to become unrecognizable to their original fans, Yes has retained the same sound, and performs much of the same repertory that they were doing in 1971 — and for their trouble, they find themselves being taken seriously a quarter of a century later. Their audience remains huge because they've always attracted younger listeners drawn to their mix of daunting virtuosity, cosmic (often mystical) lyrics, complex musical textures, and powerful yet delicate lead vocals.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Lead singer Jon Anderson (b. Oct. 25, 1944, Accrington, Lancashire) started out during the British beat boom as a member of the Warriors, who recorded a single for Decca in 1964, and later was in the band Gun, before going solo in 1967 with two singles on the Parlophone label. He was making a meager living cleaning up at a London club called La Chasse during June of 1968, and was thinking of starting up a new band. One day at the bar, he chanced to meet bassist/vocalist Chris Squire, a former member of the band the Syn, who had recorded for Deram, the progressive division of Decca.</span></div>
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The two learned that they shared several musical interests, including an appreciation for the harmony singing of Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel, and within a matter of days were trying to write songs together. They began developing the beginnings of a sound that incorporated harmonies with a solid rock backing, rooted in Squire's very precise approach to the bass. Anderson and Squire saw the groups around them as having either strong vocals and weak instrumental backup, or powerful backup and weak lead vocals, and they sought to combine the best of both. Their initial inspiration, at least as far as the precision of their vocals, according to Squire, was the pop/soul act the Fifth Dimension.</div>
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They recruited Tony Kaye (b. Jan. 11, 1946), formerly of the Federals, on keyboards; Peter Banks (b. July 7, 1947), previously a member of the Syn, on guitar; and drummer Bill Bruford (b. May 17, 1948), who had only just joined the blues band Savoy Brown a few weeks earlier. The name Yes was chosen for the band as something short, direct, and memorable.</div>
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The British music scene at this time was in a state of flux. The pop/psychedelic era, with its pretty melodies and delicate sounds, was drawing to a close, replaced by the heavier sounds of groups like Cream. Progressive rock, with a heavy dose of late-19th-century classical music, was also starting to make a noise that was being heard, in the guise of acts such as the Nice, featuring Keith Emerson, and the original Deep Purple.</div>
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The group's break came in October of 1968 when the band, on the recommendation of the Nice's manager, Tony Stratton-Smith (later the founder of Charisma Records), played a gig at the Speakeasy Club in London, filling in for an absent Sly & the Family Stone. The group was later selected to open for Cream's November 26, 1968 farewell concert at Royal Albert Hall. This concert, in turn, led to a residency at London's Marquee Club and their first radio appearance, on John Peel's Top Gear radio show. They subsequently opened for Janis Joplin at her Royal Albert Hall concert in April 1969, and were signed to Atlantic Records soon after.</div>
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Their debut single, and Anderson and Squire's first song, entitled "Sweetness," was released soon after. Their first album, Yes, was released in November of 1969. The record displayed the basic sound that would characterize the band's subsequent records, including impeccable high harmonies, clearly defined, emphatic playing, and an approach to music that derived from folk and classical, far more than the R&B from which most rock music sprung, but it was much more in a pop-music context, featuring covers of Beatles and Byrds songs. Also present was a hint of the "space rock" sound (on "Beyond and Before") in which they would later come to specialize.</div>
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Anderson's falsetto lead vocals gave the music an ethereal quality, while Banks' angular guitar, seemingly all picked and none strummed, drew from folk and skiffle elements. Squire's bass had a huge sound, owing to his playing with a pick, giving him one of the most distinctive sounds on the instrument this side of the Who's John Entwistle, while Bruford's drumming was very complex within the pop-song context, and Kaye's playing was rich and melodic.</div>
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In February of 1970, Yes supported the Nice at their Royal Albert Hall show, while they were preparing their second album, Time and a Word. By the time it was released in June of 1970, Peter Banks had left the lineup, to be replaced by guitarist Steve Howe (b. Apr. 8, 1947), a former member of the Syndicats, the In Crowd, Tomorrow ("My White Bicycle"), and Bodast. Howe is pictured with the group on the jacket of Time and a Word, which was released in August, and played his first show with the group at Queen Elizabeth Hall on March 21, 1970, but Banks actually played on the album. This record was far more sophisticated than its predecessor, and even included an overdubbed orchestra on some songs, the only time that Yes would rely on outside musicians to augment their sound. The cosmic and mystical elements of their songwriting were even more evident on this album.</div>
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The group's fame in England continued to rise as they became an increasingly popular concert attraction, especially after they were seen by millions as the opening act for Iron Butterfly. It was with the release of The Yes Album in April of 1971 that the public began to glimpse the group's full potential.</div>
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That record, made up entirely of original compositions, was filled with complex, multi-part harmonies, loud, heavily layered guitar and bass parts, beautiful and melodic drum parts, and surging organ (with piano embellishments) passages bridging them all. Everybody was working on a far more expansive level than on any of their previous recordings — on "Your Move" (which became the group's first U.S. chart entry, at number 40), the harmonies were woven together in layers and patterns that were dazzling in their own right, while "Starship Trooper" (which drew its name from a Robert Heinlein novel, thus reinforcing the group's "space rock" image) and "All Good People" gave Howe, Squire, and Bruford the opportunity to play extended instrumental passages of tremendous forcefulness. "Starship Trooper," "I've Seen All Good People," "Perpetual Change," and "Yours Is No Disgrace" also became parts of the group's concert sets for years to come.</div>
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The Yes Album opened a new phase in the group's history and its approach to music. None of it was pop music in the "Top 40" sense of the term. Rather, it was built on compositions which resembled sound paintings, rather than songs — the swelling sound of Kaye's Moog synthesizer and organ, Howe's fluid yet stinging guitar passages, Squire's rippling bass, and Anderson's haunting falsetto leads all evoked sonic landscapes that were strangely compelling to the imagination of the listener.</div>
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The Yes Album reached number seven in England and number 40 in America in the spring of 1971. Early in 1971, Yes made their first U.S. tour opening for Jethro Tull, and they were back late in the year sharing billing with Ten Years After and the J. Geils Band. The band began work on their next album, but were interrupted when keyboard player Tony Kaye quit in August of 1971, to join ex-Yes guitarist Peter Banks in the group Flash. He was replaced by former Strawbs keyboard player Rick Wakeman, who played his first shows with the band in September and October of 1971.</div>
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Wakeman was a far more flamboyant musician than Kaye, not only in his approach to playing but the number of instruments that he used and the way he played them. In place of the three keyboards that Kaye used, Wakeman used an entire bank of upwards of a dozen instruments, including Mellotron, various synthesizers, organ, two or more pianos, and electric harpsichord. This lineup, Anderson Squire, Howe, Wakeman, and Bruford, which actually only lasted for one year, from August of 1971 until August of 1972, is generally considered the best of all the Yes configurations, and the strongest incarnation of the band.</div>
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Fragile, released in December of 1971, reached number seven in England and number four in America. The album's success was enhanced by the release of an edited single of "Roundabout," the group's first (and, for over a decade, only) major hit, which reached number 13 on the U.S. charts. For millions of listeners, "Roundabout," with its crisp interwoven acoustic and electric guitar parts and very vivid bass textures, exquisite vocals (especially the harmonies), swirling keyboard passages, and brisk beat, proved an ideal introduction to the group's sound. Neither Emerson, Lake < Palmer nor King Crimson, the group's leading rivals at that time, ever had so successful a pop-chart entry. The single's impact among teenage and college-age listeners was far greater than this chart position would indicate — they simply flocked to the band, with the result that not only did Fragile sell in huge numbers, but the group's earlier records (especially The Yes Album) were suddenly in demand again.</div>
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"Roundabout" would be the group's biggest single success for the next 12 years, but it was more than enough. Although they would continue to release 45's periodically, including a cover of Paul Simon's "America" during the summer of 1972, Yes' future clearly lay with their albums. On Fragile, "Long Distance Runaround," as a three-minute song, had been the anomaly — the band was clearly looking at longer forms in which to write and play their music.</div>
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Close to the Edge, recorded in the late spring of 1972 and released in September of that year, showed just where they were headed, consisting of only three long tracks, essentially three sound paintings, in which the overall sound and musical textures mattered more than the lyrics or any specific melody, harmonization, or solo. "Siberian Khatru" was almost a rock adaptation of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring, recalling the composer's most famous work and sounding as though Anderson and company had tapped into a element of ritual and a state of consciousness going back practically to the dawn of time (or stretching to the end of time), while "And You and I" seemed to take "Your Move" to a newly cosmic level. </div>
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The fans and critics alike loved Close to the Edge, resplendent in its rich harmonies and keyboard passages of astonishing beauty and complexity, brittle but powerful guitar, and drumming that was gorgeous in its own right. The album reached number four in England and number three in the United States without help from a hit single (though an edited version of "And You and I" did reach number 42 in America).</div>
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By the time of the record's release, however, Bill Bruford had left the band to join King Crimson, and was replaced by Alan White (b. June 14, 1949, Pelton, Durham), a session drummer who was previously best known for having played with John Lennon and Yoko Ono's Plastic Ono Band. With White — who was a powerful player, but lacked the subtle melodic technique of Bill Bruford — installed at the drum kit, the group went on tour behind the new album to massive audience response and critical acclaim. As an added bonus for fans, Rick Wakeman had completed his first solo LP, the instrumental concept album The Six Wives of Henry VIII, which was released by A&M Records in February of 1973 (Wakeman had played excerpts from it during his featured solo spot during the previous Yes tour).</div>
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A large part of the Close to the Edge tour, like the group's prior tour with Bruford on the drums, was recorded, and a three-LP (two-CD) set entitled Yessongs, released in May of 1973, was assembled from the best work on the tour. Yessongs became a model for progressive rock live albums — at over 120 minutes, it included the band's entire stage repertory (not coincidentally, the best songs from the three preceding albums), all of it uncut and all of it well-played. The live album reached number seven in England and number 12 in the United States.</div>
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The group spent the second half of 1973 trying to come up with a follow-up to four successive hit albums. The resulting record, a double LP entitled Tales from Topographic Oceans, was released in January of 1974 with such high expectations, that it earned a gold record from its advanced orders.</div>
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Tales from Topographic Oceans broke all previous artistic boundaries, consisting of four long tracks each taking up the full side of an LP, with titles like "The Revealing Science of God (Dance of the Dawn)." If the group's prior albums were made up of paintings in sound, then Topographic Oceans was a series of sonic murals, painted across vast spaces on a massive scale that did not make for light listening. If this all seems ridiculously overblown today, perhaps it was, but this work was being done in an era in which groups like Emerson, Lake, < Palmer were recording album-length suites and stretching relatively modest works such as "Fanfare for the Common Man" by Aaron Copland into ten-minute epics. The group believed it had cultivated an audience for such music, and they were right — Topographic Oceans not only topped the British charts but reach number six on the American charts.</div>
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No album has more divided both fans and critics of Yes alike. At the time of its release, Tales from Topographic Oceans was considered an unqualified success by most critics. Writing in the Village Voice (a journal notoriously skeptical of progressive rock) in February of 1974, Frank Rose called it "by far the most impressive work the group has produced in its five-year history" and went on to describe the music in exalted terms. And some listeners (this writer included) still regard this album as the group's magnum opus.</div>
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This view of the album changed during the 1980s and 1990s, as many critics and the group's fans came to consider it excessive, representing the height of progressive rock's self-indulgent nature (of course, many of these same people scoff at the very notion of any double-LP rock album). Originally inspired by Jon Anderson's reaction to a set of Shastric scriptures, the album displayed a sublime beauty in many parts, and immense, mesmerizing stretches of high-energy virtuosity for most of its length. In concert, as Rose remarked, its performance took on "aspects of the Apocalypse." Its only regrettable moment was an obligatory percussion solo, the only time Yes ever fell into this clich?of the progressive rock genre.</div>
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The group toured behind Topographic Oceans early in 1974, performing most of the album on stage. Following this tour, plans were announced for each member of the group to release a solo album of his own. At this point, the group faced another major lineup change as Wakeman — whose second solo album, Journey to the Center of the Earth, appeared in May of 1974 — announced that he was leaving Yes' lineup in June to pursue a solo career. In fact, as he revealed in interviews many years later, he'd been very unhappy with the content of Tales from Topographic Oceans, feeling that its music no longer reflected the direction he wanted to go in and that it was time to part company with the band. Wakeman's decision created a major problem for the band, for the keyboard player had become a star within their ranks, and was the group's most well-known individual member — people definitely paid to see and hear his keyboards rippling amid the Yes sound.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">In August of 1974, it was announced that Patrick Moraz (b. June 24, 1948, Morges, Switzerland), formerly of the progressive rock trio Refugee, had replaced Wakeman. Three months later, the group's new album, Relayer, was released, reaching the British number four spot and the American number five position. Moraz proved an adequate replacement for Wakeman, but lacked his predecessor's gift for showmanship and extravagance. The group toured in the wake of Relayer's release in November of 1974, but didn't record together again for two and a half years.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Indeed, in order to satisfy the demand for more Yes material in the absence of a new album while the group was on the road, Atlantic in March of </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">1975 released a collection of their early music entitled Yesterdays, drawn from the first two albums and various singles, which rose to number 27 in England and number 17 in America. A film that the group had made along their 1973 tour, entitled Yessongs, was released to theaters at around the same time. The movie received poor reviews, owing to the fact that most reviewers were unfamiliar with the group's music, but it was profitable and has been popular for years on home video. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Meanwhile, in the absence of new albums by Yes, other bands began trying and capitalize on their own version of the Yes sound. The most notable of these were Starcastle, a progressive rock band signed by Epic Records, who made their recording debut in 1976 with a self-titled album that could've been another incarnation of Yes; and Fireballet, a Passport Records quartet who seemed to bridge the music of Yes and ELP.</span></div>
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These were followed in March of 1976 by Alan White's Ramshackled, which placed at number 41 in England, and Moraz's solo venture Patrick Moraz, which reached number 28 in England and number 132 in America. And in July of 1976, Jon Anderson's Olias of Sunhillow, a dazzling, Tolkien-esque science-fiction/fantasy epic (with packaging on the original LP that must've doubled the basic production cost of the jacket) that sounded as much like a Yes album as any record not made by the entire band could, reached number eight in England and number 47 in America.</div>
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Amid all of these solo projects, the group's lineup changed once again, as Wakeman announced his return to the fold in late 1976, while Moraz exited. Wakeman's original plan was to assist the group in the studio on their new album, but the sessions proved so productive that he made the decision, fully supported by the band, to return to the band's lineup permanently.</div>
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The group's next album, Going for the One, released in August of 1977, represented a much more austere, basic style of rock music, built around shorter songs. The long-player topped the British charts for two weeks and reached number eight on the American charts, while the singles "Wonderous Stories" and "Going for the One" rose to numbers seven and 24, respectively. The group embarked on a massive tour shortly after the album's release, including their most successful American appearances ever, playing to record audiences on the East Coast.</div>
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Tormato, released nearly a year later (heralded by the single "Don't Kill the Whale," the group's first song with a topical message), made the Top Ten in both England and America in the fall of 1978. Once again, after finishing the tour behind the album, the group members began working on solo projects. The year 1979 saw the release of The Steve Howe Album, while early in 1980 Jon Anderson hooked up with Greek-born keyboard player Vangelis, and the two released an album, Short Stories, and an accompanying single, "I Hear You," early in 1980, both of which reached the British Top Ten. Jon < Vangelis, as the team became known, went on to cut several more records together.</div>
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In March of 1980, Yes' lineup collapsed, as Wakeman and then Anderson walked out after an unsuccessful attempt to start work on a new album. Two months later, Trevor Horn (vocals, guitar) and Geoff Downes (keyboards), formerly of the British band Buggles, joined the Yes lineup of Steve Howe, Chris Squire, and Alan White. This configuration recorded a new album, Drama, which was released in August of 1980 — rather ominously, this record did dramatically better in England, reaching the number-two spot, than it did in America, where it got no higher than number 18. This hybrid lineup lasted for a year, but the old Yes incarnation remained much closer to the hearts of fans — in January of 1981 Atlantic Record released Yesshows, a double live album made up of stage performances dating from 1976 through 1978 that reached number 22 in England and number 43 in America.</div>
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Finally, in April of 1981, the breakup of Yes was announced. Geoff Downes formed Asia with Steve Howe, which went on to some considerable if short-lived success in the early '80s, and the rest of the band scattered to different projects. For a year-and-a-half, the group seemed a dead issue, until Chris Squire and Alan White announced the formation of a new group called Cinema, with original Yes keyboard player Tony Kaye and South African guitarist Trevor Rabin. This band proved unsatisfactory, and Squire invited Jon Anderson to join. It was just about then that everyone realized that they'd reformed virtually the core of the Yes lineup, and that they should simply revive the name.</div>
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In late 1983, this Yes lineup, with guitarist/vocalist Trevor Horn serving as producer, released an unexpected chart-topping hit (number one in the U.S. in January of 1984) single in "Owner of a Lonely Heart," displaying a stripped-down modern dance-rock sound unlike anything the group had ever produced before. The remaining group released a successful dance-rock style album, 90125, under Horn's guidance, which sold well but also proved a dead-end, with no follow-up, when Horn chose not to remain with the group.</div>
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Yes was invisible for nearly two years after that, until the late 1987 release of The Big Generator, which performed only moderately well. Meanwhile, in 1986, Steve Howe reappeared as a member of the quintet GTR, whose self-titled album reached number 11 in America. The proliferation of ex-Yes members gathering together in various combinations led to an ongoing legal dispute over who owned the group name, which came to a head in 1989. Luckily for four of them, the name "Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe" was recognizable enough to reach the fans, which sent the resulting album into the US Top 30 and the British Top 20, more or less handing them a victory by acclamation (later supported by the settlement) in their dispute over the name. By touring with "An Evening of Yes Music," they presented their classic repertory to sell-out houses all over the country, including a 1990 gig at Madison Square Garden.</div>
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The legal squabbles had all been settled by the spring of 1991, at which time a composite "mega Yes" group consisting of Anderson, Howe, Wakeman, Squire, Kaye, White, Rabin, and Bruford (all of the key past members except Peter Banks) embarked on a blow-out world tour (which included the filming of a video historical documentary of the band, Yesyears: The Video) called Yesshows 1991. The accompanying album, Union, which displayed somewhat tougher sound than they'd been known for, debuted on the British charts at number seven and reached number 15 in America. This tour, which allowed the band to showcase music from all of its previous incarnations and, in the second half, featured each member who wished it in a solo spot, broke more records. These mammoth three-hour shows and the resulting publicity (even news organizations that normally didn't cover rock concerts did features on the reunion) only seemed to heighten interest in the four-CD boxed set YesYears, which was released by Atlantic in 1991.</div>
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As with Union, the next Yes project was masterminded by a record company rather than the band itself. Victory Music approached Rabin with a proposal to produce an album solely with the 90125"YesWest" line-up. Rabin initially countered by requesting that Wakeman also be included. (Howe was not invited to participate.) Rabin began assembling the album at his home, using the then-pioneering concept of a digital home studio, and used material written predominantly by himself and Anderson.</div>
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By 1993, the new album was well into production, but Wakeman's involvement had finally been cancelled, as his refusal to leave his long-serving management created insuperable legal problems. (Rabin and Wakeman have both expressed regret that they never played together on a Yes album – although Rabin did guest on Wakeman's Return to the Centre of the Earth album in 1999.) With Howe and Bruford already out of the picture, Yes were back to their popular 1980s line-up of Anderson, Squire, Rabin, Kaye, and White, as Victory had desired.</div>
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In 1994, Yes released the new album under the title "Talk". Entirely digitally recorded by Rabin on ten gigabytes worth of hard disk storage on four synched Apple Macintoshes running Mark of the Unicorn's Digital Performer, it blended elements of "YesWest" radio-friendly rock with a more structurally ambitious approach taken from Yes' 1970s blueprint, even including the lengthy epic "Endless Dream" across most of the second half, as well as ingredients of contemporary electronic dance music, metal, and jazz. It also featured the more AOR-inclined song "Walls," which Rabin had written with Roger Hodgson for one of the latter's solo albums. Rabin's dominance over the album had extended beyond being producer, engineer, songwriter, and guitarist to include playing all of the album's keyboards (save for occasional Hammond organ work from Tony Kaye) and some of the bass guitar, and the response from fans was mixed.</div>
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Despite Victory Music's hopes, Talk proved ultimately to be one of Yes' poorest-selling releases, possibly affected by the sudden rise in the popularity of grunge music at the time. Although the first single from the album, "The Calling," was perhaps Yes' strongest single since "Owner of a Lonely Heart," neither the record label nor U.S. radio stations provided much promotion for it. However, David Letterman had heard one broadcast of the single while driving: impressed, and unaware of the source of the single, he had immediately taken steps to find out more about the "new band" that had performed it in order to have them appear on his show. Yes performed on the Late Show with David Letterman on 20 June 1994, just days into their 1994 Talk tour, performing the song "Walls."</div>
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For the tour, guitarist/vocalist Billy Sherwood was added, playing additional guitar and keyboards. The Talk tour featured an innovative sound system, through which fans at the concerts could listen on their portable FM radios turned to a specific frequency to hear greater dynamic range and stereo effects.</div>
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Following the tour, Rabin opted to leave the band to pursue other projects and soon became a highly successful and prolific film-score composer. Kaye also left the band to retire, although he subsequently returned to performing, providing Hammond organ on several tracks on the Sherwood-produced Return to the Dark Side of the Moon in 2006 and then working on further Sherwood-led projects.</div>
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With Rabin and Kaye now out of the picture, Anderson, Squire, and White opted to return to the classic 1970s style of Yes music in 1995. Repairing their working relationship with Howe and Wakeman, the remaining members of the core 1970s line-up, the band reunited for a three-night live performance near Anderson's home in the California town of San Luis Obispo in early March 1996. The shows sold out and were recorded, with the band's enthusiasm continuing into further studio sessions. The band formed a brief contract with CMC International Records, which released some of the live tracks from the show later in 1996 as Keys to Ascension, which also included two new studio tracks. A live DVD under the same name was also released.</div>
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With the revived line-up now established and enthusiastic, the band recorded new tracks, drawing in part on material written around the time of the band's initial split in 1980 and including material that Squire and White had demoed for the XYZ project. Although at one point the new material was to be released as a standalone studio album, with the working title of Know[citation needed], commercial considerations meant that the new tracks were eventually packaged with the remainder of the 1996 live material on another hybrid live-and-studio album, Keys to Ascension 2. The studio material from these two albums was later combined and released on a single CD called Keystudio.</div>
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The initial "classic Yes" reunion was short-lived, because of disagreements with Wakeman. He was disgruntled at the way in which a full new Yes studio album had been sacrificed in favour of the twoKeys to Ascension releases, as well as how a Yes tour was being arranged without his input or agreement. Wakeman left Yes in 1997 for the fourth time, shortly before the release of Keys to Ascension 2, leaving the band without a key performer and undercutting the commercial potential of the "classic" reunion. A projected 1997 summer tour was then rescheduled for the fall.</div>
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Now in need of material for a new Yes studio album that could reflect the change in circumstances, Squire turned to a project called Conspiracy, which he'd been working on with Sherwood (and which had included contributions from White). Squire and Sherwood reworked existing Conspiracy demos and recordings to turn them into Yes songs and added new material. Anderson and Howe were less involved with the writing and production at this stage and expressed dissatisfaction about the situation later. Sherwood's integral involvement with the writing, production and performance of the music led to his formally joining Yes as a full member at the end of the sessions, taking on the role of harmony singer, keyboardist and second guitarist. On tour, he would concentrate on backing vocals and guitar, playing backup parts to Steve Howe and performing the solos on Rabin-era songs. (Howe refused to do this himself, claiming that his style would not fit those solos.)</div>
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The new album, Open Your Eyes, was released in the fall of 1997. This album, and future releases, would come out on the Beyond Music label, which ensured that Yes would have more of a say in packaging and titling the albums. The title track and one other, "New State of Mind," received a fair amount of radio airplay. The well-attended tour that followed featured only a few pieces from the new album ("Open Your Eyes," "From The Balcony," and "No Way We Can Lose") and mostly concentrated on the revival of early Yes material, such as "Siberian Khatru." Yes also performed "Children of Light" from the album Keys to Ascension 2. Many fans considered the return of Howe to the touring Yes, along with a heavier emphasis on 1970s-era Yes music, an exciting development. The tour also featured keyboards from Russian keyboard player Igor Khoroshev, who had played on a few of the Open Your Eyes tracks.</div>
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Khoroshev continued to work with the band, becoming a full member by the time the band recorded their next album, The Ladder. This would be the last project that record producer Bruce Fairbairn would work on before his untimely death. Many fans were reminded of the band's 1970s sound – largely because of Khoroshev's classically oriented keyboard approach – although White also brought in a strong world-music influence (with the band experimenting with Latinesque arrangements, and with multi-instrumentalist Randy Raine-Reusch contributing to the album's textures). Sherwood's role continued to be limited to backup vocals and backup guitar. One of the album tracks – "Homeworld (The Ladder)" – was written for Relic Entertainment's Homeworld real-time strategy computer game and was used as the credits and outro theme. The band stated that they wrote the song not because the game's developers asked them but because they liked several aspects of the game itself.</div>
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The 1999 Yes tour resulted in a live DVD of the performance at the Las Vegas House of Blues. This would be the band's last work with Sherwood, who had been finding Yes' internal politics uncomfortable[citation needed]. He left the band before the 2000 Masterworks tour, which featured a revival of the Moraz-period extended piece "The Gates of Delirium" (from the album Relayer). Khoroshev was let go from the band at the tour's conclusion.</div>
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Yes' following studio album, 2001's Magnification, was recorded without a keyboard player in the band. Instead, Yes were backed by a 60-piece orchestra performing specific parts and arrangements written by notable film composer Larry Groupé. The band took an orchestra on tour with them to promote the album, although they also hired keyboardist Tom Brislin to reproduce some of the classic Yes keyboard material more faithfully. Magnification received a warm reception from critics and fans, although not on the level of older albums such as Fragile or Close to the Edge; the album reached No.71 in the UK and No.186 in the US – relatively low by the high standards set by the previous records.</div>
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Fans who felt they were short-changed in 1996 were delighted when Wakeman announced his return to the group on 20 April 2002, and a world tour for Yes followed, including a return to Australia after 30 years with the same lineup that had first toured there in 1973. The line-up enjoyed a somewhat revitalised presence in the public consciousness, especially during the celebration of their 35th anniversary in 2004. This revitalisation showed itself during a show in New York's Madison Square Garden. Near the end of the song "And You and I," where Howe finishes his steel-guitar part and before the last few acoustic notes, the band was overwhelmed with thunderous applause. It lasted so long that by the time it subsided, the roadies had already removed Howe's guitar. Wakeman then had to play the last bit, with Anderson singing.[citation needed]</div>
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On 16 May 2006, the original members of Asia – including Howe and Downes – announced that they would be reuniting for a 25th anniversary tour in September of that year. Anderson and Wakeman toured together in October 2006, and the setlist for most shows featured Yes material along with songs from both of their solo careers, and at least one ABWH song.</div>
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In March 2007, Sherwood, Kaye, White, and guitarist Jimmy Haun (a former bandmate of Sherwood's who'd played many of the guitar parts on Union) formally announced the formation of the Yes-related group called Circa, which had been rehearsing since the previous year. On 30 July 2007, the band self-released on the Internet their debut album, Circa 2007. Their debut live performance was held on 23 August 2007, at The Coach House in San Juan Capistrano, at which time the band performed their entire debut album, followed by an hour-long medley of Yes songs.</div>
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In November 2007, Anderson embarked on a one-month European solo tour. In the first half of 2008, he toured North America solo, extensively visiting Canada. Meanwhile, Howe continued to tour with Asia and White toured with Circa. Anderson also commented that he had also composed some new music with former Yes bandmate Trevor Rabin, although to date this music has not surfaced.</div>
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Yes themselves were due to return for a 2008 world tour in honour of the band's 40th anniversary, titled Close to the Edge and Back. This tour would have featured Oliver Wakeman sitting in on keyboards, in lieu of his father Rick, who had had to bow out on the advice of his doctors. At the time, Anderson claimed that the band had been preparing four new "lengthy, multi-movement compositions" for the tour which were "very, very different." (After the weak sales of Magnification, Anderson also suggested that "putting together an album really isn't logical any more," and no announcement was made as to a release of recordings of the new material in any form.)</div>
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Anderson had been experiencing respiratory problems on his solo tours, as he puts it "I was coughing so much that the only time I wasn't coughing was onstage. " The proposed Yes tour was cancelled when Anderson was admitted to the hospital in May 2008 following a severe asthma attack. He was diagnosed with acute respiratory failure, and doctors advised him not to work for at least six months in order to avoid suffering further health complications. On 4 June 2008, the band officially put their tour plans on hold. Anderson has said "I just needed a break, but the guys were upset about that.</div>
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David's position as lead singer on the tour led many to question Anderson's ongoing role in the band, and even whether Anderson remained a member of Yes. The issue was complicated by the fact that the shows were formally billed as "Howe, Squire, and White of Yes," (although many reports and outlets simply referred to the band as "Yes") and because the band did not provide a clear statement as to whether or not Anderson's absence was permanent.</div>
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Anderson's own public reaction was one of disappointment, with the singer stating on his website that he felt "disappointed" and "disrespected" by the move and by the lack of contact the other members had had with him since his illness. Later, this announcement was removed from his website, and Squire has since said that the tour had Anderson's "blessings." Subsequently, Anderson conducted solo tours in Europe and North America, and a tour with Rick Wakeman was held in 2010.</div>
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In February 2009, the "In the Present" tour was cut short (and the remaining shows, mostly in the Western USA, cancelled) due to Squire requiring emergency leg surgery (plus a month of recuperation). Howe took advantage of the cancellations to fit in some more work with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asia_(band)">Asia</a>. Following Squire's recovery (and similarly taking advantage of the gap in Yes' tour schedule) Squire and White reunited with Rabin at a benefit reception on 18 April 2009 in Snoqualmie, Washington, playing the music of John Lennon.</div>
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The Yes tour resumed in the summer of 2009 and continued into 2010, with the same "In the Present" band. Now simply billed as "Yes," they played shows in Europe and North America. This tour featured Asia as an opening act, with Howe playing with both bands. Yes began further touring in June/July 2010 on a bill with Peter Frampton. On 9 July 2010, Rabin performed live with Yes onstage, for a one-time show at the Greek Theater in Los Angeles, for the first time in nearly six years.</div>
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On 15 October 2009, Squire confirmed in a radio interview that Oliver Wakeman and Benoît David were official members of the band, stating "this is now Yes." It was also revealed that the new line-up had been working on new material and would enter the studio in Autumn 2010. Allaying further speculation regarding the state of Yes personnel, Howe has gone on to state categorically that Jon Anderson will not be working with the band on the new studio album, asserting that "this is the line-up that actually ... does the work. We're the perpetuation, the continuation, and the saga of Yes."</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Time and a Word (1970)<br />The Yes Album (1971)<br />Fragile (1971)<br />Close to the Edge (1972)<br />Yessongs (live) (1973)<br />Tales from Topographic Oceans (1973)<br />Relayer (1974)<br />Going for the One (1977)<br />Tormato (1978)<br />Drama (1980)<br />Yesshows (live) (1980)<br />90125 (1983)<br />9012Live (1984)<br />Big Generator (1987)<br />Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe (1989)<br />Union (1991)<br />Talk (1994)<br />Keys to Ascension (studio & live) (1996)<br />Keys to Ascension 2 (studio & live) (1997)<br />Open Your Eyes (1997)<br />The Ladder (1999)<br />Magnification (2001)<br />Fly from Here (2011)<br />FIn The Present Live From Lyon (live)l(2011)</span></span><b><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">YearVideoDirector<br />1977 "Wonderous Stories" <br />1978 "Don't Kill the Whale" <br />1978 "Madrigal" <br />1980 "Tempus Fugit" <br />1980 "Into the Lens" <br />1983 "Owner of a Lonely Heart" <br />1983 "Leave It" <br />1983 "It Can Happen" <br />1985 "Hold On" (live) <br />1987 "Love Will Find a Way" <br />1987 "Rhythm of Love" <br />1991 "Lift Me Up" <br />2001 "Don't Go" <br />2011 "We Can Fly" <br />2011 "Live from Lyon" Philippe Nicolet <br /><b><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br /></span></b></span></div>
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<tr><td><b>Album</b></td><td style="border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: medium; text-align: center;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yes_(Yes_album)" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Yes (Yes album)">Yes</a></td><td style="border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; text-align: center;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_and_a_Word" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Time and a Word">Time and a Word</a></td><td style="border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; text-align: center;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Yes_Album" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="The Yes Album">The Yes Album</a></td><td style="border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; text-align: center;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fragile_(Yes_album)" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Fragile (Yes album)">Fragile</a></td><td style="border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; text-align: center;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Close_to_the_Edge_(Yes_album)" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Close to the Edge (Yes album)">Close to the Edge</a></td><td style="border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; text-align: center;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tales_from_Topographic_Oceans" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Tales from Topographic Oceans">Tales From Topographic Oceans</a></td><td style="border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; text-align: center;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relayer" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Relayer">Relayer</a></td><td style="border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; text-align: center;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Going_for_the_One" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Going for the One">Going for the One</a></td><td style="border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; text-align: center;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tormato" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Tormato">Tormato</a></td><td style="border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; text-align: center;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drama_(Yes_album)" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Drama (Yes album)">Drama</a></td><td style="border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: medium; text-align: center;"><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/90125_(album)" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="90125 (album)">90125</a></td><td style="border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; text-align: center;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Generator" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Big Generator">Big Generator</a></td><td style="border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; text-align: center;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_(Yes_album)" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Union (Yes album)">Union</a></td><td style="border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; text-align: center;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk_(Yes_album)" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Talk (Yes album)">Talk</a></td><td style="border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; text-align: center;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keys_to_Ascension" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Keys to Ascension">Keys to Ascension</a></td><td style="border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; text-align: center;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keys_to_Ascension_2" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Keys to Ascension 2">Keys to Ascension 2</a></td><td style="border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; text-align: center;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Your_Eyes_(Yes_album)" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Open Your Eyes (Yes album)">Open Your Eyes</a></td><td style="border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; text-align: center;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ladder" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="The Ladder">The Ladder</a></td><td style="border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; text-align: center;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnification_(album)" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Magnification (album)">Magnification</a></td><td style="border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: medium; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: dashed; border-right-width: thin; text-align: center;"><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fly_From_Here" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; 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<tr><td><b>Vocals</b></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: maroon; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: medium; color: white; text-align: center;">Jon Anderson</td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: maroon; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; color: white; text-align: center;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: maroon; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; color: white; text-align: center;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: maroon; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; color: white; text-align: center;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: maroon; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; color: white; text-align: center;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: maroon; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; color: white; text-align: center;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: maroon; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; color: white; text-align: center;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: maroon; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; color: white; text-align: center;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: maroon; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; color: white; text-align: center;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #cc0000; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; color: white; text-align: center;">Trevor Horn</td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: maroon; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: medium; color: white; text-align: center;">Jon Anderson</td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: maroon; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; color: white; text-align: center;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: maroon; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; color: white; text-align: center;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: maroon; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; color: white; text-align: center;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: maroon; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; color: white; text-align: center;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: maroon; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; color: white; text-align: center;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: maroon; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; color: white; text-align: center;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: maroon; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; color: white; text-align: center;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: maroon; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; color: white; text-align: center;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #ee0000; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: medium; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: dashed; border-right-width: thin; color: white; text-align: center;">Benoît David</td></tr>
<tr><td><b>Guitar</b></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: blue; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: medium; color: white; text-align: center;">Peter Banks</td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #0011ff; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 17); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; color: white; text-align: center;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #000099; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; color: white; text-align: center;">Steve Howe</td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #000099; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; color: white; text-align: center;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #000099; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; color: white; text-align: center;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #000099; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; color: white; text-align: center;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #000099; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; color: white; text-align: center;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #000099; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; color: white; text-align: center;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #000099; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; color: white; text-align: center;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #000099; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; color: white; text-align: center;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #0066ff; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: medium; color: white; text-align: center;">Trevor Rabin</td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #0066ff; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; color: white; text-align: center;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #0066ff; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; color: white; text-align: center;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #0066ff; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; color: white; text-align: center;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #000099; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; color: white; text-align: center;">Steve Howe</td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #000099; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; color: white; text-align: center;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #000099; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; color: white; text-align: center;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #000099; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; color: white; text-align: center;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #000099; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; color: white; text-align: center;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #000099; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: medium; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: dashed; border-right-width: thin; color: white; text-align: center;"></td></tr>
<tr><td><b>Guitar 2</b></td><td style="border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: medium; text-align: center;"></td><td style="border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; text-align: center;"></td><td style="border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; text-align: center;"></td><td style="border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; text-align: center;"></td><td style="border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; text-align: center;"></td><td style="border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; text-align: center;"></td><td style="border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; text-align: center;"></td><td style="border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; text-align: center;"></td><td style="border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; text-align: center;"></td><td style="border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; text-align: center;"></td><td style="border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: medium; text-align: center;"></td><td style="border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; text-align: center;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #000099; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; color: white; text-align: center;">Steve Howe</td><td style="border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; text-align: center;"></td><td style="border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; text-align: center;"></td><td style="border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; text-align: center;"></td><td rowspan="2" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #009999; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; color: white; text-align: center;">Billy Sherwood</td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #009999; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; color: white; text-align: center;"></td><td style="border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; text-align: center;"></td><td style="border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: medium; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: dashed; border-right-width: thin; text-align: center;"></td></tr>
<tr><td><b>Keyboards</b></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #00aa00; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: medium; color: white; text-align: center;">Tony Kaye</td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #00aa00; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; color: white; text-align: center;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #00aa00; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; color: white; text-align: center;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #007700; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; color: white; text-align: center;">Rick Wakeman</td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #007700; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; color: white; text-align: center;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #007700; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; color: white; text-align: center;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #00dd00; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; color: white; text-align: center;">Patrick Moraz</td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #007700; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; color: white; text-align: center;">Rick Wakeman</td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #007700; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; color: white; text-align: center;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #335533; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; color: white; text-align: center;">Geoff Downes</td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #00aa00; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: medium; color: white; text-align: center;">Tony Kaye</td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #00aa00; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; color: white; text-align: center;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #00aa00; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; color: white; text-align: center;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #00aa00; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; color: white; text-align: center;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #007700; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; color: white; text-align: center;">Rick Wakeman</td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #007700; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; color: white; text-align: center;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #339911; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; color: white; text-align: center;">Igor Khoroshev</td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #999966; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; color: white; text-align: center;">Alan White</td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #335533; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: medium; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: dashed; border-right-width: thin; color: white; text-align: center;">Geoff Downes</td></tr>
<tr><td><b>Keyboards 2</b></td><td style="border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: medium; text-align: center;"></td><td style="border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; text-align: center;"></td><td style="border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; text-align: center;"></td><td style="border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; text-align: center;"></td><td style="border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; text-align: center;"></td><td style="border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; text-align: center;"></td><td style="border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; text-align: center;"></td><td style="border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; text-align: center;"></td><td style="border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; text-align: center;"></td><td style="border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; text-align: center;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #0066ff; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: medium; color: white; text-align: center;">Trevor Rabin</td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #0066ff; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(68, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; color: white; text-align: center;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #007700; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(68, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; color: white; text-align: center;">Rick Wakeman</td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #0066ff; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; color: white; text-align: center;">Trevor Rabin</td><td style="border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; text-align: center;"></td><td style="border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; text-align: center;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #339911; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; color: white; text-align: center;">Igor Khoroshev</td><td style="border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; text-align: center;"></td><td style="border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; text-align: center;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #00dd00; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: medium; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: dashed; border-right-width: thin; color: white; text-align: center;">Oliver Wakeman</td></tr>
<tr><td><b>Drums</b></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #999900; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: medium; color: white; text-align: center;">Bill Bruford</td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #999900; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; text-align: center;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #999900; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: thin; text-align: center;"></td><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #999900; 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<span style="font-size: large;">The longest recorded piece of music used to be by a noise band called Bull of Heaven, "The Chosen Priest and Apostle of Infinite Space." It's more than 2 months long. They also have other works that are multiple weeks long. (see Link) They have however bested this with a song that is 50 000 hours in length, that's more than 6 years of continuos song! One must note, however, that Bull of Heaven does not write actual music but rather repeats sound effects at very slow speeds for days on end.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The progressive rock band Green Carnation made a 1:00:07 song called Light of Day, Day of Darkness, the album had the same name. This song was the only song on their album. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The progressive rock band The Flower Kings's song Garden of Dreams is nearly an hour long, at 59:24. They also have recorded The Truth Will set you Free, which clocks in at 31:03. On the same album, Devil's Playground is 24:45. The Flower Kings is well known for very long studio tracks.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Spock's Beard has a few long songs, such as The Great Nothing (27:02), and The Water (23:10). The ex-lead singer Neal Morse's solo project also has some long songs, such as The Door (29:13), The Conflict (25:00) and The Conclusion (16:24). </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Rock band The Dragon Cult are known for their extended studio recordings, including Black Ghost Train (38:05) on their debut album, and for their marathon trio improvisation jam sessions at live performances. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Dream Theater also has a song that is 42:04 called Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence. They are also known for long studio recordings. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The prog rock supergroup Transatlantic also has quite a few long tracks, such as Duel with the Devil (26:43), Stranger in Your Soul (30:00), All of the Above (30:59), and The Whirlwind (77:54 *This track is broken into 12 parts on the studio album*) </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The progressive rock band Magellan has a track "The Great Goodnight," which clocks in at 34:45. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Genesis' track Supper's Ready is 22:52. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Emerson Lake and Palmer's track Tarkus runs for 20:40. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Mike Oldfield, known for long tracks, wrote Tubular Bells, which is nearly 50 minutes long (48:57), but was broken into 2 parts on the LP. Hergest Ridge is 40:14 seconds, and was also broken into 2 parts over both sides of the LP. Ommadawn is 36:41 (same deal). Incantations is 72:44 (broken over two vinyl discs). His song Amarok is also quite long at 60:04. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Keith Jarret has very long songs, like the Vienna Concert, which can be 45 minutes long. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">But there is another new band (progressive blues rock shredding) currently known as S&S Co. they have a song with no official name yet that is 39 minutes and 24 seconds. "One of those few bands that makes it up there with the classics such as Hendrix, Zeppelin, Beatles, Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, and all": Rolling Stone Magazine. Not too many people know about this so that's why I'm sharing this with you. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Yoo Doo Right by the krautrock band, Can, was originally six hours long. It was cut down to twenty minutes when it was released on the album Monster Movie though.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Arguably the most infamous work of bad art in prog history, the cover of ELP's <i>Tarkus </i>is a bona fide brain-stopper. Rendered in what appears to be Magic Marker, the image of a monstrous tank/armadillo hybrid named Tarkus is just as cartoonishly bombastic as the music within. Open the gatefold cover, and the graphics get even crazier: In a sequence of wordless panels, Tarkus is born from a volcano and battles a host of equally weird critters before being resurrected as—wow—Aquatarkus. According to frontman Greg Lake, Tarkus was meant to be viewed as a symbol of the military-industrial complex. Or at least the military-industrial complex as envisioned by a disturbed middle-schooler.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>2. Yes, <i>Tormato</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">British design firm Hipgnosis was responsible for some of the most memorable sleeves in prog-rock history: They hooked up with Pink Floyd early on, helping to create indelible visuals. Designer Storm Thorgerson went on to do some of the best and worst in the field, and though he gets full credit for <i>Dark Side Of The Moon</i>, he's also responsible for unintentional hilarity like Yes' ninth studio album, <i>Tormato</i>. The story behind the cover—probably apocryphal, but still funny—is that the band's Rick Wakeman hated the cover photos so much that he threw a tomato at them. The glop was then worked into the design, and the album title adjusted. Both now recall a tornado mixed with a tomato, which is never a good thing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>3. King Crimson, <i>In The Court Of The Crimson King</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">King Crimson's landmark debut album (sorry, "observation") might have a great cover—it just depends on how you define the word "great." If your definition is "incredibly creepy and hard to look at for fear of going insane," then <i>In The Court Of</i> <i>The Crimson King </i>has one of the greatest rock covers ever. It was the first and only painting by artist Barry Godber, who died of a heart attack at age 24, shortly after the album's release. Draw your own conclusions from that.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The naked "golden god" figure walking across a giant brain on the cover of <i>Hemispheres</i> had appeared in Rush artwork prior to 1978, but never before had he been such an active participant in the scenario the picture creates. Here, he seems to choose some uptight citizen to follow him on a journey <i>literally</i> "into the mind"—an image so righteous that thousands of otherwise-macho hard-rock fans plastered it onto their bedroom walls, so they could drift off to sleep pondering a man's firm, bare ass.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>5. Steely Dan, <i>Can't Buy A Thrill</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">There's nothing slapdash about Steely Dan's immaculate progressive jazz-rock, which makes the cover of its otherwise terrific 1972 debut, <i>Can't Buy A Thrill</i>,<i> </i>all the more inappropriate. Picture a half-assed high-school art project—some big red lips here, a shirtless man and his man-boobs there, and some really far-out squiggly lines shooting to and fro. Sure, there are some hookers in there, too, an indication of the perversity lurking just underneath the Dan's shiny exterior. But a record so elegantly subversive demands more than a poorly conceived collage.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>6. The Mars Volta, <i>De-Loused In The Comatorium</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>De-Loused In The Comatorium </i>is apparently a concept album about a man named Cerpin Taxt who overdoses on morphine and ends up in a weeklong coma, during which time he delves deep into the recesses of his troubled subconscious. But it's impossible to make heads or tails of Cedric Bixler-Zavala's lyrics on the actual record. The confusion carries over to the cover, which depicts a severed, gold-plated head on a plate, with a beam of light shooting out of its mouth. The head looks like a cross between Peter Gabriel and C-3PO, perhaps the perfect distillation of the typical prog-rock fan's obsessions.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>7. Jethro Tull, <i>The Broadsword And The Beast</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Sure, there are dozens of Renaissance Faire-inspired covers that could go on this list, but the sheer simplicity of the album title—<i>The Broadsword And The Beast</i>—and its incredible cover art go so perfectly together. A painting depicts the beast, which appears to be part wizard, part elf, and part butterfly, with the tail of a lion, holding the titular sword while the sea rages behind him. Bandmembers' heads mark the four corners, all part of a grand picture frame. Oh, and quoth Wikipedia: "The runic symbols around the edge of the cover are from the Cirth rune system used by J.R.R. Tolkien in <i>The Lord Of The Rings</i>." Of course they are.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>8. Fates Warning, <i>Awaken The Guardian </i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Indie-metal band Fates Warning began to leave head-banging behind with its second album, <i>The Spectre Within</i>, and the journey toward the progressive continued on 1985's<i> Awaken The Guardian</i>, the cover of which is a black-light-ready monstrosity featuring what appears to be a star gate stationed on a rolling interplanetary landscape. Weirdly incongruous element: the graffiti-style font for the band's name, and the way it barely fits into the tiny niche it's been allotted. Perhaps the band didn't want the name to get in the way of that pretty picture.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>9. Dream Theater, <i>When Dream And Day Unite</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The debut album by Boston prog-metal favorites Dream Theater offers the intentionally nightmarish image of a hunk about to be branded with the Dream Theater logo by some unseen malefactor. (The band's publicist, perhaps?) An unnecessary touch of realism: a narrow tuft of underarm hair, apparently there to let us know that this chiseled, well-coiffed dude is All Man.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>10. Queensrÿche, <i>Hear In The Now Frontier</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Desert and mountains are there to indicate "frontier," but how will Queensrÿche manage to get across the clever here/hear pun? How about severed ears in old-fashioned jars? Perfect! (And thus ended Queensrÿche's run as a chart-topping rock god.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>11. Marillion, <i>Script For A Jester's Tear</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Marillion's 1983 debut, <i>Script For A Jester's Tear</i>, was almost single-handedly responsible for re-inflating progressive rock after punk lanced it—even though Cheap Trick was probably more responsible for that than The Clash. But while old-school acts like King Crimson and Genesis wisely commissioned tasteful, minimal album art in the '80s, Marillion opted for a throwback: The harlequin on <i>Script</i>'s cover<i> </i>fiddles sadly in a typically overwrought, absurdly pretentious prog tableau. Artist Mark Wilkinson allegedly forgot one of the band's explicit requests—to include a rubber plant in the background of the painting. Yeah, that would've fixed it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>12. Genesis, <i>Nursery Cryme</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The three Genesis albums designed by artist Paul Whitehead—<i>Trespass</i>, <i>Nursery Cryme</i>, and <i>Foxtrot</i>—make for a pretty warped triptych. Even clumsier than the album's titular pun, the cover of <i>Nursery Cryme </i>depicts a proper young lady playing croquet with—gasp!—tiny, decapitated human heads. The ersatz surrealism is rendered even lamer by a maid wearing what look like hamster wheels on her shoes. And what's with progressive-rock albums and their obsession with vanishing points?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>13. Camel, <i>I Can See Your House From Here</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The luridly painted covers of Camel's '70s albums were some of the decade's most typically awful—but when photorealism become <i>de rigueur</i> in the late '70s, the band followed suit with <i>I Can See Your House From Here.</i> Outside of Spinal Tap's "The Sun Never Sweats," few record covers have misused astronomical bodies so horribly: On it, planet Earth serves as the backdrop for a crucified astronaut. Of course, any attempt at profundity is flattened by the title's punchline. Whether you're stoned or not, though, that <i>is</i> pretty funny.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>14. Van Der Graaf Generator, <i>H To He</i></b><b>,<i> Who Am The Only One</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>H To He Who </i>huh? Van Der Graaf Generator may be rightly respected as one of the most unique and intriguing of the original English prog bands, but the cover of its 1970 record is a dumbfounding hodgepodge of science fiction, neoclassicism, and some sort of clock. Or clam. Made out of testicles. The <i>H To He </i>portion of the title is a reference to subatomic physics, specifically "the fusion of hydrogen nuclei to form helium nuclei."</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>15. Captain Beyond, <i>Sufficiently Breathless</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Like the rejected cover of some Robert Anton Wilson book, the artwork from Captain Beyond's <i>Sufficiently Breathless </i>could pass as an ad for cheap acid and wingnut mysticism. Instead of cosmic, though, it's just plain comical. Granted, the ambulatory hand is a nice nod to Terry Gilliam's <i>Monty Python </i>animation, and the cross-sectioned dog predates Damien Hirst by a couple of decades. But a psychedelic cyber-clown with a corkscrew penis? "Breathless" doesn't quite cover it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Captain Beyond was a minor exponent of American progressive rock, but Kansas was the king. Still, the band's dense prog didn't become truly radio-friendly until the hit "Carry On Wayward Son" from 1976's <i>Leftoverture</i>—the title of which remains one of pop music's worst portmanteaux. The cover is no better: A bearded composer sits frustrated at his desk, while planets and pianos and shit whirl around in the air behind him. Or is that supposed to be inside his head? Whoa, heavy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Ah, the rock 'n' roll double entendre. Featuring a giant tongue dripping saliva into, um, some kind of flesh-colored crack, the cover and title of Gentle Giant's <i>Acquiring The Taste </i>are as idiotic as the band's music is sophisticated. Then again, the band did claim to draw inspiration from the French writer and libertine François Rabelais, one of the masters of dirty puns—and Rabelais himself no doubt would have gotten a cheap laugh out of the album's back cover, which reveals the fleshy object to be a piece of fruit.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">As a high-school art-class final project, <i>Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume Two: No World For Tomorrow</i> gets solid marks for deep imagery, creativity, and muscle texture. As an album cover by a band making music in the aughts, it's nothing short of hilarious: A long-haired, ripped, shirtless dude stands on a planet that's cracking underneath him, revealing celestial bodies. His back to us, he stares at a futuristic city that's either being destroyed by or repelling meteors or possibly giant, rock-like sperm. Without even seeing his face, we know that he is strangely empowered by the whole scenario, for he is the only one who can read the cryptic sky-writing. Loosely translated: It's a phonetic alien spelling of "guffaw."</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 24.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"></span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The following are bits and pieces of the beautiful songs lyrics that can inspiring in lifetimes , a collection of "Brain Candy" </span></i></span></b><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And as we wind on down the road<br />
our shadows taller than our soul<br />
there walks a lady we all know<br />
who shines white light and wants to show<br />
how everything still turns to gold<br />
and if you listen very hard<br />
the tune will come to you at last<br />
when all are one and one is all<br />
to be a rock and not to roll.<br />
<b><i>- - - Led Zeppelin, "Stairway to Heaven"</i></b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">All you touch and all you see,<br />
Is all your life will ever be.<br />
<b><i>- - - Pink Floyd, "Breathe"</i></b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">All of us get lost in the darkness<br />
Dreamers learn to steer by the stars<br />
All of us do time in the gutters<br />
Dreamers turn to look at the cars<br />
<b><i>- - - Rush "The Pass"</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Amazing grace! How sweet the sound<br />
That saved a wretch like me!<br />
I once was lost, but now am found,<br />
Was blind, but now I see.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Through many dangers, toils, and
snares,<br />
I have already come:<br />
'Tis grace has brought me safe thus far,<br />
And grace will lead me home.<br />
<b><i>- - - John Newton, "Amazing Grace"</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">And Honey, I miss you and I'm
being good.<br />
And I'd love to be with you if only I could.<br />
<b><i>- - - Bobby Goldsboro, "Honey"</i></b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And if I can't be with you I would
rather have a different face<br />
And if I can't be near you I would rather be adrift in space<br />
And if the gods desert us I would burn this chapel into flames<br />
And if someone tries to hurt you I would put myself in your place<br />
<b><i>- - - Neil Finn "Try Whistling This"</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And if she asks you why you can
tell her that I told you<br />
That I'm tired of Castles in the Air<br />
I've got a dream I want the world to share in castle walls<br />
Just leave me to despair</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Hills of forest green where the
mountains touch the sky<br />
A dream come true, I'll live there 'til I die<br />
I'm asking you, to say my last good-bye<br />
The love we knew, ain't worth another try<br />
<b><i>- - - Don McLean "Castles in the Air"</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And the cat's in the cradle and
the silver spoon<br />
Little boy blue and the man in the moon.<br />
<b><i>- - - Harry Chapin, "Cat's In the Cradle"</i></b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">And the seasons, they go round and
round,<br />
And the painted ponies go up and down.<br />
We're captive on the carousel of time.<br />
We can't return, we can only look<br />
Behind from where we came,<br />
And go round and round and round in the circle game.<br />
<b><i>- - - Tom Rush, "The Circle Game"</i></b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">And the words of the prophets are
written on the subway walls,<br />
And tenement halls,<br />
And whispered in the sounds of silence.<br />
<b><i>- - - Paul Simon, "Sounds of Silence"</i></b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">And though you want to last
forever,<br />
You know you never will,<br />
You know you never will,<br />
And the good-bye makes the journey harder still.<br />
<b><i>- - - Cat Stevens "O Very Young"</i></b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">And you run and you run to catch
up with the sun but it's sinking.<br />
Racing around to come up behind you again.<br />
The sun is the same in a relative way but you're older.<br />
Shorter of breath and one day closer to death.<br />
<b><i>- - - Pink Floyd, "Time"</i></b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Are you lonesome tonight?<br />
Do you miss me tonight?<br />
Are you sorry we drifted apart?<br />
Does your memory stray to a bright sunny day?<br />
When I kissed you and called you sweetheart?<br />
Do the chairs in your parlor seem empty and bare?<br />
Do you gaze at your doorstep and picture me there?<br />
Is your heart filled with pain, shall I come back again?<br />
Tell me dear, are you lonesome tonight? <br />
<b><i>- - -Roy Turk and Lou Handman, "Are You Lonesome Tonight"</i></b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Aruba, Jamaica, ooh I wanna take
you to<br />
Bermuda, Bahama, come on pretty mama<br />
Key Largo Montego, baby why don't we go<br />
Ooh I wanna take you down to <br />
Kokomo, we'll get there fast and then we'll take it slow<br />
That's where we wanna go, way down in Kokomo. <br />
<b><i>- - -Beach Boys, "Kokomo"</i></b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Beautiful dreamer, wake unto me,<br />
Starlight and dewdrops are waiting for thee.<br />
<b><i>- - - Stephen Foster, "Beautiful Dreamer"</i></b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Because you're mine<br />
I walk the line.<br />
<b><i>- - - Johnny Cash, "I Walk the Line"</i></b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Blue Moon, you saw me standing
alone<br />
Without a dream in my heart<br />
Without a love of my own<br />
<b><i>- - -Lorenz Hart, "Blue Moon"</i></b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">But of all these friends and
lovers<br />
There is no one compares with you. <br />
And these memories lose their meaning<br />
When I think of love as something new. <br />
Though I know I'll never lose affection<br />
For people and things that went before<br />
I know I'll often stop and think about them<br />
In my life, I love you more. <br />
<b><i>- - -Beatles "In My Life"</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Come on baby, light my fire<br />
Try to set the night on fire<br />
<b><i>- - -Robbie Kreiger , "Light My Fire"</i></b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Day is done<br />
gone the sun<br />
from the lake<br />
from the hill<br />
from the sky<br />
all is well<br />
safely rest<br />
God is nigh<br />
<b><i>- - - Anonymous "Taps"</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Doesn't anybody stay in one place
any more?<br />
<b><i>- - - Carole King, "Far Away"</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Don't go changing, to try and
please me<br />
You never let me down before.<br />
<b><i>- - - Billy Joel, "Just the Way You Are"</i></b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Don't want to close my eyes<br />
I don't want to fall asleep<br />
'Cause I'd miss you, baby, and I don't want to miss a thing. <br />
'Cause even when I dream of you, <br />
The sweetest dream would never do<br />
I'd still miss you baby, and I don't want to miss a thing. <br />
<b><i>- - - Aerosmith "Don't want to miss a thing"</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Down the street the dogs are
barking<br />
And the day is getting dark. <br />
As the night comes in a-falling, <br />
The dogs´ll lose their bark<br />
And the silent night will shatter<br />
From the sounds inside my mind, <br />
For I´m one to many mornings<br />
And a thousand miles behind. <br />
From the crossroads of my doorstep, <br />
My eyes they start to fade, <br />
As I turn my head back to the room<br />
Where my love and I have laid.... <br />
<b><i>- - - Bob Dylan "One Too Many Mornings"</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Driving that train, high on
cocaine<br />
Casey Jones you'd better watch your speed<br />
Trouble ahead, trouble behind<br />
And you know that notion just crossed my mind<br />
<b><i>- - - Robert Hunter (Grateful Dead) "Casey Jones"</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Every breath you take and every
move you make<br />
Every bond you break, every step you take<br />
I'll be watchin' you</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Every single day and every word
you say<br />
Every game you play, every night you stay<br />
I'll be watchin' you<br />
<b><i>- - -Sting, "Every Breath You Take"</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Every time I look in the mirror<br />
All these lines on my face getting clearer<br />
The past is gone<br />
It goes by, like dusk to dawn<br />
Isn't that the way<br />
Everybody's got their dues in life to pay<br />
<b><i>- - - Aerosmith, "Dream On"</i></b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Fly away, to the rainbow in the
sky<br />
Gold is at the end for each of us to find<br />
There the road begins, where another one will end<br />
Here the four winds know who will break and who will bend<br />
All to be the Master of the Wind<br />
<b><i>- - - Manowar, " Master of the Wind"</i></b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Fred Jones was worn out from
caring for his often<br />
screaming and crying wife during the day, but<br />
he couldn't sleep at night for fear that she, <br />
in a stupor from the drugs that didn't<br />
ease the pain would set the house ablaze<br />
with a cigarette<br />
<b><i>- - - Ben Folds Five, "Cigarette" (that's the whole song)</i></b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Freedom's just another word for
nothin' left to lose.<br />
Nothin' ain't worth nothin' but it's free. <br />
<b><i>- - - Kris Kristofferson, "Me and Bobby McGee"</i></b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Happy days are here again,<br />
The skies above are clear again:<br />
Let us sing a song of cheer again,<br />
Happy days are here again!<br />
<b><i>- - - Jack Yellen "Happy Days Are Here Again"</i></b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">He goes along just as a water lily<br />
Gentle on the surface of his thoughts his body floats<br />
Unweighed down by passion or intensity<br />
Yet unaware of the depth upon which he coasts<br />
And he finds a home in me<br />
For what misfortune sows, he knows my touch will reap<br />
<b><i>- - -Fiona Apple, "Pale September"</i></b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">He not busy being born is busy
dying. <br />
<b><i>- - - Bob Dylan, "It's Alright, Ma"</i></b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Hear that lonesome whippoorwill?<br />
He sounds too blue to fly.<br />
The midnight train is whining low,<br />
I'm so lonesome I could cry.<br />
<b><i>- - - Hank Williams, "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry"</i></b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">How can I be sure<br />
in a world that's constantly changing? <br />
How can I be sure where I stand with you? <br />
Whenever I, whenever I am away from you<br />
I wanna die<br />
cause you know I wanna stay with you. <br />
How do I know? <br />
Maybe you're trying to use me; <br />
flying too high can confuse me; <br />
touch me but don't take me down. <br />
<b><i>- - - The Young Rascals, "How Can I Be Sure?"</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">How I wish<br />
How I wish you were here.<br />
We're just two lost souls,<br />
Swimming in a fish bowl,<br />
Year after year</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Running over the same old ground.<br />
What have we found?<br />
The same old fears<br />
Wish you were here<br />
<b><i>- - - Pink Floyd, "Wish You Were Here"</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">How many times can a man turn his
head,<br />
and pretend that he just doesn't see?<br />
<b><i>- - - Bob Dylan "Blowing in the Wind"</i></b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I come to you defenses down with
the trust of a child.<br />
<b><i>- - - Peter Gabriel "Red Rain"</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I didn't mean to take up all your
sweet time...<br />
I'll give it right back to you, one of these days<br />
<b><i>- - - Jimi Hendrix</i></b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I don't believe in destiny or the
guiding hand of fate<br />
I don't believe in forever, or love as a mystical state<br />
I don't believe in the stars or the planets<br />
or angels watching from above<br />
But I believe there's a ghost of a chance <br />
we can find someone to love<br />
and make it last. <br />
<b><i>- - - Rush "Ghost Of A Chance"</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">i like a tombstone, cuz it
weathers well, <br />
and if it stands or if it crumbles, only time will tell.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">and you can carve my name in
marble, you must cut it deep; <br />
there'll be no dancing on the gravestone, you must let me sleep.<br />
<b><i>---suzanne vega, "tombstone"</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I met a girl who sang the blues<br />
and I asked her for some happy news,<br />
but she just smiled and turned away.<br />
And the three men I admire most,<br />
The Father, Son, and the Holy Ghost,<br />
They caught the last train to the coast<br />
The day the music died.<br />
<i>-<b> - - Don McLean, "American Pie" </b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I sing my heart out to the wide
open spaces<br />
I sing my heart out to the infinite sea<br />
I sing my vision to the sky-high mountains<br />
I sing my song to the free.<br />
<b><i>- - - Pete Townshend "Song is Over"</i></b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I want to stand with you on a
mountain<br />
I want to bathe with you in the sea<br />
I want to lay like this forever<br />
Until the sky falls down on me<br />
<b><i>- - -Savage Garden, "Truly Madly Deeply"</i></b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I woke up this morning, <br />
Smiled at the rising sun, <br />
Three little birds, <br />
Sat on my doorstep, <br />
Singing sweet songs<br />
<b><i>- - -Bob Marley "Three Little Birds"</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I'd rather laugh with the sinners
than cry with the saints<br />
Sinners are much more fun.<br />
<b><i>- - - Billy Joel, "Only the Good Die Young"</i></b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I'm going, I'm going, where the
water tastes like wine,<br />
We can jump in the water, stay drunk all the time<br />
<b><i>- - -Canned Heat, "Going Up The Country"</i></b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I'm just a soul whose intentions
are good,<br />
Oh Lord, please don't let me be misunderstood.<br />
<b><i>- - - Joe Cocker, "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood"</i></b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I'm not scared of dyin' and I
don't really care<br />
if it's peace you find in dyin'<br />
well then let the time be near.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And when I die<br />
and when I'm gone<br />
there'll be one child born<br />
and a world to carry on.<br />
<i>-<b> - - Laura Nyro, "And When I Die"</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I'm so afraid to love you, but
more afraid to loose<br />
Clinging to a past that doesn't let me choose<br />
Once there was a darkness, deep and endless night<br />
You gave me everything you had, oh you gave me light<br />
And I will remember you<br />
Will you remember me? <br />
Don't let your life pass you by<br />
Weep not for the memories <br />
<b><i>- - - Sarah McLachlan, "I Will Remember You"</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I'm wild again,<br />
Beguiled again,<br />
A simpering, whimpering child again - <br />
Bewitched, bothered and bewildered am I. <br />
<b><i>- - -Lorenz Hart, "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered"</i></b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I've been trying to get down to
the heart of the matter<br />
but my will gets weak<br />
and my thoughts seem to scatter<br />
but I think it's about forgiveness... <br />
forgiveness, <br />
even if you don't love me anymore. <br />
<b><i>- - -Don Henly "Heart of The Matter"</i></b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">If I should stay <br />
I would only be in your way <br />
So I'll go, but I know <br />
I'll think of you each step of the way <br />
And I will always love you <br />
I will always love you <br />
<br />
Bitter sweet Memories <br />
That's all I am taking with me <br />
Good-bye. Please don't cry <br />
We both know that I'm not <br />
What you need <br />
But I will always love you <br />
I will always love you. <br />
<b><i>- - -Dolly Parton "I Will Always Love You"</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">If the future's looking dark<br />
We're the ones who have to shine<br />
If there's no one in control<br />
We're the ones who draw the line<br />
Though we live in trying times<br />
We're the ones who have to try<br />
Though we know that time has wings<br />
We're the ones who have to fly. <br />
<b><i>- - -Rush "Everyday Glory" </i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">If you said good-bye to me
tonight,<br />
There would still be music left to write.<br />
<b><i>- - - Billy Joel, "The Longest Time"</i></b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">If you want my body and you think
I'm sexy<br />
come on sugar let me know. <br />
<b><i>- - -Rod Stewart, "Do Ya Think I'm Sexy"</i></b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">In every heart there is a room<br />
A sanctuary safe and strong <br />
To heal the wounds from lovers past<br />
Until a new one comes along"<br />
<b><i>- - - Billy Joel "And So It Goes" </i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">In the arms of an Angel far away
from here<br />
From this dark, cold hotel room, and the endlessness that you fear<br />
You are pulled from the wreckage of your silent reverie<br />
In the arms of an Angel; may you find some comfort here <br />
<b><i>- - - Sarah MacLachlan "In the Arms of an Angel"</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">In the clearing stands the boxer,
and a fighter by his trade.<br />
And he carries a reminder of every glove that laid him down...<br />
or cut him till he cried out in his anger and his shame<br />
"I am leaving! I am leaving" but the fighter still remains.<br />
<b><i>- - - Paul Simon, "The Boxer"</i></b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">In the rain the pavement shines
like silver<br />
All the lights are misty in the river<br />
In the darkness, the trees are full of starlight<br />
And all I see is him and me forever and forever<br />
<b><i>- - - "On My Own" from Les Miserables</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">in your eyes <br />
the light the heat <br />
in your eyes <br />
I am complete <br />
in your eyes <br />
I see the doorway to a thousand churches <br />
in your eyes <br />
the resolution of all the fruitless searches <br />
in your eyes <br />
I see the light and the heat <br />
in your eyes <br />
oh, I want to be that complete <br />
I want to touch the light, <br />
the heat I see in your eyes <br />
<b><i>- - - Peter Gabriel "In Your Eyes"</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Is this the real life<br />
Is this just fantasy<br />
Caught in a landslide<br />
No escape from reality<br />
Open your eyes, look up to the skies and see<br />
I'm just a poor boy, I need no sympathy<br />
Because I'm easy come, easy go; little high, little low<br />
anyway the wind blows doesn't really matter to me<br />
To me<br />
<b><i>- - -Queen, "Bohemian Rhapsody"</i></b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">It came upon the midnight clear,<br />
That glorious song of old,<br />
From angels bending near the earth<br />
To touch their harps of gold:<br />
"Peace on earth, good will to men<br />
From Heaven's all - gracious King" -<br />
The world in solemn stillness lay<br />
To hear the angels sing.<br />
<b><i>- - - Edmund Hamilton Sears, "The Angels' Song"</i></b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">It's the heart afraid of dying,
that never learns to dance;<br />
It's the dream afraid of waking, that never takes the chance;<br />
It's the one who won't be taken, who cannot seem to give;<br />
And the soul afraid of dying, that never learns to live.<br />
<b><i>- - - Amanda McBroom, "The Rose"</i></b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I've looked at life from both
sides now<br />
From up and down, and still somehow<br />
It's life's illusions I recall<br />
I really don't know life at all.<br />
<b><i>- - - Joni Mitchell "Both Sides Now"</i></b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I've seen fire and I've seen rain<br />
I've seen sunny days that I thought would never end<br />
I've seen lonely times when I could not find a friend<br />
But I always thought that I'd see you again<br />
<b><i>- - - James Taylor "Fire and Rain"</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">It was your song that made me sing<br />
It was your song that gave me wings<br />
It was your light that shined <br />
guiding my heart to find<br />
This place where I belong<br />
It was your song</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Dreams can come true <br />
With God's great angels like you<br />
<b><i>- - -Garth Brooks "Your Song"</i></b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Joy to the world<br />
All the boys and girls now<br />
Joy to the fishes in the deep blue sea<br />
Joy to you and me<br />
<b><i>- - -Hoyt Axton, "Joy to the World"</i></b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Late at night a big ole house gets
lonely, <br />
I guess every form refuge has its price<br />
And it breaks her heart to think her love is only<br />
Given to a man with hands as cold as ice. <br />
<b><i>- - - Eagles "Lyin' Eyes"</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Life it seems, will fade away<br />
Drifting further every day<br />
Getting lost within myself<br />
Nothing matters no one else<br />
I have lost the will to live<br />
Simply nothing more to give<br />
There is nothing more for me<br />
Need the end to set me free<br />
<b><i>- - - Metallica "Fade to Black"</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Like a circle in a spiral<br />
Like a wheel within a wheel<br />
Never ending or beginning<br />
On an ever-spinning reel<br />
As the images unwind<br />
Like the circles that you find<br />
In the windmills of your mind. <br />
<b><i>- - - Michel LeGrand "Windmills of Your Mind"</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Little drops of rain<br />
Whisper of the pain<br />
Tears of love<br />
Lost in the days gone by.<br />
<b><i>- - - Robert Plant, "Thank You"</i></b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Love can touch us one time<br />
And last for a lifetime <br />
And never let go till we're gone<br />
<b><i>- - - Celine Dion "My Heart Will Go On"</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Love is a rose <br />
But you better not pick it. <br />
It only grows <br />
When it's on the vine. <br />
Handful of thorns <br />
And you'll know you missed it. <br />
You lose your love <br />
When you say the word MINE. <br />
<b><i>- - - Neil Young, "Love Is A Rose"</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Lovin' you has made my life so
beautiful<br />
And every day of my life is filled with lovin' you<br />
Lovin' you I see your soul come shining through<br />
And every time that we ooooh I'm more in love with you<br />
<b><i>- - -Minnie Riperton, "Lovin' You"</i></b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Mama may have<br />
Papa may have<br />
But God bless the child that's got his own<br />
That's got his own.<br />
<b><i>- - - Arthur Herzog and Billie Holiday, "God Bless the Child"</i></b>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Maybe I will never be<br />
All the things that I'd like to be<br />
Now is not the time to cry<br />
Now's the time to find out why<br />
I think you're the same as me<br />
We see things they'll never see<br />
You and I are gonna live forever<br />
<b><i>- - - Oasis "Live Forever"</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Memory. All alone in the moonlight<br />
I can smile at the old days<br />
I was beautiful then.<br />
<b><i>- - - Trevor Nunn, "Cats"</i></b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">'Mid pleasures and palaces though
we may roam,<br />
Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home.<br />
<b><i>- - - John Howard Payne, "Home, Sweet Home"</i></b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Moons and Junes and Ferris wheels<br />
The dizzy dancing way you feel<br />
As every fairy tale comes real<br />
I've looked at love that way.<br />
<b><i>- - - Joni Mitchell, "Both Sides Now"</i></b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Morning has broken<br />
Like the first morning.<br />
Blackbird has spoken<br />
Like the first bird.<br />
<b><i>- - - Cat Steven, "Morning has broken"</i></b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">My eyes adored ya<br />
Though I never laid a hand on you<br />
My eyes adored ya<br />
Like a million miles away from me you couldn't see how I adored ya<br />
So close, so close and yet so far<br />
<b><i>- - -Frankie Valli, "My Eyes Adored You"</i></b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">My life has been a tapestry of
rich and royal hue.<br />
An everlasting vision of the ever-changing view.<br />
<b><i>- - - Carole King "Tapestry"</i></b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Nights in white satin never
reaching the end<br />
Letters I've written never meaning to send<br />
Beauty I'd always missed with these eyes before<br />
Just what the truth is I can't say any more<br />
Cause I love you <br />
Yes I love you<br />
Oh how I love you<br />
<b><i>- - - Justin Hayward, "Nights In White Satin"</i></b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Now some they do and some they
don't<br />
And some you just can't tell<br />
And some they will and some they won't<br />
With some it's just as well.<br />
<b><i>- - - Supertramp, "Good-bye Stranger"</i></b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Oh Danny boy, the pipes, the pipes
are calling<br />
From glen to glen, and down the mountain side.<br />
The summer's gone and all the flowers are dying<br />
Yet you, yet you, must go and I must bide.<br />
<b><i>- - - Traditional Song "Danny Boy"</i></b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Oh, the shark has pretty teeth,
dear,<br />
And he shows them pearly white.<br />
Just a jackknife has Macheath, dear,<br />
And he keeps them out of sight. <br />
<b><i>- - -Kurt Weill, Bertolt Brecht, "Threepenny Opera"</i></b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Oh you are in my blood like holy
wine <br />
You taste so bitter and so sweet <br />
Oh I could drink a case of you, darling <br />
And I would still be on my feet <br />
Oh I would still be on my feet. <br />
<b><i>- - -Joni Mitchell, "A Case Of You" - Blue album </i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Old black water, keep on rollin'<br />
Mississippi moon won't you keep on shinin' on me?<br />
<b><i>- - - Patrick Simmons, "Black Water"</i></b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">One look at love<br />
and you may see<br />
it weaves a web<br />
over mystery, <br />
all ravelled threads<br />
can rend apart<br />
for hope has a place in the lover's heart. <br />
Hope has a place in a lover's heart.<br />
<b><i>- - - Enya "Hope Has a Place"</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Once a jolly swagman camped by a
billabong,<br />
Under the shade of a coolibar tree,<br />
And he sang as he sat and waited for his billy-boil,<br />
You'll come a-waltzing, Matilda, with me.<br />
<b><i>- - - Andrew Barton "Banjo" Paterson, "Australia's National
Song"</i></b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Para bailar la bamba<br />
Para bailar la bamba <br />
se necesita una poca de gracia<br />
Una poca de gracia para mi para ti <br />
y arriba y arriba,<br />
y arriba y arriba <br />
con ti sere <br />
con ti sere, con ti sere.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Yo no soy marinero<br />
Yo no soy marinero, <br />
soy capitan, soy capitan. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Bamba, bamba, bamba, bamba<br />
Bamba, bamba<br />
Bamba<br />
<b><i>- - -Los Lobos "La Bamba"</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">People talking without speaking,<br />
People hearing without listening,<br />
People writing songs that voices never share,<br />
and no one dare disturb the Sound of Silence.<br />
<b><i>- - - Paul Simon, "Sounds of Silence"</i></b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">People, people who need people<br />
Are the luckiest people in the world.<br />
<b><i>- - - Bob Merrill, "People Who Need People"</i></b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Pink it was love at first sight<br />
Pink when I turn out the light, and<br />
Pink gets me high as a kite<br />
And I think everything is going to be all right<br />
No matter what we do tonight<br />
<b><i>- - -Aerosmith, "Pink"</i></b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Place a name upon the night<br />
One to set your heart alight<br />
And to make the darkness bright<br />
Paint the sky with stars. <br />
<b><i>- - -Enya "Paint the Sky with Stars"</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Quick to judge, quick to anger <br />
Slow to understand <br />
Ignorance and prejudice <br />
And fear walk hand in hand <br />
<b><i>- - -Rush "Witch Hunt"</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">River gonna take me, Sing me sweet
and sleepy,<br />
Sing me sweet and sleepy all the way back home, <br />
It's a far gone lullaby sung many years ago<br />
Mama, Mama, many worlds I've come since I first left home<br />
<b><i>- - -Robert Hunter (Grateful Dead) "Brokedown Palace"</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Row, row, row your boat<br />
Gently down the stream.<br />
Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily<br />
Life is but a dream.<br />
<b><i>- - - Traditional Song</i></b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">She said the man in the gabardine
suit was a spy.<br />
I said, "Be careful, his bow tie is really a camera."<br />
<b><i>- - - Simon & Garfunkel, "America"</i></b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">She's got a way about her,<br />
And everywhere she goes, <br />
a million dreams of love surround her,<br />
everywhere.<br />
<b><i>- - - Billy Joel "She's Got a Way"</i></b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">See the stone set in your eyes<br />
See the thorn twist in your side<br />
I wait for you<br />
Sleight of hand and twist of fate<br />
On a bed of nails she makes me wait<br />
And I wait . . . without you</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">With or without you<br />
With or without you<br />
<b><i>- - -U2, "With or Without You"</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">She wore blue velvet<br />
Bluer than velvet was the night<br />
Softer than satin was the light<br />
From the stars<br />
She wore blue velvet<br />
Bluer than velvet were her eyes<br />
Warmer than May her tender sighs<br />
<b><i>- - -Bernie Wayne and Lee Morris, "Blue Velvet"</i></b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Should auld acquaintance be
forgot,<br />
And never brought to mind?<br />
Should auld acquaintance be forgot,<br />
And auld lang syne?<br />
<b><i>- - - Robert Burns, "Auld Lang Syne"</i></b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Shower the people you love with
love<br />
Show them the way that you feel<br />
Things are gonna work out fine if you only will.<br />
<b><i>- - - James Taylor, "Shower the People"</i></b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Sing us a song you're the piano
man.<br />
Sing us a song tonight.<br />
Cause we're all in the mood for a melody,<br />
And you've got us feeling all right.<br />
<b><i>- - - Billy Joel</i></b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Sing with me, sing for the year<br />
Sing for the laughter, sing for the tears<br />
Sing with me, if it's just for today<br />
Maybe tomorrow, the good lord will take you away<br />
<b><i>- - - Aerosmith, "Dream On"</i></b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">So excuse me forgetting, but these
things I do<br />
You see I've forgotten, if they're green or they're blue<br />
Anyway, the thing is, what I really mean<br />
Yours are the sweetest eyes, I've ever seen.<br />
<b><i>- - - Elton John / Bernie Taupin, " Your Song"</i></b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Someday when we meet up yonder<br />
We'll stroll hand and hand again<br />
In a land that knows no parting<br />
Blue eyes crying in the rain.<br />
<b><i>- - - Fred Rose, "Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain" sung by Willie
Nelson</i></b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Somewhere over the rainbow<br />
Bluebirds fly.<br />
Birds fly over the rainbow -<br />
Why then, oh why can't I?<br />
<b><i>- - - E. Y. Harburg, "Over the Rainbow"</i></b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Stars shining bright above you<br />
Night breezes seem to whisper, "I love you"<br />
Birds singing in the sycamore tree<br />
Dream a little dream of me<br />
<b><i>- - -Gus Kahn, "Dream A Little Dream of Me"</i></b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Starry Starry night<br />
Paint your palette blue and gray<br />
Look out on a summer's day<br />
With eyes that know the darkness in my soul<br />
Shadows on the hills<br />
Sketch the trees and the daffodils<br />
Catch the breeze and the winter chills<br />
In colors on the snowy linen land.<br />
<b><i>- - - Don McLean "Vincent"</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Summer breeze makes me feel fine<br />
Blowing through the jasmine in my mind.<br />
<b><i>- - - Seals & Crofts, "Summer Breeze"</i></b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Summers going fast<br />
Nights growing colder<br />
Children growing up<br />
Old friends growing older<br />
<br />
Freeze this moment a little bit longer<br />
Make each sensation a little bit stronger<br />
<b><i>- - - Rush "Time Stand Still"</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Summertime<br />
And the livin' is easy,<br />
Fish are jumpin', and the cotton is high.<br />
<b><i>- - - Ira Gershwin, "Porgy and Bess"</i> <br />
<i>DuBose Heyward wrote the lyrics th "Summertime"</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Thanks for the joy that you're
givin' me <br />
I want you to know I believe in your song<br />
Rhythm and rhyme and harmony<br />
You help me along, makin' me strong, <br />
Give me the beat boys and free my soul<br />
I wanna get lost in your rock n' roll<br />
And drift away . . .<br />
<b><i>- - - Dobie Gray "Drift Away"</i></b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The hypocrites are slandering<br />
The sacred halls of Truth<br />
Ancient nobles showering<br />
Their bitterness on youth<br />
Can't we find<br />
The minds that made us strong<br />
Can't we learn<br />
To feel what's right and wrong<br />
<b><i>- - - Rush "A Farewell To Kings"</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The love you take is equal to the
love you make.<br />
<b><i>- - - The Beatles, "The End"</i></b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The moon upon the ocean<br />
is swept around in motion<br />
but without ever knowing<br />
the reason for its flowing<br />
in motion on the ocean<br />
the moon still keeps on moving<br />
the waves still keep on waving<br />
and I still keep on going<br />
<b><i>- - - Enya "Anywhere Is"</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">There are many here among us<br />
who think life is but a joke<br />
but you and I, we've been through that;<br />
this is not our fate.<br />
Let us not speak falsely now, the hour's getting late.<br />
<b><i>- - - Bob Dylan, "All Along the Watchtower"</i></b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">There are places I'll remember<br />
All my life though some have changed.<br />
Some forever not for better<br />
Some have gone and some remain.<br />
All these places have their moments<br />
With lovers and friends I still can recall.<br />
Some are dead and some are living,<br />
In my life I've loved them all.<br />
<b><i>- - -Beatles "In My Life"</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">There's beauty in the silver
singing river<br />
There's beauty in the sunrise in the sky<br />
But none of these and nothing else can match the beauty<br />
That I remember in my true love's eyes <br />
<b><i>- - -Bob Dylan, "Tomorrow is a Long Time"</i></b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">They say that these are not the
best of times,<br />
But they're the only times I've ever known.<br />
And I believe there is a time for meditation<br />
in cathedrals of our own. <br />
<b><i>- - - Billy Joel, "Summer, Highland Falls"</i></b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Time it was<br />
and what a time it was<br />
it was...<br />
a time of innocence<br />
a time confidences<br />
long ago it must be<br />
I have a photograph<br />
preserve your memories<br />
its all that's left you.<br />
<b><i>- - - Paul Simon / Art Garfunkel</i></b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">To dream the impossible dream,<br />
To reach the unreachable star!<br />
<b><i>- - - Joe Darion</i></b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Tonight you're mine completely<br />
You give your love so sweetly<br />
Tonight the light of love is in your eyes<br />
But will you love me tomorrow? <br />
<b><i>- - -Gerry Goffin and Carole King, "Will You Love Me Tomorrow?"</i></b>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Unforgettable, that's what you are<br />
Unforgettable though near or far<br />
Like a song of love that clings to me<br />
How the thought of you does things to me<br />
Never before has someone been more</span></div>
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And forever more, that's how you'll stay<br />
That's why, darling, it's incredible<br />
That someone so unforgettable<br />
Thinks that I am unforgettable too<br />
<b><i>- - - Irving Gordon, "Unforgettable"</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">What do you want me to do,<br />
To watch for you, <br />
To see you through? <br />
A box of rain will ease the pain, <br />
and love, will see you through. <br />
<b><i>- - - Robert Hunter (Grateful Dead) "Box of Rain"</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">What the world needs now is love,
sweet love,<br />
It's the only thing that there's just too little of.<br />
<b><i>- - - Burt Bacharach / Hal David</i></b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">When a lovely flame dies,<br />
Smoke gets in your eyes.<br />
<b><i>- - - Otto Harbach</i></b> </span></div>
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Can't keep his mind on nothing else<br />
He'll trade the world <br />
For the good thing he's found<br />
<b><i>- - -Percy Sledge, "When a Man Loves a Woman"</i></b> </span></div>
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You see i've been counting the days<br />
I dream of such humanities, such insanities<br />
I'm lost like a kid and i'm late<br />
But i've never taken your coats<br />
Haven't no block on my phone<br />
I act like an addict, i just got to have it<br />
I can never just leave it alone<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Yesterday all my troubles seemed
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Now it looks as though they're here to stay.<br />
Oh, I believe in yesterday. <br />
<b><i>- - -The Beatles "Yesterday"</i></b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">You can choose a ready guide<br />
In some celestial voice. <br />
If you choose not to decide<br />
You still have made a choice. <br />
You can choose from phantom fears<br />
And kindness that can kill<br />
I will choose a path that's clear<br />
I will choose Freewill<br />
<b><i>- - - Rush "Permanent Waves"</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">You can speak your mind<br />
But not on my time.<br />
<b><i>- - - Billy Joel, "My Life"</i></b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">You say you want, diamonds on a
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You say you want, your story to remain untold<br />
All the promises we made<br />
From the cradle to the grave<br />
When all I want is you.<br />
<b><i>- - - U2, "All I Want is You"</i></b></span></div>
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<b><i>- - -Rolling Stones, "Ruby Tuesday"</i></b> </span></div>
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Ever changing as it flows.<br />
And a dreamer's just a vessel<br />
That must follow where it goes.<br />
Trying to learn from what's behind you<br />
And never knowing what's in store<br />
Makes each day a constant battle<br />
Just to stay between the shores.<br />
<b><i>- - - Garth Brooks, "The River"</i></b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">You may be right<br />
I may be crazy.<br />
But it just may be a lunatic you're looking for.<br />
<b><i>- - - Billy Joel, "You May Be Right"</i></b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">You must remember this, a kiss is
still a kiss,<br />
A sigh is just a sigh;<br />
The fundamental things apply,<br />
As time goes by.<br />
<b><i>- - - Herman Hupfeld, "As Time Goes By"</i></b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">You're so vain.<br />
I bet you think this song is about you.<br />
<b><i>- - - Carly Simon, "You're So Vain"</i></b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">You're the cutest thing that I
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I really love your peaches, wanna shake your tree<br />
<b><i>- - -Steve Miller, "The Joker"</i></b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">You've got to get up every morning
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And show the world all the love in your heart<br />
Then people gonna treat you better<br />
You're gonna find, yes you will<br />
That you're beautiful as you feel.<br />
<b><i>- - - Carole King, "Beautiful"</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Even
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">How
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"The Miracle and The Sleeper".</span></i></b></div>Eltoro234http://www.blogger.com/profile/06318880925761518647noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8002032270222924761.post-67909439735396164632012-01-14T10:24:00.000+07:002012-01-14T11:19:03.184+07:00Top 10 Rock Band Logos<div class="author">
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1856694097?ie=UTF8&tag=intuitivemusi-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1856694097"><img alt="Bands Logos" src="http://intuitivedesigns.net/images/logos-badges-1.jpg" /></a></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>The Who. Designed by Brian Pike, 1964</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001AS4WEG?ie=UTF8&tag=intuitivemusi-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B001AS4WEG"><img alt="Logo The Who" src="http://intuitivedesigns.net/images/logo-the-who.jpg" /></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This logo was originally designed by Brian Pike for the promotion of the band’s debut at London’s <a href="http://www.themarqueeclub.net/"> the Marquee Club</a>
on the 24th, November, 1964. The show was publicized by the new band’s
manager Lambert & Stamp, who made these special black and white
posters and concession cards get printed under the tagline of "Maximum
R&B". This poster has remained as one of the most classic images in
the history of <i>rock</i> music. Curiously, this logo was never used on any of the band’s albums but has remained their most famous identity.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000RWI49K?ie=UTF8&tag=intuitivemusi-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B000RWI49K"><img alt="Poster The Who" src="http://intuitivedesigns.net/images/logo-poster-the-who.jpg" /></a></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Who poster, 1964</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This logo shows a clever way of how to turn a normal bold lettering
into an original identity with just a couple of adjustments. First, by
merging the letter "H" from both names, creating a feeling of unity and a
nice balance on the whole wording. Also, by merging the letters "T" and
"H” to enforce this same feeling of unity. The addition of the arrow to
the letter "O" provides the logo with an uplifting, powerful and
dynamic strength, and closes the whole wording at the same time. This
arrow also ads the <i>mod</i> image that the band’s managers decided to project at the time, being the arrows an important icon in <i>mod</i> and <i>pop art</i>. This logo also symbolizes the freshness and wildness of The Who’s music in the early 60’s perfectly.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Grateful Dead. Designed by Bob Thomas, 1969</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001EU9O3O?ie=UTF8&tag=intuitivemusi-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B001EU9O3O"><img alt="Logo Grateful Dead" src="http://intuitivedesigns.net/images/logo-grateful-dead.jpg" /></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This Grateful Dead logo is just one of the different versions that
the artist Bob Thomas did for the band throughout their career. The
logotype was originally commissioned to Bob Thomas by the band in 1969.
It was a version of a former logo that had been designed with the
purpose of marking the flight-cases of the band in order to identify
them easily during their tours. The original logo only featured the
blue, red and white circle with the ray, and was usually sprayed on the
flight-cases. This way, Thomas added the skull image to it. The logo was
not used on an album cover until the release of "Steal Your Face" in
1976. It was also used later in a couple of compilations, it still
remains as the main identity for the band. In 1992, a year before his
death, Bob Thomas revisited the logo to produce 50 signed, numbered and
hand colored prints as a hardwood block engraving.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0002T2Q74?ie=UTF8&tag=intuitivemusi-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B0002T2Q74"><img alt="Grateful Dead" src="http://intuitivedesigns.net/images/logo-album-grateful-dead.jpg" /></a></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"Steal Your Face", 1976</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Grateful Dead’s logo is a nice example of how a simple drawing can
project an strong image for a band. In the skull is recognizable Bob
Thomas’ drawing style, influenced by art-nouveau and so popular during
the 60’s poster art in California. It also shows a beautiful way of
balancing the colors in a "Yin-Yang" style.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>The Rolling Stones. Designed by John Pasche,1971</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001G7G4Q0?ie=UTF8&tag=intuitivemusi-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B001G7G4Q0"><img alt="Logo Rolling Stones" src="http://intuitivedesigns.net/images/logo-rolling-stones.jpg" /></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This logo was originally designed for The Rolling Stones own record
label identity in 1971 and was first reproduced on the inner sleeve of
the "Sticky Fingers" album. The original cover art was made by Andy
Warhol, which caused the wrong impression that he also designed the
logo. This logo remained as the main identity of the band throughout the
years, even when it was not reproduced on album covers very often.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><img alt="Kali" src="http://intuitivedesigns.net/images/logo-kali.jpg" /></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Goddess Kali,19th century</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">John Pasche was a 25 year old student at London’s Royal College of
Art when he asked by the Stones’ management to design a poster for the
band’s European tour. Apparently, Mick Jagger turned up at <a href="http://www.johnpasche.com/"> John Pasche</a>‘s
final degree show where the poster was on display. Soon after, Mick
Jagger asked him to design a logo for The Rolling Stones record label
and showed him an image of the Hindu Goddess Kali, which was his
starting point. The work was done in about two weeks and he was just
paid £50 for the task. Two years later, he was paid another £200 as a
recognition from the band to its success. The copyright of the logo was
lately bought by the band, but Pasche still owned the original artwork,
which is currently on sale for £300,000 at the artist’s web site.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000000W5N?ie=UTF8&tag=intuitivemusi-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B000000W5N"><img alt="Rolling Stones" src="http://intuitivedesigns.net/images/logo-album-rolling-stones.jpg" /></a></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"Sticky Finger", 1972</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.johnpasche.com/"> John Pasche</a> designed four
tour posters for the Rolling Stones between 1970 and 1974 and also
worked for other reputed artists, such as Paul McCartney, The Who, The
Stranglers and Dr Feelgood. He works as a freelance designer in Surrey,
UK, and he still remains a fan of the band, as he says <i>"I have fond
memories of a good working relationship with them. The logo is one of
the strongest and most recognizable worldwide. And of course I’m proud
of that."</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Rolling Stones logo is an unique icon in pop art, based in curvy
shapes and plastic volumes. It has everything a logo must have to be
perfect. It is simple, it works good just in three colors and all sizes,
it could fit anywhere, it sticks in your mind and is easy to recognize.
And the most important, it expresses in one sight exactly what the
music from the band represents: a mixture of wildness, sensuality,
freshness and provocation. On top of that, it happens to resemble Mick
Jagger’s famous lips.The way that Pasche worked with the curvy forms is
just perfect. The white reflections on the lips provide the logo with a
plastic and fresh look that fits perfectly with the image of <i>pop</i>
music. Another achievement from the artist was to include the teeth,
which gives the logo an aggressive and and defiant look. I have seen
dozens of logos featuring lips and tongue, but none can be compared to
this one by far.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Yes. Designed by Roger Dean, 1972</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0015GCHTK?ie=UTF8&tag=intuitivemusi-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B0015GCHTK"><img alt="Logo Yes" src="http://intuitivedesigns.net/images/logo-yes.jpg" /></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.rogerdean.com/"> Roger Dean</a> is one of the most reputed illustrators and designers related to <i>rock</i>
music who earned a reputation during the 70’s, especially for his
numerous works for the band Yes. This was in fact the third logo
designed for the band. The first one was originally designed by the
band’s guitarist Peter Banks in 1969 and was featured in the cover of
their debut album. The second logo was designed by Dean for the
"Fragile" album in 1972. But, not satisfied with his work, <a href="http://www.rogerdean.com/"> Roger Dean</a>
decided to create a new version for the band’s following album "Close
To The Edge", which became the famous trade-mark for the band and was
used in most of their discography.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><img alt="Yes" src="http://intuitivedesigns.net/images/logo-yes-fragile.jpg" /></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Yes "Fragile" logo</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Yes logo is one of the most popular band logos from the 70’s and
one of the most beautiful ever designed. Is one of the most
representative works from <a href="http://www.rogerdean.com/"> Roger Dean</a>‘s
style, influenced by Western art, art-nouveau and the psychedelic
poster art. In this logo, Dean achieved simplicity, originality and
balance in a brilliant way. This logo couldn’t get any better than it
was when it was designed more than 30 years ago and it has been
described by experts as a "calligraphed colophon". </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000MTOKZA?ie=UTF8&tag=intuitivemusi-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B000MTOKZA"><img alt="Yes" src="http://intuitivedesigns.net/images/logo-album-yes.jpg" /></a></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"Close to the Edge", 1972</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In the sketch featured here, taken from <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0061717096?ie=UTF8&tag=intuitivemusi-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0061717096"> Roger Dean’s book "Views"</a>,
you can see the process he went through to give life to the logo from
his original idea. An architect and furniture designer, Roger Dean
worked with the curves in an elegant and natural way, providing to the
image of the band with dynamism and a feeling of powerful flow. This
logo represents perfectly the fantastic and surrealistic world of Yes
music that Dean also pictured in his cover art for the band. It is also
an example of how <a href="http://www.rogerdean.com/">Roger Dean</a> was one of the artists who made good use of the stroke in logo design, which became a personal signature on his works.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><img alt="Yes" src="http://intuitivedesigns.net/images/logo-yes-sketches.jpg" /></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Roger Dean’s original sketches</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The craftsmanship that Dean demonstrated drawing curves and strokes,
considering that no computers were used at the time, is pretty amazing.
Another clever thing about this logo is the way that Dean introduced the
feeling of 3D and volume in the lettering, turning the logo into
something half-way between a living creature and a landscape, especially
by turning the letters "Y" and "S" into a one form that crawls into the
hole of the letter "E". Finally, the whole logo is reinforced by this
form by underlining the word and distributing the vertical space.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">After this logo, <a href="http://www.rogerdean.com/">Roger Dean</a>
later used this personal style of lettering for all Yes albums and other
artists, including Yes guitarist Steve Howe, Osibisa, Greenslade, and
Asia. This logo was used in most of the extensive discography from the
band. It was put to rest for a couple of albums in the mid 80’s (one of
them featuring a new logo by design guru Peter Max), and later recovered
by the band in 1991 until today. The original logo work is today
showcased with several album covers in the permanent collection of
Victoria And Albert Museum in London. <a href="http://www.rogerdean.com/"> Roger Dean</a> has developed numerous versions of the logo throughout the years, as you may see in the sample.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><img alt="Yes" src="http://intuitivedesigns.net/images/logos-yes.jpg" /></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Other versions of R. Dean’s Yes logo</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Emerson Lake And Palmer. Designed by H. R. Giger, 1973</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><img alt="Logo ELP" src="http://intuitivedesigns.net/images/logo-elp.jpg" /></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Emerson Lake and Palmer’s logo is actually the most reputed anagram in <i>rock</i> music. It was originally designed in 1973 by Swiss artist <a href="http://www.hrgiger.com/"> H.R. Giger</a> as part of the cover art for the band’s fifth studio album "Brain Salad Surgery".</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In 1972, Emerson Lake and Palmer’s Swiss agent contacted <a href="http://www.hrgiger.com/"> Giger</a>
to commission him for the artwork of their forthcoming album, which at
the time was going to be entitled "Whip Some Skull On Ya". This logo was
used by the band ever since and was extremely popular during the 70’s.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000VBIEXS?ie=UTF8&tag=intuitivemusi-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B000VBIEXS"><img alt="ELP" src="http://intuitivedesigns.net/images/logo-album-elp.jpg" /></a></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"Brain Salad Surgery", 1973</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.hrgiger.com/"> H. R. Giger</a> gained
international popularity in 1979 after wining an Oscar for his work for
the all time classic sci-fi movie "Alien". He has also worked on cover
art for artists such as Debbie Harrie, Magma, the <i>krautrock</i> band Floh De Cologne, and he even designed a mic-stand for the band Korn.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This work is an excellent example of how to make a long name fit into a simple and effective logo. <a href="http://www.hrgiger.com/">Giger</a>
found a clever way to make the anagram work by balancing the circles in
the letters "E" and "P" to encircle the whole thing. He also balanced
the rest with a long vertical center spinal formed by "L" and "P". This
is a wonderful lesson of balance and economy in logo design.
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Kiss. Designed by Ace Frehley, 1973</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000EK4ZM0?ie=UTF8&tag=intuitivemusi-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B000EK4ZM0"><img alt="Logo Kiss" src="http://intuitivedesigns.net/images/logo-kiss.jpg" /></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Surprisingly, the famous Kiss logo was designed by no other than the
band’s guitarist Ace Frehley in 1973 for the band’s second album "Hotter
Than Hell" and used by the band ever since. The design of the logo was
part of a decision from the band to project the band visually by using
the comic style and sci-fi costumes and make-up that made them worldly
famous.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000FPWXSW?ie=UTF8&tag=intuitivemusi-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B000FPWXSW"><img alt="Kiss" src="http://intuitivedesigns.net/images/logo-album-kiss.jpg" /></a></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"Hotter Than Hell", 1973</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Kiss logo is one of the most simple lettering ever and it works perfectly for the band. Like other <i>heavy rock</i>
bands, it expresses wonderfully the feeling of power and strength. In
this case, the combination of vertical and diagonal lines is perfect,
and the way that Frehley used the convenience of having two twins
letters together couldn’t get any better. Despite it has been pointed
that this lettering was inspired in the SSS nazi lettering, Frehley has
often refuted this.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>AC/DC. Designed by Gerard Huerta, 1976</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000BT2TTU?ie=UTF8&tag=intuitivemusi-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B000BT2TTU"><img alt="Logo AC/DC" src="http://intuitivedesigns.net/images/logo-acdc.jpg" /></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">AC/DC’s original logo was designed by <a href="http://www.gerardhuerta.com/">Gerard Huerta</a>
for the original cover of the European/USA release of the band’s
fourth album "Let There Be Rock" and it has remained as the main
identity of the band for the rest of it’s career. Curiously, it was not
used in the following album from the band but it was recovered in 1978
for the cover of "If You Want Blood You’ve Got It" and was later used in
most of the band’s albums.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The logo was originally designed as a lettering for the band’s name when, in July 1976, <a href="http://www.gerardhuerta.com/"> Gerard Huerta</a> was commissioned by Bob Defrin of Atlantic Records. A year later, Huerta was hired to design the orange beveled AC/DC logo.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00008WT5C?ie=UTF8&tag=intuitivemusi-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00008WT5C"><img alt="AC/DC" src="http://intuitivedesigns.net/images/logo-album-acdc.jpg" /></a></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"Let There Be Rock", 1976</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">As the artist has explained, this logo was originally inspired by a former work that he did for a pioneering <i>gothic rock</i> band:<i>
"I designed a piece of lettering for a live Blue Öyster Cult album for
John Berg called “On Your Feet or On Your Knees†The album showed a
church on the front with the Cults’ limo on the cover. The back was a
photo by Don Hunstein of me holding a bible with the credits on it. My
thought on the cover was to take the metallic car marque idea and
combine it with lettering reminiscent of the Bible. I remembered this
lettering when designing one of the AC/DC sketches and used this as my
source. So you see that this logo is more Gutenberg than goth."</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.gerardhuerta.com/">Gerard Huerta</a> works today as reputed designer of lettering and logotypes. He has said about his work: <i>"This
was just a job like any other record job: you did some sketches and you
did a finish. I have never really used that art for promoting myself as
it was probably one of only two jobs in my career that shared an
unusual quality in my work: it was all made out of straight lines. This
was not particularly virtuosic for one who prided himself on custom hand
lettering. I have recently resurrected my credit for it as it seems to
touch a lot of generations. This and some guitar playing has indeed made
me cool with all my children’s friends. How’s that?!"</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This logo was a major influence in <i>heavy rock</i> and <i>heavy metal</i> design and, accidentally, created a link between these music genres and the gothic lettering. <a href="http://www.gerardhuerta.com/"> Gerard Huerta</a>‘s
work is simple and effective, the angular lines and strong body of the
lettering represent perfectly the power of AC/DC’s sound. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Sex Pistols. Designed by Jamie Reid, 1977</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001DIKHK6?ie=UTF8&tag=intuitivemusi-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B001DIKHK6"><img alt="Logo Sex Pistols" src="http://intuitivedesigns.net/images/logo-sex-pistols.jpg" /></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Jamie Reid’s design for Sex Pistols represents one of the wonders
about how a proper image can launch a product successfully to the
audience and reinforce their original spirit. Many music critics wonder
today if the Sex Pistols would had been as famous if it was not for the
visual support of Jamie Reid, manager John Malcolm McLaren, and fashion
designer Vivian Westwood.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000066EXG?ie=UTF8&tag=intuitivemusi-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B000066EXG"><img alt="Sex Pistols" src="http://intuitivedesigns.net/images/logo-album-sex-pistols.jpg" /></a></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"God Save The Queen", 1977</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This logo was designed by Jamie Reid for the Sex Pistols single "God
Save The Queen", released in July 1977. Reid also worked for other
artists such as the Dead Kennedys and was one of the most representative
artists from the British underground scene and DIY art, who helped
create a subversive image for the Sex Pistols. He has later worked to
artists such as Afro Celt Sound System.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This logo is a nice sample of the collage techniques that Jamie Reid
was using during the 70’s, making the band’s name appear as ransom note.
The cutting and pasting technique provided the logo with a dynamic and
anarchic feeling that fits the music perfectly. With this look, Reid
brought a breath of fresh air to image in <i>rock</i> music in the 70’s and was very influential during the 80’s.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Björk. Designed by Paul White,1993</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><img alt="Logo Bjork" src="http://intuitivedesigns.net/images/logo-bjork.jpg" /></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Björk’s logo was originally designed by <a href="http://www.paulwhitedesign.co.uk/"> Paul White</a>
for the release of the Icelandic singer’s "Debut" album in 1993 , and
first released in the edition of 12" "Venus As A Boy". This logo was
only used during the first three albums from the artist and was later
dropped when the singer started working with other designers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><img alt="Bjork" src="http://intuitivedesigns.net/images/logo-album-bjork.jpg" /></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"Venus As A Boy", 1993</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.paulwhitedesign.co.uk/"> Paul White</a> set up Me
Company in 1985, focusing largely on the music business and including a
narrow collaboration with One Little Indian record label. About his
relationship with the Björk, White has said: <i>"Probably the most interesting projects I’ve been involved with came from the long-running relationship with her" </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.paulwhitedesign.co.uk/"> Paul White</a> has also
designed numerous works for Björk’s former band, Sugar Cubes, as well
as the artwork for the singer’s first three albums and included 3D
modeling. He has also worked under different aliases for numerous music
artists, such as the Swans, Foetus, Test Dept, and Nick Cave.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><img alt="Logo Bjork" src="http://intuitivedesigns.net/images/logos-bjork.jpg" /></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Other versions of Björk’s logo</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This logo is effective, has a strong presence, and it represents the
world of futuristic technology that characterizes Björk’s early works
perfectly. It represents a new generation in computer design with a
strong focus on organic geometry. The original lettering created by
White was used fin the first three Björk’s albums as well as in
numerous 12" releases and merchandising. This logo was very influential
futuristic lettering style in <i>techno</i> and <i>electronic music</i> genres during the 90’s. Out of this logo, other simple versions were also designed featuring only the letter "B".</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Jamiroquai. Designed by Jason Kay, 1993</b></span></div>
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This logo was designed for Jamiroquai’s debut album "Emergency On Planet
Earth" and was used in the band’s following three albums. It was
allegedly created by the band’s vocalist Jason Kay.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00000295A?ie=UTF8&tag=intuitivemusi-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00000295A"><img alt="Jamiroquai" src="http://intuitivedesigns.net/images/logo-album-jamiroquai.jpg" /></a></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"Emergency On Planet Earth"1993</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Jamiroquai’s logo is a nice example of how an image can identify a
product. In this case, the band is represented by the figure of lead
vocalist Jason Kay. This logo was accompanied by a smart marketing
campaign in which the artist appeared on the videos wearing the same
indian buffalo hat that shows in the drawing. Jamiroquai’s silhouette is
nice, recognizable and easy to catch in a glance. It also features one
of the characteristic dancing poses from the singer. This logo is a
classic image in <i>pop</i> music from the 90’s.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The group had its roots in the Garden Wall, a band founded by 15-year-olds Peter Gabriel and Tony Banks in 1965 at Charterhouse School in Godalming, Surrey, where fellow students Michael Rutherford and Anthony Phillips were members of another group called Anon. The two groups initially merged out of expediency as the older members of each graduated; Gabriel, Banks, Rutherford, Phillips, and drummer Chris Stewart soon joined together as the New Anon, and recorded a six-song demo featuring songs primarily written by Rutherford and Phillips. The Charterhouse connection worked in their favor when an ex-student, recording artist and producer Jonathan King, heard the tape and arranged for the group to continue working in the studio, developing their sound. It was also King who renamed the band Genesis.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The theatrical attributes of Gabriel's singing fit in well with he group's live performances during this period as he began to make ever more extensive use of masks, make-up, and props in concert, telling framing stories in order to set up their increasingly complicated songs. When presented amid the group's very strong playing, this aspect of Gabriel's work turned Genesis's performances into multi-media events.Foxtrot, issued in the fall of 1972, was the flashpoint in Genesis's history, and not just on commercial terms. The writing, especially on "Supper's Ready," was as sophisticated as anything in progressive rock, and the lyrics were complex, serious and clever, a far cry from the usual overblown words attached to most prog-rock. Genesis's live performances by now were practically legend, and in response to the demand, in August of 1973 Charisma released Genesis Live, an album assembled from shows in Leicester and Manchester originally taped for an American radio broadcast. 1973 also saw the release of Selling England by the Pound, the group's most sophisticated album to date.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The release of the ambitious double LP The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway in late 1974 marked the culmination of the group's early history; in May of 1975, following a show in France, Gabriel announced that he was leaving Genesis, owing to personal reasons. The group tried auditioning potential replacements, but it became clear that the remaining members all preferred that drummer Collins take over the role of lead singer. The band returned to the studio as an official quartet in October of 1975 to begin work on their new album: the resulting Trick of the Tail made number three in England and number 31 in America, the best chart showing up to that time for a Genesis album, its success completely confounded critics and fans who'd been unable to conceive of Genesis without Peter Gabriel.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The group seemed to be on its way to bigger success than it ever had during Gabriel's tenure as 1977's Wind and Wuthering became another smash. But then Hackett announced that he was leaving on the eve of the release of a new double live album, Seconds Out; he was replaced on the subsequent American and European tours by Daryl Steurmer, but there was no permanent replacement in the studio.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">In 1978, Genesis released And Then There Were Three, which abandoned any efforts at progressive rock in favor of a softer, much more accessible and less ambitious pop sound. After a flurry of solo projects, the group reconvened for 1980's Duke, which became their first chart-topper in England while rising to number 11 in America. The continued changes in their sound helped turn Genesis into an arena-scale act: Abacab, released in late 1981, was another smash, and 1983's self-titled Genesis furthered the group's record of British chart-toppers and American top 10 hits, becoming their second million-selling U.S. album while also yielding their first American Top Ten single, "That's All." Two years later, the group outdid themselves with the release of their most commercially successful album to date, Invisible Touch, which went platinum several times over in America. Its release coincided with the biggest tour in their history, a string of sold out arena shows that cast the group in the same league as concert stalwarts like the Rolling Stones and the Grateful Dead.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Their 1991 album We Can't Dance debuted at Number One in England and got to number four in America; it was Collins' last album with the group, and with new vocalist Ray Wilson, formerly of the group Stiltskin. Genesis resurfaced in 1997 with Calling All Stations, which recalled their art-rock roots. Neither the critics nor the fans warmed to the album -- it sold poorly and the tour was equally unsuccessful.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Coming on the heels of the disappointing Calling All Stations, the long-awaited box-set retrospective Archives, Vol. 1: 67-75 was even more welcome. Containing nothing but unreleased material and rarities from previously unavailable on CD, the set was released to surprisingly strong reviews in the summer of 1998. A followup, containing unreleased material from the Phil Collins era, was scheduled for release the following year.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">In 1998, the group gathered for a photo session and dinner to celebrate the rel</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">ease of the box set, Genesis Archive 1967–75. In 1999, the 1971–75 lineup of Banks, Collins, Gabriel, Hackett and Rutherford recorded a new version of "The Carpet Crawlers" for the Turn It On Again: The Hits compilation. In 2000, Collins, Banks, and Rutherford along with Daryl Stuermer performed acoustic renditions of "I Can't Dance", "Invisible Touch", "Follow You, Follow Me," and "Turn It On Again" at the Music Managers Forum, in honour of their manager Tony Smith. Most of the original members were involved in compiling the two Archive boxed-sets. Acoustic versions of "Afterglow", "No Son of Mine" and "Follow You, Follow Me" were recorded for a documentary film about the band's history at this time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">After much speculation regarding a reunion, Banks, Collins and Rutherford announced Turn It On Again: The Tour on 7 November 2006; nearly 40 years after the band first formed. The tour took place during summer 2007, and played twelve countries across Europe, followed by a second leg in North America. The trio had wanted to reunite as a five-piece with Gabriel and Hackett for a live performance of The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway. While Gabriel reportedly agreed in principle to perform, he was unable to commit to a date. Collins later observed that "Peter is a little over-cautious about going back to something which fundamentally is just fun". Hackett agreed to participation, but without Peter joining in on the tour, Phil, Tony and Mike thought that it would be more appropriate to bring back Chester Thompson and Daryl Stuermer. Hackett, however still maintains good relations with the rest of the band. A short note expressing his good wishes for the reunion tour currently appears on his Web site.</span></div>
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The band and producer since 1991, Nick Davis, remixed their back catalogue (into 5.1 and new stereo mixes) for release in three batches over the course of 2007 and 2008, each comprising a third of the band's albums (from Trespass to Calling All Stations) in a boxset-style release. Each album is presented as a double-disc set containing a multi-channel hybrid Super Audio CD, as well as a DVD-Video with DTS 24bit/96K and Dolby Digital 24bit/48K 5.1 tracks. The DVDs also include extras such as promo videos, live performances, TV appearances, tour programmes and new interviews in which the band discuss the period surrounding each album. (For the US and Canada pressings, the audio discs are regular CDs and not SACD hybrids.) </div>
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These remasters were released in three box sets: Genesis 1976–1982 in May 2007, Genesis 1983–1998 in October 2007, and Genesis 1970–1975 in November 2008, in addition to each album being released individually. Each box set contains the albums from its designated time period, as well as a bonus CD/DVD-A of non-album tracks.</div>
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On 12 May 2007, the band was an honouree at the second annual VH1 Rock Honors, along with Ozzy Osbourne, Heart and ZZ Top. Genesis performed "Turn It On Again", "No Son of Mine" and "Los Endos", which later was broadcast on VH1 in the U.S. on 25 May 2007. </div>
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On 2 October, Starbucks released the CD Sampler Genesis: 14 From Our Past. The track list is: "The Knife", "Happy The Man", "Watcher of the Skies", "I Know What I Like", "The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway", "Squonk", "Your Own Special Way", "Follow You, Follow Me", "Turn It On Again", "Abacab", "That's All", "Land of Confusion", "Hold on My Heart" and "Congo" (one song from each studio album from Trespass on, except that Nursery Cryme is represented by the b-side "Happy the Man" rather than an actual track from the album)..</div>
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An album of the reunion tour, entitled Live Over Europe 2007 was released in November of that year. The tracklist features a balanced set list covering most of their career. None of the songs recorded during Ray Wilson's time with the band were featured. In addition to the aforementioned album, sound deck recordings of each show were released by "The Music" A DVD of the concert on 14 July 2007 in Rome's Circo Massimo, When in Rome 2007 was released on 26 May. A microsite has been launched to accompany the release: www.wheninromedvd.com. </div>
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In an interview to celebrate the release of the Genesis: 1970–1975 boxset, Tony Banks revealed that it is a possibility that the band may reunite with Peter Gabriel and Steve Hackett. He said: "We've never said 'never' about it, you know. I know Phil (Collins) would be quite happy with the idea of just playing the drums; it would be quite fun for him. Mike (Rutherford) and I are certainly happy to do it. I know Steve (Hackett) is keen as well. I think it'd be down to Peter (Gabriel) more than anyone else." However, Collins has stated in various interviews that he is unable to play the drums due to a medical ailment. "After playing drums for 50 years, I've had to stop. My vertebrae have been crushing my spinal cord because of the position I drum in. It comes from years of playing. I can't even hold the sticks properly without it being painful, I even used to tape the sticks to my hands to get through."</div>
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On 10 September 2009, Collins revealed in a post on the official Genesis website that during the 2007 Turn It On Again tour, he dislocated a vertebra in his neck which has required surgery to repair. The injury and resulting recovery has made it "impossible to play the drums or piano" according to the article. However, Collins states that in a year's time or more this situation could change. Future plans for any Genesis reunion could hinge on Collins' ability to recover and play the drums again.</div>
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On 21 September 2009, Genesis released Genesis Live 1973–2007, a box set containing remixed and remastered editions of the band's first four live albums. The box includes Genesis Live andSeconds Out in both stereo and 5.1 surround sound versions, and Three Sides Live and The Way We Walk in stereo-only editions. On 23 November 2009, the band released a box set of live concert videos filmed between 1981 and 1992.</div>
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On 15 March 2010, Genesis was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The band was inducted by Phish guitarist Trey Anastasio. Collins, Banks, Rutherford and Steve Hackett appeared at the ceremony, but Peter Gabriel did not appear due to rehearsals for his solo tour to support his new solo album Scratch My Back. Genesis did not perform at the ceremony. Phish paid tribute to them by opening the show with "Watcher of the Skies" and then followed Anastasio's speech with a version of "No Reply at All. </div>
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In a September 2010 interview with Billboard, Collins was less than optimistic about the future of Genesis, stating "I think Genesis are no longer. I don't foresee me doing any more Genesis shows. Not because I don't like it or don't want to. But it doesn't fit in with my life and wanting to be with the boys, and taking onboard [my other interests like] the Alamo and writing a book about that. And the other stuff that I'd like to do-and that includes doing nothing as well. But also, I can't physically play the drums. I don't want to sound like a spoiled kid, like I've had my stuff and I don't want to do it anymore. But I have done it all my life, and now I'm enjoying another side of life."Citing health problems and other concerns, Collins announced on 4 March 2011 that he ended his music career.</div>
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In an interview with Rolling Stone on 27 September 2011, Peter Gabriel said that a reunion with the classic lineup is still a possibility, but hopes remain very slim, stating "I won't say never ever, but it's in the outside department of the betting shop...if you stick with the stuff that nourishes you the most then you'll probably be the happiest".</div>
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Genesis has taken influence from a wide range of music, ranging from classical music to mainstream rock and jazz. Banks drew influence from Alan Price of The Animals, whom he regarded as "[t]he first person who made me aware of the organ in a rock context". Collins has cited Buddy Rich and the jazz-rock outfits The Mahavishnu Orchestra and Weather Report, while Gabriel's early career with Genesis took influence from Nina Simone and King Crimson.</div>
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As a group that influenced the growth of the progressive rock genre, Genesis has been cited by a number of progressive rock groups, including Rush, Marillion, IQ, Pendragon, Pallas and Dream Theater. They have also been cited as an influence by alternative rock bands Elbow and Coheed and Cambria. Several Genesis tribute bands, including ReGenesis and The Musical Box routinely perform material from the Peter Gabriel and Phil Collins eras.</div>
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Collins became the first artist to cover a Genesis song in a studio release—"Behind the Lines"—which he included on Face Value one year after the original's release. Other former members previously and subsequently performed the band's material live during their solo shows—Gabriel played "The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway" and "Back in NYC", while Hackett has performed "In That Quiet Earth", "Los Endos", "Horizons", "Firth of Fifth" and "Blood on the Rooftops", among others. Hackett has performed "I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe)" on his own solo tours, and on a 1986 tour with his short lived supergroup GTR. Rutherford has performed "I Can't Dance" during his tours with the Mechanics. Collins also later formed The Phil Collins Big Band, which played jazz arrangements of Genesis songs, which were "That's All", "Invisible Touch", "Hold On My Heart" and "Los Endos" (renamed "The Los Endos Suite"), during its 1998 world tour. Ray Wilson has covered the most Genesis songs during his solo concerts. His two solo live albums, Live and Life and Acoustic, feature the Genesis songs "The Carpet Crawlers", "Follow You Follow Me", "I Can't Dance", "The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway", "No Son of Mine", "Shipwrecked", and "Mama". He has interpreted two songs from the solo careers of his two predecessors—"In the Air Tonight" (Collins) and "Biko" (Gabriel).</div>
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Jeff Buckley reworked "Back in NYC" for the posthumously released 1998 Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk; And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead also covered "Back in NYC" as a B-side in 2005. The Brazilian power metal band Angra covered "Mama" in 2002. The Swedish death metal band In Flames covered "Land of Confusion" on Trigger, as did Disturbed on their 2005 album Ten Thousand Fists. Disco-pop band Alcazar, also from Sweden, has covered parts of "Land of Confusion" on their song "This is the World We Live In". Dream Theater covered "Turn It On Again" as part of their song "The Big Medley". In 2007, Simon Collins recorded his own version of "Keep It Dark" as a tribute to the 40th anniversary of his father's band.</div>
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Inducting the band into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2010, Trey Anastasio of Phish acclaimed Genesis as "rebellious, restless and constantly striving for something more … Every musical rule and boundary was questioned and broken … It's impossible to overstate what impact this band and musical philosophy had on me as a young musician. I'm forever in their debt." </div>
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Beyond purely musical ventures, the theatrical style of Genesis's 1970s concerts with Gabriel and advanced lighting of their 1980s shows have provided inspiration for Cirque du Soleil's productions: the 2004 anniversary show Midnight Sun and the arena-based touring show Delirium trace their musical and multimedia elements back to these concerts. According to Victor Pilon, co-creator and co-director of both shows, "We're not inventing anything. Genesis did it years ago. We're just using new technology."</div>
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The band's album covers often incorporate complex and intricate art intended to reflect the themes explored in the music. The initial release of the band's first album, From Genesis to Revelation, used a plain black sleeve with Genesis written in a green gothic typeface. The three subsequent album covers were developed by the popular Charisma Records graphic artist Paul Whitehead. The Foxtrotsleeve depicts a feminine figure in a red dress with the head of a fox. Whitehead has said in an interview that Jimi Hendrix's "Foxy Lady" was an inspiration for the character.</div>
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The cover for Selling England by the Pound was painted by Betty Swanwick. Peter Gabriel saw the original drawing, called The Dream, at an exhibition and asked Swanwick to modify it for use as the album cover. Most notably, Swanwick added a lawnmower to the image in order to tie the painting to the lyrics of I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe).</div>
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After Whitehead moved to Los Angeles, Genesis signed with the art collective Hipgnosis, whose artists had created high profile album covers for Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon and Led Zeppelin's Houses of the Holy. Hipgnosis's first Genesis album cover was for The Lamb, which featured a male model, credited simply as "Omar", portraying the album's protagonist "Rael".</div>
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Through the rest of the 1970s, various Hipgnosis artists heavily—designed all Genesis studio albums. The Trick of the Tail cover depicts the characters from the album songs, including the robber from "Robbery, Assault and Battery", the beast from the title track, and a metaphoric image of old age reminiscing on youth from the song "Ripples". Beginning with Duke, Genesis albums have featured artwork designed by Bill Smith Studios. The band's highest-selling album Invisible Touch, features the artwork of Assorted Images, which had previously designed sleeves for Simple Minds, Duran Duran and Culture Club. The We Can't Dance cover art features the work of Felicity Roma Bowers, and is reminiscent of Wind & Wuthering, now presented in hazy watercolour. The Calling All Stationsand the compilation Turn It On Again: The Hits sleeves were designed by Wherefore Art?.</div>
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Early incarnations of Genesis were often targets for criticism during the 1970s. An article in Q Magazine describes a 1977 Ray Lowry cartoon which depicted an arena of "either asleep, moribund, [or] comatose" fans watching a live Genesis performance, with the band's name emblazoned on a banner above the stage reading "GENESNOOZE".</div>
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More specifically, some in Britain—especially supporters of the punk movement—regarded Genesis in particular, but also the genre more generally, as overtly middle class (paying particular attention to Gabriel, Banks and Rutherford's private education), and claimed that rock music was being taken away from the working class, whom they regarded as its core audience. But Peter Gabriel claimed that their audience was a "mixture of social classes" and that accusation was a fabrication of the critics.</div>
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Gabriel's theatrics were unpalatable to some of the mainstream rock audience, resulting in a cult following rather than mainstream. This was exemplified during live performances of Gabriel's last Genesis album, The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway, during which he appeared on stage as various characters in the album's lyrics. The elaborate storyline for The Lamb proved difficult to understand and accept, and caused a bit of friction within the band. Collins later recalled that Gabriel would "be in a Slipperman costume trying to get a mic anywhere near his throat, and be out of breath—all twisted up. Towards the end I felt the singing wasn't really being heard; the songs weren't really being heard".</div>
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Conversely, the band's transition from lengthy, complex songs to more compact, simplistic, radio-friendly material was not welcomed by critics; Rolling Stone''s review of ...And Then There Were Three... read: "...this contemptible opus is but the palest shadow of the group's earlier accomplishments." "I don't feel we've bastardised the way we were", Collins remarked in an interview with Music Express: "on a generous day I'll blame me for the change, but I just think it is us growing up, listening to different things".</div>
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In a 1982 interview in Sounds, Phil Collins talked about the band’s reputation in the music press and claimed that he only knew of one music journalist, Hugh Fielder, who openly liked Genesis.</div>
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Reviewing Genesis 1976–1982 in Q, Andy Fyfe wrote: "... in spite of 150 million album sales the bottom line is that little of the band’s output has aged well ... There are moments of impressive songwriting, such as the tender "Many Too Many", the darkly tragic "Duchess" and the epic "One For The Vine", but little of Genesis’s music transcends in the way real classics do, and that is why they will remain perennial whipping boys for decades to come." </div>
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Genesis has had a hard time getting respect. In the early '70s, when the group specialized in ambitious, theatrical story-songs, it attracted an avid cult following but was largely ignored by the rock press and public at large. Later in the decade, lead singer Peter Gabriel was finally recognized as a major talent - but only after he'd left the band, who were at this point being derided as middlebrow throwbacks still in thrall to the pomposities of art rock. Even in the early '80s, when Genesis did finally shed its art-rock inclinations and move toward pop, becoming international stars in the process, the press was unimpressed, dismissing the group as easy-listening lightweights. By the '90s, even the solo success of members Phil Collins and Mike Rutherford was being held against the group, by then one of the best-known rock acts in the world. All of which, to be honest, has been grossly unfair to the group. Granted, Genesis has made its share of mediocre albums - perhaps even more than its share, considering how long the band has been around. But bad albums? None to speak of."</div>
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In a 1991 interview with Rolling Stone during the promotion of We Can't Dance, Tony Banks admitted, "Well, we've never been fashionable. We've never been the critics' darlings." Phil Collins summed up in the same interview, "We know that people like us, because our records sell."</div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><br />Discography</span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>Main article: Genesis discography</b></span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">From Genesis to Revelation (1969)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Trespass (1970)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Nursery Cryme (1971)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Foxtrot (1972)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Selling England by the Pound (1973)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway (1974)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">A Trick of the Tail (1976)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Wind & Wuthering (1976)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">...And Then There Were Three... (1978)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Duke (1980)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Abacab (1981)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Genesis (1983)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Invisible Touch (1986)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">We Can't Dance (1991)</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Seconds Out (1977)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Three Sides Live (1982)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The Way We Walk, Volume One: The Shorts (1992)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The Way We Walk, Volume Two: The Longs (1993)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Live over Europe 2007 (2007)</span></li>
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The Charterhouse connection worked in their favor when an ex-student, recording artist and producer Jonathan King, heard the tape and arranged for the group to continue working in the studio, developing their sound. It was also King who renamed the band Genesis. In December of 1967 the group had their first formal recording sessions. Their debut single, "The Silent Sun," was released in February of 1968 without attracting much notice from the public. A second single, "A Winter's Tale," followed just about the time that Chris Stewart quit -- his replacement, John Silver, joined just in time to participate in the group's first LP sessions that summer. King later added orchestral accompaniment to the band's tracks, in order to make them sound even more like the Moody Blues, and the resulting album, entitled From Genesis to Revelation, was released in March of 1969. </div>
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Music seemed to be shaping up as a brief digression in the lives of the members as they graduated from Charterhouse that summer. The group felt strongly enough about their work, however, that they decided to try it as a professional band; it was around this time that Silver exited, replaced by John Mayhew. They got their first paying gig in September of 1969, and spent the next several months working out new material. Genesis soon became one of the first groups signed to the fledgling Charisma label, and they recorded their second album Trespass that spring; following its completion, the unit went through major personnel changes -- During the Trespass tours, guitarist Ant Phillips began experiencing extreme bouts of stage freight which were effecting his health, and was eventually advised by a doctor to leave the group. Genesis was now auditioning for a new guitarist, and, at the same time, for a new drummer who would better match the playing acumen of the other band members. </div>
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Enter Phil Collins, a onetime child actor turned drummer and former member of Hickory and Flaming Youth. The group's line-up was completed with the addition of guitarist Steve Hackett, a former member of Quiet World. With their two new members, Genesis went on to release their third album, Nursery Cryme in late 1971. This was the first of their albums to see a nice amount of commercial success. It entered the top 20 in Italy, and thus forged a special relationship between Genesis and their Italian fans which has lasted to this day. </div>
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During one of the performances in the Nursery Cryme tours, Peter Gabriel attempted a stage dive and broke his leg. While recovering from this, he began writing Genesis' most ambitious project to date, "Supper's Ready," a 23-minute masterpiece which occupies the entire second side of their fourth album, 1972's Foxtrot. About this time, Peter also began the habit of dressing up in costumes ("Dressing up in costumes/Playing silly games/Hiding out in treetops/Shouting out rude names!" Peter Gabriel, "Games Without Frontiers", 1980) during Genesis live shows, and telling mysterious stories and narratives between songs. This won Genesis a great deal of press. </div>
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Foxtrot was quickly followed up by 1973's 'Live', Genesis' first live album and the only one officially released with Gabriel at the helm. Later that same year, Genesis released Selling England by the Pound, their artistically most ambitious work to date. It contained songs like "I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe)" and "Firth of Fifth" which remain popular enough today to have had portions of them performed during Genesis' 1992 tour. </div>
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The culmination of the original Genesis came in 1974 with the release of the surrealistic two-disc concept album 'The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway'. The Lamb was a continuous story which tracked the adventures of Rael, a striving graffiti artist, through a psychadelic underworld in a journey of self discovery. It was an extremely abstract work. In order to play Rael on stage, Peter Gabriel rendered himself into a much more "normal" look than the one which he'd become used to over the previous years. </div>
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During the production of 'The Lamb', Peter Gabriel's first daughter was born, and, originally, some questions were raised as to her health and chances of survival. The stress of coping with this uncertainty, combined with the stress of the ambitious musical project and a number of other factors, brought about Gabriel's decision to leave Genesis at the conclusion of the Lamb tours. </div>
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For years, Peter Gabriel has been the lone holdout in a potential Genesis reunion. But now, Gabriel tells Rolling Stone that a reunion may be imminent. "The odds [of a Genesis reunion] are better now than before," Gabriel said. "We're going to have the conversation." </div>
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Aside from a one-off concert in 1982, Gabriel has not stood on stage with the classic five-man lineup of Genesis since the Lamb Lies Down on Broadway tour ended in May of 1975. The band finally called it quits in 1998. "When we got back together in 1982, I don't think we rehearsed," Gabriel said. "To really do it properly, we'd have to take more time. It's quite a commitment." </div>
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Phil Collins recently expressed his desire to reunite the band at a Tel Aviv press conference. "I'm happy to sit behind the drums and let Peter [Gabriel] be the singer," Collins said. And just last month, guitarist Steve Hackett told the Chicago Sun-Times that he received a phone call from Genesis management. "There's a movement to put us all together again," he said.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">6th Legend Albums GENESIS presented by Peter Gabriel (1969-1975)</span><br />
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<b><u><span lang="EN-US">From
Genesis To Revelation</span></u></b><span lang="EN-US" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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March 1969 Players: Tony Banks: Keyboards, vocals <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Peter Gabriel: Lead vocal, flute Ant Phillips:
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<span lang="EN-US">Mike Rutherford: Bass guitar, vocals <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Jonathan Silver: Drums<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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1. Where the Sour Turns To Sweet (TB, PG) 3:14 <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">2. In the Beginning (AP, PG) 3:43 <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">3. Fireside Song (TB, AP, MR) 4:20<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">4. The Serpent (TB, PG) 4:39 <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">5. Am I Very Wrong? (PG, TB) 3:30 <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">6. In The Wilderness (AP, PG, TB, MR) 3:31 <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">7. The Conqueror (TB, PG) 3:39 <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">8. In Hiding (AP, PG) 2:41 <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">9. One Day (TB, PG) 3:19 <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">10. Window (AP, MR) 3:34 <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">11. In Limbo 3:06 <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">12. The Silent Sun (TB, PG) 2:13<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><u><span lang="EN-US">Trespass<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Released: <br />
October 1970 <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Players: <br />
Tony Banks: Organ, piano, mellotron, guitar, vocals <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Peter Gabriel: Lead vocal, flute, accordion,
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<span lang="EN-US">Jonathan Mayhew: Drums, percussion, vocals <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Ant Phillips: Lead guitar, acoustic 12-string,
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<span lang="EN-US">Mike Rutherford: Bass guitar, acoustic
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1. Looking For Someone 7:00 <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">2. White Mountain 7:00 <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">4. Stagnation 8:45 <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><u><span lang="EN-US">Nursery
Cryme</span></u></b><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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November 1971 <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Steve Hackett: Electric Guitar, 12-String
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<span lang="EN-US">Peter Gabriel: Lead Voice, Flute, Bass Drum,
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<span lang="EN-US">Tony Banks: Organ, Mellotron, Piano, 12-String
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<span lang="EN-US">Phil Collins: Drums, Voices, Percussion [Lead
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<span lang="EN-US">Mike Rutherford: Bass, Bass Pedals, 12-String
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1. The Musical Box 10:26 <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">2. For Absent Friends 1:45 <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">3. The Return Of The Giant Hogweed / 8:15 <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">4. Seven Stones 5:10 <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Tony Banks:Organ,Mellotron,Piano, Electric
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<span lang="EN-US">Mike Rutherford: Bass, Bass Pedals, 12-String
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<span lang="EN-US">Richard MacPhail: Equipment and Stage Sound
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1. Watcher Of The Skies 7:19 <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">i. Lover's Leap <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">ii. The Guaranteed Eternal Sanctuary Man <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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England By The Pound<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Released: <br />
September 1973 <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Players: <br />
Steve Hackett: Electric Guitar, Nylon Guitar. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Peter Gabriel: Vocals, Flute, Percussion,
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<span lang="EN-US">Tony Banks: Keyboards, 12-String Guitar. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Phil Collins: Drums, Percussion, Vocal, Lead
Vocals on (4) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Mike Rutherford: Bass, 12-String Guitar,
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1. Dancing With The Moonlit Knight 8:03 <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">2. I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe) 4:09 <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">6. After The Ordeal 4:15 <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Steve Hackett: Guitars. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Tony Banks: Keyboards. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Phil Collins: Percussion, Vibing &
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<span lang="EN-US">Mike Rutherford: Bass and 12-String Guitar. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Brian Eno: Enossification. [sound effects for
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">One of the all time favorites of Genesis and progressive fans
alike. Although Gabriel is gone by this time the band still adheres to the
original feeling by propelling along the stories within by bringing music that
can grow from a crawling whisper to a roar of majestic proportions within the
same song. The Squonk alone is worth the cover price. The gatefold cover
includes all of the lyrics and assorted illustrations taken from the subject
matter itself.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Artist: </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> Genesis<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Title: </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">A Trick of the Tail<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></b><span lang="EN-US">20 February 1976<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">Recorded:</span></b><span lang="EN-US">
October-November 1975<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">Length:</span></b><span lang="EN-US">
51:11 <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Label: </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> Atco Records SD 36-129<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Sleeve Design: </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> Hipgnosis / Colin Elgie<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Mike Rutherford: 12 string guitar, basses, bass pedals</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Tony Banks: pianos, synthesizers, organ, mellotron, 12 string
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Phil Collins: drums, percussion, lead & backing vocals</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Side 1</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Dance on a Volcano</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Mad Man Moon <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><b>GENESIS : The Knife (1970)</b></span><br />
<b>R.I.P. John Mayhew (1947 - Mar. 26. 2009)</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">"The Knife" was the most popular stage song from Trespass, usually being performed as an encore. During one performance in 1970, Peter Gabriel became so carried away at the end of the song that he jumped off the stage into the audience and landed on his foot, breaking his ankle as a result.</span></div>
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<b>Song : "The Knife" by Genesis<br />From the LP "TRESPASS" (Charisma) Oct. 23, 1970</b><br />
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Peter Gabriel : vocals, flute, bass drum<br />
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The band Pink Floyd is as most bands a result of several years of changes, both in crew and musical styles. In order to understand what has really happened over the years ever since their psychedellic era in the London music underground in the late 60's it's important to see the band through a historical perspective.<br />
</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The ones to form the band were all born at the end of and nearly after the second World War, which in many ways should influence their music in the late 70's and early 80's. Most band members came from working class families, except Nick Mason, who were the one to later finance the recordings of Wish You Were Here. One might also tend to call the Pink Floyd a Cambridge band, as most of it's members abandoned this city for the swinging city of London. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The year of birth of Pink Floyd was 1965. Nick Mason and Rick Wright, who both had gone to Frensham Heights and Haberdashers, met Roger Waters in an architectural course at Regent Street Polytechnic in London. They all got together and formed a band with the other musicians Clive Metcalf, Keith Noble and Juliette Gale (who later married Rick). </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The group was initially named Sigma-6, then T-Set and Abdabs (including Screaming Abdabs and Architectural Abdas). Allthough they had a fairly interesting repertoir consisting of romantic lyrics accompanied by music pieces from Tchaikovsky the group did not break through. When the Abdabs finally broke up Waters, Mason and Wright kept together. Bob Close and Syd Barrett later joined as first and second guitar, and with Waters on bass guitar, Mason on drums and Wright on keyboard the group was named the Pink Floyd Sound. The name was taken from one of Barret's recordings with blues players Pink Anderson and Floyd Council. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">In the spring of -66 the group was thinking of breaking up, and everybody were planning on spending their summer vacation in different locations. At what would be one of their last concerts in june -66 the group was luckily discovered by a music agent called Jenner, who felt that the group had a huge commercial potential. Jenner was very much into the music styles of the London underground and he also absorbed much of the vibrations coming from loudspeakers at hippie-gatherings all across the USA. Forming Blackhill Enterprices with Peter Jenner introduced them to a whole new set of lights and sounds. Sounds were adapted from other groups playing the London underground, and light technichians came from the U.S. and replaced their color slide light shows with oil slides projected on the stage during concert. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The bleak, overambitious double concept </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">album concerned itself with the material and emotional walls modern humans build around themselves for survival. The Wall was a huge success (even by Pink Floyd's standards), in part because the music was losing some of its heavy-duty electronic textures in favor of more approachable pop elements. Although Pink Floyd had rarely even released singles since the late '60s, one of the tracks, "Another Brick in the Wall," became a transatlantic #1. The band had been launching increasingly elaborate stage shows throughout the '70s, but the touring production of The Wall, featuring a construction of an actual wall during the </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">band's performance, was the most excessive yet.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">In the 1980s, the group began to unravel. Each of the four had done some side and solo projects in the past; more troublingly, Waters was asserting control of the band's musical and lyrical identity. That wouldn't have been such a problem had The Final Cut (1983) been such an unimpressive effort, with little of the electronic innovation so typical of their previous work. Shortly afterward, the band split up--for a while. In 1986, Waters was suing Gilmour and Mason to dissolve the group's partnership (Wright had lost full membership status entirely); Waters lost, leaving a Roger-less Pink Floyd to get a Top Five album with Momentary Lapse of Reason in 1987. In an irony that was nothing less than cosmic, about 20 years after Pink Floyd shed its original leader to resume its career with great commercial success, they would do the same again to his successor. Waters released ambitious solo albums to nothing more than moderate sales and attention, while he watched his former colleagues (with Wright back in tow) rescale the charts.<br /><br />The band spent three weeks rehearsing in a hangar at Norton Air Force Base in San Bernardino, California, before opening on 29 March 1994 in Miami with an almost identical crew to that used for their Momentary Lapse of Reason tour. They played a mixture of Pink Floyd favourites, but later changed their setlist to include The Dark Side of the Moon in its entirety.. The band also renewed their acquaintance with Peter Wynne Willson. Waters declined the band's invitation to join them as the tour reached Europe, later expressing his annoyance that some Pink Floyd songs were again being performed in large venues. A 1,200 capacity stand collapsed at Earls Court during the European leg of the tour, but with no serious injuries, and the performance was rescheduled.<br /><br />The tour ended on 29 October and was the group's final tour. A live album Pulse and a concert video, also called Pulse, were released in 1995. This would also be the last appearance of the band before the one-off reunion in 2005 during Live 8 and their performances of "Fat Old Sun" and "The Great Gig in the Sky" at the funeral of their manager Steve O'Rourke .<br /><br />In the summer of 1996, reported Syd Barrett was lying ill in a Cambridge hospital, unable or unwilling to regulate his diabetic condition.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Saturday 2 July 2005 the classic line-up of Pink Floyd performed together on stage for the first time in over 24 years at the Live 8concert. The reunion had been arranged by Live 8 organiser Bob Geldof who had called Mason, earlier in the year to discuss the band reuniting for the event. Geldof asked Gilmour, who turned down the offer, and then asked Mason to intercede on his behalf. Mason declined, but contacted Waters who was immediately enthusiastic. Waters then called Geldof to discuss the event, which was at that time only a month away. About two weeks later Waters called Gilmour, their first conversation for about two years, and the next day the latter agreed. Wright was contacted and immediately agreed. Statements were issued to the press which stressed the unimportance of the band's problems, compared to the context of the Live 8 event. The set-list was planned at the Connaught Hotel in London, followed by three days of rehearsals at Black Island Studios. The sessions were troublesome, with minor disagreements over the style and pace of the songs they were practising. Waters wanted to use the occasion to expand the concepts he had designed, whereas Gilmour wanted to perform the songs in exactly the way the audience would expect. The final set-list and running order was decided on the eve of the concert. Gilmour and Waters shared lead vocals.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">At the start of their performance, during "Wish You Were Here", Waters told the audience: "It's actually quite emotional, standing up here with these three guys after all these years, standing to be counted with the rest of you. Anyway, we're doing this for everyone who's not here, and particularly of course for Syd." At the end of their performance Gilmour thanked the audience and started to walk off the stage but Waters called him back and the band shared a group hug. Images of that hug were a favourite amongst Sunday newspapers after Live 8.Two years after their one-off reunion Waters remarked, "I don't think any of us came out of the years from 1985 with any credit ... It was a bad, negative time. And I regret my part in that negativity." In the week following their performance there was a revival of interest in Pink Floyd. According to HMV, in the week following sales of Echoes: The Best of Pink Floyd rose by 1,343 per cent, while Amazon.com reported a significant increase in sales of The Wall. Gilmour subsequently declared that he would donate his share of profits from this sales boom to charity and urged other artists and record companies profiting from Live 8 to do the same.<br /><br />After the show Gilmour confirmed that he and Waters were on "pretty amicable terms" The band turned down a £136 million (then about $250 million) deal for a final tour. Waters did not rule out further performances, but only for a special occasion. In a 2006 interview with La Repubblica Gilmour stated that he wished to focus on solo projects and his family, and that his appearance at Live 8 was to help reconcile his differences with Waters.In a 2006 interview Mason stated that Pink Floyd would be willing to perform for a concert that would support peace between Israel and Palestine. Speaking of Pink Floyd's future Gilmour stated in 2006 "who knows". David Gilmour released his third solo record, On an Island, on 6 March 2006—his 60th birthday. He began a tour of small concert venues in Europe, Canada and the US, with contributions from Wright and other musicians from the post-Waters Pink Floyd tours. Mason joined Gilmour and Wright for the final night of the tour and played on selected dates on Waters' 2006 Europe and U.S. tour "The Dark Side of the Moon Live". Gilmour, Wright, and Mason's encore performances of "Wish You Were Here" and "Comfortably Numb" marked the first performance by Pink Floyd since Live 8.</span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgL8-hLkE5fj56tAS25Vwx8tAtjyegnMquukP_rVwCTMWbQcUqiQF9iE0YG8YgWWSBeJeLgcXPRa2qrINq0inNxBMKpe8iyr22p49ImN38C5y4aYHqb4P9uQ6qPz1eGbbHi3g6qK_oofr8J/s1600/Daily+Star.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgL8-hLkE5fj56tAS25Vwx8tAtjyegnMquukP_rVwCTMWbQcUqiQF9iE0YG8YgWWSBeJeLgcXPRa2qrINq0inNxBMKpe8iyr22p49ImN38C5y4aYHqb4P9uQ6qPz1eGbbHi3g6qK_oofr8J/s400/Daily+Star.jpg" /></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Syd Barrett died on 7 July 2006 at his home in Cambridgeshire aged 60.He was interred at Cambridge Crematorium on 18 July 2006. No Pink Floyd members attended. After Barrett's death Wright said, "The band are very naturally upset and sad to hear of Syd Barrett's death. Syd was the guiding light of the early band line-up and leaves a legacy which continues to inspire." Although Barrett had faded into obscurity over the previous 35 years, he was lauded in the national press for his contributions to music. He left over £1.25M in his will, to be divided among his immediate family, and some of his possessions and artwork were auctioned.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />In September 2005 Waters released </span>Ça Ira, a<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">n opera in three acts to a French libretto, based on the historical subject of the French Revolution. Reviews were complimentary; Rolling Stone wrote, "the opera does reflect some of the man's long-term obsessions with war and peace, love and loss". 2007 saw the 40th anniversary of Pink Floyd's signing to EMI and the 40th anniversary of the release of their debut album The Piper at the Gates of Dawn. 2007 saw the release of Oh, by the Way, a limited edition box set containing all of their studio albums.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">On 10 May 2007 Waters and Pink Floyd performed separately at the Syd Barrett tribute concert at the Barbican Centre in London. The band performed some of Barrett's hits, such as "Bike" and "Arnold Layne", at the event which was organised by Joe Boyd and Nick Laird-Clowes. In a January 2007 interview Waters suggested he had become more open to a Pink Floyd reunion: "I would have no problem if the rest of them wanted to get together. It wouldn’t even have to be to save the world. It could be just because it would be fun. And people would love it." Later that year Gilmour stated: "I can’t see why I would want to be going back to that old thing. It’s very retrogressive. I want to look forward, and looking back isn’t my joy."In a May 2008 interview for BBC 6Music, David Gilmour hinted that he would</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">be in favour of another one-off show, but ruled out a full tour. Speaking to Associated Press </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">to promote the release of his new live album, David Gilmour stated that a reunion would not happen. Gilmour said: "The rehearsals were less enjoyable. The rehearsals convinced me it wasn't something I wanted to be doing a lot of ... There have been all sorts of farewell moments in people's lives and careers which they have then rescinded, but I think I can fairly categorically say that there won't be a tour or an album again that I take part in. It isn't to do with animosity or anything like that. It's just that I've done that. I've been there, I've done it."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">On 4 January 2011 Pink Floyd signed a five year record deal with EMI, ending the legal dispute regarding how their material is distributed in the era of individual track downloads. They defended their vision to keep their albums as a cohesive unit and not just individual tracks.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">On 12 May 2011 at the O2 Arena in London, David Gilmour made good on his promise to play "Comfortably Numb" at one of Roger Waters' performances of The Wall. Gilmour sang the first and second chorus, accidentally juxtaposing the last few lines with the second, and played the two guitar solos. After the wall fell down near the end of the show Waters said to the crowd, "We've done it today. So please welcome David Gilmour! By a strange and happy extraordinary coincidence, there is another remnant of our old band here tonight. Please welcome, Mr. Nick Mason!" Gilmour and Mason, with respectively a mandolin and a tambourine, joined Waters and the rest of his band for "Outside The Wall", effectively representing a full reunion of all living Pink Floyd members.It was the first time since Live 8 that the three members shared the same stage and the first time that the line-up from the album The Final Cut appeared in concert.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">On 26 September 2011, Pink Floyd and EMI launched an exhaustive re-release campaign under the title Why Pink Floyd...? which reissues the band's back catalogue in newlyremastered versions, including special "Immersion" multi-disc multi-format editions. All albums have been remastered by James Guthrie, the co-producer of The Wall.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Pink Floyd's classic line-up. Clockwise (from top left): Roger Waters, David Gilmour, Richard Wright and Nick MasoPink Floyd are one of the most commercially successful and influential rock music groups of all time. They have sold over 200 million albums worldwide, including 74.5 million certified units in the United States of which 37.2 million albums have been sold since 1991. <br />Pink Floyd ranked number 51 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of "The 100 Greatest Artists of All Time", with David Gilmour ranking 14th in the greatest guitarists list. Largely due to the success of their albums the band was ranked No. 3 in Colin Larkin’s the 'Top 50 Artists Of All Time', a ranking based on the cumulative votes for each artist’s albums that appear in the All Time Top 1000 Albums. <br />The Sunday Times Rich List Music Millionaires 2011 ranked Waters at No.22 with an estimated wealth of £105m, Gilmour at No.27 with £85m and Mason at No.41 with £50m. Numerous artists have been influenced by Pink Floyd's work: David Bowie has called Syd Barrett a major inspiration; A teenage The Edge(of U2 fame) bought his first delay pedal after hearing the opening to Animals; and the Pet Shop Boys paid homage to The Wall during a performance in Boston; Marillion guitarist Steve Rothery has cited Wish You Were Here as a major inspiration; and many other bands, such as the Foo Fighters, Dream Theater, My Chemical Romance, Porcupine Tree, The Mars Volta, Tool, Queensryche, 30 Seconds to Mars,Scissor Sisters, Rush, Radiohead, Gorillaz, Mudvayne, Nine Inch Nails, Primus and the Smashing Pumpkins, some of whom have recorded Pink Floyd covers, have been influenced by them. As mentioned above, in 1976 the band negatively became an influence on the English Punk Rock movement, and even on the recruitment of Johnny Rotten to the Sex Pistols, being one of those groups against which the movement was a furious stylistic reaction.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Floyd played an unwitting role in Chelsea bondage-boutique owner Malcolm McLaren's discovery of the notorious Johnny Rotten ...[McLaren recruited] the Sex Pistols' lead singer largely on the strength of Rotten's "sadistically mutilated" Pink Floyd T-shirt with the words "I hate" scribbled in a Biro trembling with furious loathing above the Dodo's moniker.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />Pink Floyd have been nominated for and won multiple awards. Technical awards include a "Best Engineered Non-Classical Album" Grammy in 1980 for The Wall and BAFTAsaward for 'Best Original Song' (awarded to Waters) and 'Best Sound' (awarded to James Guthrie, Eddy Joseph, Clive Winter, Graham Hartstone and Nicholas Le Messurier) in 1982 for The Wall film. A Grammy came to them in 1995 for "Rock Instrumental Performance" on "Marooned". In 2008 Pink Floyd were awarded the Polar Music Prize for their contribution to contemporary music; Waters and Mason accepted the prize from King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden. They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on 17 January 1996, the UK Music Hall of Fame on 16 November 2005 and the Hit Parade Hall of Fame in 2010.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Pink Floyd are regarded as pioneers in the live music experience and were renowned for their lavish stage shows, in which the performers themselves were almost secondary. Pink Floyd also set high standards in sound quality, making use of innovative sound effects and quadraphonic speaker systems. From their earliest days they were well known for their use of visual effects, which accompanied the psychedelic rock pieces performed at venues such as the UFO Club in London. The quality of their live performances, even when pre-recorded, was considered by the band to be extremely important; they boycotted the press release of The Dark Side of the Moon as they felt presenting the album through a poor-quality PA system was not good enough. The album had been composed and refined mostly while the band toured the UK, Japan, North America, and Europe. An inflatable floating pig named "Algie" became the inspiration for a number of pig themes used throughout the "In the Flesh Tour", which began in Dortmund and continued through Europe to the UK, and then the US.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Although Pink Floyd were experienced live performers the behaviour of the audience on their "In the Flesh" tour, and the sizes of the venues they played, were a powerful influence on their concept album The Wall. The subsequent "The Wall Tour" featured a 40 feet (12 m) high wall, built from cardboard bricks, constructed between the band and the audience. Animations were projected onto the wall, and gaps allowed the audience to view various scenes in the story. Several characters from the story were realised as giant inflatables. One of the more notable elements of the tour was the performance of "Comfortably Numb". While Waters sang his opening verse, Gilmour waited for his cue on top of the wall in darkness. When it came, bright blue and white lights would suddenly illuminate him. Gilmour stood on a flight case on castors, a dangerous set-up supported from behind by a technician, both supported by a tall hydraulic platform.<br /><br />In 1987 Pink Floyd embarked on their A Momentary Lapse of Reason Tour. Starting in Ottawa on 9 September they spent about two years touring the US, Japan, Europe, and Central Asia. In Venice, Italy, the band played to an audience of 200,000 fans at the Piazza San Marco. The resulting storm of protest over the city's lack of toilet provision, first aid, and accommodation resulted in the resignation of Mayor Antonio Casellati and his government. At the end of the tour Pink Floyd released Delicate Sound of Thunder, and in 1989 released the Delicate Sound of Thunder concert video.<br /><br />During the band's "Division Bell" tour, an unidentified person using the name Publius posted a message on an internet newsgroup, inviting fans to solve a riddle supposedly concealed in the new album. The veracity of the user was demonstrated when white lights in front of the stage at the Pink Floyd concert in East Rutherford spelled out the words Enigma Publius. During a televised concert at Earls Court in October 1994 the word enigma was projected in large letters on to the backdrop of the stage. Mason later acknowledged that the Publius Enigma did exist, and that it had been instigated by the record company rather than the band. As of 2012 the puzzle remains unsolved.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Main article: Pink Floyd discography</span><br />
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<tr><th style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f2f2f2; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; padding-bottom: 0.2em; padding-left: 0.2em; padding-right: 0.2em; padding-top: 0.2em; text-align: center;">Date of release</th><th style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f2f2f2; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; padding-bottom: 0.2em; padding-left: 0.2em; padding-right: 0.2em; padding-top: 0.2em; text-align: center;">Title</th><th style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f2f2f2; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; padding-bottom: 0.2em; padding-left: 0.2em; padding-right: 0.2em; padding-top: 0.2em; text-align: center;"><i>Billboard</i> peak</th><th style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f2f2f2; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; padding-bottom: 0.2em; padding-left: 0.2em; padding-right: 0.2em; padding-top: 0.2em; text-align: center;">RIAA cert.</th><th style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f2f2f2; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; padding-bottom: 0.2em; padding-left: 0.2em; padding-right: 0.2em; padding-top: 0.2em; text-align: center;">Label</th></tr>
<tr><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; padding-bottom: 0.2em; padding-left: 0.2em; padding-right: 0.2em; padding-top: 0.2em;">4 August 1967</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; padding-bottom: 0.2em; padding-left: 0.2em; padding-right: 0.2em; padding-top: 0.2em;"><i>The Piper at the Gates of Dawn</i></td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; padding-bottom: 0.2em; padding-left: 0.2em; padding-right: 0.2em; padding-top: 0.2em; text-align: center;">131</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; padding-bottom: 0.2em; padding-left: 0.2em; padding-right: 0.2em; padding-top: 0.2em; text-align: center;">—</td><td rowspan="3" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; padding-bottom: 0.2em; padding-left: 0.2em; padding-right: 0.2em; padding-top: 0.2em;">Columbia/EMI (UK)<br />
Tower/Capitol (US)</td></tr>
<tr><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; padding-bottom: 0.2em; padding-left: 0.2em; padding-right: 0.2em; padding-top: 0.2em;">28 June 1968</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; padding-bottom: 0.2em; padding-left: 0.2em; padding-right: 0.2em; padding-top: 0.2em;"><i>A Saucerful of Secrets</i></td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; padding-bottom: 0.2em; padding-left: 0.2em; padding-right: 0.2em; padding-top: 0.2em; text-align: center;">—</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; padding-bottom: 0.2em; padding-left: 0.2em; padding-right: 0.2em; padding-top: 0.2em; text-align: center;">—</td></tr>
<tr><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; padding-bottom: 0.2em; padding-left: 0.2em; padding-right: 0.2em; padding-top: 0.2em;">13 June 1969</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; padding-bottom: 0.2em; padding-left: 0.2em; padding-right: 0.2em; padding-top: 0.2em;"><i>Soundtrack from the Film More</i></td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; padding-bottom: 0.2em; padding-left: 0.2em; padding-right: 0.2em; padding-top: 0.2em; text-align: center;">153</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; padding-bottom: 0.2em; padding-left: 0.2em; padding-right: 0.2em; padding-top: 0.2em; text-align: center;">—</td></tr>
<tr><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; padding-bottom: 0.2em; padding-left: 0.2em; padding-right: 0.2em; padding-top: 0.2em;">7 November 1969</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; padding-bottom: 0.2em; padding-left: 0.2em; padding-right: 0.2em; padding-top: 0.2em;"><i>Ummagumma</i></td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; padding-bottom: 0.2em; padding-left: 0.2em; padding-right: 0.2em; padding-top: 0.2em; text-align: center;">74</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; padding-bottom: 0.2em; padding-left: 0.2em; padding-right: 0.2em; padding-top: 0.2em;">Platinum</td><td rowspan="5" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; padding-bottom: 0.2em; padding-left: 0.2em; padding-right: 0.2em; padding-top: 0.2em;">Harvest/EMI</td></tr>
<tr><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; padding-bottom: 0.2em; padding-left: 0.2em; padding-right: 0.2em; padding-top: 0.2em;">2 October 1970</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; padding-bottom: 0.2em; padding-left: 0.2em; padding-right: 0.2em; padding-top: 0.2em;"><i>Atom Heart Mother</i></td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; padding-bottom: 0.2em; padding-left: 0.2em; padding-right: 0.2em; padding-top: 0.2em; text-align: center;">55</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; padding-bottom: 0.2em; padding-left: 0.2em; padding-right: 0.2em; padding-top: 0.2em;">Gold</td></tr>
<tr><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; padding-bottom: 0.2em; padding-left: 0.2em; padding-right: 0.2em; padding-top: 0.2em;">5 November 1971</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; padding-bottom: 0.2em; padding-left: 0.2em; padding-right: 0.2em; padding-top: 0.2em;"><i>Meddle</i></td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; padding-bottom: 0.2em; padding-left: 0.2em; padding-right: 0.2em; padding-top: 0.2em; text-align: center;">70</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; padding-bottom: 0.2em; padding-left: 0.2em; padding-right: 0.2em; padding-top: 0.2em;">2x Platinum</td></tr>
<tr><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; padding-bottom: 0.2em; padding-left: 0.2em; padding-right: 0.2em; padding-top: 0.2em;">2 June 1972</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; padding-bottom: 0.2em; padding-left: 0.2em; padding-right: 0.2em; padding-top: 0.2em;"><i>Obscured by Clouds</i></td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; padding-bottom: 0.2em; padding-left: 0.2em; padding-right: 0.2em; padding-top: 0.2em; text-align: center;">46</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; padding-bottom: 0.2em; padding-left: 0.2em; padding-right: 0.2em; padding-top: 0.2em;">Gold</td></tr>
<tr><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; padding-bottom: 0.2em; padding-left: 0.2em; padding-right: 0.2em; padding-top: 0.2em;">23 March 1973</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; padding-bottom: 0.2em; padding-left: 0.2em; padding-right: 0.2em; padding-top: 0.2em;"><i>The Dark Side of the Moon</i></td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; padding-bottom: 0.2em; padding-left: 0.2em; padding-right: 0.2em; padding-top: 0.2em; text-align: center;">1</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; padding-bottom: 0.2em; padding-left: 0.2em; padding-right: 0.2em; padding-top: 0.2em;">15x Platinum</td></tr>
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Columbia/CBS</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; padding-bottom: 0.2em; padding-left: 0.2em; padding-right: 0.2em; padding-top: 0.2em;">30 November 1979</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; padding-bottom: 0.2em; padding-left: 0.2em; padding-right: 0.2em; padding-top: 0.2em;"><i>The Wall</i></td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; padding-bottom: 0.2em; padding-left: 0.2em; padding-right: 0.2em; padding-top: 0.2em; text-align: center;">1</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; padding-bottom: 0.2em; padding-left: 0.2em; padding-right: 0.2em; padding-top: 0.2em;">23x Platinum</td></tr>
<tr><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; padding-bottom: 0.2em; padding-left: 0.2em; padding-right: 0.2em; padding-top: 0.2em;">21 March 1983</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; padding-bottom: 0.2em; padding-left: 0.2em; padding-right: 0.2em; padding-top: 0.2em;"><i>The Final Cut</i></td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; padding-bottom: 0.2em; padding-left: 0.2em; padding-right: 0.2em; padding-top: 0.2em; text-align: center;">6</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; padding-bottom: 0.2em; padding-left: 0.2em; padding-right: 0.2em; padding-top: 0.2em;">2x Platinum</td></tr>
<tr><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; padding-bottom: 0.2em; padding-left: 0.2em; padding-right: 0.2em; padding-top: 0.2em;">7 September 1987</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; padding-bottom: 0.2em; padding-left: 0.2em; padding-right: 0.2em; padding-top: 0.2em;"><i>A Momentary Lapse of Reason</i></td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; padding-bottom: 0.2em; padding-left: 0.2em; padding-right: 0.2em; padding-top: 0.2em; text-align: center;">3</td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; padding-bottom: 0.2em; padding-left: 0.2em; padding-right: 0.2em; padding-top: 0.2em;">4x Platinum</td><td rowspan="2" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; padding-bottom: 0.2em; padding-left: 0.2em; padding-right: 0.2em; padding-top: 0.2em;">EMI</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Syd Barrett – lead vocals, lead guitar (1965–1968) <br />David Gilmour – lead vocals, lead guitar, bass guitar, keyboards, special effects (December 1967–1996, 2005) <br />Bob Klose – guitars (1965) <br />Nick Mason – drums, percussion, programming (1965–1996, 2005) <br />Roger Waters – lead vocals, bass guitar, guitars, percussion, programming (1965–1985, 2005) <br />Richard Wright – keyboards, vocals (occasionally lead), organ, piano, synthesisers, mellotron (1965–1979, 1987–1996, 2005)</span><br />
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</div>Eltoro234http://www.blogger.com/profile/06318880925761518647noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8002032270222924761.post-37334324832032235872012-01-06T08:02:00.000+07:002022-05-09T09:21:31.640+07:00100 Best Rank Progressive Rock Music 2010-11<table border="0" cellpadding="7" cellspacing="0"><tbody>
<tr><td align="center" class="cls_TableHeader" style="background-color: black; color: #f1c232; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" width="25"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Rank</b></span></td> <td align="center" class="cls_TableHeader" style="background-color: black; color: #f1c232; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" width="160"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Cover</b></span></td> <td align="center" class="cls_TableHeader" style="background-color: black; color: #f1c232; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" width="150"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Ratings</b></span></td> <td class="cls_TableHeader" style="background-color: black; color: #f1c232; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Title</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Artist</b></span></td> <td class="cls_TableHeader" style="background-color: black; color: #f1c232; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Genre</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>(Record Type)</b></span></td> <td class="cls_TableHeader" style="background-color: black; color: #f1c232; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>BUY</b></span></td> </tr>
<tr> <td align="center" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">1</span></b></td> <td align="center" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><img src="http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/82/cover_5840119102011_r.jpg" style="border: 3px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 3px;" width="150" /></span></b></td> <td align="center" height="50" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">4.38 | 139 ratings </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">QWR = 4.2858</span></b></div>
</td> <td style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>To Shatter All Accord</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Discipline</b></span></td> <td style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Symphonic Prog</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;">Studio, 2011</span></b></td> <td style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=35056#buymusic">Buy</a></span></b></td> </tr>
<tr> <td align="center" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">2</span></b></td> <td align="center" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><img src="http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/4135/cover_4222151472011_r.jpg" style="border: 3px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 3px;" width="150" /></span></b></td> <td align="center" height="50" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">4.28 | 492 ratings </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">QWR = 4.2571</span></b></div>
</td> <td style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Grace For Drowning</b><br />
<b>Steven Wilson</b></td> <td style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Crossover Prog</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;">Studio, 2011</span></b></td> <td style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=33877#buymusic">Buy</a></span></b></td> </tr>
<tr> <td align="center" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">3</span></b></td> <td align="center" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><img src="http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/5598/cover_323982972011_r.jpg" style="border: 3px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 3px;" width="150" /></span></b></td> <td align="center" height="50" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">4.31 | 251 ratings </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">QWR = 4.2569</span></b></div>
</td> <td style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Visions</b><br />
<b>Haken</b></td> <td style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Heavy Prog</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;">Studio, 2011</span></b></td> <td style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=34049#buymusic">Buy</a></span></b></td> </tr>
<tr> <td align="center" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">4</span></b></td> <td align="center" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><img src="http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/6073/cover_28281428122010.jpg" style="border: 3px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 3px;" width="150" /></span></b></td> <td align="center" height="50" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">4.39 | 62 ratings </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">QWR = 4.2038</span></b></div>
</td> <td style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Cinematic</b><br />
<b>Lebowski</b></td> <td style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Crossover Prog</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;">Studio, 2010</span></b></td> <td style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=32001#buymusic">Buy</a></span></b></td> </tr>
<tr> <td align="center" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">5</span></b></td> <td align="center" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><img src="http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/3907/cover_37116782011_r.jpg" style="border: 3px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 3px;" width="150" /></span></b></td> <td align="center" height="50" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">4.34 | 81 ratings </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">QWR = 4.1960</span></b></div>
</td> <td style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Ghosts</b><br />
<b>Frequency Drift</b></td> <td style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Crossover Prog</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;">Studio, 2011</span></b></td> <td style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=34130#buymusic">Buy</a></span></b></td> </tr>
<tr> <td align="center" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">6</span></b></td> <td align="center" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><img src="http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/4446/cover_351416112011_r.jpg" style="border: 3px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 3px;" width="150" /></span></b></td> <td align="center" height="50" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">4.49 | 33 ratings </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">QWR = 4.1660</span></b></div>
</td> <td style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>The King Of Number 33</b><br />
<b>DeeExpus</b></td> <td style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Heavy Prog</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;">Studio, 2011</span></b></td> <td style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=35398#buymusic">Buy</a></span></b></td> </tr>
<tr> <td align="center" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">7</span></b></td> <td align="center" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><img src="http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/6489/cover_1935212462011_r.jpg" style="border: 3px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 3px;" width="150" /></span></b></td> <td align="center" height="50" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">4.22 | 165 ratings </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">QWR = 4.1580</span></b></div>
</td> <td style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>War and Peace and Other Stories</b><br />
<b>Sean Filkins</b></td> <td style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Crossover Prog</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;">Studio, 2011</span></b></td> <td style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=33676#buymusic">Buy</a></span></b></td> </tr>
<tr> <td align="center" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">8</span></b></td> <td align="center" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><img src="http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/6525/cover_5014515112011_r.jpg" style="border: 3px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 3px;" width="150" /></span></b></td> <td align="center" height="50" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">4.56 | 24 ratings </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">QWR = 4.1402</span></b></div>
</td> <td style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Enigma</b><br />
<b>Seven Side Diamond</b></td> <td style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Crossover Prog</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;">Studio, 2011</span></b></td> <td style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=35386#buymusic">Buy</a></span></b></td> </tr>
<tr> <td align="center" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">9</span></b></td> <td align="center" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><img src="http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/5423/cover_5450232792011_r.JPG" style="border: 3px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 3px;" width="150" /></span></b></td> <td align="center" height="50" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">4.21 | 152 ratings </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">QWR = 4.1402</span></b></div>
</td> <td style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>A Tower Of Silence</b><br />
<b>Anubis</b></td> <td style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Neo-Prog</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;">Studio, 2011</span></b></td> <td style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=34485#buymusic">Buy</a></span></b></td> </tr>
<tr> <td align="center" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">10</span></b></td> <td align="center" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><img src="http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/5598/cover_1734103152010.jpg" style="border: 3px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 3px;" width="150" /></span></b></td> <td align="center" height="50" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">4.15 | 432 ratings </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">QWR = 4.1311</span></b></div>
</td> <td style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Aquarius</b><br />
<b>Haken</b></td> <td style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Heavy Prog</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;">Studio, 2010</span></b></td> <td style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=29173#buymusic">Buy</a></span></b></td> </tr>
<tr> <td align="center" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">11</span></b></td> <td align="center" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><img src="http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/2379/cover_315232832011_r.jpg" style="border: 3px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 3px;" width="150" /></span></b></td> <td align="center" height="50" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">4.15 | 380 ratings </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">QWR = 4.1271</span></b></div>
</td> <td style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Snowtorch</b><br />
<b>Phideaux</b></td> <td style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Crossover Prog</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;">Studio, 2011</span></b></td> <td style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=32493#buymusic">Buy</a></span></b></td> </tr>
<tr> <td align="center" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">12</span></b></td> <td align="center" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><img src="http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/2554/cover_186214122011_r.jpg" style="border: 3px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 3px;" width="150" /></span></b></td> <td align="center" height="50" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">4.38 | 37 ratings </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">QWR = 4.1140</span></b></div>
</td> <td style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Lost symphony</b><br />
<b>Karfagen</b></td> <td style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Symphonic Prog</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;">Studio, 2011</span></b></td> <td style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=35740#buymusic">Buy</a></span></b></td> </tr>
<tr> <td align="center" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">13</span></b></td> <td align="center" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><img src="http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/3241/cover_5231618102010.jpg" style="border: 3px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 3px;" width="150" /></span></b></td> <td align="center" height="50" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">4.47 | 26 ratings </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">QWR = 4.1034</span></b></div>
</td> <td style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>By The Waters Of Tomorrow</b><br />
<b>Vespero</b></td> <td style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Psychedelic/Space Rock</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;">Studio, 2010</span></b></td> <td style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=31180#buymusic">Buy</a></span></b></td> </tr>
<tr> <td align="center" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">14</span></b></td> <td align="center" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><img src="http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/5919/cover_1042172102010.jpg" style="border: 3px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 3px;" width="150" /></span></b></td> <td align="center" height="50" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">4.14 | 187 ratings </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">QWR = 4.0870</span></b></div>
</td> <td style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Il Tempio delle Clessidre</b><br />
<b>Il Tempio delle Clessidre</b></td> <td style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Rock Progressivo Italiano</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;">Studio, 2010</span></b></td> <td style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=30868#buymusic">Buy</a></span></b></td> </tr>
<tr> <td align="center" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">15</span></b></td> <td align="center" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><img src="http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/3331/cover_334311582010.jpg" style="border: 3px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 3px;" width="150" /></span></b></td> <td align="center" height="50" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">4.14 | 129 ratings </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">QWR = 4.0736</span></b></div>
</td> <td style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Legacy</b><br />
<b>Hypnos 69</b></td> <td style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Psychedelic/Space Rock</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;">Studio, 2010</span></b></td> <td style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=29944#buymusic">Buy</a></span></b></td> </tr>
<tr> <td align="center" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">16</span></b></td> <td align="center" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><img src="http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/2638/cover_371483152011_r.jpg" style="border: 3px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 3px;" width="150" /></span></b></td> <td align="center" height="50" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">4.12 | 188 ratings </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">QWR = 4.0715</span></b></div>
</td> <td style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Fables of the Sleepless Empire</b><br />
<b>Unexpect</b></td> <td style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Tech/Extreme Prog Metal</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;">Studio, 2011</span></b></td> <td style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=33437#buymusic">Buy</a></span></b></td> </tr>
<tr> <td align="center" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">17</span></b></td> <td align="center" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><img src="http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/712/cover_371041342011_r.jpg" style="border: 3px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 3px;" width="150" /></span></b></td> <td align="center" height="50" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">4.09 | 277 ratings </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">QWR = 4.0565</span></b></div>
</td> <td style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Testimony 2</b><br />
<b>Neal Morse</b></td> <td style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Symphonic Prog</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;">Studio, 2011</span></b></td> <td style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=32952#buymusic">Buy</a></span></b></td> </tr>
<tr> <td align="center" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">18</span></b></td> <td align="center" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><img src="http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/378/cover_5124132962011_r.jpg" style="border: 3px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 3px;" width="150" /></span></b></td> <td align="center" height="50" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">4.07 | 606 ratings </span></b><br />
<div>
<b><span style="font-size: small;">QWR = 4.0544</span></b></div>
</td> <td style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>A Dramatic Turn Of Events</b><br />
<b>Dream Theater</b></td> <td style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Progressive Metal</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;">Studio, 2011</span></b></td> <td style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=33499#buymusic">Buy</a></span></b></td> </tr>
<tr> <td align="center" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">19</span></b></td> <td align="center" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><img src="http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/5788/cover_631132832011_r.jpg" style="border: 3px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 3px;" width="150" /></span></b></td> <td align="center" height="50" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">4.13 | 110 ratings </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">QWR = 4.0530</span></b></div>
</td> <td style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Elements</b><br />
<b>Introitus</b></td> <td style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Neo-Prog</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;">Studio, 2011</span></b></td> <td style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=32774#buymusic">Buy</a></span></b></td> </tr>
<tr> <td align="center" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">20</span></b></td> <td align="center" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><img src="http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/1038/cover_55203032010.jpg" style="border: 3px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 3px;" width="150" /></span></b></td> <td align="center" height="50" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">4.08 | 336 ratings </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">QWR = 4.0526</span></b></div>
</td> <td style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>We're Here Because We're Here</b><br />
<b>Anathema</b></td> <td style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Experimental/Post Metal</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;">Studio, 2010</span></b></td> <td style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=28243#buymusic">Buy</a></span></b></td> </tr>
<tr> <td align="center" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">21</span></b></td> <td align="center" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><img src="http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/1911/cover_03217122010.jpg" style="border: 3px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 3px;" width="150" /></span></b></td> <td align="center" height="50" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">4.09 | 211 ratings </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">QWR = 4.0473</span></b></div>
</td> <td style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>The Octopus</b><br />
<b>Amplifier</b></td> <td style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Psychedelic/Space Rock</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;">Studio, 2011</span></b></td> <td style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=31791#buymusic">Buy</a></span></b></td> </tr>
<tr> <td align="center" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">22</span></b></td> <td align="center" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><img src="http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/4965/cover_133512592011_r.jpg" style="border: 3px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 3px;" width="150" /></span></b></td> <td align="center" height="50" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">4.13 | 88 ratings </span></b><br />
<div>
<b><span style="font-size: small;">QWR = 4.0392</span></b></div>
</td> <td style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>All Rights Removed</b><br />
<b>Airbag</b></td> <td style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Neo-Prog</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;">Studio, 2011</span></b></td> <td style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=34547#buymusic">Buy</a></span></b></td> </tr>
<tr> <td align="center" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">23</span></b></td> <td align="center" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><img src="http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/152/cover_3342181012011_r.jpg" style="border: 3px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 3px;" width="150" /></span></b></td> <td align="center" height="50" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">4.06 | 170 ratings </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">QWR = 4.0127</span></b></div>
</td> <td style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Summereve</b><br />
<b>Hostsonaten</b></td> <td style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Rock Progressivo Italiano</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;">Studio, 2011</span></b></td> <td style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=32127#buymusic">Buy</a></span></b></td> </tr>
<tr> <td align="center" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">24</span></b></td> <td align="center" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><img src="http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/3268/cover_3448211882011_r.jpg" style="border: 3px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 3px;" width="150" /></span></b></td> <td align="center" height="50" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">4.11 | 66 ratings </span></b><br />
<div>
<b><span style="font-size: small;">QWR = 4.0000</span></b></div>
</td> <td style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Tales Of The Sands</b><br />
<b>Myrath</b></td> <td style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Progressive Metal</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;">Studio, 2011</span></b></td> <td style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=34312#buymusic">Buy</a></span></b></td> </tr>
<tr> <td align="center" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">25</span></b></td> <td align="center" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><img src="http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/2047/cover_451611352011_r.jpg" style="border: 3px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 3px;" width="150" /></span></b></td> <td align="center" height="50" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">4.05 | 149 ratings </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">QWR = 3.9993</span></b></div>
</td> <td style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Against Reason</b><br />
<b>Credo</b></td> <td style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Neo-Prog</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;">Studio, 2011</span></b></td> <td style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=33230#buymusic">Buy</a></span></b></td> </tr>
<tr> <td align="center" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">26</span></b></td> <td align="center" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><img src="http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/4661/cover_5020162062011_r.jpg" style="border: 3px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 3px;" width="150" /></span></b></td> <td align="center" height="50" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">4.12 | 58 ratings </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">QWR = 3.9942</span></b></div>
</td> <td style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>As Far As The Eye Can See</b><br />
<b>Sunchild</b></td> <td style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Crossover Prog</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;">Studio, 2011</span></b></td> <td style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=33608#buymusic">Buy</a></span></b></td> </tr>
<tr> <td align="center" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">27</span></b></td> <td align="center" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><img src="http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/5951/cover_313549102010.jpg" style="border: 3px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 3px;" width="150" /></span></b></td> <td align="center" height="50" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">4.10 | 63 ratings </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">QWR = 3.9902</span></b></div>
</td> <td style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Delusion Squared</b><br />
<b>Delusion Squared</b></td> <td style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Crossover Prog</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;">Studio, 2010</span></b></td> <td style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=30984#buymusic">Buy</a></span></b></td> </tr>
<tr> <td align="center" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">28</span></b></td> <td align="center" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><img src="http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/6371/cover_454211352011_r.jpg" style="border: 3px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 3px;" width="150" /></span></b></td> <td align="center" height="50" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">4.11 | 57 ratings </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">QWR = 3.9826</span></b></div>
</td> <td style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Ever After</b><br />
<b>Sanhedrin</b></td> <td style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Eclectic Prog</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;">Studio, 2011</span></b></td> <td style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=33231#buymusic">Buy</a></span></b></td> </tr>
<tr> <td align="center" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">29</span></b></td> <td align="center" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><img src="http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/342/cover_1919912010.jpg" style="border: 3px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 3px;" width="150" /></span></b></td> <td align="center" height="50" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">4.05 | 110 ratings </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">QWR = 3.9821</span></b></div>
</td> <td style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Clivages</b><br />
<b>Univers Zero</b></td> <td style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">RIO/Avant-Prog</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;">Studio, 2010</span></b></td> <td style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=26863#buymusic">Buy</a></span></b></td> </tr>
<tr> <td align="center" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">30</span></b></td> <td align="center" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><img src="http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/432/cover_181661342011_r.jpg" style="border: 3px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 3px;" width="150" /></span></b></td> <td align="center" height="50" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">4.02 | 195 ratings </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">QWR = 3.9815</span></b></div>
</td> <td style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Deconstruction (Devin Townsend Project)</b><br />
<b>Devin Townsend</b></td> <td style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Experimental/Post Metal</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;">Studio, 2011</span></b></td> <td style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=32953#buymusic">Buy</a></span></b></td> </tr>
<tr> <td align="center" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">31</span></b></td> <td align="center" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><img src="http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/4650/cover_234902102011_r.jpg" style="border: 3px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 3px;" width="150" /></span></b></td> <td align="center" height="50" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">4.06 | 84 ratings </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">QWR = 3.9799</span></b></div>
</td> <td style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>The Black Forest</b><br />
<b>Agents Of Mercy</b></td> <td style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Neo-Prog</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;">Studio, 2011</span></b></td> <td style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=34409#buymusic">Buy</a></span></b></td> </tr>
<tr> <td align="center" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">32</span></b></td> <td align="center" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><img src="http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/5038/cover_17555632010.jpg" style="border: 3px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 3px;" width="150" /></span></b></td> <td align="center" height="50" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">4.02 | 154 ratings </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">QWR = 3.9789</span></b></div>
</td> <td style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Écailles de lune</b><br />
<b>Alcest</b></td> <td style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Experimental/Post Metal</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;">Studio, 2010</span></b></td> <td style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=27723#buymusic">Buy</a></span></b></td> </tr>
<tr> <td align="center" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">33</span></b></td> <td align="center" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><img src="http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/350/cover_1056141382011_r.jpg" style="border: 3px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 3px;" width="150" /></span></b></td> <td align="center" height="50" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">4.06 | 85 ratings </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">QWR = 3.9764</span></b></div>
</td> <td style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Terminal Twilight</b><br />
<b>White Willow</b></td> <td style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Symphonic Prog</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;">Studio, 2011</span></b></td> <td style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=34240#buymusic">Buy</a></span></b></td> </tr>
<tr> <td align="center" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">34</span></b></td> <td align="center" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><img src="http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/6409/cover_3752132052011_r.jpg" style="border: 3px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 3px;" width="150" /></span></b></td> <td align="center" height="50" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">4.16 | 38 ratings </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">QWR = 3.9762</span></b></div>
</td> <td style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Night Of The Red Sky</b><br />
<b>Joseph Magazine</b></td> <td style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Progressive Metal</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;">Studio, 2011</span></b></td> <td style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=33369#buymusic">Buy</a></span></b></td> </tr>
<tr> <td align="center" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">35</span></b></td> <td align="center" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><img src="http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/3333/cover_448141112010.jpg" style="border: 3px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 3px;" width="150" /></span></b></td> <td align="center" height="50" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">4.04 | 99 ratings </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">QWR = 3.9744</span></b></div>
</td> <td style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Harvest Aorta</b><br />
<b>Ephemeral Sun</b></td> <td style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Progressive Metal</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;">Studio, 2010</span></b></td> <td style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=26886#buymusic">Buy</a></span></b></td> </tr>
<tr> <td align="center" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">36</span></b></td> <td align="center" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><img src="http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/4225/cover_155111642011_r.jpg" style="border: 3px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 3px;" width="150" /></span></b></td> <td align="center" height="50" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">4.26 | 23 ratings </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">QWR = 3.9685</span></b></div>
</td> <td style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Ursus</b><br />
<b>Albatros</b></td> <td style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Heavy Prog</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;">Studio, 2011</span></b></td> <td style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=32897#buymusic">Buy</a></span></b></td> </tr>
<tr> <td align="center" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">37</span></b></td> <td align="center" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><img src="http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/5631/cover_521311282010.jpg" style="border: 3px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 3px;" width="150" /></span></b></td> <td align="center" height="50" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">4.01 | 147 ratings </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">QWR = 3.9670</span></b></div>
</td> <td style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Excavations of the Mind</b><br />
<b>Sky Architect</b></td> <td style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Heavy Prog</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;">Studio, 2010</span></b></td> <td style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=29998#buymusic">Buy</a></span></b></td> </tr>
<tr> <td align="center" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">38</span></b></td> <td align="center" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><img src="http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/2686/cover_62171122010.jpeg" style="border: 3px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 3px;" width="150" /></span></b></td> <td align="center" height="50" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">4.03 | 106 ratings </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">QWR = 3.9653</span></b></div>
</td> <td style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>After</b><br />
<b>Ihsahn</b></td> <td style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Tech/Extreme Prog Metal</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;">Studio, 2010</span></b></td> <td style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=26783#buymusic">Buy</a></span></b></td> </tr>
<tr> <td align="center" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">39</span></b></td> <td align="center" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><img src="http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/6682/cover_255491392011_r.jpg" style="border: 3px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 3px;" width="150" /></span></b></td> <td align="center" height="50" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">4.02 | 112 ratings </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">QWR = 3.9635</span></b></div>
</td> <td style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Sympathetic Resonance</b><br />
<b>Arch / Matheos</b></td> <td style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Progressive Metal</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;">Studio, 2011</span></b></td> <td style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=34617#buymusic">Buy</a></span></b></td> </tr>
<tr> <td align="center" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">40</span></b></td> <td align="center" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><img src="http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/6141/cover_1420172612011_r.JPG" style="border: 3px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 3px;" width="150" /></span></b></td> <td align="center" height="50" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">4.07 | 58 ratings </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">QWR = 3.9592</span></b></div>
</td> <td style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Traces</b><br />
<b>Nine Stones Close</b></td> <td style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Neo-Prog</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;">Studio, 2010</span></b></td> <td style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=32214#buymusic">Buy</a></span></b></td> </tr>
<tr> <td align="center" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">41</span></b></td> <td align="center" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><img src="http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/4187/cover_5037172032011_r.jpg" style="border: 3px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 3px;" width="150" /></span></b></td> <td align="center" height="50" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">4.32 | 18 ratings </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">QWR = 3.9574</span></b></div>
</td> <td style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Cane di Schiena</b><br />
<b>Calomito</b></td> <td style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">RIO/Avant-Prog</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;">Studio, 2011</span></b></td> <td style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=32696#buymusic">Buy</a></span></b></td> </tr>
<tr> <td align="center" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">42</span></b></td> <td align="center" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><img src="http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/3220/cover_430161122010.jpg" style="border: 3px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 3px;" width="150" /></span></b></td> <td align="center" height="50" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">4.03 | 85 ratings </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">QWR = 3.9569</span></b></div>
</td> <td style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Five Deadly Venoms</b><br />
<b>Shaolin Death Squad</b></td> <td style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Progressive Metal</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;">Studio, 2010</span></b></td> <td style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=27453#buymusic">Buy</a></span></b></td> </tr>
<tr> <td align="center" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">43</span></b></td> <td align="center" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><img src="http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/6521/cover_102582592011_r.JPG" style="border: 3px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 3px;" width="150" /></span></b></td> <td align="center" height="50" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">4.14 | 35 ratings </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">QWR = 3.9568</span></b></div>
</td> <td style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>La Coscienza di Zeno</b><br />
<b>La Coscienza di Zeno</b></td> <td style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Rock Progressivo Italiano</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;">Studio, 2011</span></b></td> <td style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=33886#buymusic">Buy</a></span></b></td> </tr>
<tr> <td align="center" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">44</span></b></td> <td align="center" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><img src="http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/4920/cover_0391112122011_r.jpg" style="border: 3px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 3px;" width="150" /></span></b></td> <td align="center" height="50" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">4.45 | 13 ratings </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">QWR = 3.9555</span></b></div>
</td> <td style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>The Wish</b><br />
<b>Eye 2 Eye</b></td> <td style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Neo-Prog</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;">Studio, 2011</span></b></td> <td style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=35715#buymusic">Buy</a></span></b></td> </tr>
<tr> <td align="center" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">45</span></b></td> <td align="center" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><img src="http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/206/cover_1041115112010.jpg" style="border: 3px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 3px;" width="150" /></span></b></td> <td align="center" height="50" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">4.03 | 73 ratings </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">QWR = 3.9405</span></b></div>
</td> <td style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Regeneration</b><br />
<b>The Lens</b></td> <td style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Neo-Prog</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;">Studio, 2010</span></b></td> <td style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=31515#buymusic">Buy</a></span></b></td> </tr>
<tr> <td align="center" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">46</span></b></td> <td align="center" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><img src="http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/5340/cover_16190432011_r.jpg" style="border: 3px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 3px;" width="150" /></span></b></td> <td align="center" height="50" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">4.50 | 11 ratings </span></b><br />
<div>
<b><span style="font-size: small;">QWR = 3.9394</span></b></div>
</td> <td style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Master Sleeps</b><br />
<b>Hills</b></td> <td style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Psychedelic/Space Rock</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;">Studio, 2011</span></b></td> <td style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=32555#buymusic">Buy</a></span></b></td> </tr>
<tr> <td align="center" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">47</span></b></td> <td align="center" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><img src="http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/4650/cover_443613892011_r.jpg" style="border: 3px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 3px;" width="150" /></span></b></td> <td align="center" height="50" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">4.00 | 94 ratings </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">QWR = 3.9388</span></b></div>
</td> <td style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Dramarama</b><br />
<b>Agents Of Mercy</b></td> <td style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Neo-Prog</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;">Studio, 2010</span></b></td> <td style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=30561#buymusic">Buy</a></span></b></td> </tr>
<tr> <td align="center" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">48</span></b></td> <td align="center" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><img src="http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/5153/cover_3833121382010.jpg" style="border: 3px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 3px;" width="150" /></span></b></td> <td align="center" height="50" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">4.08 | 40 ratings </span></b><br />
<div>
<b><span style="font-size: small;">QWR = 3.9290</span></b></div>
</td> <td style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>The Myth of Dying</b><br />
<b>The Psychedelic Ensemble</b></td> <td style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Neo-Prog</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;">Studio, 2010</span></b></td> <td style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=30026#buymusic">Buy</a></span></b></td> </tr>
<tr> <td align="center" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">49</span></b></td> <td align="center" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><img src="http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/3954/cover_53471414122010.jpg" style="border: 3px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 3px;" width="150" /></span></b></td> <td align="center" height="50" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">4.04 | 52 ratings </span></b><br />
<div>
<b><span style="font-size: small;">QWR = 3.9263</span></b></div>
</td> <td style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Pan: An Urban Pastoral</b><br />
<b>Persephone's Dream</b></td> <td style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Heavy Prog</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;">Studio, 2010</span></b></td> <td style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=30028#buymusic">Buy</a></span></b></td> </tr>
<tr> <td align="center" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">50</span></b></td> <td align="center" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><img src="http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/4682/cover_274192912011_r.jpg" style="border: 3px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 3px;" width="150" /></span></b></td> <td align="center" height="50" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">3.99 | 89 ratings </span></b><br />
<div>
<b><span style="font-size: small;">QWR = 3.9262</span></b></div>
</td> <td style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Epoch</b><br />
<b>Fen</b></td> <td style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Experimental/Post Metal</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;">Studio, 2011</span></b></td> <td style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=32242#buymusic">Buy</a></span></b></td> </tr>
<tr> <td align="center" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">51</span></b></td> <td align="center" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><img src="http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/229/cover_104533112011_r.jpg" style="border: 3px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 3px;" width="150" /></span></b></td> <td align="center" height="50" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">4.10 | 34 ratings </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">QWR = 3.9254</span></b></div>
</td> <td style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Margaret's Children</b><br />
<b>Guy Manning</b></td> <td style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Eclectic Prog</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;">Studio, 2011</span></b></td> <td style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=35235#buymusic">Buy</a></span></b></td> </tr>
<tr> <td align="center" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">52</span></b></td> <td align="center" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><img src="http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/1655/cover_4391713112010.jpg" style="border: 3px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 3px;" width="150" /></span></b></td> <td align="center" height="50" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">4.06 | 44 ratings </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">QWR = 3.9236</span></b></div>
</td> <td style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Bridges of Kukuriku</b><br />
<b>Quantum Fantay</b></td> <td style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Psychedelic/Space Rock</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;">Studio, 2010</span></b></td> <td style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=31485#buymusic">Buy</a></span></b></td> </tr>
<tr> <td align="center" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">53</span></b></td> <td align="center" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><img src="http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/4783/cover_421941772011_r.jpg" style="border: 3px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 3px;" width="150" /></span></b></td> <td align="center" height="50" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">3.96 | 165 ratings </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">QWR = 3.9236</span></b></div>
</td> <td style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Bilateral</b><br />
<b>Leprous</b></td> <td style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Tech/Extreme Prog Metal</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;">Studio, 2011</span></b></td> <td style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=33907#buymusic">Buy</a></span></b></td> </tr>
<tr> <td align="center" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">54</span></b></td> <td align="center" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><img src="http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/2634/cover_43241522122011_r.jpg" style="border: 3px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 3px;" width="150" /></span></b></td> <td align="center" height="50" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">4.50 | 10 ratings </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">QWR = 3.9207</span></b></div>
</td> <td style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Decameron: Ten Days in 100 Novellas (Part 1)</b><br />
<b>Various Artists (Concept albums & Themed compilations)</b></td> <td style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Various Genres</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;">Studio, 2011</span></b></td> <td style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=35818#buymusic">Buy</a></span></b></td> </tr>
<tr> <td align="center" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">55</span></b></td> <td align="center" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><img src="http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/5917/cover_2941132102010.jpg" style="border: 3px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 3px;" width="150" /></span></b></td> <td align="center" height="50" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">4.88 | 6 ratings </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">QWR = 3.9193</span></b></div>
</td> <td style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Myster Möbius</b><br />
<b>Myster Mobius</b></td> <td style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Experimental/Post Metal</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;">Studio, 2010</span></b></td> <td style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=30824#buymusic">Buy</a></span></b></td> </tr>
<tr> <td align="center" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">56</span></b></td> <td align="center" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><img src="http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/5306/cover_55522322011_r.jpg" style="border: 3px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 3px;" width="150" /></span></b></td> <td align="center" height="50" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">4.71 | 7 ratings </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">QWR = 3.9119</span></b></div>
</td> <td style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Spiral Shadow</b><br />
<b>Kylesa</b></td> <td style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Experimental/Post Metal</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;">Studio, 2010</span></b></td> <td style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=32283#buymusic">Buy</a></span></b></td> </tr>
<tr> <td align="center" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">57</span></b></td> <td align="center" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><img src="http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/4144/cover_374489102010.jpg" style="border: 3px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 3px;" width="150" /></span></b></td> <td align="center" height="50" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">4.14 | 24 ratings </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">QWR = 3.9108</span></b></div>
</td> <td style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Rabbit</b><br />
<b>The Tea Club</b></td> <td style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Crossover Prog</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;">Studio, 2010</span></b></td> <td style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=30985#buymusic">Buy</a></span></b></td> </tr>
<tr> <td align="center" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">58</span></b></td> <td align="center" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><img src="http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/3812/cover_585532612011_r.jpg" style="border: 3px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 3px;" width="150" /></span></b></td> <td align="center" height="50" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">3.97 | 85 ratings </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">QWR = 3.9075</span></b></div>
</td> <td style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Long Distance Calling</b><br />
<b>Long Distance Calling</b></td> <td style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Post Rock/Math rock</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;">Studio, 2011</span></b></td> <td style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=32212#buymusic">Buy</a></span></b></td> </tr>
<tr> <td align="center" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">59</span></b></td> <td align="center" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><img src="http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/5200/cover_561321342010.jpg" style="border: 3px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 3px;" width="150" /></span></b></td> <td align="center" height="50" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">4.37 | 12 ratings </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">QWR = 3.9069</span></b></div>
</td> <td style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Eve</b><br />
<b>Ufomammut</b></td> <td style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Experimental/Post Metal</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;">Studio, 2010</span></b></td> <td style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=28478#buymusic">Buy</a></span></b></td> </tr>
<tr> <td align="center" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">60</span></b></td> <td align="center" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><img src="http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/6794/cover_18531223102011_r.jpg" style="border: 3px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 3px;" width="150" /></span></b></td> <td align="center" height="50" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">4.29 | 14 ratings </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">QWR = 3.9006</span></b></div>
</td> <td style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Eldberg</b><br />
<b>Eldberg</b></td> <td style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Crossover Prog</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;">Studio, 2011</span></b></td> <td style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=35082#buymusic">Buy</a></span></b></td> </tr>
<tr> <td align="center" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">61</span></b></td> <td align="center" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><img src="http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/887/cover_484991592010.jpg" style="border: 3px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 3px;" width="150" /></span></b></td> <td align="center" height="50" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">4.20 | 18 ratings </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">QWR = 3.9006</span></b></div>
</td> <td style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Anti-Matter Poetry</b><br />
<b>T</b></td> <td style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Neo-Prog</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;">Studio, 2010</span></b></td> <td style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=30432#buymusic">Buy</a></span></b></td> </tr>
<tr> <td align="center" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">62</span></b></td> <td align="center" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><img src="http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/1779/cover_574522482011_r.jpg" style="border: 3px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 3px;" width="150" /></span></b></td> <td align="center" height="50" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">4.17 | 20 ratings </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">QWR = 3.9000</span></b></div>
</td> <td style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Flashback</b><br />
<b>Jaime Rosas</b></td> <td style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Symphonic Prog</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;">Studio, 2011</span></b></td> <td style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=34110#buymusic">Buy</a></span></b></td> </tr>
<tr> <td align="center" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">63</span></b></td> <td align="center" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><img src="http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/6727/cover_5939122892011_r.jpg" style="border: 3px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 3px;" width="150" /></span></b></td> <td align="center" height="50" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">4.31 | 13 ratings </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">QWR = 3.8995</span></b></div>
</td> <td style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Risveglio</b><br />
<b>Egonon</b></td> <td style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Rock Progressivo Italiano</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;">Studio, 2011</span></b></td> <td style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=34846#buymusic">Buy</a></span></b></td> </tr>
<tr> <td align="center" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">64</span></b></td> <td align="center" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><img src="http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/1489/cover_4433132992011_r.jpg" style="border: 3px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 3px;" width="150" /></span></b></td> <td align="center" height="50" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">4.02 | 44 ratings </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">QWR = 3.8977</span></b></div>
</td> <td style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Thirst</b><br />
<b>Salva</b></td> <td style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Crossover Prog</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;">Studio, 2011</span></b></td> <td style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=34865#buymusic">Buy</a></span></b></td> </tr>
<tr> <td align="center" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">65</span></b></td> <td align="center" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><img src="http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/274/cover_514162132010.jpeg" style="border: 3px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 3px;" width="150" /></span></b></td> <td align="center" height="50" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">3.95 | 94 ratings </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">QWR = 3.8976</span></b></div>
</td> <td style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Silence</b><br />
<b>Odyssice</b></td> <td style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Symphonic Prog</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;">Studio, 2010</span></b></td> <td style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=28095#buymusic">Buy</a></span></b></td> </tr>
<tr> <td align="center" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">66</span></b></td> <td align="center" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><img src="http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/644/cover_1357111482011_r.jpg" style="border: 3px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 3px;" width="150" /></span></b></td> <td align="center" height="50" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">3.94 | 119 ratings </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">QWR = 3.8970</span></b></div>
</td> <td style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>COMM</b><br />
<b>The Tangent</b></td> <td style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Eclectic Prog</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;">Studio, 2011</span></b></td> <td style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=34259#buymusic">Buy</a></span></b></td> </tr>
<tr> <td align="center" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">67</span></b></td> <td align="center" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><img src="http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/6998/cover_1121731122011_r.jpg" style="border: 3px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 3px;" width="150" /></span></b></td> <td align="center" height="50" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">4.48 | 9 ratings </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">QWR = 3.8940</span></b></div>
</td> <td style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>1000 Autunni</b><br />
<b>Ske</b></td> <td style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Eclectic Prog</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;">Studio, 2011</span></b></td> <td style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=35991#buymusic">Buy</a></span></b></td> </tr>
<tr> <td align="center" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">68</span></b></td> <td align="center" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><img src="http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/3843/cover_3023229102010.jpg" style="border: 3px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 3px;" width="150" /></span></b></td> <td align="center" height="50" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">4.07 | 29 ratings </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">QWR = 3.8936</span></b></div>
</td> <td style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Anthropocentric</b><br />
<b>The Ocean</b></td> <td style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Experimental/Post Metal</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;">Studio, 2010</span></b></td> <td style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=31318#buymusic">Buy</a></span></b></td> </tr>
<tr> <td align="center" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">69</span></b></td> <td align="center" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><img src="http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/5692/cover_623142102011_r.jpg" style="border: 3px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 3px;" width="150" /></span></b></td> <td align="center" height="50" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">4.55 | 8 ratings </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">QWR = 3.8923</span></b></div>
</td> <td style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>I Wash My Soul In The Stream Of Inifinity</b><br />
<b>My Brother The Wind</b></td> <td style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Psychedelic/Space Rock</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;">Studio, 2011</span></b></td> <td style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=34909#buymusic">Buy</a></span></b></td> </tr>
<tr> <td align="center" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">70</span></b></td> <td align="center" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><img src="http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/5644/cover_451810112011_r.jpg" style="border: 3px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 3px;" width="150" /></span></b></td> <td align="center" height="50" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">4.55 | 8 ratings </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">QWR = 3.8923</span></b></div>
</td> <td style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Corner Of The World</b><br />
<b>Solus3</b></td> <td style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Eclectic Prog</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;">Studio, 2011</span></b></td> <td style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=35316#buymusic">Buy</a></span></b></td> </tr>
<tr> <td align="center" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">71</span></b></td> <td align="center" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><img src="http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/5668/cover_2254122462010.jpg" style="border: 3px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 3px;" width="150" /></span></b></td> <td align="center" height="50" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">3.93 | 126 ratings </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">QWR = 3.8910</span></b></div>
</td> <td style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>A Child in the Mirror</b><br />
<b>Ciccada</b></td> <td style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Eclectic Prog</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;">Studio, 2010</span></b></td> <td style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=29550#buymusic">Buy</a></span></b></td> </tr>
<tr> <td align="center" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">72</span></b></td> <td align="center" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><img src="http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/6114/cover_3771928122010.jpg" style="border: 3px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 3px;" width="150" /></span></b></td> <td align="center" height="50" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">4.40 | 10 ratings </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">QWR = 3.8860</span></b></div>
</td> <td style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>At the Dream´s Edge</b><br />
<b>Chimp Spanner</b></td> <td style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Tech/Extreme Prog Metal</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;">Studio, 2010</span></b></td> <td style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=32004#buymusic">Buy</a></span></b></td> </tr>
<tr> <td align="center" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">73</span></b></td> <td align="center" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><img src="http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/2808/cover_3225181222011_r.jpg" style="border: 3px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 3px;" width="150" /></span></b></td> <td align="center" height="50" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">3.90 | 260 ratings </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">QWR = 3.8854</span></b></div>
</td> <td style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Mammoth</b><br />
<b>Beardfish</b></td> <td style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Eclectic Prog</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;">Studio, 2011</span></b></td> <td style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=32364#buymusic">Buy</a></span></b></td> </tr>
<tr> <td align="center" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">74</span></b></td> <td align="center" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><img src="http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/2481/cover_3558132982010.jpg" style="border: 3px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 3px;" width="150" /></span></b></td> <td align="center" height="50" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">3.94 | 97 ratings </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">QWR = 3.8845</span></b></div>
</td> <td style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Axioma Ethica Odini</b><br />
<b>Enslaved</b></td> <td style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Tech/Extreme Prog Metal</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;">Studio, 2010</span></b></td> <td style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=30212#buymusic">Buy</a></span></b></td> </tr>
<tr> <td align="center" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">75</span></b></td> <td align="center" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><img src="http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/1971/cover_546111892011_r.jpg" style="border: 3px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 3px;" width="150" /></span></b></td> <td align="center" height="50" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">4.00 | 43 ratings </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">QWR = 3.8829</span></b></div>
</td> <td style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Levin, Torn, White</b><br />
<b>Tony Levin</b></td> <td style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Jazz Rock/Fusion</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;">Studio, 2011</span></b></td> <td style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=34578#buymusic">Buy</a></span></b></td> </tr>
<tr> <td align="center" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">76</span></b></td> <td align="center" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><img src="http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/3459/cover_112951982010.jpg" style="border: 3px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 3px;" width="150" /></span></b></td> <td align="center" height="50" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">4.02 | 34 ratings </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">QWR = 3.8781</span></b></div>
</td> <td style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Roqueforte</b><br />
<b>Aranis</b></td> <td style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">RIO/Avant-Prog</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;">Studio, 2010</span></b></td> <td style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=30103#buymusic">Buy</a></span></b></td> </tr>
<tr> <td align="center" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">77</span></b></td> <td align="center" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><img src="http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/1632/cover_375921532010.jpg" style="border: 3px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 3px;" width="150" /></span></b></td> <td align="center" height="50" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">4.04 | 30 ratings </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">QWR = 3.8774</span></b></div>
</td> <td style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Challenging Gravity</b><br />
<b>Steve Unruh</b></td> <td style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Prog Folk</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;">Studio, 2010</span></b></td> <td style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=27933#buymusic">Buy</a></span></b></td> </tr>
<tr> <td align="center" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">78</span></b></td> <td align="center" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><img src="http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/799/cover_550232332011_r.jpg" style="border: 3px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 3px;" width="150" /></span></b></td> <td align="center" height="50" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">3.90 | 183 ratings </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">QWR = 3.8760</span></b></div>
</td> <td style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Révolu$ion</b><br />
<b>Nemo</b></td> <td style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Eclectic Prog</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;">Studio, 2011</span></b></td> <td style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=32736#buymusic">Buy</a></span></b></td> </tr>
<tr> <td align="center" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">79</span></b></td> <td align="center" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><img src="http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/1122/cover_335818162011_r.jpg" style="border: 3px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 3px;" width="150" /></span></b></td> <td align="center" height="50" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">3.89 | 458 ratings </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">QWR = 3.8757</span></b></div>
</td> <td style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Heritage</b><br />
<b>Opeth</b></td> <td style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Tech/Extreme Prog Metal</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;">Studio, 2011</span></b></td> <td style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=33455#buymusic">Buy</a></span></b></td> </tr>
<tr> <td align="center" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">80</span></b></td> <td align="center" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><img src="http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/6234/cover_75851332011_r.jpg" style="border: 3px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 3px;" width="150" /></span></b></td> <td align="center" height="50" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">4.57 | 7 ratings </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">QWR = 3.8749</span></b></div>
</td> <td style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>The Opening</b><br />
<b>Clover Seeds</b></td> <td style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Crossover Prog</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;">Studio, 2010</span></b></td> <td style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=32623#buymusic">Buy</a></span></b></td> </tr>
<tr> <td align="center" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">81</span></b></td> <td align="center" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><img src="http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/6967/cover_0531619122011_r.jpg" style="border: 3px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 3px;" width="150" /></span></b></td> <td align="center" height="50" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">4.57 | 7 ratings </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">QWR = 3.8749</span></b></div>
</td> <td style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>In The Last Waking Moments...</b><br />
<b>Edison's Children</b></td> <td style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Neo-Prog</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;">Studio, 2011</span></b></td> <td style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=35799#buymusic">Buy</a></span></b></td> </tr>
<tr> <td align="center" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">82</span></b></td> <td align="center" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><img src="http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/2917/cover_3724182742011_r.JPG" style="border: 3px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 3px;" width="150" /></span></b></td> <td align="center" height="50" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">3.96 | 54 ratings </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">QWR = 3.8740</span></b></div>
</td> <td style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Quartus Artifactus</b><br />
<b>From.uz</b></td> <td style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Eclectic Prog</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;">Studio, 2011</span></b></td> <td style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=33103#buymusic">Buy</a></span></b></td> </tr>
<tr> <td align="center" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">83</span></b></td> <td align="center" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><img src="http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/791/cover_531731942010.jpg" style="border: 3px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 3px;" width="150" /></span></b></td> <td align="center" height="50" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">3.92 | 99 ratings </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">QWR = 3.8737</span></b></div>
</td> <td style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>One Among The Living</b><br />
<b>Mystery</b></td> <td style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Neo-Prog</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;">Studio, 2010</span></b></td> <td style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=28538#buymusic">Buy</a></span></b></td> </tr>
<tr> <td align="center" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">84</span></b></td> <td align="center" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><img src="http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/1484/cover_121713772011_r.jpg" style="border: 3px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 3px;" width="150" /></span></b></td> <td align="center" height="50" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">4.22 | 14 ratings </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">QWR = 3.8725</span></b></div>
</td> <td style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Regresa Al Vértigo</b><br />
<b>Agora</b></td> <td style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Progressive Metal</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;">Studio, 2011</span></b></td> <td style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=33793#buymusic">Buy</a></span></b></td> </tr>
<tr> <td align="center" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">85</span></b></td> <td align="center" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><img src="http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/5696/cover_4950133092010.jpg" style="border: 3px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 3px;" width="150" /></span></b></td> <td align="center" height="50" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">4.47 | 8 ratings </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">QWR = 3.8710</span></b></div>
</td> <td style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Officium Novum</b><br />
<b>Jan Garbarek</b></td> <td style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Jazz Rock/Fusion</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;">Studio, 2010</span></b></td> <td style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=30725#buymusic">Buy</a></span></b></td> </tr>
<tr> <td align="center" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">86</span></b></td> <td align="center" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><img src="http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/3210/cover_251216292010.jpg" style="border: 3px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 3px;" width="150" /></span></b></td> <td align="center" height="50" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">3.93 | 86 ratings </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">QWR = 3.8706</span></b></div>
</td> <td style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>The Great Escape</b><br />
<b>Seventh Wonder</b></td> <td style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Progressive Metal</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;">Studio, 2010</span></b></td> <td style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=30246#buymusic">Buy</a></span></b></td> </tr>
<tr> <td align="center" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">87</span></b></td> <td align="center" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><img src="http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/3395/cover_432022322011_r.jpg" style="border: 3px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 3px;" width="150" /></span></b></td> <td align="center" height="50" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">3.92 | 93 ratings </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">QWR = 3.8705</span></b></div>
</td> <td style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Deep Politics</b><br />
<b>Grails</b></td> <td style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Psychedelic/Space Rock</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;">Studio, 2011</span></b></td> <td style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=32436#buymusic">Buy</a></span></b></td> </tr>
<tr> <td align="center" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">88</span></b></td> <td align="center" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><img src="http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/4936/cover_935141592011_r.jpg" style="border: 3px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 3px;" width="150" /></span></b></td> <td align="center" height="50" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">3.93 | 75 ratings </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">QWR = 3.8677</span></b></div>
</td> <td style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Touchstones</b><br />
<b>Subsignal</b></td> <td style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Neo-Prog</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;">Studio, 2011</span></b></td> <td style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=34637#buymusic">Buy</a></span></b></td> </tr>
<tr> <td align="center" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">89</span></b></td> <td align="center" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><img src="http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/5651/cover_3018182062010.jpg" style="border: 3px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 3px;" width="150" /></span></b></td> <td align="center" height="50" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">3.94 | 58 ratings </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">QWR = 3.8634</span></b></div>
</td> <td style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Soup</b><br />
<b>Stick Men</b></td> <td style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Eclectic Prog</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;">Studio, 2010</span></b></td> <td style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=29430#buymusic">Buy</a></span></b></td> </tr>
<tr> <td align="center" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">90</span></b></td> <td align="center" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><img src="http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/666/cover_2520118112010.jpg" style="border: 3px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 3px;" width="150" /></span></b></td> <td align="center" height="50" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">3.91 | 104 ratings </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">QWR = 3.8631</span></b></div>
</td> <td style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>The Way</b><br />
<b>Anima Mundi</b></td> <td style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Symphonic Prog</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;">Studio, 2010</span></b></td> <td style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=30876#buymusic">Buy</a></span></b></td> </tr>
<tr> <td align="center" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">91</span></b></td> <td align="center" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><img src="http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/6472/cover_221315382011_r.jpg" style="border: 3px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 3px;" width="150" /></span></b></td> <td align="center" height="50" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">3.94 | 58 ratings </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">QWR = 3.8601</span></b></div>
</td> <td style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>For All We Know</b><br />
<b>For All We Know</b></td> <td style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Progressive Metal</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;">Studio, 2011</span></b></td> <td style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=34103#buymusic">Buy</a></span></b></td> </tr>
<tr> <td align="center" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">92</span></b></td> <td align="center" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><img src="http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/956/cover_1936132222011_r.jpg" style="border: 3px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 3px;" width="150" /></span></b></td> <td align="center" height="50" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">3.89 | 153 ratings </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">QWR = 3.8595</span></b></div>
</td> <td style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Bateless Edge</b><br />
<b>Frogg Cafe</b></td> <td style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Jazz Rock/Fusion</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;">Studio, 2010</span></b></td> <td style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=29622#buymusic">Buy</a></span></b></td> </tr>
<tr> <td align="center" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">93</span></b></td> <td align="center" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><img src="http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/1698/cover_3316132342011_r.jpg" style="border: 3px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 3px;" width="150" /></span></b></td> <td align="center" height="50" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">3.88 | 200 ratings </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">QWR = 3.8595</span></b></div>
</td> <td style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Rites At Dawn</b><br />
<b>Wobbler</b></td> <td style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Symphonic Prog</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;">Studio, 2011</span></b></td> <td style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=33030#buymusic">Buy</a></span></b></td> </tr>
<tr> <td align="center" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">94</span></b></td> <td align="center" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><img src="http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/1679/cover_595762912011_r.jpg" style="border: 3px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 3px;" width="150" /></span></b></td> <td align="center" height="50" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">3.88 | 208 ratings </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">QWR = 3.8590</span></b></div>
</td> <td style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>The Suffering Joy</b><br />
<b>Magic Pie</b></td> <td style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Symphonic Prog</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;">Studio, 2011</span></b></td> <td style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=32219#buymusic">Buy</a></span></b></td> </tr>
<tr> <td align="center" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">95</span></b></td> <td align="center" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><img src="http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/6781/cover_2161415102011_r.jpg" style="border: 3px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 3px;" width="150" /></span></b></td> <td align="center" height="50" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">3.93 | 67 ratings </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">QWR = 3.8588</span></b></div>
</td> <td style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>When Age Has Done It's Duty</b><br />
<b>Cosmograf</b></td> <td style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Neo-Prog</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;">Studio, 2011</span></b></td> <td style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=35028#buymusic">Buy</a></span></b></td> </tr>
<tr> <td align="center" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">96</span></b></td> <td align="center" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><img src="http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/2635/cover_49561623122010.jpg" style="border: 3px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 3px;" width="150" /></span></b></td> <td align="center" height="50" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">4.76 | 5 ratings </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">QWR = 3.8573</span></b></div>
</td> <td style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Leader of the Starry Skies: A Tribute to Tim Smith, Songbook 1</b><br />
<b>Various Artists (Tributes)</b></td> <td style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Various Genres</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;">Studio, 2010</span></b></td> <td style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=31962#buymusic">Buy</a></span></b></td> </tr>
<tr> <td align="center" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">97</span></b></td> <td align="center" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><img src="http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/587/cover_1515182282011_r.jpg" style="border: 3px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 3px;" width="150" /></span></b></td> <td align="center" height="50" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">4.00 | 31 ratings </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">QWR = 3.8553</span></b></div>
</td> <td style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Chrysalis</b><br />
<b>Man On Fire</b></td> <td style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Eclectic Prog</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;">Studio, 2011</span></b></td> <td style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=34373#buymusic">Buy</a></span></b></td> </tr>
<tr> <td align="center" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">98</span></b></td> <td align="center" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><img src="http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/2349/cover_4120191172011_r.jpg" style="border: 3px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 3px;" width="150" /></span></b></td> <td align="center" height="50" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">4.01 | 29 ratings </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">QWR = 3.8551</span></b></div>
</td> <td style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>III</b><br />
<b>Senogul</b></td> <td style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Eclectic Prog</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;">Studio, 2011</span></b></td> <td style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=33852#buymusic">Buy</a></span></b></td> </tr>
<tr> <td align="center" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">99</span></b></td> <td align="center" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><img src="http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/181/cover_15111322010.jpg" style="border: 3px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 3px;" width="150" /></span></b></td> <td align="center" height="50" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">3.88 | 199 ratings </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">QWR = 3.8544</span></b></div>
</td> <td style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>In The Wake Of Evolution</b><br />
<b>Kaipa</b></td> <td style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Symphonic Prog</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;">Studio, 2010</span></b></td> <td style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=27470#buymusic">Buy</a></span></b></td> </tr>
<tr> <td align="center" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">100</span></b></td> <td align="center" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><img src="http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/1485/cover_5254129102011_r.JPG" style="border: 3px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 3px;" width="150" /></span></b></td> <td align="center" height="50" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">3.93 | 54 ratings </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">QWR = 3.8510</span></b></div>
</td> <td style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Children Of Another God</b><br />
<b>Nick Magnus</b></td> <td style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Symphonic Prog</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;">Studio, 2010</span></b></td> <td style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=27795#buymusic">Buy</a></span></b></td></tr>
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